The Beggar's Opera; to Which is Prefixed the Musick to Each Song

John Gay

CLAUD LOVAT FRASER That when I die this word may stand for me-- He had a heart to praise, an eye to see, And beauty was his king.

John Gay

Edited, with an Introduction, by John Harrington Smith Publication Number 91-92 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California Los Angeles 1961 GENERAL EDIT...

John Gay

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Robert Louis Stevenson

STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty,...

Henrik Ibsen

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer.

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was r...

Charles Dickens

PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.