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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I rem...

was published in 1690.

CHAPTER I In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining p...

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CHAPTER I 1801.--I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION I. Number 24,601 becomes Number 9,430 II. In which the reader will peruse Two Verses which are of the Devil's Composition possibly ...

CHAPTER I. Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Surprised |MRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a b...

1. The Cyclone Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.

Merrill's English Texts SELECTED AND EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY EDNA H.L. TURPIN, AUTHOR OF "STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY," ...

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.

THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE VOLUME II The Raven Edition [Redactor's Note--Some endnotes are by Poe and some were added by Griswold.

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Copyright, 1918, by BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC.

CHAPTER I. How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again.

CHAPTER I. Popular Talk of the Excursion--Programme of the Trip--Duly Ticketed for the Excursion--Defection of the Celebrities CHAPTER II. Grand Preparations--An Imp...

Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the ...

is difficult to give any approximate idea as to the year in which the work was composed.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE _The Devil's Dictionary_ was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906.

Translated by Henry Reeve Book One Introduction Special Introduction By Hon.

CHAPTER I. APPEARANCE AND REALITY Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

By Marcus Aurelius CONTENTS NOTES INTRODUCTION FIRST BOOK SECOND BOOK THIRD BOOK FOURTH BOOK FIFTH BOOK SIXTH BOOK SEVENTH BOOK EIGH...

FROM THE HEIGHTS (POEM TRANSLATED BY L.A. MAGNUS) PREFACE SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman--what then?

The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells [1898] I The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.

With an Introduction by W. L. Courtney, LL.D. The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.

BERNARD SHAW 1912 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: In the printed version of this text, all apostrophes for contractions such as "can't", "wouldn't" and "he'd" were omitted, to read as "cant", "wouldnt", and ...

Great Events.

CHAPTER 1 The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex.

AUTHOR OF THE LAST MAN, PERKIN WARBECK, &c. &c. [Transcriber's Note: This text was produced from a photo-reprint of the 1831 edition.] REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH A ...

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE By Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo Translated by E. B. Pusey (Edward Bouverie) AD 401 BOOK I Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great i...

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.

From The Quarto of 1604 Edited by The Rev.

wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.

FEDERALIST No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal.

Contents The Birthmark Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini's Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend Egotism; or, The Bosom ...

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THE ODYSSEY rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original By Samuel Butler PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION This translation is intended to supplement a wor...

statement is made that it may be rejected.

CHAPTER 1 No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.

deliberation of his manner, I suddenly felt that I could hold out no longer.

Contents Mowgli's Brothers Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack Kaa's Hunting Road-Song of the Bandar-Log "Tiger!

J. Sheridan LeFanu 1872 PROLOGUE _Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay...

Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer Introduction by William Archer INTRODUCTION.

The Wanderer XLI.

CHAPTER I. Three invalids.--Sufferings of George and Harris.--A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies.--Useful prescriptions.--Cure for liver complaint in children.--We agree that we are...

THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) TRANSLATED BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) CANTICLE I: INFERNO CREDITS The base text for this edition has been provided by Di...

Revolution, 1762-1837 231 XII. Progress and Revolution, 1837-1897 259 XIII. America and the Philippines 287 ...

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.

CHAPTER I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.