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The Underground City By Jules Verne

The Underground City OR The Black Indies(Sometimes Called The Child of the Cavern) The Underground City CHAPTER ICONTRADICTORY LETTERS To Mr. F. R. Starr, Engineer, 30 Canongate, Edinburgh. IF Mr. James Starr will come to-morrow to the Aberfoyle coal-mines, Dochart pit, Yarrow shaft, a communication of an interesting nature will be made to him. “Mr. James Starr will be awaited for, the whole day, at the Callander station, by Harry Ford, son of the old overman Simon Ford....

The Unnamable By H P Lovecraft

With this friend, Joel Manton, I had often languidly disputed. He was principal of the East High School, born and bred in Boston and sharing New England’s self-satisfied deafness to the delicate overtones of life. It was his view that only our normal, objective experiences possess any aesthetic significance, and that it is the province of the artist not so much to rouse strong emotion by action, ecstasy, and astonishment, as to maintain a placid interest and appreciation by accurate, detailed transcripts of every-day affairs....

The World S Greatest Books Vol 10

THE WORLD’S GREATEST BOOKS JOINT EDITORS ARTHUR MEE Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J.A. HAMMERTON Editor of Harmsworth’s Universal Encyclopaedia VOL. X LIVES AND LETTERS * * * * * Table of Contents HUGO, VICTOR Deeds and Words HUME, MARTIN Courtships of Elizabeth Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots IRVING, WASHINGTON Life of Christopher Columbus Life of George Washington JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS Autobiography LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: See ROCHEFOUCAULD LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON Life of Sir Walter Scott Life of Robert Burns LUTHER, MARTIN Table Talk MIRABEAU, COMTE DE Memoirs MOORE, THOMAS Life of Byron MORISON, J....

The Young Buglers By G A Henty

THE YOUNG BUGLERS by G.A. Henty PREFACE To my Young Readers. I remember that, as a boy, I regarded any attempt to mix instruction with amusement as being as objectionable a practice as the administration of powder in jam; but I think that this feeling arose from the fact that in those days books contained a very small share of amusement and a very large share of instruction. I have endeavored to avoid this, and I hope that the accounts of battles and sieges, illustrated as they are by maps, will be found as interesting as the lighter parts of the story....

Thoughts On The Present Discontents And Speeches By Edmund Burke

THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS AND SPEECHES by Edmund Burke Contents IntroductionThoughts on the Present Discontents Speech on the Middlesex Election.Speech on the Powers of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels. Speech on a Bill for Shortening the Duration of Parliaments Speech on Reform of Representation in the House of Commons INTRODUCTION Edmund Burke was born at Dublin on the first of January, 1730. His father was an attorney, who had fifteen children, of whom all but four died in their youth....

Under The Deodars By Rudyard Kipling

by Rudyard Kipling Contents The Education of Otis YeereAt the Pit’s MouthA Wayside ComedyThe Hill of IllusionA Second-rate WomanOnly a SubalternIn the Matter of a PrivateThe Enlightenments of Pagett. M. P. Under the Deodars The Education of Otis Yeere I In the pleasant orchard-closes ‘God bless all our gains,’ say we; But ‘May God bless all our losses,’ Better suits with our degree. The Lost Bower. This is the history of a failure; but the woman who failed said that it might be an instructive tale to put into print for the benefit of the younger generation....

Vailima Letters By Robert Louis Stevenson

Vailima Letters CHAPTER I IN THE MOUNTAIN, APIA, SAMOA,MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, 1890 MY DEAR COLVIN, – This is a hard and interesting and beautiful life that we lead now. Our place is in a deep cleft of Vaea Mountain, some six hundred feet above the sea, embowered in forest, which is our strangling enemy, and which we combat with axes and dollars. I went crazy over outdoor work, and had at last to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board....

Vane Of The Timberlands By Harold Bindloss

Vane of The Timberlands BY HAROLD BINDLOSS CONTENTS CHAPTER I. A FRIEND IN NEEDII. A BREEZE OF WINDIII. AN AFTERNOON ASHOREIV. A CHANGE OF ENVIRONMENTV. THE OLD COUNTRYVI. UPON THE HEIGHTSVII. STORM-STAYEDVIII. LUCY VANEIX. CHISHOLM PROVES AMENABLEX. WITH THE OTTER HOUNDSXI. VANE WITHDRAWSXII. IN VANCOUVERXIII. A NEW PROJECTXIV. VANE SAILS NORTHXV. THE FIRST MISADVENTUREXVI. THE BUSHXVII. VANE POSTPONES THE SEARCHXVIII. JESSY CONFERS A FAVORXIX. VANE FORESEES TROUBLEXX. THE FLOODXXI. VANE YIELDS A POINTXXII....

Wells Brothers By Andy Adams

The Young Cattle Kings by ANDY ADAMS 1911 [Illustration: THEY CHANGED TO FRESH ONES AT NOON (p.26)] CONTENTS I. WAIFS OF THE PLAIN II. THE HOSPITAL ON THE BEAVER III. THE BOTTOM RUNG IV. THE BROTHERS CLAIM A RANGE V. A FALL OF CRUMBS VI. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW VII. ALL IN THE DAY’S WORKVIII. THE LINES OF INTRENCHMENT IX. A WINTRY CRUCIBLE X. GOOD FIGHTING XI. HOLDING THE FORT XII....

Westward Ho By Charles Kingsley

WESTWARD HO! by Charles Kingsley TO THE RAJAH SIR JAMES BROOKE, K.C.B. AND GEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN, D.D. BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED By one who (unknown to them) has no other method of expressing his admiration and reverence for their characters. That type of English virtue, at once manful and godly, practical and enthusiastic, prudent and self-sacrificing, which he has tried to depict in these pages, they have exhibited in a form even purer and more heroic than that in which he has drest it, and than that in which it was exhibited by the worthies whom Elizabeth, without distinction of rank or age, gathered round her in the ever glorious wars of her great reign....

You Can Search Me By Hugh Mchugh

YOU CAN SEARCH ME BY HUGH McHUGH AUTHOR OF “JOHN HENRY,” “DOWN THE LINE WITH JOHN HENRY,” “IT’S UP TO YOU,” “BACK TO THE WOODS,”“OUT FOR THE COIN,” “I NEED THE MONEY,” “I’M FROM MISSOURI,” ETC. ILLUSTRATIONS BY GORDON H. GRANT 1905 CONTENTS JOHN HENRY GETS A PARTNER JOHN HENRY GETS A SUFFICIENCY JOHN HENRY GETS BUSY JOHN HENRY GETS A SHOCK JOHN HENRY GETS EXCITED JOHN HENRY GETS A SETBACK JOHN HENRY GETS A SURPRISE ILLUSTRATIONS “BRING US A PLAIN OMELETTE AND ONE DISH OF PRUNES....

He By H P Lovecraft

The disillusion had been gradual. Coming for the first time upon the town, I had seen it in the sunset from a bridge, majestic above its waters, its incredible peaks and pyramids rising flower-like and delicate from pools of violet mist to play with the flaming golden clouds and the first stars of evening. Then it had lighted up window by window above the shimmering tides where lanterns nodded and glided and deep horns bayed weird harmonies, and itself become a starry firmament of dream, redolent of faery music, and one with the marvels of Carcassonne and Samarcand and El Dorado and all glorious and half-fabulous cities....

Herbert West Reanimator By H P Lovecraft

The first horrible incident of our acquaintance was the greatest shock I ever experienced, and it is only with reluctance that I repeat it. As I have said, it happened when we were in the medical school, where West had already made himself notorious through his wild theories on the nature of death and the possibility of overcoming it artificially. His views, which were widely ridiculed by the faculty and his fellow-students, hinged on the essentially mechanistic nature of life; and concerned means for operating the organic machinery of mankind by calculated chemical action after the failure of natural processes....

The Old Peabody Pew By Kate Douglas Wiggin

The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church Dedication To a certain handful of dear New England women of names unknown to the world, dwelling in a certain quiet village, alike unknown:- We have worked together to make our little corner of the great universe a pleasanter place in which to live, and so we know, not only one another’s names, but something of one another’s joys and sorrows, cares and burdens, economies, hopes, and anxieties....

The Problem Of Ohio Mounds By Cyrus Thomas

THE PROBLEM OF THE OHIO MOUNDS. By Cyrus Thomas. CONTENTS Introduction CHAPTER I. Historical evidence CHAPTER II. Similarity of the arts and customs of the mound-builders to those of Indians Architecture Tribal divisions Similarity in burial customs Removal of the flesh before burial Burial beneath or in dwellings Burial in a sitting or squatting posture The use of fire in burial ceremonies Similarity of the stone implements and ornaments of various tribes Mound and Indian pottery CHAPTER III....

The Red Lily Complete By Anatole France

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author’s ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.] THE RED LILY By ANATOLE FRANCE The real name of the subject of this preface is Jacques-Anatole Thibault. He was born in Paris, April 16, 1844, the son of a bookseller of the Quai Malaquais, in the shadow of the Institute....

The Small Catechism Of Martin Luther

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The Sorrows Of Young Werther By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have carefully collected whatever I have been able to learn of the story of poor Werther, and here present it to you, knowing that you will thank me for it. To his spirit and character you cannot refuse your admiration and love: to his fate you will not deny your tears. And thou, good soul, who sufferest the same distress as he endured once, draw comfort from his sorrows; and let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion....

The Soul Of A Child By Edwin Bjorkman

THE SOUL OF A CHILD BY EDWIN BJOeRKMAN 1922 CONTENTS PART I.PART II.PART III.PART IV. PART I I The oldest part of Stockholm is a little rocky island. Once it was the whole city. Popularly it is still spoken of as “The City.” At one end of it stands the huge square-cut pile of the Royal Palace, looking with solemn indifference toward the more modern quarters across the ever hurried waters of the North River....

The Soul Of Man By Oscar Wilde

THE SOUL OF MAN The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely anyone at all escapes. Now and then, in the course of the century, a great man of science, like Darwin; a great poet, like Keats; a fine critical spirit, like M....