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CAPTAINS ALL By W.W. Jacobs THE TEMPTATION OF SAMUEL BURGE [Illustration: “The Temptation of Samuel Burge.”] Mr. Higgs, jeweller, sat in the small parlour behind his shop, gazing hungrily at a supper-table which had been laid some time before. It was a quarter to ten by the small town clock on the mantelpiece, and the jeweller rubbing his hands over the fire tried in vain to remember what etiquette had to say about starting a meal before the arrival of an expected guest....

THE THREE COMRADES by Kristina Roy of Stara Tura, Slovakia. Translated by Charles Lukesh First Edition, 3,000–November, 1941 THE THREE COMRADES CHAPTER ONE In the whole wide world there were no comrades who loved each other better than Petrik,[1] Ondrejko,[2] and Fido. All three were orphans and had had a hard time in the world thus far. Both parents of Petrik had died of a malignant fever. He became a public charge and was sent from place to place, till finally he was placed in charge of “Bacha”[3] Filina, who was his father’s uncle, and had charge of the sheep pasturing on the mountain clearings of the estate of Lord Gemer....

Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them....

My Dear Little, Some five-and-thirty years ago it was our custom to discuss many matters, among them, I think, the history and romance of the vanished Empires of Central America. In memory of those far-off days will you accept a tale that deals with one of them, that of the marvellous Incas of Peru; with the legend also that, long before the Spanish Conquerors entered on their mission of robbery and ruin, there in that undiscovered land lived and died a White God risen from the sea?...

by H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells [1898] But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? . . . Are we or they Lords of the World? . . . And how are all things made for man?– KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy) BOOK ONE THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS CHAPTER ONE THE EVE OF THE WAR No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water....

VITTORIA By George Meredith CONTENTS: BOOK 7.XXXIII. EPISODES OF THE REVOLT AND THE WAR–COUNT KARL LENKENSTEIN– THE STORY OF THE GUIDASCARPI–THE VICTORY OF THE VOLUNTEERS XXXIV. EPISODES OF THE REVOLT AND THE WAR–THE DEEDS OF BARTO RIZZO– THE MEETING AT ROVEREDOXXXV. CLOSE OF THE LOMBARD CAMPAIGN–VITTORIA’S PERPLEXITY XXXVI. A FRESH ENTANGLEMENTXXXVII. ON LAGO MAGGIOREXXXVIII. VIOLETTA D’ISORELLAXXXIX. ANNA OF LENKENSTEIN CHAPTER XXXIII EPISODES OF THE REVOLT AND THE WAR COUNT KARL LENKENSTEIN–THE STORY OF THE GUIDASCARPI–THE VICTORY OF THE VOLUNTEERS The smoke of a pistol-shot thinned away while there was yet silence....

VIVIETTE BY WILLIAM J. LOCKE 1916 [Illustration: “No, don’t, Viviette; forgive me”] CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE BROTHERS II. THE CONSPIRATORS III. KATHERINE IV. THE FAMOUS DUELLING PISTOLS V. A CRISIS VI. VIVIETTE TAKES THE RISK ILLUSTRATIONS “No, don’t, Viviette; forgive me” “Dick glared at him” “He held out imploring hands” “I want you to love me forever and ever” VIVIETTE CHAPTER I THE BROTHERS “Dick,” said Viviette, “ought to go about in skins like a primitive man....

or ‘TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE by SIR WALTER SCOTT BART. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTIONWAVERLEY or ‘TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCENOTESGLOSSARY [Note: Characters that were in italics in the printed text have been written in capital letters in this Etext. Accents in quotations in French and other accented languages have been omitted. Footnotes in the printed text that were at the bottom of the page have been placed in square brackets, as near as possible to the place where they were originally referred to by a suffix....

THE PARSON’S DAUGHTER OF OXNEY COLNE by Anthony Trollope The prettiest scenery in all England–and if I am contradicted in that assertion, I will say in all Europe–is in Devonshire, on the southern and south-eastern skirts of Dartmoor, where the rivers Dart, and Avon, and Teign form themselves, and where the broken moor is half cultivated, and the wild-looking upland fields are half moor. In making this assertion I am often met with much doubt, but it is by persons who do not really know the locality....

THE PRECIPICE A Novel BY ELIA W. PEATTIE BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1914 A fanfare of trumpets is blowing to which women the world over are listening. They listen even against their wills, and not all of them answer, though all are disturbed. Shut their ears to it as they will, they cannot wholly keep out the clamor of those trumpets, but whether in thrall to love or to religion, to custom or to old ideals of self-obliterating duty, they are stirred....

THE REGENT A FIVE TOWNS STORY OF ADVENTURE IN LONDON BY ARNOLD BENNETT 1913 CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER I. DOG-BITE.II. THE BANK-NOTEIII. WILKINS’SIV. ENTRY INTO THE THEATRICAL WORLD V. MR SACHS TALKSVI. LORD WOLDO AND LADY WOLDO PART II CHAPTER VII. CORNER-STONEVIII. DEALING WITH ELSIEIX. THE FIRST NIGHTX. ISABEL THE REGENT PART I CHAPTER I DOG-BITE I “And yet,” Edward Henry Machin reflected as at six minutes to six he approached his own dwelling at the top of Bleakridge, “and yet–I don’t feel so jolly after all!...

THE RIVAL HEIRS: Being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune; by Rev. A. D. Crake. PREFACE. CHAPTER I. THE ANGLO-SAXON HALL. CHAPTER II. THE BLACK AND DARK NIGHT. CHAPTER III. THE WEDDING OF THE HAWK AND THE DOVE. CHAPTER IV. THE NORMAN PAGES. CHAPTER V. A FRAY IN THE GREENWOOD. CHAPTER VI. A REVELATION. CHAPTER VII. FRUSTRATED. CHAPTER VIII. VAE VICTIS. CHAPTER IX. A HUNT IN THE WOODS. CHAPTER X....

Since the condemnation of The Saint by the Congregation of the Index, the publishers of the authorized translation of this novel feel that, in justice to its author, Senator Antonio Fogazzaro, they owe to the public a word of explanation by way of making plain (what the author has in more than one letter made plain to them) how it comes about that, in spite of the decree of the Index, the Senator sanctions the appearance of the book in America....

SKETCHES BY SEYMOUR COMPLETE EBOOK EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: “Sketches by Seymour” was published in various versions about 1836. The copy used for this PG edition has no date and was published by Thomas Fry, London. Some of the 90 plates note only Seymour’s name, many are inscribed “Engravings by H. Wallis from sketches by Seymour.” The printed book appears to be a compilation of five smaller volumes. From the confused chapter titles the reader may well suspect the printer mixed up the order of the chapters....

by Melville Davisson Post CONTENTS I. THE THING ON THE HEARTH II. THE REWARD III. THE LOST LADY IV. THE CAMBERED FOOT V. THE MAN IN THE GREEN HAT VI. THE WRONG SIGN VII. THE FORTUNE TELLER VIII. THE HOLE IN THE MAHOGANY PANEL IX. THE END OF THE ROAD X. THE LAST ADVENTURE XI. AMERICAN HORSES XII. THE SPREAD RAILS XIII. THE PUMPKIN COACH XIV. THE YELLOW FLOWER XV....

The South Pole An Account of the NorwegianAntarctic Expedition in the “Fram,” 1910 — 1912 By Roald Amundsen Translated from the Norwegian byA. G. Chater To My Comrades,The Brave Little Band That Promised In Funchal RoadsTo Stand by Me in the Struggle for the South Pole, I Dedicate this Book. Roald Amundsen. Uranienborg, August 15, 1912. Contents of Vol. I Chapter Page The First Account VII Introduction, by Fridtjof Nansen XXVII I....

THEStory ofDOCTOR DOLITTLEBEING THEHISTORY OF HIS PECULIAR LIFEAT HOME AND ASTONISHING ADVENTURESIN FOREIGN PARTS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED. TOALL CHILDRENCHILDREN IN YEARS AND CHILDREN IN HEART I DEDICATE THIS STORY There are some of us now reachingmiddle age who discover themselves to be lamenting the past in one respect if in none other, that there are no books written now for children comparable with those of thirty years ago. I say written FOR children because the new psychological business of writing ABOUT them as though they were small pills or hatched in some especially scientific method is extremely popular today....

THE STORY OF POCAHONTAS By Charles Dudley Warner The simple story of the life of Pocahontas is sufficiently romantic without the embellishments which have been wrought on it either by the vanity of Captain Smith or the natural pride of the descendants of this dusky princess who have been ennobled by the smallest rivulet of her red blood. That she was a child of remarkable intelligence, and that she early showed a tender regard for the whites and rendered them willing and unwilling service, is the concurrent evidence of all contemporary testimony....

Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the spelling, punctuation, capitalization as close as possible to the printed text. I have corrected some spelling mistakes (I have put together a spelling dictionary devised from the spellings of the Geneva Bible and Shakespeare’s First Folio and have unified spellings according to this template), typo’s and expanded abbreviations as I have come across them....

THE WOLF HUNTERS A Tale of Adventure in the Wilderness BYJAMES OLIVER CURWOOD 1908 To my comrades of the great northern wilderness, those faithful companions with whom I have shared the joys and hardships of the “long silent trail,” and especially to Mukoki, my red guide and beloved friend, does the writer gratefully dedicate this volume CONTENTS Chapter I The Fight in the ForestII How Wabigoon Became a White ManIII Roderick Sees the FootprintIV Roderick’s First Taste of the Hunter’s Life V Shots in the WildernessVI Mukoki Disturbs the Ancient Skeletons VII Roderick Discovers the Buckskin BagVIII How Wolf Became the Companion of Men IX Wolf Takes Vengeance Upon His PeopleX Roderick Explores the ChasmXI Roderick’s DreamXII The Secret of the Skeleton’s Hand XIII Snowed InXIV The Rescue of WabigoonXV Roderick Holds the Woongas at Bay XVI The Surprise at the Post Illustrations: With his rifle ready Rob approached the fissure (Frontispiece) Knife–fight–heem killed!...