THE PURPLE CLOUD By M.P. Shiel 1901 [Greek: estai kai Samos ammos, eseitai Daelos adaelos] Sibylline Prophecy INTRODUCTION About three months ago–that is to say, toward the end of May of this year of 1900–the writer whose name appears on the title-page received as noteworthy a letter, and packet of papers, as it has been his lot to examine. They came from a very good friend of mine, whose name there is no reason that I should now conceal–Dr....
THE RE-CREATION OF BRIAN KENT by HAROLD BELL WRIGHT DEAR AUNTIE SUE: I have wondered many times, while writing this simple story of life and love, if you would ever forgive me for putting you in a book. I hope you will, because if you do not, I shall be heartbroken, and you wouldn’t want me that way, would you, Auntie Sue? I fancy I can hear you say: “But, Harold, how COULD you!...
THE ROMANTIC BY MAY SINCLAIR 1920 Every kind and beautiful thing on earth has been made so by some cruelty. Saying of the Romantic CONTENTS BOOK ONE Charlotte Redhead BOOK TWO John Roden Conway THE ROMANTIC BOOK ONE CHARLOTTE REDHEAD I They turned again at the end of the platform. The tail of her long, averted stare was conscious of him, of his big, tweed-suited body and its behaviour, squaring and swelling and tightening in its dignity, of its heavy swing to her shoulder as they turned....
THE SHADOW OF THE EAST BY E. M. HULL 1921 “The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” Ezekiel xviii 2. CHAPTER I The American yacht lying off the harbour at Yokohama was brilliantly lit from stem to stern. Between it and the shore the reflection of the full moon glittered on the water up to the steps of the big black landing-stage. The glamour of the eastern night and the moonlight combined to lend enchantment to a scene that by day is blatant and tawdry, and the countless coloured lamps twinkling along the sea wall and dotted over the Bluff transformed the Japanese town into fairyland....
Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before. It was, moreover, a frightful confirmation of all I had sought to dismiss as myth and dream. Mercifully there is no proof, for in my fright I lost the awesome object which would—if real and brought out of that noxious abyss—have formed irrefutable evidence. When I came upon the horror I was alone—and I have up to now told no one about it....
[Illustration: “THE FAIR AND SOMETIMES UNCERTAIN DAUGHTER OF THE HOUSE OF MILBREY.” (See page 182.)] THE SPENDERS A TALE OF THE THIRD GENERATION BY HARRY LEON WILSON Illustrated by O’NEILL LATHAM 1902 To L. L. J. FOREWORD The wanderers of earth turned to her–outcast of the older lands– With a promise and hope in their pleading, and she reached them pitying hands;And she cried to the Old-World cities that drowse by the Eastern main: “Send me your weary, house-worn broods and I’ll send you Men again!...
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 first excursion—and my last, thank God!—into those hills occurred while Constantine Theunis and I were living in Hampden the summer of 1938. He was writing a treatise on Egyptian mythology, and I found myself alone much of the time, despite the fact that we shared a modest cabin on Beacon Street, within sight of the infamous Pirate House, built by Exer Jones over sixty years ago. The morning of June 23rd found me walking in those oddly shaped hills, which had, since seven o’clock, seemed very ordinary indeed....
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather Introduction by Rita Mae Brown BANTAM BOOKS NEW YORK – TORONTO – LONDON – SYDNEY – AUCKLAND THE TROLL GARDEN AND SELECTED STORIES A Bantam Classic Book / November 1990 Cover art “Stone City, Iowa” by Grant Wood; courtesy of Joselyn Art Museum All rights reserved. Introduction copyright (c) 1990 by Rita Mae Brown. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher....
THE TWO CAPTAINS. by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouque CHAPTER I. A Mild summer evening was resting on the shores of Malaga, awakening the guitar of many a merry singer among the ships in the harbor, and in the city houses, and in many an ornamental garden villa. Emulating the voices of the birds, the melodious tones greeted the refreshing coolness, and floated like perfumed exhalations from meadow and water, over the enchanting region....
THE WANDERING JEW By Eugene Sue A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF The Wandering Jew EUGENE SUE (1804-1857) Time and again physicians and seamen have made noteworthy reputations as novelists. But it is rare in the annals of literature that a man trained in both professions should have gained his greatest fame as a writer of novels. Eugene Sue began his career as a physician and surgeon, and then spent six years in the French Navy....
Anthony Trollope CONTENTS I. Hiram’s HospitalII. The Barchester ReformerIII. The Bishop of BarchesterIV. Hiram’s Bedesmenv. Dr Grantly Visits the HospitalVI. The Warden’s Tea PartyVII. The JupiterVIII. Plumstead EpiscopiIX. The ConferenceX. TribulationXI. IphigeniaXII. Mr Bold’s Visit to PlumsteadXIII. The Warden’s DecisionXIV. Mount OlympusXV. Tom Towers, Dr Anticant, and Mr Sentiment XVI. A Long Day in LondonXVII. Sir Abraham HaphazardXVIII. The Warden is very Obstinate XIX. The Warden ResignsXX. FarewellXXI. Conclusion CHAPTER IHiram’s Hospital The Rev....
THE WOLF’S LONG HOWL by Stanley Waterloo 1899 CONTENTS THE WOLF’S LONG HOWL AN ULM THE HAIR OF THE DOG THAT BIT HIM THE MAN WHO FELL IN LOVE A TRAGEDY OF THE FOREST THE PARASANGS LOVE AND A TRIANGLE AN EASTER ADMISSION PROFESSOR MORGAN’S MOON RED DOG’S SHOW WINDOW MARKHAM’S EXPERIENCE THE RED REVENGER A MURDERER’S ACCOMPLICE A MID-PACIFIC FOURTH LOVE AND A LATCH-KEY CHRISTMAS 200,000 B.C. THE CHILD THE BABY AND THE BEAR AT THE GREEN TREE CLUB THE RAIN-MAKER WITHIN ONE LIFE’S SPAN THE WOLF’S LONG HOWL George Henry Harrison, though without living near kinfolk, had never considered himself alone in the world....
FACTS STRANGER THAN FICTION THE WONDERS OF PRAYER: A RECORD OF WELL AUTHENTICATED AND WONDERFUL ANSWERS TO PRAYER. AS NARRATED BY: GEORGE MULLER, W.W. PATTEN, D.D., D.L. MOODY, CHAS. CULLIS, C.H. SPURGEON, S.I. PRIME, D.D., BISHOP SIMPSON, E. KRUMMACHER, NEWMAN HALL, D.D., MARTIN LUTHER, BISHOP T. BOWMAN, JOHN KNOX, CHAS. G. FINNEY, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND HOSTS OF OTHERS. NEW EDITION. REVISED BY D.W. WHITTLE. 1885 * * * * * INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION....
THE WORLD’S GREATEST BOOKS, VOL. I FICTION JOINT EDITORSARTHUR MEEEditor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J. A. HAMMERTONEditor of Harmsworth’s Universal Encyclopaedia MCMX Table of Contents ABOUT, EDMOND King of the Mountains AINSWORTH, HARRISON Tower of London ANDERSEN, HANS Improvisatore APULEIUS The Golden Ass ARABIAN NIGHTS AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE AUERBACH, BERTHOLD On the Height AUSTEN, JANE Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice Northanger Abbey Mansfield Park Emma Persuasion BALZAC, HONORE DE Eugenie Grandet Old Goriot Magic Skin Quest of the Absolute BECKFORD, WILLIAM History of the Caliph Vathek BEHN, APHRA Oroonoko BERGERAC, CYRANO DE Voyage to the Moon BJOERNSON, BJOERNSTJERNE Arne In God’s Way BLACK, WILLIAM Daughter of Heth BLACKMORE, R....
THE YELLOW STREAK BY VALENTINE WILLIAMS CONTENTS I. THE MASTER OF HARKINGS II. AT TWILIGHT III. A DISCOVERY IV. BETWEEN THE DESK AND THE WINDOW V. IN WHICH BUDE LOOKS AT ROBIN GREVE VI. THE LETTER VII. VOICES IN THE LIBRARY VIII. ROBIN GOES TO MARY IX. MR. MANDERTON X. A SMOKING CHIMNEY XI. “… SPEED THE PARTING GUEST!” XII. MR. MANDERTON is NONPLUSSED XIII. JEEKES XIV. A SHEET OF BLUE PAPER XV....
TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC RIFLE OR Daring Adventures in Elephant Land by VICTOR APPLETON CONTENTS I TOM WANTS EXCITEMENT II TRYING THE NEW GUN III A DIFFICULT TEST IV BIG TUSKS WANTED V RUSH WORK VI NEWS FROM ANDY VII THE BLACK HAWK FLIES VIII OFF FOR AFRICA IX ATTACKED BY A WHALE X OFF IN THE AIRSHIP XI ANCHORED TO EARTH XII AMONG THE NATIVES XIII ON THE ELEPHANT TRAIL XIV A STAMPEDE XV LIONS IN THE NIGHT XVI SEEKING THE MISSIONARIES XVII SHOTS FROM ABOVE XVIII NEWS OF THE RED PYGMIES XIX AN APPEAL FOR HELP XX THE FIGHT XXI DRIVEN BACK XXII A NIGHT ATTACK XXIII THE RESCUE XXIV TWO OTHER CAPTIVES XXV THE ROGUE ELEPHANT–CONCLUSION CHAPTER I TOM WANTS EXCITEMENT “Have you anything special to do to-night, Ned?...
Produced by Distributed Proofreaders Europe, http://dp.rastko.net Project by Carlo Traverso.This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr. [Illustration: Map of the Empire of MOROCCO for Dr. BUFFA’S TRAVELS] TRAVELS THROUGH THE EMPIRE OF MOROCCO. BY JOHN BUFFA, M.D. PHYSICIAN TO THE FORCES. ILLUSTRATED WITH A MAP. LONDON: 1810. PREFACE. My motives for publishing this volume of Travels, will be best explained by a detail of the circumstances which gave rise to my journey to Morocco....
TWO YEARS AGO [Illustration] TWO YEARS AGO BY CHARLES KINGSLEY IN TWO VOLS.–VOL. I 1901 CONTENTS OF VOL.I. CHAP INTRODUCTORY I POETRY AND PROSE II STILL LIFE III ANYTHING BUT STILL LIFE IV FLOTSOM, JETSOM, AND LAGEND V THE WAY TO WIN THEM VI AN OLD FOE WITH A NEW FACE VII LA CORDIFIAMMA VIII TAKING ROOT IX “AM I NOT A WOMAN AND A SISTER?” X THE RECOGNITION XI THE FIRST INSTALMENT OF AN OLD DEBT XII A PEER IN TROUBLE XIII L’HOMME INCOMPRIS XIV THE DOCTOR AT BAY TWO YEARS AGO....
WRITE IT RIGHT A LITTLE BLACKLIST OF LITERARY FAULTS BY AMBROSE BIERCE 1909 AIMS AND THE PLAN The author’s main purpose in this book is to teach precision in writing; and of good writing (which, essentially, is clear thinking made visible) precision is the point of capital concern. It is attained by choice of the word that accurately and adequately expresses what the writer has in mind, and by exclusion of that which either denotes or connotes something else....
