by Bret Harte UDO BRACHVOGEL, Esq., Whose clever translations of my writings have helped to introduce me to the favor of his countrymen, both here and in Germany, this little volume is heartily dedicated. BRET HARTE. New York, December, 1877. THE STORY OF A MINE CHAPTER I WHO SOUGHT IT It was a steep trail leading over the Monterey Coast Range. Concho was very tired, Concho was very dusty, Concho was very much disgusted....
[Illustration: HOLY ISLAND LOUGH DERG. (From a painting by Watkins.)] The Story of the Nations THE STORY OF IRELAND BY THE HON. EMILY LAWLESS AUTHOR OF “HURRISH: A STUDY,” ETC WITH SOME ADDITIONS BY MRS. ARTHUR BRONSON NEW YORK LONDON 1896 To THE EARL OF DUFFERIN, K.P., G.C.B., F.R.S., &c., VICEROY OF INDIA. * * * * * SGEUL NA H-EIREANN DON EIREANNACH AS FIU. PREFACE. Irish history is a long, dark road, with many blind alleys, many sudden turnings, many unaccountably crooked portions; a road which, if it has a few sign-posts to guide us, bristles with threatening notices, now upon the one side and now upon the other, the very ground underfoot being often full of unsuspected perils threatening to hurt the unwary....
Originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse) in the thirteenth century A.D., by an unknown hand. However, most of the material is based substantially on previous works, some centuries older. A few of these works have been preserved in the collection of Norse poetry known as the “Poetic Edda”. The text of this edition is based on that published as “The Story of the Volsungs”, translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (Walter Scott Press, London, 1888)....
On August 20, 1917, I, Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, Lieutenant-Commander in the Imperial German Navy and in charge of the submarine U-29, deposit this bottle and record in the Atlantic Ocean at a point to me unknown but probably about N. Latitude 20°, W. Longitude 35°, where my ship lies disabled on the ocean floor. I do so because of my desire to set certain unusual facts before the public; a thing I shall not in all probability survive to accomplish in person, since the circumstances surrounding me are as menacing as they are extraordinary, and involve not only the hopeless crippling of the U-29, but the impairment of my iron German will in a manner most disastrous....
THE THREE SISTERS BY MAY SINCLAIR 1914 THE THREE SISTERS I North of east, in the bottom, where the road drops from the High Moor, is the village of Garth in Garthdale. It crouches there with a crook of the dale behind and before it, between half-shut doors of the west and south. Under the mystery and terror of its solitude it crouches, like a beaten thing, cowering from its topmost roof to the bowed back of its stone bridge....
The Title A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS BYARNOLD BENNETT LONDONCHATTO & WINDUSMCMXVIII CHARACTERS MR. CULVERMRS. CULVERHILDEGARDE CULVER } their childrenJOHN CULVER }TRANTOMISS STARKEYSAMPSON STRAIGHTPARLOURMAID ACT I An evening between Christmas and New Year, before dinner. ACT II The next evening, after dinner. ACT III The next day, before lunch. The scene throughout is a sitting-room in the well-furnished West End abode of the Culvers. There is a door, back. There is also another door (L) leading to Mrs....
The Treasure of the IncasA Story of Adventure in Peru BYG. A. HENTY [Illustration: IT DID NOT TAKE LONG TO TRANSFER THE SACKS INTO THE BOAT Page 339] PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION The mysterious loss of a large portion of the treasure of the Incas has never been completely cleared up. By torturing the natives to whom the secret had been entrusted, the Spaniards made two or three discoveries, but there can be little doubt that these finds were only a small proportion of the total amount of the missing hoards, although for years after their occupation of the country the Spaniards spared no pains and hesitated at no cruelty to bring to light the hidden wealth....
THE VISION OF HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE BY DANTE ALIGHIERI TRANSLATED BY THE REV. H. F. CARY, M.A. HELL Cantos 1 – 34 CANTO I IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death....
The whole matter began, so far as I am concerned, with the historic and unprecedented Vermont floods of November 3, 1927. I was then, as now, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts, and an enthusiastic amateur student of New England folklore. Shortly after the flood, amidst the varied reports of hardship, suffering, and organised relief which filled the press, there appeared certain odd stories of things found floating in some of the swollen rivers; so that many of my friends embarked on curious discussions and appealed to me to shed what light I could on the subject....
THE LEROUGE CASE by EMILE GABORIAU CHAPTER I. On Thursday, the 6th of March, 1862, two days after Shrove Tuesday, five women belonging to the village of La Jonchere presented themselves at the police station at Bougival. They stated that for two days past no one had seen the Widow Lerouge, one of their neighbours, who lived by herself in an isolated cottage. They had several times knocked at the door, but all in vain....
If you find an error in this edition, please contact Martin Ward, Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk G. K. CHESTERTON THE WISDOM OF FATHER BROWN To LUCIAN OLDERSHAW CONTENTS The Absence of Mr Glass2. The Paradise of Thieves3. The Duel of Dr Hirsch4. The Man in the Passage5. The Mistake of the Machine6. The Head of Caesar7. The Purple Wig8. The Perishing of the Pendragons9. The God of the Gongs10. The Salad of Colonel Cray11....
THE WOMAN-HATERS by JOSEPH C. LINCOLN FOREWORD (By Way of Explanation) A story of mine called, like this, “The Woman-Haters,” appeared recently in one of the magazines. That story was not this one, except in part–the part dealing with “John Brown” and Miss Ruth Graham. Readers of the former tale who perhaps imagine they know all about Seth Atkins and Mrs. Emeline Bascom will be surprised to find they really know so little....
byWilkie Collins THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT(of Clement’s Inn, Teacher of Drawing) This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve. If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the public attention in a Court of Justice....
THE WORLD’SGREATESTBOOKS JOINT EDITORS ARTHUR MEEEditor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge J. A. HAMMERTONEditor of Harmsworth’s Universal Encyclopaedia VOL. IVFICTION Table of Contents EBERS, GEORG An Egyptian Princess EDGEWORTH, MARIE Belinda Castle Rackrent ELIOT, GEORGE Adam Bede Felix Holt Romola Silas Marner The Mill on the Floss ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN Waterloo FEUILLET, OCTAVE Romance of a Poor Young Man FIELDING, HENRY Amelia Jonathan Wild Joseph Andrews Tom Jones FLAMMARION, CAMILLE Urania FOUQUE, DE LA MOTTE Undine GABORIAU, EMILE File No....
by E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley CHAPTER I: Bad News Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely? When the scheming, indomitable brain of Sigsbee Manderson was scattered by a shot from an unknown hand, that world lost nothing worth a single tear; it gained something memorable in a harsh reminder of the vanity of such wealth as this dead man had piled up–without making one loyal friend to mourn him, without doing an act that could help his memory to the least honour....
GUY DE MAUPASSANT UNE VIE A Piece of StringAnd Other Stories Translated byAlbert M. C. McMaster, B.A.A. E. Henderson, B.A.Mme. Quesada and Others * * * * * VOLUME I. * * * * * [Illustration: “JEANNE”] CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BY POL. NEVEUX UNE VIE (The History of a Heart) I. The Home by the Sea II. Happy Days III. M. de Lamare IV. Marriage and Disillusion V. Corsica and a New Life VI....
Vignettes: IN VERSE. BY MATILDA BETHAM. 1818. THESE VERSES ARE INSCRIBEDTOLADY BETHAM,AS A TRIBUTE OF SINCERE RESPECTFOR HERAMIABLE QUALITIES. ADVERTISEMENT. * * * * * As far as the seventy-fourth page, these Poems have been printed about two years; during which many things happened likely to prevent their ever appearing. The time, however, is now come, and I have to-day found the remainder, up to where the lines end with “Its unpolluted birthright....
Vikram and The Vampire Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance Edited by his Wife Isabel Burton “Les fables, loin de grandir les hommes, la Nature et Dieu, rapetssent tout.” Lamartine (Milton) “One who had eyes saw it; the blind will not understand it. A poet, who is a boy, he has perceived it; he who understands it will be his sire’s sire.” – Rig-Veda (I.164.16). Contents PrefacePreface to the First (1870) Edition Introduction THE VAMPIRE’S FIRST STORY....
VITTORIA By George Meredith BOOK 2. IX. IN VERONAX. THE POPE’S MOUTHXI. LAURA PIAVENIXII. THE BRONZE BUTTERFLYXIII. THE PLOT OF THE SIGNOR ANTONIO CHAPTER IX IN VERONA The lieutenant read these lines, as he clattered through the quiet streets toward the Porta Tosa: ‘DEAR FRIEND,–I am glad that you remind me of our old affection, for it assures me that yours is not dead. I cannot consent to see you yet....
WHY WE ARE AT WAR GREAT BRITAIN’S CASE With an Appendix of Original Documents including the Authorized English Translation of the White Book issued by the German Government Second Edition Revised (fourth impression) containing the Russian Orange Book BY MEMBERS OF THE OXFORD FACULTY OF MODERN HISTORY 1914 PREFACE We are not politicians, and we belong to different schools of political thought. We have written this book to set forth the causes of the present war, and the principles which we believe to be at stake....
