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One of the 28th: A Tale of WaterlooG. A. Henty One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo PREFACE Although in the present story a boy plays the principal part, and encounters many adventures by land and sea, a woman is the real heroine, and the part she played demanded an amount of nerve and courage ful...

The King of PiratesDaniel Defoe The King of Pirates / Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar THE PREFACE ONE of the particular Advantages of the following Letters from Captain Avery, is, the Satisfaction they will give the Readers how much they ha...

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757Cooper James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans CHAPTER I "Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared:The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold:Say, is my kingdom lost?" Shakespeare.It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that th...

The Mysterious Stranger: A RomanceMark Twain The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance CHAPTER I IT was in 1590 – winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and s...

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The TragediesSamuel Johnson Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Introduction on Tragedies Dr. Johnson's reaction to Shakespeare's tragedies is a curious one, compounded as it is of deep emotional involvement in a few scenes in some plays and a strange...

Der Goldene TopfE. T. A. Hoffmann Der Goldene Topf ERSTE VIGILIE Die Unglücksfälle des Studenten Anselmus. Des Konrektors Paulmann Sanitätsknaster und die goldgrünen Schlangen. Am Himmelfahrtstage, Nachmittags um drei Uhr rannte ein junger Mensch in Dresden durchs schwarze Tor und geradezu in ein...

History of Julius CaesarJacob Abbott History of Julius Caesar THE PIRATES AT ANCHORPREFACE It is the object of this series of histories to present a clear, distinct, and connected narrative of the lives of those great personages who have in various ages of the world made themselves celebrated as ...

Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man Wilde Oscar Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. Women are made to be loved, not to be understood. It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. M...

Landmarks in French LiteratureLytton Strachey Landmarks in French Literature TOJ.M.SCHAPTER I ORIGINS—THE MIDDLE AGES When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. This language, in spite...

Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison LifeOscar Wilde Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life PUBLISHERS' NOTEThe circumstance which called forth this letter is a woeful one for Christian England. Martin, the Reading warder, is found guilty of feeding the hungry, nursing ...