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Charles Dickens' Children StoriesDickens Charles Charles Dickens' Children Stories TROTTY VECK AND HIS DAUGHTER MEG "TROTTY" seems a strange name for an old man, but it was given to Toby Veck because of his always going at a trot to do his errands; for he was a porter, and carried letters and mes...

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AbandonedVerne Jules Abandoned INTRODUCTION The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was originally issued in Paris with the title of L'Abandonné. Jules Verne's list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes – a number which has since grown to almost Dumasien propo...

The Sea LadyHerbert George Wells The Sea Lady CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE COMING OF THE SEA LADY ISuch previous landings of mermaids as have left a record, have all a flavour of doubt. Even the very circumstantial account of that Bruges Sea Lady, who was so clever at fancy work, gives occasion to the ...

Impressions of AmericaOscar Wilde Impressions of America IMPRESSIONS ILE JARDIN The lily’s withered chalice fallsAround its rod of dusty gold,And from the beech trees on the woldThe last wood-pigeon coos and calls.The gaudy leonine sunflowerHangs black and barren on its stalk,And down the windy g...

The Battle of Life. A Love StoryDickens Charles The Battle of Life. A Love Story PART THE FIRST Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild...

Woman in Sacred HistoryWoman in Sacred History A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources INTRODUCTION The object of the following pages will be to show, in a series of biographical sketches, a history of Womanhood under Divine culture, tending toward the develo...

The Coming of the FairiesThe Coming of the Fairies PREFACE This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of th...

The Happy Prince and Other TalesWilde Oscar The Happy Prince and Other Tales THE HAPPY PRINCE High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his...

The Personal History of David CopperfieldCharles Dickens The Personal History of David Copperfield PREFACE I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to re...