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Adventures of Sherlock HolmesA. Conan Doyle Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Adventure I A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA I TO Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he fel...

Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of ScienceGrant Allen Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science PREFACESome people complain that science is dry. That is, of course, a matter of taste. For my own part, I like my science and my champagne as dry a...

The Unsolved Riddle of Social JusticeStephen Leacock The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice I.—The Troubled Outlook of the Present Hour THESE are troubled times. As the echoes of the war die away the sound of a new conflict rises on our ears. All the world is filled with industrial unrest. Strike ...

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451Various Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 / Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 WHO SHALL RULE THE WAVES? A contest of a very remarkable kind is now going on, one which is pregnant with important results in respect to commerce, to naval architecture, to...

The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign CornT. R. Malthus The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn / Intended as an appendix to «Observations on the corn laws» Grounds, &c The professed object of the Obser...

Legends and TalesBret Harte Legends and Tales THE LEGEND OF MONTE DEL DIABLO The cautious reader will detect a lack of authenticity in the following pages. I am not a cautious reader myself, yet I confess with some concern to the absence of much documentary evidence in support of the singular inc...

Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws, and of a Rise or Fall in the Price of Corn on the Agriculture and General Wealth of the CountryT. R. Malthus Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws, and of a Rise or Fall in the Price of Corn on the Agriculture and General Wealth of the Country ...

A Christmas Carol. The original manuscriptDickens Charles A Christmas Carol The original manuscript /My own, and only, MS of the Book/ Charles DickensPREFACE I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves...

English SocietyGeorge Du Maurier English Society GEORGE DU MAURIER I was thinking, with a pang, just before I put my pen to the paper, that the death of George du Maurier must be a fact of stale interest to the reader already, and that it would be staler yet by the time my words reached him. So s...

Madam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for ChildrenCharles Kingsley Madam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children PREFACE My dear boys,—When I was your age, there were no such children’s books as there are now. Those which we had were few and dull, and the ...