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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...

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Two Years Ago, Volume IICharles Kingsley Two Years Ago, Volume II CHAPTER XV. THE CRUISE OF THE WATERWITCH The middle of August is come at last; and with it the solemn day on which Frederick Viscount Scoutbush may be expected to revisit the home of his ancestors. Elsley has gradually made up his ...

Jane, Stewardess of the Air LinesWheeler Ruthe S. Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines Chapter One Graduation Night Jane Cameron looked breathlessly around the room where seventeen senior nurses of the Good Samaritan hospital at University City sat primly awaiting their diplomas. It was graduation n...

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...

Ma confessionTolstoy Leo, graf Ma confession PRÉFACELa vive admiration que l'on manifeste à Paris pour les ouvrages de Tolstoï, la sympathie avec laquelle on accueille chaque nouveau volume de ses œuvres, et l'intérêt qu'on porte à son individualité, m'ont donné l'idée de traduire ce petit volume...

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De profundisOscar Wilde De profundis INLEIDING Verbis meis addere nihil audebant et super illos stillabat eloquium meum. JOB XXIX, 22. Grafschrift van O. W., Bagneux-Parijs.Оscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), de befaamde schrijver van den roman "The Picture of Dorian Gray", van vers...

Four in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire WoodsFour in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire Woods TOTHE CHIEF, COUNCILLORS ANDFELLOWS OF SHERWOODFORESTCHAPTER I INTRODUCES NELSON TILFORD, AND WITNESSES HIS ARRIVAL AT CAMP CHICORA “That’s Chicora over there...

Talbot's AnglesAmy E. Blanchard Talbot's Angles CHAPTER I THE END OF A DAY The sun was very low in the west and the evening colors were staining the creek whose quiet waters ran between flat lands to be carried out to the river further on, which, in its turn, found the broader bay. The arms of on...