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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition. Volume 15Robert Louis Stevenson The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition, Vol. 15 DEACON BRODIE OR THE DOUBLE LIFE A MELODRAMA IN FIVE ACTS AND EIGHT TABLEAUXPERSONS REPRESENTEDWilliam Brodie, Deacon of the Wrights, Housebreake...

Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on ShakespeareLeo Tolstoy Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespeare PART I TOLSTOY ON SHAKESPEARE I Mr. Crosby's article1 on Shakespeare's attitude toward the working classes suggested to me the idea of also expressing my own long-established...

For JacintaBindloss Harold For Jacinta CHAPTER I JACINTA BROWN It was about seven o'clock in the evening when sobrecargo Austin boarded the little mail-boat Estremedura as she lay rolling at anchor on the long, moon-lit heave that worked into the roadstead of Santa Cruz, Palma. Sobrecargo means m...

SevastopolLyof N. Tolstoï Sevastopol SEVASTOPOL IN DECEMBER, 1854 The flush of morning has but just begun to tinge the sky above Sapun Mountain; the dark blue surface of the sea has already cast aside the shades of night and awaits the first ray to begin a play of merry gleams; cold and mist are ...

La Vénus d'IlleProsper Mérimée La Vénus d'Ille LA VÉNUS D'ILLE (1837)Je descendais le dernier coteau du Canigou, et, bien que le soleil fût déjà couché, je distinguais dans la plaine les maisons de la petite ville d'Ille, vers laquelle je me dirigeais.«Vous savez, dis-je au Catalan qui me servait...

Nirvana DaysCale Young Rice Nirvana Days FOREWORD A few of the poems of this volume are retained from two of the author's earlier volumes which are now out of print. The rest are new.INVOCATION (From a High Cliff) Sweep unrestOut of my blood,Winds of the sea! Sweep the fogOut of my brainFor I am ...

Oscar Wilde: An Idler's ImpressionSaltus Edgar Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression Years ago, in a Paris club, one man said to another: "Well, what's up?" The other shook a paper: "There is only one genius in England and they have put him in jail."One may wonder ...

The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present PowerJohn S. C. Abbott The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power PREFACE The studies of the author of this work, for the last ten years, in writing the "History of Napoleon Bonaparte," and "The French Revolution of 1789," have necessarily made h...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12.Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. / Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12 PREFACE The present sheet completes the TWELFTH VOLUME OF THE MIRROR. This circumstance alo...

Le comte de MoretPREMIER VOLUMECHAPITRE Ier. L'HOTELLERIE DE LA BARBE PEINTE CHAPITRE II. CE QUI ADVINT DE LA PROPOSITION FAITE PAR L'INCONNU A MAITRE ÉTIENNE LATIL CHAPITRE III. OU LE LECTEUR COMMENCE A S'EXPLIQUER LA HAINE QUE LE GENTILHOMME BOSSU PORTAIT AU COMTE DE MORET, ET CE QU'IL EN ADVIN...