-
Love-at-Arms
Rafael Sabatini 试读
From the valley, borne aloft on the wings of the evening breeze, rose faintly the tolling of an Angelus bell, and in a goat-herd's hut on the heights above stood six men with heads uncovered and bowed, obeying its summons to evening prayer.
-
The Cycle of Spring
泰戈尔 试读
The stage is on two levels: the higher, at the back, for the Song-preludes alone, concealed by a purple curtain; the lower only being discovered when the drop goes up. Diagonally across the extreme left of the lower stage, is arranged the king's court, with various platforms, for the various dignitaries ascending to the canopied throne.
-
Chasing the Sun
Robert Michael Ballantyne 试读
He had a romantic spirit, a quiet gentlemanly manner, a pleasant smile, and a passionate desire for violent exercise. To look at him you would have supposed that he was rather a lazy man, for all his motions were slow and deliberate. He was never in a hurry, and looked as if it would take a great deal to excite him. But those who knew Fred Temple well used to say that there was a great deal more in him than appeared at first sight. Sometimes a sudden flush of the brow, or a gleam of his eyes, told of hidden fires within.
-
Fighting the Whales
Robert Michael Ballantyne 试读
R. M. Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. In 1848 he published his first book, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America. For some time he was employed by Messrs Constable, the publishers, but in 1856 he gave up business for the profession of literature, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated. The Young Fur-Traders (1856), The Coral Island (1857), The World of Ice (1859), Ungava: A Tale of Eskimo Land (1857), The Dog Crusoe (1860), The Lighthouse (1865), Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines (1868), The Pirate City (1874), Erling the Bold (1869), The Settler and the Savage (1877), and other books, to the number of upwards of a hundred, followed in regular succession, his rule being in every case to write as far as possible from personal knowledge of the scenes he described.
-
Hunting the Lions
Robert Michael Ballantyne 试读
It has happened often that the poor animal's legs do their duty so badly that he falls and exposes his rider to be trodden into a mummy; or losing his presence of mind, the rider may allow the horse to dash under a tree, and crack his cranium against a branch. As one charge of an elephant has often been enough to make embryo hunters bid a final adieu to the chase, incipient Nimrods would do well to try their nerves by standing on railways till the engines are within a few yards of them, before going to Africa "
-
Sunk at Sea
Robert Michael Ballantyne 试读
William Osten was a wanderer by nature. He was born with a thirst for adventure that nothing could quench, and with a desire to rove that nothing could subdue.
-
Now It Can Be Told
Philip Gibbs 试读
Sir Philip Gibbs (1877-1962) served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. Born in London the son of a civil servant, Gibbs received a home education and determined at an early age to develop a career as a writer. His debut article was published in 1894 in the Daily Chronicle five years later he published the first of many books, Founders of the Empire. His wartime output was prodigious. He not only produced a stream of newspaper articles but also a series of books: The Soul of the War (1915), The Battle of the Somme (1917), Now It Can Be Told (1920) and The Realities of War (1920).
-
The Slant Book
Peter Newell 试读
A fun children's book by Peter Newell, who was an American author and artist, and an innovator in the world of publishing children's books.
-
Peter Bell the Third
Percy Bysshe Shelley 试读
The Devil, I safely can aver, Has neither hoof, nor tail, nor sting Nor is he, as some sages swear, A spirit, neither here nor there, In nothing--yet in everything.
-
Poems of Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine 试读
Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair, Peopled with maskers delicate and dim, That play on lutes and dance and have an air Of being sad in their fantastic trim.
-
Murder in Any Degree
Owen Johnson 试读
One Sunday in March they had been marooned at the club, Steingall the painter and Quinny the illustrator, and, having lunched late, had bored themselves separately to their limits over the periodicals until, preferring to bore each other, they had gravitated together in easy arm-chairs before the big Renaissance fireplace. Steingall, sunk in his collar, from behind the black-rimmed spectacles, which, with their trailing ribbon of black, gave a touch of Continental elegance to his cropped beard and colonel's mustaches, watched without enthusiasm the three mammoth logs, where occasional tiny flames gave forth an illusion of heat.
-
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
王尔德 试读
With a Preface by Robert Ross. Contents Include: How they Struck a Contemporary - The Quality of George Meredith - Life the Fallacious Model - Life the Disciple - Life the Plagiarist - The Indispensable East - The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate - An Exposure of Naturalism - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright - Wainewright at Hobart Town - Cardinal Newman and the Autobiographers - Robert Browning - The Two Supreme and Highest Arts - The Secrets of Immortality - The Critic and his Material - Dante the Living Guide - The Limitations of Genius - Wanted a New Background - Without Frontiers - The Poetry of Archaeology - The Art of Archaeology - Herod Suppliant - The Tetrarch's Remorse - The Tetrarch's Treasure - Salome Anticipates Dr. Strauss - The Young King - A Coronation - The King of Spain - A Bull Fight - The Throne Room - A Protected Country - The Blackmailing of the Emperor - Covent Garden - A Letter from Miss Jane Percy to her Aunt - The Triumph of American 'Humor' - The Garden of Death - An Eton Kit-Cat - Mrs. Erlynne Exercises the Prerogative of a Grandmother - Motherhood more than Marriage - The Damnable Ideal - From a Rejected Prize-Essay - The Possibilities of the Useful - The Artist - The Doer of Good - The Disciples - The Master - The House of Judgment - Wilde gives Directions about 'De Pro Fundis' - Carey Street - Sorrow Wears no Mask - Vita Nuova - The Grand Romantic - Clapham Junction - The Broken Resolution - Domesticity at Berneval - A Visit to the Pope
-
Dolly and I A Story for Little Folks
Oliver Optic 试读
William Taylor Adams (1822-1897) was a noted academic, author, and Massachusetts state legislator. He was born in Medway, Massachusetts. He became a teacher in the Boston, Massachusetts public schools in 1845, and remained in that capacity through 1865. He served as a member of the School Board of Dorchester, Massachusetts, for 14 years. In 1869, he became a member of the Massachusetts General Court. He wrote many books of fiction for boys under the pseudonym Oliver Optic, including All Aboard or, Life on the Lake (1855), Poor and Proud or, The Fortunes of Katy Redburn (1858), The Soldier Boy or, Tom Somers in the Army (1863), The Birthday Party: A Story for Little Folks (1864), Outward Bound or, Young America Afloat (1867), Now or Never or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright (1872), Taken by the Enemy (1888), Little by Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway (1888), On The Blockade (1890), Within the Enemy's Lines (1890), Stand by the Union (1891), Fighting for the Right (1893), A Victorious Union (1893), Haste and Waste or, the Young Pilot of Lake Champlain (1894), and Across India or, Live Boys In The Far East (1895).
-
Taras Bulba and Other Tales
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 试读
Russian literature, so full of enigmas, contains no greater creative mystery than Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol (1809-1852), who has done for the Russian novel and Russian prose what Pushkin has done for Russian poetry. Before these two men came Russian literature can hardly have been said to exist. It was pompous and effete with pseudo-classicism foreign influences were strong in the speech of the upper circles there was an overfondness for German, French, and English words. Between them the two friends, by force of their great genius, cleared away the debris which made for sterility and erected in their stead a new structure out of living Russian words. The spoken word, born of the people, gave soul and wing to literature only by coming to earth, the native earth, was it enabled to soar. Coming up from Little Russia, the Ukraine, with Cossack blood in his veins, Gogol injected his own healthy virus into an effete body, blew his own virile spirit, the spirit of his race, into its nostrils, and gave the Russian novel its direction to this very day.
-
The Graymouse Family
Nellie Mabel Leonard 试读
Mother Graymouse, with her family lived in a cosy attic which was as snug and comfortable as any good mouse could wish. Her children were named Limpy-toes, Silver Ears, Buster, Teenty and Tiny, and Baby Squealer. Although they had many faults, upon the whole they were good children and made a happy family.
-
Sowing Seeds in Danny
Nellie L. McClung 试读
While Wilford Ducker was unfastening the china buttons on his waist, preparatory to a season of rest and retirement, that he might the better ponder upon the sins of disobedience and evil associations, Patsey Watson was opening and shutting his new knife proudly.
-
The Black Creek Stopping-House
Nellie L. McClung 试读
To the Pioneer Women of the West, who made life tolerable, and even comfortable, for the others of us who fed the hungry, advised the erring, nursed the sick, cheered the dying, comforted the sorrowing, and performed the last sad rites for the dead The beloved Pioneer Women, old before their time with hard work, privations, and doing without things, yet in whose hearts there was always burning the hope of better things to come The godly Pioneer Women, who kept alive the con- science of the neighborhood, and preserved for us the best traditions of the race To these noble Women of the early days, some of whom we see no more, for they have entered into their inheritance, this book is respectfully dedicated by their humble admirer, The Author. Let me live in a house by the side of the road, and be a friend of man. CONTENTS THE BLACK CREEK STOPPING-HOUSE CHAPTER PAGE I. The Old Trail - 9 II. The House of Bread 15 III. The Sailors Rest 24 IV. Farm Pupils 30 V. The Prairie Club-House 37 VI. The Counter-irritant VII. Ladies Day at the Stopping-House - 48 VIII. Shadows of the Night IX. His Evil Genius X. Das Turn 79 XI. The Blizzard XII. When the Day Broke 103 THE RUNAWAY GRANDMOTHER THE RETURN TICKET THE UNGRATEFUL PIGEONS You NEVER CAN TELL - 44 61 71 89 113 131 145 159 A SHORT TALE OF A RABBIT - 179 THE ELUSIVE VOTE 187 THE WAY OF THE WEST - - 209 THE BLACK CREEK STOPPING HOUSE The Black Creek Stopping- House CHAPTER I. THE OLD TRAIL. WHEN John Corbett strolled leisurely into the Salvation Army meeting in old Victoria Hall in Winnipeg that night, so many years ago now, there may have been some who thought he came to disturb the meeting. There did not seem to be any atmospheric reason why Mr.Corbett or anyone else should be abroad, for it was a drizzling cold November night, and the streets were muddy, as only Winnipeg streets in the old days could be none of your light-minded, fickle-hearted, changeable mud that is mud to-day and dust to-morrow, but the genuine, original,
-
A Simple Story
Mrs. Inchbald 试读
A Simple Story is one of those books which, for some reason or other, have failed to come down to us, as they deserved, along the current of time, but have drifted into a literary backwater where only the professional critic or the curious discoverer can find them out. "The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy;" and *where more blindly than in the republic of letters. If we were to inquire how it has happened that the true value of Mrs. Inchbald's achievement has passed out of general recognition, perhaps the answer to our question would be found to lie in the extreme difficulty with which the mass of readers detect and appreciate mere quality in literature. Their judgment is swayed by a hundred side-considerations which have *thing to do with art, but happen easily to impress the imagination, or to fit in with the fashion of the hour. The reputation of Mrs. Inchbald's contemporary, Fanny Burney, is a case in point. Every one has heard of Fanny Burney's *vels, and Evelina is still widely read. Yet it is impossible to doubt that, so far as quality alone is concerned, Evelina deserves to be ranked considerably below A Simple Story. But its writer was the familiar friend of the greatest spirits of her age; she was the author of one of the best of diaries; and her work was immediately and immensely popular. Thus it has happened that the name of Fanny Burney has maintained its place upon the roll of English *velists, while that of Mrs. Inchbald is forgotten.
-
Elkan Lubliner, American
Montague Glass 试读
"What do you mean bum round our shop " Philip demanded. He was asking about his brother-in-law, who'd just written, asking for money. "In the first place, Polatkin, I ain't said I am going to send him money, y'understand and, in the second place, if I want to send the feller money to come over here, understand me, that's my business. Furthermore, when you are coming to call my brother-in-law a loafer and a bum, Polatkin, you don't know what you are talking about. His "Grossvater," "olav hasholem," was the great Harkavy Rav, Jochannon Borrochson."
-
Lady Larkspur
Meredith Nicholson 试读
Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) was an American author, diplomat, and lecturer. He worked from 1885-1897 for the Indianapolis News. His first novel was Short Flights (1891) and his last was The Cavalier of Tennessee in 1928, which included both prose and poetry. He was a member of the Democratic party, serving one term (1928-1930) as a reform city councilman in Indianapolis. For his long years of service and dedication to the Democratic party, Nicholson was rewarded with ministries to Latin America-Paraguay (1933-34), Venezuela (1935-1938) and Nicaragua (1938-1941).
-
The Actress Daughter A Novel
May Agnes Fleming 试读
or! Lor! what a night it is any way. Since I was first born, and that's thirty-five—no, forty-five years come next June, I never heern sich win' as that there, fit to tear the roof off! Well, this is Christmas Eve, and we ginerally do hev a spell o' weather 'bout this time. Here you Fly! Fly!(This paragraph from the first chapter)
-
The Three Eyes
Maurice Leblanc 试读
Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.
-
Confessions of a Book-Lover
Maurice Francis Egan 试读
To get the best out of books, I am convinced that you must begin to love these perennial friends very early in life. It is the only way to know all their "curves," all those little shadows of expression and small lights. There is a glamour which you never see if you begin to read with a serious intention late in life, when questions of technique and grammar and mere words begin to seem too important.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
-
The Street of Seven Stars
Mary Roberts Rinehart 试读
Mary Roberts Rinehart is considered to be the American equivalent of Agatha Christie. She is the author of the phrase "the butler did it." Rinehart has written hundreds of short stories, plays, travelogues and special interest articles. In The Street of Seven Stars an American musician living in Austria must choose between love and career. The fate of two couples becomes intertwined on the Street of Seven Stars. The street has an almost magical quality to it. Some people find true happiness while others know only tragedy. Harmony Wells is a beautiful poor violinist who has come to Austria for her music. She meets Dr. Peter Byrne who is an American expatriate. Young Dr. Stewart and his lower-class lover Marie also live on the Street of the Seven Stars.
-
Tracy Park A Novel
Mary Jane Holmes 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
-
Pembroke A Novel
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
-
The Debtor A Novel
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers.
-
Heart A Social Novel
Martin Farquhar Tupper 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
-
Somebodys Little Girl
Martha Young 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers.
-
The Mysterious Stranger
Mark Twain 试读
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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 said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me. Yes, Austria was far from the world, and asleep, and our village was in the middle of that sleep, being in the middle of Austria. It drowsed in peace in the deep privacy of a hilly and woodsy solitude where news from the world hardly ever came to disturb its dreams, and was infinitely content. At its front flowed the tranquil river, its surface painted with cloud-forms and the reflections of drifting arks and stone-boats behind it rose the woody steeps to the base of the lofty precipice from the top of the precipice frowned a vast castle, its long stretch of towers and bastions mailed in vines beyond the river, a league to the left, was a tumbled expanse of forest-clothed hills cloven by winding gorges where the sun never penetrated and to the right a precipice overlooked the river, and between it and the hills just spoken of lay a far-reaching plain dotted with little homesteads nested among orchards and shade trees.
-
The Firefly of France
Marion Polk Angellotti 试读
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
-
Jessamine A Novel
Marion Harland 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
-
Samantha on the Woman Question
Marietta Holley 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
-
The Melting of Molly
Maria Thompson Daviess 试读
I am so happy that I planted my garden all crooked, my eyes upon the clouds with the birds sailing against them, and when I became conscious I found wicked flaunting poppies sprouted right up against the sweet modest clover-pinks, while the whole paper of bachelor's-buttons was sowed over everything—which I immediately began to dig right up again, blushing furiously to myself over the trowel, and glad that I had caught myself before they grew up to laugh in my face.
-
The Motor Girls
Margret Penrose 试读
"Now you've got it, what are you going to do with it?" asked Jack Kimball, with a most significant smile at his sister Cora.
-
The Hermit of Far End
Margaret Pedler 试读
It was very quiet within the little room perched high up under the roof of Wallater's Buildings. Even the glowing logs in the grate burned tranquilly, without any of those brisk cracklings and sputterings which make such cheerful company of a fire, while the distant roar of London's traffic came murmuringly, dulled to a gentle monotone by the honeycomb of narrow side streets that intervened between the gaunt, red-brick Buildings and the bustling highways of the city.
-
Shenacs Work at Home
Margaret Murray Robertso 试读
Hamish alone hesitated; all the rest declared that he must go, and none more decidedly than Shenac. In the first delighted moment, she thought only of the good that Hamish was to get, and not at all of how they were to get on without him. She did not draw back when she thought of it, but worked night and day to get his things ready before the appointed time.
-
Creatures That Once Were Men
Maxim Gorky 试读
It is certainly a curious fact that so many of the voices of what is called our modern religion have come from countries which are not only simple, but may even be called barbaric. A nation like Norway has a great realistic drama without having ever had either a great classical drama or a great romantic drama.
-
Minnies Pet Horse
Madeline Leslie 试读
In the other books of this little series, I have told you about Minnie’s pet parrot, her pet cat, and her pet dog. In this one, I shall give you an account of her pet pony, and also tell you anecdotes of other horses.
-
Ethel Morton at Rose House
Mabell S. C. Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith 试读
Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE CLUB SELECTS THE BENCHES IT seemed to Dorothy and the Ethels that the outside of Sweetbrier Lodge, as Mrs. Smith had determined to call her house, went up with remarkable speed, but that the inside would never be done ? never Every day the girls walked down the road after school, and stood and surveyed the general appearance from the sidewalk and from across the street and sometimes they went on to Mrs. Emerson's and discussed vigorously as to whether the view of the corner of the house that was to be seen now would still be seen after the leaves came out or whether the house would be entirely concealed by the foliage. " That's ' one of the things no feller knows,' " Mr. Emerson quoted. " We shall have to wait and see." " We can get an idea how it is to look from the road," said Ethel Brown. " Only there'll be a lot of planting," Dorothy explained. " There'll be a hedge along the street and a lot of shrubs on the knoll and the house will be covered with vines in the course of time." " That's another good point about concrete," declared Mr. Emerson; " vines don't injure it as they do brick." " We'll have it entirely covered, then," laughed Dorothy. " I thought it was to be a bungalow," said Mrs. Emerson. " Your mother has always spoken of it as a bungalow, but the plans I saw the men following the other day when I went up the hill to take a look at things, seemed to me like a two story house." " Mother changed her mind," said Dorothy. " She thought a bungalow would be too crowded now that we have little Belgian Elisabeth with us, so the house is going to have two stories and an attic." " The U. S. C. couldn't get on without Dorothy's attic," smiled Ethel Brown, for almost all of the presents for the Christmas Ship had been made in the ...
-
Dick and Brownie
Mabel Quiller-Couch 试读
The old horse standing patiently by, with drooping head and hopeless, patient eyes, looked starved and weak. His poor body was so thin that the bones seemed ready to push through the skin, on which showed the marks of the blows he had received that morning. Nearby was Dick, the dog, as thin as the horse, but younger -- a lank, yellow, ugly, big-bodied dog, with a clever head, bright, speaking brown eyes, and as keen a nose for scent as any dog ever born possessed. The dog set his nose to the ground he dashed to the edge of the little wood and beyond it . . . then took to his heels and raced ahead with a joy -- it was the scent of his little mistress, Huldah -- which almost forced a yelp of triumph from his throat. The old horse raised his head and looked after the dog wistfully. "If only I were as young and fleet, and able to get away as quietly " he thought longingly. Far ahead of the pursuing dog, Huldah looked around nervously. She was not so frightened by the prospect of the want and loneliness and uncertainty which lay before her, as she was by the thought of being caught -- and taken back again . . . for she had escaped those cruel people and never wanted to see them again
-
North, South and over the Sea
M.E. Francis Mrs. Francis Blundell) 试读
The long warm day was drawing to its close; over the sandhills yonder the sun was sinking in a great glory of scarlet and purple and gold. The air was warm still, and yet full of those myriad indescribable essences that betoken the falling of the dew;
-
The Lord of the Sea
Matthew Phipps Shiell 试读
See now a shocking scrimmage, a rush and crush for precedence, surge upon surge of men jostling each other in a struggle to get near him, sticks reaching awkwardly over heads to inflict far forceless blows, and on his face the fists; a hundred roaring "Order!", fighting against the tide; three hundred shrieking, "Kill him!" "Have him done with!" "Dash out his brains!", and pressing to that job. Sergeant-at-Arms, meanwhile, Clerk-attending-the-Table, and the physician, had run to give the alarm; but it was by one of those miracles of wild minutes, when turbulent sprites appear to mix themselves in the business of men, worse....
-
Henry Dunbar A Novel
M. E. Mary Elizabeth) Braddon 试读
The house of Dunbar, Dunbar, and Balderby, East India bankers, was one of the richest firms in the city of London--so rich that it would be quite in vain to endeavour to describe the amount of its wealth.
-
The Spartan Twins
Lucy Fitch Perkins 试读
Under the arcade in the court there was a small wooden table. Chloe and Daphne lifted it and brought it near the fire. Then they brought a plain wooden bench that also stood under the thatch and placed it beside the table. They arranged cushions of lamb's wool upon the bench, and near the foot set a low stool. Daphne brought the dishes, and when everything was ready, Lydia sent Chloe to call her husband and the Stranger, while she herself went out to the farm-yard. She found Dion and Argos sitting side by side on the wood-pile in dejected silence.
-
The Stowaway Girl
Louis Tracy 试读
The color startled so suddenly out of the girl's face began to return. Her eyes lost their dilation of fear. Somehow, the comment on the broken glass seemed to deprive "owd Dickey Bulmer's" personality of its real menace.
-
The Fortune Hunter
Louis Joseph Vance 试读
Receiver at ear, Spaulding, of Messrs. Atwater & Spaulding, importers of motoring garments and accessories, listened to the switchboard operator's announcement with grave attention, acknowledging it with a toneless: "All right. Send him in."
-
Our Navy in the War
Lawrence Perry 试读
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
-
The Blue Moon
Laurence Housman 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
-
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue
Laura Lee Hope 试读
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text editions include the following visual enhancements to foster a deeper understanding of the work: Word Clouds at the start of each chapter highlight important words. Word, sentence, paragraph counts, and reading time help readers and teachers determine chapter complexity. Co-occurrence graphs depict character-to-character interactions as well character to place interactions. Sentiment indexes identify positive and negative trends in mood within each chapter. Frequency graphs help display the impact this book has had on popular culture since its original date of publication. Use Trajectory analytics to deepen comprehension, to provide a focus for discussions and writing assignments, and to engage new readers with some of the greatest stories ever told."Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue" by Laura Lee Hope is a sweet children's book about the adventures of two young children: Bunny Brown and his sister Sue.
-
Geoffrey Strong
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
-
Winner Take All
Larry Evans 试读
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
-
The Story Girl
Lucy Maud Montgomery 试读
The Story Girl is fourteen years old, and she can tell a story to lead even adults into faryland, a different world, or whatever else she may be telling a story about. The narriator is Beverly King, the Story Girl's thirteen-year-old cousin from Toronto. The Story Girl has four cousins besides Beverley, thirteen-year-old Dan, twelve-year-old Felicity, eleven-year-old Cecily, and Felix. They have many aunts and uncles. As soon as you start to read this book, it feels like you have just taken a trip to Carlisie, and you are one of the cousins or an aunt or uncle.
-
Rilla of Ingleside
Lucy Maud Montgomery 试读
October passed out and the dreary days of November and December dragged by. The world shook with the thunder of contending armies Antwerp fell --Turkey declared war--gallant little Serbia gathered herself together and struck a deadly blow at her oppressor and in quiet, hill-girdled Glen St. Mary, thousands of miles away, hearts beat with hope and fear over the varying dispatches from day to day.
-
Growth of the Soil
Knut Hamsun 试读
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWhen it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of the Norwegian backcountry, Knut Hamsun evokes the elemental bond between humans and the land. Newly translated by the distinguished Hamsun scholar Sverre Lyngstad, Growth of the Soil is a work of preternatural calm, stern beauty, and biblical power-and the crowning achievement of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.'Growth of the Soil was a worldwide sensation . . . and almost from the day of publication there were rumors that Hamsun would win the Nobel Prize . . . Singer admitted to being 'hypnotized' by him; Hesse called him his favorite writer; Hemingway recommended his novels to Scott Fitzgerald; Gide compared him to Dostoyevsky, but believed Hamsun was 'perhaps even more subtle.' The list of those who loved his sly, anarchic voice is long.'- The New YorkerWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURETranslated with Notes by SVERRE LYNGSTAD
-
The Flamingo Feather
Kirk Munroe 试读
"On a dreary winter's day, early in the year 1564, young Rn de Veaux, who had just passed his sixteenth birthday, left the dear old chateau where he had spent his happy and careless boyhood, and started for Paris. Less than a month before both his noble father and his gentle mother had been taken from him by a terrible fever that had swept over the country, and Rn their only child, was left without a relative in the world except his uncle the Chevalier Rn de Laudonniere. . . ."Poor young Rn was traveling to his uncle, then in Paris -- but ultimately the pair would end up on a warm bright island in the New World where young Rn would become the hero of the surprising adventures that this book holds. . . .
-
The Romance of a Christmas Card
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 试读
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
-
If I Were King
Justin McCarthy 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
-
The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel
Justin Huntly McCarthy 试读
In the October of 1642 there came to Cambridge a man from over-seas.He was travelling backward,after the interval of a generation, through the atages of his youth.From his landing......
-
A Great Emergency and Other Tales
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 试读
Oh, dear I wish we weren't going home "So do I Can't we stay out a little while longer?" "Why, Flossie and Freddie Bobbsey " cried Nan, the older sister of the two small twins who had spoken. "A few minutes ago you were in a hurry to get home." "Yes; they said they were so hungry they couldn't wait to see what Dinah was going to have for supper," said Bert Bobbsey. "How abou...