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Glinda Of OzLa GrenadiereQuote, "La Grenadiere is a little house on the right bank of the Loire as you go down stream, about a mile below the bridge of Tours. At this point the river...Albert SavarusQuote, "He has a noble soul! He perceived from the first days of his married life that he would never be his wife?s master, so he threw himself into a mechan...The Little NuggetA First Family of TasajaraQuote, "Her voice and manner were quite enough to arrest him where he stood with a pleased surprise in his fresh and ingenuous face. She looked at him more c...A First Year in Canterbury SettlementA Prefect's UncleDickory CronkeTalks on TalkingCandidaCaptains CourageousCabbages and KingsYou Never Can TellThe Master of the WorldAmy FosterCaptain Stormfield's Visit to HeavenEtexts from The Snow ImageThe Lady From The SeaA Cynic Looks at LifeA Modest ProposalPauline's Passion and PunishmentQuote, "Her eyes came back from their long gaze and settled on him full of an intelligence which deepened his perplexity. "You have not learned to know me ye...Canterbury PiecesQuote, "Now, however sceptical I may yet feel about the truth of all Darwin's theory, I cannot sit quietly by and see him misrepresented in such a scandalous...An Englishman Looks at the WorldAlice, or The Mysteries, Book VIAt the Earth's CoreA Doll's HouseQuote, "That is like a woman! But seriously, Nora, you know what I think about that. No debt, no borrowing. There can be no freedom or beauty about a home li...Alice, or The Mysteries, Book IIA House to LetKarl Ludwig Sand Celebrated CrimesQuote, "March 23, 1819, Karl-Ludwig Sand murdered August von Kotzebue, a playwright in the service of the Russian government, because of his criticism of the...Alice Sit-By-The-FireCambridge PiecesQuote, "Mr. Bridges had long been desirous of becoming a candidate for this distinction, but, until the death of Mr. Leader, no vacancy having occurred among...Black Heart and White HeartLetters on EnglandCressyQuote, "As the master of the Indian Spring school emerged from the pine woods into the little clearing before the schoolhouse, he stopped whistling, put his...A Childs History of EnglandDiana's DreamsThe Importance of Being EarnestA Visit to Three FrontsCaptain Brassbound's ConversionChrist in FlandersQuote, "At a dimly remote period in the history of Brabant, communication between the Island of Cadzand and the Flemish coast was kept up by a boat which car...Certain Personal MattersThe Dolliver RomanceQuote, "Little Pansie was the one earthly creature that inherited a drop of the Dolliver blood. The Doctor's only child, poor Bessie's offspring, had died th...RudinA Letter to a HinduAlonzo Fitz and Other StoriesThrough the Looking GlassThe Adventure of the Dying DetectivePeaceLittle WarsRecollections of the Private Life of Napoleon v9Dream PsychologyAunt Jane's NiecesThe Survivors of the ChancellorBarrack Room BalladsPrayers Written At Vailima and A Lowden SabbathIn the Wrong ParadiseCharmides and Other PoemsFanny's First PlayAll He Knew A StoryEuthydemusPlato's Euthydemus is a 380 BCE dialogue.Miss or Mrs?In Miss or Mrs? Wilkie Collins takes an insight into the union of man and wife and the subsequent unequal marriage laws during Victorian Britain.Condensed NovelsJane EyreAmerican Fairy TalesA Tale of Three LionsAndrocles and the LionFather DamienAlice, or The Mysteries, Book VSpeeches: Literary and SocialQuote, "CAPTAIN HEWETT, - I am very proud and happy to have been selected as the instrument of conveying to you the heartfelt thanks of my fellow-passengers...Roughing ItA Double StoryQuote, "Not that the child was a fool. Had she been, the wise woman would have only pitied and loved her, instead of feeling sick when she looked at her. She...A Man of MeansMercadet A Comedy In Three ActsMercadet is a comedic play by Honore De Balzac about a financier named Mercadet, who attempts to swindle money out of investors whilst getting himself into t...Colonel ChabertA Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of anQuote, "When I am very weary with hard thought, And yet the question burns and is not quenched, My heart grows cool when to remembrance wrought That thou who...A Modern CinderellaBooks and BookmenDavid CopperfieldLetters on LiteratureEgmontThe Silverado SquattersI and My ChimneyQuote, "In those houses which are strictly double houses--that is, where the hall is in the middle--the fireplaces usually are on opposite sides; so that whi...God the Known and God the UnknownQuote, "Let him think of the vastness of the earth, and of the activity by day and night through countless ages of such countless forms of animal and vegetab...East and West PoemsFacing the FlagA Man of BusinessQuote, "It all goes to the shoemakers," she said. "I left a milliner because she failed twice with my hats. The vixen has been here twenty-seven times to ask...At the Sign of the Cat and RacketQuote, "The old merchant was to be seen standing on the threshold of his shop, as if by a miracle, the instant the servant withdrew. Monsieur Guillaume looke...Alice, or The Mysteries, Book IVIn The Fourth YearQuote, "In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a "War of Ideas." A phrase, "The War to end War," got into circulation, amidst...Three Ghost StoriesCustom and MythHard TimesThe Holly TreeThe World War and What was Behind ItAlice, or The Mysteries, Book IIISunday Under Three HeadsQuote, "But you hold out no inducement, you offer no relief from listlessness, you provide nothing to amuse his mind, you afford him no means of exercising h...Dialogues Concerning Natural ReligionDeruesQuote, "And I am not in the habit of running useless risks, most noble cavaliers. You are, it is true, two against one; but," he added, throwing back his clo...Prue and IParmenidesRegarded to by one of Plato's most challenging dialogues, Parmenides is an account of a meeting of two great philosophers, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea.The Door in the Wall And Other StoriesQuote, "If you call them dreams. Night after night. Vivid!--so vivid . . . . this-- (he indicated the landscape that went streaming by the window) "seems unr...The Ancestral FootstepQuote, "Not a whit," said the old man. "England will never understand America; for England never does understand a foreign country; and whatever you may say...EmmaThe Time MachineOpera Stories from WagnerAlfred TennysonMenoPuck of Pook's HillThe World Set FreeAll Around the MoonQuote, "A few years ago the world was suddenly astounded by hearing of an experiment of a most novel and daring nature, altogether unprecedented in the annal...Earth's HolocaustApologyThe Cenci - Celebrated CrimesQuote, "Caesar's ambition was only fed by victories: scarcely was he master of Faenza before, excited by the Mariscotti, old enemies of the Bentivoglio famil...GhostsQuote, "Engstrand. And it was when your mother was in a nasty temper. I had to find some way of getting my knife into her, my girl. She was always so preciou...New BurlesquesFirst and Last ThingsQuote, "Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a numbe...A Second HomeAngling SketchesSuccessful Methods of Public SpeakingA Vindication of the PressGreat CatherineThe Christmas BanquetQuote, "the demands that spirit makes upon spirit, are precisely those to which he cannot respond. When, at last, you come close to him, you find him chill a...CratylusPlato's Cratylus, after ancient Athenian philosopher Cratylus, is his only dialogue devoted solely to the relation between language and reality.Alice, or The Mysteries, Book XISome Christmas StoriesQuote, "But, one day, of a sudden, the traveller lost the child. He called to him over and over again, but got no answer. So, he went upon his road, and went...The Doings of Raffles HawAlice, or The Mysteries, Book IFar Above RubiesQuote, "Again without waiting to think, and only afterwards waking up to the fact and meaning of what she had done, she turned, went back to the entry-door,...Paradise LostUneasy MoneyThe Wild Knight and Other PoemsQuote, "Well, if in any woes or wars I bought my naked right to be, Grew worthy of the grass, nor gave The wren, my brother, shame for me."Lineage Life and Labors of Jose Rizal PhilippinLineage Life and Labors of Jos Rizal Philippin, Austin Craig, biographyOxfordAli Pacha Celebrated CrimesThe Ebb-TideThe War in the AirAmong Malay Pirates And Other Tales Of AdventureQuote, "The man at the tiller was in fact, looking, with mingled curiosity and hostility, at the gunboat that he was passing but a few yards away, and did no...Notes from the UndergroundTomorrowQuote, "It was the shock of this disappointment, perhaps, coming soon after the loss of his wife, that had driven him crazy on that point," the barber sugges...The Parenticide ClubQuote, "Having murdered my mother under circumstances of singular atrocity, I was arrested and put upon my trial, which lasted seven years. In charging the j...New PoemsThe Man in the Iron Mask, An EssayHow to Live on 24 Hours a DayThe First Men in the MoonFablesA collection of thirteen fables by Robert Louis Stevenson.GobseckQuote, "His room, and everything in it, from the green baize of the bureau to the strip of carpet by the bed, was as clean and threadbare as the chilly sanct...Edinburgh Picturesque NotesPeter Pan in Kensington GardensRodney StoneA Horse's TalePazQuote, "Paz was leading so subterranean a life that the fashionable world of Paris asked who he was when the Comtesse Laginska was seen in the Bois de Boulog...Romeo and JulietThis is the famous play by William Shakespeare, concerning the fate of two young star-crossed loversFollowing the Equator, Part 1Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 1The Art of Writing and Other EssaysQuote, "THERE is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surf...The Invisible ManThe Adventures of a Special CorrespondentAdventures Among BooksAdventures Among Book, Andrew Lang, ArtA Daughter of EveAn Inland VoyageMajor BarbaraThe Commission in LunacyQuote, "By the end of the second year of his apostolic work, Popinot had turned the storeroom at the bottom of his house into a parlor, lighted by the three...The Stark Munro LettersAlice, or The Mysteries, Book IXThe Battle of LifeJohn Bull's Other IslandTravels with a Donkey in the CevennesUlyssysThe Man Who Knew Too MuchLachesIn the Days of the CometThe Mad KingDeath At The ExcelsiorTales of Terror and MysteryAllan's WifeTales of UnrestQuote, "..who maintained that his name was Henry Price. However, for some reason or other, the natives down the river had given him the name of Makola, and i...Northanger AbbeyThe Lost WorldThe Fiend's DelightQuote, "The disembodied party sank uninvited into a chair, spread out his knees and stared blankly at a Dutch clock with an air of weariness and profound dis...Devil's FordQuote, "After some further discussion, it was gravely settled that Kearney should furnish water brought from the Union Ditch, twenty miles away, at a cost of...Little Journeys to the homes of the GreatDear BrutusThe MintageOn the Decay of the Art of LyingGod the Invisible KingThe Man Who Would Be KingThe Adventure of the Bruce-Partington PlansVaninka Celebrated CrimesQuote, "About the end of the reign of the Emperor Paul I--that is to say, towards the middle of the first year of the nineteenth century--just as four o'cloc...The Pocket R.L.S.The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene LupinMemoirs of Major Alexander RamkinsThe Frozen DeepPictures of SwedenQuote, "Get on my back," says the stork, our green island's sacred bird, "and I will carry thee over the Sound. Sweden also has fresh and fragrant beech wood...Alice, or The Mysteries, Book VIIAlice, or The Mysteries, Book XThe Old ManseThe True Story of My LifeDomestic PeaceFalkThe Day's Work - Part IJuanaQuote, "An awful destiny! Juana, who felt neither esteem nor love for Diard, was bound to him forever, by a rash but necessary promise. The man was neither h...The Elixir of LifeQuote, "Or was it, perhaps, that at the outset of an orgy there is a certain unwonted lucidity of mind? Despite the taper light, the clamor of the senses, th...The Tragedy of The KoroskoBeyond Good and EvilGreat Britian and her QueenA Young Girls DiaryUncle BernacThe Stories of the Three BurglarsMy Aunt Margaret's MirrorQuote, "Lady Bothwell listened to her sister without attempting to console her. Probably she might be of opinion that even the worst intelligence which could...The Adventure of the Devil's FootBel AmiIsland Nights' EntertainmentsJust So StoriesWritten during Victorian times Just So Stories is Ruyard Kipling's collection of children's stories. One of these highly popular stories is How the Elephant...The End of the TetherQuote ,"The sacred edifice, standing in solemn isolation amongst the converging avenues of enormous trees, as if to put grave thoughts of heaven into the hou...Ticket No. 9672Martin Guerre Celebrated CrimesAlexandre Dumas's Martin Guerre is a story about a man who uses his resemblance to another man to steal his life and identity.The Light PrincessQuote, "So perfectly like other people had she been in the water, that even yet the prince could scarcely believe his eyes when he saw her ascend slowly, gra...Sea WarfareThe Firm of NucingenQuote, "But how did he make his money?" asked Couture. "In 1819 both he and the illustrious Bianchon lived in a shabby boarding-house in the Latin Quarter; h...The Wheels of ChanceNote-Book of Anton ChekhovThe Mystery of Edwin DroodThe Mysterious Affair at StylesThe PrinceThe Blue Fairy BookRound the Red LampThe Adventure of Wisteria LodgeThe Fall of the House of UsherMassimilla DoniQuote, "This was an untenable position. Cataneo, who only looked for a duchess, thought himself ridiculous as a husband; and, when Massimilla complained of t...By Shore and SedgeQuote, "The hand that had been placed in the bride's cold fingers slipped from them and mechanically sought Gideon's again. The significance of the unconscio...Five Little PlaysTheir Mariposa LegendThe Country of the Blind And Other StoriesA Ward of the Golden GateTyphoonVirginibus PuerisquePhantasmagoria and Other PoemsQuote, "AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If not exactly in the sky."OmooBallad of Reading GaolLove Among the ChickensThe Gorgon's HeadAmerican NotesFarewellFather SergiusSymposiumThe Devils DictionaryThe Bridge BuildersQuote, "There were labour contractors by the half-hundred - fitters and riveters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white...The Four MillionQuote, "Tobin and me, the two of us, went down to Coney one day, for there was four dollars between us, and Tobin had need of distractions. For there was Kat...SophistMarieQuote, "Ah! what folly; you have had some words with Alexis. What then? A harsh word can not be hung up by the neck. He gives you impertinence, give him the...The Haunted Man and the Ghost's BarginQuote, "Who could have seen his hollow cheek; his sunken brilliant eye; his black-attired figure, indefinably grim, although well-knit and well-proportioned;...Agnes GreyThe Canterbury Tales and Other PoemsThe Napoleon of the PeopleQuote, "Then we are drawn up before Alexandria, and again at Gizeh, and before the Pyramids. We had to march over the sands and in the sun; people whose eyes...Urbain GrandierThe Sea FogsQuote, "Robert Louis Stevenson first came to California in 1879 for the purpose of getting married. The things that delayed his marriage are sufficiently set...The Picture of Dorian GrayChildhoodThe Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic TalesQuote, "My heart was bitter against Cousin Edie as I stood looking into her room. To think that for the sake of a newcomer she could leave us all without one...The Vital MessageQuote, "The sun has risen higher and one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be. Nothing can now prevent us from reachin...War and the FutureQuote, "One of the minor peculiarities of this unprecedented war is the Tour of the Front. After some months of suppressed information--in which even the war...Found At Blazing StarQuote, "It was scarcely thirty feet from the road. The only object that met Cass's eye was a man's stiff, tall hat, lying emptily and vacantly in the grass....Five Weeks in a BalloonMademoiselle FifiThe Black DwarfThe Dead AliveThe Swoop!Quote, "The attitude of the British public, too, was getting on their nerves. They had been prepared for fierce resistance. They had pictured the invasion as...The Argonauts of North LibertyQuote, "The olive and fig trees at once lost their characteristic outlines in formless masses of shadow; only the twisted trunks of the old pear trees in the...Sense and SensibilityWuthering HeightsAnn Veronica, A Modern Love StoryAnn Veronica A Modern Love Story, H.G. Wells, LiteratureThe Disappearance of Lady Frances CarfaxThe Marriage ContractQuote, "Monsieur de Manerville, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest he...YvetteQuote, "But now, all at once, Servigny, by a few words, the brutality of which she felt without understanding them, awakened in her a sudden disquietude, unr...The StormQuote, "KATERINA. Yes, I am well.... It would be better if I were ill, it's worse as it is. A dream keeps creeping into my mind, and I cannot get away from i...Thus Spake ZarathustraThe Black ArrowFerragusQuote, "A fine thing is the task of a spy, when performed for one's own benefit and in the interests of a passion. Is it not giving ourselves the pleasure of...Hedda GablerThe Adventure of the Cardboard BoxThe Mysterious Stranger and Other StoriesStatesmanPlato's dialogue Statesman, part of a trilogy, deals with the everyday world of political/social life.The Tin Woodman of OzThe Battle of the Books And Other Short PiecesQuote, "SATIRE is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody?s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception i...Fanshawe by Nathaniel HawthorneFanshawe was Nathaniel Hawthorne's first novel, a romantic story based on personal experiences during his time at Bowdoin College in the early 1820's.Around the World in 80 daysAdventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Mystery of CloomberQuote, "At this moment he fell back upon his pillow as if he had been shot, while the same look of horror came over his face which I had observed when I firs...Swan SongQuote, "The last years of the nineteenth century were for Russia tinged with doubt and gloom. The high-tide of vitality that had risen during the Turkish war...Wreck of the Golden MaryQuote, "Notwithstanding my being, as I have mentioned, quite ready for a voyage, still I had some doubts of this voyage. Of course I knew, without being told...The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan PoeHelen of TroyA poem by Andrew Lang about the Greek mythological beauty known as Helen of Troy.The Beasts of TarzanSeven English CitiesThe White CompanySoldiers ThreeThe Uncommercial TravellerBattling insomnia Charles Dickens spent his time taking long walks through London. The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches Dickens ma...Dorothy and the Wizard in OzIn Defense of Harriet ShelleyThe Lazy Tour of Two Idle ApprenticesQuote, "In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, ho...Lost FaceThe Barbarism of BerlinThe Three Golden ApplesFrankenstein, or the Modern PrometheusOf Captain MissionThe Head of Kay'sSet at the fictional school of Eckleton, the story centres around the house of "Kay's", the riotous boys therein, its tactless, unpopular master Mr. Kay, and...The Jungle BookThe Vicar of ToursQuote, "The next morning, on awaking, Birotteau thought so much of his prospective canonry that he forgot the four circumstances in which he had seen, the ni...Marquise de GangesOver ThereQuote, "You should imagine a large plain, but not an empty plain, nor a plain entirely without hills. There are a few hills, including at least one very fine...The Dora Gallery of Bible Illustrations CompleteThe Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations Complete, Bible IllustartionsThe History of the Remarkable Life of John ShepparThe Cricket on the HearthTo be Read at DuskLost LeadersThe Enchanted Island of YewMarquise de Brinvilliers Celebrated CrimesMarquise de Brinvilliers is Alexandre Dumas's story about this French poisoner. She was sentenced to death for the poisoning murder of her father, brother an...The Best American Humorous Short StoriesThe Great Stone FaceQuote, "The Great Stone Face, then, was a work of Nature in her mood of majestic playfulness, formed on the perpendicular side of a mountain by some immense...What is Coming?Quote, "Prophecy may vary between being an intellectual amusement and a serious occupation; serious not only in its intentions, but in its consequences. For...The Canterville GhostThe Green FlagThe Valley of FearJungle Tales of TarzanFollowing the Equator, Part 3Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 3The Atheist's MassQuote, "The glory of a surgeon is like that of an actor: they live only so long as they are alive, and their talent leaves no trace when they are gone. Actor...The FrogsThe Hunting of the SnarkFlip: A California RomanceQuote, "Four weeks of this change, with broken spaces of sunlight and intense blue aerial islands, and then a storm set in. All day the summit pines and redw...Mark Twain's SpeechesThe Mysterious Key And What It OpenedQuote, "When Paul spoke in that tone and wore that look, Lillian felt as if they had changed places, and he was the master and she the servant. She wondered...The Sea GullThe Trees of PrideQuote, "Squire Vane was an elderly schoolboy of English education and Irish extraction. His English education, at one of the great public schools, had preser...The Last Galley ImpressionsQuote, "They were standing facing one another in a grassy ring intersected by the path at the outlet of the wood. The insolent and overbearing look had passe...Those Extraordinary TwinsThe Seven Poor TravellersThe PothuntersAlice, or The Mysteries, Book VIIIPersuasionFollowing the Equator, Part 6Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 6Gaspar RuizHeart of DarknessThe Adventure of the Red CircleThe Adventures of GerardUncle VanyaQuote, "MARINA. [Shaking her head] This house is topsy-turvy! The Professor gets up at noon, the samovar is kept boiling all the morning, and everything has...The Call of the WildThe FloodQuote, "Then the water began an attack. Until then the stream had followed the street; but the debris that encumbered it deflected the course. And when a dri...THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, A Collection of HolThe Ballad of the White HorseThe GameQuote, "You wait, and you'll see. An' don't get scared at the start. The first few rounds'll be something fierce. That's Ponta's strong point. He's a wild ma...Nisida Celebrated CrimesQuote, "It was the Day of the Assumption in the year 1825; the sun had been up some four or five hours, and the long Via da Forcella, lighted from end to end...The Bickerstaff-Partridge PapersQuote, "I intend in a short time to publish a large and rational defence of this art, and therefore shall say no more in its justification at present, than t...The Communist ManifestoThe Second Jungle BookThe Second Jungle is Rudyard Kipling's sequel to The Jungle Book. It features more adventures of Mowgli in the jungle of India.Sylvie and BrunoBan and Arriere BanThe Gentle GrafterQuote, "I hired a wagon that night and commenced selling the bitters on Main Street. Fisher Hill was a low, malarial town; and a compound hypothetical pneumo...The Guilty RiverThe Son of the WolfQuote, "Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them. He has no conception of the subtle atmosphere exhaled b...YouthQuote, "We were a week working up as far as Yarmouth Roads, and then we got into a gale--the famous October gale of twenty-two years ago. It was wind, lightn...The Club of Queer TradesA collection of six humorous stories which makes a parody of a detective during late Victorian London. Fiction.The Surgeon's DaughterQuote, "A Feringi can then refuse gold?" said the Fakir. "I thought they took it from every hand, whether pure as that of an Houri, or leprous like Gehazi's-...RampolliSouth Sea TalesTales Of HearsayThe Girl with the Golden EyesLove and FreindshipFollowing the Equator, Part 7Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 7The Light That FailedWrite It RightFollowing the Equator, Part 4Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 4Stories by Foreign Authors: RussianThe Gem CollectorWhat Is Man and Other EssaysThe Poison BeltThe Hated SonQuote, "Above all it was important that the young recluse should not be alarmed at the thought of marriage, of which he knew nothing, or be made aware of the...Twelve TypesSongs of ActionThe PhilandererOn Picket Duty and Other TalesQuote, "Sunshine streamed in through the one small window, where a caged bird was blithely singing, and a few flowers blossomed in the light. But blither tha...Marjorie's Three GiftsQuote: "In vain they searched; in vain Marie wailed and Belle declared it must be somewhere; no wreath appeared. It was duly set down in the bill, and a fine...The Innocence of Father BrownPrufrock and other obervationPress CuttingsOn the Significance of Science and ArtQuote, "But this is unjust. I not only do not repudiate art and science, but, in the name of that which is true art and true science, I say that which I do s...From London to Land's EndThis letter will divide the weighty task, and consequently make it sit lighter on the memory, be pleasanter to the reader, and make my progress the more regu...Grass of ParnassusIs Shakespeare dead? From my autobiographyIs Shakespeare dead? : From my autobiography by Mark Twain takes a look at the parallels and closeness of works by Shakespeare and those of Francis Bacon.Somebody's LuggageQuote, "In case confusion should arise in the public mind (which it is open to confusion on many subjects) respecting what is meant or implied by the term Wa...Following the Equator, Part 2Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 2Songs from BooksThe New RevelationGambaraQuote, "But the hour was not unpropitious for the indulgence of some discreditable whim. Earlier, he might have been detected; later, he might find himself c...Some ReminiscencesThe Deserted WomanQuote, "The figure of the Vicomtesse de Beauseant rose up suddenly before him with gracious thronging associations. She was a new world for him, a world of f...Amusements in MathematicsThis eBook contains an exhaustive supply of mathematical problems and puzzles, providing many ours of entertainment for those who really enjoy mathematics.The Point Of HonorQuote, "Don't excite yourself like this," remonstrated the other. "That young man's people are very influential, you know, and it looks bad enough on the fac...Hospital SketchesThe InheritorsHermann and DorotheaTwixt Land & SeaQuote, "Jacobus having put me in mind of his wealthy brother I concluded I would pay that business call at once. I had by that time heard a little more of hi...The Grand Inquisitorthe ProfessorFollowing the Equator, Part 5Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 5Tales and FantasiesWhen the Sleeper WakesQuote, "One afternoon, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the picturesque cove of Pentargen, desiring...Secret AdversaryThe Captain of the PolestarTom Tiddler's GroundQuote, "A slothful, unsavoury, nasty reversal of the laws of human mature," said the Traveller; "and for the sake of GOD'S working world and its wholesomenes...Pierre and JeanMadame FirmianiQuote, "The brightest memories of the old man faded at the sight of his nephew's so-called mistress. His anger died away at the gracious exclamation which ca...Weir of HermistonForest & FrontiersSearchlights on HealthThe Secret SharerMaitre CorneliusQuote, "In short, sire, I found myself this morning robbed of those jewels you admired so much. They have been ravished from me, sire! To steal the jewels of...The Sea FairiesThe Happy Prince and Other TalesWhat Men Live By and Other TalesQuote, "And Simon and Matryona understood who it was that had lived with them, and whom they had clothed and fed. And they wept with awe and with joy. And th...The Road to OzL. Frank Baum's The Road to Oz is the fifth in the series of Land of Oz books. The story is based around Dorothy's fourth visit to Oz and new characters are...The Hidden MasterpieceQuote, "Suddenly he became silent. His grave and earnest face lost its expression of joy; he was comparing the immensity of his hopes with the mediocrity of...