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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 Prefect's UncleA First Year in Canterbury SettlementDickory CronkeCandidaYou Never Can TellCaptains CourageousTalks on TalkingCabbages and KingsAmy FosterThe Master of the WorldA Cynic Looks at LifeCaptain Stormfield's Visit to HeavenEtexts from The Snow ImageKarl 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...A Modest ProposalAt the Earth's CoreThe Lady From The SeaAn Englishman Looks at the WorldAlice Sit-By-The-FirePauline'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...Alice, or The Mysteries, Book VICanterbury 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...Alice, or The Mysteries, Book IIA House to LetA 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...A Childs History of EnglandCambridge 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...Letters on EnglandAlonzo Fitz and Other StoriesBlack Heart and White HeartDiana's DreamsCressyQuote, "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...Prayers Written At Vailima and A Lowden SabbathThe Importance of Being EarnestRoughing ItCaptain 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...PeaceRecollections of the Private Life of Napoleon v9Through the Looking GlassA Visit to Three FrontsMiss 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.RudinDream PsychologyFanny's First PlayA Letter to a HinduAll He Knew A StoryEuthydemusPlato's Euthydemus is a 380 BCE dialogue.Certain Personal MattersThe Silverado SquattersThe 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...EgmontAmerican Fairy TalesAt 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...Colonel ChabertJane EyreBooks and BookmenLittle WarsAndrocles and the LionParmenidesRegarded 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 Adventure of the Dying DetectiveBarrack Room BalladsCharmides and Other PoemsMercadet 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...Father DamienAunt Jane's NiecesIn the Wrong ParadiseThe Survivors of the ChancellorA Tale of Three LionsI 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...Letters on LiteratureMenoA 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 Second HomeApologyNotes from the UndergroundFirst 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...Speeches: 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...Facing the FlagDavid CopperfieldThe World War and What was Behind ItCondensed NovelsNew PoemsAlice, or The Mysteries, Book VThe Holly TreeThe World Set FreeEarth's HolocaustNew BurlesquesDialogues Concerning Natural ReligionA 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 MeansA Modern CinderellaAlice, or The Mysteries, Book IVSunday 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...East and West PoemsThe 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...Hard TimesThe Doings of Raffles HawDeruesQuote, "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...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...Custom and MythIn 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 StoriesOpera Stories from WagnerA 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...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...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...EmmaThe 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...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...The First Men in the MoonAlfred TennysonGreat CatherineThe Time MachinePrue and IAli Pacha Celebrated CrimesA Vindication of the PressThe Ebb-TideAlice, or The Mysteries, Book IIIAmong 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...Angling SketchesAlice, or The Mysteries, Book XIPuck of Pook's HillAll 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...The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene LupinLineage Life and Labors of Jose Rizal PhilippinLineage Life and Labors of Jos Rizal Philippin, Austin Craig, biographyDear BrutusTravels with a Donkey in the CevennesFar 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,...In the Days of the CometOxfordRodney StoneSuccessful Methods of Public SpeakingThe 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...The War in the AirDevil'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...Peter Pan in Kensington GardensAdventures Among BooksAdventures Among Book, Andrew Lang, ArtCratylusPlato's Cratylus, after ancient Athenian philosopher Cratylus, is his only dialogue devoted solely to the relation between language and reality.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...Uneasy MoneyAlice, or The Mysteries, Book ISome 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 Adventures of a Special CorrespondentNorthanger AbbeyAlice, or The Mysteries, Book IXParadise LostThe Man Who Knew Too MuchDeath At The ExcelsiorFablesA collection of thirteen fables by Robert Louis Stevenson.The Pocket R.L.S.The 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."A Daughter of EveThe Stark Munro LettersTomorrowQuote, "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...Romeo and JulietThis is the famous play by William Shakespeare, concerning the fate of two young star-crossed loversThe Stories of the Three BurglarsTales of Terror and MysteryHow to Live on 24 Hours a DayJohn Bull's Other IslandThe Lost WorldEdinburgh Picturesque NotesThe Black DwarfThe Battle of LifePazQuote, "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...A Ward of the Golden GateA Horse's TaleThe 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 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...Their Mariposa LegendUlyssysThe Man in the Iron Mask, An EssayThe Invisible ManLachesMajor BarbaraRound the Red LampOn the Decay of the Art of LyingThe True Story of My LifeTales 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...The MintageAlice, or The Mysteries, Book VIIFollowing the Equator, Part 1Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 1The Adventure of the Devil's FootBel AmiThe Canterbury Tales and Other PoemsThe Mad KingAn Inland VoyageThe 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...The Old ManseThe PrinceAllan's WifeThe 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...The 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...God the Invisible KingThe Blue Fairy BookIsland Nights' EntertainmentsThe Adventure of the Bruce-Partington PlansMartin 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.Beyond Good and EvilGreat Britian and her QueenLittle Journeys to the homes of the GreatThe Man Who Would Be KingThe Frozen DeepNote-Book of Anton ChekhovAnn Veronica, A Modern Love StoryAnn Veronica A Modern Love Story, H.G. Wells, LiteratureFather SergiusThe Fall of the House of UsherVaninka 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...Pictures 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...The Mystery of Edwin DroodThe 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...Phantasmagoria 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."Memoirs of Major Alexander RamkinsFerragusQuote, "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...The Wheels of ChanceAlice, or The Mysteries, Book XThe Country of the Blind And Other StoriesUncle BernacLove Among the ChickensThe 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...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 Gorgon's HeadFive Little PlaysA Young Girls DiaryThe Mysterious Affair at StylesChildhoodAmerican NotesThe Day's Work - Part IThe Tragedy of The KoroskoThe Mysterious Stranger and Other StoriesJuanaQuote, "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...Massimilla 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...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...Ticket No. 9672OmooDomestic PeaceFalkJust 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...Sea WarfareThe Adventure of Wisteria LodgeThe 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 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...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....My 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 Black ArrowSophistThe 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...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;...Soldiers ThreeSymposiumBallad of Reading GaolTyphoonVirginibus PuerisqueThe 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 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...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 Uncommercial TravellerBattling insomnia Charles Dickens spent his time taking long walks through London. The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches Dickens ma...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...The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan PoeAround the World in 80 daysSense and SensibilityMarieQuote, "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 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...Urbain GrandierAgnes GreyThe White CompanyAdventures of Huckleberry FinnFarewellHelen of TroyA poem by Andrew Lang about the Greek mythological beauty known as Helen of Troy.Mademoiselle FifiThe 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...Wuthering HeightsThe 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...The 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...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...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...Five Weeks in a BalloonThe Disappearance of Lady Frances CarfaxThe 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 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...The Picture of Dorian GrayFollowing the Equator, Part 3Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 3The Barbarism of BerlinThe History of the Remarkable Life of John ShepparStatesmanPlato's dialogue Statesman, part of a trilogy, deals with the everyday world of political/social life.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...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.Thus Spake ZarathustraThe Adventure of the Cardboard BoxThe Dead AliveHedda GablerThe Cricket on the HearthThe Beasts of TarzanThe 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...The Three Golden ApplesThe Tin Woodman of OzThe 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 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...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 Jungle BookThe 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...Seven English CitiesThe 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 Hunting of the SnarkFrankenstein, or the Modern PrometheusIn Defense of Harriet ShelleyThe Sea GullOf Captain MissionThe Dora Gallery of Bible Illustrations CompleteThe Dore Gallery of Bible Illustrations Complete, Bible IllustartionsThe 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...Dorothy and the Wizard in OzThe 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 Best American Humorous Short StoriesLost FaceMarquise de GangesTo be Read at DuskOver 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...Gaspar RuizLost LeadersThe FrogsThe Seven Poor TravellersNisida 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...Mark Twain's SpeechesThose Extraordinary TwinsFollowing the Equator, Part 6Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 6The Green FlagThe Enchanted Island of YewThe 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 PothuntersThe 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...Heart of DarknessThe Ballad of the White HorseThe Call of the WildThe Canterville GhostThe 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.The 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...Uncle 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...Alice, or The Mysteries, Book VIIIJungle Tales of TarzanFlip: 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...PersuasionThe Guilty RiverThe Valley of FearThe Adventures of GerardThe Club of Queer TradesA collection of six humorous stories which makes a parody of a detective during late Victorian London. Fiction.The 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...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...The Communist ManifestoYouthQuote, "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...Sylvie and BrunoTHE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, A Collection of HolThe Adventure of the Red CircleThe 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 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-...Prufrock and other obervationFollowing the Equator, Part 4Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 4Songs of ActionWrite It RightLove and FreindshipSouth Sea TalesThe Girl with the Golden EyesBan and Arriere BanFollowing the Equator, Part 7Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 7Tales Of HearsayThe 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...RampolliFollowing the Equator, Part 2Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 2The Light That FailedTwelve TypesWhat Is Man and Other EssaysThe Gem CollectorStories by Foreign Authors: RussianFrom 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...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...Tales and FantasiesIs 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.On 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...The Poison BeltThe PhilandererOn 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...Grass of ParnassusSongs from BooksThe Innocence of Father BrownWhen 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...Press CuttingsTwixt 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...Some ReminiscencesGambaraQuote, "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...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...Amusements in MathematicsThis eBook contains an exhaustive supply of mathematical problems and puzzles, providing many ours of entertainment for those who really enjoy mathematics.Secret AdversaryHermann and DorotheaHospital SketchesPierre and JeanThe Grand InquisitorThe 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...the ProfessorThe New RevelationThe 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...Tom 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...The InheritorsThe Secret SharerForest & FrontiersFollowing the Equator, Part 5Following the Equator is a travel account of Mark Twain's journey around the British Empire in 1897. Part 5The Captain of the PolestarSearchlights on HealthMadame 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 HermistonMaitre 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 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 Sea FairiesThe 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...