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PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS LISPETH THREE AND—AN EXTRA. THROWN AWAY. MISS YOUGHAL'S SAIS. YOKED WITH AN UNBELIEVER. FALSE DAWN. THE RESCUE OF PLUFFLES. CUPID'S ARROWS. HIS CHANCE IN LIFE. WATCHES OF THE NIGHT. THE OTHER MAN. CONSEQUENCES. THE CONVERSION OF AURELIAN McGOGGIN. A GERM DESTROYER. KIDNAPPED. THE ARREST OF LIEUTENANT GOLIGHTLY. THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO HIS WEDDED WIFE. THE BROKEN LINK HANDICAPPED. BEYOND THE PALE. IN ERROR. A BANK FRAUD. TODS' AMENDMENT. IN THE PRIDE OF HIS YOUTH. PIG. THE ROUT OF THE WHITE HUSSARS. THE BRONCKHORST DIVORCE-CASE. VENUS ANNODOMINI. THE BISARA OF POOREE. THE GATE OF A HUNDRED SORROWS. THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD DIN. ON THE STRENGTH OF A LIKENESS. WRESSLEY OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE. BY WORD OF MOUTH. TO BE HELD FOR REFERENCE. THE LIGHT THAT FAILED THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS POOR DEAR MAMMA THE TENTS OF KEDAR WITH ANY AMAZEMENT THE GARDEN OF EDEN FATIMA THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL. THE SWELLING OF JORDAN BIMI NAMGAY DOOLA THE RECRUDESCENCE OF IMRAY MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER ...
The Magic World
The Mixed Mine Accidental Magic The Princess and the Hedge-pig Septimus Septimusson The White Cat Belinda and Bellamant Justnowland The Related Muff The Aunt and Amabel Kenneth and the Carp The Magician's Heart
With the British Legion
George Alfred Henty was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century: The story of the doings of the British Legion under Sir de Lacy Evans in Spain is but little known. The expedition was a failure, and that from no want of heroic courage on the part of the soldiers, but from the most scandalous neglect and ill-treatment by the Government of Queen Christina. So gross was this neglect that within six months of their arrival in the Peninsula nearly five thousand, that is to say half the Legion, had either died from want, privation, or fever in the hospitals of Vittoria, or were invalided hom...
Daughters of Destiny
Daughters of Destiny is a 1906 adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the author of the Oz books. Baum published the novel under the pen name "Schuyler Staunton," one of his several pseudonyms. Baum arrived at the name by adding one letter to the name of his late maternal uncle, Schuyler Stanton: The American Construction Syndicate wants to build a railroad across Baluchistan, as part of their plans for global development. The company appoints a commission, headed by Colonel Piedmont Moore, to obtain the right of way from the Baluchi ruler. Moore chooses his personal friend and physician Dr. Warner as his second in command; and with commendable nepotism he selects his son Alliso...
Under a Veil
Scene I.—Two rooms right and left, stage divided in the centre; a door of communication between rooms, fastened by a bolt on either side; small tables, sofas, and arm-chairs. Practicable doors, 1 E. L., 2 E. L., and 2 E. R. Window at back of R. room. Door at back of L. room. Pri. (advancing towards table). Beg pardon, sir. Cha. (lazily). All right. Pri. Beg pardon, sir, exceedingly sorry to disturb you; (to Waiter) he's asleep. Cha. (snores). Pri. (loudly). I'm really very sorry to wake you, sir. Cha. (still lying on sofa). What! you don't mean to say it's twelve. Pri. Twelve! ah, to be sure, the hour I was to wake him for the ball. No, sir, it's only ten o'clock; but (looking at him) he's asleep again—the devil! (Calling loudly.) I'm really pained to awake you, sir— Cha. (half rising and yawning). What on earth's the matter? Oh, it's you, Mr. Red Lion, is it?...
Black Beauty
Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 58 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
Weighed and Wanting
It was a gray, windy noon in the beginning of autumn. The sky and the sea were almost of the same color, and that not a beautiful one. The edge of the horizon where they met was an edge no more, but a bar thick and blurred, across which from the unseen came troops of waves that broke into white crests, the flying manes of speed, as they rushed at, rather than ran towards the shore: in their eagerness came out once more the old enmity between moist and dry. The trees and the smoke were greatly troubled, the former because they would fain stand still, the latter because it would fain ascend, while the wind kept tossing the former and beating down the latter. Not one of the hundreds of fishing ...
Farmington
Clarence Seward Darrow was a U.S. lawyer, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform. He defended teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks (1924). Some of his other cases included defending Ossian Sweet, and John T. Scopes in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial (1925), in which he opposed William Jennings Bryan (statesman, orator, and three-time presidential candidate). Called a "sophisticated country lawyer", his wit made him one of the most famous U.S. lawyers and civil libertarians.
Fifty Famous Stories Retold
King Alfred and the Cakes King Alfred and the Beggar King Canute on the Seashore The Sons of William the Conqueror The White Ship King John and the Abbot A Story of Robin Hood Bruce and the Spider The Black Douglas Three Men of Gotham Other Wise Men of Gotham The Miller of the Dee Sir Philip Sidney The Ungrateful Soldier Sir Humphrey Gilbert Sir Walter Raleigh Pocahontas George Washington and his Hatchet Grace Darling The Story of William Tell Arnold Winkelried The Bell of Atri How Napoleon crossed the Alps The Story of Cincinnatus The Story of Regulus Cornelia's Jewels Androclus and the Lion Horatius at the Bridge Julius Cæsar The Sword of Damocles Damon and Pythias A Laconic Answer The Ungrateful Guest Alexander and Bucephalus Diogenes the Wise Man The Brave Three Hundred Socrates and his House The King and his Hawk Doctor Goldsmith The Kingdoms The Barmecide Feast The Endless Tale The Blind Men and the Elephant Maximilian and the Goose Boy The Inchcape Rock Whittington and his Cat Casabianca Antonio Canova Picciola Mignon
Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history of the country opens, and a few words are necessary to explain why the characters in the stories act and speak as though they belonged to a later age. It is believed that King Arthur lived in the sixth century, just after the Romans withdrew from Britain, and when the Britons, left to defend themselves against the attacks of the marauding Saxons, rose and defeated them at Mount Badon, securing to themselves peace for many years. It was probably about this time that King Arthur and his company of Knights performed the deeds which were to become the themes ...
