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The Mysterious Stranger: A RomanceMark Twain The Mysterious Stranger: A Romance CHAPTER I 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 s...

The City of Dreadful NightJames Thomson The City of Dreadful Night Per me si va nella citta dolente. —Dante Poi di tanto adoprar, di tanti motiD'ogni celeste, ogni terrena cosa,Girando senza posa,Per tornar sempre la donde son mosse;Uso alcuno, alcun fruttoIndovinar non so. Sola nel mondo eterna,...

The Sea LadyHerbert George Wells The Sea Lady CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE COMING OF THE SEA LADY ISuch previous landings of mermaids as have left a record, have all a flavour of doubt. Even the very circumstantial account of that Bruges Sea Lady, who was so clever at fancy work, gives occasion to the ...

The House with the Mezzanine and Other StoriesChekhov Anton Pavlovich The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories THE HOUSE WITH THE MEZZANINE (A PAINTER'S STORY)IT happened nigh on seven years ago, when I was living in one of the districts of the J. province, on the estate of Bielokurov, a la...

AbandonedVerne Jules Abandoned INTRODUCTION The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was originally issued in Paris with the title of L'Abandonné. Jules Verne's list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes – a number which has since grown to almost Dumasien propo...

The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far WestChapter One. The Father of WatersChapter Two. Six Months in the Crescent CityChapter Three. The “Belle of the West.”Chapter Four. The Rival BoatsChapter Five. A Desirable Fellow-PassengerChapter Six. Antoine the StewardChapter Seven. The StartingChapter Eig...

The King of PiratesDaniel Defoe The King of Pirates / Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar THE PREFACE ONE of the particular Advantages of the following Letters from Captain Avery, is, the Satisfaction they will give the Readers how much they ha...

The Mantle, and Other StoriesGogol Nikolai Vasilevich The Mantle, and Other Stories PREFACE As a novel-writer and a dramatist, Gogol appears to me to deserve a minute study, and if the knowledge of Russian were more widely spread, he could not fail to obtain in Europe a reputation equal to that o...

The Coming of the FairiesThe Coming of the Fairies PREFACE This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of th...