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Penelope's English ExperiencesKate Douglas Wiggin Penelope's English Experiences / Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton Part First—In Town Chapter I. The weekly bill Smith’s Hotel, 10 Dovermarle Street. Here we are in London again,—Francesca, Salemina, and I. Salemina is ...

Tristan and IsoldaRichard Wagner Tristan and Isolda: Opera in Three Acts THE STORY OF "TRISTAN AND ISOLDA" ACT ITristan, a valiant Cornish knight, is bringing Isolda, princess of Ireland, over as a bride for his uncle, King Mark. He is himself in love with her, but owing to a blood feud between t...

The Little Princess of Tower HillMeade L. T. The Little Princess of Tower Hill THE LITTLE PRINCESS OF TOWER HILL CHAPTER I. HER VERY YOUNG DAYS All the other children who knew her thought Maggie a wonderfully fortunate little girl. She was sometimes spoken about as the "Little Princess of Tower H...

Books and Characters, French & EnglishLytton Strachey Books and Characters, French & English TO JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe following papers are reprinted by kind permission of the Editors of the Independent Review, the New Quarterly, the Athenaeum, and the Edinburgh Review.The 'Dialogue' is n...

The Idiot at HomeJohn Kendrick Bangs The Idiot at Home I BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION "My dear," said the Idiot one morning, as he and his good wife and the two little ones, Mollie and Tommy, sat down at the breakfast-table, "now that we are finally settled in our new house I move we celebrate. Let's g...

The IdiotJohn Kendrick Bangs The Idiot I For some weeks after the happy event which transformed the popular Mrs. Smithers into the charming Mrs. John Pedagog all went well at that lady's select home for single gentlemen. It was only proper that during the honey-moon, at least, of the happy couple...

Strange StoriesAllen Grant Strange Stories PREFACE It is with some little trepidation that I venture to submit to the critical world this small collection of short stories. I feel that in doing so I owe some apology both to my readers and to the regular story-tellers. Being by trade a psychologis...

A Man's WomanFrank Norris A Man's Woman The following novel was completed March 22, 1899, and sent to the printer in October of the same year. After the plates had been made notice was received that a play called "A Man's Woman" had been written by Anne Crawford Flexner, and that this title had b...

Andranik Ozanian, commonly known as Andranik was an Armenian military commander and statesman, the best known fedayi and a key figure of the Armenian national liberation movement. He became active in an armed struggle against the Ottoman government and Kurdish irregulars in the late 1880s. He joi...

Impressions of AmericaOscar Wilde Impressions of America IMPRESSIONS ILE JARDIN The lily’s withered chalice fallsAround its rod of dusty gold,And from the beech trees on the woldThe last wood-pigeon coos and calls.The gaudy leonine sunflowerHangs black and barren on its stalk,And down the windy g...