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Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860George Saintsbury Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 PREFACE Of the essays in this volume, the introductory paper on "The Kinds of Criticism" has not before appeared in print. All the rest, with one exception (the Essay on Lockhart which appeared in the...

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian AndersenA STORYBY THE ALMSHOUSE WINDOWTHE ANGELANNE LISBETHTHE CONCEITED APPLE-BRANCHBEAUTY OF FORM AND BEAUTY OF MINDTHE BEETLE WHO WENT ON HIS TRAVELSTHE BELLTHE BELL-DEEPTHE BIRD OF POPULAR SONGTHE BISHOP OF BORGLUM AND HIS WARRIORSTHE BOTTLE NECKTHE BUCKWHEATTHE ...

Oliver Twist, Illustrated; or, The Parish Boy's ProgressCHAPTER I – TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTHCHAPTER II – TREATS OF OLIVER TWIST’S GROWTH, EDUCATION, AND BOARDCHAPTER III – RELATES HOW OLIVER TWIST WAS VERY NEAR GETTING A PLACE WH...

Charles Dickens' Children StoriesDickens Charles Charles Dickens' Children Stories TROTTY VECK AND HIS DAUGHTER MEG "TROTTY" seems a strange name for an old man, but it was given to Toby Veck because of his always going at a trot to do his errands; for he was a porter, and carried letters and mes...

Peter PanBarrie J. M. James Matthew Peter Pan Chapter 1 PETER BREAKS THROUGH All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to...

Royal Children of English HistoryE. Nesbit Royal Children of English History Alfred the Great WHEN I was very, very little, I hated history more than all my other lessons put together, because I had to learn it out of a horrid little book, called somebody's "Outlines of English History"; and it s...

Anna KareninaTolstoy Leo Anna Karenina PART ONE Chapter 1 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a gover...

PoemsWilliam D. Howells Poems THE PILOT’S STORY I It was a story the pilot told, with his back to his hearers,–Keeping his hand on the wheel and his eye on the globe of the jack-staff,Holding the boat to the shore and out of the sweep of the current,Lightly turning aside for the heavy logs of the...

Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, TolstoyIvan Panin Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy PREFACE The translations given in this volume, with the exception of the storm-scene from Tolstoy in the First Lecture, are my own.The reader will please b...

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...