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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...

Three Days in the VillageLeo Tolstoy Three Days in the Village / And Other Sketches. Written from 1909 to July 1910 THREE DAYS IN THE VILLAGE FIRST DAY TRAMPS Something entirely new, unseen and unheard-of formerly, has lately shown itself in our country districts. To our village, consisting of ei...

Wonderful Stories for ChildrenHans Christian Andersen Wonderful Stories for Children OLÉ LUCKOIÈ, (SHUT-EYE.) There is nobody in all this world who knows so many tales as Olé Luckoiè! He can tell tales! In an evening, when a child sits so nicely at the table, or on its little stool, Olé Luckoiè c...

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' EditionHarriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition CHAPTER I UNCLE TOM AND LITTLE HARRY ARE SOLD VERY many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves. These slaves were paid no wages. Thei...

The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the UnseenDoyle Arthur Conan The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen I THE BROWN HAND Every one knows that Sir Dominick Holden, the famous Indian surgeon, made me his heir, and that his death changed ...

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...

Where Love is There God is AlsoTolstoy Leo, graf Where Love is There God is Also In the city lived the shoemaker, Martuin Avdyeitch. He lived in a basement, in a little room with one window. The window looked out on the street. Through the window he used to watch the people passing by; although o...

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 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...