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The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of TexasPrologueChapter One. The Burnt PrairieChapter Two. The Trail of the LazoChapter Three. The Prairie Finger-PostChapter Four. The Black NortherChapter Five. The Home of the Horse-HunterChapter Six. The Spotted MustangChapter Seven. Nocturnal AnnoyancesC...

Oliver Twist. Volume 2 of 3Charles Dickens Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3) CHAPTER XX. WHEREIN OLIVER IS DELIVERED OVER TO MR. WILLIAM SIKES When Oliver awoke in the morning he was a good deal surprised to find that a new pair of shoes with strong thick soles had been placed at his bedside, and that ...

Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on ShakespeareLeo Tolstoy Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespeare PART I TOLSTOY ON SHAKESPEARE I Mr. Crosby's article1 on Shakespeare's attitude toward the working classes suggested to me the idea of also expressing my own long-established...

King Alfred of EnglandJacob Abbott King Alfred of England / Makers of History Chapter I The Britons Alfred the Great figures in history as the founder, in some sense, of the British monarchy. Of that long succession of sovereigns who have held the scepter of that monarchy, and whose government ha...

L'enfance et l'adolescenceL'enfance et l'adolescence Édition spéciale pour la jeunesse revue par l'auteur L'ENFANCE CHAPITRE I NOTRE PRÉCEPTEUR KARL IVANOVITCH Le 12 août 18… trois jours après le dixième anniversaire de ma naissance, où j'avais été comblé de tant de merveilleux cadeaux, Karl Ivan...

The House of the Dead: or, Prison Life in SiberiaDostoyevsky Fyodor The House of the Dead; or, Prison Life in Siberia / with an introduction by Julius Bramont INTRODUCTION "The Russian nation is a new and wonderful phenomenon in the history of mankind. The character of the people differs to such ...

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. CompleteThe Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. Volume 1PREFACEThe author's intention to publish his MSS123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839II. Linear Perspective4041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162636465666768697071727374...

The Gold Thread: A Story for the YoungNorman Macleod The Gold Thread: A Story for the Young TO MY CHILDREN I dedicate this story to you, because it was for you I first wrote it, and to you I first read it among the green hills of Moffat. It was afterwards printed in Good Words, and now you see it...

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 Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present PowerJohn S. C. Abbott The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power PREFACE The studies of the author of this work, for the last ten years, in writing the "History of Napoleon Bonaparte," and "The French Revolution of 1789," have necessarily made h...