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NOTES TO THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY BY MARY W. SHELLEY. PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. Obstacles have long existed to my presenting the public with a perfect edition of Shelley’s Poems. These being at last happily removed, I hasten to fulfil an important duty,–that of giving the productions of a sublime genius to the world, with all the correctness possible, and of, at the same time, detailing the history of those productions, as they sprang, living and warm, from his heart and brain....

O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES of 1919 CHOSEN BY THE SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BLANCHE COLTON WILLIAMS 1924 CONTENTS ENGLAND TO AMERICA. By Margaret Prescott Montague “FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.” By Wilbur Daniel Steele THEY GRIND EXCEEDING SMALL. By Ben Ames Williams ON STRIKE. By Albert Payson Terhune. THE ELEPHANT REMEMBERS. By Edison Marshall TURKEY RED. By Frances Gilchrist Wood FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD....

OLD LADY MARY. A STORY OF THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN. By Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant I She was very old, and therefore it was very hard for her to make up her mind to die. I am aware that this is not at all the general view, but that it is believed, as old age must be near death, that it prepares the soul for that inevitable event. It is not so, however, in many cases....

OLIVER GOLDSMITH A Biography by Washington Irving PREFACE I. Birth and Parentage–Characteristics of the Goldsmith Race–Poetical Birthplace–Goblin House–Scenes of Boyhood–Lissoy–Picture of a Country Parson–Goldsmith’s Schoolmistress–Byrne, the Village Schoolmaster– Goldsmith’s Hornpipe and Epigram–Uncle Contarine–School Studies and School Sports–Mistakes of a Night II. Improvident Marriages in the Goldsmith Family–Goldsmith at the University–Situation of a Sizer–Tyranny of Wilder, the Tutor–Pecuniary Straits–Street Ballads–College Riot–Gallows Walsh–College Prize–A Dance Interrupted III. Goldsmith rejected by the Bishop–Second Sally to see the World–Takes Passage for America–Ship sails without him–Return on Fiddleback–A Hospitable Friend–The Counselor IV....

PART I CHAPTER I. MY RECEPTION ABOARD CHAPTER II. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE SHIP CHAPTER III. FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE JULIA CHAPTER IV. A SCENE IN THE FORECASTLE CHAPTER V. WHAT HAPPENED AT HYTYHOO CHAPTER VI. WE TOUCH AT LA DOMINICA CHAPTER VII. WHAT HAPPENED AT HANNAMANOO CHAPTER VIII. THE TATTOOERS OF LA DOMINICA CHAPTER IX. WE STEER TO THE WESTWARD–STATE OF AFFAIRS CHAPTER X. A SEA-PARLOUR DESCRIBED, WITH SOME OF ITS TENANTS CHAPTER XI....

ONLY AN IRISH BOY Or, Andy Burke’s Fortunes by Horatio Alger, Jr. Author of “Paul the Peddler,” “Phil the Fiddler,” “Strive and Succeed,” “Slow and Sure,” “Try and Trust,” etc. CONTENTS Chapter I. ANDY BURKE II. A SKIRMISH III. ANDY AND HIS MOTHER IV. MRS. PRESTON V. A PROFITABLE JOB VI. THE TWO OLD MAIDS VII. ANDY OBTAINS A PLACE VIII. THE MIDNIGHT ALARM IX. WHAT FOLLOWED X. ANDY’S DEBUT AT SCHOOL XI....

RELIGIO MEDICI. RELIGIO MEDICI, HYDRIOTAPHIA, AND THE LETTER TO A FRIEND. BY SIR THOMAS BROWNE, KNT. WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY J. W. WILLIS BUND, M.A., LL.B.,GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, OF LINCOLN’S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. INTRODUCTION. SIR THOMAS BROWNE (whose works occupy so prominent a position in the literary his- tory of the seventeenth century) is an author who is now little known and less read. This com- parative oblivion to which he has been consigned is the more remarkable, as, if for nothing else, his writings deserve to be studied as an example of the English language in what may be termed a transition state....

[S’]AKOONTALA OR THE LOST RING AN INDIAN DRAMA TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE AND VERSE FROM THE SANSKRIT OF KALIDASA BY SIR MONIER MONIER-WILLIAMS, K.C.I.E.M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., PH.D.BODEN PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT, HON. FELLOW OF UNIVERSITY AND LATE FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION. The fact that the following translation (first published in 1855) of India’s most celebrated drama has gone through seven editions, might reasonably have absolved me from the duty of revising it....

[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are capitalized. Some obvious errors have been corrected (see notes).] Sidney Lanier by Edwin Mims Preface The present volume is a biography of Lanier rather than a critical study of his work. So far as possible, I have told the story in his own words, or in the words of those who knew him most intimately. If I have erred in placing undue emphasis on the early part of his career, it was intentional, for that is the part of his life about which least is known....

[TR: ***] = Transcriber Note [HW: ***] = Handwritten Note SLAVE NARRATIVES A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS’ PROJECT 1936-1938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON 1941 VOLUME III FLORIDA NARRATIVES Prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Florida INFORMANTS Anderson, Josephine Andrews, Samuel Simeon Austin, Bill Berry, Frank Biddie, Mary Minus Boyd, Rev....

SPECIMENS WITH MEMOIRS OF THE LESS-KNOWN BRITISH POETS. With an Introductory Essay, By THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN. IN THREE VOLS. VOL. III. CONTENTS. THIRD PERIOD–FROM DRYDEN TO COWPER. SIR CHARLES SEDLEY To a very young Lady Song JOHN POMFRET The Choice THE EARL OF DORSET Song JOHN PHILIPS The Splendid Shilling WALSH, GOULD, &c. SIR SAMUEL GARTH The Dispensary SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE Creation ELIJAH FENTON An Ode to the Right Hon....

VOLUME ONE General Studholme J. Hodgson My Dear General, To whom with more pleasure or propriety can I inscribe this volume than to my preceptor of past times; my dear old friend, whose deep study and vast experience of such light literature as The Nights made me so often resort to him for good counsel and right direction? Accept this little token of gratitude, and believe me, with the best of wishes and the kindest of memories, Ever your sincere and attached Richard F....

TEN BOYS fromDICKENS ByKate Dickinson Sweetser Illustrated byGeorge Alfred Williams 1901 PREFACE In this small volume there are presented as complete stories the boy-lives portrayed in the works of Charles Dickens. The boys are followed only to the threshold of manhood, and in all cases the original text of the story has been kept, except where of necessity a phrase or paragraph has been inserted to connect passages;–while the net-work of characters with which the boys are surrounded in the books from which they are taken, has been eliminated, except where such characters seem necessary to the development of the story in hand....

THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND By George Meredith CONTENTS BOOK 1.I. I AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTIONII. AN ADVENTURE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT III. DIPWELL FARMIV. I HAVE A TASTE OF GRANDEURV. I HAVE A DEAR FRIENDVI. A TALE OF A GOOSE BOOK 2.VII. A FREE LIFE ON THE ROADVIII. JANET ILCHESTERIX. AN EVENING WITH CAPTAIN BULSTED X. AN EXPEDITIONXI. THE GREAT FOG AND THE FIRE AT MIDNIGHT XII. WE FIND OURSELVES BOUND ON A VOYAGE XIII....

ENDTHE SMALL PRINT! FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTSVer.04.29.93END* THE AMATEURCRACKSMAN BYE. W. HORNUNG TOA. C. D.THIS FORM OF FLATTERY THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN THE IDES OF MARCH I It was half-past twelve when I returned to the Albany as a last desperate resort. The scene of my disaster was much as I had left it. The baccarat-counters still strewed the table, with the empty glasses and the loaded ash-trays. A window had been opened to let the smoke out, and was letting in the fog instead....

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD. by E. A. Wallis Budge. CHAPTER I The Title. “Book of the Dead” is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells and incantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words of power and prayers, and they are found cut or painted on walls of pyramids and tombs, and painted on coffins and sarcophagi and rolls of papyri....

THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT: Now First Completely Done Into English Prose and Verse, From The Original Arabic, By John Payne(Author of “The Masque of Shadows,” “Intaglios: Sonnets,” “Songs of Life and Death,” “Lautrec,” “The Poems of Master Francis Villon of Paris,” “New Poems,” Etc, Etc.). In Nine Volumes: VOLUME THE FOURTH. 1901 Delhi Edition Contents of The Fourth Volume. The Imam Abou Yousuf With Haroun er Reshid and his Vizier Jaafer2....

This etext was prepared with the use of Calera WordScan Plus 2.0 The Brick Moonand Other Stories by EDWARD EVERETT HALEShort Story Index Reprint Series Preface To read these stories again, thirty and more years after they were written, is to recall many memories, sad or glad, with which this reader need not be interrupted. But I have to make sure that they are intelligible to readers of a generation later than that for which they were written....

Errata and other transcription notes are included as an appendix As companion to this etext, I recommend maps available on the Internet from the History Department of the U. S. Military Academy: http://www.dean.usma.edu/history http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/ACivilWarPages/ACWToC.htm THE CAMPAIGN OF CHANCELLORSVILLE by Theodore A. Dodge To the members of The Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, of whose researches into the history of our Civil War the following pages form but a modest part, this volume is, with Sincere Regard, Dedicated by the author....

This novel is a sequel to Caught in the Net. [Etext #2451] The Champdoce Mysteryby Emile Gaboriau CHAPTER I. A DUCAL MONOMANIAC. The traveller who wishes to go from Poitiers to London by the shortest route will find that the simplest way is to take a seat in the stage- coach which runs to Saumur; and when you book your place, the polite clerk tells you that you must take your seat punctually at six o’clock....