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Selected excerpts by Fénelon
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 14
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
The Three Knights
In Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England
This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern na…
A Matter of Custom
In Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs
Kottō contains 20 Japanese stories, collected from different sources and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The types of stories in this collect…
Preface
In Wessex Tales
Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introdu…
RUNE XIV. Death of Lemminkainen
In The Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)
This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seab…
Der Untergang des Carnatic
In Seltsame Geschichten
Seltsame Geschichten ist eine Sammlung von Spukgeschichten und anderer fantastischer Seltsamkeiten aus dem 19ten und frühen 20ten Jahrh…
Preface
In Mind Amongst the Spindles
Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimac…
Selected excerpts from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, by Henry Hallam
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Pronounced Fantasy
In Introducing Irony (Version 2)
Maxwell Bodenheim was once known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians after moving to New York after being one of the founders of the …
The Argonautic Legend
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Journey of the King: Pts VIII and IX
In Time and the Gods
Time and the Gods is a captivating collection of short stories by Lord Dunsany, a pioneer of modern fantasy literature. First published in 1…
1 - Το καύκαλο
In ΠΕΖΑ (Peza)
(published 1938)Τα πεζά του Καρυωτάκη, 9 ιστορίες, με μια δόση φανταστικού, μια αίσθηση νοσταλγίας, ονειροπόλησης, αλλά και κάποια απαισιοδο…
Chapter V
In The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
Wilde's short story about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, was first published in Bl…
Erzählungen 6 - 10 (Das Regenbogenschüsselein - Der Widerhall - Die Quelle - Die vier Elemente - Die Blumen)
In Kurze Erzählungen
Ein Lehr- und Lesebuch für die deutschen Schulen in Bayern; so lautet der Untertitel des von Christoph von Schmid verfassten Buches. Hi…
04 - BETWEEN ROUNDS
In The Four Million (Version 2)
The man with the surprise endings: that was O. Henry's trademark. This is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry origi…
Mariée depuis midi
In Collection : pièces en un acte & monologues 003
Ceci est une collection de pièces en un acte et de monologues en français.This is a collection of French one-act plays and mon…
The Favourite Plot
In The Man who Understood Women, and Other Stories
This is a collection of 20 short stories by English novelist and playwright Leonard Merrick. The stories concern varied topics, and succeed …
Medieval English Literature
I have very little doubt in my own mind that why so many young men despise and even deride knowledge is because knowledge has been presented…
Les rois en exil. Roman parisien, par Alphonse Daudet. Chapitre II. Un royaliste
In La Lecture, tome 3
La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…
Chapitre 1 (sous-chapitres 23 à 32)
In Histoire curieuse et pittoresque des sorciers
Mathias de Giraldo est un auteur inconnu et mystérieux jusqu'à ce jour. Probablement un surnom d'un ou de plusieurs auteurs, M…