Anboco: 1012 books

Agnes Elsie Diana Herbert was a writer and big game hunter. The daughter of James Bateman Thorpe, she was born Agnes Elsie Diana Thorpe on the Isle of Man and grew up there. She was privately tutored. With a cousin, she visited the Canadian Rockies, where the two women taught Chinese kitchen workers...

It has been said that any man of mature age could write at least one interesting book, if he confined himself to relating his own experiences. Well, that is what I have done. This is primarily the story of my life, interspersed with various anecdotes, "wheezes," and "gags," pertaining to a profession...

William John Locke`s first novel: At the Gate of Samaria: "t was a severe room, scrupulously neat. Along one side ran a bookcase, with beaded glass doors, containing, as one might see by peering through the spaces, the collected, unread literature of two stern generations. A few old prints, placed...

H.R.H. Princess Mary A Holiday in Bed J. M. Barrie The Spy G. A. Birmingham Charlie the Cox Hall Caine Canada's Word Ralph Connor Bimbashi Joyce A. Conan Doyle The Ant-Lion J. H. Fabre An Angel of God Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler A Model Soldier Charles Garvice The Land of Let'spretend Lady Sybil Grant...

The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin. Oliver Twist...

Aseed, little friends, is really a plant or a tree all wrapped up in a little brown bundle. If you plant it in the ground it will grow, and when it is old enough it will bear fruit, because God has made it so. Among all the children of Mother Nature, the fruits and vegetables are probably the most...

To my many friends who have been so lenient in their criticisms of my former work, and to the several editors and literary men who have given me so much encouragement, I wish to return my sincere thanks. All the request I have to make, is, that I hope my efforts this time will receive no more condemnation...

The Coming of King Arthur Gareth and Lynette The Marriage of Geraint Geraint's Quest of Honor Merlin and Vivien Balin and Balan Lancelot and Elaine The Holy Grail Pelleas and Ettarre The Last Tournament The Passing of Arthur

The Courtship of Miles Standish is an 1858 narrative poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the early days of Plymouth Colony, the colonial settlement established in America by the Mayflower Pilgrims.

The Old Granite State, Thy Place, Constancy, Fairest Days, My Petition, Imperishable Melodies, Mother, Hidden Treasures, In Life and Death, Progress, Only a Little Fellow, Under the Pines, Prayer, Our Baby, A Halo, The Deserted Farm, Seed Thoughts, School, The Graces, Sunshine, "What Shall It Profit?"...

In sending forth these gleanings from the later compositions of my few leisure hours, I take the opportunity of thanking most sincerely those many friends who have so generously subscribed for the work. Not only has their kind appreciation caused me to realize that I am no longer a stranger in a strange...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man...

ABC About the Bush The Alphabet An Equal An Icicle Around the Green Gravel As I Was Going Along Baa, Baa, Black Sheep Baby Dolly The Balloon The Bells Banbury Cross Bandy Legs Barber Bat, Bat Bedtime Bees Bell Horses Belleisle Bessy Bell and Mary Gray Betty Blue Billy, Billy Birds of a Feather The...

Let associations of singers, having the love of liberty in their hearts, be immediately formed in every community. Let them study thoroughly, and make themselves perfectly familiar with both the poetry and the music, and enter into the sentiment of the piece they perform, that they may impress it...