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A study of modern marriage as it exists in modern London life especially. Three couples are closely described, and the author writes in the most uncompromising English and discusses some of the most intricate problems of "double harness." Uncontrollable temper, increasing idealism, love...

This new story is in the author's most finished and delicate style. The gallant Captain is a French soldier of fortune, and the surprising adventures into which he is projected, by his choice of a night's lodging in the Castle of Fieramondi, form the basis of a characteristically ingenious and interesting tale.

The Arthur of the legends has quite stepped out of the historic page and become a hero without time or place in any real world, a king of the imagination, the loftiest figure in that great outgrowth of chivalric romance which formed the favorite fictitious literature of Europe during three or four...

Aeschylus was one of the most famous ancient Greek tragedians He is often called "the father of tragedy”, since this genre really begins with his works. This edition includes the following dramas: Agamemnon Choephoræ Or, The Libation-Bearers The Eumenides Prometheus Bound The Suppliants The Seven Against Thebes The Persians

A wonderfully powerful and interesting story of modern life and political intrigues in Washington, full of dramatic intensity and vivid portraiture. As a story of Washington life, dealing largely with what might be called social politics, it is certainly a success. As a society novel, it is indeed...

This volume contains two love stories which appeared long ago in Peterson's Magazine and marked the beginning of Mrs. Burnett's literary work. "Kathleen Mavourneen" and "Pretty Polly Pemberton" are all fascinating heroines with the world at their feet; their beauty, grace, and...

Child stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett are among the best of their kind. Those terrible "Two Days in the Life of Piccino" are enough to make one shake-with laughter. Piccino was a "Gesu bambino," pretty as a Christ-child in a picture, who lived with his parents, his sister Maria,...

This volume contains the following stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of classics like "The Secret Garden" or "Little Lord Fauntleroy": The White People The Little Hunchback Zia "Seth" The Dawn Of A To-Morrow In The Closed Room Lodusky The Pretty Sister Of José

While the eight short stories which are bound together under the title of "Surly Tim' and Other Stories," take in a wide range of subjects, while the characters are distinct and the individuals unlike, there is still a singular oneness in the artistic motive of them all, which gives to them...

In "Two Little Pilgrims' Progress " Mrs. Burnett is at her best. It is the story of two children - a little boy and girl - brought up on a Western farm, where they have been neglected by their aunt with whom they live, and who find their chief happiness in reading Bunyan's "Pilgrim's...

To say that Mrs. Burnett's account of 'The One I Knew Best of All' is a fascinating book, is to put the matter very mildly. It is not one little girl alone whose experiences are here recorded, but, as the author justly claims, it is the story of any child with an imagination. Mrs. Burnett's recollections...

A little Italian boy with a beautiful voice, who comforted Mrs. Burnett when she mourned for her son at San Remo, is the hero of the first story. It is slightly autobiographical, introducing the writer and her tender reminiscences of her lost boy. "The boy who became a Socialist" is a pleasant...

The problem of Man' s origin, of his evolution, of his destiny, is one of inexhaustible interest. Whence came he, this glorious Intelligence, on this globe, at least, the crown of visible beings? How has he evolved to his present position? Has he suddenly descended from above, a radiant angel, to...

These are the notebooks of Washington Irving, containing the jottings made by Irving during his travels in Europe between 1815 and 1830. These journals have been kept in the Irving family until within the last few years of the 19th century. The number of people who think they could write is larger...