Release Date November 10 2011: 72 books

But for a recent occurrence I should certainly not be telling the story of a friend, or, rather, I should say, of two friends of mine. What that occurrence was I will not here indicate - it is unnecessary; but it has not been without its effect upon my life and plans. If it be asked by those who may...

En la grand'chambre ancienne aux rideaux de guipur

Tout le monde dans la province de Candahar connaît l'aventure du jeune Rustan. Il était fils unique d'un mirza du pays : c'est comme qui dirait marquis parmi nous, ou baron chez les Allemands. Le mirza son père avait un bien honnête. On devait marier le jeune Rustan à une demoiselle, ou mirzasse...

Le 18 du mois de schewal, l'an 837 de l'hégire.

You ought to buy it, said my host; its Just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it's going for a song - you ought to buy it.

It was clear that the sleigh from Weymore had not come; and the shivering young traveller from Boston, who had counted on jumping into it when he left the train at Northridge Junction, found himself standing alone on the open platform, exposed to the full assault of night-fall and winter.

Professor Joslin, who, as our readers are doubtless aware, is engaged in writing the life of Mrs. Aubyn, asks us to state that he will be greatly indebted to any of the famous novelist's friends who will furnish him with information concerning the period previous to her coming to England. Mrs. Aubyn...

It was last winter, after a twelve years' absence from New York, that I saw again, at one of the Jim Cumnors' dinners, my old friend Halston Merrick.

They picked up the young man called Snow Gregory from a Lambeth gutter, and he was dead before the policeman on point duty in Waterloo Road, who had heard the shots, came upon the scene.

No English chronicler mentions the presence of King Olaf the Saint in England; but the two churches dedicated to him at either end of London Bridge, where his greatest deed was wrought, testify to the gratitude of the London citizens towards the viking chief who rescued their city from the Danes, and brought back the king of their own race towards whom their loyalty was so unswerving.

ALONSO, roi de Naples. SÉBASTIEN, son frère. PROSPERO, duc légitime de Milan. ANTONIO, son frère, duc usurpateur de Milan. FERDINAND, fils du roi de Naples. GONZALO, vieux conseiller honnôte. ADRIEN, seigneur FRANCISCO, seigneur CALIBAN, esclave sauvage et difforme. TRINCULO, clown. STEPHANO, sommelier...

[Athènes. — Le palais de Thésée.] Entrent Thésée, Hippolyte, Philostrate et leur suite

[2]Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Tr–umen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. Er lag auf seinem panzerartig harten R–cken und sah, wenn er den Kopf ein wenig hob, seinen gew–lbten, braunen, von bogenf–rmigen Versteifungen geteilten Bauch,...

It is now four years since this book first appeared before the public, and I feel it my duty not to let a second edition go forth into the world without a few words of accompaniment. It hardly seems necessary to assure my readers that I have endeavored to earn for the following pages the title of a corrected...