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Does anybody remember the opera of The Inca, and that heartbreaking episode where the Court Undertaker, in a morbid desire to increase his professional skill, deliberately accomplishes the destruction of his middle-aged relatives in order to inter them for the sake of practise?

It was now almost too dark to distinguish objects; duskier and vaguer became the flat world of marshes, set here and there with cypress and bounded only by far horizons; and at last land and water disappeared behind the gathered curtains of the night. There was no sound from the waste except the wind...

A SKIRMISH A LANDING AN ADVANCE RECONNAISSANCE A FLANK MOVEMENT ARMISTICE A CHANGE OF BASE MANOEUVERING THE INVASION TERRA INCOGNITA PATHFINDERS THE ALLIED FORCES THE SILENT PARTNERS STRATEGY UNDER FIRE AN ULTIMATUM ECHOES PERIL THE LINE OF BATTLE A NEW ENEMY REINFORCEMENTS THE ROLL CALL A CAPITULATION...

On a beautiful day in spring as I was running as hard as I could run pursued by the New York police and a number of excited citizens, my mind, which becomes brilliantly active under physical exhilaration, began to work busily. I thought about all sorts of things: I thought about hard times and financial...

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" or "A Dead Man's Dream" is a short story, which is set during the Civil War, is famous for its irregular time sequence and twist ending. Bierce's abandonment of strict linear narration in favor of the internal mind of the protagonist is considered an early example of experimentation with stream of consciousness. It is Bierce's most anthologized story.

Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Hans Christian Andersen or H. C. Andersenis best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories, called eventyr in Danish, express themes that transcend age and nationality. His fairy...

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver, Surgeon, and Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels, is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is...

Two Treatises of Government or Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy...

You have heard of Homer, and of the two wonderful poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which bear his name. No one knows whether these poems were composed by Homer, or whether they are the work of many different poets. And, in fact, it matters very little about their authorship. Everybody agrees that...

A Story Of A Georgia Boy's Adventures During The War

"Simply one of the most charming little books that have fallen into our hands for many a day. There is just enough of sadness in it to make it true to life, while it is so full of honest work and whole-souled fun, paints so lively a picture of a home in which contentment, energy, high spirits, and...

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling...

In the summer of 1859, Mrs. Stowe made her third and last journey to Europe. During the summer, the whole family was abroad, save the youngest; but in the autumn Mr. Stowe and one of the daughters returned to America, leaving Mrs. Stowe with two daughters and a son to spend the winter in Italy. The...

HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS The Ravages of a Carpet Homekeeping vs. Housekeeping What is a Home? The Economy of the Beautiful Raking Up the Fire The Lady who does her own Work What can be got in America Economy Servants Cookery Our House THE CHIMNEY-CORNER Home Religion What will You do with Her? or, The...