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America has performed great service for the Orient and especially for China. If, however, the people of the latter country were asked to express their candid opinion on the matter, the verdict would not be altogether pleasant, but would be given with mixed feelings of gratitude and regret. A...

Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. Many of the tales collected in Mosses from an Old Manse are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect...

The Contrast, written in 1787 by Royall Tyler, is an American play in the tradition of the English Restoration comedies of the seventeenth century; it takes its cue from Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a British comedy of manners that had revived that tradition a decade before. Royall uses the...

Short Detective Stories by various authors Contents ALEXANDER SERGEIEVITCH PUSHKIN  The Queen of Spades  VERA JELIHOVSKY  The General's Will  FEODOR MIKHAILOVITCH DOSTOYEVSKY  Crime and Punishment  ANTON CHEKHOFF  The Safety Match  VSEVOLOD VLADIMIROVITCH KRESTOVSKI  Knights...

A great book that introduces famous Italian artists to children. Contents Giotto -- Fra Angelico -- Masaccio -- Fra Filippo Lippi -- Sandro Botticelli -- Domenico Ghirlandaio -- Filippino Lippi -- Pietro Perugino -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Raphael -- Michelangelo -- Andrea del Sarto -- The Bellini -- Vittore Carpaccio -- Giorgione -- Titian -- Tintoretto -- Paul Veronese.

The Two Noble Kinsmen is a Jacobean tragicomedy, first published in 1634 and attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. Its plot derives from "The Knight's Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which had already been dramatised at least twice before. Formerly...

"A rewarding, fascinatingly mature book of substance and power."--Tillie Olsen Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day, published in 1862 in Boston, was Rebecca Harding Davis's second widely acknowledged work, and her first novel. Set in an Indiana mill town during the fall and winter of...

Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends (which includes Mr. Pickwick), and their penchant...

De Bello Civili; On the Civil War, more commonly referred to as the Pharsalia, is a Roman epic poem by the poet Lucan, detailing the civil war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the Roman Senate led by Pompey the Great. The poem's title is a reference to the Battle of Pharsalus, which occurred...

Originally written in Greek, sometime about the middle of the 4th Century A.D. Translation by A.S. Way, 1913. Homer's "Iliad" begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector....

PREFACE All British soldiers will welcome this excellent translation by Major Bridges of a new work by General von Bernhardi, whose intimate knowledge of cavalry and brilliant writings have won for him such a great European reputation. Some prominence has lately been given in England...

Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 – 4 July 1916) was an American poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was the brother of Charles Seeger, a noted American pacifist and musicologist. He is best known for the poem I Have a Rendezvous...