Jwarlal: 262 books

To be born on the 28th of February is not altogether without its compensations. It affords a subject of conversation when you are asked to put your name in birthday books. It is evident that many people suppose it to be almost an intrusion to appear on that day. However, it was perfectly satisfactory...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : The first observer who watched the skies with any degree of care could not fail to notice that while the greater number of stars maintained the same relative places, a few from night...

It is a common idea that the British West Indies were a mine of wealth before the abolition of slavery, and since that event have been sinking into ruin. To correct those erroneous impressions, I have carefully collected the following facts from authentic sources:— Official Reports, returned...

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide. The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before...

UNDER the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds, to Mount Vernon Street, on the summit of Beacon Hill; and there, in the third house below Mount Vernon...

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge. He had successfully avoided meeting his landlady on the staircase. His garret was under the roof of a high, five-storied...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : Towards the close of the sixteenth century, this castle was in the possession of Ferdinand, fifth marquis of Mazzini, and was for some years the principal residence of his family....

Le blond troupeau bourdonne autour du fier sultan, du sultan aux cornes d'argent; c'est Tauris, courtisé de plus de collines que l'amour n'amène d'amoureuses, que la peur ne presse de peureuses aux flancs du mâle flamboyant. Sur les coupoles, les arbres font de la dentelle: Ali la jaune,...

De la vie vécue par des êtres douloureux qui se meuvent dans le mystère d'une nuit. Ils ne savent rien que souffrir, sourire, aimer; quand ils veulent comprendre, l'effort de leur inquiétude devient de l'angoisse et leur révolte s'évanouit en sanglots. Monter, monter toujours les dolentes marches...

Ce livre est parmi les classiques populaires les plus vendus "bestseller" de leur époque. Voici un extrait de ce bel ouvrage : L'ART de conter est un art essentiellement français et nulle région de France n'a produit plus de conteurs exquis que le pays des Troubadours, et parmi...

The evolution of the modern horse-shoe from the primitive foot-gear for draught animals used in ancient times furnishes an interesting subject for investigation. Xenophon and other historians recommended various processes for hardening and strengthening the hoofs of horses and mules,[1] and from this...

J'ai dit que cet épisode datait de l'automne dernier. J'aurais mieux fait de dire: son dénouement. La portion dramatique de l'aventure ne fut, comme il arrive souvent, que l'explosion d'une mine longtemps creusée. Mais sans un très petit hasard, et bien improbable, ce travail souterrain, eût-il...

J'avais dit beaucoup de mal de Colette dans la journée,—ce qui ne m'avait ni changé ni soulagé. Je rentrai mécontent de moi, comme un homme qui s'est abaissé à commettre l'action qu'il blâmerait le plus chez un autre, et malade d'elle comme je ne l'avais jamais été. Ces fins d'après-midi...