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A London Life is a novella by Henry James, first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1888. The plot revolves around a crumbling marriage and its impact on many other people, especially Laura Wing, the sister of the soon-to-be-divorced wife. Henry James, (born April 15, 1843, New York, New York, U.S.—died...

An after-dinner conversation, the focal point of this short story, manages to monopolize the reader's attention from the very beginning. An American artist is longing to create his masterpiece. Henry James, (born April 15, 1843, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 28, 1916, London, England),...

Urbain Grandier by Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870) was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world.

L'histoire de la première période est toute entière du domaine de la fable. D'après la légende, ce serait le centaure CHIRON qui aurait été le fondateur de la Médecine et de la Chirurgie. Il aurait été en outre, le premier ophtalmologiste puisqu'il aurait rendu la vue à de jeunes phéniciens...

Une Fille du Regent by Alexandre Dumas. Philippe d'Orléans, régent de France, a bien du fil à retordre avec ses deux filles, trop libertines et son fils, trop sage. Mais voici qu'il veut s'occuper d'une autre fille, illégitime et cachée celle-là, Hélène de Chaverny. Il se décide à la faire...

The people who lived long ago, in the far-off lands of the north, watched the wonderful things that happened out of doors every day, just as we do; but they did not know about the one loving God, who is the Father of all, who made them and the world, and rules it by his wise laws; so they thought...

A Scientist Rises by Desmond Winter Hall

Mr. Chipfellows Jackpot by Dick Purcell

EVERYBODY knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is — or, alas, was — the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss. Yet as it lies some distance from any of the main roads, being in a somewhat out-of-the-way situation, there are perhaps very few of my readers who have ever paid...

The Rise of Iskander is the seventh novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become Prime Minister of Great Britain. Benjamin Disraeli, in full Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden, byname Dizzy, (born December 21, 1804, London, England—died April 19,...

The Political History of the Devil is a 1726 book by Daniel Defoe. General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history. He spends some time discussing John Milton's Paradise Lost and explaining why he considers it inaccurate. While those are all...

Over 350 ingenious problems involve classical logic: logic is expressed in terms of symbols; syllogisms and the sorites are diagrammed; logic becomes a game played with 2 diagrams and a set of counters. Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (born January 27, 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire,...

Sophocles' Ajax, or Aias, is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BCE. Ajax may be the earliest of Sophocles' seven tragedies to have survived, though it is probable that he had been composing plays for a quarter of a century already when it was first staged. Sophocles was the younger contemporary...

As Odin looked down from his home in Asgard and saw the people he had made from the ash and the elm trees, he sighed to himself and said, “These are my children. It is I who created them. They are innocent and pure and sweet.” “But, alas, how little they know of life. By and by there will come...