Skyline: 225 books

Ce serait beaucoup se méprendre que de trouver de l'orgueil dans le ton des jugements que porte l'auteur sur des œuvres considérées par tout le monde comme des chefs-d'œuvre et sur lui-même. Mais, cependant, pour que l'auteur plaide sa cause avant qu'on l'accuse, il faut bien qu'une apparence...

Le mot «sabotage» n'était, il y a encore une quinzaine d'années, qu'un terme argotique, signifiant non l'acte de fabriquer des sabots, mais celui, imagé et expressif, de travail exécuté «comme à coups de sabots.» Depuis, il s'est métamorphosé en une formule de combat social et c'est au...

"Uno dei miei amici mi disse che tu, piccolo lettore, non avresti gradito queste vecchie, vecchie storie; un altro mi disse che sono troppo tristi per te, e un altro ancora mi chiese cosa volessero insegnare. Ora io credo invece che questi racconti celtici ti piaceranno molto. E' vero, sono tristi,...

Uno dei miei amici mi disse che tu, piccolo lettore, non avresti gradito queste vecchie, vecchie storie; un altro mi disse che sono troppo tristi per te, e un altro ancora mi chiese cosa volessero insegnare. Ora io credo invece che questi racconti celtici ti piaceranno molto. E' vero, sono tristi,...

To anyone who glanced casually inside the detention room the young man sitting there did not seem very formidable. In height he might have been a little above average, but not enough to make him noticeable. His brown hair was cropped conservatively; his unlined boy's face was not one to be remembered—unless...

Thanks to recent excavation Babylon has ceased to be an abstraction, and we are now able to reconstitute the main features of one of the most famous cities of the ancient world. Unlike Ashur and Nineveh, the great capitals of Assyria, Babylon survived with but little change under the Achæmenian kings...

As the liner steamed into Callao Roads, and long before it had anchored, it was surrounded by a flotilla of small boats. A moment later, deck, saloons and cabins were invaded by a host of gesticulating and strong-minded boatmen, whose badges attested that they were duly licensed to carry off what...

Toldees, Mondath, Arizim, these are the Inner Lands, the lands whose sentinels upon their borders do not behold the sea. Beyond them to the east there lies a desert, for ever untroubled by man: all yellow it is, and spotted with shadows of stones, and Death is in it, like a leopard lying in the sun....

Joe Kenmore heard the airlock close with a sickening wheeze and then a clank. In desperation he turned toward Haney. "My God, we've been locked out!" Through the transparent domes of their space helmets, Joe could see a look of horror and disbelief pass across Haney's face. But it was true!...

In the penitential psalms the religious beliefs of the Babylonians and Assyrians attain their ethical zenith. The term "penitential psalms" is, of course, purely general; but in view of the striking similarity which some of these compositions bear to certain Biblical psalms, both in tone...

I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for mortals, old or young: And, as I mused it in his antique tongue, I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,...

One of the occasions when I experienced “that grand and glorious feeling” was when my law business had achieved proportions that justified my removal from my old office to new and more commodious quarters. I selected a somewhat pretentious building on Madison Avenue between Thirtieth and Fortieth...

At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge. She is not a prepossessing woman. No woman looks her best after...

It is, perhaps, one of the most pernicious errors of a rash and inconsiderate life, the common ignorance of the world in the matter of exchanging benefits . And this arises from a mistake, partly in the person that we would oblige, and partly in the thing itself. To begin with the latter: “A benefit...