Skyline: 225 books

In glancing at the superstitions connected with Scottish lochs and springs, we are called upon to scan a chapter of our social history not yet closed. A somewhat scanty amount of information is available to explain the origin and growth of such superstitions, but enough can be had to connect them...

To the Greeks and Romans, there was a time more remote than history gives us any account of, when there was neither land nor water, and when the earth and all things within and upon it were “without form and void.” Over that misty, nebulous mixing and mingling brooded the god Chaos, who shared...

La chronologie n'est point une science à dédaigner, et quand on ne consulte pas avec soin les registres où elle inscrit au jour le jour les événements que l'histoire brouille souvent à distance, on risque de fausser, par une seule inadvertance, le caractère d'un homme et parfois celui de toute...

Ever since ancient man first gazed in wonder at the stars, humanity has dreamed of traveling to outer space. Now scientists agree that space-flight may very soon become a reality. Space Platform tells of man’s first step into outer space ... of the difficulties and dangers of reaching for the stars....

One day early in the eighteen hundred and sixties, I, being then a small boy, was with my nurse, buying something in the shop of a petty newsagent, bookseller, and stationer in Camden Street, Dublin, when there entered an elderly man, weighty and solemn, who advanced to the counter, and said pompously,...

The twelfth of May, 1796, in north Italy, at Tavazzano, on the road from Lodi to Milan. The afternoon sun is blazing serenely over the plains of Lombardy, treating the Alps with respect and the anthills with indulgence, not incommoded by the basking of the swine and oxen in the villages nor hurt by...

The village was thunderstruck. Nay, more; the village was disapproving, almost scandalised. It was astounded to the verge of incredulity when it heard that a man who had lived in its midst quietly and peaceably for five-and-twenty years was suddenly, and without any due warning whatsoever, going to...

The romance of war in its most thrilling form is exemplified in this narrative of the adventures of “The World’s Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents.” Much has been published upon the subject of espionage, and the memoirs and secret histories of the courts of Europe give us instances...

The Time Machine The War of the Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man "But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? . . . Are we or they Lords of the World? . . . And how are all things made for man?"

That morning Jean, with a seed-bag of blue linen tied round his waist, held its mouth open with his left hand, while with his right, at every three steps, he drew forth a handful of corn, and flung it broadcast. The rich soil clung to his heavy shoes, which left holes in the ground, as his body lurched...

"THE child's dead," said Nora, the nurse. It was the upstairs sitting-room in one of the pretentious houses of Sutherland, oldest and most charming of the towns on the Indiana bank of the Ohio. The two big windows were open; their limp and listless draperies showed that there was not the...

A la mitad del viaje de nuestra vida me encontré en una selva obscura, por haberme apartado del camino recto. ¡Ah! Cuán penoso me sería decir lo salvaje, áspera y espesa que era esta selva, cuyo recuerdo renueva mi pavor, pavor tan amargo, que la muerte no lo es tanto. Pero antes de hablar del bien que allí encontré, revelaré las demás cosas que he visto...

​Lucian Denzil was a briefless barrister, who so far departed from the traditions of his brethren of the long robe as not to dwell within the purlieus of the Temple. For certain private reasons, not unconnected with economy, he occupied rooms in Geneva Square, Pimlico; and, for the purposes of his...

Considerando la facilità con cui la conoscenza delle costellazioni può essere acquisita, è strano che così pochi siano in grado di riconoscerle guardando il cielo. Infatti a parte le più famose quali il "Carro" o "le Pleiadi," le costellazioni sono per la stragrande maggioranza...