Book Excerpt sness that their mannerisms and facial peculiarities were sharply defined to the public eye.This hour of coming home from market was the happy one, if not the happiest, of the week for them. Snugly ensconced under the tilt, they could forget the sorrows of the world without, and survey life and recapitulate the […]
Book Excerpt correcting himself, “if one be needed.”The servant bowed, and went out of the room. I began to laugh, and Bolingbroke turned an inquiring glance at me. “There is some jest?” “It is of your making, my lord. I fancy those few honest books will not be opened yet awhile.” He flushed a little. […]
Book Excerpt “And you conclude it to be a rather dreadful business?””Yes, it is.” “How?” “Oh, I don’t know. A girl usually loves the wrong man. To be poor is always bad enough, but to be in love, too, is really very dreadful. It usually finishes us–you know.” “Are you in love?” he inquired, managing […]
A Murder Mystery. K. LeMoyne, famous surgeon, drops out of the world that has known him, and goes to live in a little town where beautiful Sidney Page lives. She is in training to become a nurse. The joys and troubles of their young love are told with that keen and sympathetic appreciation which has […]
A story of the Sioux War of 1876. Book Excerpt he doctor, bending down over her as they were walking home. “It isn’t like you, Nell, to be censorious. What’s she been doing?–making eyes at young McLean?”He might have judged better than that, had he reflected an instant. He never yet had thought of his […]
Book Excerpt ched him I could catch the tones of his full, sonorous voice, and see his waving, outstretched arms. In his right hand he held the looped sceptre which, by his express wish I send to you with the drawings. I could see the flash of the jewels strung upon the wires, and in […]
Book Excerpt de triangle isocèle. La cassure de la tôle était d’une netteté parfaite, et elle n’eût pas été frappée plus sûrement à l’emporte-pièce. Il fallait donc que l’outil perforant qui l’avait produite fût d’une trempe peu commune — et après avoir été lancé avec une force prodigieuse, ayant ainsi perce une tôle de quatre […]
Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns […]
The adventures of a young man named d’Artagnan after he leaves home to become a guard of the musketeers. D’Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
A wild dog’s journey toward becoming civilized during the 19th Century Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang is a companion novel to The Call of the Wild. “White Fang” is part dog, part wolf and all brute, living in the frozennorth; he gradually comes under the spell of man’s companionship, andsurrenders all at the last in […]