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PERSONS OF THE PLAY: ELIZABETH, Queen of England. MARY STUART, Queen of Scots, a Prisoner in England. ROBERT DUDLEY, Earl of Leicester. GEORGE TALBOT,...
The novel is set in Florence, Italy, and describes a young English woman's first visit to the city of Renaissance art. It was a period when middle cla...
Excerpt from Chapter 1: "The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Neve...
Excerpt from the Introduction: "As yet there has been no public agitation for "greater national efficiency," no meetings have been called to consider ...
Excerpt from the Preface: The true title of this work should be, "Apropos to Shakespeare." The desire of introducing, as they say in England, before t...
Excerpt from the Introduction: Whilst engaged on the Translations contained in these volumes, and on the Notes appended to the various Tales, I have f...
The story is a sequel to Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan now has lost the opportunity of wedding Jane Porter, the woman he loves. He leaves America for Eur...
Excerpt from the Introduction: "In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of tha...
Excerpt from the Preface: "It is with something like a confession that I offer this second of my nature books to the public-a confession, and a hope; ...
Excerpt from the Preface: "It seems extraordinary, but it is, nevertheless, a fact, that, up to this present time, there has not been written, in the ...
This book is a collection of twelve short stories featuring the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 1892. As with all but f...
Definition of Psychology of Management. - The Psychology of Management, as here used, means, - the effect of the mind that is directing work upon that...
Excerpt from the first chapter: Between Conniston, of His Majesty's Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and Keith, the outlaw, there was a striking physic...
Excerpt from the Introduction: "Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality. Hence th...
"Trifles" is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell, who is considered an important feminist writer of the early Twentieth Century. The play was first perfo...
Excerpt from Chapter I: The house was three miles from the station, but before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the children beg...
Excerpt from the first chapter: "One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, t...
Excerpt from "My Purpose" "My purpose is to discuss simply, intelligibly, yet from a scientific point of view, the sensations known to us in singing, ...
Lovely young Lydia Languish resists all attempts by her guardians to select a suitable husband for her. Although she comes from a wealthy family, she ...
Excerpt from Chapter I: 'THE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea...
Excerpt from "The Blue Cross" "Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a s...
This play is a comical farce enlivened by witty dialogue and humorous characters. The main character is Valentine, followed by Jeremy, Valentine's res...
Excerpt from the Preface: "The date at which the following events are assumed to have occurred may be set down as between 1840 and 1850, when the old ...
Excerpt from Chapter 1: So saying, she leapt from the desk upon the floor, where she stood a tall, gracious lady, with pale face and large blue eyes. ...
Excerpt from Chapter I: "It began in a Woman's Club in London on a February afternoon-an uncomfortable club, and a miserable afternoon-when Mrs. Wilki...
Excerpt from the Preface: "The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it...
Excerpt from the Dedication: A book of modern social inquiry has a shape that is somewhat sharply defined. It begins as a rule with an analysis, with ...
Excerpt from the Introduction: "LAST summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to ha...
Excerpt from Chapter 1: "I had made little acquaintance with the history of my ancestors. Almost the only thing I knew concerning them was, that a not...
Excerpt from the Preface: "Adina, the suppositious writer of the following letters, is the daughter of a Jew who resides in Alexandria, Egypt. She has...
Excerpt from Chapter 1: "Curdie was the son of Peter the miner. He lived with his father and mother in a cottage built on a mountain, and he worked wi...
Excerpt from Chapter 1: "There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great country full of mountains and valleys. His palace was bui...
Excerpt from the Preface: "There happened in the year 1687, an odd accident at Venice, that made a very great stir then, and which I think deserves to...
Excerpt from Chapter I: There are some things I must tell before I begin to tell about the treasure-seeking, because I have read books myself, and I k...
Excerpt from the Preface: The present work is based on a dissertation submitted at the Fellowship Examination of Trinity College, Cambridge, in the ye...
Excerpt from the Preface: "The legal profession discharges a most important function in a civilized community, and it seems to me that a discussion of...
Excerpt from Lecture #1: "We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they...
A Flower Wedding is composed of beautiful colored illustrations by Walter Crane created in 1905....
Esther the Queen is a dramatized version of the story of Esther based upon The Book of Esther in the Bible. When King Ahasuerus rejects his wife Vasht...
Excerpt from Chapter I: "Has she come?" "No, Mamma, not yet." "I wish it were well over. The thought of it worries and excites me. A cushion for my ba...