BEFORE THE CURTAIN As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating,
Etext prepared by John Bickers, jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz. Proofed by Dagny (dagnyj@hotmail.com). THE VICAR OF TOURS BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To David, Sculptor: The permanence of the work on which I inscribe your name– twice made illustrious in this century–is very problematical; whereas you have graven mine in bronze which survives
Yes, there was another barrier: doubtless there was a wide distinction between the rank and circumstances of Mrs. Huntingdon, the lady of Grassdale Manor, and those of Mrs. Graham, the artist, the tenant of Wildfell Hall.
The Pickwick papers are our New River Head; and we may be compared to the New River Company. The labours of others have raised for us an immense reservoir of important facts. We merely lay them on, and communicate them, in a clear and gentle stream, through the medium of these pages, to a world thirsting for Pickwickian knowledge.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens AUTHOR’S PREFACE This story was begun, within a few months after the publication of the completed “Pickwick Papers.” There were, then, a good many cheap Yorkshire schools in
This Etext was prepared by John T. Horner, jthorner@garlic.com. THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton BOOK THE FIRST Chapter I THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF POMPEII. ‘HO, Diomed, well met! Do you sup with Glaucus to-night?’ said a young man of small stature, who wore his tunic in those loose and effeminate folds
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 1 Marseilles — The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d’If, got on board the vessel between
MIDNIGHT BY OCTAVUS ROY COHEN Author of “THE CRIMSON ALIBI,” “GRAY DUSK,” ETC. 1921 TO DR. MILES A. WATKINS CONTENTS CHAPTER I OUT OF THE STORM II THE SUIT-CASE IS OPENED III “FIND THE WOMAN” IV CARROLL HAS A VISITOR V MISS EVELYN ROGERS VI REGARDING ROLAND WARREN VII THE VALET TALKS VIII CARROLL MAKES
Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors?
Produced by Dagny LOST ILLUSIONS BY HONORE DE BALZAC PREPARER’S NOTE The trilogy known as Lost Illusions consists of: Two Poets A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Eve and David In many references parts one and three are combined under the title Lost Illusions and A Distinguished Provincial at Paris is given its individual title. Following
Etext prepared by John Bickers, jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz Dagny, dagnyj@hotmail.com and Bonnie Sala FERRAGUS, CHIEF OF THE DEVORANTS by HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Hector Berlioz. PREFACE Thirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficient energy to be
Etext prepared by Dagny, dagnyj@hotmail.com and John Bickers, jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz EVE AND DAVID by HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Ellen Marriage PREPARER’S NOTE Eve and David is part three of a trilogy. Eve and David’s story begins in part one, Two Poets. Part one also introduces Eve’s brother, Lucien. Part two, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris,
