Peter Pan. If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, ?Why, of course, I did, child,? and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, ?What a foolish question to ask, certainly he did.? Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, ?Why, of course, I did, child,? but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she nev...
A horse in 19th-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters; A horse in 19th-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters
In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town.
Excerpt: Chapter One. ?Christmas won?t be Christmas without any presents,? grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. ?It?s so dreadful to be poor!? sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. ?I don?t think it?s fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all,? added little Amy, with an injured sniff. ?We've got Father and Mother, and each other,? said Beth contentedly from her corner. The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened a...
Excerpt: Chapter 1. A SHIFTING REEF. The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself ...
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Contributor: State Central Library, Hyderabad, India ; Digial Library of India
Excerpt: Once upon a time, so long ago that I have quite forgotten the date, there lived a king and queen who had no children. And the king said to himself, ?All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill?used.? So he made up his mind to be cross with his wife about it. But she bore it all like a good patient queen as she was. Then the king grew very cross indeed. But the queen pre...
Description: his is Padraic Colum's retelling of the Eddas and the Volsung Saga for young adults. Colum and Pogany also collaborated on The Adventures of Odysseus, and The King of Ireland's Son.
DUTCH COURAGE: -- Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan -- THE LOST POACHER -- The Banks of the Sacramento -- Chris Farrington, Able Seaman -- To Repel Boarders -- An Adventure in the Upper Sea -- Bald-Face -- In Yeddo Bay -- Whose Business Is To Live...
PREFACE: In these days of exactness even a child's historical romance must point to what the French term its pieces justficatives. We own that ours do not lie very deep. The picture of Simon de Montfort drawn by his wife's own household books, as quoted by Mrs. Everett Green in her Lives of the Princesses, and that of Edward I. in Carte's History, and more recently in the Greatest of the Plantagenets, furnished the two chief influences of the story. The household account...
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