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Excerpt: Sketches of Young Gentlemen by Charles Dickens.

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Excerpt: The Nibelungenlied, translated by Daniel B. Shumway.

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Excerpt: Plutarch?s Lives -- Volume Two. translated by Arthur Hugh Clough.

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Contents SERTORIUS ..................................................................................................................................... 5 EUMENES ...................................................................................................................................... 31 COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES................................................................. 50 AGESILAUS ................................................................................................................................... 52 POMPEY......................................................................................................................................... 89 COMPARISON OF POMPEY AND AGESILAUS .................................................................... 167 ALEXANDER ............................................................................................................................... 172 CAESAR........................................................................................................................................ 245 PHOCION ..................................................

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Excerpt: Chapter 1; DESCRIPTION OF FARMEROAK -- AN INCIDENT -- When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun. His Christian name was Gabriel, and on working days he was a young man of sound judgement, easy motions, proper dress, and general good character. On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, --that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon. Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were...

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Table of Contents: 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK? AN INCIDENT, 1 -- 2 NIGHT ? THE FLOCK ? AN INTERIOR ? ANOTHER INTERIOR -- ., 6 -- 3 A GIRL ON HORSEBACK? CONVERSATION, 13 -- 4 GABRIEL?S RESOLVE ? THE VISIT ? THE MISTAKE, 20 -- 5 DEPARTURE OF BATHSHEBA ? A PASTORAL TRAGEDY, 28 -- 6 THE FAIR ?THE JOURNEY? THE FIRE, 32 -- 7 RECOGNITION? A TIMID GIRL, 40 -- 8 THE MALTHOUSE ? THE CHAT ? NEWS, 44 -- 9 THE HOMESTEAD? A VISITOR ? HALF-CONFIDENCES 59 -- 10 MISTRESS AND MEN, 64 -- 11 OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS ? SNOW? A MEETING, 70 -- 12 FARMERS ? A RULE ? IN EXCEPTION, 75 -- 13 SORTES SANCTORUM ? THE VALENTINE, 79 -- 14 EFFECT OF THE LETTER ? SUNRISE, 83 -- 15 A MORNING MEETING? THE LETTER AGAIN, 87 -- 16 ALL SAINTS? AND ALL SOULS?, 96 -- 17 IN THE MARKET-PLACE, 99 -- 18 BOLDWOOD IN MEDITATION ? REGRET, 102 -- 19 THE SHEEP-WASHING ? THE OFFER, 106 -- 20 PERPLEXITY ? GRINDING THE SHEARS ?A QUARREL, 111 -- 21 TROUBLES IN THE FOLD ? A MESSAGE, 116 -- 22 THE GREAT BARN AND THE SHEEP-SHEARERS, 122 -- 23 EVENTIDE?A SECOND DECLARATION, 131 -- 24 THE SAME NIGHT? THE FIR PLANTATION, 137 -- 25 THE NEW ACQUAINTANCE DESCRIBED, 143 -- 26 SCENE ON THE VERGE OF T...

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Eine märchenhafte Geisternovelle. Zur Konfirmation hat Franz Arbogast, an einem Ostersonntag geboren, ein geheimnisvolles Büchlein mit Lebensregeln für Osterkinder bekommen. Jahre später ist er als Goldschmiedsgeselle unterwegs, um kostbare Steine für einen Krone einzukaufen, doch all sein Geld wird ihm auf rätselhafte Weise gestohlen. Noch rätselhafter aber ist, dass sein Büchlein den Verlust voraussagt und ihm rät, dem Verlorenen nicht hinterher zu jagen, da er es bald von selbst wiederfinden wird. Franz bleibt also in der Gegend und kommt zu einem Schloss, bei dem der Sage nach ein Geist sein Wesen treibt, der nur von einem Osterkind erlöst werden kann. Er findet bei den Verwaltern des Schlosses gastliche Aufnahme, und es begegnen ihm hier ganz wundersame Dinge. (Zusammenfassung von Hokuspokus)...

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Horror/Ghost stories, Literature

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Excerpt: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ?and what is the use of a book,? thought Alice ?without pictures or conversation??...

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Excerpt: The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor with-out a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide....

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Excerpt: Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipling.

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Contents THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE .............................................................................................................................................. 4 OF THOSE CALLED .................................................................................................................................................................. 12 PRIVATE LEAROYD?S STORY ................................................................................................................................................. 15 THE BIG DRUNK DRAF? .......................................................................................................................................................... 22 THE WRECK OF THE VISIGOTH ............................................................................................................................................ 31 THE SOLID MULDOON ............................................................................................................................................................ 34 WITH THE MAIN GUARD .........................................................................

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Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Sermon, 51 -- 10 A Bosom Friend, 59 -- 11 Nightgown, 63 -- 12 Biographical, 65 -- 13 Wheelbarrow, 68 -- 14 Nantucket, 72 -- 15 Chowder, 74 -- 16 The Ship, 77 -- 17 The Ramadan, 89 -- 18 His Mark, 94 -- 19 The Prophet, 98 -- 20 All Astir, 101 -- 21 Going Aboard, 104 -- 22 Merry Christmas, 107 -- 23 The Lee Shore, 111 -- 24 The Advocate, 113 -- 25 Postscript, 117 -- 26 Knights and Squires, 118...

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Excerpt: One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:--it was the black kitten?s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it couldn?t have had any hand in the mischief....

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Excerpt: Poems in Two Volumes, Volume One by William Wordsworth.

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Contents TO THE DAISY............................................................................................................................................................. 5 LOUISA......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 FIDELITY ..................................................................................................................................................................... 8 SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT ................................................................................................................... 10 The REDBREAST and the BUTTERFLY. ................................................................................................................. 11 THE SAILOR?S MOTHER................................................................................................................................. 12 TO THE SMALL CELANDINE* ............................................................................................................................... 13 TO THE SA...

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Excerpt: ?The Masque of the Red Death? by Edgar Allan Poe is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk....

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Excerpt: Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott.

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Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with considerable confidence....

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Excerpt: We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. ?Yes, you too have been in Arcadia,? we seem not too grumpily to allow. When I pass the house in Mansfield Street I remember that Arcadia was there. I don?t know who has it now, and don?t want to know; it?s enough to be so sure that if I should ring the bell there would be no such luck for me as that Brooksmith should open the door. Mr. Offord, the most agreeable, the most attaching of bachelors, was a retired diplomatist, living on his pension and on something of his own over and above; a good deal confined, by his infirmities, to his fireside and delighted to be found there any afternoon in the year, from five o?clock on, by such visitors as Brooksmith allowed to come up....

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Contents BROOKSMITH ................................................................ 4 THE REAL THING ........................................................ 21 THE STORY OF IT ........................................................ 48 FLICKERBRIDGE ......................................................... 65 MRS. MEDWIN ............................................................. 85...

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Excerpt: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, 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 Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city....

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Excerpt: The Touchstone by Edith Wharton.

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Excerpt: The Sorrows of Young Werther by J.W. von Goethe, translated by R.D. Boylan, ed. Nathan Haskell Dole.

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Excerpt: The sun shone slanting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled old thorns in the holiday suit whence they take their name, giant?s nosegays of horse-chestnuts, mighty elms and stalwart oaks, singly or in groups, the aristocracy of the place; while in the background rose wooded coverts, where every tint of early green blended in rich masses of varied foliage....