Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds ...
the other shrieking, "My hose must be red, with little dragons in black all over it, like small-pox!" and the bird flies to her upper perch in dismay at the riot, while I sit and laugh, with an occasional duennaish, "Young ladies, ...
One Robertson, however, a notary of Perth, gave evidence (September 23) that he did see Henderson creep out of the narrow staircase and step over the Master's dead body; Robertson spoke to him, but he made no reply.
I find myself more in harmony with the outspoken Hallam, Dr. Joseph Robertson, David Hume, and the Edinburgh reviewer of 1816, than with several more recent students of Knox. “The Reformer's violent counsels and intemperate speech were ...
Mr. Robertson's authority for Regnwald's death three years before he submitted to Edward (as the Chronicle avers)" is the Irish Annals, at this period most accurate and trustworthy authorities in all connected with the Hy Ivar family," ...
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These are the classic tales—of princes and princesses, monsters and magic, enchanted forests and fantastic creatures—that have thrilled readers around the world for generations.
Illustrated by Walter Crane The Lady Bedr-el-Budur. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac Kneeling before the Sultan. Illustrated by Thomas Mackenzie By the aid of the Fairy he attired himself in a dress much richer than was ever worn by a King.
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November's Party (Agnes Carr) The Debut of Dan'l Webster (Isabel Gordon Curtis) The Two Alms, or the Thanksgiving Day Gift (Eleanor L. Skinner) The Kingdom of the Greedy (P.J. Stahl) Thankful (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman) Beetle Ring's ...
Thackeray disliked Charterhouse, and parodied it in his fiction as "Slaughterhouse". Nevertheless, Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death.
... and together they left the palace unseen, and entered a barge that was waiting in the river, and in the sunrise they sailed away to the castle of Avallon. [Adapted from Dunlop's History of Prose Fiction, and Morris's Ogier the Dane.] ...
The story concerns a Scottish archer in the service of the French King Louis XI (1423-1483). *Plot summary* The story takes place in the year 1468.The age of feudalism and chivalry was passing away, and the King of France was inciting the ...
Old Mortality is a novel by Sir Walter Scott set in the period 1679-89 in south west Scotland. It forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1816.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Susan Coolidge, Andrew Lang, Eugene Field, Alfred Gatty, Edward Everett Hale, ...
Beauty and the Beast - All Four Versions includes the original, adult-oriented edition of the story by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (translated from the French by James Robinson Planché), the simplified and shortened version by ...
Classics included in this volume include: One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes, The Magic Mirror, The Enchanted Stag, Hansel and Grethel, The Story of Aladdin, This Story of Ali Baba, The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, The White Cat, The ...
Robert Stewart was removed to Edinburgh. He was tall, handsome, and only twentytwo, so he had public sympathy at his trial (January 5, 1615). Some of the retainers of Caithness were on the jury; many of the others were burgesses of ...
He had many sisters; the eldest, Mary, married the Earl of Atholl, a Stewart, in January 1580. Lady Gowrie was thus motherinlaw of the Earl of Atholl, who died at Gowrie House in August 1594. Her granddaughter, Dorothea (daughter of ...