... short story author, led a life that traversed hardship, literary triumphs, and social activism. Born in 1832 into a ... American Civil War, she served as a nurse, penning "Hospital Sketches, " her inaugural critical success. Under the ...
... in an outlying buttress of the main pile! A rounded meadow revealed itself, when they had reached it, for a vast tableland running far into the valley. Three days later, it was a dim fold in the earth to southward. 'Surely the Gods live ...
This book brings some of best essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, across a wide range of subjects, including individuality, freedom, society and many more topics.
Robert Louis Stevenson has an important place in the history of the short story in the British Isles: the form had been elaborated and developed in America, France and Russia from the mid-19th century, but it was Stevenson who initiated the ...
The book's name The Innocence of Father Brown. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.
The texts were chosen based on their relevance, renown and interest. This edition is dedicated to Dogs. Cultural depictions of dogs extend back thousands of years to when dogs were portrayed on the walls of caves.
... dog will work for anybody, so long as he is treated like an artist. A man going away for a week's shooting can borrow a dog, and the dog will work for him loyally, just as a good musician will do his best, though the conductor is ...
... short, upright stakes, set in the shallow sand. A small clinker, thrown into the cloth, weighed its middle down ... dogs, of a beautiful breed peculiar to Peru, set up a concert of glad welcomings when we gained the beach, which was ...
The book's name The Innocence of Father Brown. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.
... loneliness in which he found himself as he lay facing the back of the sofa, a loneliness in the midst of a populous town and surrounded by numerous acquaintances and relations but that yet could not have been more complete anywhere ...
... great height above my head, a white, unbroken ceiling above, and a dark, unbroken floor below, with the monoplane labouring upwards upon a vast spiral between them. It is deadly lonely in these cloud-spaces. Once a great flight of some ...
... alone and in solitude not for pleasure or good cheer, but to forget the awful loneliness and level of the Divide. Milton made a sad blunder when he put mountains in hell. Mountains postulate faith and aspiration. All mountain peoples ...
... solitude. Poverty is the great secluder—unless one belongs to the rank which is born to it; a sensitive man who no longer finds himself on equal terms with his natural associates, shrinks into loneliness, and learns with some surprise ...
... small income, in that part of the world, goes a great way. Eight or nine hundred a year does wonders. Scantily ... lonely and primitive place, where everything is so marvelously cheap, I really don't see how ever so much more money ...
... solitary cottage of some shepherd. Fifty years ago such a lonely cottage stood on such a down, and may possibly be standing there now. In spite of its loneliness, however, the spot, by actual measurement, was not more than five miles ...
" This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.
This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Sphinx without a SecretA Model MillionaireThe Happy PrinceThe Fisherman and his SoulThe Nightingale and the ...
Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the uruguayan author Nikolai Gogol.
... books and music. Four years passed. Mr. Duffy returned to his even way of life. His room still bore witness of the orderliness of his mind. Some new pieces of music encumbered the music-stand in the lower room and on his shelves stood ...
... the story than with the song. Marlene asked no questions; she was kind and cheerful to every one, and no one guessed the thoughts and questions that were working in her mind. girl, as, They recovered visibly from day to day; and on the ...