This collection of essays about the relationship between parents and children and also bringing up children in regards to manners, rules and schools is kind of amazing.
Traffics and Discoveries, containing 11 stories and 11 poems, was published in 1904.
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From the Masjid-al-Aqsa of Sayyid Ahmed (Wahabi)
The Captive
Poseidon's Law
The Bonds of Discipline
The Runners
A Sahibs' War
The Wet Litany
"Their Lawful Occasions"
The King's Task
The Comprehension of Private Copper
The Necessitarian
Steam Tactics
Kaspar's Song in...
Set in the Midlands, Lawrence's Touch and Go is a three-act play dealing with clash between capitalism and labor. In his attempt to organize miners Willie Houghton argues that capitalism is like a wheel-cart and labor is like the frog crushed beneath its wheels. "The essence of tragedy, which is creative crisis, is that a man should go through with his fate, and not dodge it and go bumping into...
Lawrence’s Tortoises poems were first published as a group in New York in 1921, then included in the First English edition of Birds, Beasts and Flowers in 1923. This lovely Cheloniidae Press edition, edged in vellum over handmade paper-covered boards, is illustrated with eight wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. Number 71 of 200 copies signed by the artist on the colophon page, it is in...
Tom Tidler's Ground, also known as Tom Tiddler's Ground or Tommy Tiddler's Ground, is an ancient children's game in which one player, "Tom Tidler," stands on a heap of stones, gravel, etc.; other players rush onto the heap, crying "Here I am on Tom Tidler's ground," while Tom tries to capture the invaders or keep them off. By extension, the phrase has come to mean the ground or tenement of a...
Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and a prequel to Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in thisburlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative...
Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593, probably in collaboration with George Peele. It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy, and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were extremely popular with audiences throughout the...
Timon of Athens is a collaborative play by William Shakespeare and perhaps Thomas Middleton about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon(and probably influenced by the philosopher of the same name). The central character is a well beloved citizen of Athens who through tremendous generosity spends his entire fortunes on corrupt hangers-on only...
While the three ghosts that visited Ebenezer Scrooge was Charles Dickens' most famous apparitions, his interest in the supernatural did not end there. Three Ghost Stories is just that: a collection of three different stories that are true Gothic classics. The three stories, The Signal Man, The Haunted House and The Trial for Murder were sensational for their time and continue to hold up well,...
Why, ma, yes you do. They're so fine and handsome, and high-bred and polite, so every way superior to our gawks here in this village; why, they'll make life different from what it was-so humdrum and commonplace, you know-oh, you may be sure they're full of accomplishments, and knowledge of the world, and all that, that will be an immense advantage to society here. Don't you think so, ma?
The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story) is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.
Presented in the first...
The Years Between, a collection of poems written during the period from just after the Boer War till the aftermath of World War I, was originally published in 1919. It was the first volume of new poems by Kipling published since "The Five Nations" in 1903; including the first book appearance of Kipling's celebrated "The Female of the Species," with its awed refrain "The female of the species is...
The Wreck of the Golden Mary is the work of many hands but was originally started by Dickens. The story portrays an amazing voyage around Cape Horn, then north to the coast of California. The tale takes a stunning turn when the ship strikes an iceberg and passengers and crew languish in lifeboats. Dickens’s subtlety of style and picturesque depiction keeps reader rapt till the very...
This book content includes:
PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE.
A TALE OF JERUSALEM
THE SPHINX
HOP-FROG
THE MAN OF THE CROWD.
NEVER BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD
THOU ART THE MAN
WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING
SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY.
THE POETIC PRINCIPLE
OLD ENGLISH POETRY
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The Devil in the Belfry
Lionizing
X-ing a Paragraph
Metzengerstein
THe System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
How to Write a Blackwood Article
A Predicament
Mystification
DIddling
THe Angel of the Odd
Mellonta Tauta
The Duc de L'omelette
THe Oblong Box
Loss of Breath
The Man that was Used Up
THe Business Man
THe Landscape Garden
Maelzel's Chess...
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The Purloined Letter
The Thousand-and-second Tale of Scheherazade
A Descent into the Maelstrom
Von Kempelen and his Discovery
Mesmeric Revelation
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Black Cat
The Fall of the House of Usher
Silence - A Fable
The Masque of the Red Death
The Cask of Amontillado
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
The...
List of Works in this Volume:
Edgar Allan Poe
Death of Edgar Allan Poe
The Unparalleled Adventures of one Hans Pfall
The Gold Bug
Four Beasts in one - the homo-camel-leopard
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget
The Balloon-Hoax
Ms Found in a Bottle
The Oval Portrait