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Excerpt: On the Improvement of the Understanding (Teatise on the Emendation of the Intellect) Baruch Spinoza (Benedict de Spinoza), translated by R.H.M. Elwes....

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Excerpt: It was nine o?clock. The little town of Vauchamp, dark and silent, had just retired to bed amid a chilly No vember rain. In the Rue des Recollets, one of the narrowest and most deserted streets of the district of Saint- Jean, a single window was still alight on the third floor of an old house, from whose damaged gutters torrents of water were falling into the street. Mme Burle was sitting up before a meager fire of vine stocks, while her little grandson Charles pored over his lessons by the pale light of a lamp....

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Excerpt: Septimius Felton; or, The Elixir of Life by Nathanial Hawthorne.

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Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon their lips, what obstacles we miraculously overcome! We shed our blood, we risk our future!...

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Excerpt: Le Morte D?Arthur -- Glossary to volume two? by Sir Thomas Malory.

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Excerpt: Holy Sonnets; I THOU hast made me, And shall thy worke decay? Repaire me now, for now mine end doth haste, I runne to death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday; I dare not move my dimme eyes any way, Despaire behind, and death before doth cast Such terrour, and my feeble flesh doth waste By sinne in it, which it t?wards hell doth weigh; Onely thou art above, and when towards thee By thy leave I can looke, I rise againe; But our old subtle foe so tempteth me, That not one houre my selfe I can sustaine; Thy Grace may wing me to prevent his art, And thou like Adamant draw mine iron heart....

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Table of Contents: Holy Sonnets, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 1 -- III, 2 -- IV, 2 -- V, 2 -- VI, 3 -- VII, 3 -- VIII, 3 -- IX, 4 -- X, 4 -- XI, 4 -- XII, 5 -- XIII, 5 -- XIV, 6 -- XV, 6 -- XVI, 6 -- XVII, 7 -- XVIII, 7 -- XIX, 7 -- THE CROSSE, 9 -- RESURRECTION, IMPERFECT, 11 -- UPON THE ANNUNTIATION AND PASSION, 12 -- GOOD FRIDAY, 1613. RIDING WESTWARD, 14 -- THE LITANIE, 15 -- UPON THE TPANSLATION OF THE PSALME, 22 -- TO MR. TILMAN AFTER HE HAD TAKEN ORDERS, 24 -- A HYMNE TO CHRIST, 26 -- THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMY, 27 -- HYMNE TO GOD MY GOD, IN MY SICKNESSE, 38 -- A HYMNE TO GOD THE FATHER, 39...

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Excerpt: Arthurian Chronicles: Roman De Brut by Wace, translated by Eugene Mason.

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Excerpt: Don Quixote. Part Two by Miquel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby, 1922 ed.

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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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Introduction: Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason....

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Excerpt: Madame, may God grant that this, my book, may live longer than I, for then the gratitude which I owe to you, and which I hope will equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

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Excerpt: Roderick Hudson by Henry James.

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Excerpt: Prince Otto -- A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition).

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Excerpt: You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking....

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's Short Poetry Collection 045: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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Poetry

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Strange Man?s Arrival. The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the ?Coach and Horses? more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down. ?A fire,? he cried, ?in the name of human charity! A room and a fire!? He stamped and shook the snow from off himself in the bar, and followed Mrs. Hall into her guest parlour to strike his bargain. And with that much introduction, that and a couple of sovereigns flung upon the table, he took up his quarters in the inn....

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God -- 2. The same was in the beginning with God -- 3. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made -- 4. In him was life; and the life was the light of men -- 5. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not -- 6. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John....

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Excerpt: Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica by Anthony Trollope.

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Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: How at the vigil of the Feast of Pentecost entered into the hall before King Arthur a damosel, and desired Sir Launcelot for to come and dub a knight, and how he went with her. At the vigil of Pentecost, when all the fellowship of the Round Table were come unto Camelot and there heard their service, and the tables were set ready to the meat, right so entered into the hall a full fair gentlewoman on horseback, that had ridden full fast, for her horse was all besweated....