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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer. It was his habit to leave the pitcher there on his way to dinner....

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Excerpt: Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens.

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Contents A CHRISTMAS TREE ......................................................................................................................................... 4 WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ................................................................................................................................... 22 AS WE GROW OLDER................................................................................................................................... 22 THE POOR RELATION?S STORY ................................................................................................................. 27 NOBODY?S STORY.......................................................................................................................................... 54...

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

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Contents THESEUS.............................................................................................................................. 5 ROMULUS ........................................................................................................................... 34 COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS .............................................................. 64 LYCURGUS .......................................................................................................................... 68 NUMA POMPILIUS........................................................................................................... 101 COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYCURGUS ................................................................ 126 SOLON .............................................................................................................................. 132 POPLICOLA...................................................................................................................... 160 COMPARISON OF POPLICOLA WITH SOLON ............................................................. 178 THEMISTOCLES...........................

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Excerpt: This beginning-part is not made out of anybody?s head, you know. It?s real. You must believe this beginning-part more than what comes after, else you won?t understand how what comes after came to be written. You must believe it all; but you must believe this most, please. I am the editor of it. Bob Redforth (he?s my cousin, and shaking the table on purpose) wanted to be the editor of it; but I said he shouldn?t because he couldn?t. He has no idea of being an editor....

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Excerpt: Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell and others.

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Excerpt: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

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Excerpt: The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: Mrs. Lirriper?s Lodgings by Charles Dickens.

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Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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Excerpt: Sandra Belloni by George Meredith.

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Excerpt: Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy?s Progress by Charles Dickens.

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Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few notes of a voyage which your skill and kindness rendered doubly pleasant; and of which I don?t think there is any recollection more agreeable than that it was the occasion of making your friendship....

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Excerpt: In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writ ings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the manner of my escape. In substance these reasons were, first, that such publication at any time during the existence of slavery might be used by the master against the slave, and prevent the future escape of any who might adopt the same means that I did. The second reason was, if possible, still more binding to silence: the publication of details would certainly have put in peril the persons and property of those who assisted....

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Contents MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY ...... 4 RECONSTRUCTION ..................... 16

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Excerpt: The reader must not expect to know where I live. At present, it is true, my abode may be a question of little or no import to anybody; but if I should carry my readers with me, as I hope to do, and there should spring up between them and me feelings of homely affection and regard attaching something of interest to matters ever so slightly connected with my fortunes or my speculations, even my place of residence might one day have a kind of charm for them. Bearing this possible contingency in mind, I wish them to understand, in the outset, that they must never expect to know it....

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Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-servant, and Albertine, the maid, not a little irksome on the way....

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Excerpt: My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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Excerpt: Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar almanack- makers....

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Excerpt: Poems by Wilfred Owen.

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Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 POEMS ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Preface ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Strange Meeting .............................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Greater Love ................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Apologia pro Poemate Meo .............................................................................................................................................

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly -- 2. Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers -- 3. So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness....