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Excerpt from A World to Mend, 1920: The Journal of a Working Man Robinson Crusoe on his island was not more alone. After all, this New England town with its homely happenings, the goings on in its little shops and about its doorways, is as much a new world to me as was Crusoe's island to Robinson Crusoe. I shall set to work in a different way from his. There shall be no stockade to separate me from my kind! Not if I can keep pulling it down....

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Excerpt from An Experiment in Altruism What do you mean by that I asked, turning to look at the girl's face. Her colour was shifting quickly in the cool October air. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, p...

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Excerpt from Familiar Ways Thanks are due to the editor of The Atlantic Monthly for permission to reprint The Little House, Our Venetian Lamp, House Cleaning, It is Well to be off with the Old House before you are on With the New, Our Nearest, and Farthest, Neighbors, to the editor of Scribner's M agazine for permission to reprint The Vegetable Self, A Sab batical Year, Real Estate, Plain Coun try, Gardens, Real and Imagined, Brother Fire, Th...

Excerpt from A Puritan Bohemia "I go to prove my soul -" Browning's Paracelsus. "You hold my whole life in the hollow of your hand, like that." The speaker held out a broad palm, and a great drop of rain splashed into it. "Whatever strength or talent I posses is vowed to your service." "You are letting the rain drop on my face, " said the girl, with an accent of reproach. The young man righted the umbrella and gazed gloomily, past the we...

Excerpt from The Worn DoorstepOften, at a distance, I thought that I had found it, thatched roofs or red tiles, or a lovely old Norman church tower would make me sure that my search was done, but again and again I found my self mistaken, I can hardly tell you why. You know without telling, as you must know all I am writing before I make the letters, and yet it eases my mind to write. At no time did you seem very far as I searched hill country ...

Excerpt from Daphne, an Autumn Pastoral "Down there, " she said gravely, pointing toward the top of the great hill on whose side the villa stood. "Certainly, " answered Giacomo with a bow, too much pleased by understanding when there was no reason for it to be captious in regard to the girl's speech. "The Signorina non ha paura, not 'fraid?" "I'm not afraid of anything, " was the answer in English. The Italian version of it was a shaking of...

Excerpt from Henry Worthington: Idealist The young professor walked swiftly down the corridor and unlocked the door of Lecture Room A. A stream of students was pouring down the staircase at the left. A group near by, standing with books under their arms, and their hands in their pockets, eyed with good-humoured curiosity the new instructor as he fumbled nervously at the lock. Inside the room he drew a sigh of relief. He threw open a window, a...

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Excerpt from Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice Dryden took up unwillingly the new fashion of writing. Llis own unfitness for it he recognized. There is a certain pathos in his confession of this, combined with the expression of the critic's fine scorn for the public to which he stooped. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a repro...

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