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Excerpt from Rambles in the Black ForestRich and poor, all these people are touring, ' and the tourist has only one object in life to 'do' something, to 'get' somewhere, and to have the right to say he has 'done it, ' or 'got there' all on foot, or all in a motor-car, or all in a first-class sleeping compartment, just as his particular ambition tends. And, rich and poor, all these people are more or less mad at any rate, pitiful self-deceivers...

Excerpt from The Daughter of Brahma "You have read enough, " Mrs. Hurst said. "I am tired, and the light troubles me. Put it out - it will seem cooler in the darkness." "Very well - or shall I screen it? Then if you should want anything" Mrs. Hurst turned a little and measured her companion from head to foot. "You are afraid, " she said, a faint note of amusement creeping into her tired voice. "I wonder why. Do you expect that a cobra will...

Excerpt from The GermansB., like every other human being, does not carry his heart on his sleeve, and he does not turn out his household gods for the inspection of a stranger. He may be worse, and he may be a great deal better than he seems - Oi that his guest cannot judge with any certainty.Perhaps this sounds very Obvious, but it is sur prising how many people there are who would rightly hesitate to give their opinion on an acquaint ance Of ...

Excerpt from Towards Morning He awoke violently. In the very midst of his dream he had been shot out of a cannon's mouth straight into consciousness. Yet for a moment he could not remember where he was. He seemed to be clinging to the outer edge of a monster wheel which whirled him through darkness till his brain went sick and giddy. Half-remembered landmarks flew past him. He clutched at them, trying to stay his mad flight But they slipped t...

Excerpt from The Foreign Legion: Photoplay Title of the Red Mirage, Illustrated With Scenes From the Photoplay an Universal-Jewel Production Night lay on the desert. Terrible in its solitude, the great waste stretched out beneath an emerald darkness, its frozen billows of sand rolling on to the blank invisible horizon where all commingled in brooding mystery and silence. To the south there was more than silence - a spirit of watchfulness, a s...

Excerpt from Five Years to Find Out "What I should like, " said the Reverend Oscar Hamilton, putting Darwin's Origin of Species on the top shelf of the library bookcase and removing the steps, "what I should like, Cecilia, is to see you a true woman" "Exactly, said Mrs. Hamilton. "And a happy woman, " her husband went on, transforming the writing-table into a pulpit desk. "Now a happy woman is a woman who has found her true sphere and stays...

Excerpt from All Sorts The voice filled the stillness as an organ fills a vast and empty cathedral. It rolled out over the wide and misty fields. It rose sonorously into the pale dome of the morning. "... for the abundance of the fruits of the earth and for peaceful times, let us beseech the Lord!" The two peasants answered "Lord have mercy upon us!" They were sturdy and heavy-browed, and in their dull coloured blouses they seemed part of t...

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The cigar was a large one and Robert Stonehouse was small. At the precise moment, in fact, when he leant out of the upstairs bedroom window, instinctively seeking fresh air, he became eight years old. He did not know this, though he did know that it was his birthday and that a birthday was a great and presumably auspicious occasion. His conception of what a birthday ought to be was based primarily on one particular event when he had danced on ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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