Author Archives
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A Little Dinner at Timmins’s by William Makepeace Thackeray
I. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Timmins live in Lilliput Street, that neat little street which runs at right angles with the Park and Brobdingnag Gardens. It is a very genteel neighborhood, and I need not say they are of a… Read More ›
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Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen
LITTLE EYOLF (1894) CHARACTERS ALFRED ALLMERS, landed proprietor and man of letters formerly a tutor. MRS. RITA ALLMERS, his wife. EYOLF, their child, nine years old. MISS ASTA ALLMERS, Alfred’s younger half-sister. ENGINEER BORGHEIM. THE RAT-WIFE. The action takes place… Read More ›
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Wigwam Evenings Sioux Folk Tales Retold by Charles A. Eastman
WIGWAM EVENINGS FIRST EVENING THE cold December moon is just[3] showing above the tree-tops, pointing a white finger here and there at the clustered teepees of the Sioux, while opposite their winter camp on the lake shore a lonely, wooded island is… Read More ›
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Walking Shadows by Alfred Noyes
WALKING SHADOWS Prelude Of those who fought and diedUnreckoned, undescried,Breaking no hearts but two or three that loved them;Of multitudes that gaveTheir memories to the grave,And the unrevealing seas of night removed them; Of those unnumbered hostsWho smile at all… Read More ›
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La Vuelta de Martín Fierro by José Hernández
La Vuelta de Martín Fierro I MARTÍN FIERRO 396 Atención pido al silencio y silencio a la atención, que voy en esta ocasión, si me ayuda la memoria, a mostrarles que a mi historia le faltaba lo mejor. 397 Viene… Read More ›
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La Fée des Grèves by Paul Féval
I. La cavalcade. Si vous descendez de nuit la dernière côte de la route de Saint-Malo à Dol, entre Saint-Benoît-des-Ondes et Cancale, pour peu qu’il y ait un léger voile de brume sur le sol plat du Marais, vous ne… Read More ›
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El sabor de la tierruca by José María de Pereda
I EL ESCENARIO aquélla era un soberbio ejemplar de su especie: grueso, duro y sano como una peña el tronco, de retorcida veta, como la filástica de un cable; las ramas horizontales, rígidas y potentes, con abundantes y entretejidos ramos;… Read More ›
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Doctor and Patient by S. Weir Mitchell
INTRODUCTORY. The essays which compose this volume deal chiefly with a variety of subjects to which every physician must have given more or less thought. Some of them touch on matters concerning the mutual relation of physician and patient, but… Read More ›
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Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth
CHAPTER ONE THE CONCEPT OF INTELLECTUAL GENIUS It would be an ambitious project to find and discuss all the definitions of genius that have ever been offered in writing. To do this is beyond our present purpose, which is, rather,… Read More ›
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Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Orison Swett Marden
CHEERFULNESS AS A LIFE POWER. I. WHAT VANDERBILT PAID FOR TWELVE LAUGHS. William K. Vanderbilt, when he last visited Constantinople, one day invited Coquelin the elder, so celebrated for his powers as a mimic, who happened to be in the… Read More ›
