CHAPTER I. The rays of a December sun shone dimly into a room in the large castle mill, calling forth feeble sparks of light from the strange objects lying on the broad […]
At The Councillor’s or, A Nameless History by E. Marlitt
Aunt Charlotte’s Stories of Greek History by Charlotte M. Yonge
CHAP. I.—OLYMPUS. am going to tell you the history of the most wonderful people who ever lived. But I have to begin with a good deal that is not true; for the […]
Aunt Madge’s Story by Sophie May
CHAPTER I. TOTTY-WAX. Here you sit, Horace, Prudy, Dotty, and Flyaway, all waiting for a story. How shall I begin? I cannot remember the events of my life in right order, so […]
A History of Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY The most ancient monuments of Castilian literature can be referred to no time later than the twelfth century, and they have been dated earlier with some plausibility. As with […]
A History of Germany by Bayard Taylor
CHAPTER I. THE ANCIENT GERMANS AND THEIR COUNTRY. (330 b. c.—70 b. c.) The Aryan Race and its Migrations. —Earliest Inhabitants of Europe. —Lake Dwellings. —Celtic and Germanic Migrations. —Europe in the Fourth Century b. […]
A History of French Literature by Edward Dowden
CHAPTER I NARRATIVE RELIGIOUS POETRY—THE NATIONAL EPIC—THE EPIC OF ANTIQUITY—ROMANCES OF LOVE AND COURTESY The literature of the Middle Ages is an expression of the spirit of feudalism and of the genius […]
A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Robert Louis Stevenson
CHAPTER I—THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE The story I have to tell is still going on as I write; the characters are alive and active; it is a piece of contemporary history […]
A Double Story by George Macdonald
A DOUBLE STORY I. There was a certain country where things used to go rather oddly. For instance, you could never tell whether it was going to rain or hail, or whether […]
A Double Barrelled Detective Story by Mark Twain
PART I “We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.” I The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There has been a wedding, between a […]
A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens
CHAPTER I—ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the […]
