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The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems

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James Thomson


While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 190…

The Spring Song

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Forrest Reid


A deceptive tale, The Spring Song seems at first glance to be standard Edwardian adventure. Grif - A boy on holiday with his siblings - mus…

The National Geographic Society’s Eclipse Expedition to Norfolk, Va.; by Marcus…

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 11

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XI, January to December 1900.

Emerson, by Chester Noyes Greenough

In Lectures on the Harvard Classics

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Charles William Eliot


The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …

Part 4 of THE STORY OF EEAN THE FISHERMAN’S SON IV. The Palace of the King of B…

In The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter

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Pádraic Colum


King Manus ruled over the Western Island, and he had a castle that was neither higher nor wider than any other King’s castle. But he had a s…

PATROLING BARNEGAT

In Sea Drift from Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman


Sea Drift is a set of 11 poems which make up part of Walt Whitman's larger collection Leaves of Grass.The poems were inspired by Whitman's m…

HERMAN MELVILLE'S "MOBY DICK"

In Studies in Classic American Literature

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D. H. Lawrence


The staid academic title belies the freewheeling prose of D.H. Lawrence's essays, which are as contrarian, penetrating, and sometimes unpala…

The Revenant

In Motley, and Other Poems

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Walter De La Mare


From English poet Walter De la Mare comes an early collection of poems reflecting on loss, mortality, and universal questions. - Summary by …

Chapter the Seventh: Love And Death. Parts 8 and 9

In The Dream: a novel

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H. G. Wells


The story is set in a Utopian future. On an excursion, Sarnac, relates his vivid dream to his friends and recounts how he lived the entire l…

Justifiable Burglary

In A Rough Shaking

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George MacDonald


Clare was a wanderer. Orphaned by an earthquake when too young to even remember his full name, his childhood was a succession of challenges …

XXVII. GALORS RIDES HUNTING

In The Forest Lovers

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Maurice Henry Hewlett


My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound thr…