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Chapter XII

In Dead Men's Money

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J. S. Fletcher


This classic mystery produces its first dead body during a clandestine midnight meeting. Already nothing is what it seems... (Summary by Ges…

CHATTERER AND HAPPY JACK JOIN -- The Squirrel family and order of Rodents.

In The Burgess Animal Book for Children

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Thornton W. Burgess


Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals…

ADVENTURE TWO—RACKY RUNS AWAY

In Adventures of the Runaway Rocking Chair

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Howard R. Garis


More exciting adventures by that wonderful author of children books, Howard Garis. - Summary by Philip Chenevert

Chapter 3

In Typhoon

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Joseph Conrad


Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describe…

Concept of Nature; Chapter 5

In Insomnia Collection Vol. 001

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Alfred North Whitehead


Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

THE LAST SEA LINK WITH FRANCE

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 08 - Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720…

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William Wood


Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrar…

08 - In which Kin-Fo makes a Serious Proposition to Wang, which the Latter no l…

In The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China

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Jules Verne


The rich and phlegmatic Kin-Fo loses his fortune and decides to die, but not before experiencing some strong emotions. He asks his friend Wa…

27 - Rapunzel

In The Red Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang


The Red Fairy Book is the second in a series of twelve books known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Books.…

Chapter 2, The Broken Joy

In Married Love

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Marie Stopes


"Married Love" is one of the most famous 'sex education' manuals. First published in 1918, it sold tens of thousands of copies, an…

August 12, 1880 - The Indians of the North West

In The Mounties in the News

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The New York Times


A newspaper account of the activities in the Western Canada during the Riel Rebellion and some of the aftermath , articles dating from Augus…

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