Author: Bacon, Francis Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: SALOMON saies; A good Name is as a precious oyntment; And I assure my selfe, such wil your Graces Name bee, with Posteritie. For your Fortune, and Merit both, have been Eminent. And you have planted T...
Author: Bacon, Francis Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A collection of essays that provides gems of wisdom. In the most aphoristic style, Bacon puts forward his ideas about relationships, professional life, virtues and on various subjects. He further prov...
Author: de Montaigne, Michel Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This great French writer deserves to be regarded as a classic, not only in the land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays, which are at once the most celebrated and th...
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins." This collection of Stevenson's essays...
Author: MAYHEW, ROBERT (ED) Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While the fiction of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is extremely popular and enduring, little has been written on it so far. This book consists of essays, most of which are new, by top Rand scholars on...
Author: Butler, Samuel Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) was a Victorian novelist who wrote in many genres. The Way of All Flesh and Erehhon are his most famous novels. Besides fiction Butler also wrote about evolution, Christi...
Author: Butler, Samuel Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Essays on Life, Art and Science is a collection of essays and lectures by Samuel Butler which were mostly published during 1890 in The Universal Review. The collection contains a variety of essays and...
Author: Emerson, Ralph, Waldo Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Pl...
Author: Emerson, Ralph, Waldo Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whethe...
Author: McGinnis, Mark Publisher: FastPencil.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mark W. McGinnis: "This is a group of twenty essays some with 'big' themes such as beauty, death, ego, freedom, and sex. Also included are two reflections on great men -- David Bohm, a 20th century qu...
Author: Moorhouse, Hopkins Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Except for the lone policeman who paused beneath the arc light at the Front Street intersection to make an entry in his patrol book, Bay Street was deserted. The fog which had come crawling in from th...
Author: Ziolkowski, Jan M. Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M...
Description: Synopsis: Family Matters and Other Complications dramatizes the processes involved with immigration. Creating a trans-national identity and the emotional upheavals that occur with such a major change ...
Author: Comfort, Will Levington Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: MANY years have passed since my wife and I left the United States to pay our first visit to England. We were provided with letters of introduction, as a matter of course. Among them there was a ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although he spent the bulk of his life in Oxford, Mississippi-far removed from the intellectual centers of modernism and the writers who created it-William Faulkner (1897-1962) proved to be one of the...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1944, William Faulkner wrote to Malcolm Cowley, "I'm telling the same story over and over which is myself and the world. That's all a writer ever does, he tells his own biography in a thousand diff...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1952, Faulkner noted the exceptional nature of the South when he characterized it as "the only really authentic region in the United States, because a deep indestructible bond still exists between ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: William Faulkner grew up and began his writing career during a time of great cultural upheaval, especially in the realm of sexuality, where every normative notion of identity and relationship was bein...
Author: Sharrock, Alison Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Covering ten centuries, this fascinating introduction to the key Greek and Roman authors begins with writers like Homer and Sappho and concludes at the onset of the Late Antique period with the likes ...
Author: Kay, Ross Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Well, Leon, it looks as if there was going to be a fight around here pretty soon. "Right you are, Earl. That suits me all right though and from the way the rest of the men are acting it seems to ...
Author: Haggard, H. Rider Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: You, my friend, into whose hand, if you live, I hope these scribblings of mine will pass one day, must well remember the 12th of April of the year 1877 at Pretoria. Sir Theophilus Shepstone, or Sompse...
Author: E. Nesbit Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The house was three miles from the station, but before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and to say, 'Aren't we ne...
Author: Johnston, Mary Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Said Mother Binning: "Whiles I spin and whiles I dream. A bonny day like this I look." English Strickland, tutor at Glenfernie House, looked, too, at the feathery glen, vivid in June sunshine. Th...
Author: King, Charles Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The sun was just going down, a hissing globe of fire and torment. Already the lower limb was in contact with the jagged backbone of the mountain chain that rimmed the desert with purple and gold. Out ...
Author: Brady, Cyrus Townsend Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: If Seymour could have voiced his thought, he would have said that the earth itself did not afford a fairer picture than that which lay within the level radius of his vision, and which had imprinted it...
Author: Henty, G. A. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: I have been requested to write some papers on our Lord's miracles. I venture the attempt in the belief that, seeing they are one of the modes in which his unseen life found expression, we are bound th...
Author: Brazil, Angela Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Are they never going to turn up? "It's almost four now!" "They'll be left till the six-thirty!" "Oh, don't alarm yourself! The valley train always waits for the express." "It'...
Author: Baldwin, James Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing t...
Author: Barnum, Vance Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How about a race to the dock, Frank? "With whom, Andy?" "Me, of course. I'll beat you there-loser to stand treat for the ice cream sodas. It's a hot day." "Yes, almost too warm to do any s...
Author: Kingston, W. H. G. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Thank you, thank you; it will be very delightful, said Fred Markham. "It will be jolly, that it will!" exclaimed his younger brother Harry; and home they ran as fast as their legs could carry the...
Author: Leoni, Bruno Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Those who value individual freedom should reassess the place of the individual within the legal system as a whole. It is no longer a question of defending this or that particular freedom. . . . It is ...
Author: Uchard, Mario Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ELMWOOD, June 15, 18- I have been out among my flowers all the morning, digging, weeding, and transplanting, and then stopping a little to rest. Such perfect successes as my roses are this year, ...
Author: N/A Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry by T. W. Adams Alyse Barrientos Jeni Chavez Maria Castro C. M. Friday Haylie Erin Hoppert Arias Jarrells Maya Nevarez Vaca Manuel Magaña Jenna Parmley Maren Peterso...
Author: Arthur, T. S. Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A work that greatly engrosses the reader in its theme. Arthur advocates that in this short life, a man must spread love and kindness to all. Friends and neighbours should emanate sincerity for each ot...
Author: Benson, Arthur Christopher Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This is a collection of essays where Benson has related his most deep and private ideas. From his childhood memories to those of youth, he has lent a beautiful touch to simple events. His style and fo...
Author: King, Charles Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A strange thing had happened at the old fort during the still watches of the night. Even now, at nine in the morning, no one seemed to be in possession of the exact circumstances. The officer of the d...
Author: Harte, Bret Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Just where the red track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terra...
Author: Montgomery, Lucy Maud Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Max always blesses the animal when it is referred to; and I don't deny that things have worked together for good after all. But when I think of the anguish of mind which Ismay and I underwent on accou...
Author: Tarkington, Booth Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, a...
Author: Castlemon, Harry Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Captain, this thing must be stopped. I say it must be stopped, even if we have to resort to summary measures. We must find out who the ringleaders are, and make an example of them. The speaker wa...
Author: Data Notes Staff Publisher: Continnuus Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gift Basket Greetings To Duplicate And Use is a reference with over 250 gift basket greetings. Excellent for personal use and gift basket businesses.
Author: Ferber, Edna Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Though he rarely heeded its summons-cagy boy that he was-the telephone rang oftenest for Nick. Because of the many native noises of the place, the telephone had a special bell that was a combination b...
Author: Goulden, Winfield Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This monograph covers a fresh and original look at musical chords. The idea emanates from the fact that an intervallic representation of the chord leads naturally to a discrete barycentric condition. ...
