Found 619 results for "G. Atkinson"
Man and Superman
by George Bernard Shaw
Roebuck Ramsden is in his study, opening the morning' letters.
As a man thinketh
by James Allen
The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so compreh...
The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665
by Daniel Defoe
IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard, in ordinary discourse, th...
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Those who wish to win favor with a prince customarily offer him those things which they hold most precious or which they...
The Witches
by Roald Dahl
I myself had two separate encounters with witches before I was eight years old.
The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit
by Margery Williams Bianco
There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
In the first part of ROBINSON CRUSOE, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: "Now I saw, th...
Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu
HE THAT FOLLOWETH ME, shall not walk in darkness" (John 8:12), saith the Lord.
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massa...
Os Lusíadas
by Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho
Arms are my theme, and those matchless heroes
Der Untergang des Abendlandes
by Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson
REGARD the flowers at eventide as, one after the other, they close in the setting sun.
Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport ...
Silas Marner
by George Eliot, John O'Connor
IN THE DAYS when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhousesand even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-l...
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
IN certain provincial towns there are houses whose appearance arouses a melancholy as great as that of the gloomiest clo...
