| | | | Category: Classic eBook Title: Romeo and Juliet Author: William Shakespeare eBook Description:
Prologue Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whole misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. Buy this ebook here. | | | | Price: 3.00 Date: 2006-02-20 Visits: 1011
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| | | | Category: Classic eBook Title: The American Claimant Author: Mark Twain eBook Description:
EXPLANATORY The Colonel Mulberry Sellers here re-introduced to the public is the same person who appeared as Eschol Sellers in the first edition of the tale entitled "The Gilded Age," years ago, and as Beriah Sellers in the subsequent editions of the same book, and finally as Mulberry Sellers in the drama played afterward by John T. Raymond. Buy this ebook here. | | | | Price: 3.00 Date: 2006-02-20 Visits: 1003
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| | | | Category: Classic eBook Title: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Author: Mark Twain eBook Description:
CHAPTER 1 Pudd'nhead Wins His Name Tell the truth or trump--but get the trick. The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis. Buy this ebook here. | | | | Price: 3.00 Date: 2006-02-20 Visits: 1002
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| | | | Category: Classic eBook Title: Goldsmiths Friend Abroad Again Author: Mark Twain eBook Description:
LETTER I DEAR CHING-FOO: It is all settled, and I am to leave my oppressed and overburdened native land and cross the sea to that noble realm where all are free and all equal, and none reviled or abused--America! America, whose precious privilege it is to call herself the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Buy this ebook here. | | | | Price: 3.00 Date: 2006-02-20 Visits: 998
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| | | | Category: Classic eBook Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Author: Mark Twain eBook Description:
PREFACE THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other civilizations of far later times, it is safe to consider that it is no libel upon the sixth century to suppose them to have been in practice in that day also. Buy this ebook here. | | | | Price: 3.00 Date: 2006-02-20 Visits: 988
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| | | | Category: Classic eBook Title: Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Author: Mark Twain eBook Description:
CHAPTER I Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. LIKE a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there warn't any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart for the Hereafter; but I happened on one every now and then that was going my way for an hour or so, and then we had a bit of a brush together. But it was generally pretty one-sided, because I sailed by them the same as if they were standing still. Buy this ebook here. | | | | Price: 3.00 Date: 2006-02-20 Visits: 986
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| | | | Category: Classic eBook Title: On the Decay of the Art of Lying Author: Mark Twain eBook Description:
Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the _custom_ of lying has suffered any decay or interruption--no, for the Lie, as a Virtue, A Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and cannot perish from the earth while this club remains. My complaint simply concerns the decay of the art of lying. Buy this ebook here. | | | | Price: 3.00 Date: 2006-02-20 Visits: 980
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| | | | Category: Classic eBook Title: Much Ado About Nothing Author: William Shakespeare eBook Description:
Act 1 "scene" 1 Scene 1 [Before LEONATO'S house.] [Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger] LEONATO I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon comes this night to Messina. Messenger He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off when I left him. LEONATO How many gentlemen have you lost in this action? Messenger But few of any sort, and none of name. LEONATO A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio. Buy this ebook here. | | | | Price: 3.00 Date: 2006-02-20 Visits: 977
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| | | | Category: Classic eBook Title: WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN Author: Mark Twain eBook Description:
CONTENTS: What Is Man? The Death of Jean The Turning-Point of My Life How to Make History Dates Stick The Memorable Assassination A Scrap of Curious History Switzerland, the Cradle of Liberty At the Shrine of St. Wagner William Dean Howells English as She is Taught A Simplified Alphabet As Concerns Interpreting the Deity Concerning Tobacco Taming the Bicycle Is Shakespeare Dead? Buy this ebook here. | | | | Price: 3.00 Date: 2006-02-20 Visits: 977
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| | | | Category: Classic eBook Title: Innocents Abroad Author: Mark Twain eBook Description:
Preface THIS ebook is a record of a pleasure trip. If it were a record of a solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to works of that kind, and withal so attractive. Buy this ebook here. | | | | Price: 3.00 Date: 2006-02-20 Visits: 967
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