Category: Classic, Romance Ebook Title: THE SCARLET LETTER Author: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Ebook Description: INTRODUCTORY TO "THE SCARLET LETTER"
It is a little remarkable, that -- though disinclined to talk
overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my
personal friends -- an autobiographical impulse should twice in
my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.
The first time was three or four years
Category: Classic, Romance Ebook Title: Emma Author: Jane Austen Ebook Description: VOLUME I
CHAPTER I
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most
Category: Christian Books, Classic Ebook Title: WITH CHRIST Author: Andrew Murray Ebook Description: PREFACE.
Of all the promises connected with the command, 'ABIDE IN ME,' there is none higher, and none that sooner brings the confession, 'Not that I have already attained, or am already made perfect,' than this: 'If ye abide in me, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.' Power with God is the highest
Category: Classic, Romance Ebook Title: LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP Author: Jane Austen Ebook Description: TO MADAME LA COMTESSE DE FEUILLIDE THIS NOVEL IS INSCRIBED BY HER OBLIGED HUMBLE SERVANT THE AUTHOR.
"Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love."
LETTER the FIRST From ISABEL to LAURA
How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and
Category: Christian Books, Classic Ebook Title: THE LORD’S TABLE Author: Andrew Murray Ebook Description: PREFACE
On the use of this little volume I would fain say two things which lie upon my heart.
The first is this: that the Christian who desires to make use of it must not be content merely to read and to understand the portion for the day, but must take time to meditate upon it and to appropriate it. I am convinced that one
Category: Classic, Novels Ebook Title: A STUDY IN SCARLET Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Ebook Description: PART I.
I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES.
IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. The
Category: Christian Books, Classic Ebook Title: Christian Science Author: Mark Twain Ebook Description: PREFACE
BOOK I of this volume occupies a quarter or a third of the volume,
and consists of matter written about four years ago, but not hitherto
published in book form. It contained errors of judgment and of fact.
I have now corrected these to the best of my ability and later knowledge.
Category: Children, Classic, History Ebook Title: A Child's History of England Author: Charles Dickens Ebook Description: CHAPTER I - ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS
IF you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little
Category: Classic, Romance Ebook Title: LADY SUSAN Author: Jane Austen Ebook Description: 1. LADY SUSAN VERNON TO MR. VERNON
Langford, Dec.
MY DEAR BROTHER,--I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope
Category: Christian Books, Classic Ebook Title: ABSOLUTE SURRENDER Author: Andrew Murray Ebook Description: ABSOLUTE SURRENDER
"And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it. And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad, Thy
Category: Classic, Self Defense Ebook Title: SUN TZU ON THE ART OF WAR Author: LIONEL GILES Ebook Description: INTRODUCTION
Sun Wu and his Book
Ssu-ma Ch`ien gives the following biography of Sun Tzu: [1]
Sun Tzu Wu was a native of the Ch`i State. His ART OF
WAR brought him to the notice of Ho Lu, [2] King of Wu. Ho
Lu said to him: "I have carefully perused your 13 chapters.
May I submit your theory of managing soldiers to a
