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The day was a bright one, and Aleck, the oldest, who was a skilled workman in the brass foundry, although scarcely eighteen years of age, had given himself a half-holiday in order to take Kate and The Youngster on a long skating expedition down to th

Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed. The morning was so damp and misty that it was only with great difficulty that the day

The electrical problems of the present day lie largely in the economical transmission of power and in the radical improvement of the means and methods of illumination. To many workers and thinkers in the domain of electrical invention, the apparatus

The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand

The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Noble's Isle, a small volcanic islet and uninhabited. It was visited in 1891 by H. M. S. Scorpion. A party of sailors then landed, but found nothing living thereon except

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own. —Leonardo da Vinci In this Beginner's Psychology I have tried to write, as nearly as might be, the kind of book that I should have found useful whe

A BOOK OF DISCOVERY "The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole" A LITTLE OLD WORLD No story is complete unless it begins at the very beginning. But where is the beginning? Where is the dawn of ge

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything

A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel.The novel features a strong female heroine, Frona Welse. Frona was born into a wealthy family and educated at Stanford but she takes to the Yukon trail after upsetting her father and his wealthy co

When Jesus arrives, Hades bids his servants to bolt and lock the doors, but to no avail; Jesus shatters the gates and enters. He seizes Satan and binds him in iron chains, then consigning him into Hades’s keeping until the second coming. Jesus next t

Soon the master stopped discussing a moment, and rang in the footman, and said, "Bury it in the far corner of the garden," and then went on with the discussion, and I trotted after the footman, very happy and grateful, for I knew the puppy was out of

A Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th centur

In preparing this book, the author had especially in mind classes in the upper grades of grammar schools, though the work will be found equally well adapted to the needs of any classes of beginners.The ideas which have guided in the treatment of the

The main peculiarity of the present book is that it aims to teach children the history of the country by making them acquainted with some of the most illustrious actors in it. A child is interested, above all, in persons. Biography is for him the nat

Adventures in for of the "27 short adventure stories"You're a bad lot, Bernard Brooks. I don't think I ever knew a wuss boy.""Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Snowdon. Let me suggest, however, that wuss is hardly correct English."The speaker was f

The book is divided into two sections the first are considered the sources of the ideas except those of organic evolution that dominate biology and the steps by which they have been molded into a unified science. The trine of Organic Evolution on acc

BIRDS are only another expression of God’s love, and we are told that not even a sparrow shall fall to the ground without the notice of the Father.Birds are poetry come to life and set to music. If you should stand at the edge of a forest at sundown

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters an

In 1481, Pope Sixtus IV summoned Botticelli and other prominent Florentine and Umbrian artists to fresco the walls of the Sistine Chapel. The iconological program was the supremacy of the Papacy. Sandro's contribution included the Temptations of Chri

The first published novel by Leo Tolstoy released in November 1852. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning n

JOSEPH, and Mary the mother of Jesus, stayed in Bethlehem for a while. When Jesus was only eight days old he received his name; he was called "Jesus," as the angel had told Mary. It was the custom of the Jews to take their first son to the temple and

This volume is a sequel to the work I published, several years ago, under the title, Byzantine Constantinople: the Walls of the City, and adjoining Historical Sites. In that work the city was viewed, mainly, as the citadel of the Roman Empire in the

The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the t

The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocati

Though flattered by imitators galore Miss Potter's work stands supreme.Her many picture stories should be among the first books owned by children.Cecily Parsley lived in a pen, And brewed good ale for gentlemen;Gentlemen came every day, Till Cecily P

KING CHARLES THE FIRST was born in Scotland. It may perhaps surprise the reader that an English king should be born in Scotland. The explanation is this: They who have read the history of Mary Queen of Scots, will remember that it was the great end a

KING CHARLES THE FIRST was born in Scotland. It may perhaps surprise the reader that an English king should be born in Scotland. The explanation is this: They who have read the history of Mary Queen of Scots, will remember that it was the great end a

Are you ready to learn the world's biggest and scariest secret? "One day, Moses saw something very interesting in the Desert.""A Bush was on fire such as a fireball, yet it was not consumed.""So Moses thought as I must go over and look at this remark

Başım dağ, saçlarım kardır,Deli rüzgârlarım vardır,Ovalar bana çok dardır,Benim meskenim dağlardır.Şehirler bana bir tuzak;İnsan sohbetleri yasak;Uzak olun benden, uzak,Benim meskenim dağlardır.Kalbime benzer taşları,Heybetli öter kuşları,Göğe yakınd

Hiç sen bir su değirmeninin içini dolaştın mı adaşım?.. Görülecek şeydir o... Yamulmuş duvarlar, tavana yakın ufacık pencereler ve kalın kalaşların üstünde simsiyah bir çatı... Sonra bir sürü çarklar, kocaman taşlar, miller, sıçraya sıçraya dönen toz

İçimizdeki Şeytan, Sabahattin Ali'nin 1940 yılında yayımladığı bir romandır. Roman, Macide ve Ömer isimli iki önemli karakterin aşkını içerir. Eserde kişilerin iç konuşmaları ve kendileri ile hesaplaşmaları yaygın olarak kullanılmış, bu yolla duygu

Bir tarla meselesi yüzünden Savrukların Hüseyin,Arkbaşı'nda Sarı Mehmet'i vurdu.Otuz evli köy birbirine girdi. Şaşırdılar. Herkes korku içinde candarmaların gelmesini bekliyordu. Halbuki karakol buraya altı saat uzakta idi; köyden kimse cinayet haber

Mevsim mart başlarıydı. Karlar erimiş, koyun yolları, bazı çukur ve gün görmez yerlerde, pis kokulu bir çamur yığını haline gelmişti. Dört yana koşuşan tavuklarla çocukların saçtığı çamur, efendilerin ütülü külotlarına sıçramış ve yüzlerini buruşturm

Bir zamanlar boş gezmeyi iş yapmaktan çok seven üç arkadaş varmış. Bugünden yarına geçinmek, gittikleri yerlerin birinden yüz bulsalar, beşinden kovulmak canlarına tak demiş. Alın teriyle kazanıp gönül rahatlığıyla yemeyi de gözlerine kestiremezlermi

Vaka Miladi yedinci asırda ve Çin'in payitahtlarından biri olan Si-Gan-Fu şehrinde geçer.BİLGE'nin evinde bir oda, bir köşede bir yatak ve üzerinde BİLGE'nin oluşu. Gece; arkada bedir halinde ay görünür.Sabahattin Ali Esirler adlı tiyatral oyununda f

1903 senesi sonbaharında ve yağmurlu bir gecede Aydın'ın Nazilli kazasına yakın Kuyucak köyünü eşkiyalar bastılar ve bir karı kocayı öldürdüler.Kaza kaymakamı Salâhattın Bey, Müddeiumumi ile Doktor'u yanına alarak ertesi günü tahkikata bizzat gitti.