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In writing this book my intention was to present, in the form of an interesting story, a faithful picture of working-class life--more especially of those engaged in the Building …

Monsieur de Guise's LatinThe Queen of Navarre's Bedchamber. The Poet-kingThe Evening of the 24th of August, 1572Of the Louvre in Particular, and Of Virtue in GeneralThe Debt …

In the Land of the Dragon, Two Little Chinese Sisters, The Little Highbinder, How Ah Chee found Santa Claus, The Moon Rabbit, How Santa Claus came to Suey Hip, The Easter Dream of …

If this kind of composition, of which the two years' product is now laid before the public, fail in art, as it constantly does and must, it at least has the advantage of a certain …

Though born in England, John Kingerlee has lived on Ireland's Beara peninsula for much of his life, the wild landscapes finding passionate and all- encompassing expression in his …

Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, …

Between 1931 and 1939, central Athens was transformed by the expropriation and demolition of the Vrysaki neighborhood at the foot of the Acropolis. In these few years, more than …

"The most exciting travel guide I've read in years." - Huffington Post This classic guidebook, full of the little-known treasures of the Île de France, is now fully updated and …

The idea of Evolution is an old one. It is older than the Darwinian hypothesis; it is older than Lamarck, who published his particular theory in 1809, the year that Darwin was …

I had been ill for several weeks with what they called brain fever. The events which I am about to relate happened on the fifteenth day of my illness. Before beginning to tell my …

The Art of Needlework dates from the earliest record of the world's history, and has, also, from time immemorial been the support, comfort, or employment of women of every rank and …

One of the greatest political essays in English history, and a revolutionary critique of economics and society.