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COVER •  Contents •  < PREV Page •  NEXT Page>  •  Book Notes CLASSICS CLUB Book List Continued Book: The Cruise Of The Snark By Jack London ... It began in the swimming pool at Glen Ellen. Between swims it was our wont to come out and lie in the sand and let our skins breathe the warm air and soak in the sunshine. Roscoe was a yachtsman. I had followed the sea a bit. It was inevitable that we should talk ... Read more! Book: The Personal History And Experience Of — David Copperfield The Younger By Charles Dickens ... Affectionately Inscribed To The Hon. Mr. And Mrs. Richard Watson, of RockingHam, Northamptonshire: I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading ... Read more! Book: Dakota Tales and Amerind Legends Retold by Zitkala-Sa, Itkala-Sa ... Iktomi is a spider fairy. He wears brown deerskin leggins with long soft fringes on either side, and tiny beaded moccasins on his feet. His long black hair is parted in the middle and wrapped with red, red bands. Each round braid hangs over a small brown ear and falls forward over his shoulders ... Read more! Book: The Death Of Socrates By Plato Translated By Benjamin Jowett ... In the Meno, Anytus had parted from Socrates with the significant words: 'That in any city, and particularly in the city of Athens, it is easier to do men harm than to do them good;' and Socrates was anticipating another opportunity of talking with him. In the Euthyphro, Socrates is ... Read more! Book: Desert Gold By Zane Grey ... CHAPTER I: PROLOGUE A face haunted Cameron -- a woman's face. It was there in the white heart of the dying campfire; it hung in the shadows that hovered over the flickering light; it drifted in the darkness beyond. ... Read more! Book: Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus By Mary Wollstonecraft ( Godwin ) Shelley ... Four letters from Captain Robert Walton to his sister: Letter One To Mrs. Saville, England St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17- ... Read more! Book: From The Earth To The Moon — And A Trip Around It By Jules Verne ... During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed among that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics. Simple ... Read more! Book: The Gods Of Mars By Edgar Rice Burroughs ... TWELVE years had passed since I had laid the body of my great-uncle, Captain John Carter, of Virginia, away from the sight of men in that strange mausoleum in the old cemetery at Richmond. Often had I pondered on the odd instructions he had left me governing the ... Read more! Book: Great Expectations By Charles Dickens ... My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his ... Read more! Book: Hackers On-Line Jargon Dictionary (In Two Volumes) Courtesy of the Gutenberg Project "... IMHO - in my humble opinion (see {IMHO}) LOL - laughing out loud NHOH - Never Heard of Him/Her (often used in {initgame}) ROTF - rolling on the floor ROTFL - rolling on the floor laughing AFK - away from keyboard b4 - before CU l8tr - see you later MORF - male or female? TTFN - ta-ta for now TTYL - talk to you later OIC - oh, I see rehi - hello again ..." Read more! Book: Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad "... Day after day, with the stamp and shuffle of sixty pair of bare feet behind me, each pair under a 60-lb. load. Camp, cook, sleep, strike camp, march. Now and then a carrier dead in harness, at rest in the long grass near the path, with an empty water-gourd and his long staff lying by his side. A great silence around and above. Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild ..." Read more! Book: The Heritage Of The Desert By Zane Grey ... "But the man's almost dead." The words stung John Hare's fainting spirit into life. He opened his eyes. The desert still stretched before him, the appalling thing that had overpowered him with its deceiving purple distance. Nearby stood ... Read more! Book: Historic Documents of America By Great Writers of Freedom ... The Magna Carta; The Mayflower Compact; The Declaration of Independence; Patrick Henry's "Liberty, or Death!" speech; Tom Paine's COMMON SENSE; Preamble to the Constitution of the United States; The Words of Chief Joseph; Abraham Lincoln's First Inagural Address; The Emancipation Proclamation; The Gettysburg Address; The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane; The Inaugural Address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy; and "I Have a Dream," by Martin Luther King ... Read more! Book: The Invisible Man By H. G. Wells ... 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 as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped ... Read more! Book: The Iron Heel By Jack London ... It cannot be said that the Everhard Manuscript is an important historical document. To the historian it bristles with errors -- not errors of fact, but errors of interpretation. Looking back across the seven centuries that have lapsed since Avis Everhard completed her manuscript, events, ... Read more! Book: The Island Of Dr. Moreau By H. G. Wells ... On February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months and four days after-- my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went aboard the ... Read more! Book: The Jacket By Jack London ... All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. -- Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of ... Read more! Book: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte ... There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so ... Read more! Book: The Jungle Book By Rudyard Kipling ... It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her ... Read more! Book: Jungle Tales Of Tarzan By Edgar Rice Burroughs ... TEEKA, STRETCHED AT luxurious ease in the shade of the tropical forest, presented, unquestionably, a most alluring picture of young, feminine loveliness. Or at least so thought Tarzan of the Apes, who squatted upon a low-swinging branch in a near-by tree and looked down upon her. ... Read more! Book: Kidnapped By Robert Louis Stevenson ... I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house. The sun began to shine upon the summit of the hills as I went down the road; and by the ... Read more! Book: Kim By Rudyard Kipling ... O ye who tread the Narrow Way/ By Tophet-flare to judgment Day,/ Be gentle when 'the heathen' pray/ To Buddha at Kamakura! — Buddha at Kamakura. He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah ... Read more! Book: The Land of Oz By L. Frank Baum ... In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip. There was more to his name than that, for old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius; but no one was expected to say such a long word when "Tip" would do just as well ... Read more! Book: The Land That Time Forgot By Edgar Rice Burroughs ... It must have been a little after three o'clock in the afternoon that it happened -- the afternoon of June 3rd, 1916. It seems incredible that all that I have passed through -- all those weird and terrifying experiences -- should have been encompassed within so short a span as three brief months. Rather ... Read more! Book: The Last Chronicle of Barset By Anthony Trollope ... "I can never bring myself to believe it, John," said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors' business that had to be done in that ... Read more! Book: The Light Of Western Stars By Zane Grey ... When Madeline Hammond stepped from the train at El Cajon, New Mexico, it was nearly midnight, and her first impression was of a huge dark space of cool, windy emptiness, strange and silent, stretching away under great blinking white stars. ... Read more! Book: The Lone Star Ranger By Zane Grey ... To CAPTAIN JOHN HUGHES and his Texas Rangers -- It may seem strange to you that out of all the stories I heard on the Rio Grande I should choose as first that of Buck Duane -- outlaw and gunman. But, indeed, Ranger Coffee's story of the last of the Duanes has haunted ... Read more! All these books are yours when you join the Classics Club! — And you've not finished yet — there's more!       Join The Classics Club Now!       COVER •  Contents •  < PREV Page •  NEXT Page>  •  Book Notes •  Top