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The Lair of the White Worm

Bram Stoker

1860, I am close on eighty years of age, and though we have beena long-lived race, the span of life ...

Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are

William Godwin

utal and tyrannical squire.MISS EMILY MELVILLE, his cousin and dependent, whom he cruelly maltrea...

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

and opinions have undergoneconsiderable changes.CHAPTER 1No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

erof the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of animperfect medium. No artis...

The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations

James Branch Cabell

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The Ruby of Kishmoor

Howard Pyle

ed, fairlya-glitter with gold and jewels, so that, what with such personaladornments that the Queen ...

Mary Louise

L. Frank Baum

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The Mirror of Kong Ho

Ernest Bramah

lthough it is not to be deniedthat here or there he may, perchance, have misunderstood an involved a...

The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People

L. Frank Baum

n—even as you and I. We cannotmeasure a child by a standard of size or age. The big folk who are c...

The Roots of the Mountains

William Morris

se Mountain-dwellers39VII.Face-of-god talketh with the Friend on theMountain50VIII.Face-of-god comet...

The Sea Fairies

L. Frank Baum

The ocean has always appealed to me asa veritable wonderland, and this story has been suggested to ...

Gulliver of Mars

Edwin Lester Arnold

eak crisp and brown on both sides, and tomatoes red as asetting sun!Much else though I have forgotte...

Don Rodriguez; Chronicles of Shadow Valley

Lord Dunsany

AGON AND KNIGHTTHE SECOND CHRONICLE     HOW HE HIRED A MEMORABLE SERVANTTHE THIRD CHRONICLE  ...

A Dreamer's Tales

Lord Dunsany

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The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories

Lord Dunsany

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The Tin Woodman of Oz

L. Frank Baum

rly, until I had looked over some of the letters I havereceived. One says: "I'm a little boy 5 years...

The Lost Princess of Oz

L. Frank Baum

n “The Lost Princess of Oz” was suggested to me by a sweet littlegirl of eleven who called to se...

News from Nowhere; Or, An Epoch of Rest

William Morris

eachothers’ opinions (which could scarcely be expected ofthem), at all events did not always attem...

The Marvelous Land of Oz

L. Frank Baum

Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow havedelighted thousands of children throughout the land, this book is ...

The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda

nish History", Translated by Oliver Elton (London, 1894; Reissued by the Online Mediev...

The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

Sir Thomas Malory and Sir James Knowles

by hispermission, I Dedicated it before I was personally known to him.JAMES KNOWLES.Addendum by Lad...

The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsène Lupin

Maurice Leblanc

alls of the big country-house, or outside, among the murky recessesof the park.She rose softly. Her ...

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

Sax Rohmer

" he continued, and, dimly, I could seehim at the window, peering out into the road, "but before you...

A New Species of Frog (Genus Tomodactylus) from Western México

Robert G. Webb

ed eight miles west of El Palmito,Sinaloa, approximately 6100 feet, on 23 June 1961; original field ...

Three New Beavers from Utah

Stephen David Durrant and Harold S. Crane

ah, accumulated in thecollections of the Museum of Zoölogy, University of Utah, proves theseanimals...

Extensions of Known Ranges of Mexican Bats

Sydney Anderson

extend the known geographic ranges to the northwardon either the east or the west coast of Mexico. C...

Taxonomy of the Chipmunks, Eutamias quadrivittatus and Eutamias umbrinus

John A. White

of the same species, differ markedlyin color and in size and shape of parts of the skeleton; compara...

A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group

William Edward Duellman

such as Plectrohyla and Ptychohyla, have been elevated togeneric rank, whereas others are retained i...

A New Bat (Genus Leptonycteris) From Coahuila

Howard J. Stains

d as follows:Leptonycteris nivalis longala new subspeciesType.—Female, adult, skin and skull, No. ...

The Subspecies of the Mexican Red-Bellied Squirrel, Sciurus aureogaster

Keith R. Kelson

o Domingo"and Guichicovi in Chiapas, and Catemaco in Veracruz, to S. a.aureogaster, and other specim...