Based on translations from the Grimms' Kinder und Hausmarchen by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes, this selection of 64 classic fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm includes Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red-Cap [Little Red Riding Hood], Snow-White and Rose-Red, Hansel and Gretel, and many more timeless ...more »
Two essays about the evils of socialism. In the first essay the author is a social darwinist. In the second he presents a socratic dialogue about property rights. The author believes that socialism is not the best way to insure that the fruits of society are evenly distributed. The author believes that ...more »
The History of the Creation with which the Bible commences, is not a mere incidental appendage to God's Revelation, but constitutes the foundation on which the whole of that Revelation is based. Setting forth as it does the relation in which man stands to God as his Maker, and to the world which God ...more »
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Author: Hugo, Victor
Un ancien forçat libéré, nommé Jean Valjean, vient de comparaître devant la cour d'assises du Var dans des circonstances faites pour appeler l'attention. Ce scélérat était parvenu à tromper la vigilance de la police ; il avait changé de nom et avait réussi à se faire nommer maire d'une de nos petites ...more »
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Author: Dumas, Alexandre
Born as the son of an innkeeper, he rose in the French army to the rank of a general. He married Napoleon Bonaparte's sister Caroline in 1800, and was made a Marshal of France on May 18, 1804. He was appointed grand duke of Berg in 1806, and in 1808 to king of Naples. After the fall of Napoleon he had ...more »
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Author: Hemingway, Ernest
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to ...more »
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Author: Eliot, T.S.
Certain of these poems first appeared in Poetry, Blast, Others, The Little Review, and Art and Letters. Contents: Gerontion; Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar; Sweeney Erect; A Cooking Egg; Le Directeur; Mélange adultère de tout; Lune de Miel; The Hippopotamus; Dans le Restaurant; Whispers ...more »