Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories, tragedies & poems

Scene 1.— The Dvxke's Palace. Enter Duke, Curio, and other Lords ; Musicians attending. Duke. If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again 1 it had a dying fall* ; rcadence O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet soimd That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour ! Enough, no more …

Tales from the Middle Kingdom : Stories of China

The stories collected in this little book have for the most part been taken from the pages of the magazine, “Messages of Love.” Many of these stories were originally written for this magazine, either by Mrs. Willis or different members of her family, and are those things which they have seen and heard. Their first object is to present Christ, and the way of salvation through Him : but bo…

Under the Flag: And Somali Coast Stories

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The tour of the world in eighty days

In the year 1872,-the house No. 7 Saville Row, _ Burlington Gardens—the house in which Sheridan dieu, in 1814—was inhabited by Phileas Fogg, Esq., one of the mdstajngular and most -noticed members Gi the Reform Club of London, although he seemed to take care to do nothing which might attract attention. This Phileas Fogg, then, an enig‘ matic personage, of whom nothing ‘was known but tha…

Luke Barnicott, and other stories

The village of Monnycrofts, in Derbyshire, may be Baid to be a distinguished village, for though it is not a city set on a hill, it is a village set on a hill. It may be seen far and wide with its cluster of red brick houses, and its taU gray-stone chorch steeple, which has -weathered the winds of many a century. The distant traveller observes its green upward sloping fields, well embellished b…

A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestria…

Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. A historian by training, his 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on "The Historical and Legal Background of Canada's Arctic Claims" remains a foundational work on the topic, as does his 1966 chapter "Sovereignty in the North: The Canadian Aspect of an International Problem," in R. St. J. M…

Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Centrury Aboriginal Family

Briscoe’s grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve ‘the half-caste problem’. It gives life to those …

Narrating, Doing, Experiencing Nordic Folkloristic Perspectives

How do people tell of experiences, things and events that mean a lot to them and are unforgettable? Eight Nordic folklorists here examine personal experience stories and the way they are narrated in an attempt to gain an understanding of the people behind them and to reveal how these people handle their history, their lives and their cultural memory. All the articles are based on interviews and…

Settlers of Unassigned Lands

In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. In “How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town,” an unnamed narrator hatches a plan to capitalize on rural decay. A porn star trying to transition to the mainstream does an interview with a German reporter i…

Spark of Light Short Stories by Women Writers of Odisha

In the often shadowy and grim world depicted in this collection, themes of class, poverty, violence, and family are developed. Together they form a critique of social mores and illuminate the difficult lives of the subaltern in Odisha society. The work of these authors contributes to an ongoing dialogue concerning the challenges, hardships, joys, and successes experienced by women around the wo…