Books published in 1893
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The Elements Of General Method
[english | 1893]Charles Mcmurry
Excerpts: [... upon which a child's mind works. Before entering upon such a long and up-hill task as education, with its weighty results, it is prudent to estimate ...... morals we turn to the deeds and lives of men. Columbus in his varying fortunes leaves vivid impressions of the moral strength and weakness of himself ...... sounds visionary and impracticable for children of the common school, ...]
Genres: [instructional] Downloads: 62
The Great Book Collectors
[english | 1893]Charles Isaac Elton
Excerpts: [... and mutilated': 'they were buried in the earth or drowned in the sea, and slain by all kinds of slaughter.' 'How much of their blood the warlike ...... been written by St. Jerome but in its present form, at least, the work contains entries of a much later date. The passage in which Ireland is mentioned ...... and were established at Oxford within two years afterwards, where the ...]
Genres: [non fiction] Downloads: 403
The Holy Cross And Other Tales
[english | 1893]Eugene Field
Summary: [The Holy Cross And Other Tales by Eugene Field. In paying a tribute to the mingled mirth and tenderness of Eugene Field--the poet of whose going the West may say He took our daylight with him --one of his fellow journalists has written that he was a jester but not of the kind that Shakespeare drew in Yorick. He was not only --so the writer implied --the maker of jibes and fantastic devices but ...]
Genres: [short story collection] Downloads: 364
The Idler Magazine Vol V May 1893
[english | 1893]Various Authors
Excerpts: [... that I don't exackly sabe. I don't see no signs of Ramon's gang ever havin' been out at all, and ef they were out I don't see why they didn't ...... without being otherwise distinguished, certainly seemed to justify the Judge's opinion. She appeared to be a well-matured country girl, whose frank ...... and straggling settlement of Sugar Pine, now distinct and clear in the growing ...]
Genres: [periodical] Downloads: 146
The Idler Magazine Volume Iii April 1893
[english | 1893]Various Authors
Summary: [Annie Adams Fields (June 6 1834 - January 5 1915) was a United States writer.]
Genres: [periodical] Downloads: 11
The Idler Magazine Volume Iii July 1893
[english | 1893]Various Authors
Excerpts: [... somewhat cheerless headquarters. Next morning, in the chill, mist-laden dawn you rise and, after a breakfast of coffee and dried fish, shoulder your ...... noticed a curious object embedded in the ice and when, stooping, he looked closer, he saw two corpses, one gripping the other by the throat, and the ...... her that the wind whirled away into the torrent. She met me with a kiss, ...]
Genres: [periodical] Downloads: 171
The Idler Magazine Volume Iii June 1893
[english | 1893]Various Authors
Excerpts: [... BY J. ST. M. FITZ-GERALD. -. II.-IN PRISON. The life of a female prisoner. It is so uniformly dull that I fear to weary ...... on the pavement or the jingle of a spur, instantly suppressed. This silence, this void, I feel but in a slight degree during the first days after ...... are sent to me. Reading, with short intervals for needlework or embroidery, constitutes my daily life, ...]
Genres: [periodical] Downloads: 226
The Idler Magazine Volume Iii March 1893
[english | 1893]Various Authors
Summary: [Annie Adams Fields (June 6 1834 - January 5 1915) was a United States writer.]
Genres: [periodical] Downloads: 407
The Industries Of Animals
[english | 1893]Frdric Houssay
Excerpts: [... their task is rendered too simple. To take an example. The Lion is certainly an incomparable hunter but his whole organisation tends to facilitate ...... throwing some object at it. These it by all the exterior circumstances which are capable of frightening the game, of stunning it, and of rendering capture ...... and describe the inoffensive lion fleeing in the midst of a herd of ...]
Genres: [science | nature | short story collection] Downloads: 405
The Mystery Of The Semi Detached
[english | 1893]Edith Nesbit
Excerpts: [... It was not quite like a country lane, for it had a pavement and lamp-posts, but it was not a bad place for a meeting all the same: and farther up, ...... rich uncle was visiting at her house, and her mother was not the woman to acknowledge to a moneyed uncle, who might go off any day, a match so deeply ...... now, be coming out But she was not There was no sign of movement about ...]
Genres: [fiction | ghost | short stories] Downloads: 312
The Myxomycetes Of The Miami Valley Ohio
[english | 1893]Andrew Price Morgan
Excerpts: [... chiefly composed of a soft protoplasm of the consistence of cream, which may be readily spread out into a shapeless smear, and is usually colorless, ...... to rusty-brown, globose, most of the surface reticulate, 6-8 mic. in diameter. Growing on old wood, mosses, etc. thalium circular or irregular ...... to five times as long. This is a much more delicate species than Cribraria ...]
Genres: [science] Downloads: 183
The Poems Of Adam Lindsay Gordon
[english | 1893]Adam Lindsay
Excerpts: [... the golden sunset, gleaming. On your golden, gleaming hair. Chide him not, the leech who tarries,. Surest aid were all too late. Surer ...... late,. Our course is run and our goal is reach'd,. We may meet our fate as steady and straight. As he whose bones in yon desert bleach'd. No ...... are broadcast sown. Seek not figs where thistles cluster,. Grapes where thorns have grown. Sun ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 207
The Queen Against Owen
[english | 1893]Allen Upward
Excerpts: [... of the above reviewers were friendly to the book on other points.]. 'In Scotland the verdict would certainly have been Not Proven.'-GLASGOW ...... Lewis behind him, and is bleeding him pretty freely. That accounts for the figures on my brief, so I oughtn't to complain. But I wish to goodness ...... there, he proceeded instantly to the police-station and demanded an interview with ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective | romance] Downloads: 370
The Real Thing
[english | 1893]Henry James
Summary: [The Real Thing by Henry James. Henry James 1843 - 1916 was one of the leaders in the school of realism in fiction. He is known for his series of novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. James is considered to be the master of the novel and novella. James wrote about personal relationships and the power within these relationships. James explored consciousness and ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 355
The Regent Daughter
[english | 1893]Alexandre Dumas
Excerpts: [... Alexandre Dumas (Pere). Title: The Regent's Daughter. Author: Alexandre Dumas (Pere). [Transcriber's Note: This text is taken from a nine-volume ...... in my turn, I give you my word as a gentleman that I will blow my brains out. When I am dead, open my hand and read this paper you will then see if ...... Sister Therese, several times, what would have become of us without the aid ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | history] Downloads: 485
Winnetou
[german | 1893]Karl May
Summary: [Der Ich-Erzhler Charlie (vergleiche Karl May) alias Old Shatterhand arbeitet als Vermesser fr die Eisenbahngesellschaft Great Western. Da seine Kollegen sehr trge und trunkschtig sind muss er alles alleine machen. Zum Glck stehen ihm die Westmnner Sam Hawkens Dick Stone und Will Parker zur Seite. Die Eisenbahngesellschaft plant einen Gleisbau mitten durch das Gebiet der Apachen. Intschu-tschuna ...]
Genres: [fiction | westerns] Downloads: 132