Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Somewhere in the Other World, where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives in building up all four, lives a gentleman who writes real stories about the real insides of people; and his name is Mr. Walter Besant. But he will insist upon treating his ghosts - he has published half a workshopful of them - with levity. He makes his ghost-seers talk familiarly, and,...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In the cell over mine at night A step goes to and fro From barred door to iron wall-- From wall to door I hear it go, Four paces, heavy and slow, In the heart of the sleeping jail: And the goad that drives, I know!

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In the cell over mine at night A step goes to and fro From barred door to iron wall-- From wall to door I hear it go, Four paces, heavy and slow, In the heart of the sleeping jail: And the goad that drives, I know!

One of the most imposing buildings in Boston twenty years ago was a granite hotel, whose western windows looked upon a graveyard. Passing up a flight of steps, and beneath a portico of dignified granite columns, and so through an embarrassing pair of swinging-doors to the roomy vestibule,-you would there pause a moment to spit upon the black-and-white tessellated pavement. Having thus asserted your title to Puritan ancestry, and to the best accommodations the house afforded, you would approach the desk and write your name in the hotel register. This done, you would be apt to run your eye over...

These chapters were begun the day after I got back to New York from the Atlanta penitentiary, and went on from day to day to the end. I did not know, at the start, what the thing would be like at the finish, and I made small effort to make it look shapely and smooth; but the inward impulse in me to write it, somehow, was irresistible, in spite of the other impulse to go off somewhere and rest and forget it all. But I felt that if it were not done then it might never be done at all; and done it must be at any cost. I had promised my mates in prison that I would do it, and I was under no less...

We were very happy-I, Rupert, Henrietta, and Baby Cecil. The only thing we found fault with in our lives was that there were so few events in them. It was particularly provoking, because we were so well prepared for events-any events. Rupert prepared us. He had found a fat old book in the garret, bound in yellow leather, at the end of which were "Directions how to act with presence of mind in any emergency;" and he gave lectures out of this in the kitchen garden.

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories contains six volumes with more than 100 stories by famous authors. Published in 1907 this volume contains these stories. The Necklace, The Man with the Pale Eyes, An Uncomfortable Bed, Ghosts, Fear, The Confession, and The Horla by Enri Rene Albert Guy De Maupassant. The Miracle of Zobeide by Pierre Mille. The Torture by Hope by Villers de L'isle Adam. The Owl's Ear, The Invisible Eye, and The Waters of Death by Erckmann-Chatrain. Melmoth Reconciled and The Conscript by Honore de Balzac. Zadig the Babylonian by Jean Francois Marie...

Stories in this collection are gathered from Northern Europe--Russian--Swedish--Danish-Hungarian. The collection includes The Queen of Spades by Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin, The General's Will by Vera Jelihovsky, Crime and Punishment by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, The Safety Match by Anton Chekhoff, Knights of Industry by Vsevolod Vladimirovitch Krestovski, The Amputated Arms by Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe, The Manuscript by Otto larssen, The Sealed Room by Bernhard Severin Ingemann, The Rector of Veilbye by Steen Steensen Blicher, The Living Death by Ferencz Molnar, Thirteen at Table by...

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories contains six volumes with more than 100 stories by famous authors. Published in 1907 this volume contains these stories. The Necklace, The Man with the Pale Eyes, An Uncomfortable Bed, Ghosts, Fear, The Confession, and The Horla by Enri Rene Albert Guy De Maupassant. The Miracle of Zobeide by Pierre Mille. The Torture by Hope by Villers de L'isle Adam. The Owl's Ear, The Invisible Eye, and The Waters of Death by Erckmann-Chatrain. Melmoth Reconciled and The Conscript by Honore de Balzac. Zadig the Babylonian by Jean Francois Marie...