Alice is about to pick daisies when a white rabbit approaches her, but this rabbit is not like any other rabbit she has seen. Her curious nature forces her to follow the rabbit for a wonderful adventure.
Excerpt: Dear boys and Girls this book is all about an old soldier ealled Grampa a young prince a lost princess and a weather cock named Bill...
Excerpt: When good King Arthur was reigning in England, there lived in the Duchy of Cornwall a countryman who had an only son called Jack.
Excerpt: Now Pufty was a fat little chicken that looked so much like a ball of cotton that half the time Old Mother Hen couldn't tell whether it was Pufty out in the grass or only an old piece of white cloth blowing about in the wind...
Economic Theory Literature
Excerpt: Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History. [Delivered at Cambridge, June 1895 ] Fellow students?I look back today to a time before the middle of the century, when I was reading at Edinburgh and fervently wishing to come to this University. At three colleges I applied for admission, and, as things then were, I was refused by all. Here, from the first, I vainly fixed my hopes, and here, in a happier hour, after five-and-forty years, they are at last fulfilled. I d...
Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890
Excerpt: Along time ago in merry England, there lived a rich landowner and his wife and their two little children who were the delight of their hearts.
Excerpt: One two three One little boy Two little boys Three little boys.
Socialism ; Working class
Towards the close of the First French Revolution, Joseph Leopold Sigisbert Hugo, son of a joiner at Nancy, and an officer risen from the ranks in the Republican army, married Sophie Trebuchet, daughter of a Nantes fitter-out of privateers, a Vendean royalist and devotee. Victor Marie Hugo, their second son, was born on the 26th of February, 1802, at Besancon, France. Though a weakling, he was carried, with his boy-brothers, in the train of their father through the south ...
Excerpt: Introduction; It is necessary to the successful study of any literary production, that the exact design of the author should be known and kept constantly in view. It would be doing great injustice to the author of Acts, to suppose that he undertook this work without having before him some one leading object, which should serve as the connecting thread of the narrative, and according to which all the historic details should take place and form.
Excerpt: The earthquake rumbled and mumbled and grumbled and then he bumped, and everything tumbled Bumpyty-thump! Thumpyty-bump!
Excerpt: Trotty seems a strange name for an old man, but it was given to Toby Veck because of his always going at a trot to do his errands; for he was a ticket porter,...
CHAPTER I: A CAPTAIN OF THE WOODS: THE MAN who held in his hand the document of which this strange assemblage of letters formed the concluding paragraph remained for some moments lost in thought.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: -- INTROIBO AD ALTARE DEI. Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely: -- Come up, Kinch! Come up, you fearful jesuit! Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest. He faced about and bles...