THE ILIAD
by Homer
translated by Samuel Butler
BOOK I
Sing, O goddess, the anger
BOOK XXIV.
THEN Mercury of Cyllene summoned the ghosts of the suitors, and in
his hand he held the fair golden wand with which he seals men's eyes
in sleep or wakes them just as h
Aesop's Fables
Translated by George Fyler Townsend
The Wolf and the Lamb
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to
lay v
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
by Sir Richard Burton
ENTERTAINMENTS
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS
(ALF LAYLAH WA LAYLAH)
THE DECAMERON
by Boccaccio Giovanni
THE INDUCTION OF THE AUTHOR TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSES
Gracious Ladies, so often as I consider with my se
The Adventures of Pinocchio
by C. Collodi
[Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini]
CHAPTER 1
How it happened that
1872
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
A CHEERFUL TEMPER
by Hans Christian Andersen
FROM m
A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
by Jules Verne
CHAPTER 1
My Uncle Makes a Discovery
LOOKING bac
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON
CHAPTER I
THE GUN CLUB
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was
established in the city of Baltimore in the St
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
PART ONE
CHAPTER I
A SHIFTING REEF
The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysteriou
