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The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems

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James Thomson


While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 190…

The Spring Song

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Forrest Reid


A deceptive tale, The Spring Song seems at first glance to be standard Edwardian adventure. Grif - A boy on holiday with his siblings - mus…

Corby Castle, Cumberland

In The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain

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John Henry Ingram


Possibly no part in the world is more connected in our minds to hauntings, ghost sightings and gruesome legends than Great Britain with its …

Chapter 13: Aristotle | Part 6: Aesthetics, or the theory of art

In A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

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Walter Terence Stace


This book contains the substance, and for the most part the words, of a course of public lectures delivered during the first three months of…

Chapter 22

In Harry Dee; or Making it Out

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Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.


Harry Dee, a nervous, sensitive boy, given to somnambulism, arrives at St. Maure's following his experiences involving the murder of his ric…

Book 3 Chapter 4. Law of reproduction.

In The Spirits' Book

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Allan Kardec


The Spirits' Book, published in French in 1857, is considered the most important book in the Spiritist philosophy. It contains the bases for…

The National Geographic Society’s Eclipse Expedition to Norfolk, Va.; by Marcus…

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 11

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XI, January to December 1900.

Emerson, by Chester Noyes Greenough

In Lectures on the Harvard Classics

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Charles William Eliot


The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …

Justifiable Burglary

In A Rough Shaking

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George MacDonald


Clare was a wanderer. Orphaned by an earthquake when too young to even remember his full name, his childhood was a succession of challenges …

Five sonnets by Hartley Coleridge

In Sonnets of This Century

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Various


This comprehensive anthology of English sonnets of the Nineteenth Century, edited and arranged by William Sharp, was published in 1887. It…

The Disguise

In Motley, and Other Poems

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Walter De La Mare


From English poet Walter De la Mare comes an early collection of poems reflecting on loss, mortality, and universal questions. - Summary by …