HOW I KILLED A BEARSo many conflicting accounts have appeared about my casual encounter with an Adirondack bear last summer that in justice to the public, to myself, and to the...

PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.The reader of to-day will not forget, I trust, that it is nearly a quarter of a century since these papers were written. Statements which were true then...

INTRODUCTORY LETTERMY DEAR MR. FIELDS,—I did promise to write an Introduction to these charming papers but an Introduction,—what is it?—a sort of pilaster, put...

PREFACEThis story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted...

BEING A BOYOne of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, though it needs some practice to be a good one. The disadvantage of the position is that...

THE ANNOUNCEMENT.On the 1st of January, 1838, I was the master of a lovely shop in the neighborhood of Oxford Market; of a wife, Mrs. Cox; of a business, both in the shaving and...

"The Dream" is a poem written and published in 1816 by the British author Lord Byron. This text describes the loving emotions of Lord Byron during his childhood,...

"The Masterpiece", as it is entitled in English, is a fictionalised account of the Impressionist circle around Paul Cezanne. Zola, who had become an eminent art critic,...

Tommy and Grizel (1900)is the sequel to Sentimental Tommy. " When a youngman, Tommy returns to Scotland, he is reunited with an old love, Grizel…..

It is a spectacular collection of poems and songs in which Milton's particular dramatic and natural chic is evident. The poetry is effervescent as it is spontaneous gush of...