International Classics (2004)

The Fall of the House of Usher Son coeur est un luth suspendu; Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne. DE BERANGER. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had... | 22/6/2004

THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION     WE met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B, Baker Street, of which he had spoken at our meeting. They consisted of a couple of comfortable bed-rooms and a single large airy sitting-room,... | 22/6/2004

THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES     Many years ago, there was an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes, that he spent all his money in dress. He did not trouble himself in the least about his soldiers; nor did he care to go either to the... | 22/6/2004

    1.     There was an Old Man with a beard,     Who said, "It is just as I feared!--     Two Owls and a Hen,     Four Larks and a Wren,     Have all built their nests in my beard!"     2.     There was a Young Lady of Ryde,     Whose shoe-strings... | 22/6/2004

Letter 1 TO Mrs. Saville, England St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17- You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first... | 22/6/2004

Message found in a Bottle Qui n'a plus qu'un moment à vivre n'a plus rien à dissimuler Quinault-Atys     Of my country and of my family I have little to say. Ill usage and length of years have driven me from the one, and estranged me from the other.... | 22/6/2004

Chapter 1 Treats of the place where oliver twist was born and of the circumstances attending his birth     Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign... | 22/6/2004

Chapter 1     IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.     However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is... | 22/6/2004

CHAPTER I THE DAWN     An ancient English Cathedral Tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between... | 12/7/2004

THE PREFACE     The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.     The highest as the... | 12/7/2004