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Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Preface
Chapter I. The Professor And His Family
Chapter II. A Mystery To Be Solved At Any Price
Chapter III. The Runic Writing Exercises The Professor
Chapter IV. The Enemy To Be Starved Into Submission
Chapter V. Famine, Then Victory, Followed By Dismay
Chapter VI. Exciting Discussions About An Unparalleled Enterprise
Chapter VII. A Woman’s Courage
Chapter VIII. Serious Preparations For Vertical Descent
Chapter IX. Iceland! But What Next?
Chapter X. Interesting Conversations With Icelandic Savants
Chapter XI. A Guide Found To The Centre Of The Earth
Chapter XII. A Barren Land
Chapter XIII. Hospitality Under The Arctic Circle
Chapter XIV. But Arctics Can Be Inhospitable, Too
Chapter XV. Snæfell At Last
Chapter XVI. Boldly Down The Crater
Chapter XVII. Vertical Descent
Chapter XVIII. The Wonders Of Terrestrial Depths
Chapter XIX. Geological Studies In Situ
Chapter XX. The First Signs Of Distress
Chapter XXI. Compassion Fuses The Professor’s Heart
Chapter XXII. Total Failure Of Water
Chapter XXIII. Water Discovered
Chapter XXIV. Well Said, Old Mole! Canst Thou Work I’ The Ground So Fast?
Chapter XXV. De Profundis
Chapter XXVI. The Worst Peril Of All
Chapter XXVII. Lost In The Bowels Of The Earth
Chapter XXVIII. The Rescue In The Whispering Gallery
Chapter XXIX. Thalatta! Thalatta!
Chapter XXX. A New Mare Internum
Chapter XXXI. Preparations For A Voyage Of Discovery
Chapter XXXII. Wonders Of The Deep
Chapter XXXIII. A Battle Of Monsters
Chapter XXXIV. The Great Geyser
Chapter XXXV. An Electric Storm
Chapter XXXVI. Calm Philosophic Discussions
Chapter XXXVII. The Liedenbrock Museum Of Geology
Chapter XXXVIII. The Professor In His Chair Again
Chapter XXXIX. Forest Scenery Illuminated By Eletricity
Chapter XL. Preparations For Blasting A Passage To The Centre Of The Earth
Chapter XLI. The Great Explosion And The Rush Down Below
Chapter XLII. Headlong Speed Upward Through The Horrors Of Darkness
Chapter XLIII. Shot Out Of A Volcano At Last!
Chapter XLIV. Sunny Lands In The Blue Mediterranean
Chapter XLV. All’s Well That Ends Well
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Part One
Chapter I. A Shifting Reef
Chapter II. Pro and Con
Chapter III. I Form My Resolution
Chapter IV. Ned Land
Chapter V. At a Venture
Chapter VI. At Full Steam
Chapter VII. An Unknown Species of Whale
Chapter VIII. Mobilis in Mobili
Chapter IX. Ned Land's Tempers
Chapter X. The Man of the Seas
Chapter XI. All By Electricity
Chapter XII. Some Figures
Chapter XIII. The Black River
Chapter XIV. A Note of Invitation
Chapter XV. A Walk on the Bottom of the Sea
Chapter XVI. A Submarine Forest
Chapter XVII. Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
Chapter XVIII. Vanikoro
Chapter XIX. Torres Straits
Chapter XX. A Few Days on Land
Chapter XXI. Captain Nemo's Thunderbolt
Chapter XXII "Aegri Somnia"
Chapter XXIII. The Coral Kingdom
Part Two
Chapter I. The Indian Ocean
Chapter II. A Novel Proposal of Captain Nemo's
Chapter III. A Pearl of Ten Millions
Chapter IV. The Red Sea
Chapter V. The Arabian Tunnel
Chapter VI. The Grecian Archipelago
Chapter VII. The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours
Chapter VIII. Vigo Bay
Chapter IX. A Vanished Continent
Chapter X. The Submarine Coal-Mines
Chapter XI. The Sargasso Sea
Chapter XII. Cachalots and Whales
Chapter XIII. The Iceberg
Chapter XIV. The South Pole
Chapter XV. Accident or Incident?
Chapter XVI. Want of Air
Chapter XVII. From Cape Horn to the Amazon
Chapter XVIII. The Poulps
Chapter XIX. The Gulf Stream
Chapter XX. From Latitude 47° 24' to Longitude 17° 28'
Chapter XXI. A Hecatomb
Chapter XXII. The Last Words of Captain Nemo
Chapter XXIII. Conclusion
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Epilogue
The War of The Worlds
Book One. The Coming of the Martians
Chapter One. The Eve of the War
Chapter Two. The Falling Star
Chapter Three. On Horsell Common
Chapter Four. The Cylinder Opens
Chapter Five. The HeatRay
Chapter Six. The HeatRay in the Chobham Road
Chapter Seven. How I Reached Home
Chapter Eight. Friday Night
Chapter Nine. The Fighting Begins
Chapter Ten. In the Storm
Chapter Eleven. At the Window
Chapter Twelve. What I Saw of the Destruction
Chapter Thirteen. How I Fell in with the Curate
Chapter Fourteen. In London
Chapter Fifteen. What Had Happened in Surrey
Chapter Sixteen. The Exodus from London
Chapter Seventeen. The “Thunder Child”
Book Two. The Earth under the Martians
Chapter One. Under Foot
Chapter Two. What We Saw from the Ruined House
Chapter Three. The Days of Imprisonment
Chapter Four. The Death of the Curate
Chapter Five. The Stillness
Chapter Six. The Work of Fifteen Days
Chapter Seven. The Man on Putney Hill
Chapter Eight. Dead London
Chapter Nine. Wreckage
Chapter Ten. The Epilogue
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Preface
Volume One
Letter One
Letter Two
Letter Three
Letter Four. TO MRS. SAVILLE, ENGLAND
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Volume Two
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Volume Three
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Walton in Continuation
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
Foreword
Chapter I “There Are Heroisms All Round Us”
Chapter II “Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger”
Chapter III “He is a Perfectly Impossible Person”
Chapter IV “It’s Just the very Biggest Thing in the World”
Chapter V “Question!”
Chapter VI “I was the Flail of the Lord”
Chapter VII “To-morrow we Disappear into the Unknown”
Chapter VIII “The Outlying Pickets of the New World”
Chapter IX “Who could have Foreseen it?”
Chapter X “The most Wonderful Things have Happened”
Chapter XI “For once I was the Hero”
Chapter XII “It was Dreadful in the Forest”
Chapter XIII “A Sight which I shall Never Forget”
Chapter XIV “Those Were the Real Conquests”
Chapter XV “Our Eyes have seen Great Wonders”
Chapter XVI “A Procession! A Procession!”
Edgar Allan Poe
A Descent into the Maelstrom
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Word of Explanation
Chapter I. Camelot
Chapter II. King Arthur’s Court
Chapter III. Knights of the Table Round
Chapter IV. Sir Dinadan the Humorist
Chapter V. An Inspiration
Chapter VI. The Eclipse
Chapter VII. Merlin’s Tower
Chapter VIII. The Boss
Chapter IX. The Tournament
Chapter X. Beginnings of Civilization
Chapter XI. The Yankee in Search of Adventures
Chapter XII. Slow Torture
Chapter XIII. Freemen
Chapter XIV “Defend Thee, Lord”
Chapter XV. Sandy’s Tale
Chapter XVI. Morgan Le Fay
Chapter XVII. A Royal Banquet
Chapter XVIII. In the Queen’s Dungeons
Chapter XIX. Knight-Errantry as a Trade
Chapter XX. The Ogre’s Castle
Chapter XXI. The Pilgrims
Chapter XXII. The Holy Fountain
Chapter XXIII. Restoration of the Fountain
Chapter XXIV. A Rival Magician
Chapter XXV. A Competitive Examination
Chapter XXVI. The First Newspaper
Chapter XXVII. The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito
Chapter XXVIII. Drilling the King
Chapter XXIX. The Smallpox Hut
Chapter XXX. The Tragedy of the Manor-House
Chapter XXXI. Marco
Chapter XXXII. Dowley’s Humiliation
Chapter XXXIII. Sixth Century Political Economy
Chapter XXXIV. The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves
Chapter XXXV. A Pitiful Incident
Chapter XXXVI. An Encounter in the Dark
Chapter XXXVII. An Awful Predicament
Chapter XXXVIII. Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue
Chapter XXXIX. The Yankee’s Fight with the Knights
Chapter XL. Three Years Later
Chapter XLI. The Interdict
Chapter XLII. War!
Chapter XLIII. The Battle of the Sand Belt
Chapter XLIV. A Postscript by Clarence
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Coming Race
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Edwin A. Abbott
Flatland
Preface
Part I: This World
Section 1. Of the Nature of Flatland
Section 2. Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
Section 3. Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
Section 4. Concerning the Women
Section 5. Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
Section 6. Of Recognition by Sight
Section 7. Concerning Irregular Figures
Section 8. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
Section 9. Of the Universal Colour Bill
Section 10. Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
Section 11. Concerning our Priests
Section 12. Of the Doctrine of our Priests
Part II: Other Worlds
Section 13. How I had a Vision of Lineland
Section 14. How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
Section 15. Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
Section 16. How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland
Section 17. How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
Section 18. How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
Section 19. How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it
Section 20. How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
Section 21. How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success
Section 22. How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
Jack London
Iron Heel
Foreword
Chapter I. My Eagle
Chapter II. Challenges
Chapter III. Jackson’s Arm
Chapter IV. Slaves of the Machine
Chapter V. The Philomaths
Chapter VI. Adumbrations
Chapter VII. The Bishop’s Vision
Chapter VIII. The Machine Breakers
Chapter IX. The Mathematics of a Dream
Chapter X. The Vortex
Chapter XI. The Great Adventure
Chapter XII. The Bishop
Chapter XIII. The General Strike
Chapter XIV. The Beginning of the End
Chapter XV. Last Days
Chapter XVI. The End
Chapter XVII. The Scarlet Livery
Chapter XVIII. In the Shadow of Sonoma
Chapter XIX. Transformation
Chapter XX. A Lost Oligarch
Chapter XXI. The Roaring Abysmal Beast
Chapter XXII. The Chicago Commune
Chapter XXIII. The People of the Abyss
Chapter XXIV. Nightmare
Chapter XXV. The Terrorists
Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward: 2000–1887
Author’s Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Story of the Door
Search for Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll was Quite at Ease
The Carew Murder Case
Incident of the Letter
Incident of Dr. Lanyon
Incident at the Window
The Last Night
Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case
George MacDonald
Lilith
Chapter I. The Library
Chapter II. The Mirror
Chapter III. The Raven
Chapter IV. Somewhere or Nowhere?
Chapter V. The Old Church
Chapter VI. The Sexton's Cottage
Chapter VII. The Cemetery
Chapter VIII. My Father's Manuscript
Chapter IX. I Repent
Chapter X. The Bad Burrow
Chapter XI. The Evil Wood
Chapter XII. Friends and Foes
Chapter XIII. The Little Ones
Chapter XIV. A Crisis
Chapter XV. A Strange Hostess
Chapter XVI. A Gruesome Dance
Chapter XVII. A Grotesque Tragedy
Chapter XVIII. Dead or Alive?
Chapter XIX. The White Leech
Chapter XX. Gone!—But How?
Chapter XXI. The Fugitive Mother
Chapter XXII. Bulika
Chapter XXIII. A Woman of Bulika
Chapter XXIV. The White Leopardess
Chapter XXV. The Princess
Chapter XXVI. A Battle Royal
Chapter XXVII. The Silent Fountain
Chapter XXVIII. I Am Silenced
Chapter XXIX. The Persian Cat
Chapter XXX. Adam Explains
Chapter XXXI. The Sexton's Old Horse
Chapter XXXII. The Lovers and the Bags
Chapter XXXIII. Lona's Narrative
Chapter XXXIV. Preparation
Chapter XXXV. The Little Ones in Bulika
Chapter XXXVI. Mother and Daughter
Chapter XXXVII. The Shadow
Chapter XXXVIII. To the House of Bitterness
Chapter XXXIX. That Night
Chapter XL. The House of Death
Chapter XLI. I Am Sent
Then I turned and said to Eve
Chapter XLII. I Sleep the Sleep
Chapter XLIII. The Dreams that Came
Chapter XLIV. The Waking
Chapter XLV. The Journey Home
Chapter XLVI. The City
Chapter XLVII. The "Endless Ending"
H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines
Chapter I. I Meet Sir Henry Curtis
Chapter II. The Legend of Solomon's Mines
Chapter III. Umbopa Enters Our Service
Chapter IV. An Elephant Hunt
Chapter V. Our March into the Desert
Chapter VI. Water! Water!
Chapter VII. Solomon's Road
Chapter VIII. We Enter Kukuanaland
Chapter IX. Twala the King
Chapter X. The Witch-Hunt
Chapter XI. We Give a Sign
Chapter XII. Before the Battle
Chapter XIII. The Attack
Chapter XIV. The Last Stand of the Greys
Chapter XV. Good Falls Sick
Chapter XVI. The Place of Death
Chapter XVII. Solomon's Treasure Chamber
Chapter XVIII. We Abandon Hope
Chapter XIX. Ignosi's Farewell
Chapter XX. Found
William Hope Hodgson
The Night Land
The Dreams that are only Dreams
I. Mirdath the Beautiful
II. The Last Redoubt
III. The Quiet Calling
IV. The Hushing of the Voice
V. Into the Night Land
VI. The Way That I Did Go
VII. The Night Land
VIII. Down the Mighty Slope
IX. The Dark Pyramid
X. The Maid of the Olden Days
XI. The Homeward Way
XII. Downward of the Gorge
XIII. Homeward by the Shore
XIV. On the Island
XV. Past the House of Silence
XVI. In the Country of Silence
XVII. The Love Days
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland
Chapter 1. A Not Unnatural Enterprise
Chapter 2. Rash Advances
Chapter 3. A Peculiar Imprisonment
Chapter 4. Our Venture
Chapter 5. A Unique History
Chapter 6. Comparisons Are Odious
Chapter 7. Our Growing Modesty
Chapter 8. The Girls of Herland
Chapter 9. Our Relations and Theirs
Chapter 10. Their Religions and Our Marriages
Chapter 11. Our Difficulties
Chapter 12. Expelled
Ayn Rand
Anthem
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
Part Ten
Part Eleven
Part Twelve
Hugh Benson
Lord of the World
Preface
Prologue
Book I. The Advent
Chapter I
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Chapter II
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Chapter III
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Chapter IV
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Chapter V
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Book II. The Encounter
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Chapter II
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Chapter III
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Chapter IV
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Chapter V
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Chapter VI
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Chapter VII
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Chapter VIII
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Book III. The Victory
Chapter I
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Chapter II
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Chapter III
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Chapter IV
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Chapter V
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Chapter VI
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David Lindsay
A Voyage to Arcturus
Chapter 1. The Séance
Chapter 2. In The Street
Chapter 3. Starkness
Chapter 4. The Voice
Chapter 5. The Night Of Departure
Chapter 6. Joiwind
Chapter 7. Panawe
Chapter 8. The Lusion Plain
Chapter 9. Oceaxe
Chapter 10. Tydomin
Chapter 11. On Disscourn
Chapter 12. Spadevil
Chapter 13. The Wombflash Forest
Chapter 14. Polecrab
Chapter 15. Swaylone’s Island
Chapter 16. Leehallfae
Chapter 17. Corpang
Chapter 18. Haunte
Chapter 19. Sullenbode
Chapter 20. Barey
Chapter 21. Muspel
Abraham Merritt
The Moon Pool
Foreword
Chapter I. The Thing on the Moon Path
Chapter II “Dead! All Dead!”
Chapter III. The Moon Rock
Chapter IV. The First Vanishings
Chapter V. Into the Moon Pool
Chapter VI “The Shining Devil Took Them!”
Chapter VII. Larry O’Keefe
Chapter VIII. Olaf’s Story
Chapter IX. A Lost Page of Earth
Chapter X. The Moon Pool
Chapter XI. The Flame–Tipped Shadows
Chapter XII. The End of the Journey
Chapter XIII. Yolara, Priestess of the Shining One
Chapter XIV. The Justice of Lora
Chapter XV. The Angry, Whispering Globe
Chapter XVI. Yolara of Muria vs. The O’Keefe
Chapter XVII. The Leprechaun
Chapter XVIII. The Amphitheatre of Jet
Chapter XIX. The Madness of Olaf
Chapter XX. The Tempting of Larry
Chapter XXI. Larry’s Defiance
Chapter XXII. The Casting of the Shadow
Chapter XXIII. Dragon Worm and Moss Death
Chapter XXIV. The Crimson Sea
Chapter XXV. The Three Silent Ones
Chapter XXVI. The Wooing of Lakla
Chapter XXVII. The Coming of Yolara
Chapter XXVIII. In the Lair of the Dweller
Chapter XXIX. The Shaping of the Shining One
Chapter XXX. The Building of the Moon Pool
Chapter XXXI. Larry and the Frog–Men
Chapter XXXII “Your Love; Your Lives; Your Souls!”
Chapter XXXIII. The Meeting of Titans
Chapter XXXIV. The Coming of the Shining One
Chapter XXXV “Larry — Farewell!”
The Metal Monster
Prologue
Chapter I. Valley of the Blue Poppies
Chapter II. The Sigil on the Rocks
Chapter III. Ruth Ventnor
Chapter IV. Metal with a Brain
Chapter V. The Smiting Thing
Chapter VI. Norhala of the Lightnings
Chapter VII. The Shapes in the Mist
Chapter VIII. The Drums of Thunder
Chapter IX. The Portal of Flame
Chapter X “Witch! Give Back My Sister”
Chapter XI. The Metal Emperor
Chapter XII “I Will Give You Peace”
Chapter XIII “Voice from the Void”
Chapter XIV “Free! But a Monster!”
Chapter XV. The House of Norhala
Chapter XVI. Conscious Metal!
Chapter XVII. Yuruk
Chapter XVIII. Into the Pit
Chapter XIX. The City that was Alive
Chapter XX. Vampires of the Sun
Chapter XXI. Phantasmagoria Metallioue
Chapter XXII. The Ensorcelled Chamber
Chapter XXIII. The Treachery of Yuruk
Chapter XXIV. Ruszark
Chapter XXV. Cherkis
Chapter XXVI. The Vengeance of Norhala
Chapter XXVII “The Drums of Destiny”
Chapter XXVIII. The Frenzy of Ruth
Chapter XXIX. The Passing of Norhala
Chapter XXX. Burned Out
Chapter XXXI. Slag!
