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Swan Song is the sixth of the nine novels in The Forsyte Chronicles and the conclusion of the second trilogy, called A Modern Comedy. John Galsworthy's epic story of the moneyed Forsyte family is a fascinating study of the British propertied class during the decline of the Victorian age.

Barbicane and Company: The Purchase of the North Pole, originally published in 1889, or as Verne himself first called it literally Sense Upside Down, it is a sequel to A Trip to the Moon, written a quarter century before. In its mathematical sincerity and extravagance of analysis it is worthy of the earlier tale. With his mountains of figures the author deliberately plays a joke upon the trusting reader, by pointing out in the end that the fig...

Reminiscences of Gertrude Jekyll's childhood and early interest in plants. First published 1908, and written in a simple style for the young, it describes seeds, germination, flowers, fruits and gardens. Although she had no children of her own, she was very fond of them and took many fine photographs of children, particularly the younger members of her own family. Garden legend Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) became a horticulturalist and garden d...

The book " The Garden of Allah, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

There are 28 short biographies included in this volume such as Abraham Lincoln, Wolfgang Mozart, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Cole, James Watt, Mozart, Samuel Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight L. Moody, and many more. These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty is no barrier to success. It usually develops ambition, and nerves people...

Contains: The Twelve-Pound LookPantaloonRosalindThe Will J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) - in full Sir James Matthew, Baronet Barrie - was a Scottish journalist, playwright, and children's book writer. Barrie became world famous with his play and story about Peter Pan (1904), the boy who lived in Never Land, had a war with Captain Hook, and would not grow up.

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A story that traces the boyhood of a "man about town" - beginning at age five, in England, his trials and tribulations, on to becoming a young man. The celebrated Tommy first comes into view on a dirty London stair and he was in sexless garments which were all he had and he was five and so though we are looking at him we must do it sideways lest he sit down hurriedly to hide them. That inscrutable face, which made the clubmen of his later days...

The scene is the blue and white room in the house of the Misses Susan and Phoebe Throssel in Quality Street, and in this little country town there is a satisfaction about living in Quality Street which even religion cannot give. Through the bowed window at the back we have a glimpse of the street. It is pleasantly broad and grass-grown, and is linked to the outer world by one demure shop, whose door rings a bell every time it opens and shuts. ...

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Ring Lardner (1885-1933) was a well-known humorist and sports writer living in Chicago. In 1924, F. Scott Fitzgerald arranged for How to Write Short Stories to be published and more attention was then paid to Lardner's work.

An early autobiography of a transvestite, first published in 1918. Earl Lind (also known as Ralph Werther and Jennie June) is also the author of The Female Impersonators, first published in 1922.

One of the popular works written by the well-known doctor, Wilfred T. Grenfell. Sir Wilfred Grenfell is a legend in Newfoundland and Labrador. He arrived from England in 1892 to investigate the lives of the people who fished on "the Labrador." He found poverty and destitution, and decided to change it. Through his tireless efforts - fund raising, building hospitals, nursing stations, schools, and more - Dr. Grenfell enriched the lives of thous...

CONTENTS:Birth and Early ChildhoodBoyhood in West VirginiaLife at Hampton InstituteHow the First Six Years after Graduation from Hampton Were SpentThe Beginning of the Work at TuskegeeThe First Year at TuskegeeThe Struggles and Success of the Workers at Tuskegee from 1882 to 1884The History of Tuskegee from 1884 to 1894Invited to Deliver Lecture at Fisk UniversityThe Speech at the Opening of the Cotton States' ExpositionAn Appeal for JusticeHo...

CONTENTS: The Boyne WaterBrian O'LinnBy Memory InspiredCharming Mary NealColleen RueThe Croppy BoyThe Cruiskeen LawnThe Dear and Darling BoyDrimmin Dubh DheelishGarryowenHannah Healy, the Pride of HowthThe Irish GrandmotherThe Irishman's Farewell to His CountryIrish Molly OJenny from BallinasloeJohnny, I Hardly Knew YeThe Lamentation of Hugh ReynoldsLanigan's BallA Lay of the FamineMackenna's DreamThe Maid of CloghroeMolly MuldoonThe Native Ir...

Originally prepared in 1919 exclusively for Sears, Roebuck and Company, this book covers the selection and use of vehicles, implements and farm machinery, farm power and its applications, the principles and practices of farm engineering, and the arrangement, design, construction and equipment of farm buildings.