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Introduction: This tale, of which I have not consciously changed a single feature, I received from tradition. It is highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windward peninsula of Tahiti, where he lived. I have heard from end to end two versions; and as many as five different persons have helped me with details. There seems no reason why the tale should not be true....

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Contents THE SONG OF RAHERO ............................................................................4 I. THE SLAYING OF TAMATEA .............................................................................................................................. 5 II. THE VENGING OF TAMATEA ......................................................................................................................... 13 III. RAHERO ............................................................................................................................................................. 22 THE FEAST OF FAMINE ..........................................................................29 I. THE PRIEST?S VIGIL.......................................................................................................................................... 29 II. THE LOVERS ...................................................................................................................................................... 32 III. THE FEAST ...........................................................................................................................

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Excerpt: Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling.

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Contents A Charm ........................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Introduction....................................................................................................................................... 6 COLD IRON..................................................................................................................................... 7 Cold Iron ......................................................................................................................................... 21 GLORIANA .................................................................................................................................... 22 The Two Cousins ......................................................................................................................................................... 22 The Looking-Glass.......................................................................................................................... 35 THE WRONG THING...........................................

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Excerpt: New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1918 ed.).

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Contents PRAYER ........................................................................................................................................................................ 8 LO! IN THINE HONEST EYES I READ ..................................................................................................................... 9 THOUGH DEEP INDIFFERENCE SHOULD DROWSE............................................................................................ 9 MY HEART, WHEN FIRST THE BLACK-BIRD SINGS ......................................................................................... 10 I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR ................................................................................................................ 10 ST. MARTIN?S SUMMER ......................................................................................................................................... 12 DEDICATION ............................................................................................................................................................. 12 THE OLD CHIMAERAS, OLD RECEIPTS .................................

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Padre Ignacio has been the pastor of California mission Santa Ysabel del Mar for twenty years. In 1855 a stranger rides into the mission bringing news and a spiritual crisis. It's really more of a novella than a novel. (Summary by David Wales)...

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Historical Fiction, Music, Religion, Westerns

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Excerpt: In the days when New York?s traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a single show window was intimately and favourably known to the feminine population of the quarter bordering on Stuyvesant Square....

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Excerpt: This publication of William Blake?s Songs of Innocence.

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Table of Contents 5 ?Introduction 6 ?The Shepherd 7 ?Infant Joy 7 ?On Another?s Sorrow 8 ?The School Boy 10 ?Holy Thursday 11 ?Nurse?s Song 11 ?Laughing Song 12 ?The Little Black Boy 13 ?The Voice of the Ancient Bard 13 ?Ecchoing Green 15 ?The Chimney Sweeper 16 ?The Divine Image...

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Excerpt: Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way, does so at his or her own risk....

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Contents 4 CHAPTER 1. LESS BREAD! MORE TAXES! 10 CHAPTER 2. L?AMIE INCONNUE. 15 CHAPTER 3. BIRTHDAY-PRESENTS. 21 CHAPTER 4. A CUNNING CONSPIRACY. 26 CHAPTER 5. A BEGGAR?S PALACE. 33 CHAPTER 6. THE MAGIC LOCKET. 39 CHAPTER 7. THE BARON?S EMBASSY. 44 CHAPTER 8. A RIDE ON A LION. 49 CHAPTER 9. A JESTER AND A BEAR. 56 CHAPTER 10. THE OTHER PROFESSOR. 62 CHAPTER 11. PETER AND PAUL. 69 CHAPTER 12. A MUSICAL GARDENER. 75 CHAPTER 13. A VISIT TO DOGLAND. 82 CHAPTER 14. FAIRY-SYLVlE. 91 CHAPTER 15. BRUNO?S REVENGE....

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Introduction: Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: ?Pipe a song about a Lamb!? So I piped with merry cheer. ?Piper, pipe that song again;? So I piped: he wept to hear....

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Excerpt: It was sitting by the fire, in a mysterious and magnificent retreat,--now a thing of the past but surviving in our memory,--whence our eyes commanded a view of Paris from the heights of Belleville to those of Belleville, from Montmartre to the triumphal Arc de l?Etoile, that one morning, refreshed by tea, amid the myriad suggestions that shoot up and die like rockets from your sparkling flow of talk, lavish of ideas, you tossed to my pen a figure worthy of Hoffmann,--that casket of unrecognized gems, that pilgrim seated at the gate of Paradise with ears to hear the songs of the angels but no longer a tongue to repeat them, playing on the ivory keys with fingers crippled by the stress of divine inspiration, believing that he is expressing celestial music to his bewildered listeners....

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Excerpt: Swan Song by Anton Checkov, translated by Marian Fell.

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Contents INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................4 Chronological List of the Principal Works of Anton Tchekoff..................10 The Swan Song .............................................................................................. 11...

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Excerpt: Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Contents I. ? THE PERSONS OF THE TALE. ............................................................................................................................ 4 II. ? THE SINKING SHIP. ............................................................................................................................................ 7 III ? THE TWO MATCHES. ........................................................................................................................................ 9 IV. ? THE SICK MAN AND THE FIREMAN. ........................................................................................................... 10 V. ? THE DEVIL AND THE INNKEEPER. ............................................................................................................... 11 VI. ? THE PENITENT................................................................................................................................................ 11 VII. ? THE YELLOW PAINT. .................................................................................................................................... 12 VIII. ? THE HOUSE OF ELD. .........

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Excerpt: In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirlywhirly eel. All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth--so! Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ?Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale?s right ear, so as to be out of harm?s way. Then the Whale stood up on his tail and said, ?I?m hungry.? And the small ?Stute Fish said in a small ?stute voice, ?Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man??...

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Contents HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT..................................................................................... 4 HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP .......................................................................................... 7 HOW THE RHINOCEROS .......................................................................................................... 11 GOT HIS SKIN ............................................................................................................................... 11 HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS .................................................................................. 14 THE ELEPHANT?S CHILD ......................................................................................................... 21 THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN ............................................................................................... 29 KANGAROO .................................................................................................................................. 29 HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE ......................................................................................... 53 ...

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Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song....

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Excerpt: Second April by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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Contents SPRING ............................................................................................................................................. 5 CITY TREES .................................................................................................................................... 6 THE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG .................................................................................................... 6 JOURNEY........................................................................................................................................11 EEL-GRASS.................................................................................................................................... 12 ELEGY BEFORE DEATH ............................................................................................................. 12 THE BEAN-STALK ........................................................................................................................ 13 PASSER MORTUUS EST .............................................................................................................. 14 PASTORAL................

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was at Homburg, several years ago, before the gaming had been suppressed. The evening was very warm, and all the world was gathered on the terrace of the Kursaal and the esplanade below it to listen to the excellent orchestra; or half the world, rather, for the crowd was equally dense in the gaming-rooms around the tables. Everywhere the crowd was great. The night was perfect, the season was at its height, the open windows of the Kursaal sent long shafts of unnatural light into the dusky woods, and now and then, in the intervals of the music, one might almost hear the clink of the napoleons and the metallic call of the croupiers rise above the watching silence of the saloons....

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This is a collection of ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of famous composers. Each book tells about the childhood and great achievements of a composer, and includes a short musical example. Here are links to the online texts so you can read along and look at the pictures: Bach: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34568 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34568 Mozart: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34582 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34582 Beethoven: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34737 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34737 Haydn: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34550 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34550 Schubert: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35070 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35070 Handel: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35157 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35157 Chopin: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35013 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35013 Verdi: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35158 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35158 Wagner: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35128 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35128 Grieg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35097 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35097 (Summary...

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Biography, Children, Fiction, Music, Teen/Young adult

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THE STORY OF PETER PAN RETOLD FROM THE FAIRY PLAY BY SIR J.M. BARRIE BY DANIEL O'CONNOR. Basically, Daniel O'Connor took the story from the original play, with the approval of Barrie, and shortened it into a book with music and beautiful illustrations. This shorter book was published before Barrie wrote the longer novel Peter and Wendy using the same plot and characters. (Summary from the fly leaf and Phil Chenevert)...

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Children, Fantasy, Fairy tales

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Excerpt: Puck of Pook?s Hill by Rudyard Kipling.

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Contents Puck of Pook?s Hill ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 WELAND?S SWORD......................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Puck?s Song ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 A Tree Song ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 YOUNG MEN AT THE MANOR .................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Sir Richard?s Song .........................................................................................

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This is a jolly little book about a little boy, a dog, a train and a house. But not an ordinary train, oh no, and not an ordinary house either! And there are songs, too. The Preface is short, dull and only for the grown-ups. (Summary by Ruth Golding)...

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Children, Fantasy, Music

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Excerpt: For the long nights you lay awake And watched for my unworthy sake: For your most comfortable hand That led me through the uneven land: For all the story-books you read: For all the pains you comforted:...

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Contents A Child?s Garden of Verses .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Bed in Summer ............................................................................................................................................................... 7 A Thought ...................................................................................................................................................................... 7 At the Sea-side ................................................................................................................................................................ 7 Young Night-Thought .................................................................................................................................................... 8 Whole Duty of Children................................................................................................................................................. 8 Rain ............................................................................................