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Titles in Non-Fiction category:

• Holy Bible, King James Version, The    

  1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Titles in Poetry category:

• Beowulf    

  LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
  of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
  we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
  Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
  from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
  awing the earls. Since erst he lay
  friendless, a foundl ...

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  SIÞEN þe sege and þe assaut watz sesed at Troye,
  Þe borȝ brittened and brent to brondeȝ and askez,
  Þe tulk þat þe trammes of tresoun þer wroȝt
  Watz tried for his tricherie, þe trewest on erthe:
  Hit watz Ennias ...

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (prose rendering)

  The poem of which the following pages offer a prose rendering is contained in a MS., believed to be unique, of the Cottonian Collection, Nero A.X., preserved in the British Museum. The MS. is of the end of the fourteenth century, but it is possible that the composition of the poem is somewhat e ...

Titles in Short Stories category:

• "Petrel" and "The Black Swan"

  "Sail, ho!"

• Banshee, The    

  Of all the superstitions prevalent amongst the natives of Ireland at any period, past or present, there is none so grand or fanciful, none which has been so universally assented to or so cordially cherished, as the belief in the existence of the banshee. There are very few, however remote ...

• Great Valdez Sapphire, The

  I know more about it than anyone else in the world, its present owner not excepted. I can give its whole history, from the Cingalese who found it, the Spanish adventurer who stole it, the cardinal who bought it, the Pope who graciously accepted it, the favored son of the Church who received it ...

• Horror: A True Tale    

  I was but nineteen years of age when the incident occurred which has thrown a shadow over my life; and, ah me! how many and many a weary year has dragged by since then! Young, happy, and beloved I was in those long-departed days. They said that I was beautiful. The mirror now reflects a hagga ...

• Lost Duchess, The

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• Mary Musgrave

  "Nine carets ef it's a blessed one."

• Minor Canon, The    

  It was Monday, and in the afternoon, as I was walking along the High Street of Marchbury, I was met by a distinguished-looking person whom I had observed at the services in the cathedral on the previous day. Now it chanced on that Sunday that I was singing the service. Properly speaking, it w ...

• Pipe, The    

  "RANDOLPH CRESCENT, N. W.

• Puzzle, The

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• Rock Scorpions, The

  The screw steamer Jenny Jones was lying alongside a coal-hulk at Gibraltar one October afternoon. By three o'clock her bunkers were nearly filled, and the captain was getting ready for casting off, when one of the natives came on board. Captain Hindhaugh looked about for something to thro ...

• Vanderdecken's Message Home

  Our ship, after touching at the Cape, went out again, and, soon losing sight of the Table Mountain, began to be assailed by the impetuous attacks of the sea, which is well known to be more formidable there than in most parts of the known ocean. The day had grown dull and hazy, and the bre ...