The object of this book is to attempt to tell the story of England's history for young children. Important events have been given in fuller detail than is usual, so as to awaken an interest in them, though no story has been told simply because it is interesting. The second part is intended for children a little older than those for whom the first part was written. Political changes, some of them of a complicated kind, occurred from time to time. (Rare Book Collection)
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Laboulaye's Fairy Book by Edouard Laboulaye
illustrated by Edward G. McCandlish (Rare Book Collection)
It is said that there is a great scarcity of fairy folk in modern France; and that, terrified by the thunders of the Revolution, they left their unhappy country in a body during its stormy years, first assembling in grateful concourse around the tomb of Perrault, upon whose memory they conferred the boon of immortality.
If this story is true and the last reported act of the fairies on leaving France makes it appear so then we may be sure that a few of the more hardy and adventurous fays skipped back again across the border and hid themselves in Laboulaye's box of jewels, where they give to each gem an even brighter sheen and a more magical luster.
Ten fairy tales include: Yvon and Finette -- The castle of life -- Destiny -- The twelve months -- Swanda, the piper -- The gold bread -- The story of the noses -- The three citrons -- The story of Coquerico -- King Bizarre and Prince Charming
LibriVox’s Ghost Story Collection 001
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles your eyelids with the touch of tears, we will have succeeded. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)
This story was written by William Ford Gibson and was first published in Omni in 1982. It tells the story of two hackers who hack systems for profit. The two main characters are Bobby Quine who specializes in software and Automatic Jack who is more into hardware. Automatic Jack comes across a piece of Russian hacking software that is very sophisticated and hard to trace. A third character in the story is Rikki, a girl who Bobby becomes infatuated with and for whom he wants to hit it big. The rest of the story unfolds with Bobby deciding to break into the system of a notorious hacker called Chrome, who handles money transfers for organized crime, and Automatic Jack reluctantly agreeing to help him. One line from this story — "...the street finds its own uses for things" — has become a widely-quoted aphorism for describing the sometimes unexpected uses to which users can put technologies (for example, hip-hop DJs' reinvention of the turntable, which changed it from a medium of reproduction into one of production).
Will Durant - The Story of Civilization 09 - The Age of Voltaire
9th in the Civilization series - The Age Of Voltaire is the biography of a great man as well as the story of ideas and events that culminated in the French Revolution. IX. The Age of Voltaire (1965)
1. France: The Regency
2. England: 1714-56
3. France: 1723-56
4. Middle Europe: 1713-56
5. The Advancement of Learning: 1715-89
6. The Attack Upon Christianity: 1730-74
