Newton's Library
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Newton's Library

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  A poem written after seeing H. Hunt's picture "The Finding of Christ in the Temple."

  A collection of poems by the author of such well-known works as "Alice in Wonderland", "Sylvie and Bruno" and "The Hunting of the Snark".

  A strange story of a wolf-hunt in the Carpathian mountains.

  The life and death of Bartley Alexander, the bridge-builder, as told by his old teacher, professor Lucius Wilson.

  An early work telling the story of a man struggling to regain his former glory.

  The first of Chekhov's four major plays.

  The second of Chekhov's four major plays.

  The classic supernatural narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This newtonbook includes the prose gloss, or "argument," which helps any first-time reader keep Coleridge's strange storyline clear.

  Confucius explanations about Harmony, Equilibrium and the Path of Duty.

  Further explanations of life, with comments by the philosopher Tsang.

  Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, falls of a yacht and finds himself on a strange island, where his host forces him to take part in a very dangerous game.

  In the middle of the night, a hunted man turns up at a ship at anchor in the middle of nowhere, and is hidden in the captains cabin. He can't stay there forever, but how can he get off the ship without being seen?

  The Find was made in a box of books bought in London, in a street which no longer exists, from a second-hand bookseller in the last stage of decay.

  This collection presents some of the best ancient chinese poets along with translations of their works. Take a look at Autumn by Ou-Yang Hsiu of Lu-ling - it has some of the qualities of Poe's The Raven, both in words and spirit.

  Some thirty short poems by Burns, Wordsworth, Scott, Coleridge and others. The term Romantic is used loosely, to include poets of the Victorian era as well. Poems date from the late 18th to late 19th centuries.

  Some 24 British poets circa the Elizabethan era, including Marlowe, Spenser, Ralegh and Donne. A variety of songs, sonnets and lyrics that run the gamut of emotions and attitudes, from the 16th and 17th centuries.

  A public domain column on copyright and the internet.

  Having guests who are in love - or maybe they aren't? - can sometimes make your own domestic problems seem trivial.