http://www.scribd.com/people/view/94732-fortune This a feed for documents on Scribd written by fortune 30 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:48:39 GMT Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:48:39 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/311540/Picture-of-the-Year-Funny-group-photo FREE Engineering/Medical/Mathematics/Software ebooks http://www.freetechbooksonthenet.blogspot.com/ * Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:48:39 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/311540/Picture-of-the-Year-Funny-group-photo http://www.scribd.com/doc/306041/THE-TAMING-OF-THE-SHREW-by-William-Shakespeare THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS by William Shakespeare PERSONS REPRESENTED. SATURNINUS, Son to the late Emperor of Rome, afterwards declared Emperor. BASSIANUS, Brother to Saturninus, in love with Lavinia. TITUS ANDRONICUS, a noble Roman, General against the Goths. MARCUS ANDRONICUS, Tribune of the People, and Brother to Titus. LUCIUS, Son to Titus Andronicus. QUINTUS, Son to Titus Andronicus. MARTIUS, Son to Titus Andronicus. MUTIUS, Son to Titus Andronicus. YOUNG LUCIUS, a Boy, Son to Lucius. PUBLIUS, Son to Marcus the Tribune. AEMILIUS, a noble Roman. ALARBUS, Son to Tamora. DEMETRIUS, Son Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:02:45 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/306041/THE-TAMING-OF-THE-SHREW-by-William-Shakespeare http://www.scribd.com/doc/306033/THE-RAPE-OF-LUCRECE-by-William-Shakespeare THE RAPE OF LUCRECE by William Shakespeare THE RAPE OF LUCRECE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TITCHFIELD. THE love I dedicate to your Lordship is without end; whereof this pamphlet, without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety. The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours. Were my worth greater, my duty would show greater; meantime, as it is, it is bound to your Lordship, to who Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:54:57 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/306033/THE-RAPE-OF-LUCRECE-by-William-Shakespeare http://www.scribd.com/doc/306031/THE-COMEDY-OF-ERRORS-by-William-Shakespeare THE COMEDY OF ERRORS by William Shakespeare PERSONS REPRESENTED. SOLINUS, Duke of Ephesus. AEGEON, a Merchant of Syracuse. ANTIPHOLUS OF EPHESUS, Twin brothers and sons to Aegion and ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE, and Aemelia, but unknown to each other. DROMIO OF EPHESUS, DROMIO OF SYRACUSE, Twin brothers, and attendants on the two Antipholuses. BALTHAZAR, a Merchant. ANGELO, a Goldsmith. A MERCHANT, friend to Antipholus of Syracuse. PINCH, a Schoolmaster and a Conjurer. AEMILIA, Wife to Aegeon, an Abbess at Ephesus. ADRIANA, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus. LUCIANA, her Sister. LUCE, her Servant. A Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:52:20 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/306031/THE-COMEDY-OF-ERRORS-by-William-Shakespeare http://www.scribd.com/doc/306029/THE-LIFE-AND-DEATH-OF-KING-RICHARD-III-by-William-Shakespeare THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING RICHARD III by William Shakespeare Persons Represented. KING EDWARD THE FOURTH Sons to the king EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES afterwards KING EDWARD V RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK Brothers to the king GEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCE, RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOSTER, afterwards KING RICHARD III A YOUNG SON OF CLARENCE HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND, afterwards KING HENRY VII CARDINAL BOURCHIER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY THOMAS ROTHERHAM, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK JOHN MORTON, BISHOP OF ELY DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM DUKE OF NORFOLK EARL OF SURREY, his son. EARL RIVERS, brother to King Edward's Queen MARQUIS OF DORSE Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:50:16 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/306029/THE-LIFE-AND-DEATH-OF-KING-RICHARD-III-by-William-Shakespeare http://www.scribd.com/doc/306027/THE-HISTORY-OF-KING-HENRY-THE-SIXTH-THIRD-PART-by-William-Shakespeare THE HISTORY OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH, THIRD PART by William Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING HENRY the Sixth. EDWARD, Prince of Wales, his son. LEWIS XI, King of France. DUKE OF SOMERSET. DUKE OF EXETER. EARL OF OXFORD. EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND. EARL OF WESTMORELAND. LORD CLIFFORD. RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of York. EDWARD, Earl of March, afterwards King Edward IV., his son. EDMUND, Earl of Rutland, his son. GEORGE, afterwards Duke of Clarence, his son. RICHARD, afterwards Duke of Gloster, his son. DUKE OF NORFOLK. MARQUESS OF MONTAGUE. EARL OF WARWICK. EARL OF PEMBROKE. LORD HASTINGS. LORD ST Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:45:25 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/306027/THE-HISTORY-OF-KING-HENRY-THE-SIXTH-THIRD-PART-by-William-Shakespeare http://www.scribd.com/doc/306025/HISTORY-OF-KING-HENRY-THE-SIXTH-SECOND-PART-by-William-Shakespeare HISTORY OF KING HENRY THE SIXTH, SECOND PART by William Shakespeare Dramatis Personae KING HENRY THE SIXTH. HUMPHREY, Duke of Gloster, his uncle. CARDINAL BEAUFORT, Bishop of Winchester, great-uncle to the King. RICHARD PLANTAGENET, Duke of York. EDWARD and RICHARD, his sons. DUKE OF SOMERSET. DUKE OF SUFFOLK. DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. LORD CLIFFORD. YOUNG CLIFFORD, his son. EARL OF SALISBURY. EARL OF WARWICK. LORD SCALES. LORD SAY. SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD, and WILLIAM STAFFORD, his brother. SIR JOHN STANLEY. VAUX. MATTHEW GOFFE. A Sea-Captain, Master, and Master's-Mate, and WALTER WHITMORE. Two Gent Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:43:00 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/306025/HISTORY-OF-KING-HENRY-THE-SIXTH-SECOND-PART-by-William-Shakespeare http://www.scribd.com/doc/306022/Twice-Told-Tales-by-Nathaniel-Hawthorne *Project Gutenberg Etexts from Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne*** #3 in our series by Nathaniel Hawthorne Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne CONTENTS From TWICE-TOLD TALES The Gray Champion The Wedding Knell The Minister's Black Veil The May-Pole of Merry Mount The Gentle Boy Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe Wakefield The Great Carbuncle David Swan The Hollow of the Three Hills Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Legends of the Province House I. Howe's Masquerade II. Edward Randolph's Portrait III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle IV. Old Esther Dudley The Ambitious Guest Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure The Shake Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:38:54 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/306022/Twice-Told-Tales-by-Nathaniel-Hawthorne http://www.scribd.com/doc/306015/KING-HENRY-VI-FIRST-PART-by-William-Shakespeare KING HENRY VI, FIRST PART by William Shakespeare Dramatis Personae KING HENRY the Sixth DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, uncle to the King, and Protector DUKE OF BEDFORD, uncle to the King, and Regent of France THOMAS BEAUFORT, Duke of Exeter, great-uncle to the King HENRY BEAUFORT, great-uncle to the King, Bishop of Winchester, and afterwards Cardinal JOHN BEAUFORT, Earl, afterwards Duke, of Somerset RICHARD PLANTAGENET, son of Richard, late Earl of Cambridge, afterwards Duke of York EARL OF WARWICK EARL OF SALISBURY EARL OF SUFFOLK LORD TALBOT, afterwards Earl of Shrewbury JOHN TALBOT, his son EDMUND MO Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:34:57 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/306015/KING-HENRY-VI-FIRST-PART-by-William-Shakespeare http://www.scribd.com/doc/306009/The-Merry-Adventures-of-Robin-Hood-by-Howard-Pyle The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle PREFACE FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE READER You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you. Clap to the leaves and go no farther than this, for I tell you plainly that if you go farther you will be scandalized by seeing good, sober folks of real history so frisk and caper in gay colors and motley that you would not know them but fo Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:28:02 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/306009/The-Merry-Adventures-of-Robin-Hood-by-Howard-Pyle http://www.scribd.com/doc/306006/TOMORROW-by-Joseph-Conrad TO-MORROW by Joseph Conrad What was known of Captain Hagberd in the little seaport of Colebrook was not exactly in his favour. He did not belong to the place. He had come to settle there under circumstances not at all mysterious--he used to be very communicative about them at the time--but extremely morbid and unreasonable. He was possessed of some little money evidently, because he bought a plot of ground, and had a pair of ugly yellow brick cottages run up very cheaply. He occupied one of them himself and let the other to Josiah Carvil--blind Carvil, the retired boat-builder--a man of evil r Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:23:46 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/306006/TOMORROW-by-Joseph-Conrad http://www.scribd.com/doc/306002/THE-TWO-DESTINIES-by-Wilkie-Collins THE TWO DESTINIES by Wilkie Collins The Prelude. THE GUEST WRITES AND TELLS THE STORY OF THE DINNER PARTY. MANY years have passed since my wife and I left the United States to pay our first visit to England. We were provided with letters of introduction, as a matter of course. Among them there was a letter which had been written for us by my wife's brother. It presented us to an English gentleman who held a high rank on the list of his old and valued friends. "You will become acquainted with Mr. George Germaine," my brother-in-law said, when we took leave of him, "at a very interesting period Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:19:49 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/306002/THE-TWO-DESTINIES-by-Wilkie-Collins http://www.scribd.com/doc/305998/A-Tale-of-Two-Cities-by-Charles-Dickens A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens CONTENTS Book the First--Recalled to Life Chapter I The Period Chapter II The Mail Chapter III The Night Shadows Chapter IV The Preparation Chapter V The Wine-shop Chapter VI The Shoemaker Book the Second--the Golden Thread Chapter I Five Years Later Chapter II A Sight Chapter III A Disappointment Chapter IV Congratulatory Chapter V The Jackal Chapter VI Hundreds of People Chapter VII Monseigneur in Town Chapter VIII Monseigneur in the Country Chapter IX The Gorgon's Head Chapter X Two Promises Chapter XI A Companion Picture Chapter XII The Fellow of D Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:15:16 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305998/A-Tale-of-Two-Cities-by-Charles-Dickens http://www.scribd.com/doc/305891/NANA-by-Emile-Zola CONTENTS NANA THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER CAPTAIN BURLE THE DEATH OF OLIVIER BACAILLE NANA by Emile Zola CHAPTER I At nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but these were lost, as it were, among the ranges of seats whose coverings of cardinal velvet loomed in the subdued light of the dimly burning luster. A shadow enveloped the great red splash of the curtain, and not a sound came from the stage, the unlit footlights, the scattered desks of the or Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:09:50 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305891/NANA-by-Emile-Zola http://www.scribd.com/doc/305887/The-Bab-Ballads-by-W-S-Gilbert The Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert The Bab Ballads Contents: Captain Reece The Rival Curates Only A Dancing Girl General John To A Little Maid - By A Policeman John And Freddy Sir Guy The Crusader Haunted The Bishop And The `Busman The Troubadour Ferdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle Pieman Lorenzo De Lardy Disillusioned - By An Ex-Enthusiast Babette's Love To My Bride - (Whoever She May Be) The Folly Of Brown - By A General Agent Sir Macklin The Yarn Of The "Nancy Bell" The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale To Phoebe Baines Carew, Gentleman Thomas Winterbottom Hance T Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:03:16 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305887/The-Bab-Ballads-by-W-S-Gilbert http://www.scribd.com/doc/305871/Robin-Hood-by-J-Walker-McSpadden Robin Hood by J. Walker McSpadden CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER I II III How Robin Hood Became an Outlaw How Robin Hood Met Little John How Robin Hood Turned Butcher, and Entered the Sheriff's Service CHAPTER CHAPTER IV V How Little John Entered the Sheriff's Service How the Sheriff Lost Three Good Servants, and Found Them Again CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VII VIII IX X XI XII How Robin Hood Met Will Scarlett How Robin Hood Met Friar Tuck How Allan-a-Dale's Wooing Was Prospered How the Widow's Three Sons Were Rescued How a Beggar Filled the Public Eye How Robin Ho Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:51:10 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305871/Robin-Hood-by-J-Walker-McSpadden http://www.scribd.com/doc/305868/The-Three-Musketeers-by-Alexandre-Dumas The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas Contents Author's Preface 1. 2. 3. 4. THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE THE AUDIENCE THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS 5. THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS 6. HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII 7. THE INTERIOR OF "THE MUSKETEERS" 8. CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE 9. D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF 10. A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 11. IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 12. GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM 13. MONSIEUR BONACIEUX 14. THE MAN OF MEUNG 15. MEN OF THE ROBE AN Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:47:18 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305868/The-Three-Musketeers-by-Alexandre-Dumas http://www.scribd.com/doc/305861/The-Raven-by-Edgar-Allan-Poe The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe THE RAVEN Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;--vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:41:13 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305861/The-Raven-by-Edgar-Allan-Poe http://www.scribd.com/doc/305849/DON-QUIXOTE-by-Miguel-de-Cervantes DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned in favour of the present undertaking what had long been a favourite project: that of a new edition of Shelton's "Don Quixote," which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are some- and I confess myself to be one- for whom Shelton's racy old version, with all its defects, has a charm that no modern translation, however skilful or correct, could possess. Shelton had the inestimable advantage of belonging to the same generation as Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:32:34 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305849/DON-QUIXOTE-by-Miguel-de-Cervantes http://www.scribd.com/doc/305812/ONE-BASKET-THIRTYONE-SHORT-STORIES-BY-EDNA-FERBER ONE BASKET THIRTY-ONE SHORT STORIES BY EDNA FERBER INTRODUCTION ix THE WOMAN WHO TRIED TO BE GOOD THE GAY OLD DOG 11 THAT'S MARRIAGE 29 FARMER IN THE DELL 49 UN MORSO DOO PANG 68 LONG DISTANCE 89 THE MATERNAL FEMININE 94 . . . . remainder not included 1 The Woman Who Tried to Be Good [1913] Before she tried to be a good woman she had been a very bad woman--so bad that she could trail her wonderful apparel up and down Main Street, from the Elm Tree Bakery to the railroad tracks, without once having a man doff his hat to her or a woman bow. You passed her on the street with a surreptitious gl Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:17:03 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305812/ONE-BASKET-THIRTYONE-SHORT-STORIES-BY-EDNA-FERBER http://www.scribd.com/doc/305804/The-Argonautica-by-Apollonius-Rhodius The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius (fl. 3rd Century B.C.) Originally written in Ancient Greek sometime in the 3rd Century B.C. by the Alexandrian poet Apollonius Rhodius ("Apollonius the Rhodian"). Translation by R.C. Seaton, 1912. This electronic edition was edited, proofed, and prepared by Douglas B. Killings (DeTroyes@EnterAct.COM), January 1997. PREPARER'S NOTE: Words in CAPITALS are Greek words transliterated into modern characters. ***************************************************************** SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: ORIGINAL TEXT -Seaton, R.C. (Ed. & Trans.): "Apollonius Rhodius: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:09:17 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305804/The-Argonautica-by-Apollonius-Rhodius http://www.scribd.com/doc/305800/The-First-Book-of-Adam-and-Eve The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Platt Prologue The First Book of Adam and Eve details the life and times of Adam and Eve after they were expelled from the garden to the time that Cain kills his brother Abel. It tells of Adam and Eve's first dwelling - the Cave of Treasures; their trials and temptations; Satan's many apparitions to them; the birth of Cain, Abel, and their twin sisters; and Cain's love for his beautiful twin sister, Luluwa, whom Adam and Eve wished to join to Abel. This book is considered by many scholars to be part of the "Pseudepigrapha" (soo-duh-pig-ruh-fuh). Th Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:03:52 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305800/The-First-Book-of-Adam-and-Eve http://www.scribd.com/doc/305793/The-Divine-Comedy-of-Dante- The Divine Comedy of Dante Translanted by H. F. Cary THE VISION OR, HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE OF DANTE ALIGHIERI TRANSLATED BY THE REV. H. F. CARY, A.M. HELL CANTO I IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet to discourse of what there good befell, All else will I relate discover'd there. How first I enter'd it I scarce can say, Such sleepy dullness in Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:52:22 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305793/The-Divine-Comedy-of-Dante- http://www.scribd.com/doc/305407/Weber-Max-Definition-of-Sociology FREE Engineering/Medical/Mathematics/Software ebooks http://www.freetechbooksonthenet.blogspot.com/ Definition of Sociology -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Source: Max Weber, Sociological Writings. Edited by Wolf Heydebrand, published in 1994 by Continuum. sections on foundations reproduced here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sociology (in the sense in which this highly ambiguous word is used here) is a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to arriv Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:20:20 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305407/Weber-Max-Definition-of-Sociology