The complete online text of The End of the World by Edward Eggleston.

Edward Eggleston (1837-1902) was an American minister and historian. He was also Indiana's leading writer of local-color fiction. Born in Vevay, Ind., Edward Eggleston, too frail to attend school regularly, was taught by his father to read in several lan...

Best remembered as author of The Hoosier School-Master (1871), Edward Eggleston contributed significantly to the acceptance of realism by American readers and critics and, together with Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, to the emergence of the Middle...

No one who scans the various UN Web sites can doubt that its supporters are using it to establish a global government. The 1995 United Nations Commission on Global Governance, for instance, recommended a system of global taxation, a standing army, a Court...

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For reasons I can’t explain, science fiction has always sent me to sleep. Perhaps it’s because I find living in the present scary enough. The pleasures of Ray Bradbury’s futuristic work—let alone H.G. Wells’—have passed me by. Even Truffaut’s film of Mr. Bradbury’s 1953 classic,...

For reasons I can’t explain, science fiction has always sent me to sleep. Perhaps it’s because I find living in the present scary enough. The pleasures of Ray Bradbury’s futuristic work—let alone H.G. Wells’—have passed me by. Even Truffaut’s film of Mr. Bradbury’s 1953 classic,...