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The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

1892 538 ed.
The Book of Tea
The Book of Tea

by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

1900 476 ed.
The Blithedale Romance
The Blithedale Romance

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful...

1852 571 ed.
Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie

by Mitch Albom

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could w...

1994 104 ed.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.

1846 2886 ed.
Evelina
Evelina

by Fanny Burney, Frances Burney

Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intellige...

1778 204 ed.
Babbitt
Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...

1922 451 ed.
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

by Max Weber

A GLANCE at the occupational statistics of any country of mixed religious composition brings to light with remarkable fr...

1700 137 ed.
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...

1910 1000 ed.
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

1800 480 ed.
The Awakening
The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!

1899 346 ed.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

1597 985 ed.
A Room with a View
A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

"The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all.

1905 692 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

1200 6084 ed.
Poems
Poems

by William Blake

Behold me, then: me for him, life for life...

1783 141 ed.
Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.

1900 430 ed.
Emma
Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

1815 2263 ed.
कामसूत्र
कामसूत्र

by Vatsyāyana

Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...

1883 381 ed.
Candide
Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

1746 1079 ed.