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Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman
Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin

MARRY the heroine of this fiction, was the daughter of Edward, who married Eliza, a gentle, fashionable girl, with a kin...

1799 265 ed.
Moby Dick
Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael.

1851 1119 ed.
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

1734 649 ed.
The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit
The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams Bianco

There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.

1900 168 ed.
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

by Olaudah Equiano

PERMIT me with the greatest deference and respect, to lay at your feet the following genuine Narrative; the chief design...

1789 298 ed.
Walden
Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...

1854 1139 ed.
Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire
Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire

by Thomas Hardy

To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

1872 425 ed.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

1818 2185 ed.
The Age of Fable
The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

1800 299 ed.
The art of money getting, or, Golden rules for money getting
The art of money getting, or, Golden rules for money getting

by P. T. Barnum

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make...

1880 146 ed.
Leviathan
Leviathan

by Thomas Hobbes

NATURE (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this a...

1651 99 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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...

1850 688 ed.
The Innocents Abroad
The Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...

1800 177 ed.
The Hobbit
The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

In een hol onder de grond woonde een hobbit.

1937 460 ed.
Essays
Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

1618 188 ed.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...

1822 2209 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.