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Just So Stories
Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

IN THE sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.

1922 245 ed.
Herland
Herland

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This is written from memory, unfortunately.

1915 541 ed.
On Liberty
On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

[1.1] The subject of this essay is not the so-called liberty of the will - so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doct...

1859 465 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.
Roughing It
Roughing It

by Mark Twain

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...

1872 408 ed.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emma Orczy

A SURGING, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but ...

1900 591 ed.
Whose Body?
Whose Body?

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus.

1923 319 ed.
Villette, a novel
Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

1853 519 ed.
On the Beach
On the Beach

by Nevil Shute

LIEUTENANT COMMANDER PETER HOLMES of the Royal Australian Navy woke soon after dawn.

1957 119 ed.
The Princess and the Goblin
The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald

IT WAS NOT TONY LEMLICH'S HABIT TO SPEND TIME ON THE shooting set of one of the pictures he had written.

1872 750 ed.
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.
Pollyanna
Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

With a frown Miss Polly folded the letter and tucked it into its envelope.

1912 552 ed.
Kim
Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

1901 934 ed.
Cranford
Cranford

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women.

1853 473 ed.
Five Children and It
Five Children and It

by Edith Nesbit

The house was three miles from the station, but, before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes, the chil...

1905 950 ed.