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Persuasion
by Jane Austen
THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...
Anatomy
by Henry Gray F.R.S., Henry Vandyke Carter
THE entire skeleton in the adult consists of 200 distinct bones.
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
YOU WILL REJOICE to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with...
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, an...
Shirley
by Charlotte Brontë
OF late years, an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; eve...
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
ON a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.
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 ...
Germinal
by Émile Zola
OVER the open plain, beneath a starless sky as dark and thick as ink, a man walked alone along the highway from Marchien...
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...
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6....
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
I WILL BEGIN the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...