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The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

1800 538 ed.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

I FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.

1818 832 ed.
The Story of the Amulet
The Story of the Amulet

by Edith Nesbit

There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a...

1905 578 ed.
The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.

1907 335 ed.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

I'm coming, I said! Sausages and sweet bread!

1908 1346 ed.
All's Well That Ends Well
All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

1734 711 ed.
The Age of Innocence
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.

1920 301 ed.
Howards End
Howards End

by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster was thirty-one when Howards End appeared on October 18, 1910.

1910 498 ed.
White Fang
White Fang

by Jack London

DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

1905 387 ed.
The Road to Oz
The Road to Oz

by L. Frank Baum

"Please, miss," said the shaggy man, "can you tell me the road to Butterfield?"

1909 533 ed.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

1900 344 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.
Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens, Margeret Tarner

IN these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputabl...

1800 318 ed.
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Man Who Was Thursday

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.

1908 1105 ed.
Dracula
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....

1897 736 ed.
She
She

by H. Rider Haggard

There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...

1886 506 ed.
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

1920 495 ed.
Shirley
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...

1800 536 ed.
As You Like It
As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.

1734 467 ed.