Anne of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

A tall, slim girl, 'half past sixteen', with serious grey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on...

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...

Игрокъ

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

At length I returned from two weeks leave of absence to find that my patrons had arrived three days ago in Roulettenberg...

Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott, Success Oceo

If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in ten years, I wouldn't have believed it,' said Mr...

Anne's House of Dreams

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Tik-Tok of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

"I won't!" cried Ann; I won't sweep the floor.

Herland

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This is written from memory, unfortunately.

The Haunted Bookshop

by Christopher Morley

IF YOU are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, ...

Middlemarch

by George Eliot, Jessica Hische

MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

The First Men in the Moon

by H. G. Wells

Pollyanna

by Eleanor Hodgman Porter, Porter

Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.

Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

HE-for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it-was in the act of...

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 ...

The Road to Oz

by L. Frank Baum

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

The Magic World

by Edith Nesbit

To have your hair cut is not painful, nor does it hurt to have your whiskers trimmed.

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.

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...

The Phoenix and the Carpet

by Edith Nesbit

It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast - Robert's, I fancy - a...

The blue castle

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Elephants Can Remember

by Agatha Christie

MRS. Oliver looked at herself in the glass.