Found 293 results for "American Legal stories"
Twelve years a slave
by Solomon Northup
Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...
The Constitution of the United States and related documents
by United States
SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist...
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...
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
The Client
by John Grisham
Mark was eleven and had been smoking off and on for two years, never trying to quit but being careful not to get hooked.
A Time to Kill
by John Grisham
BILLY RAY COBB was the younger and smaller of the two rednecks.
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain
The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journ...
The Partner
by John Grisham
They found him in Ponta Porã, a pleasant little town in Brazil, on the border of Paraguay, in a land still known as the ...
Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Anyone living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a da...
The Street Lawyer
by John Grisham
THE MAN with the rubber boots stepped into the elevator behind me, but I didn't see him at first.
The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller #1)
by Michael Connelly
The morning air off the Mojave in late winter is as clean and crisp as you'll ever breathe in Los Angeles County.
The Summons
by John Grisham
It came by mail, regular postage, the old-fashioned way since the Judge was almost eighty and distrusted modern devices.
The Fixer
by Bernard Malamud
From the small crossed window of his room above the stable in the brickyard, Yakov Bok saw people in their long overcoat...
The King of Torts
by John Grisham
THE SHOTS THAT FIRED the bullets that entered Pumpkin's head were heard by no less than eight people.