Found 5,650 results for "American Portraits"
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce, James Joyce
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
AFTER dinner I sat and waited for Pyle in my room over the rue Catinat: he had said, "I'll be with you at latest by ten,...
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garde...
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II
by Emily Dickinson
It's all I have to bring to-day
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...
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontèˆ
1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.
Daisy Miller
by Henry James
At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and, looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound...
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
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...
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."
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.
La Divina Commedia
by Dante Alighieri
To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Very many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves.
