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Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the large window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talk...
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
Good wives
by Louisa May Alcott
IN ORDER THAT we may start fresh and go to Meg's wedding with free minds, it will be well to begin with a little gossip ...
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...
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, th...
Villette, a novel
by Charlotte Brontë
My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.
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...
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
Flatland
by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...
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.
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin
ABODES OF HORROR have frequently been described, and castles, filled with spectres and chimeras, conjured up by the magi...
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.
Decamerone
by Giovanni Boccaccio
MOST gracious ladies, knowing that you are all by nature pitiful, I know that in your judgment this work will seem to ha...
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II
by Emily Dickinson
It's all I have to bring to-day
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...