The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

You must go back with me to the autumn of 1827.

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.

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.

Elizabeth Hall

by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Invalid Pensions.

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...

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...

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

Queen Elizabeth Hall

by Norman Keith Scott

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

Notre Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago, the good people of Paris awoke to the sound of a...

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.

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

OEDIPE. - Enfants, jeune lignee de notre vieux Cadmos, que faites-vous la ainsi a genoux, pieusement pares de rameaux su...

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

Grant lay on his high white cot and stared at the ceiling.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...

Study Guide

by SuperSummary