Found 541 results for "French fiction, women authors"
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
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 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...
कामसूत्र
by Vatsyāyana
IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...
A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were li...
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.
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.
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.
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...
Decamerone
by Giovanni Boccaccio
DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
Orlando. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sa...
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.
Howards End
by E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster was thirty-one when Howards End appeared on October 18, 1910.
Daddy-Long-Legs
by Jean Webster
THE first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day - a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and ...
Memoirs of Fanny Hill
by John Cleland
I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensible orders: ungracious then as th...
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
OURS is essentially a tragic age but we refuse emphatically to be tragic about it.
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.