Found 6,238 results for "Great britain, description and travel"
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...
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...
Utopia
by Thomas More
UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...
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.
Rime of the ancient mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
by Jerome Klapka Jérôme
THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.
American notes
by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...
Boy
by Roald Dahl
My father, Harald Dahl, was a Norwegian who came from a small down near Oslo, called Sarpsborg.
Life of Samuel Johnson
by James Boswell
To write the Life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others, and who, whether we consider his extra...
La chartreuse de Parme
by Stendhal
ON the 15th of May, 1796, General Bonaparte marched into the city of Milan, at the head of the youthful army which had j...
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
by Samuel Johnson
"YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that ...
Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens
AS no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathize with the Chuzzlewit Family without ...
Notes from a small island
by Bill Bryson
There are certain idiosyncratic notions that you quietly come to accept when you live for a long time in Britain.
The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the ...
by Richard Hakluyt, Jack Beeching
It hath almost euer bene the custome of nations, in searching out the infancie and first beginnings of their estate, to ...
Far away and long ago
by W. H. Hudson
IT was never my intention to write an autobiography.
