Why Didn't they Ask Evans?

by Agatha Christie

Bobby Jones' teed up his ball, gave a short preliminary waggle, took the club back slowly, then brought it down and thro...

Mary Evans

by United States. Congress. House

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...

Mary Evans

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

Little Dorrit

by Charles Dickens, Mary Sebag-Montefiore

THIRTY years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day.

Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

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

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

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.

Study Guide

by SuperSummary

Othello

by William Shakespeare

ROD:Tush, never tell me!

Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

The Sittaford Mystery

by Agatha Christie

Major Burnaby drew on his gum boots, buttoned his overcoat collar round his neck, took from a shelf near the door a hurr...

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

'Salem’s Lot

by Stephen King

Almost everyone thought the man and the boy were father and son.

Middlemarch

by George Eliot, Jessica Hische

MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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

Voyage au Centre de la Terre

by Jules Verne

Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my ...

Jamaica Inn

by Daphne du Maurier

IT WAS a cold grey day in late November.