Found 938 results for "Massachusetts, social life and customs"
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."
The House of Seven Gables Readalong
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...
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...
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...
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
Twice-Told Tales
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
There was once a time, when New-England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs, than those threatened ones ...
Summer
by Edith Wharton
A GIRL came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
ON A MORNING in mid-April, 1687, the brigantine Dolphin left the open sea, sailed briskly across the Sound to the wide m...
Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more...
Walden, or, Life in the Woods / On the Duty of Civil Disobe...
by Henry David Thoreau
WHEN I WROTE the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...
The Perfect Storm
by Sebastian Junger, Anne Collins
A SOFT fall rain slips down through the trees and the smell of ocean is so strong that it can almost be licked off the a...
The Bostonians
by Henry James, Daniel Karlin
'OLIVE will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that.
Rappaccini's Daughter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Young man, named Giovanni Guasconti, came, very long ago, from the more southern region of Italy, to pursue his studie...
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
by David Foster Wallace
When I left my boxed township of Illinois farmland to attend my dad's alma mater in the lurid jutting Berkshires of west...
