Found 208 results for "Mothers and sons in literature"
Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye
by Charles Perrault
ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...
The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald
THERE was once a little princess who-"But, Mr. Author, why you always write about princess?"
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...
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.
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...
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu
"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...
Bible
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and...
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...
The Railway Children
by Edith Nesbit
The beginning of things - They were not railway children at the beginning...