Found 23,450 results for "Religious life and customs"
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
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...
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 Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, Groth
MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.
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.
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...
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the fig t...
Voskresenīe
by Лев Толстой
THOUGH hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded to...
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the g...
The Rainbow
by D. H. Lawrence
THE Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through a...
Christmas Books (Battle of Life / Chimes / Christmas Carol /...
by Charles Dickens
MARLEY was dead, to begin with.
Surprised by Joy
by C. S. Lewis
I WAS BORN in the winter of 1898 at Belfast, the son of a solicitor and of a clergyman's daughter.
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
IN certain provincial towns there are houses whose appearance arouses a melancholy as great as that of the gloomiest clo...
