Found 414 results for "Social ife and customs"
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...
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...
Jo's Boys
by Louisa May Alcott, Success Oceo
If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in ten years, I wouldn't have believed it,' said Mr...
Walden
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 ...
Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins, William Collins
THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
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.
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
by Olaudah Equiano
PERMIT me with the greatest deference and respect, to lay at your feet the following genuine Narrative; the chief design...
Le Comte de Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
ON the 24th of February, 1815, the watch-tower of Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the arrival of the three-master Phara...
Rashomon and other stories
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
YES, SIR. Certainly, it was I who found the body.
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...
Can you forgive her?
by Anthony Trollope
WHETHER or no, she, whom you are to forgive, if you can, did or did not belong to the Upper Ten Thousand of this our Eng...
Games People Play
by Eric Berne
OBSERVATION of spontaneous social activity, most productively carried out in certain kinds of psychotherapy groups, reve...
Dombey and Son
by Charles Dickens
Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a lit...
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
by Henry Fielding
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: And if this be just in w...
Novelas ejemplares
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Gipsies seem to have been born into the world for the sole purpose of being thieves: they are born of thieving parents, ...
The Flame and the Flower
by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Somewhere in the world, time no doubt whistled by on taut and widespread wings, but here in the English country it plodd...
The little white bird, or, Adventures in Kensington gardens
by J. M. Barrie
SOMETIMES the little boy who calls me father brings me an invitation from his mother: 'I shall be so pleased if you will...