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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

OURS is essentially a tragic age but we refuse emphatically to be tragic about it.

1900 515 ed.
The Lost World
The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth-a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, ...

1900 747 ed.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

1847 1170 ed.
Sult
Sult

by Knut Hamsun

All of this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania-that strange city no one escapes from until it h...

1890 154 ed.
A Princess of Mars
A Princess of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I AM A very old man; how old I do not know.

1917 206 ed.
The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent.

1907 335 ed.
The Awakening
The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vo...

1899 346 ed.
Anatomy
Anatomy

by Henry Gray F.R.S., Henry Vandyke Carter

THE entire skeleton in the adult consists of 200 distinct bones.

1858 109 ed.
Babbitt
Babbitt

by Sinclair Lewis

THE towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...

1922 451 ed.
The Sea-Wolf
The Sea-Wolf

by Jack London

I SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit.

1900 283 ed.
Pippi Långstrump
Pippi Långstrump

by Astrid Lindgren

Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house.

1945 116 ed.
Herland
Herland

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This is written from memory, unfortunately.

1915 541 ed.
Tarzan of the Apes
Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I HAD this story from one who had no business to tell it to to me, or to any other.

1912 226 ed.
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

1890 151 ed.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emma Orczy

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but ...

1900 591 ed.
A Mind That Found Itself
A Mind That Found Itself

by Clifford Whittingham Beers

This story is derived from as human a document as ever existed; and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thin...

1908 130 ed.
It Can't Happen Here
It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountain...

1935 157 ed.