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THAT going to the seaside was the very beginning of everything—only it seemed as though it were going to be a beginning without an end, like the roads on the Sussex downs which look like roads and then...

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world." —D. H. Lawrence "‘Moby-Dick’ is the book which I put down with the unqualified thought, 'I wish I had written that'…" —William Faulkner "What...

Long enough, O women of America, have your Mormon sisters been blasphemed! From the day that they, in the name and fear of the Lord their God, undertook to "build up Zion," they have been persecuted for...

Travis Crichton and Jacey Roden's weekend orienteering contest in a vintage Jaguar car becomes a journey through a belt of fog and into a strange village called The Valley that is not shown on any map....

I have been requested to write a preface to this sad story of "A Century of Dishonor." I cannot refuse the request of one whose woman's heart has pleaded so eloquently for the poor Red men. The materials...

“Suppose we hold up here, and rest a bit, fellows!” “We’ll have to accommodate you, Tubby. It really pains me to hear you puffing and blowing so hard.” “Now, that’s just six words for me and half a dozen...

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as "The Pickwick Papers"–-a comic masterpiece that catapulted its 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures...

THE idea of illustrating scenes of that period of the history of Egypt in which the Israelites were held in bondage by her kings, and presenting it from a point of view outside of the Mosaic narrative,...

«The Professor» is Charlotte Brontës first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in «Villette»,...

Going to the wedding alone was a bad idea. Patricia seems to be the only single person there, not counting the creepy guy who drinks too much and tries it on. She escapes to the chateau gardens for fresh...

Ready to unleash your creative potential? Step into Your Power: A 31-Day Tarot Challenge to Unleash Your Creative Potential is designed to help you do just that. In her fifth tarot challenge, writer,...

"Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras—dire stories of Celæno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition—but they were there before. They are transcripts, types—the archetypes are...

Of the eight papers printed here, “Some Eighteenth-Century Men About Town,” “A Forgotten Satirist: ‘Peter Pindar’,” “Sterne’s Eliza,” and “William Beckford, of Fonthill Abbey,” have appeared in the Fortnightly...

Mexico is the most beautiful city ever built by the Spaniards in the New World; and even in Europe it would take a high place for splendor and magnificence. If you wish to behold the magnificent and varied...

So quiet is the small market town of Upton, that it is difficult to believe in the stir and din of London, which is little more than an hour's journey from it. It is the terminus of the single line of...

This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication. [1836-1837] The Pickwick Papers [1837-1839] Oliver Twist [1838-1839] Nicholas Nickleby...

Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the...

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur,...

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, "Our Mutual Friend" revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s...

To Paul Dombey, business is all and money can do anything. He runs his family life as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially. The only person he cares for is his frail son, grooming...

Both of my parents died while I was still a baby; and I passed my childhood at the home of my father's mother in Norwich Town—which lies upon the left bank of the river Yantic, some three miles to the...

Give me a touch of anger in form of avenge… a pluck of fury, and the nerve for revenge! Let me kill him! Goes through Tyler’s mind as Professor Turner tells him the plan. Tyler, Robert’s biggest archenemy,...

Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most...

How do we decide what is "good" and what is "bad"? According to the ethical theory of Utilitarianism, to do good is to "always perform that act, of those available, that will bring the most happiness...

This book contains the major works of John Stuart Mill: [1843] A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive [1848] The Principles of Political Economy [1859] On Liberty [1861] Representative Government...

The post-office in the middle Georgia village of Hillsborough used to be a queer little place, whatever it is now. It was fitted up in a cellar; and the postmaster, who was an enterprising gentleman from...

This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator...

A few words about Dostoevsky himself may help the English reader to understand his work. Dostoevsky was the son of a doctor. His parents were very hard-working and deeply religious people, but so poor...

Virginia, US, late 1860s. After northerner James travels to Virginia, he falls in love with the daughter of an affluent former slave owner, Annabelle.The two are deeply attracted to each other, but their...

Table of Contents Part I - Power in the Making Chapter I The Gift of Power Chapter II Qualities that Make for Success Chapter III Every Man his own Mind-Maker Chapter IV Simple Ideas for Mental Training...