CHAPTER I. TOM SEEKS NEW ADVENTURES DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free and Tom got sh...

by MARK TWAIN CHAPTER I. AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK [Footnote: Strange as the incidents of this story are, they are not inventions, but facts--even to the public confession of the accused. I take ...

by Jerome K. Jerome INTRODUCTORY It was Christmas Eve. I begin this way because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin, and I have been brought up in a proper, orthodox, respectable way,...

by Charles Dickens One, two, three, four, five. There were five of them. Five couriers, sitting on a bench outside the convent on the summit of the Great St. Bernard in Switzerland, looking at the r...

by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. Of all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure and repulsive to the modern reader, and has nevertheless had the greatest...

CHAPTER I CARTHORIS AND THUVIA Upon a massive bench of polished ersite beneath the gorgeous blooms of a giant pimalia a woman sat. Her shapely, sandalled foot tapped impatiently upon the jewel-strewn ...

by LEWIS CARROLL THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 1.7 CHAPTER 1 Looking-Glass house One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:--it was the black kitten's fault entirel...

by Jerome K. Jerome CHAPTER I Three men need change--Anecdote showing evil result of deception-- Moral cowardice of George--Harris has ideas--Yarn of the Ancient Mariner and the Inexperienced Yachtsma...

by Edmund Burke INTRODUCTION Edmund Burke was born at Dublin on the first of January, 1730. His father was an attorney, who had fifteen children, of whom all but four died in their youth. Edmund, the ...

by Jerome K. Jerome CHAPTER I "It is not a large house," I said. "We don't want a large house. Two spare bedrooms, and the little three-cornered place you see marked there on the plan, next to the bat...