William Shakespeare I From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou co...

Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen ELECBOOK CLASSICS ebc0048. Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility This file is free for individual use only. It must not be altered or resold. Organisations wish...

by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and others DEDICATION To Monsieur Charles Bernard du Grail. SARRASINE I was buried in one of those profound reveries to which everybody, even a frivo...

by Kingsley WOMAN'S WORK IN A COUNTRY PARISH {1} I have been asked to speak a few words to you on a lady's work in a country parish. I shall confine myself rather to principles than to details; and th...

Sanditon Jane Austen ELECBOOK CLASSICS ebc0050. Jane Austen: Sanditon This file is free for individual use only. It must not be altered or resold. Organisations wishing to use it must first o...

VICTOR CHERBULIEZ CHAPTER I Were the events of this nether sphere governed by the calculus of probabilities, Count Abel Larinski and Mlle. Antoinette Moriaz would almost unquestionably have arrived at...

by LEWIS CARROLL Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the goldern gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream? Bowed to the earth with bitter woe Or laughing at some raree-show We flutter...

BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To the Marquis Jean-Charles di Negro. STUDY OF A WOMAN The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been ...

BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1) STORY OF THE DOOR MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sent...

by English Authors in Africa THE MYSTERY OF SASASSA VALLEY BY A. CONAN DOYLE Do I know why Tom Donahue is called "Lucky Tom"? Yes, I do; and that is more than one in ten of those who call him so can s...