by William Morris 1895 CHAPTER I. OF THE KING OF OAKENREALM, AND HIS WIFE AND HIS CHILD. Of old there was a land which was so much a woodland, that a minstrel thereof said it that a squirrel might go ...

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by William Makepeace Thackeray Contents Advertisement Introducing to the reader the chief personages of this narrative. In which are depicted the pleasures of a sentimental attachment. In which ...

By Maria Edgeworth INTRODUCTION I The story of the Edgeworth Family, if it were properly told, should be as long as the ARABIAN NIGHTS themselves; the thousand and one cheerful intelligent members of ...

by Mark Twain CHAPTER I Well, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. LIKE a comet! Why, Peters,...

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by Thomas Love Peacock INTRODUCTION Thomas Love Peacock was born at Weymouth in 1785. His first poem, "The Genius of the Thames," was in its second edition when he became one of the friends of Shelley...