Night and Day

By Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf offers a touching and introspective look at Edwardian life and love in her 1919 novel Night and Day. Young Katherine Hilbery seems destined for a life of luxury and renown. As the novel ...

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The Voyage Out

By Virginia Woolf

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As a ship makes its way to an exotic location in South America, a young woman begins her own journey inward in Virginia Woolf’s 1915 novel The Voyage Out. Rachel Vinrace is traveling far away from h ...

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Jacob's Room

By Virginia Woolf

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Who is Jacob Flanders? In Virginia Woolf’s 1922 novel, Jacob’s Room, we follow the life of a promising young man through glimpses of him given by female friends and relatives. From childhood to yo ...

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Lyrical Ballads

By William Wordsworth

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Art and Craft of the Machine

By Frank Lloyd Wright

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In March of 1901, Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the most well-respected and innovative architects in the world, presented a lecture to the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society. In this famous address, The Ar ...

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Nets to Catch the Wind

By Elinor Wylie

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Her wild wings of a gull. For that is even worse. But innocent and wild! The hard heart of a ...

The Swiss Family Robinson

By Johann David Wyss

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THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON; OR, ADVENTURES IN A DESERT ISLAND. WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN GILBERT. [Illustration: THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON] [Illustration: "Our first care was to kneel down and t ...

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The Countess Cathleen

By W. B. Yeats

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"The sorrowful are dumb for thee" The Scene is laid in Ireland and in old times. is grinding a quern. MARY. What can have made the grey hen flutter so? The graves are walking. MARY. There is something ...

Tips for High School Students From a High School Student

By Michele Zimmerman

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"Tips for High School Students" was a project created by high-school student Michele Zimmerman as part of her internship with DailyLit, made possible by the Her Honor mentoring program. For more infor ...

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Abbe Mouret's Transgression

By Émile Zola

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The hero of Émile Zola’s 1875 novel Abbe Mouret’s Transgression, Serge Mouret, is a passionate young priest. Just assigned to a rural and uneducated parish, Serge seems unable to reach his new co ...

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Nana and Three Short Stories

By Émile Zola

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At nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but th ...

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L'Assommoir

By Émile Zola

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CHAPTER I. Gervaise had waited up for Lantier until two in the morning. Then, shivering from having remained in a thin loose jacket, exposed to the fresh air at the window, she had thrown herself acro ...

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Therese Raquin

By Émile Zola

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At the end of the Rue Guenegaud, coming from the quays, you find the Arcade of the Pont Neuf, a sort of narrow, dark corridor running from the Rue Mazarine to the Rue de Seine. This arcade, at the mos ...

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Thérèse Raquin (Fr.)

By Émile Zola

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Au bout de la rue Guénégaud, lorsqu'on vient des quais, on trouve le passage du Pont-Neuf, une sorte de corridor étroit et sombre qui va de la rue Mazarine à la rue de Seine. Ce passage a trente p ...

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Nana

By Émile Zola

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Inspired by stories of legendary French courtesans, Emile Zola’s 1880 novel Nana is the tale of a young woman who finds her calling as a prostitute on the streets of Paris. As the story opens, Nana ...

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The Miller's Daughter

By Émile Zola

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Pere Merlier's mill, one beautiful summer evening, was arranged for a grand fete. In the courtyard were three tables, placed end to end, which awaited the guests. Everyone knew that Francoise, Merlier ...

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Captain Burle

By Émile Zola

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It was nine o'clock. The little town of Vauchamp, dark and silent, had just retired to bed amid a chilly November rain. In the Rue des Recollets, one of the narrowest and most deserted streets of the ...

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The Death of Olivier Becaille

By Émile Zola

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It was on a Saturday, at six in the morning, that I died after a three days' illness. My wife was searching a trunk for some linen, and when she rose and turned she saw me rigid, with open eyes and si ...

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