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"Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him. "Yes. Who sent you?" "Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the lady." "All ...
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PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. URSUS. I. Ursus and Homo were fast friends. Ursus was a man, Homo a wolf. Their dispositions tallied. It was the man who had christened the wolf: probably he had also chosen his ...
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George Eliot’s thrilling novel focuses on the loving yet turbulent relationship between siblings Maggie and Tom Tulliver. Maggie is impetuous and fervent while Tom is collected and pragmatic, yet th ...
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AS a preface is the only place where an author can with propriety explain a purpose or apologize for shortcomings, I venture to avail myself of the privilege to make a statement for the benefit of my ...
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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TO DR LEWIS. The pills are good for nothing -- I might as well swallow snowballs to cool my reins -- I have told you over and over how hard I am to move; and at this time of day, I ought to know somet ...
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Of all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and universally improving, as that which is introduced, as it were occasionally, in the course of an interesting story, which brings every inciden ...
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Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel- piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and ...
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In a down-and-out neighborhood of New York, a young girl nurtures an innocent hope for happiness and love. Stephen Crane's 1893 novel Maggie: A Girl of The Streets, is the story of fragile dreams in a ...
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Line ...
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Filled with aspirations and dreams, Jude tries to overcome his obscure origins in Thomas Hardy’s tragic Victorian novel. Jude Fawley is a stonemason who dreams of studying at the university in Chris ...
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Mark Twain's ironic novel of mistaken identities revolves around race relations in early nineteenth century Mississippi. The beautiful Roxana is a slave, but being only 1/16th black, she can pass for ...
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The date at which the following events are assumed to have occurred may be set down as between 1840 and 1850, when the old watering place herein called "Budmouth" still retained sufficient afterglow f ...
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What price will a young writer pay for the secrets of a legendary poet? Our hero and narrator, who is never named, travels to Venice in search of the closely guarded papers of Jeffrey Aspern. In recen ...
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Gargantua and Pantagruel is a series of five short novels by sixteenth century French writer Francois Rabelais. Here are the comic misadventures of a pair of giants: Pantagruel and his father, Gargant ...
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A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life." --Romeo and Juliet. Soames Forsyte emerged from the Knightsbridge Hotel, where he was staying, in the afternoon of the 12th ...
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I. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. Are off to their jaunts and play. Through fields and briery lane." --MANCHESTER SONG. There are some fields near Manch ...
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Babbitt is an everyman who has achieved the "American Dream." He has a family and comfortable home, and is respected at his office job in real estate. We read of his daily life in a fictiona ...
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