Fyodor Dostoevsky ALEXEY Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years … Continue reading
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain ‘TOM!’ No answer. ‘TOM!’ No answer. ‘What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!’ No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked … Continue reading
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain YOU don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, … Continue reading
Sons and Lovers
D. H. Lawrence ‘THE BOTTOMS’ succeeded to ‘Hell Row”. Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane. There lived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away. The … Continue reading
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a … Continue reading
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a … Continue reading
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his … Continue reading
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning. Miss Polly did not usually make hurried movements; she specially prided herself on her repose of manner. But to-day she was hurrying–actually hurrying. Nancy, washing … Continue reading
Paradise Lost
John Milton Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, … Continue reading
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great … Continue reading
Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the … Continue reading
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky I am a sick man. … I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what … Continue reading
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
Joseph Conrad IN THE time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco–the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity–had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a … Continue reading
Moby Dick
Herman Melville Call me Ishmael. Some years ago–never mind how long precisely–having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part … Continue reading
Middlemarch
George Eliot Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in … Continue reading