Wessex Tales

Thomas Hardy

Contents Phase the First: The Maiden, I-XI Phase the Second: Maiden No More, XII-XV Phase the Third: The Rally, XVI-XXIV Phase the Fourth: The Consequence, XXV-XXXIV P...

Thomas Hardy

1. One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Pr...

Thomas Hardy

PREFACE 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 sufficien...

Thomas Hardy

CONTENTS PART FIRST At Marygreen PART SECOND At Christminster PART THIRD At Melchester PART FOURTH At Shaston PART FIFTH At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere PART SIX...

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...