Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer

James Baldwin

King Alfred and the Cakes King Alfred and the Beggar King Canute on the Seashore The Sons of William the Conqueror The White Ship King John and the Abbot A Story of Robin Hood Bruce and the ...

James Baldwin

Perhaps no other stories have ever been told so often or listened to with so much pleasure as the classic tales of ancient Greece.

James Baldwin

This is the first volume of a series of SELECT ENGLISH CLASSICS which the publishers have in course of preparation.

James Baldwin

New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1899 To My Children, Winfred, Louis, and Nellie, This Book Is Affectionately Inscribed.

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...