Oh, Money! Money! A Novel

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

CHAPTER I. MISS POLLY Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

CHAPTER I DELLA SPEAKS HER MIND Della Wetherby tripped up the somewhat imposing steps of her sister's Commonwealth Avenue home and pressed an energetic finger against the electric-bell button.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

CHAPTER I THE MOUNTAIN HOME Far up on the mountain-side the little shack stood alone in the clearing.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

CHAPTER I EXIT MR. STANLEY G. FULTON There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

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...