The True Story of My Life: A Sketch

H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

By Hans Christian Andersen CONTENTS The Emperor's New Clothes The Swineherd The Real Princess The Shoes of Fortune The Fir Tree The Snow Queen The Leap-Frog ...

H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

CONTENTS A Story By the Almshouse Window The Angel Anne Lisbeth Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind The Beetle who went on his Travels The Bell The Bell-deep The Bird of Popular S...

H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

[Illustration] STORIES _FROM_ HANS ANDERSEN _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY_ EDMUND DULAC HODDER & STOUGHTON LIMITED LONDON ILLUSTRATIONS _THE SNOW QUEEN_ ...

H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

CHAPTER I. My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

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...