Patty's Perversities

Arlo Bates

I WHAT LITERATURE IS As all life proceeds from the egg, so all discussion must proceed from a definition.

Arlo Bates

TALKS ON WRITING ENGLISH I THE ART OF WRITING Into all productive art enter two sorts of power, that which is communicable and that which is incommunicable,--in other words, that which may b...

Arlo Bates

Arlo Bates

Chapter I 15 INITIAL: Chapter II 20 "'Come,' he said to the Prince, in rather an injured tone" 21 ...

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...