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Émile Zola

THERESE RAQUIN By Emile Zola Translated and edited with a preface by Edward Vizetelly PREFACE This volume, "Therese Raquin," was Zola's third book, but it was the one that first gave him not...

Émile Zola

Translated and Introduced By Havelock Ellis Translated and Introduced by Havelock Ellis J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.

Émile Zola

(LE VENTRE DE PARIS) By Emile Zola Translated, With An Introduction, By Ernest Alfred Vizetelly Let me have men about me that are fat: Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:...

Émile Zola

CHAPTER I. Gervaise had waited up for Lantier until two in the morning.

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...