A Young Man's Year

Anthony Hope

CHAPTER 1 The Rassendylls--With a Word on the Elphbergs "I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?"

Anthony Hope

CHAPTER I. THE QUEEN'S GOOD-BY A man who has lived in the world, marking how every act, although in itself perhaps light and insignificant, may become the source of consequences that spread far an...

Anthony Hope

CHAPTER I OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQUIRE It was a dark, dank, drizzly morning in March.

Anthony Hope

CHAPTER I. A Multitude of Good Reasons.

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...