The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children

Maria Edgeworth

With an Introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie [Note: The body of this novel contains a lot of footnotes and many references to the Glossary at the end.

Maria Edgeworth

AUTHOR OF LETTERS FOR LITERARY LADIES, AND THE PARENT'S ASSISTANT, &c. &c. AND, BY RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH, F.R.S. AND M.R.I.A. IN TWO VOLUMES ...

Maria Edgeworth

In Ten Volumes.

Maria Edgeworth

“’Tis Education forms the common mind,— Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.” POPE.

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...