Tom Brown at Rugby

Thomas Hughes

PART I. CHAPTER I--THE BROWN FAMILY "I'm the Poet of White Horse Vale, sir, With liberal notions under my cap."--Ballad The Browns have become illustrious by the pen of Thackeray and...

Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes is a native of the royal county of Berkshire, England.

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...