The Young Rajah

William Henry Giles Kingston

Great African Travellers, from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley, by W.H.G. Kingston.

William Henry Giles Kingston

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves, updated to 1900, by W.H.G. Kingston.

William Henry Giles Kingston

The Western World, by W.H.G. Kingston.

William Henry Giles Kingston

Captain Cook, his Life, Voyages and Discoveries, by W.H.G. Kingston.

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...