The Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Edith Wharton

JTABLE 6 18 1 JTABLE 6 16 19 Book I I. On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

Edith Wharton

Chapter 1 Selden paused in surprise.

Edith Wharton

in a familiar place.

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...