Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson

LETTER I DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER, I have great trouble, and some comfort, to acquaint you with.

Samuel Richardson

CLARISSA HARLOWE or the HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY Nine Volumes Volume I. Comprehending The most Important Concerns of Private Life.

Samuel Richardson

CLARISSA HARLOWE or the HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY Nine Volumes Volume IX. CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX LETTER I. Belford to Lovelace.-- Her silent devotion.

Samuel Richardson

CLARISSA HARLOWE or the HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY Nine Volumes Volume VI. CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI LETTER I. II. Lovelace to Belford.-- His conditional promise to Tomlinson in the lady's favour.

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...