Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through Brittany

Gustave Flaubert

Part I Chapter One We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a "new fellow," not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.

Gustave Flaubert

CHAPTER I For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.

Gustave Flaubert

CHAPTER I THE FEAST It was at Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the gardens of Hamilcar.

Gustave Flaubert

THEN SHE SEIZED HIM BY THE EARS AND KISSED HIM SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION CHAPTER I. A Promising Pupil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty,...

Henrik Ibsen

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer.

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was r...

Charles Dickens

PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.