Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas De Quincey

Transcribed from the 1886 George Routledge and Sons edition--first edition (London Magazine) text, by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER: BEING AN E...

Thomas De Quincey

5. Political, etc.

Thomas De Quincey

From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth.

Thomas De Quincey

Edited With Introduction And Notes By Milton Haight Turk, Ph.D. TO CHARLES DEACON CREE THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED _Glencairn, Kilmacolm, Scotland June 27, 1905_ PREFAC...

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...