The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Category: Author:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
TAG:
Category: Author:novel
Aunt Crete's Emancipation tells the story of a much-put-upon maiden aunt who finally has her day.Miss Lucretia Ward lives with her sister, Carrie, and her niece, Luella, who frequently impose on her good nature.
TAG:
Category: Author:Max Brand
Terry is the son of the outlaw Black Jack Hollis. When Hollis was murdered, Elizabeth bet her brother, Vance, that she could raise Hollis's son to be an honest man, that it was the ...
TAG:
Category: Author:novel
You must content yourself with the explanation I have already given you of Sir Ambrose Tester and Lady Vandeleur: they are following—hand in hand, as it were—the path of duty.
TAG:
Category: Author:novel
“He’s taking holidays enough. I guess he can give us one,” said Moses Ayer, signing his name laboriously uphill.
TAG:
Category: Author:novel
Botanical Science is made up of three distinct branches of knowledge, Classification founded on Morphology, Phytotomy, and Vegetable Physiology. All these strive towards a common end, a perfect understanding of the vegetable kingdom, but they differ entirely from one another in their methods of research, and therefore presuppose essent...
TAG:
Category: Author:novel
FOR the perusal of the young and thoughtless of the fair sex, this Tale of Truth is designed; and I could wish my fair readers to consider it as not merely the effusion of Fancy, but as a reality. The circumstances on which I have founded this novel were related to me some little time since by an old lady who had personally known Charl...
TAG:
Category: Author:novel
Although in the present story a boy plays the principal part, and encounters many adventures by land and sea, a woman is the real heroine, and the part she played demanded an amount of nerve and courage fully equal to that necessary for those who take part in active warfare.
TAG:
Category: Author:novel
Of the tens of thousands of excursionists who every summer travel down by rail to Southend, there are few indeed who stop at Leigh, or who, once at Southend, take the trouble to walk three miles along the shore to the fishing village. It may be doubted, indeed, whether along the whole stretch of coastline from Plymouth to Yarmout...
TAG:
Category: Author:novel
The Editor of the Round Table has asked me to relate some incident of my life which may be of interest to its readers. Will they permit me to tell them that episode in my life which gives me, when I recall it, the greatest pleasure? It is the old story of the pebble and the ever-widening circle in the water.
TAG: