CHAPTER XIX I THE Zenith Street Traction Company planned to build car-repair shops in the suburb of Dorchester, but when they came to buy the land they found it held, on options, by the...
CHAPTER X The Property Is Carried Off The February morning looked gray and drizzling through the window of Uncle Tom's cabin. It looked on downcast faces, the images of mournful hearts. The...
CHAPTER XII Select Incident of Lawful Trade "In Ramah there was a voice heard,-- weeping, and lamentation, and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be...
CHAPTER 1 LEAVE IT TO JEEVES Jeeves--my man, you know--is really a most extraordinary chap. So capable. Honestly, I shouldn't know what to do without him. On broader lines he's like...
Chapter VI. Mr. Toad It was a bright morning in the early part of summer; the river had resumed its wonted banks and its accustomed pace, and a hot sun seemed to be pulling everything green and bushy...
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) : Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, best known for his novel Gulliver's Travels Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) : Anglo-Irish writer and poet, best...
CHAPTER I. One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he...
TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons, And buccaneers, and...
CHAPTER I. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and...
CHAPTER XVI Tom's Mistress and Her Opinions "And now, Marie," said St. Clare, "your golden days are dawning. Here is our practical, business-like New England cousin,...