PART III. A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN. CHAPTER II. The humours and dispositions of the Laputians described. An account of their learning. Of the king and his...
-CHAPTER 7 'An outward-bound mail-boat had come in that afternoon, and the big dining-room of the hotel was more than half full of people with a-hundred-pounds-round-the-world tickets in their...
CHAPTER IX. Queen Alice 'Well, this IS grand!' said Alice. 'I never expected I should be a Queen so soon--and I'll tell you what it is, your majesty,' she went...
CHAPTER XVI. Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results OCTOBER was a beautiful month at Green Gables, when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard...
English Fairy Tales Collected by Joseph Jacobs Chapter 1: Tom Tit Tot Once upon a time there was a woman, and she baked five pies. And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the...
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett CHAPTER 15. The Magic When Sara had passed the house next door she had seen Ram Dass closing the shutters, and caught her glimpse of this room also....
CHAPTER VIII. 'It's my own Invention' After a while the noise seemed gradually to die away, till all was dead silence, and Alice lifted up her head in some alarm. There was no...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 8 The friendship between Margaret and Mrs. Wilcox, which was to develop so--quickly and with such strange results, may perhaps have had its beginnings at Speyer,...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 30 Tibby was now approaching his last year at Oxford. He had moved out of college, and was contemplating the Universe, or such portions of it as concerned him,...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 30 Tibby was now approaching his last year at Oxford. He had moved out of college, and was contemplating the Universe, or such portions of it as concerned him,...