[ music ] [ Patrick Coleman ] You can't overestimate his importance. [ music ] This is where F. Scott Fitzgerald was born. And born, actually, in one of these apartments. [ music ] In this...
Chapter XIX. TWO or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely. Here is the way we put in the time. It was a monstrous big river...
Book the Third: The Track of a Storm Chapter X. The Substance of the Shadow "I, Alexandre Manette, unfortunate physician, native of Beauvais, and afterwards resident in Paris, write this...
CHAPTER V BUILDS A HOUSE-THE JOURNAL September 30, 1659.-I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island,...
VOLUME III CHAPTER I A very little quiet reflection was enough to satisfy Emma as to the nature of her agitation on hearing this news of Frank Churchill. She was soon convinced that it was not for...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 31 Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the generations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly, but to an after-life in the city of...
Howards End by E. M. Forster CHAPTER 33 The day of her visit was exquisite, and the last of unclouded happiness that she was to have for many months. Her anxiety about Helen's extraordinary...
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,...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 4 A RUNAWAY MATCH Cherubic Pa arose with as little noise as possible from beside majestic Ma, one morning early, having a holiday before him. Pa and the...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 6 A CRY FOR HELP The Paper Mill had stopped work for the night, and the paths and roads in its neighbourhood were sprinkled with clusters of people going...