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UrbanThe Winds of WarThe Winds of War is Herman Wouk's second book about World War II, the first being The Caine Mutiny (1951).
UrbanThe Scott CountryWhere—and what—is the “Scott Country”? Edinburgh—his birthplace, the centre of his literary and legal activities, the scene of The Heart of…
UrbanMain StreetThe first of Sinclair Lewis's great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of…
UrbanVivian GreyWe are not aware that the infancy of Vivian Grey was distinguished by any extraordinary incident.
UrbanVirginibus PuerisqueThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures…
UrbanVilletteVillette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Bront?. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from…
UrbanJack O' JudgmentThey picked up the young man called "Snow" Gregory from a Lambeth gutter, and he was dead before the policeman on point duty in Waterloo Road, who…
UrbanThe Shepherd of the HillsIt was corn-planting time, when the stranger followed the Old Trail into the Mutton Hollow neighborhood.
UrbanJoseph AndrewsThere are few amusements more dangerous for an author than the indulgence in ironic descriptions of his own work.
UrbanThe Magnificent AmbersonsOrson Welles' acclaimed drama follows two generations in a well-to-do Indianapolis family. Isabel Amberson receives a proposal from dashing Eugene…
UrbanThe Life of Sir Isaac Newton“Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
UrbanInitiative in EvolutionThe Great War imposed on speculative biology a moratorium as in the long vaca-tion of lawyers, in which are causes left over to the next term.
UrbanMadame MidasHastily waving for the men to go away, she applied remedies, and Madame soon revived. Vandeloup had gone outside with McIntosh, and was asking him…
UrbanCaleb WilliamsThe reputation of WILLIAM GODWIN as a social philosopher, and the merits of his famous novel, “Caleb Williams,” have been for more than a century the…
UrbanRight Ho, Jeeves"Jeeves," I said, "may I speak frankly?" "Certainly, sir." "What I have to say may wound you." "Not at all, sir." "Well, then----" No--wait.
UrbanSartor ResartusConsidering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect…
UrbanThe SchoolmasterFYODOR LUKITCH SYSOEV, the master of the factory school maintained at the expense of the firm of Kulikin, was getting ready for the annual dinner.
UrbanRevolution, and other essaysI received a letter the other day. It was from a man in Arizona. It began, “Dear Comrade.” It ended, “Yours for the Revolution.”
UrbanThe Heart of Mid-LothianThe times have changed in nothing more (we follow as we were wont the manuscript of Peter Pattieson) than in the rapid conveyance of intelligence and…
UrbanThe Story of the VolsungsIt would seem fitting for a Northern folk, deriving the greater and better part of their speech, laws, and customs from a Northern root, that the…
UrbanThe Sceptical ChymistThis classic of scientific reporting by English chemist Robert Boyle, first published in 1661, is the best known of his many works.
UrbanBarchester TowersBarchester Towers concerns the leading citizens of the imaginary cathedral city of Barchester.
UrbanFirst and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of LifeAfter I had studied science and particularly biological science for some years, I became a teacher in a school for boys.
UrbanOld MortalityThe story opens dramatically with the repercussions of the murder of the Archbishop of St.Andrews by a group of "Covenanting Whigs" and spans ten…
UrbanOff on a CometAmong so many effective and artistic tales, it is difficult to give a preference to one over all the rest.
UrbanMarie GrubbeLANGUAGE is like an instrument that requires to be tuned occasionally. A few times in the course of a century the literary language of a country…
UrbanThe Campaign of SedanWhen it was decided to publish a new and cheaper edition of Mr. George Hooper’s “Sedan,” the question arose whether anything should be added to it.
UrbanThe Yoke Of The ThorahIT was the last day of November, 1882. The sun had not shone at all that day. The wind, sharp-edged, had blown steadily from the northeast.
UrbanThe Garden Without WallsIt happened about six in the morning, in a large red room. A bar of sunlight streamed in at the window, in which dust-motes were dancing by the…
UrbanThe Turning of the TideA distinguished professor of Mathematics in a New England college was wont to remark to the Freshman class when meeting them for the first time at…
UrbanThe Leopard's SpotsIn answer to hundreds of letters, I wish to say that all the incidents used in Book I., which is properly the prologue of my story, were selected…
UrbanThe ManatitlansIn the following record of the explorations of the Teutonic corps of the R. H. B. Society of Berlin, dispatched for the classification of parasitical…
UrbanChildren of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar PeopleA dead and gone wag called the street "Fashion Street," and most of the people who live in it do not even see the joke.
UrbanThe ReefUnexpected obstacle. Please don't come till thirtieth.
UrbanThe BostoniansThe Bostonians , by Henry James , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student…
UrbanBarnaby RudgeThe late Mr Waterton having, some time ago, expressed his opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offered the few following…
UrbanCandideWith its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaires masterpiece belongs in the hands of…
UrbanRoundabout PapersI had occasion to pass a week in the autumn in the little old town of Coire or Chur, in the Grisons, where lies buried that very ancient British…
UrbanRupert of HentzauRudolf Rassendyll, having heroically saved the kingdom of Ruritania and nobly given up the hand of the beautiful Princess Flavia, has returned to his…
UrbanUnder the Greenwood TreeThe plot concerns the activities of a group of church musicians, the Mellstock parish choir, one of whom, Dick Dewy, becomes romantically entangled…
UrbanOn the MagnetA t an early period, while philosophy lay as yet rude and uncultivated in the mists of error and ignorance, few were the virtues and properties of…
UrbanHistory of Florence and of the Affairs of ItalyNiccolo Machiavelli, the first great Italian historian, and one of the most eminent political writers of any age or country, was born at Florence…
UrbanDebits and CreditsDebit and credit are the two fundamental aspects of every financial transaction in the double-entry bookkeeping system in which every debit…
UrbanMr. Ceo & IAsher, is the cocky, arrogant, rude, and closed off Ceo of The National Elect Industries. He works hard for what he wants.
UrbanThe Daffodil MysteryI am afraid I don't understand you, Mr. Lyne." Odette Rider looked gravely at the young man who lolled against his open desk.
UrbanThe History of the Conquest of PeruThe most brilliant passages in the history of Spanish adventure in the New World are undoubtedly afforded by the conquests of Mexico and Peru, — the…
UrbanThe Abandoned FarmersIt is the inclination of the average reader to skip prefaces. For this I do not in the least blame him.
UrbanThe Coxon FundOne of the consequences, for the Mulvilles, of the sacrifices they made for Frank Saltram was that they had to give up their carriage.