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UrbanTwo Years Before the MastIn 1869, my father, the late Richard Henry Dana, Jr., prepared a new edition of his “Two Years Before the Mast” with this preface: “After…
UrbanBabbitProsperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything. But when a personal crisis forces the middle-aged real estate agent to…
UrbanJourney to the Western Isles of ScotlandI had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited; and was…
UrbanJennie GerhardtJennie Gerhardt is a 1911 novel by Theodore Dreiser. ennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman.
UrbanThe Book of SnobsWe have all read a statement, (the authenticity of which I take leave to doubt entirely, for upon what calculations I should like to know is it…
UrbanThe Green RustI don't know whether there's a law that stops my doing this, Jim; but if there is, you've got to get round it. You're a lawyer and you know the game.
UrbanOld Melbourne MemoriesThese reminiscences of the early days of Melbourne—a city which, as a family, we helped to found—awakened, when first published in the columns of the…
UrbanLife of Frederick MarryatThe materials for a life of Marryat are scanty, and I have acknowledged my obligation to them in the text. Mrs.
UrbanHilda LesswaysThe Lessways household, consisting of Hilda and her widowed mother, was temporarily without a servant.
UrbanThe Young ExplorerBen heard every word that was said, and it confirmed his suspicions. There was no doubt that an attempt would be made to rob him and his companion…
UrbanPsmith JournalistThe sunshine of a fair Spring morning fell graciously on London town. Out in Piccadilly its heartening warmth seemed to infuse into traffic and…
UrbanDiana of the CrosswaysGeorge Meredith, OM (1828-1909) was an English novelist and poet. He read law and was articled as a solicitor, but abandoned that profession for…
UrbanAdam BedeAdam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859.
UrbanThe OutletAt the close of the civil war the need for a market for the surplus cattle of Texas was as urgent as it was general.
UrbanThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney…
UrbanRambles Beyond RailwaysThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures…
UrbanPeace in Friendship Village"Whatever comes of it after this [in Russia] every one in the world should be plainly told of what took place in those first weeks.
UrbanDick Kent with the Malemute MailA discouraged, dishevelled human figure crossed a narrow woodland to the west of a chain of hills, thence made his way slowly down to a sun-baked…
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…