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UrbanThe Secret PassageAll that wealth -- Mrs. Octagon would not be surprised to hear someone had murdered her aunt for it No sooner had she voiced her musings, sitting in…
UrbanAn Inland VoyageAn Inland Voyage (1878) is a travelogue by Robert Louis Stevenson about a canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876.
UrbanThe FinancierThis scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
UrbanOld Cookery Books and Ancient CuisineTHE BOOK-LOVERS LIBRARY_ was first published in the following styles: No. 1.--Printed on antique paper, in cloth bevelled with rough edges,price 4s.
UrbanThe ODYSSEY of HomerHomer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce.
UrbanNarrative of an expedition into Central AustraliaAlthough the services recorded in the following pages, which your Lordship permits me to dedicate to you, have not resulted in the discovery of any…
UrbanHalf-A-Dozen HousekeepersMARCH had come in like a lion, and showed no sign of going out like a lamb. The pussy willows knew that it was, or ought to be, spring, but although…
UrbanWhite FeatherTo MY BROTHER DICK The time of this story is a year and a term later thanthat of _The Gold Bat.
UrbanRose O' The RiverIt was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes…
UrbanA Story of the Golden AgeYou have heard of Homer, and of the two wonderful poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which bear his name.
UrbanThe Yellow WallpaperIt is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
UrbanMosses from an Old Manse, and other storiesBetween two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the…
UrbanOrmond“What! no music, no dancing at Castle Hermitage to-night; and all the ladies sitting in a formal circle, petrifying into perfect statues?”
UrbanThe OutcryThe Outcry , Henry James's final novel, is an effervescent comedy of money and manners. Breckenridge Bender, a very rich American with a distinct…
UrbanPoor Miss FinchMore than one charming blind girl, in fiction and in the drama, has preceded “Poor Miss Finch.”
UrbanThe Heart Of The MatterThe Heart of the Matter is a novel by English author Graham Greene. The book details a life-changing moral crisis for Henry Scobie.
UrbanWhat Jesus TaughtNo other teacher in the history of the world has wielded so profound an influence upon humanity as has Jesus the Christ.
UrbanCollege Men Without MoneyHaving entered the preparatory schools with 94 cents, and college with less, and knowing that the greater number of those who control the affairs of…
UrbanThe Ebb-TideThroughout the island world of the Pacific, scattered men of many European races and from almost every grade of society carry activity and…
UrbanMemorabiliaMemorabilia is a collection of Socratic dialogues by Xenophon, a student of Socrates. The lengthiest and most famous of Xenophon's Socratic writings…
UrbanThe Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. YellowplushI was born in the year one, of the present or Christian hera, and am, in consquints, seven-and-thirty years old.
UrbanJacob's RoomJacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on October 26th 1922. The novel centers, in a very ambiguous way, around the life…
UrbanLeaves of GrassThis collection remains the incomparable achievement of one of America's greatest poets-a passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no…
UrbanIn The LevantIN the winter and spring of 1875 the writer made the tour of Egypt and the Levant. The first portion of the journey is described in a volume…
UrbanLothairThese remarks were made in the morning-room of Brentham, where the mistress of the mansion sat surrounded by her daughters, all occupied with various…
UrbanA Tale of Two CitiesA Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.
UrbanThe Sleeper AwakesWhen the Sleeper Wakes_, whose title I have now altered to _The Sleeper Awakes_, was first published as a book in 1899 after a serial appearance in…
UrbanBound to Rise"Sit up to the table, children, breakfast's ready." The speaker was a woman of middle age, not good-looking in the ordinary acceptation of the term…
UrbanA Message from the SeaCaptain Jorgan had to look high to look at it, for the village was built sheer up the face of a steep and lofty cliff.
UrbanOther People's MoneyA man must be something worse than a simpleton to still ply histrade on the high-roads, exposed to all sorts of annoyances on thepart of the…
UrbanAngel of TerrorThe hush of the court, which had been broken when the foreman of the jury returned their verdict, was intensified as the Judge, with a quick glance…
UrbanThe House by the Church-YardThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures…
UrbanA Prefect's UncleThe action of the novel takes place at the fictional "Beckford College", a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arrival at the school of…
UrbanNeighborhood StoriesThat is like Calliope. And that is like the village. Blunt and sometimes bitter speech there is, and now and again what we gently call “words”; but…
UrbanMotor Matt's Make UpThe scene was the side-show tent of the "Big Consolidated," Boss Burton's "Tented Aggregation of the World's Marvels."
UrbanA Christmas CarolA Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843.
UrbanFortune's My FoeThe storm of the night was over. The winds had subsided almost as quickly as they had risen on the previous evening--as is ever the case in the West…
UrbanThe Tin Box"Have you finished breakfast already, Harry?" asked Mrs. Gilbert, as Harry rose hurriedly from the table and reached for his hat, which hung on a…
UrbanMarjorie Dean MacyMarjorie was a feast for beauty-loving eyes as she sat on the wide stone edge of the silver-spraying fountain with its musical murmur of water…
UrbanWith Rogers on the FrontierThe great conflict between England and France for supremacy upon the North American continent was drawing near its final stage.
UrbanThe Wreck of the TitanSHE was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men. In her construction and maintenance were involved every science, profession…
UrbanOn HorsemanshipClaiming to have attained some proficiency in horsemanship1 ourselves, as the result of long experience in the field, our wish is to explain, for the…
UrbanTales of Mean StreetsAfter a quarter of a century these, brief and searching tales of Arthur Morrison’s still keep the breath of life in them — modest but precious…
UrbanOliver TwistOliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of…
UrbanGreat ExpectationsGreat Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to…
UrbanThe NibelungenliedThe Nibelungenlied is based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs (the "Nibelungensaga"), which include oral traditions and reports based on…
UrbanNews from NowhereWritten in 1890, at the close of William Morris’s most intense period of political activism, News from Nowhere is a compelling articulation of…
UrbanNew Grub StreetNew Grub Street (1891), George Gissing's most highly regarded novel, is the story of men and women forced to make their living by writing.