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The Prisoner of Zenda

"I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?" said my brother's wife. "My dear Rose," I answered, laying down my egg-spoon, "why in the world should I do anything? My position is ...
4.2 (18)
105 Reads
34 parts

Wuthering Heights

1801—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have ...
4.6 (11)
401 Reads
28 parts

The Efficiency Expert

The gymnasium was packed as Jimmy Torrance stepped into the ring for the final event of the evening that was to decide the boxing championship of the university. Drawing to a close were the nearly ...
4.5 (4)
110 Reads
10 parts

The Great Gatsby

—THOMAS PARKE D'INVILLIERS ...
4.5 (45)
1K+ Reads
20 parts

The Border Legion

Joan Randle reined in her horse on the crest of the cedar ridge, and with remorse and dread beginning to knock at her heart she gazed before her at the wild and looming mountain range. "Jim wasn't ...
3 (2)
19 Reads

The Ladybird

How many swords had Lady Beveridge in her pierced heart! Yet there always seemed room for another. Since she had determined that her heart of pity and kindness should never die. If it had not been ...
4.5 (12)
81 Reads
21 parts

The Heritage of the Desert

"BUT the man's almost dead." The words stung John Hare's fainting spirit into life. He opened his eyes. The desert still stretched before him, the appalling thing that had overpowered him with its ...
3.7 (4)
20 Reads
42 parts

Lady Susan

LADY SUSAN VERNON TO MR. VERNON Langford, Dec. My dear Brother, I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at ...
4.0 (11)
327 Reads
15 parts

Soldiers of Fortune

"It is so good of you to come early," said Mrs. Porter, as Alice Langham entered the drawing-room. "I want to ask a favor of you. I'm sure you won't mind. I would ask one of the debutantes, except ...
4.6 (3)
12 Reads
15 parts

The Winter's Tale

SCENE I. Antechamber in LEONTES' palace. Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS ARCHIDAMUS If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall ...
4.3 (6)
255 Reads
53 parts

The Secret of the Storm Country

The lazy warmth of a May afternoon, the spring following Orn Skinner's release from Auburn Prison, was reflected in the attitudes of three men lounging on the shore in front of "Satisfied" Longman's ...
4.5 (4)
52 Reads
32 parts

The Mountain Girl

The snow had ceased falling. No wind stirred among the trees that covered the hillsides, and every shrub, every leaf and twig, still bore its feathery, white load. Slowly the train labored upward, ...
4.5 (9)
220 Reads
50 parts

Sense and Sensibility

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived ...
4.7 (22)
549 Reads
17 parts

Carmilla

Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS. ...
4.1 (6)
295 Reads
25 parts

Arms and the Woman

The first time I met her I was a reporter in the embryonic state and she was a girl in short dresses. It was in a garden, surrounded by high red brick walls which were half hidden by clusters of ...
4.1 (6)
59 Reads
39 parts

The Half-Hearted

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4.5 (14)
264 Reads
17 parts

The Bandbox

At half-past two of a sunny, sultry afternoon late in the month of August, Mr. Benjamin Staff sat at table in the dining-room of the Authors’ Club, moodily munching a morsel of cheese and a segment ...
4.5 (4)
37 Reads
33 parts

The Incomplete Amorist

To Richard Reynolds and Justus Miles Forman "Faire naitre un désir, le nourrir, le développer, le grandir, le satisfaire, c'est un poeme tout entier." —Balzac. ...
5 (3)
158 Reads
31 parts

Women in Love

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was ...
4.0 (19)
204 Reads
27 parts

The Valley of Silent Men

Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and ...
4.3 (3)
40 Reads

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