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The Red and the Black

The Red and the Black, Stendhal’s masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion ...
5 (3)
229 Reads
53 parts

The Marble Faun

The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance, and possibly one of the strangest major works of American fiction. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a ...
5 (3)
75 Reads
25 parts

The Pirate Woman

A great unrest brooded over mountain and forest; the blue Caribbean lay hushed and glaring, as if held in leash by a power greater than that which ordered its daily ebb and flow. Men moved or stood ...
4.8 (6)
73 Reads
64 parts

A Laodicean: a Story of To-day

The changing of the old order in country manors and mansions may be slow or sudden, may have many issues romantic or otherwise, its romantic issues being not necessarily restricted to a change back ...
4.4 (9)
224 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
32 parts

West Wind Drift

On a bright, still morning in October, the Doraine sailed from a South American port and turned her glistening nose to the northeast. All told, there were some seven hundred and fifty souls on board; ...
5 (4)
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24 parts

Desert Gold

1. A FACE haunted Cameron—a woman's face. It was there in the white heart of the dying campfire; it hung in the shadows that hovered over the flickering light; it drifted in the darkness beyond. This ...
4.6 (8)
59 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)
217 Reads
22 parts

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)
104 Reads
17 parts

Much Ado About Nothing

SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house. Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger LEONATO I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon comes this night to Messina. Messenger He is very ...
4.5 (2)
46 Reads
24 parts

Persuasion

The final novel by the acclaimed writer places heroine Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity and deep emotion, against the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England.
4.6 (8)
266 Reads
50 parts

The Mutiny of the Elsinore

From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier- end precisely on time. At nine o'clock the tug was to have ...
3.5 (2)
26 Reads
17 parts

The Rainbow

1. The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. Two miles away, a ...
4.7 (31)
434 Reads

The Princess of Cleves

Grandeur and gallantry never appeared with more lustre in France, than in the last years of Henry the Second's reign. This Prince was amorous and handsome, and though his passion for Diana of ...
4.6 (3)
25 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)
318 Reads
23 parts

First Love

The party had long ago broken up. The clock struck half-past twelve. There was left in the room only the master of the house and Sergei Nikolaevitch and Vladimir Petrovitch. The master of the house ...
4.6 (25)
843 Reads
29 parts

That Girl Montana

“That girl the murderer of a man—of Lee Holly! That pretty little girl? Bosh! I don’t believe it.” “I did not say she killed him; I said she was suspected. And even though she was cleared, the death ...
4.6 (5)
14 Reads
5 parts

Love Among the Haystacks

The two large fields lay on a hillside facing south. Being newly cleared of hay, they were golden green, and they shone almost blindingly in the sunlight. Across the hill, half-way up, ran a high ...
5 (3)
74 Reads
123 parts

The Well at the World's End

Using language with elements of the medieval tales which were his models, Morris tells the story of Ralph of Upmeads, the fourth and youngest son of a minor king, who sets out, contrary to his ...
5 (8)
268 Reads
2 parts

George Loves Gistla

Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Planet Stories January 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling ...
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283 Reads
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