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A Room with a View
A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

The Signora had no business to do it, said Miss Bartlett, no business at all.

1905 755 ed.
The Magus
The Magus

by John Fowles

I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents,both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongate...

1965 61 ed.
The conquest of happiness
The conquest of happiness

by Bertrand Russell

Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat.

1930 18 ed.
Reach for the Sky
Reach for the Sky

by Larry Forrester, Paul Brickhill

WHEN DOUGLAS BADER was nineteen, his flying instructor said, "That young man will either be famous or be killed."

1954 36 ed.
Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano

by Malcolm Lowry

Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plat...

1947 53 ed.
The Wild Knight and Other Poems
The Wild Knight and Other Poems

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Another tattered rhymster in the ring,

1900 193 ed.
Villette, a novel
Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

MY godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

1853 519 ed.
Three Men on the Bummel
Three Men on the Bummel

by Jerome Klapka Jérôme

"What we want," said Harris, "is a change."

1900 312 ed.
I, Claudius
I, Claudius

by Robert Graves

Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) wh...

1934 56 ed.
Tarzan of the Apes
Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I HAD THIS STORY FROM ONE WHO HAD NO BUSINESS TO tell it to me, or to any other.

1912 226 ed.
The Professor
The Professor

by Charlotte Brontë

THE other day, in looking over my papers, I found in my desk the following copy of a letter, sent by me a year since to ...

1856 210 ed.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster

Except for the Marabar Caves-and they are twenty miles off-the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.

1924 220 ed.
Far away and long ago
Far away and long ago

by W. H. Hudson

IT was never my intention to write an autobiography.

1918 31 ed.