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The Brothers KaramazovPart IBook I. The History Of A FamilyChapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov Chapter II. He Gets Rid Of His Eldest Son Chapter III. The Second Marriage And The Second Family Chapter IV. The Third Son, Alyosha Chapter V. Elders Book II. An Unfortunate GatheringChapter I. They ...

Autobiography of Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie PREFACE AFTER retiring from active business my husband yielded to the earnest solicitations of friends, both here and in Great Britain, and began to jot down from time to time recollections of his early days. He soon...

The Sea LadyHerbert George Wells The Sea Lady CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE COMING OF THE SEA LADY ISuch previous landings of mermaids as have left a record, have all a flavour of doubt. Even the very circumstantial account of that Bruges Sea Lady, who was so clever at fancy work, gives occasion to the ...

The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English TonguePercival Leigh The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue PRELIMINARY DISCOURSEFashion requires, and like the rest of her sex, requires because she requires, that before a write...

Books and Characters, French & EnglishLytton Strachey Books and Characters, French & English TO JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe following papers are reprinted by kind permission of the Editors of the Independent Review, the New Quarterly, the Athenaeum, and the Edinburgh Review.The 'Dialogue' is n...

Jennie Gerhardt: A NovelDreiser Theodore Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel CHAPTER I One morning, in the fall of 1880, a middle-aged woman, accompanied by a young girl of eighteen, presented herself at the clerk's desk of the principal hotel in Columbus, Ohio, and made inquiry as to whether there was anyt...

A Man's WomanFrank Norris A Man's Woman The following novel was completed March 22, 1899, and sent to the printer in October of the same year. After the plates had been made notice was received that a play called "A Man's Woman" had been written by Anne Crawford Flexner, and that this title had b...

The Middle Temple MurderJ. S. Fletcher The Middle Temple Murder CHAPTER ONE THE SCRAP OF GREY PAPERAs a rule, Spargo left the Watchman office at two o'clock. The paper had then gone to press. There was nothing for him, recently promoted to a sub-editorship, to do after he had passed the column fo...

Two Years Ago, Volume ICharles Kingsley Two Years Ago, Volume I INTRODUCTORY It may seem a somewhat Irish method of beginning the story of "Two Years Ago" by a scene which happened but a month since. And yet, will not the story be on that very account a better type of many a man's own experiences...

The Personal History of David CopperfieldCharles Dickens The Personal History of David Copperfield PREFACE I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to re...