Set amid the teeming bustle of Victorian England, Dombey and Son is Dickens's story of a powerful man whose coldhearted neglect of his family causes his...

I am a Cheap Jack, and my own father's name was Willum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed by some that his name was William,...

Synopsis: 'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the...

With his sublime parting words, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done..." Sidney Carton joins that exhalted group...

1921. Wister, an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero. In a Straight Deal Wister examines British/American relations and...

Let me tell you a story of ToDay,-very homely and narrow in its scope and aim. Not of the To-Day whose significance in the history of humanity...

A SIMPLE SOUL By Gustave Flaubert For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and...

When I had fished my dinner, and drank the King of France's health, to satisfy my mind that I bore him no spleen, but, on the...

The Rue du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of...

A ROGUE'S LIFE. CHAPTER I. I AM going to try if I can't write something about myself. My life has been rather a strange one. It may not seem...