Captain Blood

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

“There is no more to be said, gentlemen. My name is Blood—Captain Blood, if you please, of this ship the Cinco Llagas, taken as a prize of war from Don Diego de Espinosa y Valdez, who is my prisoner aboard.

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Breakfast over, I must again move—in what direction? “Go to Villette,” said an inward voice; prompted doubtless by the recollection of this slight sentence uttered carelessly and at random by Miss Fanshawe, as she bid me good-by: “I wish you would come to Madame Beck’s; she has some marmots whom you might look after; she wants an English gouvernante, or was wanting one two months ago.”

The Secret Adversary

TO ALL THOSE WHO LEADMONOTONOUS LIVESIN THE HOPE THAT THEY MAY EXPERIENCEAT SECOND HANDTHE DELIGHTS AND DANGERS OFADVENTURE CONTENTS PrologueI The Young Adventurers, Ltd.II Mr. Whittington’s OfferIII A Set BackIV Who Is Jane Finn?V Mr. Julius P. HersheimmerVI A Plan…

Notes & Queries, No. 22., Saturday, March 30, 1850 by VariousA Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiqueries, Genealogists, etc.

In two former communications on a subject incidental to that to which I now beg leave to call your attention, I hinted at a result far more important than the discovery of the author of the Taming of a Shrew. That result I lay before your readers, in stating that I think I can show grounds for the assertion that the Taming of the Shrew, by Shakspeare, is the original play; and that the Taming of a Shrew, by Marlowe or what other writer soever, is a later work, and an imitation.

Notes & Queries, No. 31., Saturday, June 1, 1850 by VariousA Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiqueries, Genealogists, etc.

We cannot resist the opportunity which the commencement of our Second Volume affords us, of addressing a few words of acknowledgment to our friends, both contributors and readers. In the short space of seven months, we have been enabled by their support to win for “NOTES AND QUERIES” no unimportant position among the literary journals of this country.

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

It was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. The Lusitania had been struck by two torpedoes in succession and was sinking rapidly, while the boats were being launched with all possible speed.

Zuleika Dobson by Max BeerbohmOr, an Oxford love story

This Etext prepared by Judy Boss, of Omaha, NE ZULEIKA DOBSON OR AN OXFORD LOVE STORY by Max Beerbohm NOTE to the 1922 edition I was in Italy when this book was first published. A year later (1912) I visited London, and I found that most of my friends and acquaintances spoke to me of

Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton

This etext was prepared by Dave Ceponis and Sue Asscher. ZANONI BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (PLATE: “Thou art good and fair,” said Viola. Drawn by P. Kauffmann, etched by Deblois.) DEDICATORY EPISTLE First prefixed to the Edition of 1845 TO JOHN GIBSON, R.A., SCULPTOR. In looking round the wide and luminous circle of our great

Yeast by Charles KingsleyA novel

Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk YEAST: A PROBLEM PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION This book was written nearly twelve years ago; and so many things have changed since then, that it is hardly fair to send it into the world afresh, without some notice of the improvement–if such there be–which has taken place meanwhile
Large but neglected stone house in splendid isolation on the North Yorkshire Moors.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

‘Well, yes – oh, you would intimate that her spirit has taken the post of ministering angel, and guards the fortunes of Wuthering Heights, even when her body is gone. Is that it?’