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Edgar Allen Poe-A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM-Chapter Three
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM. The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to…
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Edgar Allen Poe-THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE-Chapter Two
THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE Truth is stranger than fiction.—_Old Saying_ Having had occasion, lately, in the course of some Oriental investigations, to consult the Tellmenow Isitsöornot, a work which…
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Edgar Allen Poe-THE PURLOINED LETTER-Chapter One
THE PURLOINED LETTER Nil sapientiæ odiosius acumine nimio.—_Seneca_. At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18-, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and…
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Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice-Chapter Three
CHAPTER III. Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her fivedaughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from herhusband any satisfactory description of Mr.…
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Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice-Chapter Two
CHAPTER II. [Illustration] Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. Hehad always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring hiswife that…
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Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice-Chapter One
Chapter I.] It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possessionof a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or…
