Tag: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
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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 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 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…
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Jane Austen-Sense and Sensibility-Chapter Two
CHAPTER II. Mrs. John Dashwood now installed herself mistress of Norland; and hermother and sisters-in-law were degraded to the condition of visitors.As such, however, they were treated by her with…
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Jane Austen-Sense and Sensibility-Chapter Three
CHAPTER III. Mrs. Dashwood remained at Norland several months; not from anydisinclination to move when the sight of every well known spot ceasedto raise the violent emotion which it produced…
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Jane Austen-Sense and Sensibility-Chapter One
CHAPTER I. The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estatewas large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre oftheir property, where, for many…
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Carrol Lewis-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-Chapter One
CHAPTER I.Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on thebank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped…
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Carrol Lewis-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-Chapter One-Chapter Two
CHAPTER II.The Pool of Tears “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, thatfor the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’mopening out like…
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Carrol Lewis-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-Chapter Three
CHAPTER III.A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—thebirds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging closeto them, and…
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Arthur Conan Doyle-The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-Chapter Three
III. I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our toastand coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed into theroom. “You have really…