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Excerpt: The Pension Beaurepas by Henry James.

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Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

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Excerpt: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

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Excerpt: Pandora by Henry James.

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Excerpt: The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled--but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong....

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Excerpt: I had done a few things and earned a few pence--I had perhaps even had time to begin to think I was finer than was perceived by the patronising; but when I take the little measure of my course (a fidgety habit, for it?s none of the longest yet) I count my real start from the evening George Corvick, breathless and worried, came in to ask me a service. He had done more things than I, and earned more pence, though there were chances for cleverness I thought he sometimes missed....

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Excerpt: Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is provided with out charge for any and all interested parties. The Pennsylvania State University and Jim Manis, editor, assume no responsibilities for its use, either in content or as an electronic transmission or device. Persons using this document/file do so at their own risk. The Pennsylvania State University and Jim Manis, editor, wish you the best and hope you enjoy this document....

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Excerpt: Introduction to Crito. The ?Crito? seems intended to exhibit the character of Socrates in one light only, not as the philosopher, fulfilling a divine mission and trusting in the will of Heaven, but simply as the good citizen, who having been unjustly condemned is willing to give up his life in obedience to the laws of the State....

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Excerpt: On a winter?s night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne d?Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, or to reflect on her situation. She was a prey to cruel fears,--caused less by the dread of a first lying-in, which terrifies most women, than by certain dangers which awaited her child. In order not to awaken her husband who was sleeping beside her, the poor woman moved with precautions which her intense terror made as minute as those of a prisoner endeavor...

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Excerpt: Vittoria by George Meredith.

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Excerpt: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself removed from the slightest possibility of disturbing experiences. I had gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. ?Here, at any rate,? said I, ?I shall find peace and a chance to work!?...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, translated by R. S. Townsend.

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Excerpt: Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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Excerpt: The Courtship of Susan Bell by Anthony Trollope.

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. An excursion beyond the immediate suburbs of London, projected long before his pony-carriage was hired to conduct him, in fact ever since his retirement from active service, led General Ople across a famous common, with which he fell in love at once, to a lofty highway along the borders of a park, for which he promptly exchanged his heart, and so gradually within a stone?s-throw or so of the river-side, where he determined not solely to bestow his affections but to settle for life. It may be seen that he was of an adventurous temperament, though he had thought fit to loosen his swordbelt. The pony-carriage....

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Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, half-way between Fougeres and Ernee, a small town where travelers along that road are in the habit of resting....

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Excerpt: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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Excerpt: The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge.