Emma
by Jane Austen
VOLUME I
CHAPTER I
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
CHAPTER I
About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon,
with only seven thousand
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
Chapter 1
Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who,
for his own amusement, never
Chapter I
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IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
However little known the fe
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
by Jane Austen
CHAPTER 1
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex.
Their estate was large, and their resi
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
CHAPTER ONE
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled
Jo, lying
CHAPTER 1
Gossip
In order that we may start afresh and go to Meg's wedding with free minds, it will be
well to begin with a little gossip about the Marches. And here let me premise th
CHAPTER 1
A Discovery
You must go back with me to the autumn of 1827.
My father, as you know, was a sort of gentleman farmer in --shire; and I, by his
express desire, succeeded
JANE EYRE
by Charlotte Bronte
THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE
SECOND EDITION
A PREFACE to the first edition of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I
gave none: this sec
Charlotte Bront?
The Professor
CHAPTER I
The other day, in looking over my papers, I found in my copy of a
letter, sent by me a year since to an old school acquaintance:
