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Emma: A Fragment of a Story

Emma: A Fragment of a Story

by Charlotte Bronte

Published posthumously and prefaced by Charlotte Brontë's editor, W. M. Thackeray, these two chapters are the only existing fragments of Emma, the novel Brontë worked on until her untimely death. Since then, it has been "completed" twice by other authors.Miss Mabel Wilcox, the owner of a newly opened girl's boarding school, meets the wealthy Mr. Co..

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville

Herman Melville's short fiction work Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street deals with psychological effects of an employee who works in dead letter office. Bartleby was hired by a Manhattan lawyer, to copy legal documents. His aggressive and quality work start deteriorating day by day to the point he stops working. Days passed he continue..

Benito Cereno

Benito Cereno

by Herman Melville

Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first published in three installments in Putnam's Monthly in 1855. The tale, slightly revised, was included in his short story collection The Piazza Tales that appeared in May 1856. According to scholar Mer..

Double: A Petersburg Poem

Double: A Petersburg Poem

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Double is a novella written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published on January 30, 1846 in the Fatherland Notes. It was subsequently revised and republished by Dostoevsky in 1866.The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who rep..

The Man Who was Thursday

The Man Who was Thursday

by G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton's political thriller The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare deals with religion and anarchism. The protagonist Gabriel Syme has been assigned by Scotland Yard to intrude and eradicate the anarchists. Hiding his identity he pretends to be a poet and connecting himself to Lucian Gregory on a debate on poetry. To prove his point Gregor..

A Lady of Quality

A Lady of Quality

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Lady of Quality is a novel published in 1896 by Frances Hodgson Burnett that was the second highest best-selling book in the United States in 1896. It was the first of series of successful historical novels by Burnett. In addition to a play version of the novel, which debuted in 1897 featuring Julia Arthur, silent-film adaptations were releas..

In the Closed Room

In the Closed Room

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

This is a short story about a shy, quiet little girl living in a big city. When her parents are offered the opportunity to take care of a house in the suburbs for the summer she meets another little girl in the house and they become playmates. ..

Emily Fox-Seton

Emily Fox-Seton

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Making of a Marchioness is a 1901 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was followed by a sequel, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst, but both have been subsequently published together, either under the original name The Making of a Marchioness or as Emily Fox-Seton. The collected version was republished by Persephone Books. It was made into a BBC ..