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  Emma

  Jane Austen

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  Emma Woodhouse is handsome, clever, rich, and quite certain she knows what everyone else should want. Austen said she was taking on a heroine whom no one but herself would much like, and then wrote the funniest of her novels around her — a comedy in which every piece of matchmaking misfires because the matchmaker cannot read her own heart. The plot is a puzzle: every clue is on the page, and almost no reader spots them.

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  The Struggles Of Brown Jones And...

  Anthony Trollope

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  The Struggles Of Brown, Jones And Robinson by Anthony Trollope is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Published in 1862, this satirical novel concerns a partnership in a haberdashery between Brown, a retired dealer in butter, Jones his son-in-law, and Robinson, a great believer in advertising. Due to Brown's timidity, Jones' wrongdoing and Robinson's extravagance, the business soon becomes bankrupt. This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  A Master's Degree

  Margaret Hill McCarter

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  A small Kansas college, a young woman who will not be told what to study, and a professor who came out of the sunflower country and means to keep it. McCarter taught school in Kansas and then wrote the state into fiction — drought, sunflowers, mortgages and the colleges that were being built on the prairie while the sod was still fresh. The West here is not cowboys; it is people arguing about a library.

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  Master and Man

  Leo Tolstoy

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  A merchant and his peasant set out with a horse and sledge to close a land deal before a rival can, and drive into a blizzard neither of them takes seriously. Tolstoy wrote it in his sixties, after renouncing his own novels; it is short, plain and merciless about how a man calculates right up until the moment calculation stops.

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  Little Women

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. The story follows the lives of the four March sistersMeg, Jo, Beth, and Amyand details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters, it is classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel.Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, and readers were eager for more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (titled Good Wives in the United Kingdom, though the name originated with the publisher and not Alcott). It was also met with success. The two volumes were issued in 1880 as a single novel titled Little Women. Alcott subsequently wrote two sequels to her popular work, both also featuring the March sisters: Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).The novel has been said to address three major themes: "domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine's individual identity.": According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from romantic children's fiction and combined it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new genre. Elbert argues that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the "All-American girl" and that her various aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.

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  The Nigger Of The Narcissus

  Joseph Conrad

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  We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? James Wait is an Afro-Caribbean sailor in Bombay who enlists on the Narcissus , a trading ship bound for London. His deteriorating health soon becomes a problem for the crew, whose attention is focused on the perils of their strenuous sea voyage. The forecastle, which contains the crew's living quarters, becomes the narrative's focal point. The Nigger of the Narcissus , Joseph Conrad's third novel, was serialized in 1897 and published as a book in the same year. Due to its controversial title, it was first published in the United States as The Children of the Sea , before being published there under its original title in 1914. Its introduction is considered to be one of Conrad's most important pieces of nonfiction, as in it he explains his philosophy of writing with quotes like "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see." The introduction has been employed by literary scholars as a crucial key to understanding Conrad's artistic vision. Joseph Conrad (died 1924) was a major literary figure of the early 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, The Nigger Of The Narcissus exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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