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“Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof.”Prolog: The house was three miles from the station, but, before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window..

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”Prolog: Since I can do no good because a woman, Reach constantly at something that is near it.The Maid’s Tragedy: Beaumont and FletcherMiss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were ..

Moby-Dick is considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, one of the great epics in all of literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab..

“…how small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.”Prolog: There was, until a year ago, a little and very grimy looking shop near Seven Dials, over which, in weather-worn yellow lettering, the name of ”C. Cave, Naturalist and Dealer in Antiquities,” was i..

English Classics: The Invisible Man..

“Brain, character, soul— only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.Prolog: Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth,—a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. ..

“Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,” said Mrs. Ramsay. “But you’ll have to be up with the lark,” she added.To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it..