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Mrs Greenow's Little Dinner in the Close

In Can You Forgive Her?

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Anthony Trollope

“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. It introdu…

Cold Iron

In Rewards and Fairies

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his ch…

Chapter 16

In The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1

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Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …

Chapter 8

In Howards End (version 2)

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Edward Morgan Forster and E. M. Forster

The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret,…

The Letter in Cipher

In The Friendly Five

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Mary C. Hungerford

"There were neither examinations nor graduation exercises at the Coventry Institute. The only ceremony peculiar to the last day of scho…

The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France

In Famous Modern Ghost Stories

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Dorothy Scarborough, compiler, Anatole France and Variousanddorothy Scarborough

An entertaining selection of "modern" ghost stories selected "to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of moder…

Mrs Johnson to Lady S. Vernon

In Lady Susan (version 2)

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …

Lady Linlithgow at Home

In The Eustace Diamonds

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Anthony Trollope

Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. Wh…