The full text of the novel Peg Woffington by Charles Reade. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

The full text of the novel A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

The full text of the novel A Simpleton by Charles Reade. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

Read about some of the grassroots movements at the heart of Progressivism, and the changes they were pushing for and what they accomplished. Discusses labor issues, including the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Also discusses...

At this site from the University of North Carolina, you can read letters written by George E. Pickett (1825-1875), a Confederate soldier. Originally published in 1913, this book provides George E. Pickett's correspondence with his wife,...

Read this fascinating account by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, one of four survivors who traversed Florida and the Southwest for eight years, from 1529-1537.Read the preface which gives a background to this narrative before delving into...

Short selections from W. W. Rouse Ball's "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics," most of which are biographies that focus on the mathematician's work. The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or...

Read Thomas Bulfinch's account of the famous love affair of Venus and Adonis.

In this resource students can read an account of all the postings that made up Sherman's military career. It includes a color portrait.

Read the full text of the fictional account of labor unrest in a Canadian manufacturing town in the novel "To Him that Hath" by Ralph Connor.

Read the full text of the short story "A Sister's Confession" by Guy de Maupassant. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

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Read the full text of the short story The Foreman by Stewart Edward White. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

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Read the full text of the short story Sociology in Serge and Straw by Anton Chekhov. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

Read the full text of the short story The Softening of Miss Cynthia by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

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Read the full text of the short story The Fortune Teller by Arnold Bennett. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.