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Beyond the City by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Chapter 04

In Beyond the City, the desire for money and romance drives the characters beyond the typical boundaries of their middle class Victorian lives. Lust, deceit, and financial scandals rock their placid world.

Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley - Appendix—Letters from Mrs. Lincoln to Mrs. Keckley

Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House is an autobiographical narrative by Elizabeth Keckley. In it she tells the story of her life as a slave and her time as a seamstress for Mrs. Lincoln in the White House.

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - Chapter 01

Black Beauty is a novel told in the first person (or "first horse") as an autobiographical memoir told by a highbred horse named Black Beauty-beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country.

Curly and Floppy Twistytail, the Funny Piggie Boys - Story 03

Curly and Floppy Twistytail is about the adventures of the two Twistytail pig brothers.

A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain - Chapter 03

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur's Camelot.