The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in L...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his famous detective.
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes...
"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is about an eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.
Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, "Dracula" tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive olde...
***WATTYS 2017 WINNER*** When the newly single, 40 year-old Jeff Dempsey suffers an agonizing humiliation at his high school reunion, he comes to realize he has accomplished almost nothing with his life. Armed with this new found insight, Jeff charges headlong into the bold new adventure of becoming the man he always...
Something about him had been so captivating. The way he walked with vigilance, the way his brown suede boots made a tapping sound as he passed to ward you of his presence, how his touch was soft but his demeanor cold. In which a boy who has a negative outlook on the world crosses paths with a girl who has the same pe...
We hate them, the girls in stories that try to separate the main characters. You know, your typical Queen bees. Well Annabelle is one of them. Yes, blonde, big chest and a bigger list of guys she has spent a night with. We hate her, she's the bad person, but what do we know about her except that she wants the guy w...
PG-13 Hundreds of children across the country have been found to have dangerous psychic powers, scientists hypothesize this is from dangerous levels of chemicals in drinking water at crucial developmental stages. There are six colors. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and gray. Each color has a varying level of horr...
Before you judge me and my parents, Officer, I hope you'll realize that we were pushed to our limits. Some people are just, well, they're jerks. A domestic comedy of passive-aggression, gardening, birding, and a hot El Camino. Thank you for reading this Wattpad (formerly) Featured Story!
**Officially published as Clique Bait with HarperTeen!** Payment is usually a part of a basic transaction. You give and then you take. But, at Arlington Preparatory, people take at their leisure. They take their entertainment in the form of humiliation. They get what they want at the expense of their pawns. But they n...
A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. But this love has conditions: they agree it will last only one hour, and it will be only make-believe. When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to...
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Book Two: They encourage, not the realists and the brave, but the gullible and the fragile, those too weak to fight back. They massacre lower and middle-class citizens once every month to control the growing population through a method called Cleansing. They rid of all music except modern pop to eliminate diversity, k...
[One Shot - Completed] Dylan, her brother Alex, and his best friend Jesse spend their summer at the beach house before they start college. Dylan has had a crush on Jesse for as long as she can remember, but nothing has ever happened between them. Are things going to be different during their last summer together? *...
[One Shot - Completed] 23-year old Summer Parks had already been in a really bad mood about Nash McKeen's return before she was blackmailed into sharing a car with him. He wasn't only her boss's son but also her summer-love-gone-wrong from a year ago. Now the jerk - who had left her without so much as a word in the mi...
{Highest Ranking: #3 in Short Story} Tyler - who is best known as superstar Jet Valentine - and his girlfriend Anna have been together now for almost four years. Anna has joined Tyler on his latest world tour, while she finishes up her college degree online. Things get a little weird between them when they both star...
{Highest Ranking: #2 in Short Story} One collision. Two strangers. One unorthodox way to pay off her debt. Three weeks of late night conversations. One Date.
{Highest Ranking: #1 in Short Story} Liam Walker's life changes drastically when he watches his best friend Allison Parker get hit by a car. The injuries are so bad that Allie ends up in a coma, leaving Liam devastated. He visits her at the hospital as often as possible, wishing for nothing more than to see her wake...
What if you could write a letter to, love, death or time? What would you say? I wrote my letter to love. It turned out a bit different than I thought it would, so I hope you'll like it. Inspired by the movie Collateral Beauty and my entry for the Romance Profile Short Story Collection.
"Love... It can bring you across the world, the seas and the skies. That's what love is." Ten years ago, Kayla Harris fell in love with Infinite Distress. What could ten years of one-sided love do to a person? After all, love makes us all blind to the things around us. Packed with a list of hotel reservations, cash a...
The one and only epilogue for Riley's Tale on the Opposite Gender one-shot contest.
Hannah and Jake have been best friends since they were little as they were the only ones in their neighbourhood that were the same age. What happens when one day the two best friends decide to bake a pie together... surely things will get messy.
Carly McClellan has had her wings clipped all her life, but suddenly an opportunity arises to spread those wings and see the world, and she embraces it whole-heartedly. And life in an Austrian ski resort is a million miles from the Scottish village she was brought up in. Whilst she loves her new found freedom, she ha...
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Blayze Norman; A cold and ruthless CEO of Norman Enterprises has decided to take Caden Carter as his bride, not even the heavens was going to stop him. * * * Blayze Norman is the cold, ruthless and industrious CEO of the multi-billion Norman Enterprises. He's meticulous and calculative with his every step. The type to...
If you had wings... If you could fly... How would it affect your life? Your love? Your freedom? Keira has wings, and she is alone. The city girl hides her wings from the world, believing she is a freak, haunted by strange men in suits who constantly follow her movements. Keira exists for the night when she can t...