Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novelTom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer · 1876★ 5.5
Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novelIn order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer · 1876★ 4.0
NovelA difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.George EliotDaniel Deronda · 1876★ 3.8
NovelThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.George EliotDaniel Deronda · 1876★ 3.8
EssayMarriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.Robert Louis Stevenson1876★ 3.6
Short storyConversation... Is the art of never appearing a bore, of knowing how to say everything interestingly, to entertain with no matter what, to be charming with nothing at all.Guy de Maupassant1876★ 1.8
Open letter · LetterThe first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.John RuskinFors Clavigera · 1876★ 1.8
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