Books to discover: Family & parenting

Emily Brontë

1801.-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

孙武 (Sun Tzu), Stephen F. Kaufman, Lionel Giles, Onésimo Colavidas

Warfare is the greatest affair of state, the basis of life and death, the Tao to survival or extinction.

Louisa May Alcott

"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

William Shakespeare

It is cold; and it is midnight.

Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

Charles Dickens

It was about twenty years after I first started Pickwick Papers before I could honestly claim to have finished it.

Jeff Kinney

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Jack London

BUCK did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

Jane Austen

THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

Jane Austen

THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of the public.

James Joyce

There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.

Shel Silverstein

Once there was a tree ... and she loved a little boy.

Gustave Flaubert

WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.

James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Laura Esquivel

Take care to chop the onion fine.