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Upon the Burning of Our House - Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) - Poem
"In silent night when rest I took, / For sorrow neer I did not look..." Bradstreet Links | Bradstreet E-texts

Visit, The - Johann Goethe (1749-1832) - Poem
"Fain had I to-day surprised my mistress..." Goethe Links | Goethe E-texts

Walden - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) - Nonfiction
"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again."

Work of Art, A - Anton Chekov (1894-1905) - Short Story
"Sasha Smirnov, the only son of his mother, holding under his arm, something wrapped up in No. 223 of the Financial News, assumed a sentimental expression, and went into Dr. Koshelkov’s consultingroom." Chekhov links

Wreck, The - Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) - Short Story
"That was a curious story! I've never told you about it, I think. Yet it was a sentimental adventure, and it really happened to me. That was a strange New Year's Day, indeed! It must have been twenty years ago, for I was then thirty and am now fifty years old." Maupassant Links

Wrong House , The - Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) - Short Story
"Quartermaster Varajou had obtained a week's leave to go and visit his sister, Madame Padoie. Varajou, who was in garrison at Rennes and was leading a pretty gay life, finding himself high and dry, wrote to his sister saying that he would devote a week to her. " Maupassant Links

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (1818-1848) - Novel
"1801. - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society."