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Analytical Attention
Authors: Ganeri Jonardon
Published: December 2020

The second element in Pessoa’s philosophical method is that of impartial analysis. Pessoa’s technique of deliberately guiding the attention to one’s own experience, and, specifically, to the outputs of ‘dreaming’ or enactive imagination, has a modern echo in the psychological technique of descriptive experience sampling. Pessoan analysis is a sort of ongoing and self-cued application of descriptive experience sampling, directed less at the intentional content of one’s thoughts as at the phenomenal character of one’s experience. His description of an analytical attention to one’s own mental state might be held to constitute a theory of introspection. It is one which while claiming that introspection is based on attention also emphasizes the idea that introspection transforms the state of which one becomes aware, for example by intensifying, enriching, and sharpening it. I consider, and refute, two sorts of challenge to Pessoa’s analytical phenomenology, from choking and from transformative experience.
Dreams inside Dreams
Authors: Ganeri Jonardon
Published: December 2020

Nested dreams, together with their implications for the reality of subjects, are explicitly the theme of a remarkable passage in the third-century BCE Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi, the story of the dreaming butterfly. With the apparatus of Pessoa’s philosophy of self to hand, we can understand this complicated story in a fresh light. Two distinct scenarios are now envisaged, each of which might constitute what it is to ‘emerge’ from the dream. One is that Zhou awakens and recalls that, in the dream, he was the butterfly. The alternative scenario is that, still in the dream, the butterfly falls asleep and dreams that it is Zhuang Zhou. Were all this to be put in terms of heteronymic simulation, Pessoan ‘dreaming’ rather than actual dreaming, it would be an illustration of nested heteronyms and of a rather particular sort. I suggest that we explain the situation by appealing to the idea of an orthonym. The correct thing to say is that the embedded ‘Zhou’ is an orthonym of the dreaming Zhou. This embedded Zhou is the double of the dreaming Zhou and is his shadow self.
Metaphysics and the Standard Interpretation
Authors: Weiner Joan
Published: December 2020

Frege is celebrated as an arch-Platonist and an arch-realist. He is renowned for claiming that truths of arithmetic are eternally true and independent of us, our judgments, and our thought; that there is a “third realm” containing nonphysical objects that are not ideas. In this chapter it is argued that, to sustain the view that Frege means these renowned claims as statements of metaphysical doctrines, it is necessary to reject most of his claims about the unsaturatedness of functions. It is widely believed that these claims should be rejected, since they give rise to apparently insuperable problems. In this chapter, however, it is argued that the problems result, not from Frege’s claims about unsaturatedness but, rather, the view that they are meant to form part of a metaphysical theory. Properly understood, Frege has no problem with the concept horse.
The Context Principle, Sentential Priority, and the Pursuit of Truth
Authors: Weiner Joan
Published: December 2020

Frege’s attempt to show that arithmetic is a part of logic requires definitions of the numbers. What criteria determine whether his definitions are acceptable? It seems to stand to reason that the definition of, say, the number one must pick out the object to which we have been referring, all along, when we use the numeral “1.” However, Frege does not assume that there are objects to which we have been referring all along when we use numerals. Definitions of the numbers must be, at least in part, stipulative. But how, then, can a science based on Frege’s definitions be our science of arithmetic? The key to answering this question is Frege’s sentential priority view. To be accurate to our arithmetic, Frege’s definition does not need to preserve reference; what they need to preserve is, rather, the truth of sentences expressing the “well known properties of the numbers.”
Words in Japanese
Authors: Jarkey Nerida
Published: December 2020

Although Japanese does not divide words orthographically, there is no doubt that the notion of ‘word’ is highly salient for native speakers of this language. Words are talked about, joked about, used as strategies for secrecy and exclusion. They are regarded as having enormous evocative power and euphonic beauty. While we can clearly distinguish phonological and grammatical criteria for Japanese words, in the overwhelming majority of cases, the grammatical word and the phonological word coincide. This is, however, not invariably the case. Japanese exhibits two possibilities for the non-coincidence of phonological and grammatical words: the first in which a grammatical word consists of a whole number of phonological words, and the second in which a phonological word consists of a whole number of grammatical words. Cases in which a single word can stand alone as a full utterance are quite common, and are limited to those in which the two word types coincide completely.
Why Dreams Mattered in Late Antiquity
Authors: Neil Bronwen
Published: December 2020

The introductory chapter outlines the standard methods of approach that have been adopted in post-Foucauldian scholarship on dreams and their cultural importance. It reviews the history of recent scholarship on dreams and the various methods of approach to modern and pre-modern dreaming, including the gender studies perspective adopted here. It defines key terms such as ‘dream-vision’ and ‘divination’, and introduces the main themes of the chapters to follow. The study of the three monotheistic traditions—rabbinic Judaism, Byzantine Christianity, and early Islam—together in this volume shows the many ways in which dreams and spiritual authority were inextricably linked across the various cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. Ancient religious approaches to dreams are contrasted with modern psychoanalytic and social psychology approaches. The book adopts an ‘ecumenic perspective’ on dream interpretation, treating it as a shared ideology of pagans and monotheists in the East and West. An ecumenic perspective focuses on the common idea that the prophetic dream carried a message from the realm of the divine, rather than focusing on what prophetic dreams can tell us about the dreamer’s subconscious mind. The chapter offers a summary of the scope of the study and of the contents of the remaining six chapters.
Banks, Exchanges, and Regulators
Authors: Michie Ranald C.
Published: December 2020

In the 1970s global financial markets were controlled by governments, compartmentalized along national boundaries and segregated according to the particular activities they engaged in. All that disintegrated in the decades that followed under the pressure of market forces, global integration, and a revolution in the technology of trading. However, none of the outcomes were inevitable despite the forces at work. Instead, they were the product of decisions taken at the time for a variety of reasons. Banks, exchanges, and regulators were faced with unprecedented challenges and opportunities, as a revolution swept away traditional ways of conducting banking, the methods used to trade in financial markets, and the rules and regulations employed to enforce discipline. One outcome of the scale and pace of the changes that took place was the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, which exposed the fragility of the new structures created. Since then new structures have been put in place and they were put to the test by the consequences of the coronavirus epidemic of 2020. Global financial markets are never at rest and this book captures that world through the perspective of banks, exchanges, and regulators. Nothing like it has been attempted before.
Introduction
Authors: Michie Ranald C.
Published: December 2020

A study of banks, exchanges, and regulators at any particular moment in time reveals a mixture of the new and the old. Such a perspective is suggestive of inevitability as it ignores strategies that were unfulfilled but were of momentary importance, products that were of brief significance but were subsequently abandoned, businesses that flourished and then died, institutions that only fleetingly existed, and rules that were introduced only to be quickly repealed. However, all these played a vital role in shaping the outcome. By engaging with the full range of what has happened since the 1970s this book reveals the key decisions that drove the transformation of global financial markets since the 1970s, contributed to the crisis of 2008, and were responsible for the structure that exists today
Cumae
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

41. In my needful and fixed resolve to set the facts down continuously, leaving the reader to his reflections on them, I am slipping a little too fast over the surfaces of things; and it becomes at this point desirable that I should...
The Feasts of the Vandals
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

164. The reader of ‘to-day’ who has been accustomed to hear me spoken of by the artists of to-day as a super-annuated enthusiast, and by the philosophers of to-day as a delirious visionary, will scarcely believe with what serious interest the appearance of...
Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal
Authors: Brontës The
Published: December 2020

We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.' In their collaborative early writings the Brontës created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays. Together they invented characters based on heroes and writers such as Wellington, Napoleon, Scott, and Byron, whose feuds, alliances, and love affairs weave an intricate web of social and political intrigue in imaginary colonial lands in Africa and the Pacific Ocean. The writings of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal are youthful experiments in imitation and parody, wild romance and realistic recording; they demonstrate the playful literary world that provided a 'myth kitty' for their early - and later - work. In this generous selection the writings of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell are presented together for the first time. The Introduction explores the rich imaginative lives of the Brontës, and the tension between their maturing authorship and creative freedom. The edition also includes Charlotte Brontë's Roe Head Journal, and Emily and Anne's Diary Papers, important autobiographical sources.
Chapter VII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Fritz kept the letter from Würzburg unopened in his hand.

‘It’s not from Minna,’ he said; ‘the handwriting is strange to me. Perhaps my father knows something about it.’ He turned to his father’s letter; read it; and handed it to me without...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Mr Keller fixed his eyes on the widow in stern silence; walked past her to the inner end of the hall; and entered a room at the back of the house, closing the door behind him. Even if he had felt inclined to look...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘For heaven’s sake, sir, allow me to go!’

‘On no account, Madame Fontaine. If you won’t remain here, in justice to yourself, remain as a favour to me.’

When I opened my bedroom door the next morning, the widow and Mr Keller were on...
Chapter II
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Madame Fontaine dropped into a chair, overwhelmed by the discovery.

She looked at the key left in the cupboard. It was of an old-fashioned pattern—but evidently also of the best workmanship of the time. On its flat handle it bore engraved the words, ‘Pink-Room Cupboard’—so...
Chapter V
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Jack attempted to follow her, and look in. She waved him back with her hand.

‘Wait at the window,’ she said, ‘where you can see the medicine in the light.’ She took the bottle of ‘Alexander’s Wine’ from the chest, and having locked the cupboard...
Chapter VII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

On further inquiry, it turned out that ‘the gentleman from Munich’ had no time to spare. In the absence of Mr Keller, he had asked if he could see ‘one of the other partners.’ This seemed to imply that commercial interests were in some...
Chapter IV
Authors: Lewis Matthew
Published: December 2020

Great Heaven! How frail thy creature Man is made!

How by himself insensibly betrayed!

In our own strength unhappily secure,

Too little cautious of the adverse power,

On pleasure’s flowery brink we idly stray,

Masters as yet of our returning way:

Till the strong gusts...
Mentor
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady Carbury’s desire for a union between Roger and her daughter was greatly increased by her solicitude in respect to her son. Since Roger’s offer had first been made, Felix had gone on from bad to worse, till his condition had become one of...
The City Road
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The statement made by Ruby as to her connection with Mrs Pipkin was quite true. Ruby’s father had married a Pipkin whose brother had died leaving a widow behind him at Islington. The old man at Sheep’s Acre farm had greatly resented this marriage,...
The India Office
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Conservative party at this particular period was putting its shoulder to the wheel,—not to push the coach up any hill, but to prevent its being hurried along at a pace which was not only dangerous, but manifestly destructive. The Conservative party now and...
The Meeting in Bruton Street
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the news of her husband’s death was in some very rough way conveyed to Madame Melmotte, it crushed her for the time altogether. Marie first heard that she no longer had a living parent as she stood by the poor woman’s bedside, and...
Chapter XII: Mr and Mrs Glegg at Home
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

In Order to see Mr and Mrs Glegg at home, we must enter the town of St Ogg’s—that venerable town with the red-fluted roofs and the broad warehouse gables, where the black ships unlade themselves of their burthens from the far north, and carry...
Chapter III: A Voice from the Past
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

One afternoon, when the chestnuts were coming into flower, Maggie had brought her chair outside the front door, and was seated there with a book on her knees. Her dark eyes had wandered from the book, but they did not seem to be enjoying...
Chapter XII: A Family Party
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Maggie left her good aunt Gritty at the end of the week, and went to Garum Firs to pay her visit to aunt Pullet according to agreement. In the meantime very unexpected things had happened, and there was to be a family party at...
Chapter I
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

‘Could this be my dream still going on?’ wondered Raskolnikov again, peering warily and suspiciously at his unexpected guest.

‘Svidrigailov? What rubbish! Impossible!’ he eventually said aloud in bewilderment.

His guest seemed not in the least surprised at this exclamation.

‘I’ve looked in on...
Chapter V
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

When, at precisely eleven next morning, Raskolnikov entered the building in the —— district that housed the offices of the chief criminal investigator,* and asked to be announced to Porfiry Petrovich, he was quite surprised at how long he was kept waiting—at...
Chapter VI
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The whole of that evening until ten o’clock he spent in a succession of taverns and dives, moving on from one to the next. Somewhere or other Katia turned up, singing another servants’ song about how some ‘villain and tyrant’ had ‘started kissing Katia’....

Svidrigailov...
XXXIV. The Old Enemy again
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

My young mistress, Miss Emily Flint, did not return any answer to my letter requesting her to consent to my being sold. But after a while, I received a reply, which purported to be written by her younger brother. In order rightly to enjoy...
Waverley
Authors: Scott Walter , Sutherland Kathryn
Published: December 2020

‘The most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact.’ Edward Waverley, a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army, is sent to Scotland where he finds himself caught up in events that quickly transform from the stuff of romance into nightmare. His character is fashioned through his experience of the Jacobite rising of 1745-6, the last civil war fought on British soil and the unsuccessful attempt to reinstate the Stuart monarchy, represented by Prince Charles Edward. Waverley's love for the spirited Flora MacIvor and his romantic nature increasingly pull him towards the Jacobite cause, and test his loyalty to the utmost. With Waverley, Scott invented the historical novel in its modern form and profoundly influenced the development of the European and American novel for a century at least. Waverley asks the reader to consider how history is shaped, who owns it, and what it means to live in it - questions as vital at the beginning of the twenty-first century as the nineteenth.
Chapter XIV A Discovery—Waverley becomes domesticated at Tully-Veolan
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The next morning Edward arose betimes, and in a morning walk around the house and its vicinity, came suddenly upon a small court in front of the dog-kennel, where his friend Davie was employed about his four-footed charge. One quick glance of his eye...
Chapter XX A Highland Feast
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Ere Waverley entered the banquetting-hall, he was offered the patriarchal refreshment of a bath for the feet, which the sultry weather, and the morasses he had traversed, rendered highly acceptable. He was not indeed so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers...
Chapter XX The Ball
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Ensign
Maccombich having gone to the Highland camp upon duty, and Baillie Macwheeble having retired to digest his dinner, and Evan Dhu’s intimation of martial law, in some blind change-house, Waverley, with the Baron and the Chieftain, proceeded to Holyrood-house. The two last were...
Chapter IV Intrigues of Love and Politics
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

It is not necessary to record in these pages the triumphant entrance of the Chevalier into Edinburgh after the decisive affair of Preston. One circumstance, however, may be noticed, because it illustrates the high spirit of Flora Mac-Ivor. The Highlanders, by whom the Prince...
Chapter XIX Now is Cupid a child of conscience—he makes restitution
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Shakspeare*

Mr
Duncan
Macwheeble, no longer Commissary or Baillie, though still enjoying the empty name of the latter dignity, had escaped proscription by an early secession from the insurgent party, and by his insignificance.

Edward found him in his office immersed among papers...
Chapter XXII ———A darker departure is near, The death-drum is muffled, and sable the bier
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Campbell*

After a sleepless night, the first dawn of morning found Waverley on the esplanade in front of the old Gothic gate of Carlisle Castle. But he paced it long in every direction, before the hour when, according to the rules of the...
Chapter XVIII: We Abandon Hope
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

I can give no adequate description of the horrors of the night which followed. Mercifully they were to some extent mitigated by sleep, for even in such a position as ours, wearied nature will sometimes assert itself. But I, at any rate, found it...
Chapter XIX: Ignosi’s Farewell
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

Ten days from that eventful morning found us once more in our old quarters at Loo; and, strange to say, but little the worse for our terrible experience, except that my stubbly hair came out of that cave about three shades greyer than it...
Chapter XX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Nancy and Godfrey walked home under the starlight in silence. When they entered the oaken parlour, Godfrey threw himself into his chair, while Nancy laid down her bonnet and shawl, and stood on the hearth near her husband, unwilling to leave him even for...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

ˆhusall the superior officers being summoned on duty elsewhere, Jos Sedley was left in command of the little colony at Brussels, with Amelia invalided, Isidor, his Belgian servant, and the bonne, who was maid-of-all-work for the establishment, as a garrison...
Chapter XL
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

he heir of Crawley arrived at home, in due time, after this catastrophe, and henceforth may be said to have reigned in Queen’s Crawley. For though the old baronet survived many months, he never recovered the use of his intellect or his speech...
Chapter XLIII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

he astonished reader must be called upon to transport himself ten thousand miles to the military station of Bundlegunge, in the Madras division of our Indian empire, where our gallant old friends of the—th regiment are quartered under the command of the brave...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The night light in the blue-tinged glass on the mantelshelf burned behind a book, which cast a shadow across half the bedroom. The quiet glow spreading over the bedside table and the chaise longue, bathed the wide folds of the velvet curtains, and flooded...
Chapter XIV Recruits
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Marian walked to the nearest point of Camden Road, and there waited for an omnibus, which conveyed her to within easy reach of the street where Maud and Dora Milvain had their lodgings. This was at the north-east of Regent’s Park, and no great...
Through the Veil
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

H
e was a great shock-headed, freckle-faced Borderer, the lineal descendant of a cattle-thieving clan in Liddesdale.* In spite of his ancestry he was as solid and sober a citizen as one would wish to see, a town councillor of Melrose,*...
Chapter X
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

A week later there was another great journey into the park. This time they were to go over to the left beyond the orchard, where there were vast meadows, with four streams flowing through them. They would go several miles over the open grass;...
[Continuation of Kitty, or the Bower, by James Edward Austen]
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Kitty continued in this state of satisfaction during the remainder of the Stanley’s visit—Who took their leave with many pressing invitations to visit them in London, when as Camilla said, she might have an opportunity of becoming acquainted with that sweet girl Augusta Hallifax—Or Rather...
Doctor Pascal
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

‘There's something of everything there, the best and the worst, the vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the river of life itself’ Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in the rural French town of Plassans for thirty years. He lives a quiet life with his faithful servant Martine and young niece Clotilde. Pascal is a man of science, striving to find the ultimate cure for all diseases. This puts him at odds with his niece, who is horrified by his denial of religious faith. Clotilde also distrusts Pascal's lifelong ambition to create a family tree on scientific principles, based upon his theories of heredity. Tensions in the household are fuelled by Pascal's scheming mother, Félicité, as the final episode in the great Rougon-Macquart saga plays out. Dr Pascal is the passionate conclusion to Zola's twenty-novel sequence, and the most eloquent expression of the ideas on heredity and human progress that have underpinned it. Human relations are at its heart, as Pascal and Clotilde are bound ever closer by ties of family and love.
Chapter 8
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Weeks passed. Rougon had resumed his dull, uneventful life. He never once spoke of the Emperor’s injunction that he stay in Paris. All he spoke about was his failure to make any progress with his great project—the alleged obstacles to his plan. That was...
Chapter 11
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Rougon had at last got Delestang the portfolio of Agriculture and Commerce. One morning, early in May, he went round to the Rue du Colisée to fetch his new colleague. There was to be a meeting of all the ministers at Saint-Cloud, where the...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Levin drained his glass and they fell silent.

‘There is just one other thing I must tell you. Do you know Vronsky?’ Stepan Arkadyich asked Levin.

‘No, I don’t. Why do you ask?’

‘Bring us another,’ said Stepan Arkadyich to the Tatar who was filling...
25
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘So you see,’ Nikolay Levin continued, wrinkling his brow with effort and twitching. He clearly found it difficult t0 work out what to say and do. ‘You see now . . .’ He pointed to some kind of iron bars tied up with...
2
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After the doctor left, Dolly arrived. She knew a consultation was to have taken place that day, and although she had only recently risen from her confinement (she had given birth to a girl at the end of winter), and although she had enough...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘It’s rather indiscreet, but so charming I’m dying to tell the story,’ said Vronsky, looking at her with laughing eyes. ‘I won’t mention any names.’

‘But I will guess—so much the better.’

‘So listen: two cheery young men are on their way . ....
23
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Vronsky had already made several attempts, albeit none as concerted as this one, to steer her into a discussion of her situation, and every time he had come up against the same superficial and facile reasoning with which she was now responding to his...
26
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Alexey
Alexandrovich’s relationship with his wife was outwardly the same as before. The only difference was that he was even busier than before. As in previous years, with the onset of spring he had gone abroad to a spa to restore his health, which...
22
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

It was already after five, and in order to arrive on time and also not use his own horses, which everyone knew, Vronsky got into Yashvin’s hired carriage and told the coachman to drive as fast as possible. The old four-seated hired carriage was...
27
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘If it weren’t such a shame to abandon something up and running . . . so much effort put into it . . . I’d wave goodbye to it all, sell up, and go off like Nikolay Ivanich . . . to hear...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Levin and Stepan Arkadyich arrived at the peasant’s hut where Levin always stayed, Veslovsky was already there. He was sitting in the middle of the hut, gripping a bench with both hands and laughing his infectiously merry laugh, while a soldier, the brother...
25
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Vronsky and Anna spent the whole summer and part of the autumn in the country, still living in the same way, and still not taking any steps to obtain a divorce. It was settled between them that they would not go anywhere; but they...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Lvov, who was married to Kitty’s sister Natalya, had spent all his life either in Moscow and Petersburg or abroad, where he had been educated and served as a diplomat.

The previous year he had left the diplomatic service, although not on account...
27
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘He’s gone! It’s over!’ said Anna to herself, standing by the window; and in answer to this conjecture, the impressions of darkness made by the candle going out and the terrible dream fused into one and filled her heart with cold terror.

‘No,...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Agafya
Mikhailovna went out on tiptoe; the nanny let down the blind, drove out the flies from under the muslin canopy of the cot, and a hornet that was beating against the windowpane, and sat down, waving a wilting birch branch over mother and...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Being an experienced dialectician, Sergey Ivanovich did not remonstrate, but promptly steered the conversation into another area.

‘Yes, if you want to determine the spirit of the people by arithmetical means, that is of course very difficult to do. Voting has not been introduced in...
Autobiography
Authors: Mill John Stuart
Published: December 2020

It may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable John Stuart Mill (1806-73), philosopher, economist, and political thinker, was the most prominent figure of nineteenth century English intellectual life and his work has continuing significance for contemporary debates about ethics, politics and economics. His father, James Mill, a close associate of the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, assumed responsibility for his eldest son's education, teaching him ancient Greek at the age of three and equipping him with a broad knowledge of the physical and moral sciences of the day. Mill’s Autobiography was written to give an account of the extraordinary education he received at the hands of his father and to express his gratitude to those he saw as influencing his thought, but it is also an exercise in self-analysis and an attempt to vindicate himself against claims that he was the product of hothousing. The Autobiography also acknowledges the substantial contribution made to Mill’s thinking and writings by Harriet Taylor, whom he met when he was twenty-four, and married twenty-one years later, after the death of her husband. The Autobiography helps us understand more fully some of the principal commitments that Mill’s political philosophy has become famous for, in particular his appreciation of the diversity, plurality, and complexity of ways of life and their possibilities. This edition of the Autobiography includes additional manuscript materials from earlier drafts which demonstrate the conflicting imperatives that influenced Mill’schoice of exactly what to say about some of the most significant episodes and relationships in his life. Mark Philps introduction explores the forces that led Mill to write the ‘life’ and points to the tensions in the text and in Mill's life.
Sense and Sensibility
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘Pray, pray be composed,’ cried Elinor, ‘and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.’ For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections. Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Elinor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centred fortune-hunters like Lucy Steele, whilst Marianne’s unswerving belief in the truth of her own feelings makes her more dangerously susceptible to the designs of unscrupulous men. Through her heroines’ parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope, Jane Austen offers a powerful analysis of the ways in which women’s lives were shaped by the claustrophobic society in which they had to survive.
Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Though Mrs. Jennings was in the habit of spending a large portion of the year at the houses of her children and friends, she was not without a settled habitation of her own. Since the death of her husband, who had traded with success...
Chapter Five
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day, 26 August, Maurice woke up aching all over, his shoulders stiff from the night spent in the tent. He still wasn’t used to the hard ground; and as they’d been forbidden to take off their footwear the previous evening, and the sergeants...
Mr, Mrs, and Miss Furnival
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I will now ask my readers to come with me up to London, in order that I may introduce them to the family of the Furnivals. We shall see much of the Furnivals before we reach the end of our present undertaking, and...
Chapter 7
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One December evening three months later, Comte Muffat was walking through the Passage des Panoramas.* The evening was very mild, throngs of folk had just packed the arcade because of a sudden downpour. People crowded in, laboriously moving forward between the shops...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Some weeks passed after this conversation before the question...
Chapter XLII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

One of the professional calls made by Lydgate soon after his return from his wedding journey was to Lowick Manor, in
The Coral Kingdom
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The following day I woke up with a remarkably clear head. To my great surprise I was in my room. My companions had undoubtedly also been put back in their cabin, without them realizing any more than myself. Their ignorance of what had happened...
A Pearl Worth Ten Million
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Night fell. I went to bed, and slept rather badly. Sharks played an important part in my dreams, and I found it both very appropriate and very inappropriate that etymology derives the French word for shark, requin, from the word requiem....

I was...
A Lost World
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The following morning, 19 February, the Canadian came into my room. I was expecting his visit. He looked very disappointed.

‘Well, monsieur?’ he said to me.

‘Well, Ned, luck was against us yesterday.’

‘Yes, that damned captain had to stop at the exact moment we...
The Moonstone
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer?’ A celebrated Indian yellow diamond is first stolen from India, then vanishes from a Yorkshire country house. Who took it? And where is it now? A dramatist as well as a novelist, Wilkie Collins gives to each of his narratorsa household servant, a detective, a lawyer, a cloth-eared Evangelical, a dying medical manvibrant identities as they separately tell the part of the story that concerns themselves. One of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century sensation fiction, The Moonstone tells of a mystery that for page after page becomes more, not less inexplicable. Collins's novel of addictions is itself addictive, moving through a sequence of startling revelations towards the final disclosure of the truth. Entranced with double lives, with men and women who only know part of the story, Collins weaves their narratives into a web of suspense. The Moonstone is a text that grows imaginatively out of the secrets that the unconventional Collins was obliged to keep as he wrote the novel.
Chapter XI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

When the last of the guests had driven away, I went back into the inner hall and found Samuel at the side-table, presiding over the brandy and soda-water. My lady and Miss Rachel came out of the drawing-room, followed by the two gentlemen. Mr...
Chapter V
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

My hand dropped from the curtain. But don’t suppose—oh, don’t suppose—that the dreadful embarrassment of my situation was the uppermost idea in my mind! So fervent still was the sisterly interest I felt in Mr Godfrey, that I never stopped to ask myself why...
IV
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Late on the evening of Friday, the twenty-third of June (’forty-eight), Mr Luker was surprised by a visit from Mr Godfrey Ablewhite. He was more than surprised, when Mr Godfrey produced the Moonstone. No such Diamond (according to Mr Luker’s experience) was in the...
II
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The statement of the
Captain (1849)

I am requested by Sergeant Cuff to set in writing certain facts, concerning three men (believed to be Hindoos) who were passengers, last summer, in the ship Bewley Castle, bound for Bombay direct, under my...

The Hindoos...
A Chapter of Horrors.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Austin Gore—a sketch of his character—overseers as a class—their peculiar characteristics—the marked individuality of Austin Gore—his sense of duty—how he whipped—murder of poor Denby—how it occurred—sensation—how Gore made peace with Col. Lloyd—the murder unpunished—another dreadful murder narrated—no laws for the protection of slaves can be...
Chapter VI
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

To obviate the danger of this threat being fulfilled, Mr. Linton commissioned me to take the boy home early, on Catherine’s pony, and, said he—

“As we shall now have no influence over his destiny, good or bad, you must say nothing of where he...
Sanditon
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘No person could be really well … without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year’ In Sanditon, Jane Austen writes what may well be the first seaside novel: a novel, that is, that explores the mysterious and startling transformations that a stay by the sea can work on individuals and relationships. Sanditon is a fictitious place on England’s south coast and the obsession of local landowner Mr Thomas Parker. He means to transform this humble fishing village into a fashionable health resort to rival its famous neighbours of Brighton and Eastbourne. In this, her final, unfinished work, the writer sets aside her familiar subject matter, the country village with its settled community, for the transient and eccentric assortment of people who drift to the new resort, the town built upon sand. If the ground beneath her characters’ feet appears less secure, Austen’s own vision is opening out. Light and funny, Sanditon is her most experimental and poignant work.
Chapter 6
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The Party were very soon moving after Dinner. Mr. Parker could not be satisfied without an early visit to the Library, and the Library Subscription book,* and Charlotte was glad to see as much, and as quickly as possible, where all was...
Chapter IV: The King Keeps his Appointment
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Whether I had slept a minute or a year I knew not. I awoke with a start and a shiver; my face, hair, and clothes dripped water, and opposite me stood old Sapt, a sneering smile on his face and an empty bucket in...
Evening In The Wood
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It happened that Mrs Pomfret had had a slight quarrel with Mrs Best, the housekeeper, on this Thursday morning—a fact which had two consequences highly convenient to Hetty. It caused Mrs Pomfret to have tea sent up to her own room, and it inspired...
The Night-School and The Schoolmaster
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Bartle
Massey’s was one of a few scattered houses on the edge of a common, which was divided by the road to Treddleston. Adam reached it in a quarter of an hour after leaving the Hall Farm; and when he had his hand on...
A Dilemma
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It was only a few minutes measured by the clock—though Adam always thought it had been a long while—before he perceived a gleam of consciousness in Arthur’s face and a slight shiver through his frame. The intense joy that flooded his soul brought back...
In Hetty’s Bed-Chamber
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It was no longer light enough to go to bed without a candle, even in Mrs Poyser’s early household, and Hetty carried one with her as she went up at last to her bedroom soon after Adam was gone, and bolted the door behind...
Another Meeting in The Wood
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The next day, at evening, two men were walking from opposite points towards the same scene, drawn thither by a common memory. The scene was the Grove by Donnithorne Chase: you know who the men were.

The old Squire’s funeral had taken place that morning,...
The Harvest Supper
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

As Adam was going homewards, on Wednesday evening, in the six o’clock sunlight, he saw in the distance the last load of barley winding its way towards the yard-gate of the Hall Farm, and heard the chant of “Harvest Home!”* rising and...
Chapter XIX: An Incident
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Twenty-Second. Night—What have I done? and what will be the end of it? I cannot calmly reflect upon it; I cannot sleep. I must have recourse to my diary again; I will commit it to paper to-night, and see what I shall...
Chapter XXVII: A Misdemeanour
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

October 9th.—While the gentlemen are ranging the woods and Lady Lowborough is busy writing her letters, I will return to my chronicle for the purpose of recording sayings and doings, the last of the kind I hope I shall ever have cause to describe....

It...
IX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The two Misses Molyneux, this nobleman’s sisters, came presently to call upon her, and Isabel took a fancy to the young ladies, who appeared to her to show a most original stamp. It is true that when she described them to her cousin by...
XXX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She returned on the morrow to Florence, under her cousin’s escort, and Ralph Touchett, though usually restive under railway discipline, thought very well of the successive hours passed in the train that hurried his companion away from the city now distinguished by Gilbert Osmond’s...
XXXIX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It will probably not surprise the reflective reader that Ralph Touchett should have seen less of his cousin since her marriage than he had done before that event—an event of which he took such a view as could hardly prove a confirmation of intimacy....
LI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The Countess was not banished, but she felt the insecurity of her tenure of her brother’s hospitality. A week after this incident Isabel received a telegram from England, dated from Gardencourt and bearing the stamp of Mrs Touchett’s authorship. ‘Ralph cannot last many days,’...
The Evening of the Betrothal
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Villefort had, as we have said, hurried back to the Place du Grand Cours, and on entering the house found all the guests in the salon at coffee. Renée was, with all the rest of the company, anxiously awaiting him, and his entrance was...
Toxicology
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It was indeed the Count of Monte Cristo who had just arrived at Madame de Villefort’s for the purpose of returning the visit of the procureur du roi, and at this name, as may be easily imagined, the whole house was in confusion. Madame...
The Mother and Son
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Count of Monte Cristo bowed to the five young men with a melancholy and dignified smile, then got into his carriage with Maximilian and Emmanuel. Albert, Beauchamp, and Château- Renaud, remained alone. The young man’s eye at his two friends, without being timid,...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After Anna Mikhailovna had driven off with her son to visit Count Kiril Vladimirovich Bezukhov, Countess Rostova sat for a long time all alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. At last she rang.

‘What is the matter with you, my dear?’ she said crossly...
23
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The grey-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of the prince, who was in his large study. From the far side of the house through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty times repeated—of the Dušek sonata.*

Just then a...
25
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Prince
Andrei was to leave next evening. The old prince, not altering his routine, retired as usual after dinner. The little princess was in her sister-in-law’s room. Prince Andrei in a travelling coat without epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms...
2
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In November 1805 Prince Vasili had to go on a tour of inspection in four different provinces. He had arranged this for himself so as to visit his neglected estates at the same time, and pick up his son Anatole where his regiment was...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On the third day after Christmas Nikolai dined at home, a thing he had rarely done of late. It was a grand farewell dinner, as he and Denisov were leaving to join their regiment after Epiphany. About twenty people were present, including Dolokhov and...
6
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

During the first weeks of his stay in Petersburg Prince Andrei felt the whole trend of thought he had formed during his life of seclusion quite overshadowed by the trifling cares that engrossed him in that city.

On returning home in the evening he would...
12
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Natasha was sixteen and it was the year 1809, the very year to which she had counted on her fingers with Boris after they had kissed four years ago. Since then she had not once seen him. Before Sonya and her mother, if Boris...
15
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Natasha had not had a moment free since early morning and had not once had time to think of what lay before her.

In the damp chill air and crowded closeness of the swaying carriage, she for the first time vividly imagined what was in...
6
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The old count went home and Natasha and Petya promised to return very soon, but as it was still early the hunt went farther. At midday they put the hounds into a ravine thickly overgrown with young trees. Nikolai standing in a fallow field...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Pelageya
Danilovna
Melyukova, a broadly built, energetic woman wearing spectacles, sat in the drawing-room in a loose dress surrounded by her daughters whom she was trying to keep from feeling dull. They were quietly dropping melted wax into snow and looking at the shadows...
15
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On returning late in the evening Sonya went to Natasha’s room, and to her surprise found her still dressed, and asleep on the sofa. Open on the table beside her lay Anatole’s letter. Sonya picked it up and read it.

As she read she glanced...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Anatole had lately moved to Dolokhov’s. The plan for Natalie Rostova’s abduction had been arranged and the preparations made by Dolokhov a few days before, and on the day that Sonya, after listening at Natasha’s door, resolved to safeguard her, it was to have...
18
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Marya
Dmitrievna having found Sonya weeping in the corridor, made her confess everything, and intercepting the note to Natasha she read it and went into Natasha’s room with it in her hand.

‘You shameless slut!’ said she. ‘I don’t want to hear a single word.’...
I
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

From the close of the year 1811 an intensified arming and concentrating of the forces of Western Europe began, and in 1812 these forces—millions of men reckoning those transporting and feeding the army—moved from the west eastwards to the Russian frontier, towards which since...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

This letter had not yet been presented to the Emperor when Barclay one day at dinner informed Bolkonsky that the sovereign wished to see him personally, to question him about Turkey, and that Prince Andrei was to present himself at Bennigsen’s quarters at six...