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Chapter 2
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

I Admit I found it disagreeable; although I had made up my mind that I would play, I was not at all disposed to start playing for others. It even threw me a bit off course and I entered the gaming halls with...
Chapter 5
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

She was unusually lost in thought, but the moment we left the table she told me to accompany her on a walk. We took the children and set off towards the fountain in the park.

Because I was in a particularly excited state, I stupidly...
Chapter 15
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

I Remember that she looked at my face terribly intently, but without moving from her seat, or even changing her position.

‘I won two hundred thousand francs’, I cried as I threw down my last roll. The table was covered with an enormous heap of...
Chapter 17
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

A Year and eight months have passed since I glanced at these notes, and it is only now, out of anguish and grief, that I chanced to read them, with the idea of distracting myself. So, I left off at the point where...
3
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

General Ivan Fedorovich Yepanchin stood in the middle of his sanctum and watched with considerable curiosity as the prince came in; he even took two paces towards him. The prince advanced and introduced himself.

‘So then’, the general responded, ‘how may I be of service?’...
9
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The silence was total: everyone was staring at the prince, apparently unable to comprehend—and not wishing to do so. Ganya was numb with fright.

The arrival of Nastasya Filippovna at this particular juncture was the strangest and most worrying surprise for all of them. There...
9
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

‘You will not deny, of course’, began Gavrila Ardalionovich, addressing himself directly to Burdovsky, who was all attention, eyes staring in astonishment and plainly utterly dismayed, ‘you will not, nor would you, of course, wish seriously to dispute that you were born precisely...
2
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The prince suddenly went up to Radomsky.

‘Yevgeni Pavlich’, he said with an odd intensity, seizing him by the arm, ‘I assure you I regard you as the noblest and best of persons, despite everything; you may be sure of that …’

Radomsky actually stepped...
The King’s Ankus
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Kaa, the big Rock Python, had...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Kabir

At moonrise the cautious coolies...
Baa Baa, Black Sheep
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The First Bag

When I was in my father’s house,...
Chapter 16
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

We slept most all day, and started out at night, a little ways behind a monstrous long raft that was as long going by as a procession. She had four long sweeps* at each end, so we judged she carried as many...
Chapter III
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Tom presented himself before Aunt Polly, who was sitting by an open window in a pleasant rearward apartment, which was bedroom, breakfast-room, dining-room, and library, combined. The balmy summer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing murmur of the...
Chapter VII
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The harder Tom tried to fasten his mind on his book, the more his ideas wandered. So at last, with a sigh and a yawn, he gave it up. It seemed to him that the noon recess would never come. The air was utterly...
Chapter X
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The two boys flew on and on, toward the village, speechless with horror. They glanced backward over their shoulders from time to time, apprehensively, as if they feared they might be followed. Every stump that started up in their path seemed a man and...
Chapter XX
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

There was something about Aunt Polly’s manner, when she kissed Tom, that swept away his low spirits and made him light-hearted and happy again. He started to school and had the luck of coming upon Becky Thatcher at the head of Meadow Lane. His...
Chapter II
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

A fine October Morning succeeded to the foggy evening that had witnessed my first introduction to Crimsworth-Hall. I was early up and walking in the large, park-like meadow surrounding the house. The autumn sun, rising over the ——shire hills, disclosed a pleasant country; woods...
Chapter IV
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of the name, will row long against wind and tide before he allows himself to cry out “I am baffled!” and submits to be...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The young Anglo-Swiss evidently derived both pleasure and profit from the study of her Mother-tongue; in teaching her I did not of course confine myself to the ordinary school-routine; I made instruction in English a channel for instruction in literature. I prescribed to her...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Directly as I closed the door, I saw laid on the table two letters; my thought was that they were notes of invitation from the friends of some of my pupils; I had received such marks of attention occasionally, and with me, who had...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

It was two o’clock when I returned to my lodgings; my dinner, just brought in from a neighbouring hotel, smoked on the table; I sat down, thinking to eat; had the plate been heaped with potsherds and broken glass instead of boiled beef and...
IV
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

When a family is possessed of large landed property, the individual of that family who shows least interest in its welfare; who is least fond of home, least connected by his own sympathies with his relatives, least ready to learn his duties or admit his...
No Name
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah learn the true meaning of social stigma in Victorian England only after the traumatic discovery that their dearly loved parents, whose sudden deaths have left them orphans, were not married at the time of their birth. Disinherited by law and brutally ousted from Combe-Raven, the idyllic country estate which has been their peaceful home since childhood, the two young women are left to fend for themselves. While the submissive Norah follows a path of duty and hardship as a governess, her high-spirited and rebellious younger sister has made other decisions. Determined to regain her rightful inheritance at any cost, Magdalen uses her unconventional beauty and dramatic talent in recklessly pursuing her revenge. Aided by the audacious swindler Captain Wragge, she braves a series of trials leading up to the climactic test: can she trade herself in marriage to the man she loathes? Written in the early 1860s, between The Woman in White and The Moonstone, No Name was rejected as immoral by critics of its time, but is today regarded as a novel of outstanding social insight, showing Collins at the height of his powers.
The Seventh Scene
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

‘This is where you are to sleep. Put yourself tidy; and then come down again to my room. The admiral has returned, and you will have to begin by waiting on him at dinner to-day.’

With those words Mrs. Drake, the housekeeper,...
The Last Scene
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

On the seventh of June, the owners of the merchantman, Deliverance, received news that the ship had touched at Plymouth to land passengers, and had then continued her homeward voyage to the Port of London. Five days later, the vessel...
Advertisement
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

Mr. Sympson’s
Letter to Captain Gulliver,* prefixed to this Volume, will make a long Advertisement unnecessary. Those Interpolations complained of by the Captain, were made by a Person since deceased,* on whose Judgment the Publisher relyed to make any Alterations...
Chapter Two
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the Nobility, comes to see the Author in his Confinement. The Emperor’s Person and Habit described. Learned Men appointed to teach the Author their Language. He gains Favour by his mild Disposition. His Pockets are...
Chapter Eight
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author, by a lucky Accident, finds Means to leave Blefuscu; and, after some Difficulties, returns safe to his Native Country.

Three days after my Arrival, walking out of Curiosity to the North-East Coast of the Island; I observed, about half a League...
Chapter Four
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author leaves Laputa, is conveyed to Balnibarbi, arrives at the Metropolis. A Description of the Metropolis and the Country adjoining. The Author hospitably received by a great Lord. His Conversation with that Lord.

Although I cannot say that I was ill treated...
Chapter Nine
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author’s Return to Maldonada. Sails to the Kingdom of Luggnagg. The Author confined. He is sent for to Court. The Manner of his Admittance. The King’s great Lenity to his Subjects.

The day of our Departure being come, I took leave of...
Chapter Five
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author at his Master’s Commands informs him of the State of England. The Causes of War among the Princes of Europe. The Author begins to explain the English Constitution.

The Reader may please to observe, that the following Extract of many Conversations...
Chapter Seven
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author’s great Love of his Native Country. His Master’s Observations upon the Constitution and Administration of England, as described by the Author, with parallel Cases and Comparisons. His Master’s Observations upon human Nature.

The Reader may be disposed to wonder how I...
Chapter IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Once a week, on Thursdays, the Raquins had guests round for the evening. The large lamp would be lit in the dining-room and a kettle put on the fire to make tea. It was all a great carry-on. These Thursday evenings stood out from...
Chapter V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One Thursday, when Camille came home from the office, he brought with him a tall, square-shouldered fellow whom he pushed through the door with a friendly shove.

‘Mother’, he asked Madame Raquin, pointing to him, ‘do you recognize this gentleman?’

The old woman stared at...
Chapter VII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

From the beginning, the lovers felt their affair to be something necessary, inevitable, and utterly natural. At their first meeting they spoke familiarly and kissed without any blushing or embarrassment, as if their intimacy had already been going on for a number of years....
Chapter X
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Nearly three weeks passed. Laurent went back to the shop each evening; he looked tired and unwell, there were slight bluish circles around his eyes, and his lips had become pale and cracked. Otherwise, he still had the same heavy calm about him, continuing...
Chapter XV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

From time to time, every two or three days, Laurent would come round in the evening, stay in the shop for half an hour, chatting with Madame Raquin, then go away again without once having looked directly at Thérèse. The old haberdasher regarded him...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Thérèse too had been visited by the ghost of Camille during that feverish night.

Laurent’s burning plea for a meeting, after more than a year of indifference, had suddenly whipped up her feelings afresh. As she lay alone in bed, her body had begun to...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The attack that had been hovering over Madame Raquin finally came. Suddenly, the paralysis which for several months had been creeping along her limbs and threatening at any moment to take her body into its embrace, seized her by the throat and bound her...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Only a terrible fit of panic could ever have induced the couple to break their silence and admit what they had done in front of Madame Raquin. Neither of them was cruel at heart, and they would both have avoided making any such revelation...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Now a new phase began. Thérèse, driven to distraction by fear and not knowing where to turn for the slightest consoling thought, began to shed tears for her drowned husband out loud in front of Laurent.

A sudden collapse occurred in her. Her over-stretched nerves...
Germinal
Authors: Zola Émile , Lethbridge Robert
Published: December 2020

Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'. The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually leads his fellow-miners in a strike protesting against pay-cuts - a strike which becomes a losing battle against starvation, repression, and sabotage. Yet despite all the violence and disillusion which rock the mining community to its foundations, Lantier retains his belief in the ultimate germination of a new society, leading to a better world. Germinal is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, but it is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigour and power in this new translation.
CHAPTER IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was at the Bon-Joyeux, run by the Widow Désir, that the private meeting was arranged, for Thursday at two o’clock. The widow, who was outraged by the suffering imposed on the colliers, whom she considered her children, was in a state of constant...
CHAPTER V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

All the entrances to Le Voreux had just been closed; and the sixty soldiers, with their rifles at their sides, were blocking the way to the only door left open, the one that led to the entrance hall by way of a narrow staircase,...
Chapter 6
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When the summer slack season came, there was quite a panic at the Ladies’ Paradise. Everyone lived in terror of dismissal, of the mass discharges with which the management cleaned out the shop, now empty of customers during the heat of July and August....

Each...
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The week had started with disaster. Claude was plunged in one of his fits of doubt which made him hate painting with the hatred of a betrayed lover who curses his false mistress though tortured by the knowledge that he loves her still. On...
Chapter 10
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The morning after Claude had taken his ‘Dead Child’ to the Palais de l’Industrie, he was out strolling near the Parc Monceau when he met Fagerolles, who greeted him most cordially.

‘Well, if it isn’t old Claude!’ he cried. ‘What’s been happening to you lately?...
Letter II Mr. Villars to Lady Howard
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, Dorsetshire*

Your Ladyship did but too well foresee the perplexity and uneasiness of which Madame Duval’s letter has been productive. However, I ought rather to be thankful that I have so many years remained unmolested, than repine at my...
Letter XV Mr. Villars to Evelina
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, April 16.

In the belief and hope that my Evelina would ere now have bid adieu to London, I had intended to have deferred writing, till I heard of her return to Howard Grove; but the letter I have this moment received,...
Letter XX Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Our places were in the front row of a side-box. Sir Clement Willoughby, who knew our intention, was at the door of the Theatre, and handed us from the carriage.

We had not been seated five minutes, ere Lord Orville, who we saw in the...
Letter XXVI Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard Grove, April 27.

O my dear Sir, I now write in the greatest uneasiness! Madame Duval has made a proposal which terrifies me to death, and which was as unexpected, as it is shocking.

She had been employed for some hours this afternoon...
Letter VI Mr. Villars to Evelina
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, May 25.

Let not my Evelina be depressed by a stroke of fortune for which she is not responsible. No breach of duty on your part, has incurred the unkindness which has been shewn you, nor have you, by any act of...
Letter X Evelina to Miss Mirvan
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

June 7th.

I have no words, my sweet friend, to express the thankfulness I feel for the unbounded kindness which you, your dear mother, and the much-honoured Lady Howard, have shewn me; and still less can I find language to tell you with...
Letter XIX Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Holborn, June 27th.

I have just received, my dearest Sir, your kind present, and still kinder letter. Surely never had orphan so little to regret as your grateful Evelina! Though motherless, though worse than fatherless, bereft from infancy of the two first and...
Letter XX Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

I have just received a most affecting letter from Mr. Macartney. I will inclose it, my dear Sir, for your perusal. More than ever have I cause to rejoice that I was able to assist him.
Letter XXVIII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, July 29.

I must own myself somewhat distressed how to answer your raillery: yet believe me, my dear Maria, your suggestions are those of fancy, not of truth. I am unconscious of the weakness you suspect; yet,...
Letter XII Mr. Villars to Evelina
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, Oct. 3.

Your last communication, my dearest child, is indeed astonishing; that an acknowledged daughter and heiress of Sir John Belmont should be at Bristol, and still my Evelina bear the name of Anville, is to me inexplicable: yet the mystery of...
Letter XXIII Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

All is over, my dearest Sir, and the fate of your Evelina is decided! This morning, with fearful joy, and trembling gratitude, she united herself for ever with the object of her dearest, her eternal affection!

I have time for no more; the chaise now...
A Scandal in Bohemia
Authors: Doyle Arthur conan
Published: December 2020

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for...
The Man with the Twisted Lip
Authors: Doyle Arthur conan
Published: December 2020

I sa* Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney,* D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St George’s,* was much addicted to opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some foolish freak when he was at...
The Curse of the Baskervilles
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘I
Have in my pocket a manuscript,’ said Dr James Mortimer.

‘I observed it as you entered the room,’ said Holmes.

‘It is an old manuscript.’

‘Early eighteenth century, unless it is a forgery.’

‘How can you say that, sir?’

‘You have presented...
Baskerville Hall
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Sir
Henry
Baskerville and Dr Mortimer were ready upon the appointed day, and we started as arranged for Devonshire. Mr Sherlock Holmes drove with me to the station, and gave me his last parting injunctions and advice.

‘I will not bias your mind by...
The Man on the Tor
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

The extract from my private diary which forms the last chapter has brought my narrative up to the 18th of October, a time when these strange events began to move swiftly towards their terrible conclusion. The incidents of the next few...
Death on the Moor
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

For a moment or two I sat breathless, hardly able to believe my ears. Then my senses and my voice came back to me, while a crushing weight of responsibility seemed in an instant to be lifted from my soul. That cold, incisive,...
Fixing the Nets
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Sir
Henry was more pleased than surprised to see Sherlock Holmes, for he had for some days been expecting that recent events would bring him down from London. He did raise his eyebrows, however, when he found that my friend had neither any...
A Retrospection
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It was the end of November, and Holmes and I sat, upon a raw and foggy night, on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting-room in Baker Street. Since the tragic upshot of our visit to Devonshire he had...
Chapter III
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr. Abraham Adams was an excellent Scholar. He was a perfect Master of the Greek and Latin Languages; to which he added a great Share of Knowledge in the Oriental Tongues, and could read and translate French,...
Chapter V
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

At this Time, an Accident happened which put a stop to these agreeable Walks, which probably would have soon puffed up the Cheeks of Fame,* and caused her to blow her brazen Trumpet through the Town, and this was no other than...
Chapter X
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The disconsolate Joseph, would not have had an Understanding sufficient for the principal Subject of such a Book as this, if he had any longer misunderstood the Drift of his Mistress; and indeed that he did not discern it sooner,...
Chapter XI
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It is an Observation sometimes made, that to indicate our Idea of a simple Fellow, we say, He is easily to be seen through: Nor do I believe it a more improper Denotation of a simple Book. Instead of applying this to...
Chapter XV
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Betty told her Mistress, she believed the Man in Bed was a greater Man than they took him for: for besides the extreme Whiteness of his Skin, and the Softness of his Hands; she observed a very great Familiarity between the Gentleman and him;...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘Sir,’ said the Host, ‘I assure you, you are not the first to whom our Squire hath promised more than he hath performed. He is so famous for this Practice, that his Word will not be taken for much by those who know...
Chapter II
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It was so late when our Travellers left the Inn or Ale-house, (for it might be called either) that they had not travelled many Miles before Night overtook them, or met them, which you please. The Reader must excuse me if I am not...
Chapter X
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Before we proceed any farther in this Tragedy, we shall leave Mr. Joseph and Mr. Adams to themselves, and imitate the wise Conductors of the Stage; who in the midst of a grave Action entertain you with some excellent piece...
Chapter XII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Neither the facetious Dialogue which pass’d between the Poet and Player, nor the grave and truly solemn Discourse of Mr. Adams, will, we conceive, make the Reader sufficient Amends for the Anxiety which he must have felt on the account of poor...
Chapter VI
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Meeting between Joseph and Pamela was not without Tears of Joy on both sides; and their Embraces were full of Tenderness and Affection. They were however regarded with much more Pleasure by the Nephew than by the Aunt, to...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Parson and his Wife had just ended a long Dispute when the Lovers came to the Door. Indeed this young Couple had been the Subject of the Dispute; for Mrs. Adams was one of those prudent People who never do any...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Fanny was very little behind her Joseph, in the Duty she exprest towards her Parents; and the Joy she evidenced in discovering them. Gammar Andrews kiss’d her, and said she was heartily glad to see her: But for her part...
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Parson
Tickletext* to Parson
Oliver.*

Rev. SIR,

Herewith I transmit you a Copy of sweet, dear, pretty Pamela, a little Book which this Winter hath produced; of which, I make no Doubt, you have already heard mention from...
Mrs Deborah is introduced into the parish with a simile. A short account of Jenny Jones, with the difficulties and discouragements which may attend young women in the pursuit of learning
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs Deborah, having disposed of the child according to the will of her master, now prepared to visit those habitations which were supposed to conceal its mother.

Not otherwise than when a kite, tremendous bird, is beheld by the feathered generation soaring aloft, and...
Containing what the reader may, perhaps, expect to find in it
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

In all bargains, whether to fight, or to marry, or concerning any other such business, little previous ceremony is required to bring the matter to an issue, when both parties are really in earnest. This was the case at present, and in less than...
The opinions of the divine and the philosopher concerning the two boys; with some reasons for their opinions, and other matters
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It is probable that by disclosing this secret, which had been communicated in the utmost confidence to him, young Blifil preserved his companion from a good lashing: for the offence of the bloody nose would have been of itself sufficient cause for Thwackum to...
Being the shortest chapter in this book
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Her mother first perceived the alteration in the shape of Molly, and in order to hide it from her neighbours, she foolishly clothed her in that sack* which Sophia had sent her. Though indeed that young lady had little apprehension that the...
Of the SERIOUS in writing, and for what purpose it is introduced
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Peradventure there may be no parts in this prodigious work which will give the reader less pleasure in the perusing than those which have given the author the greatest pains in composing. Among these probably may be reckoned those initial essays which we have...
In which Mr Jones receives many friendly visits during his confinement; with some fine touches of the passion of love, scarce visible to the naked eye
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Tom
Jones had many visitors during his confinement, though some, perhaps, were not very agreeable to him. Mr Allworthy saw him almost every day; but though he pitied Tom’s sufferings, and greatly approved the gallant behaviour which had occasioned them, yet he thought this...
A little chapter, in which is contained a little incident
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Among other visitants who paid their compliments to the young gentleman in his confinement, Mrs Honour was one. The reader, perhaps, when he reflects on some expressions which have formerly dropped from her, may conceive that she herself had a very particular affection for...
Which, among other things, may serve as a comment on that saying of Aeschines, that DRUNKENNESS SHOWS THE MIND OF A MAN, AS A MIRROR REFLECTS HIS PERSON
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The reader may, perhaps, wonder at hearing nothing of Mr Jones in the last chapter. In fact, his behaviour was so different from that of the persons there mentioned that we chose not to confound his name with theirs.

When the good man had ended...
In which is related what passed between Sophia and her aunt
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Sophia was in her chamber, reading, when her aunt came in. The moment she saw Mrs Western, she shut the book with so much eagerness that the good lady could not forbear asking her, ‘What book that was which she seemed so much afraid...
A picture of formal courtship in miniature, as it always ought to be drawn, and a scene of a tenderer kind, painted at full length
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It was well remarked by one (and perhaps by more) that misfortunes do not come single. This wise maxim was now verified by Sophia, who was not only disappointed of seeing the man she loved, but had the vexation of being obliged to dress...
The meeting between Jones and Sophia
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Jones departed instantly in quest of Sophia, whom he found just risen from the ground, where her father had left her, with the tears trickling from her eyes, and the blood running from her lips. He presently ran to her, and with...
Being of a much more tempestuous kind than the former
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Before we proceed with what now happened to our lovers, it may be proper to recount what had passed in the hall during their tender interview.

Soon after Jones had left Mr Western in the manner above-mentioned, his sister came to him, and was presently...
A short chapter, containing a short dialogue between Squire Western and his sister
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Western had been engaged abroad all that day. The squire met her at her return home; and when she inquired after Sophia, he acquainted her that he had secured her safe enough. ‘She is locked up in chamber,’ cries he, ‘and Honour keeps...
A most dreadful chapter indeed; and which few readers ought to venture upon in an evening, especially when alone
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Jones swallowed a large mess of chicken, or rather cock, broth, with a very good appetite, as indeed he would have done the cock it was made of, with a pound of bacon into the bargain; and now, finding in himself no deficiency of...
In which the Man of the Hill continues his history
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I had now regained my liberty,’ said the stranger; ‘but I had lost my reputation; for there is a wide difference between the case of a man who is barely acquitted of a crime in a court of justice, and of him who...
Containing a very surprising adventure indeed, which Mr Jones met with in his walk with the Man of the Hill
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Aurora now first opened her casement, Anglice, the day began to break, when Jones walked forth in company with the stranger, and mounted Mazard Hill; of which they had no sooner gained the summit than one of the most noble prospects in...
The arrival of Mr Jones, with his lady at the inn; with a very full description of the Battle of Upton
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Though the reader, we doubt not, is very eager to know who this lady was, and how she fell into the hands of Mr Northerton, we must beg him to suspend his curiosity for a short time, as we are obliged, for some very...
In which the arrival of a man of war puts a final end to hostilities, and causes the conclusion of a firm and lasting peace between all parties
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

A sergeant and a file of musketeers, with a deserter in their custody, arrived about this time. The sergeant presently inquired for the principal magistrate of the town, and was informed by my landlord that he himself was vested in that office. He...
Containing a fuller account of Mrs Waters, and by what means she came into that distressful situation from which she was rescued by Jones
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Though nature hath by no means mixed up an equal share either of curiosity or vanity in every human composition, there is perhaps no individual to whom she hath not allotted such a proportion of both as requires much art, and pains too, to...
Showing who the amiable lady and her unamiable maid were
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

As in the month of June, the damask rose, which chance hath planted among the lilies, with their candid hue mixes his vermilion; or, as some playsome heifer in the pleasant month of May diffuses her odoriferous breath over the flowery meadows; or as,...
A very short chapter, in which, however, is a sun, a moon, a star, and an angel
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The sun (for he keeps very good hours at this time of the year) had been some time retired to rest when Sophia arose greatly refreshed by her sleep, which, short as it was, nothing but her extreme fatigue could have occasioned; for though...
In which Mrs Fitzpatrick concludes her history
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

While Mrs Honour, in pursuance of the commands of her mistress, ordered a bowl of punch, and invited my landlord and landlady to partake of it, Mrs Fitzpatrick thus went on with her relation.

‘Most of the officers who were quartered at a town...
The morning introduced in some pretty writing. A stage-coach. The civility of chambermaids. The heroic temper of Sophia. Her generosity. The return to it. The departure of the company, and their arrival at London; with some remarks for the use of travellers
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Those members of society who are born to furnish the blessings of life now began to light their candles, in order to pursue their daily labours, for the use of those who are born to enjoy these blessings. The sturdy hind now...
In which Fortune seems to have been in a better humour with Jones than we have hitherto seen her
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

As there is no wholesomer, so perhaps there are few stronger, sleeping potions than fatigue. Of this Jones might be said to have taken a very large dose, and it operated very forcibly upon him. He had already slept nine hours, and might perhaps have...
What befell Mr Jones on his arrival in London
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The learned Dr Misaubin* used to say that the proper direction to him was To Dr Misaubin, in the world; intimating that there were few people in it to whom his great reputation was not known. And, perhaps, upon a...
Containing the whole humours of a masquerade
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Our cavaliers now arrived at that temple where Heidegger,* the great Arbiter Deliciarum, the great high-priest of pleasure, presides; and, like other heathen priests, imposes on his votaries by the pretended presence of the deity, when in reality no such...
Consisting partly of facts, and partly of observations upon them
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The letter then which arrived at the end of the preceding chapter was from Mr Allworthy, and the purport of it was his intention to come immediately to town, with his nephew Blifil, and a desire to be accommodated with his usual lodgings, which...
Of prologues
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

I have heard of a dramatic writer who used to say he would rather write a play than a prologue; in like manner, I think, I can write with less pains one of the books of this history, than the prefatory chapter to...
What happened to Sophia during her confinement
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The landlady of the house where the squire lodged had begun very early to entertain a strange opinion of her guests. However, as she was informed that the squire was a man of a vast fortune, and as she had taken care to exact...
The consequence of the preceding visit
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Fitzpatrick having received the letter before-mentioned, from Mrs Western, and being by that means acquainted with the place to which his wife was retired, returned directly to Bath, and thence the day after set forward to London.

The reader hath been already often informed...
Allworthy visits old Nightingale; with a strange discovery that he made on that occasion
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The morning after these things had happened, Mr Allworthy went, according to his promise, to visit old Nightingale, with whom his authority was so great, that, after having sat with him three hours, he at last prevailed with him to consent to see his...
Further continuation
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The gentleman who now arrived was no other than Mr Western. He no sooner saw Allworthy, than, without considering in the least the presence of Mrs Waters, he began to vociferate in the following manner. ‘Fine doings at my house! A rare kettle of...
A further continuation
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Allworthy took an opportunity, whilst he was in the chair, of reading the letter from Jones to Sophia, which Western delivered him; and there were some expressions in it concerning himself which drew tears from his eyes. At length he arrived at Mr Western’s,...
Wherein the history begins to draw towards a conclusion
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When Allworthy returned to his lodgings, he heard Mr Jones was just arrived before him. He hurried therefore instantly into an empty chamber, whither he ordered Mr Jones to be brought to him alone.

It is impossible to conceive a more tender or moving scene...
In which the history is concluded
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Young Nightingale had been that afternoon, by appointment, to wait on his father, who received him much more kindly than he expected. There likewise he met his uncle, who was returned to town in quest of his new-married daughter.

This marriage was the luckiest incident...
North and South
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth , Shuttleworth Sally
Published: December 2020

`She tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.’ North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman, and from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny, it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret’s ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill ownder, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.
Chapter XXII A Blow and its Consequences
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘But work grew scarce, while bread grew dear,       And wages lessened, too; For Irish hordes were bidders here,       Our half-paid work to do.’

Margaret was shown into the drawing-room. It had returned into its normal state of bag and...
Chapter IV A Ray of Sunshine
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Some wishes crossed my mind and dimly cheered it, And one or two poor melancholy pleasures, Each in the pale unwarming light of hope, Silvering its flimsy wing, flew silent by— Moths in the moonbeam!’

The next morning brought Margaret a...
Chapter IX False and True
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Truth will fail thee never, never!      Though thy bark be tempest-driven,      Though each plank be rent and riven, Truth will bear thee on for ever!’

The ‘bearing up better than likely’ was a terrible strain upon Margaret. Sometimes she thought she must...
Chapter X Expiation
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘There’s nought so finely spun But it cometh to the sun.’

Mr.
Thornton sate on and on. He felt that his company gave pleasure to Mr. Hale; and was touched by the half-spoken wishful entreaty that he would remain a little longer—the plaintive ‘Don’t...
Chapter V Departure of Bathsheba: a pastoral tragedy
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The news which one day reached Gabriel, that Bathsheba Everdene had left the neighbourhood, had an influence upon him which might have surprised any who never suspected that the more emphatic the renunciation the less absolute its character.

It may have been observed that there...
Chapter IX The homestead: a visitor: half-confidences
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

By daylight the bower of Oak’s new-found mistress, Bathsheba Everdene, presented itself as a hoary building of the early stage of Classic Renaissance* as regards its architecture, and of a proportion which told at a glance that, as is so frequently the...
Chapter XI Outside the barracks: snow: a meeting
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

For dreariness nothing could surpass a prospect in the outskirts of a certain town and military station, many miles north of Weatherbury, at a later hour on this same snowy evening—if that may be called a prospect of which the chief constituent was darkness....

It...
Chapter XXXI Blame: fury
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The next evening Bathsheba, with the idea of getting out of the way of Mr Boldwood in the event of his returning to answer her note in person, proceeded to fulfil an engagement made with Liddy some few hours earlier. Bathsheba’s companion, as a...
Chapter XXXIII In the sun: a harbinger
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

A week passed, and there were no tidings of Bathsheba, nor was there any explanation of her Gilpin’s-rig.*

Then a note came for Maryann, stating that the business which had called her mistress to Bath still detained her there, but that she hoped to...
Chapter XLI Suspicion: Fanny is sent for
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Bathsheba said very little to her husband all that evening of their return from market, and he was not disposed to say much to her. He exhibited the unpleasant combination of a restless condition with a silent tongue. The next day, which was Sunday,...
Chapter XLIV Under a tree: reaction
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Bathsheba went along the dark road neither knowing nor caring about the direction or issue of her flight. The first time that she definitely noticed her position was when she reached a gate leading into a thicket overhung by some large oak and beech...
Chapter XLIX Oak’s advancement: a great hope
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The later autumn and the winter drew on apace, and the leaves lay thick upon the turf of the glades and the mosses of the woods. Bathsheba having previously been living in a state of suspended feeling which was not suspense now lived in...
Chapter LIV After the shock
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Boldwood passed into the high road, and turned in the direction of Casterbridge. Here he walked at an even steady pace over Yalbury Hill, along the dead level beyond, mounted Mellstock Hill,* and between eleven and twelve o’clock crossed Durnover*...
I.–vi.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

At this memorable date of his life he was, one Saturday, returning from Alfredston to Marygreen about three o’clock in the afternoon. It was fine, warm, and soft summer weather, and he walked with his tools at his back, his little chisels clinking faintly...
III.–i.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was a new idea; the ecclesiastical and altruistic life as distinct from the intellectual and emulative life. A man could preach and do good to his fellow-creatures without taking double-firsts in the schools of Christminster, or having anything but ordinary knowledge. The old...
V.–iii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

When Sue reached home Jude was awaiting her at the door to take the initial step towards their marriage. She clasped his arm, and they went along silently together, as true comrades ofttimes do. He saw that she was preoccupied, and forbore to question...
V.–iv.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Their next and second attempt thereat was more deliberately made, though it was begun on the morning following the singular child’s arrival at their home.

Him they found to be in the habit of sitting silent, his quaint and weird face set, and his eyes...
V.–v.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given. That the twain were happy—between their times of sadness—was indubitable. And when the unexpected apparition of Jude’s child in the...
VI.–iv.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The man whom Sue, in her mental volte-face, was now regarding as her inseparable husband, lived still at Marygreen.

On the day before the tragedy of the children, Phillotson had seen both her and Jude as they stood in the rain at Christminster watching the...
II
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The morning sun was streaming through the crevices of the canvas when the man awoke. A warm glow pervaded the whole atmosphere of the marquee, and a single big blue fly buzzed musically round and round in it. Besides the buzz of the fly...
XI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The Ring at Casterbridge* was merely the local name of one of the finest Roman amphitheatres, if not the very finest, remaining in Britain.

Casterbridge announced old Rome in every street, alley, and precinct. It looked Roman, bespoke the art of Rome, concealed dead...
XIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The cottage which Michael Henchard hired for his wife Susan under her name of Newson—in pursuance of their plan—was in the upper or western part of the town, near the Roman wall and the avenue which overshadowed it. The evening sun seemed to shine...
XVIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

There came a shock which had been foreseen for some time by Elizabeth, as the box passenger* foresees the approaching jerk from some channel across the highway.

Her mother was ill—too unwell to leave her room. Henchard, who treated her kindly except in moments...
XIX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Henchard and Elizabeth sat conversing by the fire. It was three weeks after Mrs. Henchard’s funeral; the candles were not lighted, and a restless, acrobatic flame, poised on a coal, called from the shady walls the smiles of all shapes that could respond—the old...
XXII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

We go back for a moment to the preceding night, to account for Henchard’s attitude.

At the hour when Elizabeth-Jane was contemplating her stealthy reconnoitring excursion to the abode of the lady of her fancy, he had been not a little amazed at receiving a...
XXX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Farfrae’s words to his landlady had referred to the removal of his boxes and other effects from his late lodgings to Lucetta’s house. The work was not heavy, but it had been much hindered on account of the frequent pauses necessitated by exclamations of...
XXXI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The retort of the furmity-woman before the magistrates had spread; and in four-and-twenty hours there was not a person in Casterbridge who remained unacquainted with the story of Henchard’s mad freak at Weydon Priors Fair, long years before. The amends he had made in...
XL
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Long before this time Henchard, weary of his ruminations on the bridge, had repaired towards the town. When he stood at the bottom of the street a procession burst upon his view, in the act of turning out of an alley just above him....