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Chapter XVII An Old and a New Acquaintance
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

While he was deep sunk in his reverie, the rustle of tartans was heard behind him, a friendly arm clasped his shoulders, and a friendly voice exclaimed,

“Said the Highland prophet sooth? Or must a second-sight go for nothing?”

Waverley turned and was warmly embraced...
Chapter XXIII The Eve of Battle
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Although the Highlanders marched on very fast, the sun was declining when they arrived upon the brow of those high grounds which command an open and extensive plain stretching northwards to the sea, on which are situated, but at a considerable distance...
Chapter X The March
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

It is not our purpose to intrude upon the province of history. We shall therefore only remind our reader, that about the beginning of November the young Chevalier, at the head of about six thousand men at the utmost, resolved to peril...
Chapter I: I Meet Sir Henry Curtis
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

It is a curious thing that at my age—fifty-five last birthday—I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a history. I wonder what sort of a history it will be when I have done it, if I ever come to...
Mary Postgate(1915)
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Of Miss Mary Postgate, Lady McCausland wrote that she was ‘thoroughly conscientious, tidy, companionable, and ladylike. I am very sorry to part with her, and shall always be interested in her welfare.’

Miss Fowler engaged her on this recommendation, and to her surprise, for she...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It was a bright autumn Sunday, sixteen years after Silas Marner had found his new treasure on the hearth. The bells of the old Raveloe church were ringing the cheerful peal which told that the morning service was ended; and out of the arched...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Night was falling. From the pale sky where the first stars were shining, a fine ash seemed to be raining down on the city, that slowly but surely was disappearing. Shadows were already massing in the dips while an ink-black line rose from below...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The rinces-bouches* had been served and the ladies were delicately wiping their fingers. There was a moment’s silence around the table. Madame Deberle looked to see if everyone had finished, then rose without a word, while the guests did likewise, amidst a...
Chapter VIII To the Winning Side
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Of the acquaintances Yule had retained from his earlier years several were in the well-defined category of men with unpresentable wives. There was Hinks, for instance, whom, though in anger he spoke of him as a bore, Alfred held in some genuine regard. Hinks...
Chapter XXI Mr Yule Leaves Town
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Since the domestic incidents connected with that unpleasant review in The Current, the relations between Alfred Yule and his daughter had suffered a permanent change, though not in a degree noticeable by any one but the two concerned. To all appearances, they...
Chapter XXIV Jasper’s Magnanimity
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Occasionally milvain met his sisters as they came out of church on Sunday morning, and walked home to have dinner with them. He did so to-day, though the sky was cheerless and a strong north-west wind made it anything but agreeable to wait about...
Chapter XXX Waiting On Destiny
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Throughout the day Marian kept her room. Her intention to leave the house was, of course, abandoned; she was the prisoner of fate. Mrs Yule would have tended her with unremitting devotion, but the girl desired to be alone. At times she lay in...
The Sin of Abbé Mouret
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

‘I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.’ The Sin of Abbé Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spiritual purity and sanctity, he lives a life of constant prayer, but his neglect of all physical needs leads to serious illness, followed by amnesia. No longer knowing he is a priest, he falls in love with his nurse Albine. Together, like a latter-day Adam and Eve, they roam through an Eden-like garden called the ‘Paradou’, seeking a forbidden tree in whose shade they will make love. Zola memorably shows their gradual awakening to sexuality, and his poetic descriptions of the luxuriant and beautiful Paradou create a lyrical celebration of Nature. When Serge regains his memory and recalls his priestly vows, anguish inevitably follows. The whole story, with its numerous biblical parallels, becomes a poetic reworking of the Fall of Man and a questioning of the very meaning of innocence and sin. Zola explores the conflict between Church and Nature, the sterility of the Church and the fertility of Nature. This new translation includes a wide-ranging and helpful introduction and explanatory notes.
Chapter X
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When Abbé Mouret was alone again, walking in the dust of the road, he felt more at ease. These stony fields brought back his dreams of severity, of an inner life lived in a desert. All along the lane the trees had dripped splashes...
Chapter IX
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Next morning, Albine wanted to set out at sunrise for the great outing she had had in mind since the previous day. She tapped her feet merrily on the ground, saying they wouldn’t get back home that day.

‘Where are you taking me then?’ asked...
Chapter IX
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The church was silent. But the rain, falling more heavily now and beating on the roof, echoed through the nave like an organ. In the sudden calm, the priest’s anger subsided; he felt a wave of tenderness. And it was with a face streaming...
Amelia Webster
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

is dedicated by Permission

to

Mrs Austen*

by

Her humble Servant

Letter the first

To Miss Webster

My dear Amelia

You will rejoice to hear of the return of my amiable Brother from abroad. He arrived on thursday, & never did I...
The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers: A Tale of Stiria
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

How The Agricultural System Of The Black Brothers Was Interfered With By South-West Wind, Esquire

In a secluded and mountainous part of Stiria,* there was, in old time, a valley of the most surprising and luxuriant fertility. It was surrounded,...
The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling Cloak: A Parable for Young and Old
Authors: Craik Dinah Mulock
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

, he was the most beautiful Prince that ever was born.

Of course, being a prince, people said this: but it was true besides. When he looked at the candle, his eyes had an expression of earnest inquiry quite startling in a new-born...
The Wanderings of Arasmon
Authors: Morgan Mary De
Published: December 2020

Long ago there lived a wandering musician and his wife, whose names were Arasmon and Chrysea.* Arasmon played upon a lute to which Chrysea sang, and their music was so beautiful that people followed them in crowds and gave them as much...
Dymchurch Flit
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The Bee Boy’s Song

Bees! Bees! Hark to your bees!

‘Hide from your neighbours as much as you please,

But all that has happened, to us you must tell.*

Or else we will give you no honey to sell!’

A maiden in her glory,...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was quite an occasion, every three months, when Hubertine did the washing. She hired a woman, Mère Gabet, and for four days embroidery was forgotten. Angélique joined in too, as it was a pleasant break from ordinary work to soap and rinse the...
1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In the heat of the torrid July afternoon, and with its shutters carefully shut, the room was perfectly still. From the three windows, only thin shafts of light came in through the cracks in the ageing wood; and, in the gloom, an incredibly soft...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That morning the Moniteur had carried the news of Rougon’s resignation, saying it was ‘for health reasons’. He had gone to the Council of State after lunch, anxious to clean out his office and have it ready for his successor that very...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

A crowd of people, mostly women, had surrounded the church, which was lit up for the wedding. Those who had not managed to get into the middle of the throng were crowding round the windows, pushing, arguing, and peering in through the grilles.

More than...
Chapter 6
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When Madame Chanteau returned home again that evening, shortly before dinner time, no further mention was made of Louise. She simply called Véronique over to help her off with her boots. Her left foot was hurting.

‘Gracious, it’s no wonder!’ the servant murmured, ‘it’s all...
Chapter III Last Stage of Education, and First of Self-Education
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

For the first year or two after my visit to France, I continued my old studies, with the addition of some new ones. When I returned, my father was just finishing for the press his “Elements of Political Economy,” and he made me perform an...
Chapter VI Commencement of the Most Valuable Friendship of My Life. My Father’S Death. Writings and Other Proceedings Up to 1840
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

It was at the period of my mental progress which I have now reached that I formed the friendship which has been the honour and chief blessing of my existence, as well as the source of a great part of all that I have attempted...
Chapter IX
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

When Gerard and his friend quitted the convent they proceeded at a brisk pace, into the heart of the town. The streets were nearly empty; and with the exception of some occasional burst of brawl or merriment from a beer-shop, all was still. The...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

About three miles before it reaches the town, the river Mowe undulates through a plain. The scene, though not very picturesque, has a glad and sparkling character. A stone bridge unites the opposite banks by three arches of good proportion; the land about consists...
Chapter II
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Two days after the visit of Egremont to the cottage of Walter Gerard, the visit of the Marney family to Mowbray terminated, and they returned to the Abbey.

There is something mournful in the breaking up of an agreeable party, and few are the roofs...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

A few days after his morning walk with Sybil, it was agreed that Egremont should visit Mr. Trafford’s factory, which he had expressed a great desire to inspect. Gerard always left his cottage at break of dawn, and as Sybil had not yet paid...
Chapter IX
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Morley paused as he recognised Egremont; then advancing to Gerard, followed by his companion, he said, ‘This is Mr. Hatton of whom we were speaking last night, and who claims to be an ancient acquaintance of yours.’

‘Perhaps I should rather say of your poor...
Chapter I
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘Another week,’ exclaimed a gentleman in Downing Street* on the 5th of August, 1842, ‘and we shall be prorogued. You can surely keep the country quiet for another week.’

‘I cannot answer for the public peace for another four-and-twenty hours,’ replied his companion....
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mrs. John Dashwood had so much confidence in her husband’s judgment that she waited the very next day both on Mrs. Jennings and her daughter; and her confidence was rewarded by finding even the former, even the woman with whom her sisters...
Chapter Two
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

As the column of prisoners was leaving Torcy there was such a scramble that Maurice was separated from Jean. No matter how fast he ran to catch up, he just got more lost. And when he finally arrived at the bridge over the canal which...
Showing How Mrs Orme Could Be Very Weak Minded
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I venture to think, I may almost say to hope, that Lady Mason’s confession at the end of the last chapter will not have taken anybody by surprise. If such surprise be felt I must have told my tale badly. I do not like...
Telling All That Happened Beneath the Lamp-post
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Felix Graham left Noningsby and made his way up to London, he came at least to one resolution which he intended to be an abiding one. That idea of a marriage with a moulded wife should at any rate be abandoned. Whether it...
What Rebekah Did For Her Son
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Every day Mrs Orme went up to Orley Farm and sat for two hours with Lady Mason. We may say that there was now no longer any secret between them, and that she whose life had been so innocent, so pure, and so good,...
Chapter XI
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large-figured papering on the...
Chapter IX
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

He did not leave for Cambridge the next day, as he had said he would. He deferred his departure a whole week; and during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good, yet stern, a conscientious, yet implacable man can inflict...
Chapter LXIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

‘Have you seen much of your scientific phoenix, Lydgate, lately?’ said Mr Toller at one of his Christmas dinner-parties, speaking to Mr Farebrother on his right hand.

‘Not much, I am sorry to say,’...
The French Revolution
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

‘It is I think the most radical Book that has been written in these late centuries . . . and will give pleasure and displeasure, one may expect, to almost all classes of persons.’ Carlyle Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napoleon suppressing the insurrection of the 13th Vendémaire. Both in Its form and content, the work was intended as a revolt against history writing itself, with Carlyle exploding the eighteenth-century conventions of dignified gentlemanly discourse. Immersing himself in his French sources with unprecedented imaginative and intellectual engagement, he recreates the upheaval in a language that evokes the chaotic atmosphere of the events. In the French Revolution Carlyle achieves the most vivid historical reconstruction of the crisis of his, or any other, age. This new edition offers an authoritative text, a comprehensive record of Carlyle's French, English, and German sources, a select bibliography of editions, related writings, and critical studies, chronologies of both Thomas Carlyle and the French Revolution, and a new and full index. In addition, Carlyle)s work is placed in the context of both British and European history and writing, and linked to a variety of major figures, including Edward Gibbon, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, Hegel, and R. G. Collingwood.
Book III. The Tuileries.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. Epimenides.*

How true that there is nothing dead in this Universe; that what we call dead is only changed, its forces working in inverse order! ‘The leaf that lies rotting in moist winds,’ says one, ‘has still force; else how could...
Chapter II
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘Betteredge!’ I said, pointing to the well-remembered book on his knee, ‘has Robinson Crusoe informed you, this evening, that you might expect to see Franklin Blake?’

‘By the lord Harry, Mr Franklin!’ cried the old man, ‘that’s exactly what Robinson Crusoe...
Wuthering Heights
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

‘You said I killed you - haunt me, then!’ Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine’s father finds him wandering alone through the slave-trading port of Liverpool. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff and Catherine find refuge in each other when the household falls into the hands of Catherine’s dissolute older brother. Their bond deepens as they escape together from the violence and stern religion of their home to the Yorkshire moors. But the story of Catherine and Heathcliff’s attachment transforms from intimacy to strife when Catherine marries the refined Edgar Linton. The ensuing story of violence and thwarted passion is one of the most powerful tales of the gothic tradition, a literary mode from which Emily Brontë wrings all of its terrifying potential. A regional novel with a global reach, a work of sensational effects with a startling ethical core, Wuthering Heights is both a romantic melodrama and wrenching study of the difficulty of escaping from the legacies of violence. This edition reproduces the authoritative Clarendon text, with revised and expanded notes and a selection from the poems of Emily Brontë.
Chapter II.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

The next day, contrary to the prognostications of our guides, was fine, although clouded. We visited the source of the Arveiron, and rode about the valley until evening. These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving. They...
Chapter I.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Day after day, week after week, passed away on my return to Geneva; and I could not collect the courage to recommence my work. I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was...
Chapter VI.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

It was eight o’clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn, and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black...
Chapter V: The Adventures of an Understudy
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

With Fritz von Tarlenheim and Colonel Sapt close behind me, I stepped out of the buffet on to the platform. The last thing I did was to feel if my revolver were handy and my sword loose in the scabbard. A gay...
A Vocation
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Dinah, who had risen when the gentlemen came in, but still kept hold of the sheet she was mending, curtsied respectfully when she saw Mr Irwine looking at her and advancing towards her. He had never yet spoken to her, or stood face to...
Links
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Arthur
Donnithorne, you remember, is under an engagement with himself to go and see Mr Irwine this Friday morning, and he is awake and dressing so early, that he determines to go before breakfast, instead of after. The Rector, he knows, breakfasts...
In The Prison
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Near sunset that evening an elderly gentleman was standing with his back against the smaller entrance-door of Stoniton gaol, saying a few last words to the departing chaplain. The chaplain walked away, but the elderly gentleman stood still, looking down on the pavement, and...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

‘he looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked – “Mamma, why are you so wicked?”’ The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall has a dark secret. But as the captivated Gilbert Markham will discover, it is not the story circulating among local gossips. Living under an assumed name, 'Helen Graham' is the estranged wife of a dissolute rake, desperate to protect her son from his destructive influence. Her diary entries reveal the shocking world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled. Combining a sensational story of a man's physical and moral decline through alcohol, a study of marital breakdown, a disquisition on the care and upbringing of children, and a hard-hitting critique of the position of women in Victorian society, this passionate tale of betrayal is set within a stern moral framework tempered by Anne Brontë's optimistic belief in universal redemption. Drawing on her first-hand experiences with her brother Branwell, Brontë's novel scandalized contemporary readers. It still retains its power to shock. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Chapter IV: The Party
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Our party, on the fifth of November, passed off very well in spite of Mrs. Graham’s refusal to grace it with her presence. Indeed, it is probable that, had she been there, there would have been less cordiality, freedom, and frolic amongst us than...
Chapter X: A Contract and A Quarrel
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

When all were gone, I learnt that the vile slander had indeed been circulated throughout the company, in the very presence of the victim. Rose, however, vowed she did not and would not believe it, and my mother made the same declaration, though not,...
Chapter XXIV: First Quarrel
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

March 25th.—Arthur is getting tired—not of me I trust, but of the idle, quiet life he leads—and no wonder, for he has so few sources of amusement; he never reads anything but newspapers and sporting magazines; and when he sees me occupied with a...
Chapter XXXVII: The Neighbour Again
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

December 20th, 1825.—Another year is past; and I am weary of this life. And yet, I cannot wish to leave it: whatever afflictions assail me here, I cannot wish to go and leave my darling in this dark and wicked world alone, without a...
Chapter XXXVIII: The Injured Man
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

December 20th, 1826.—The fifth anniversary of my wedding day, and I trust, the last I shall spend under this roof. My resolution is formed, my plan concocted, and already partly put in execution. My conscience does not blame me, but while the purpose ripens,...
Chapter XLIII: The Boundary Past
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

October 10th.—Mr. Huntingdon returned about three weeks ago. His appearance, his demeanour and conversation, and my feelings with regard to him, I shall not trouble myself to describe. The day after his arrival, however, he surprised me by the announcement of an intention to...
XII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She put the letter into her pocket and offered her visitor a smile of welcome, exhibiting no trace of discomposure and half surprised at her coolness.

‘They told me you were out here,’ said Lord Warburton; ‘and as there was no one in the drawing-room...
Variation Under Domestication
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

Causes of Variability—Effects of Habit—Correlation of Growth—Inheritance —Character of Domestic Varieties—Difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species—Origin of Domestic Varieties from one or more Species—Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin—Principle of Selection anciently followed, its Effects—Methodical and Unconscious Selection—Unknown Origin of our Domestic Productions—Circumstances favourable...
In the Abbé’s Cell
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

After having passed with tolerable ease through the subterranean passage, which, however, did not allow them to walk erect, the two friends reached the farther end of the corridor into which the cell of the abbé opened. From that point, the opening became much...
The Colosseum
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Franz had so managed his route that during the ride to the Colosseum they passed not a single ancient ruin, so that no gradual preparation was made on the mind for the sheer size of the gigantic building they came to admire. This itinerary...
Unlimited Credit
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

About two o’clock the following day a calèche, drawn by a pair of magnificent English horses, stopped at the door of Monte Cristo’s mansion, and a person dressed in a blue coat, with buttons of a similar colour, a white waistcoat over which was...
The Bribe
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Not on the same night he had intended, but the next morning, the Count of Monte Cristo went out by the Barrier d’Enfer, taking the road to Orleans. Leaving the village of Linas, without stopping at the telegraph which, at the moment the count...
Danglars’ Signature
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The next morning rose dull and cloudy. During the night the undertakers had discharged their melancholy duty and folded the corpse in the winding-sheet, which, whatever may be said about the equality of death, is at least a last testimony of the luxury so...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After receiving her visitors the countess was so tired that she gave orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to dinner all who came to offer their congratulations. The countess wished to have a tête-à-tête talk...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Prince
Bagration, having reached the highest point of our right flank, began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. The nearer they got to the hollow the less they could...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The next day the Emperor stopped at Wischau, and Villier, his physician, was repeatedly summoned to see him. At headquarters and among the troops near by the news spread that the Emperor was unwell. He ate nothing and had slept badly that night, those...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Next morning, having taken leave of no one but the count, and not waiting for the ladies to appear, Prince Andrei set off for home.

It was already the beginning of June when on his return journey he drove into the birch forest...
21
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Pierre, as one of the principal guests, had to sit down to boston with Count Ilya Andreich Rostov, the general, and the colonel. At the card-table he happened to be directly facing Natasha, and was struck by a curious change that had come over...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

From Smolensk the troops continued to retreat, followed by the enemy. On the 10th of August the regiment Prince Andrei commanded was marching along the high road past the avenue leading to Bald Hills. Heat and drought had continued for more than three weeks....
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After her father’s funeral Princess Marya shut herself up in her room and did not admit anyone. A maid came to the door to say that Alpatych was asking for orders about their departure. (This was before his talk with Dron.) Princess Marya raised...
12
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The Rostovs remained in Moscow till the 1st of September, that is, till the eve of the enemy’s entry into the city.

After Petya had joined Obolensky’s regiment of Cossacks and left for Belaya Tserkov where that regiment was forming, the countess was seized with...
2
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

If we assume, as the historians do, that great men lead humanity to the attainment of certain ends—the greatness of Russia or of France, the balance of power in Europe, the diffusion of the ideas of the Revolution, general progress, or anything else—then it...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Having abandoned the conception of the ancients as to the divine subjection of the will of a nation to some chosen man and the subjection of that man’s will to the Deity, history cannot without contradictions take a single step till it has chosen...
Agnes Grey
Authors: Brontë Anne , Shuttleworth Sally
Published: December 2020

‘How delightful it would be to be a governess!’ When the young Agnes Grey takes up her first post as governess she is full of hope; she believes she only has to remember ‘myself at their age’ to win her pupils’ love and trust. Instead she finds the young children she has to deal with completely unmanageable. They are, as she observes to her mother, ‘unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures’. In writing her first novel, Anne Brontë drew on her own experiences, and one can trace in the work many of the trials of the Victorian governess, often stranded far from home, and treated with little respect by her employers, yet expected to control and educate her young charges. Agnes Grey looks at childhood from nursery to adolescence, and it also charts the frustrations of romantic love, as Agnes starts to nurse warmer feelings towards the local curate, Mr Weston. The novel combines astute dissection of middle-class social behaviour and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has parallels with debates about education that continue to this day.
The Farewell
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

A house in A——,* the fashionable watering place, was hired for our seminary; and a promise of two or three pupils was obtained to commence with. I returned to Horton Lodge about the middle of July, leaving my mother to conclude...
Chapter IX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I Solemnly declare to all mankind, that the above dedication was made for no one Prince, Prelate, Pope, or Potentate,—Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, or Baron of this, or any other Realm in Chistendom;----- nor has it yet been hawk'd about, or offered publickly...
Chapter VI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——What can they be doing, brother? said my father.—I think, replied my uncle Toby,—taking, as I told you, his pipe from his mouth, and striking the ashes out of it as he began his sentence;----I think, replied he,—it would not be amiss, brother,...
Chapter IX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Imagine to yourself a little, squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop,1 of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality2 of belly, which might have done honour to a Serjeant...

Such...
Chapter XV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

In popp'd Corporal Trim with Stevinus-.—But 'twas too late, —all the discourse had been exhausted without him, and was running into a new channel.

—You may take the book home again, Trim, said my uncle Toby, nodding to him.

But pri'thee, Corporal, quoth my...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Obadiah gain'd the two crowns without dispute; for he came in jingling, with all the instruments in the green bays bag we spoke of, slung across his body, just as corporal Trim went out of the room.

It is now proper, I think, quoth Dr....
Chapter IV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

A man'S body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin, and a jerkin's lining;—rumple the one—you rumple the other. There is one certain exception however in this case, and that is, when you...
Chapter V
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Any man, madam, reasoning upwards, and observing the prodigious suffusion of blood in my father's countenance,—by means of which, (as all the blood in his body seemed to rush up into his face, as I told you) he must have redden'd, pictorically
Chapter XXV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

The draw-bridge being held irreparable, Trim was ordered directly to set about another, but not upon the same model; for cardinal Alberoni's1 intrigues at that time being discovered, and my uncle Toby rightly foreseeing that a flame...
Chapter XL
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

The gift of ratiocination and making syllogisms,—I mean in man,—for in superior classes of beings, such as angels and spirits,—'tis all done, may it please your worships, as they tell me, by INTUITION;—and beings inferior, as your worships all know, syllogize by their noses:...
CHAPTER XVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

IF my wife will but venture him—brother Toby, Trismegistus shall be dress'd and brought down to us, whilst you and I are getting our breakfasts together.—

—Go, tell Susanna, Obadiah, to step here.

She is run up stairs, answered Obadiah, this very instant,...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WHEN Susannah told the corporal the misadventure of the sash, with all the circumstances which attended the murder of me,— (as she called it)—the blood forsook his cheeks;—all accessaries in murder, being principals,—Trim's conscience told him he
CHAPTER XXXVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THE whole secret of health, said my father, beginning the sentence again, depending evidently upon the due contention betwixt the radical heat and radical moisture within us;—the least imaginable skill had been sufficient to have maintained it, had not the school-men confounded the task, merely...
CHAPTER XXVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

The corporal had slipped out about ten minutes before my uncle Toby, in order to fix his apparatus, and just give the enemy a shot or two before my uncle Toby came.

He had drawn the six field-pieces for this end, all close up together...
CHAPTER XXVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

My uncle Toby took the ivory pipe out of the corporal's hand,—looked at it for half a minute, and returned it.

In less than two minutes my uncle Toby took the pipe from the corporal again, and raised it half way to his...
CHAPTER XXXV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

A delusive, delicious consultation or two of this kind, betwixt my uncle Toby and Trim, upon the demolition of Dun-kirk,—for a moment rallied back the ideas of those pleasures, which were slipping from under him: still—still all...
CHAPTER XX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Now I hate to hear a person, especially if he be a traveller, complain that we do not get on so fast in France as we do in England; whereas we get on much faster, consideratis, considerandis;1 thereby always meaning, that if...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WHEN all was set to rights, I came down stairs again into the basse cour with my valet de place, in order to sally out towards the tomb of the two lovers, &c.—and was a second time stopp'd at the gate——not by the...
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WHEN we arrived at the chaise-vamper's house, both the house and the shop were shut up; it was the eighth of September, the nativity of the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God—

——Tantarra-ra-tan-tivi——the whole world was going out a May-poling—frisking here—capering there—no body cared a...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

As the antients agree, brother Toby, said my father, that there are two different and distinct kinds of love, according to the different parts which are affected by it—the Brain or Liver——I think when a man is in love, it behoves him a...
The Teacher of Wisdom
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

From his childhood he had been as one filled with the perfect knowledge of God, and even while he was yet but a lad many of the saints, as well as certain holy women who dwelt in the free city of his birth, had been...
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Authors: Pater Walter
Published: December 2020

‘Art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.’ In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and incalculably influential defence of aestheticism. Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Pater redefined the practice of criticism as an impressionistic, almost erotic exploration of the critic’s aesthetic responses. At the same time, reclaiming the Hellenism that he saw as the most characteristic aspect of the Renaissance, he implicitly celebrated homoerotic friendship. Pater’s infamous ‘Conclusion’, which forever linked him with the decadent movement, scandalized many with its insistence on making pleasure the sole motive of life, even as it charmed fellow aesthetes such as Oscar Wilde. This edition of Studies reproduces the text of the first edition, recapturing its initial impact, and the Introduction celebrates its doomed attempt to stand out against the processes of industrialization.
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Harriet slept at Hartfield that night. For some weeks past she had been spending more than half her time there, and gradually getting to have a bed-room appropriated to herself; and Emma judged it best in every respect, safest and kindest, to keep her...
Chapter VI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The next morning brought Mr. Frank Churchill again. He came with Mrs. Weston, to whom and to Highbury he seemed to take very cordially He had been sitting with her, it appeared, most com-panionably at home, till her usual hour of exercise; and on...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘I Hope I shall soon have the pleasure of introducing my son to you,’ said Mr. Weston.

Mrs. Elton, very willing to suppose a particular compliment intended her by such a hope, smiled most graciously.

‘You have heard of a certain Frank Churchill, I presume,’...
Chapter XI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The ball was over and the breakfast was soon over too; the last kiss was given, and William was gone. Mr. Crawford had, as he foretold, been very punctual, and short and pleasant had been the meal.

After seeing William to the last moment, Fanny...
Chapter VI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr. Crawford gone, Sir Thomas’s next object was, that he should be missed, and he entertained great hope that his niece would find a blank in the loss of those attentions which at the time she had felt, or fancied an evil. She had...
Chapter VII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Half a minute conducted them through the Pump-yard to the archway, opposite Union-passage;* but here they were stopped. Every body acquainted with Bath may remember the difficulties of crossing Cheap-street at this point; it is indeed a street of so impertinent a...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

It was not a week, since Miss Diana Parker had been told by her feelings, that the Sea Air would probably in her present state, be the death of her, and now she was at Sanditon, intending to make some Stay, and without appearing...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

From this time Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot were repeatedly in the same circle. They were soon dining in company together at Mr. Musgrove’s, for the little boy’s state could no longer supply his aunt with a pretence for absenting herself; and this was...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

It was here at last, the day of the great Show!* Early on the morning of that solemn occasion the inhabitants were all at their doors discussing the preparations: the pediment of the Town Hall had been garlanded with ivy; a tent for...
Chapter VII
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

She was stoical, the next morning, when the bailiff, Maître Hareng, with two witnesses, appeared at her house to draw up the inventory for the seizure.

They began with Bovary’s consulting room, and did not list the phrenological head, which was considered an ‘instrument of...
The Counterpane
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg’s arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost thought I had been his wife. The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little parti-colored squares and triangles; and this...
Wheelbarrow
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block,* I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my comrade’s money. The grinning landlord, as well as the boarders, seemed amazingly tickled at the sudden friendship...
Queen Mab
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Next morning Stubb accosted Flask.

‘Such a queer dream, King-Post, I never had. You know the old man’s ivory leg, well I dreamed he kicked me with it; and when I tried to kick back, upon my soul, my little man, I kicked my leg...
The Spirit-Spout
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Days, weeks passed, and under easy sail, the ivory Pequod had slowly swept across four several cruising-grounds; that off the Azores; off the Cape de Verdes; on the Plate (so called), being off the mouth of the Rio de la Plata; and the Carrol...
The Albatross
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

South-eastward from the Cape, off the distant Crozetts, a good cruising ground for Right Whalemen, a sail loomed ahead, the Goney (Albatross) by name. As she slowly drew nigh, from my lofty perch at the fore-mast-head, I had a good view of that sight...
The Chase—Second Day
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

At day-break, the three mast-heads were punctually manned afresh.

‘D’ye see him?’ cried Ahab, after allowing a little space for the light to spread.

‘See nothing, sir.’

‘Turn up all hands and make sail! he travels faster than I thought for;—the top-gallant sails!—aye, they should...
The Bottle Imp
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

There was a man of the Island of Hawaii,* whom I shall call Keawe; for the truth is, he still lives, and his name must be kept secret; but the place of his birth was not far from Honaunau, where the bones...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

I Know perfectly of course that I brought it upon myself; but that doesn't make it any better. I was the first to speak of her to him—he had never even heard her mentioned. Even if I had happened not to speak someone...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

When accordingly at five she presented herself I naturally felt false and base. My act had been a momentary madness, but I had at least, as they say, to live up to it. She remained an hour; he of course never came; and I...
XIX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

We went straight to the lake, as it was called at Ely, and I dare say rightly called, though it may have been a sheet of water less remarkable than my untravelled eyes supposed it. My aquaintance with sheets of water was small, and...
Showing that an Attack of Rheumatism, in some cases, acts as a Quickener to Inventive Genius
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The constitution of Mr. Pickwick, though able to sustain a very considerable amount of exertion and fatigue, was not proof against such a combination of attacks as he had undergone on the memorable night, recorded in the last chapter. The process of being washed...
Records a touching Act of delicate Feeling, not unmixed with Pleasantry, achieved and performed by Messrs. Dodson and Fogg
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was within a week of the close of the month of July, that a hackney cabriolet, number unrecorded, was seen to proceed at a rapid pace up Goswell-street; three people were squeezed into it besides the driver, who sat, of course, in his...
Chapter III A Loophole
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Gradgrind walked homeward from the school, in a state of considerable satisfaction. It was his school, and he intended it to be a model. He intended every child in it to be a model—just as the young Gradgrinds were all models.

There were five...
Chapter II Mr. James Harthouse
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Gradgrind party wanted assistance in cutting the throats of the Graces.* They went about recruiting; and where could they enlist recruits more hopefully, than among the fine gentlemen who, having found out everything to be worth nothing, were equally ready for...

Moreover,...
Chapter VI The Starlight
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Sunday was a bright Sunday in autumn, clear and cool, when early in the morning Sissy and Rachael met, to walk in the country.

As Coketown cast ashes not only on its own head but on the neighbourhood’s too—after the manner of those pious...
Chapter III In Which Mr. Dombey, as a Man and a Father, is Seen at the Head of the Home-Department
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The funeral of the deceased lady having been “performed,” to the entire satisfaction of the undertaker, as well as of the neighbourhood at large, which is generally disposed to be captious on such a point, and is prone to take offence at any omissions...
Chapter V Paul’s Progress and Christening
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Little Paul, suffering no contamination, from the blood of the Toodles, grew stouter and stronger every day. Every day, too, he was more and more ardently cherished by Miss Tox, whose devotion was so far appreciated by Mr. Dombey that he began to regard...
Chapter XVII Captain Cuttle Does a Little Business for the Young People
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Captain
Cuttle, in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming, with which (as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature, had gone to Mr. Dombey’s house on the eventful Sunday,...
Chapter XXVI Shadows of the Past and Future
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Your most obedient, Sir,” said the Major. “Damme, Sir, a friend of my friend Dombey’s, is a friend of mine, and I’m glad to see you!”

“I am infinitely obliged, Carker,” explained Mr. Dombey, “to Major Bagstock, for his company and conversation. Major Bagstock...
Stave IV
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery.

It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its...
The Second Quarter
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The letter Toby had received from Alderman Cute, was addressed to a great man in the great district of the town. The greatest district of the town. It must have been the greatest district of the town, because it was commonly called ‘the world’...
Chapter 6
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Oh! if only it were out of laziness that I’ve done nothing. Good heavens, I should have had so much self-respect. I should have respected myself precisely because I was at any rate capable of being lazy; there would at least have been one...
Chapter 16
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

What can I say about Paris? Of course, the whole thing was madness and folly. I spent a little over three weeks in Paris, and my hundred thousand francs were completely finished during that period. I am speaking only of a hundred thousand; ...