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Chapter XVII In the market-place
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On Saturday Boldwood was in Casterbridge market-house as usual, when the disturber of his dreams entered and became visible to him. Adam had awakened from his deep sleep, and behold! there was Eve.* The farmer took courage, and for the first time...
Chapter XVIII Boldwood in meditation: regret
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Boldwood was tenant of what was called Little Weatherbury Farm, and his person was the nearest approach to aristocracy that this remoter quarter of the parish could boast of. Genteel strangers, whose god was their town, who might happen to be compelled to linger...
Chapter XXXII Night: horses tramping
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The village of Weatherbury was quiet as the graveyard in its midst, and the living were lying well-nigh as still as the dead. The church clock struck eleven. The air was so empty of other sounds that the whirr of the clockwork immediately before...
Chapter XXXV At an upper window
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was very early the next morning—a time of sun and dew. The confused beginnings of many birds’ songs spread into the healthy air, and the wan blue of the heaven was here and there coated with thin webs of incorporeal cloud which were...
Chapter LVI Beauty in loneliness: after all
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Bathsheba revived with the spring. The utter prostration that had followed the low fever from which she had suffered diminished perceptibly when all uncertainty upon every subject had come to an end.

But she remained alone now for the greater part of her time, and...
I.–vii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The next day Jude Fawley was pausing in his bedroom with the sloping ceiling, looking at the books on the table, and then at the black mark on the plaster above them, made by the smoke of his lamp in past months.

It was Sunday...
I.–x.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The time arrived for killing the pig which Jude and his wife had fattened in their sty during the autumn months, and the butchering was timed to take place as soon as it was light in the morning, so that Jude might get to...
II.–i
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The next noteworthy move in Jude’s life was that in which he appeared gliding steadily onward through a dusky landscape of some three years’ later leafage than had graced his courtship of Arabella, and the disruption of his coarse conjugal life with her. He...
II.–iv.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

He was a handy man at his trade, an all-round man, as artizans in country-towns are apt to be. In London the man who carves the boss or knob of leafage declines to cut the fragment of moulding which merges in that leafage, as...
III.–v.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

When he returned she was dressed as usual.

‘Now could I get out without anybody seeing me?’ she asked. ‘The town is not yet astir.’

‘But you have had no breakfast.’

‘O, I don’t want any! I fear I ought not to have run away...
IV.–iii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Sue’s distressful confession* recurred to Jude’s mind all the night as being a sorrow indeed.

The morning after, when it was time for her to go, the neighbours saw her companion and herself disappearing on foot down the hill path which led into the...
IV.–vi.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

In returning to his native town of Shaston as schoolmaster Phillotson had won the interest and awakened the memories of the inhabitants, who, though they did not honour him for his miscellaneous acquirements as he would have been honoured elsewhere, retained for him a...
VI.–vii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Arabella was preparing breakfast in the downstairs back room of this small, recently hired tenement of her father’s. She put her head into the little pork-shop in front, and told Mr. Donn it was ready. Donn, endeavouring to look like a master pork-butcher, in...
I
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon Priors,* in Upper Wessex, on foot. They were plainly but...
III
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The high-road into the village of Weydon Priors was again carpeted with dust. The trees had put on as of yore their aspect of dingy green, and where the Henchard family of three had once walked along, two persons not unconnected with that family...
XXVII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was the eve of harvest. Prices being low Farfrae was buying. As was usual, after reckoning too surely on famine weather the local farmers had flown to the other extreme, and (in Farfrae’s opinion) were selling off too recklessly—calculating with just a trifle...
XXXVI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Returning from her appointment Lucetta saw a man waiting by the lamp nearest to her own door. When she stopped to go in he came and spoke to her. It was Jopp.

He begged her pardon for addressing her. But he had heard that Mr....
Chapter VIII Those who are found where there is said to be Nobody
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

As soon as the sad little boy had withdrawn from the fire he clasped the money tight in the palm of his hand, as if thereby to fortify his courage, and began to run. There was really little danger in allowing a child to go...
Chapter I Tidings of the Comer
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On fine days at this time of the year, and earlier, certain ephemeral operations were apt to disturb, in their trifling way, the majestic calm of Egdon Heath. They were activities which, beside those of a town, a village, or even a farm, would...
Chapter IV An Hour of Bliss and many Hours of Sadness
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The next day was gloomy enough at Blooms-End. Yeobright remained in his study, sitting over the open books; but the work of those hours was miserably scant. Determined that there should be nothing in his conduct towards his mother resembling sullenness, he had occasionally...
Chapter II A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Clym’s grief became mitigated by wearing itself out. His strength returned, and a month after the visit of Thomasin he might have been seen walking about the garden. Endurance and despair, equanimity and gloom, the tints of health and the pallor of death mingled...
Chapter VII The Night of the Sixth of November
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Having resolved on flight, Eustacia at times seemed anxious that something should happen to thwart her own intention. The only event that could really change her position was the appearance of Clym. The glory which had encircled him as her lover was departed now:...
V
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The haggling business, which had mainly depended on the horse, became disorganized forthwith. Distress, if not penury, loomed in the distance. Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slack-twisted fellow; he had good strength to work at times; but the times could not be...
XI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The twain cantered along for some time without speech, Tess as she clung to him still panting in her triumph, yet in other respects dubious. She had perceived that the horse was not the spirited one he sometimes rode, and felt no alarm on...
XIV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was a hazy sunrise in August. The denser nocturnal vapours, attacked by the warm beams, were dividing and shrinking into isolated fleeces within hollows and coverts, where they waited till they should be dried away to nothing.

The sun, on account of the mist,...
XIX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

In general the cows were milked as they presented themselves, without fancy or choice. But certain cows will show a fondness for a particular pair of hands, sometimes carrying this predilection so far as to refuse to stand at all except to their favourite,...
XXIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The hot weather of July had crept upon them unawares, and the atmosphere of the flat vale hung heavy as an opiate over the dairy-folk, the cows, and the trees. Hot steaming rains fell frequently, making the grass where the cows fed yet more...
XXVI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was not till the evening, after family prayers, that Angel found opportunity of broaching to his father one or two subjects near his heart. He had strung himself up to the purpose while kneeling behind his brothers on the carpet, studying the little...
XLVII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

IT is the threshing of the last wheat-rick at Flintcomb-Ash Farm. The dawn of the March morning is singularly inexpressive, and there is nothing to show where the eastern horizon lies. Against the twilight rises the trapezoidal top of the stack, which has stood forlornly...
A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France and Italy he gets little further than Lyons but finds much to appreciate, in contrast to contemporary travel writers whom Sterne satirizes in the figures of Smelfungus and Mundungus. A master of ambiguity and double entendre, Sterne is nevertheless as concerned as his peers with exploring the nature of virtue; unlike other writers of sentimental fiction Sterne insists on the inseparability of desire and feeling. This new edition includes a selection from The Sermons of Mr Yorick, which shed light on the concerns of the Journey, The Journal to Eliza, which records Sterne's feelings as he languishes for the company of Eliza Draper, and A Political Romance, the satire on a local ecclesiastical squabble that was the catalyst for Sterne's literary career.
20 After the Storm
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Our readers will doubtlessly have been asking themselves how it happened that Athos, of whom not a word has been said for some time past, arrived so very opportunely at court. We will, without delay, endeavour to satisfy their curiosity.

Porthos, faithful to his duty...
23 What Raoul Had Guessed
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

As soon as Raoul had quitted Athos and d’Artagnan, and as Soon as the two exclamations which had followed his departure had escaped their lips, they found themselves face to face alone. Athos immediately resumed the earnest air that he had assumed at d’Artagnan’s arrival....
31 Who Messire Jean Percerin Was
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The King’s tailor, Messire Jean Percerin, occupied a rather large house in the Rue St Honoré, near the Rue de l’Arbre Sec. He was a man of great taste in elegant stuffs, embroideries, and velvet, being hereditary tailor to the King. The preferment of...
40 The Wine of Melun
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The King had, in point of fact, entered Mélun with the intention of merely passing through the city. The youthful monarch was most eagerly anxious for amusements; only twice during the journey had he been able to catch a glimpse of La Vallière, and,...
49 The King’S Friend
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Fouquet was waiting with anxiety; he had already sent away many of his servants and his friends, who, anticipating the usual hour of his ordinary receptions, had called at his door to inquire after him. Preserving the utmost silence respecting the danger which hung...
64 In the carriage of M. Colbert
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

As Gourville had seen, the King’s musketeers were mounting and following their captain. The latter, who did not like to be confined in his proceedings, left his brigade under the orders of a lieutenant, and set off, on his part, upon post horses, recommending his...
I the phantom of richelieu
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

In a room of the Palais-Cardinal* which we already know, near a table with silver gilt corners, loaded with papers and books, a man was sitting, his head resting in his hands.

Behind him was a vast fireplace, red with fire, whose blazing brands...
X the abbÉ d’herblay
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At the end of the village Planchet turned to the left, and stopped under the lighted window. Aramis jumped down, and clapped his hands three times. The window was at once opened, and a rope ladder came down.

‘My dear friend,’ said Aramis, ‘if you...
XXXVI the eve of battle
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Raoul was interrupted in very sombre reflections by the host, who unceremoniously entered the room, crying out, ‘The Spaniards! the Spaniards!’

This cry was serious enough to remove, from its importance, all preoccupation. The young men asked for information, and learned that the enemy was...
XLIII paternity
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

While this terrible scene was taking place at Lord de Winter’s, Athos, seated near the window of his room, with his elbow on the table, and his head resting on his hand, listened with open eyes and ears to Raoul, who was telling him...
XLV in which it is proved that the first move is always a good one
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The three gentlemen took the route to Picardy,—that route so well known to them and which recalled to Athos and Aramis some of the most picturesque remembrances of their younger days.

‘If Mousqueton were with us,’ said Athos, on arriving at the place where they...
LIV monsieur the coadjutor’s coach
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Instead of entering by the gate St Honoré, d’Artagnan, who had some time to spare, made a detour and entered by the gate Richelieu. He was carefully scrutinized, and when the populace saw by his plumed hat and his laced coat that he was...
LX the gentlemen
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

While Mordaunt went to Cromwell’s tent, d’Artagnan and Porthos conveyed their prisoners to the house which had been assigned them in Newcastle for lodging. The injunction laid upon the sergeant by Mordaunt had not escaped the Gascon’s notice; so with a look he had...
LXIII health to the fallen majesty
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

As they drew nearer the house, our fugitives saw the ground trodden up as if a considerable troop of cavaliers had preceded them. Before the door the marks were still plainer; this troop, whatever it might have been, had made a halt there.

‘Ah!’ said...
LXVIII whitehall
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Parliament condemned Charles Stuart to death, as it was easy to foresee. Political trials are always empty formalities, for the same passions which bring the accusation pronounce the judgment also. Such is the terrible logic of revolutions.*

Although our friends expected this result,...
LXIX the workmen
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Towards the middle of the night, Charles heard a great noise under his window; it was caused by hammering, chopping, and sawing. As he had thrown himself on his bed dressed, and was just going to sleep, the disturbance awoke him with a start;...
LXXIX the return
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Athos and Aramis followed the course marked out for them by d’Artagnan, and travelled as fast as they could. They thought it would be more advantageous for them to be stopped near Paris than far from it. Every evening they traced, either on the...
LXXXIV the gratitude of anne of austria
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Athos found much less difficulty than he expected in getting admittance to Anne of Austria’s presence. At the first step all was, on the contrary, made smooth, and the audience he desired was granted for the next day at the end of the ...
Chapter XI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Near a fortnight had elapsed without producing any appearance of hostility from the marquis, when one night, long after the hour of repose, Julia was awakened by the bell of the monastery. She knew it was not the hour customary for prayer, and she...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

In turning up the ground of the cell, it was discovered that it communicated with the dungeon in which Ferdinand had been confined, and where he had heard those groans which had occasioned him so much terror.

The story which the marquis formerly related to...
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Authors: Radcliffe Ann , Castle Terry
Published: December 2020

‘Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.’ Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert – the orphaned heroine of Ann Radcliffe’s 1794 gothic Classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho – finds herself after Count Montoni, her evil guardian, imprisions her in his gloomy medieval fortress in the Appenines. Terror is the order of the day inside the walls of Udolpho, as Emily struggles against Montoni’s rapacious schemes and the threat of her own psychological disintegration. A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Walpole, Poe, and other writers of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of the most important works in the history of European fiction. As the same time, with its dream-like plot and hallucinatory rendering of its characters’ psychological states, it often seems strangely modern: ‘permanently avant-garde’ in Terry Castle’s words, and a profound and fascinating challenge to contemporary readers.
Chapter X
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

On the next morning, Emily ordered a fire to be lighted in the stove of the chamber, where St. Aubert used to sleep; and, as soon as...
Chapter V In Which, Barry Tries to Remove as Far From Military Glory as Possible
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

After the death of my protector, Captain Fagan, I am forced to confess that I fell into the very worst of courses and company. Being a rough soldier of fortune himself, he had never been a favourite with the officers of his regiment; who...
Chapter XI In Which the Luck Goes Against Barry
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

My hopes of obtaining the hand of one of the richest heiresses in Germany were now, as far as all human probability went, and as far as my own merits and prudence could secure my fortune, pretty certain of completion. I was admitted whenever...
5 Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

You, who are blessed with shade as well as light, you who are gifted with two eyes, endowed with a knowledge of perspective, and charmed with the enjoyment of various colours, you, who can actually see an angle, and contemplate the complete circumference...
9 Of the Universal Colour Bill
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

But meanwhile the intellectual Arts were fast decaying.

The Art of Sight Recognition, being no longer needed, was no longer practised; and the studies of Geometry, Statics, Kinetics, and other kindred subjects, came soon to be considered superfluous, and fell into disrepute and neglect even...
11 Concerning our Priests
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

It is high time that I should pass from these brief and discursive notes about things in Flatland to the central event of this book, my initiation into the mysteries of Space. That is my subject; all that has gone before is...

For...
19 How, though the Sphere showed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

When I saw my poor brother led away to imprisonment, I attempted to leap down into the Council Chamber, desiring to intercede on his behalf, or at least bid him farewell. But I found that I had no motion of my own. I absolutely...
3. Scotland
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

Martin Martin, A Voyage to St Kilda (1698)

Celia Fiennes returned from her foray across the Border repelled by Scottish indigence and squalor; at roughly the same time Martin Martin (1660–1718), a native of the Isle of Skye, marvelled to find a remnant of the...
Lorna Doone
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

‘Every woman clutched her child, and every man turned pale at the very name of “Doone”’ John Ridd, an unsophisticated farmer, falls in love with the beautiful and aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones on Exmoor. Ridd's rivalry with the villainous Carver Doone reaches a dramatic climax that will determine Lorna's future happiness. First published in 1869, Lorna Doone was praised by R. L. Stevenson and Thomas Hardy and has remained constantly in print. The novel has many aspects: it is a romance; a historical novel set at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion in the seventeenth century; and a new development in the pastoral tradition. Underneath an ostensibly idyllic evocation of rural bliss and tale of love and high adventure lies a solid defence of Victorian social values, and a hero whose self-doubt prompts him constantly to prove himself. 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 II: An Important Item
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

NOW the cause of my leaving Tiverton school, and the way of it, were as follows. On the 29th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1673, the very day when I was twelve years old, and had spent all my substance in...
Chapter XI: Tom deserves his Supper
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

‘WELL done, lad,’ Mr Faggus said, good-naturedly; for all were now gathered round me, as I rose from the ground somewhat tottering, and miry, and crestfallen, but otherwise none the worse (having fallen upon my head, which is of uncommon substance); nevertheless John Fry was...
Chapter XX: Lorna begins her Story
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

‘I CANNOT go through all my thoughts, so as to make them clear to you, nor have I ever dwelt on things, to shape a story of them. I know not where the beginning was, nor where the middle ought to be, nor even how...
Chapter XXXIV: Two Negatives make an Affirmative
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

THERE was, however, no possibility of depressing me at such a time. To be loved by Lorna, the sweet, the pure, the playful one, the fairest creature on God’s earth and the most enchanting, the lady of high birth and mind; that I, a mere...
Chapter XXXVII: A Very Desperate Venture
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

THAT the enterprise now resolved upon was far more dangerous than any hitherto attempted by me, needs no further proof than this:—I went and made my will at Porlock, with a middling honest lawyer there; not that I had much to leave, but that none...
Chapter LVIII: Master Huckaback’s Secret
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

KNOWING Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning, by the side of the Wizard’s Slough. I am free to admit that the name...
Chapter LXI: Therefore he seeks Comfort
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

IT was for poor Annie’s sake, that I had spoken my mind to her husband so freely, and even harshly. For we all knew she would break her heart, if Tom took to evil ways again. And the right mode of preventing this was, not...
Chapter LXIV: Slaughter in the Marshes
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

WE rattled away, at a merry pace, out of the town of Dulverton; my horse being gaily fed, and myself quite fit again for going. Of course I was puzzled about Cousin Ruth; for her behaviour was not at all such as I had expected;...
Chapter I Dillsborough
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I NEVER could understand why anybody should ever have begun to live at Dillsborough, or why the population there should have been at any time recruited by new comers. That a man with a family should cling to a house in which he has...
Chapter IV The Dillsborough Club
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE club, so called at Dillsborough, was held every Saturday evening in a back parlour at the Bush, and was attended generally by seven or eight members. It was a very easy club. There was no balloting, and no other expense attending it other...
Chapter XIX ‘Who Valued the Geese?’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

BEFORE the time had come for the visit to Rufford Hall Mr. Gotobed had called upon Bearside the attorney and had learned as much as Mr. Bearside chose to tell him of the facts of the case. This took place on the Saturday morning...
Chapter XXII Jemima
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

AS the meet on the next morning was in the park the party at Rufford Hall was able to enjoy the luxury of an easy morning together with the pleasures of the field. There was no getting up at eight o’clock, no hurry and...
Chapter LXIII Changes at Bragton
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

DAY after day old Mrs. Morton urged her purpose with her grandson at Bragton, not quite directly as she had done at first, but by gradual approaches and little soft attempts made in the midst of all the tenderness which, as a nurse, she...
Chapter LXIX Scrobby’s Trial
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

RUFFORD was a good deal moved as to the trial of Mr. Scrobby. Mr. Scrobby was a man who not long since had held his head up in Rufford and had the reputation of a well-to-do tradesman. Enemies had perhaps doubted his probity; but...
Chapter LXXII ‘Bid Him be a Man’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE little phaeton remained in Dillsborough to take Mary back to Bragton. As soon as she was gone the attorney went over to the Bush with the purpose of borrowing Runciman’s pony so that he might ride over to Chow-ton Farm and at once...
Chapter LXXIX The Last Days of Mary Masters
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE triumph of Mary Masters was something more than a nine days’ wonder to the people of Dills-borough. They had all known Larry Twentyman’s intentions and aspirations, and had generally condemned the young lady’s obduracy, thinking, and not being slow to say, that she...
Cousin Henry
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Henry Jones, an unprepossessing London insurance clerk, knows that his uncle has disinherited him. The old man‘s will, made out at the last minute in favour of Henry‘s charming cousin Isabel Brodrick, lies neatly folded in a well-thumbed volume of sermons in his book-room; Henry saw him put it there before he died. Unfortunately nobody else knows where the will is, and Henry stands to lose everything by making the knowledge public. Cousin Henry, first published in 1879, is one of the most unusual and intriguing of Trollope‘s shorter novels and its unlikely hero is a timid coward consumed by guilt. But Trollope‘s handling of his character and dilemma is masterly in its insight and compassion; he knew he had nothing quite like it elsewhere in his fiction.
Chapter XVIII: Cousin Henry Goes to Carmarthen
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On his return from London Mr. Apjohn wrote the following letter to his client, and this he sent to Llanfeare by a clerk, who was instructed to wait there for an answer:—

‘My dear Sir, —

‘I have just returned from London, where...
Chapter XIX: MR. Apjohn Sends for Assistance
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The last words in the last chapter were spoken by Mr. Apjohn to his confidential clerk in a tone of triumph. He had picked up something further, and, conscious that he had done so by his own ingenuity, was for a moment triumphant. But...
Chapter XII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

As all the world heard of what was going on, fl so did Daniel Thwaite hear it among others. He was a hard-working, conscientious, moody man, given much to silence among his fellow workmen;—one to whom life was serious enough; not a happy man,...
Chapter XV
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The visit to Wharfedale was fixed for Monday and Tuesday, and on the Monday morning they started, after an early breakfast. The party consisted of Aunt Jane, Aunt Julia, Lady Anna, Minnie, and Mr. Cross, one of the rector’s curates. The rector would not...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There were two persons in the court who heard the statement of the Solicitor-General with equal interest,—and perhaps with equal disapprobation,—whose motives and ideas on the subject were exactly opposite. These two were the Rev. Mr. Lovel, the uncle of the plaintiff, and Daniel...
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

All December went by, and the neighbours in the houses round spent each his merry Christmas; and the snow and frost of January passed over them, and February had come and nearly gone, before the doctors dared to say that Lady Anna Lovel’s life...
Chapter XLVIII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The marriage was nearly all that a marriage should be when a Lady Anna is led to the hymeneal altar. As the ceremony was transferred from Bloomsbury, London, to Yoxham, in Yorkshire, a licence had been procured, and the banns of which Daniel Thwaite...
Rachel Ray
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

This is Trollope’s most detailed and concise study of middle-class life in a small provincial community - in this case Baslehurst, in the luscious Devon countryside. It is also a charming love-story, centring on sweet-natured Rachel Ray and her suitor Luke Rowan, whose battle to wrest control over Baslehurst’s brewery involves a host of typically Trollopian local characters.
Chapter II. The Young Man from the Brewery
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There were during the summer months four Dorcas afternoons held weekly in Baslehurst, at all of which Mrs. Prime presided. It was her custom to start soon after dinner, so as to reach the working room before three o’clock, and there she would remain...
Chapter VIII. An Account of Mrs. Tappitt’s Ball—Concluded
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It came to be voted by public acclamation that Rachel Ray was the belle of the evening. I think this was brought about quite as much by Mrs. Butler Cornbury’s powerful influence as by Rachel’s beauty. Mrs. Butler Cornbury having begun the work of...
Chapter XIV. Luke Rowan Pays a Second Visit to Bragg’s End
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Early after breakfast on that morning,—that morning on which Tappitt had for a moment thought of braining Luke Rowan with the poker,—Mrs. Ray started from the cottage on her mission into Baslehurst. She was going to see her daughter, Mrs. Prime, at...
Chapter XXIII. Mrs. Ray’s Penitence
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Another fortnight went by, and still nothing further was heard at Bragg’s End from Luke Rowan. Much was heard of him in Baslehurst. It was soon known by everybody that he had bought the cottages; and there was a widely spread and well-credited rumour...
Chapter XXVI. Cornbury Grange
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Luke Rowan had been told that Mrs. Butler Cornbury wished to see him when the election should be over; and on the evening of the election the victorious candidate, before he returned home, asked Luke to come to the Grange on the following Monday...
Another View of Hester
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

In Her late singular interview with Mr. Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. His nerve seemed absolutely destroyed. His moral force was abased into more than childish weakness. It grovelled helpless on the ground, even...
Chapter IV
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

The food question—Objections to paraffin oil as an atmosphere—Advantages of cheese as a travelling companion—A married woman deserts her home—Further provision for getting upset—I pack—Cussedness of tooth-brushes—George and Harris pack—...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Marlow—Bisham Abbey—The Medmenham Monks—Montmorency thinks he will murder an old Tom cat—But eventually decides that he will let it live—Shameful conduct of a fox terrier at the Civil Service Stores—Our departure from Marlow...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Oxford—Montmorency’s idea of Heaven—The hired up-river boat, its beauties and advantages—The ‘Pride of the Thames’—The weather changes—The river under different aspects—Not a cheerful evening—Yearnings for the unattainable—The cheery chat...
How Mr Jennings Met His Companion
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

The faint glow of the west, the pomp of the then lonely woods of Richmond, were before us, behind and about us the darkening room, and on the stony face of the sufferer—for the character of his face, though still gentle and sweet, was changed—rested...
The Watcher
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Mr Barton was next morning sitting at a late breakfast, reflecting upon the incidents of the previous night, with more of inquisitiveness than awe, so speedily do gloomy impressions upon the fancy disappear under the cheerful influence of day, when a letter just delivered by...
The Judge’s House
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Thirty years ago, an elderly man, to whom I paid quarterly a small annuity charged on some property of mine, came on the quarter-day* to receive it. He was a dry, sad, quiet man, who had known better days, and had always maintained...
The Black Veil
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Speaking the language fluently and with unlimited money, there was nothing to prevent my enjoying all that was enjoyable in the French capital. You may easily suppose how two days were passed. At the end of that time, and at about the same hour, Monsieur...
The Key
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

I stood now upon the steps, watching and listening. In a minute or two I heard the crackle of withered sticks trod upon, and, looking in the direction, I saw a figure approaching among the trees, wrapped in a mantle.

I advanced eagerly. It was...
A Cup of Coffee
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

The room was carpetless. On the floor was a quantity of shavings, and some score of bricks. Beyond these, on a narrow table, lay an object, which I could hardly believe I saw aright.

I approached and drew from it a sheet which had very...
We Compare Notes
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

We followed the cortege* with our eyes until it was swiftly lost to sight in the misty wood; and the very sound of the hoofs and the wheels died away in the silent night air.

Nothing remained to assure us that the adventure had...
The Doctor
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

As Carmilla would not hear of an attendant sleeping in her room, my father arranged that a servant should sleep outside her door, so that she could not attempt to make another such excursion without being arrested at her own door.

That night passed quietly;...
A Petition
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

‘ “Then we are to lose Madame la Comtesse, but I hope only for a few hours,” I said, with a low bow.

‘ “It may be that only, or it may be a few weeks. It was very unlucky his speaking to me just...
Chapter II of the origin of the present old governments
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

It is impossible that such governments as have hitherto existed in the world, could have commenced by any other means than a total violation of every principle sacred and moral. The obscurity in which the origin of all the present old governments is buried,...
Chapter V Ways and means of improving the condition of Europe, Interspersed with Miscellaneous Observations
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

In contemplating a subject that embraces with equatorial magnitude the whole region of humanity, it is impossible to confine the pursuit in one single direction. It takes ground on every character and condition that appertains to man, and blends the individual, the nation, and...
Author’s Inscription to the legislature and the executive directory of the french republic
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

The plan contained in this work is not adapted for any particular country alone: the principle on which it is based is general. But as the rights of man are a new study in this world, and one needing protection from priestly imposture, and...
Preface
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

The
following little Piece was written in the winter of 1795 and ‘96; and, as I had not determined whether to publish it during the present war* or to wait till the commencement of a peace, it has lain by...
Chapter VIII He Catches the Old Bird
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

At four o’clock the next afternoon the German rode across the plain, returning from his search for the lost sheep. He rode slowly, for he had been in the saddle since sunrise and was somewhat weary, and the heat of the afternoon made his...
Chapter IX He sees a Ghost
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

Bonaparte stood on the ash-heap. He espied across the plain a moving speck, and he chucked his coat-tails up and down in expectancy of a scene.

The waggon came on slowly. Waldo lay curled among the sacks at the back of the waggon, the hand...
Chapter XII Gregory’s Womanhood
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

Slowly over the flat came a cart. On the back seat sat Gregory, his arms folded, his hat drawn over his eyes. A Kaffir boy sat on the front seat driving, and at his feet sat Doss, who, now and again, lifted his nose...
In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P ——, in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to...
In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

It was late in a drizzly afternoon that a traveller alighted at the door of a small country hotel, in the village of N——, in Kentucky. In the bar-room he found assembled quite a miscellaneous company, whom stress of weather had driven to harbor, and...
Evangeline
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

“A young star! which shone

O’er life—too sweet an image for such glass!

A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded;

A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.*

The Mississippi! How, as by an enchanted wand, have its scenes been changed, since Chateaubriand*...
Reunion
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Week after week glided away in the St. Clare mansion, and the waves of life settled back to their usual flow, where that little bark had gone down. For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feeling, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course...
The Bean-Field
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile my beans, the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles already planted, were impatient to be hoed, for the earliest had grown considerably before the latest were in the ground; indeed they were not easily to be put off. What was...
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the globe, but can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as important as arrival or discovery. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an extinct crater towards a sunless sea where they enter a living past and are confronted with the origins of man. A classic of nineteenth-century French literature, the novel's distinctive combination of realism and Romanticism has marked figures as diverse as Sartre and Tournier, Mark Twain and Conan Doyle. This new translation of the complete text is faithful to the lyricism, verve, and humour of the original.
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Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

On 24 May 1863, a Sunday, my uncle, Professor Lidenbrock,* came rushing back towards his little house at No. 19 Königstrasse, one of the oldest streets in the historic part of Hamburg.

Martha the maid must have thought she was running very late, for...
6
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

These last words sent a shiver through my whole body. I kept my self-control though. I even resolved to put on a brave face. Only scientific arguments could stop Professor Lidenbrock now. And there was no lack of arguments, and good ones, against such...
22
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

We set off again, this time down the other tunnel. Hans led the way as usual. We hadn’t gone further than 100 yards, when the professor, shining his lamp along the walls, bellowed:

‘These are Primitive terrains! We’re on the right route, come on, come...
27
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

I Cannot depict my despair. No word in any human language would be adequate to describe my feelings. I was buried alive with the prospect of dying in agonies of hunger and thirst.

Without thinking I moved my burning hands over the ground. How dried...
33
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Saturday, 15 August. The sea retains its uniform monotony. No land in sight. The horizon appears a very long way away.

My head is still dull from the violent effects of my dream.

My uncle, who has certainly not dreamed, is, however, in...
39
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

For another half-hour we trampled over the layers of bones. We went straight ahead, forced on by a burning curiosity. What other wonders did this cavern hold, what treasures of science? My eyes expected every surprise, my mind every astonishment.

The sea-shore had long since...
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Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

We have now come to the end of a tale which many people, however determined to be surprised at nothing, will refuse to believe. But I am armed in advance against human scepticism.

The Stromboli fishermen received us with the kindness due to those who...
Being Neighborly
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

‘What in the world are you going to do now, Jo?’ asked Meg, one snowy afternoon, as her sister came clumping through the hall, in rubber boots, old sack and hood, with a broom in one hand and a shovel in the other.

‘Going out...
The Lost World
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘The ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would otherwise disappear.’ Headed by the larger than life figure of Professor Challenger, a scientific expedition sets out to explore a plateau in South America that remains frozen in time from the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Seemingly impossible to penetrate, this lost word holds great danger for the four men, whether from fiendish ape-men or terrifying prehistoric creatures. Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of adventure and discovery still excites the reader today, just as dinosaurs continue to grip the popular imagination.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

William Thackeray called it “the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began.” As a group of travellers visit places in England and Scotland, they provide through satire and wit a vivid and detailed picture of the contemporary social and political scene.
The Bostonians
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870s. F.R. Leavis called it one of “the two most brilliant novels in the language.” The novel’s many allusions to the historical and social background of Boston society are explained in the editorial material.
Devils
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor _
Published: December 2020

abstract

Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871–2. The third of Dostoevsky’s five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. Dostoevsky compares infectious radicalism to the devils that drove the Gadarene swine over the precipice in his vision of a society possessed by demonic creatures that produce devastating delusions of rationality. Dostoevsky is at his most imaginatively humorous in Devils: the novel is full of buffoonery and grotesque comedy. The plot is loosely based on the details of a notorious case of political murder, but Dostoevsky weaves suicide, rape, and a multiplicity of scandals into a compelling story of political evil. _ This new translation also includes the chapter ‘Stavrogin’s Confession’, which was initially considered to be too shocking to print. In this edition it appears where the author originally intended it.
Shirley
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

‘You expected bread, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it, and don’t shriek…you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob.’ Shirley is Charlotte Brontë’s only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, when economic hardship led to riots in the woollen district of Yorkshire. A mill-owner, Robert Moore, is determined to introduce new machinery despite fierce opposition from his workers; he ignores their suffering, and puts his own life at risk. Robert sees marriage to the wealthy Shirley Keeldar as the solution to his difficulties, but he loves his cousin Caroline. She suffers misery and frustration, and Shirley has her own ideas about the man she will choose to marry. The friendship between the two women, and the contrast between their situations, is at the heart of this compelling novel, which is suffused with Brontë’s deep yearning for an earlier time.