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The Idiot
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor , Leatherbarrow William
Published: December 2020

Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero’s innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate him. Myshkin’s mission ends in idiocy and darkness, but it is the world that is rotten, not he. Written under appalling personal circumstances when Dostoevsky was travelling in Europe, The Idiot not only reveals the author’s acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most incisive indictment of Russia’s struggling to emulate contemporary Europe and sinking under the weight of Western materialism. This new translation by Alan Myers is meticulously faithful to the original and has a critical introduction by W. J. Leatherbarrow.
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Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Madame Yepanchina was jealous of her lineage. Her feelings may well be imagined on learning, bluntly and without preparation, that this Prince Myshkin, the last of her line and a man of whom she had already heard something, was no more than...
A Wayside Comedy
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Fate and the Government of India have turned the Station of Kashima into a prison; and, because there is no help for the...
Chapter 1
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things...
Chapter 37
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

That was all fixed. So then we went away and went to the rubbage-pile in the back yard where they keep the old boots, and rags, and pieces of bottles, and wore-out tin things, and all such truck, and scratched around and found an...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

That night Tom and Huck were ready for their adventure. They hung about the neighborhood of the tavern until after nine, one watching the alley at a distance and the other the tavern door. Nobody entered the alley or left it; nobody resembling the...
I
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

What am I now about to write?

The history of little more than the events of one year, out of the twenty-four years of my life.

Why do I undertake such an employment as this?

Perhaps, because I think that my narrative may do good;...
II
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The first change that passed over the calm uniformity of the life at North Villa, came in this manner:

One evening, on entering the drawing-room, I missed Mrs Sherwin; and found to my great disappointment that her husband was apparently settled there for the evening....
Book III
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I: Timon of London

Timon of Athens* retreated from an ungrateful world to a cavern by the sea-shore, vented his misanthropy in magnificent poetry, and enjoyed the honour of being called ‘My Lord.’ Timon of London took refuge from his species...
Book VI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I: Uncle Joseph

The day and the night had passed, and the new morning had come, before the husband and wife could trust themselves to speak calmly of the Secret, and to face resignedly the duties and the sacrifices which the discovery of...
Chapter Six
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; their Learning, Laws, and Customs. The Manner of Educating their Children. The Author’s Way of living in that Country. His Vindication of a great Lady.

Although I intend to leave the Description of this Empire to a particular...
Chapter Six
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

A further Account of the Academy. The Author proposeth some Improvements, which are honourably received.

In the School of political Projectors I was but ill entertained; the Professors appearing in my Judgment wholly out of their Senses;* which is a Scene...
Chapter Three
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author studious to learn Language, the Houyhnhnm his Master assists in teaching him. The Language described. Several Houyhnhnms of Quality come out of Curiosity to see the Author. He gives his Master a short Account of his Voyage.

My principal Endeavour was...
Chapter VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

From that day on Laurent came round to see the Raquins almost every evening. He lived in the Rue Saint-Victor,* opposite the Port aux Vins, in a tiny furnished garret at eighteen francs a month; this room, with a skylight in the...
CHAPTER VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

As the cage brought Étienne back up, squashed in with four other people, he resolved to continue his hungry search along the roads. He’d as soon drop dead on the spot as go back down again into that hell-hole, where you didn’t even earn enough...
CHAPTER I
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The first fortnight of February went by, with the hard winter still gripping the miserable wretches pitilessly in its bitter cold. Again the authorities had swept through the region, sending the Prefect from Lille, a public prosecutor, and a general. And not content with...
The Ladies' Paradise
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The Ladies’ Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret, the store’s owner-manager, masterfully exploits the desires of his female customers. In his private life as much as in business he is the great seducer. But when he falls in love with the innocent Denise Baudu, he discovers she is the only one of the salesgirls who refuses to be commodified. This new translation of the eleventh book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola’s greatest novels of the modern city.
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Every Saturday, between four and six, Madame Desforges served tea and cakes to those of her close friends who might wish to visit her. Her flat was on the third floor, at the corner of the Rue de Rivoli and the Rue d’Alger;*...
Chapter 12
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

On 25 September work began on the new façade of the Ladies’ Paradise. Baron Hartmann, true to his promise, had carried the day at the previous general meeting of the Crédit Immobilier. Mouret was at last within reach of realizing his dream: this façade,...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Claude was passing the Hôtel de Ville and the clock was just striking two when the storm broke. He was an artist and liked to ramble around Paris till the small hours, but wandering about the Halles on that hot July evening he had...
Chapter 7
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

No sooner was Claude back on the Paris pavements, among the feverish bustle and the din, than he was all eager to be out and about, to go and look up his friends. As soon as he was up in the morning he was...
Chapter 11
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The following day Claude was back at work again. The days flowed by and the whole summer passed in sluggish tranquillity. He found himself a job, doing small flower paintings for the English market, which brought in enough to keep the two of them;...
The Kill
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

‘It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.’ The Kill (La Curée) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris – the capital of modernity - as the centre of Zola's narrative world. Conceived as a representation of the uncontrollable ‘appetites’ unleashed by the Second Empire (1852–70) and the transformation of the city by Baron Haussmann, the novel combines into a single, powerful vision the twin themes of lust for money and lust for pleasure. The all-pervading promiscuity of the new Paris is reflected in the dissolute and frenetic lives of an unscrupulous property speculator, Saccard, his neurotic wife Renée, and her dandified lover, Saccard's son Maxime.
Letter XI Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Queen-Ann-Street, April 5, Tuesday morning.

I have a vast deal to say, and shall give all this morning to my pen. As to my plan of writing every evening the adventures of the day, I find it impracticable; for the diversions here are...
Letter XXVI Evelina to Miss Mirvan
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, July 14.

My sweet Maria will be much surprised, and, I am willing to flatter myself, concerned, when, instead of her friend, she receives this letter;—this cold, this inanimate letter, which will but ill express the feelings of the heart which indites...
Letter V Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Clifton, Sept. 24th.

This morning I came down stairs very early, and, supposing that the family would not assemble for some time, I strolled out, purposing to take a long walk, in the manner I was wont to do at Berry Hill, before breakfast....
Letter VIII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Sept. 30.

Oh Sir, what a strange incident have I to recite! what a field of conjecture to open!

Yesterday evening, we all went to an assembly. Lord Orville presented tickets to the whole family, and did me the honour, to the no small surprise...
Letter XIX Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

October 11.

Yesterday morning, as soon as breakfast was over, Lord Orville went to the Hotwells, to wait upon my father with my double petition.

Mrs. Beaumont then, in general terms, proposed a walk in the garden. Mrs. Selwyn said she had letters to write,...
Her Letters
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

I

She had given orders that she wished to remain undisturbed and moreover had locked the doors of her room.

The house was very still. The rain was falling steadily from a leaden sky in which there was no gleam, no rift, no promise. A...
The Beryl Coronet
Authors: Doyle Arthur conan
Published: December 2020

‘Holmes,’ said I, as I stood one morning in our bow-window* looking down the street, ‘here is a madman coming along. It seems rather sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone.’

My friend rose lazily from his armchair, and...
Chapter 1 Mr Sherlock Holmes
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Mr
Sherlock
Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he stayed up* all night, was seated at the breakfast table.* I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick...
Sir Henry Baskerville
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Our breakfast-table was cleared early, and Holmes waited in his dressing-gown for the promised interview. Our clients were punctual to their appointment, for the clock had just struck ten when Dr Mortimer was shown up, followed by the young Baronet.* The...
Chapter XII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Nothing remarkable happened on the Road, ’till their arrival at the Inn, to which the Horses were ordered; whither they came about two in the Morning. The Moon then shone very bright, and Joseph making his Friend a present of a Pint...
Chapter VII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

They arrived at the Squire’s House just as his Dinner was ready. A little Dispute arose on the account of Fanny, whom the Squire who was a Batchelor, was desirous to place at his own Table; but she would not consent, nor...
The hospitality of Allworthy; with a short sketch of the characters of two brothers, a doctor and a captain, who were entertained by that gentleman
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Neither Mr All worthy’s house nor his heart were shut against any part of mankind, but they were both more particularly open to men of merit. To say the truth, this was the only house in the kingdom where you was sure to gain...
Containing sundry curious matters
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

A s soon as Mr Allworthy returned home he took Mr Blifil apart, and, after some preface, communicated to him the proposal which had been made by Mr Western, and at the same time informed him how agreeable this match would be to himself.

The...
Containing love-letters, &c.
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Jones was commanded to leave the house immediately, and told, that his clothes and everything else should be sent to him whithersoever he should order them.

He accordingly set out, and walked above a mile, not regarding, and indeed scarce knowing, whither he went. At...
The adventure of a company of soldiers
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The landlord having taken his seat directly opposite to the door of the parlour, determined to keep guard there the whole night. The guide and another fellow remained long on duty with him, though they neither knew his suspicions, nor had any of their...
In which the Man of the Hill begins to relate his history
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I was born in a village of Somersetshire, called Mark, in the year 1657; my father was one of those whom they call gentlemen farmers. He had a little estate of about £300 a year of his own, and rented another...
In which are concluded the adventures that happened at the inn at Upton
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

In the first place, then, this gentleman just arrived was no other than Squire Western himself, who was come hither in pursuit of his daughter; and, had he fortunately been two hours earlier, he had not only found her, but his niece into the...
A crust for the critics
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

In our last initial chapter we may be supposed to have treated that formidable set of men who are called critics with more freedom than becomes us, since they exact, and indeed generally receive, great condescension from authors. We shall in this, therefore, give...
In which Sophia is delivered from her confinement
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The squire and the parson (for the landlord was now otherwise engaged) were smoking their pipes together, when the arrival of the lady was first signified. The squire no sooner heard her name than he immediately ran down to usher her upstairs; for he...
The arrival of Mr Western, with some matters concerning the paternal authority
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Miller had not long left the room when Mr Western entered; but not before a small wrangling bout had passed between him and his chairmen; for the fellows, who had taken up their burden at the Hercules Pillars, had conceived no...
A farewell to the reader
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

We are now, reader, arrived at the last stage of our long journey. As we have, therefore, travelled together through so many pages, let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach, who have passed several days in the company of...
Chapter I Mother and Son
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘I have found that holy place of rest Still changeless.’

When Mr. Thornton had left the house that morning he was almost blinded by his baffled passion. He was as dizzy as if Margaret, instead of looking, and speaking,...
Chapter XXIII Eventide: a second declaration
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

For the shearing-supper a long table was placed on the grass-plot beside the house, the end of the table being thrust over the sill of the wide parlour-window and a foot or two into the room, whence with its white cloth it protruded as...
Chapter XXVI Scene on the verge of the hay-mead
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

“Ah Miss Everdene!” said the sergeant touching his diminutive cap. “Little did I think it was you I was speaking to the other night. And yet, if I had reflected, the ‘Queen of the Corn-market’ (truth is truth at any hour of the...
Chapter XXXIX Coming home: a cry
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On the turnpike road between Casterbridge and Weatherbury, and about three miles from the former place, is Yalbury Hill, one of those steep long ascents which pervade the highways of this undulating part of South Wessex. In returning from market it is usual for...
Chapter XLII Joseph and his burden: “Buck’s Head”
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

A wall bounded the site of Casterbridge Unionhouse except along a portion of the end. Here a high gable stood prominent, and it was covered like the front with a mat of ivy. In this gable was no window, chimney, ornament, or protuberance of...
Chapter LI Bathsheba talks with her outrider: advice
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The arrangement for getting back again to Weatherbury had been that Oak should take the place of Poorgrass in Bathsheba’s conveyance and drive her home, it being discovered late in the afternoon that Joseph was suffering from his old complaint, a multiplying eye, and...
IV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Henchard’S wife acted for the best, but she had involved herself in difficulties. A hundred times she had been upon the point of telling her daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, the true story of her life, the tragical crisis of which had been the transaction at Weydon...
Chapter VII Queen of Night
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Eustacia
Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman. Had it been...
Chapter II The New Course causes Disappointment
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Yeobright loved his kind. He had a conviction that the want of most men was knowledge of a sort which brings wisdom rather than affluence. He wished to raise the class at the expense of individuals rather than individuals at the expense of the...
Chapter VI The Morning and the Evening of an Eventful Day
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The wedding morning came. Nobody would have imagined from appearances that Blooms-End had any interest in Mistover that day. A solemn stillness prevailed around the house of Clym’s mother, and there was no more animation indoors. Mrs Yeobright, who had declined to attend the...
Chapter I The Rencounter by the Pool
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The July sun shone over Egdon, and fired its crimson heather to scarlet. It was the one season of the year, and the one weather of the season, in which the heath was gorgeous. This flowering period represented the second or noontide division in...
Preface
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

The event on which this fiction is founded, has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination;...
Chapter V
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing...
7 La Fontaine in the Character of a Negotiator
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Fouquet pressed La Fontaine’s hand most warmly, saying to him, “My dear poet, write a hundred other tales, not only for the eighty pistoles which each of them will produce you, but, still more, to enrich our language with a hundred other masterpieces of...
70 Belle-isle-en-mer
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At the extremity of the mole, which the furious sea beats at evening tide, two men, holding each other by the arm, were conversing in an animated and expansive tone, without the possibility of any other human being hearing their words, borne away, as...
79 The Epitaph of Porthos
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Aramis, silent, icy, trembling like a timid child, arose shivering from the stone. A Christian does not walk upon tombs. But though capable of standing, he was not capable of walking. It might be said that something of dead Porthos had just died within...
87 The Bulletin
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Due de Beaufort wrote to Athos. The letter destined for the living only reached the dead. God had changed the address.

“My
Dear
Comte,” wrote the Prince in his large, bad, schoolboy’s hand,—“a great misfortune has struck us amidst a great triumph....
IV anne of austria at the age of forty-six
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Left alone with Bernouin, Mazarin remained a moment thoughtful. He had learned much, and yet he did not know enough. Mazarin was a cheat at cards. That detail Brienne has preserved for us; he called that using his opportunities. He resolved not to commence...
XXIV st denis
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The day began to break when Athos rose and dressed; it was easy to see from his paleness (greater than usual) and the traces that want of sleep left in his countenance, that he had passed a sleepless night. Contrary to the habitude of...
XXXIII the monk
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Two men lay there; one of them motionless, lying on his face, pierced by three shots—he was quite dead. The other had been placed against a tree by the two servants; his eyes were raised to heaven, his hands clasped together, and he was...
LXI the lord our saviour
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

When Mordaunt reached the front of the house, he saw d’Artagnan at the door, and the soldiers lying here and there, with their arms on the grass-plot in the garden.

‘Holloa!’ he cried, with a voice hoarse from the haste with which he came, ‘the...
Chapter VII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Towards the close of day Madame de Menon arrived at a small village situated among the mountains, where she purposed to pass the night. The evening was remarkably fine, and the romantic* beauty of the surrounding scenery invited her to walk. She...
13 How I had a Vision of Lineland
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

It was the last day but one of the 1999th year of our era, and the first day of the Long Vacation.* Having amused myself till a late hour with my favourite recreation of Geometry, I had retired to rest with an...
17 How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

It was in vain. I brought my hardest right angle into violent collision with the Stranger, pressing on him with a force sufficient to have destroyed any ordinary Circle: but I could feel him slowly and unarrestably slipping from my contact; not edging to...
1. The State of the Nation
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

Celia Fiennes, The Diary of Celia Fiennes (c.1685—1703; from Through England on a Side-Saddle, in the Time of William and Mary. Being the Diary of Celia Fiennes, ed. Emily W. Griffiths, 1888)

Celia Fiennes (1662–1741), granddaughter of the first Lord Saye and...
4. Ladies
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

Janet Schaw, Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 (ed. E. W. Andrews and C. Andrews, New Haven, 1921)

Janet Schaw (c....
Castle Rackrent
Authors: Edgeworth Maria , Kirkpatrick Kathryn J.
Published: December 2020

During the 1790s, with Ireland in political crisis, Maria Edgeworth made a surprisingly rebellious choice: in Castle Rackrent, her first novel, she adopted an Irish Catholic voice to narrate the decline of a family from her own Anglo-Irish class. Castle Rackrent's narrator, Thady Quirk, gives us four generations of Rackrent heirs - Sir Patrick, the dissipated spendthrift; Sir Murtagh, the litigating fiend; Sir Kit, the brutal husband and gambling absentee; and Sir Condy, the lovable and improvident dupe of Thady's own son, Jason. With this satire on Anglo-Irish landlords Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott's Waverly (1814). She also changed the focus of conflict in Ireland from religion to class and boldly predicted the rise of the Irish Catholic Bourgeoisie.
Chapter VII: Hard it is to climb
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

SO many a winter night went by, in a hopeful and pleasant manner, with the hissing of the bright round bullets, cast into the water, and the spluttering of the great red apples, which Annie was roasting for me. We always managed our evening’s work...
Chapter XVI: Lorna growing formidable
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

HAVING reconnoitred thus the position of the enemy, Master Huckaback on the homeward road cross-examined me, in a manner not at all desirable. For he had noted my confusion, and eager gaze at something unseen by him in the valley; and thereupon he made up...
Chapter XIX: Another Dangerous Interview
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

ALTHOUGH I left the Denes at once, having little heart for further questions of the wise woman, and being afraid to visit her house under the ‘Devil’s Cheese-ring’ (to which she kindly invited me), and although I ran most part of the way, it was...
Chapter LII: The Way to make the Cream rise
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

THAT night the reverend Counsellor, not being in such state of mind as ought to go alone, kindly took our best old bedstead, carved in panels, well enough, with the woman of Samaria. I set him up, both straight and heavy, so that he need...
Chapter XLIX Miss Trefoil’s Decision
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

LORD RUFFORD’S letter reached Arabella at her cousin’s house, in due course, and was handed to her in the morning as she came down to breakfast. The envelope bore his crest and coronet, and she was sure that more than one pair of eyes...
Chapter LX Again at Mistletoe
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE reader will have been aware that Arabella Trefoil was not a favourite at Mistletoe. She was so much disliked by the duchess that there had almost been words about her between her grace and the duke since her departure. The duchess always submitted,...
Chapter I: Uncle Indefer
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘I Have a conscience, my dear, on this matter, ’* said an old gentleman to a young lady, as the two were sitting in the breakfast parlour of a country house which looked down from the cliffs over the sea on...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It has been said that the Countess, when she sent her daughter down to Yoxham, laid her plans with the conviction that the associations to which the girl would be subjected among the Lovels would fill her heart and mind with a new-born craving...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

During all this time Daniel Thwaite had been living alone, working day after day and hour after hour among the men in Wigmore Street, trusted by his employer, disliked by those over whom he was set in some sort of authority, and befriended by...
Chapter XL
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Before the Solicitor-General returned to town things had come to a worse pass than ever. Lady Lovel had ordered her daughter to be ready to start to Paris by a certain hour, on a certain day,—giving her three days for preparation,—and Lady Anna had...
Chapter XX. Showing What Rachel Ray Thought When She Sat on the Stile, and How She Wrote Her Letter Afterwards
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Rachel, as soon as she had made her mother the promise that she would write the letter, left the parlour and went up to her own room. She had many thoughts to adjust in her mind which could not be adjusted satisfactorily otherwise than...
Supper at The Belle Etoile
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

The French army were in a rather savage temper, just then. The English, especially, had but scant courtesy to expect at their hands. It was plain, however, that the cadaverous gentleman who had just apostrophized the heraldry of the Count’s carriage, with such mysterious acrimony,...
Chapter III Gregory Rose finds his Affinity
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

The new man, Gregory Rose, sat at the door of his dwelling, his arms folded, his legs crossed, and a profound melancholy seeming to rest over his soul. His house was a little square daub-and-wattle building, far out in the ‘karroo,’ two miles from...
Eliza’s Escape
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier...
Emmeline and Cassy
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Cassy entered the room, and found Emmeline sitting, pale with fear, in the furthest corner of it. As she came in, the girl started up nervously; but, on seeing who it was, rushed forward, and catching her arm, said, “O, Cassy, is it you? I’m...
Liberty
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

“No matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery, the moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the God sink together in the dust, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible genius...
Concluding Remarks
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

The writer has often been inquired of, by correspondents from different parts of the country, whether this narrative is a true one; and to these inquiries she will give one general answer.*

The separate incidents that compose the narrative are, to a very great extent,...
15
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Snæfells is 5,000 feet high. Its double cone marks the end of a trachytic strip which branches off the main relief system of the island. From our point of departure we couldn’t see its two peaks in profile against the greyish background of the...
18
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

At eight in the morning, a ray of daylight came and woke us up. The thousand facets of the lava on the walls picked it up on the way down and scattered it everywhere like a rain of sparks.

These gleams were enough for us...
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Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The following day, we left very early. Speed was of the essence. We were five days’ march from the parting of the ways.

I will not dwell on our suffering during the return. My uncle bore it with the anger of a man who knows...
30
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

At first I saw nothing. My eyes, no longer used to the light, snapped shut. When I was able to open them again, I stood still, far more stupefied than delighted.

‘The sea!’ I cried.

‘Yes. The Lidenbrock Sea, and I like to believe that...
36
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Here ends what I have called the ‘ship’s log’, fortunately saved from the shipwreck. I proceed with my narrative as before.

What happened when the raft hit the reefs on the shore, I cannot say. I felt myself being thrown into the waves, and if...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Authors: Burke Edmund
Published: December 2020

Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. Above all, he commented on change. He tried to teach lessons about how change should be managed, what limits should not be transgressed, and what should be reverently preserved. Burke’s generation was much in need of advice on these matters. The Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, and catastrophically, the French Revolution presented challenges of terrible proportions. They could promise paradise or threaten anarchy. Burke was acutely aware of how high the stakes were. The Reflections on the Revolution in France was a dire warning of the consequences that would follow the mismanagement of change.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales
Authors: Poe Edgar Allan
Published: December 2020

And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative dilemmas, at last leaving the reader with a broken-off ending that defies solution. Apart from its violence and mystery, the tale calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing truth. Layer upon layer of elaborate hoaxes include its author's own role of posing as ghost-writer of the narrative; Pym - his only novel - has become the key text for our understanding of Poe. This edition offers eight short tales which are linked to Pym by their treatment of persistent themes - fantastic voyages, gigantic whirlpools, and premature burials - or by their ironic commentary on Poe's mystification of his readers.
Indiana
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

Indiana (1831) is an absorbing and vivid romantic novel, set partly in provincial France, partly in Paris, and partly on a tropical island. It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man. She falls passionately in love with a handsome, frivolous neighbour but discovers too late that his idea of love is quite different from her own. It is only after a series of painful experiences that she comes to appreciate the silent devotion of her loyal and protective cousin.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

Roderick Random (1748), Smollett's first novel, is full of the dazzling vitality characteristics of all his work, as well as of his own life. Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled hero who answers life's many misfortunes with a sledgehammer. Left penniless, he leaves his native Scotland for London and on the way meets Strap, and old schoolfellow. Together they undergo many adventures at the hands of scoundrels and rogues. Roderick qualifies as a surgeon's mate and is pressed as a common soldier on bord the man-of-war Thunder. In a tale of romance as well as adventure, Roderick also finds time to fall in love... Smollett drew on his own experiences as a surgeon's mate in the navy for the memorable scenes on board ship, and the novel combines documentary realism with great humour and panache.
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Pudd‘nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain‘s last serious work of fiction, and perhaps the only real novel that he ever produced. Written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, the novel reveals the sinister forces that Mark Twain felt to be threatening the American dream. In spite of a plot which includes child swapping, palmistry, and a pair of Italian twins, this astringent work also raises the serious issue of racial differences. This volume also includes two other late works ‘Those Extraordinary Twins’ and ‘The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg’.
The Charterhouse of Parma
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage. Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, amidst the golden landscapes of northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a handsome young aristocrat called Fabrice del Dongo, and of his incomparable aunt Gina, her suitor Prime Minister Mosca, and Clélia, a heroine of ethereal beauty and earthly passion. These characters are rendered unforgettable by Stendhal's remarkable gift for psychological insight. ‘Never before have the hearts of princes, ministers, courtiers, and women been depicted like this,’ wrote Honoré de Balzac. ‘Stendhal's tableau has the dimensions of a fresco but the precision of the Dutch masters.’ The great achievement of The Charterhouse of Parma is to conjure up the excitement and romance of youth while never losing sight of the harsh realities which beset the pursuit of happiness, nor the humour and patient irony with which these must be viewed. This new translation captures Stendhal's narrative verve, while the Introduction explores the novel's reception and the reasons for its enduring popularity and power.
The Wings of the Dove
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The vivacious Kate Croy seems to face a stark choice; to marry Merton Densher, the impoverished journalist she loves, and thereby break with her family, or to marry lovelessly but well and take up her rightful place in the society. Kate Croy is already romantically involved with promising journalist Merton when they become acquainted with Milly Theale, a New York socialite of immense wealth. Despite that fabulous wealth, Milly Theale is as alone in the world as a fairytale princess. Learning of Milly’s mortal illness and passionate attraction to Densher, Kate sets the scene for a romantic betrayal intended to secure her lasting financial security. Taking in the drawing rooms of London and the opulence of Venice, this is one of Henry James’ most dramatic and poignant commentaries on society and women’s place within it.
Phineas Finn
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘To become a member of the British Parliament!… He almost thought that he could die happy.’ Phineas Finn, the handsome Irishman, is equally successful at scaling the political ladder and gaining the affection of influential women. As he makes his precarious way in parliament he discovers how far principles must be sacrificed to the common cause, and how essential money is to political progress. Set during the turbulent passage of the second Reform Act of 1867, the novel paints a vivid picture of the compromises and tactics of daily political life. Loss of independence is felt just as keenly by Lady Laura and Violet Effingham, whose choice of marriage partner will determine their future freedom as much as their happiness. With politics and the personal so closely entwined, Phineas faces an act of conscience that will have a profound effect on his life. The second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series, Phineas Finn’s engaging plot embraces matters as diverse as reform, the position of women, the Irish question, and the conflict between integrity and ambition.
Phineas Redux
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.’ After the death of his wife, the handsome politician Phineas Finn returns from Ireland to the parliamentary fray. In his absence the political and social world has subtly changed, parties and policies no longer fixed and advancement dependent upon scheming and alliances. His private life lays him open to the scandal-mongering press, and the wild accusations of an unhinged rival; but much more than his reputation is at stake when he is accused of murdering a political opponent. Trollope shows a remarkably prescient sense of the importance of intrigue, bribery, and sexual scandal, and the power of the press to make or break a political career. He is equally skilled in portraying the complex nature of Phineas's romantic entanglements with three powerful women: the mysterious Madame Max, the devoted Laura Kennedy, and the irrepressible Lady Glencora (now Duchess of Omnium). The fourth of Trollope's Palliser novels, Phineas Redux is one of his most spellbinding achievements, and the first modern ‘media’ novel.
The Small House at Allington
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘She had resolved to trust in everything, and, having so trusted, she would not provide for herself any possibility of retreat.’ Lively and attractive, Lily Dale lives with her mother and sister at the Small House at Allington. She falls passionately in love with the urbane Adolphus Crosbie, and is devastated when he abandons her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina de Courcy. But Lily has another suitor, Johnny Eames, who has been devoted to her since boyhood. Perhaps she can find renewed happiness in Johnny's courtship? The Small House at Allington was among the most successful of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and has retained its popularity among modern readers. Lily Dale's stubborn constancy is a troubling reflection of Trollope's divided feelings about the need for progress and reform in the context of liberal thought and politics. Her story is a subtle exploration of loyalty and ambition, and the pressure for change in a rapidly evolving world.
An Autobiography
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I hated the office. I hated my work...the only career in life within my reach was that of an author.' The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope’s account offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. After a miserable childhood and misspent youth, Trollope turned his life around at the age of twenty-six. By 1860 the ‘hobbledehoy’ had become both a senior civil servant and a best-selling novelist. He worked for the Post Office for many years and stood unsuccessfully for Parliament. Best-known for the two series of novels grouped loosely around the clerical and political professions, the Barsetshire and Palliser series, in his Autobiography Trollope frankly describes his writing habits. His apparent preoccupation with contracts, deadlines, and earnings, and his account of the remorseless regularity with which he produced his daily quota of words, has divided opinion ever since. This edition reassesses the work’s distinctive qualities and includes a selection of Trollope’s critical writings to show how subtle and complex his approach to literature really was.
Domestic Manners of the Americans
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

It appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner.’ In Domestic Manners of the Americans, Frances Trollope recounts her travels through America between 1827 and 1830, describing her voyage up the Mississippi from New Orleans, a two-year stay in Cincinnati, and a subsequent tour of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. A transatlantic best-seller on publication in 1832, its forthright criticisms of American manners encompassed spitting, religious extremism, ladies’ dress, the relentless pursuit of money, and the unequal treatment of women, slaves, and Native Americans. Witty, satiric, and hugely entertaining, Trollope also had a serious purpose in warning her compatriots of the consequences of democratic freedoms at a time of great social change in England. Deploring slavery and the hypocrisy that sanctioned it, she fuelled abolitionist debate on both sides of the Atlantic and so impressed Mark Twain that fifty years later he considered her book to be the most accurate portrait of American life in the nineteenth century.
Step-up in basis in revocable trusts: should the settlor reserve the right to receive or direct income?
Authors: Georgiev Lyubomir , Noked Noam
Published: December 2020

U.S. beneficiaries of a trust are generally better off if the appreciated property held by the trust receives a step-up in basis to the fair market value at the time of the settlor’s death. For revocable trusts, a step-up in basis applies to “property transferred by the decedent during his lifetime in trust to pay the income for life to or on the order or direction of the decedent.” This article considers whether a step-up in basis should apply where the settlor had the power to revoke the trust, but no express right with respect to trust income.
Assessment of Mechanistic Data for Hexavalent Chromium-Induced Rodent Intestinal Cancer Using the Key Characteristics of Carcinogens
Authors: Chappell Grace A , Wikoff Daniele S , Thompson Chad M
Published: December 2020

Oral exposure to hexavalent chromium (Cr[VI]) induces intestinal tumors in mice. Mutagenic and nonmutagenic modes of action (MOAs) have been accepted by different regulatory bodies globally, the latter involving cytotoxicity-induced regenerative cell proliferation. However, concerns persist that all possible MOAs have not been fully considered. To address the potential for alternative MOAs, mechanistic data not represented in the existing two MOAs were evaluated. Relevant data were identified and organized by key characteristics of carcinogens (KCCs); literature related to epigenetics, immunosuppression, receptor-mediated effects, and immortalization were reviewed to identify potential key events associated with an alternative MOA. Over 200 references were screened for these four KCCs and further prioritized based on relevance to the research objective (ie, in vivo, oral exposure, gastrointestinal tissue). Minimal data were available specific to the intestine for these KCCs, and there was no evidence of any underlying mechanisms or key events that are not already represented in the two proposed MOAs. For example, while epigenetic dysregulation of DNA repair genes has been demonstrated, epigenetic effects were not measured in intestinal tissue, and it has been shown that Cr(VI) does not cause DNA damage in intestinal tissue. High-throughput screening data related to the KCCs were also evaluated, with activity generally limited to the two recognized MOAs. Collectively, no plausible alternative MOAs (or key events) were identified in addition to those previously proposed for Cr(VI) small intestine tumors.
The Uses of the Bible
Authors: Coogan Michael
Published: December 2020

What is reception history?

Reception history is a scholarly term for what we could call the study of the afterlives of the Bible: how, since it was being formed, the Bible has been used, from popular culture to high art. Such cultural influence of canonical...