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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After the definite refusal he had received, Petya went to his room and there locked himself in and wept bitterly. When he came in to tea, silent, morose, and with tear-stained face, everybody pretended not to notice anything.

Next day the Emperor arrived in Moscow,...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

An hour later Dunyasha came to tell the princess that Dron had come, and all the peasants had assembled at the barn by the princess’s order and wished to have word with their mistress.

‘But I never told them to come,’ said Princess Marya. ‘I...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Well, is she pretty? Ah, friend—my pink one is delicious; her name is Dunyasha …’

But on glancing at Rostov’s face Ilyin stopped short. He saw that his hero and commander was following quite a different train of thought.

Rostov glanced angrily at...
19
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On the 24th of August the battle of the Shevardino Redoubt was fought, on the 25th not a shot was fired by either side, and on the 26th the battle of Borodino itself took place.

Why and how were the battles at Shevardino and Borodino...
34
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Napoleon’s generals—Davout, Ney, and Murat, who were near the region of fire and sometimes even entered it—repeatedly led into it huge masses of well-ordered troops. But contrary to what had always happened in their former battles, instead of the news they expected of the...
15
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Moscow’s last day had come. It was a clear bright autumn day, a Sunday. The church bells everywhere were ringing for service, just as usual on Sundays. Nobody seemed yet to realize what awaited the city.

Only two things indicated the social condition of...
22
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile the city itself was deserted. There was hardly anyone in the streets. The gates and shops were all closed, only here and there round the taverns solitary shouts or drunken songs could be heard. Nobody drove through the streets and footsteps were rarely...
31
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The valet, returning to the cottage, informed the count that Moscow was burning. The count donned his dressing-gown and went out to look. Sonya and Madame Schoss, who had not yet undressed, went out with him. Only Natasha and the countess remained in the...
12
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After the execution Pierre was separated from the rest of the prisoners and placed alone in a small, ruined, and befouled church.

Towards evening a non-commissioned officer entered with two soldiers and told him that he had been pardoned and would now go to the...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Bennigsen’s note and the Cossack’s information that the left flank of the French was unguarded were merely final indications that it was necessary to order an attack, and it was fixed for the 5th of October.

In the morning of the 4th of October Kutuzov...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Through the cross-streets of the Khamovniky quarter the prisoners marched followed only by their escort and the vehicles and wagons belonging to that escort, but when they reached the supply-stores they came among a huge and closely packed train of artillery mingled with private...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Having put on French greatcoats and shakos, Petya and Dolokhov rode to the clearing from which Denisov had reconnoitred the French camp, and emerging from the forest in pitch darkness they descended into the hollow. On reaching the bottom, Dolokhov told the Cossacks accompanying...
6
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The 5th of November was the first day of what is called the battle of Krasnoe. Towards evening—after much disputing and many mistakes made by generals who did not go to their proper places, and after adjutants had been sent about with counter orders—when...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

One would have thought that under the almost incredibly wretched conditions the Russian soldiers were in at that time—lacking warm boots and sheepskin coats, without a roof over their heads, in the snow with eighteen degrees of frost, and without even full rations (the...
12
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

As in every large household, there were at Bald Hills several perfectly distinct worlds which merged into one harmonious whole, though each retained its own peculiarities and made concessions to the others. Every event, joyful or sad, that took place in that house, was...
Conclusion
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

“Well, Agnes, you must not take such long walks again before breakfast,” said my mother, observing that I drank an extra cup of coffee and ate nothing—pleading the heat of the weather, and the fatigue of my long walk as an excuse.

I...
Chapter V
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

On the fifth day of November, 1718, which to the æra fixed on, was as near nine kalendar months as any husband could in reason have expected,—was I Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, brought forth into this scurvy and disasterous world of...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

When corporal Trim had brought his two mortars to bear, he was delighted with his handy-work above measure; and knowing what a pleasure it would be to his master to see them, he was not able to resist the desire he had...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——I think it a very unreasonable demand,——cried my great grandfather, twisting up the paper, and throwing it upon the table. By this account, madam, you have but two thousand pounds fortune, and not a shilling more,——and you insist upon having three hundred pounds...
CHAPTER XVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

YOUR honour, said Trim, shutting the parlour door before he began to speak, has heard, I imagine, of this unlucky accident ——O yes, Trim! said my uncle Toby, and it gives me great concern—I am heartily concerned too, but...
CHAPTER XXVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

—SEE if he is not cutting it all into slips, and giving them about him to light their pipes!—'Tis abominable, answered Didius; it should not go unnoticed, said doctor Kysarcius— he was of the Kysarcij of the low countries....

Methinks, said Didius,...
Chapter II
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WHEN my father received the letter which brought him the melancholy account of my brother Bobby's death, he was busy calculating the expence of his riding post from Calais to Paris, and so on to Lyons.

'Twas a most inauspicious journey; my father having had...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THE first thing which entered my father's head, after affairs were a little settled in the family, and Susannah had got possession of my mother's green sattin night-gown,—was to sit down coolly, after the example of Xenophon,1 and write a...
CHAPTER XXXVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——'Twill come out of itself by and bye.——All I contend for is, that I am not obliged to set out with a definition of what love is; and so long as I can go on with my story intelligibly, with the...
CHAPTER XXI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

The abbess of Andoüillets, which if you look into the large set of provincial maps now publishing at Paris, you will find situated amongst the hills which divide Burgundy from Savoy, being in danger of an. Anchylosis or stiff joint (the ...
Chapter III
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——Bon jour!—— good-morrow!——so you have got your cloak on betimes!——but ‘tis a cold morning, and you judge the matter rightly——’tis better to be well mounted, than go o’foot——and obstructions in the glands are dangerous——And how goes it with thy concubine—thy wife—and thy little ones o'both...
Chapter VI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I wish my uncle Toby had been a water-drinker; for then the thing had been accounted for, That the first moment Widow Wadman saw him, she felt something stirring within her in his favour—Something!—something.

—Something perhaps more than friendship—less than love— something—no matter what—no...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——I am half distracted, captain Shandy, said Mrs. Wadman, holding up her cambrick handkerchief to her left eye, as she approach'd the door of my uncle Toby's sentry-box——a mote——or sand or something——I know not what, has got into this eye of mine do look into...
CHAPTER XI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

"Now what can their two noddles be about?" cried my father--&c.----

I dare say, said my mother, they are making fortifications——

——Not on Mrs. Wadman's premises! cried my father, stepping back——

I suppose not: quoth my mother.

I wish, said my father, raising his voice,...
The Nightingale and the Rose
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

‘She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,’ cried the young Student; ‘but in all my garden there is no red rose.’

From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and she looked out through...
Aucassin and Nicolette
Authors: Pater Walter
Published: December 2020

The history of the Renaissance ends in France and carries us away from Italy to the beautiful cities of the country of the Loire. But it was in France also, in a very important sense, that the Renaissance had begun; and French writers, who...
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr. Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family, which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property. He had received a good education, but on succeeding early in life to a...
Chapter XI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr.
Elton must now be left to himself. It was no longer in Emma’s power to superintend his happiness or quicken his measures. The coming of her sister’s family was so very near at hand, that first in anticipation and then in reality, it...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable.—It was a wretched business, indeed!—Such an overthrow of every thing she had been wishing for!—Such a development of every thing most unwelcome!—Such a blow for Harriet!—That...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday have now passed in review before the reader; the events of each day, its hopes and fears, mortifications and pleasures have been separately stated, and the pangs of Sunday only now remain to be described, and close...
Persuasion
Authors: Austen Jane , Lynch Deidre Shauna
Published: December 2020

‘She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.’ Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry, nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chances. Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future.
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

There was one point which Anne, on returning to her family, would have been more thankful to ascertain, even than Mr. Elliot’s being in love with Elizabeth, which was, her father’s not being in love with Mrs. Clay; and she was very far from...
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Who can be in doubt of what followed? When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely...
The Story continued by Marian Halcombe, in Extracts from her Diary
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I

Limmeridge House, Nov. 8th.*

***1

This morning Mr Gilmore left us.

His interview with Laura had evidently grieved and surprised him more than he liked to confess. I felt afraid, from his look and manner when we parted, that she...
Madame Bovary
Authors: Flaubert Gustave , Bowie Malcolm , Overstall Mark
Published: December 2020

‘Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!’ When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. Flaubert's novel scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857, and it remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. In this new translation Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures the tone that makes Flaubert's style so distinct and admired.
The Prophet
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘Shipmates, have ye shipped in that ship?’

Queequeg and I had just left the Pequod, and were sauntering away from the water, for the moment each occupied with his own thoughts, when the above words were put to us by a stranger, who,...
Midnight, Forecastle
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

harpooneers and sailors

(Foresail rises and discovers the watch standing, lounging, leaning, and lying in various attitudes, all singing in chorus.)

Our captain’s commanded.—

1st nantucket sailor

Oh, boys, don’t...
Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman when in his own absolute body the whale is moored alongside the...
Pitchpoling
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

To make them run easily and swiftly, the axles of carriages are anointed; and for much the same purpose, some whalers perform an analogous operation upon their boat; they grease the bottom. Nor is it to be doubted that as such a procedure can...
The Carpenter
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary...
The Blacksmith
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Availing himself of the mild, summer-cool weather that now reigned in these latitudes, and in preparation for the peculiarly active pursuits shortly to be anticipated, Perth, the begrimed, blistered old blacksmith, had not removed his portable forge to the hold again, after...
The Pequod Meets the Delight
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The intense Pequod sailed on; the rolling waves and days went by; the life-buoy-coffin still lightly swung; and another ship, most miserably misnamed the Delight, was descried. As she drew nigh, all eyes were fixed upon her broad beams, called shears, which,...
The gold-bug
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

What ho! what ho! this fellow is dancing mad!

He hath been bitten by the Tarantula.

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been...
Chapter II
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

As they entered they saw Dorian Gray. He was seated at the piano, with his back to them, turning over the pages of a volume of Schumann’s ‘Forest Scenes.’* ‘You must lend me these, Basil,’ he cried. ‘I want to learn them. They...
Chapter III The Old Calaboose — Destiny at the Door
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The old calaboose, in which the waifs had so long harboured, is a low, rectangular enclosure of building at the comer of a shady western avenue and a little townward of the British consulate. Within was a grassy court, littered with wreckage and the...
XI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was not till late next day that I spoke to Mrs Grose; the rigour with which I kept my pupils in sight making it often difficult to meet her privately: the more as we each felt the importance of not provoking—on the part...
How the Pickwickians made and cultivated the Acquaintance of a couple of nice Young Men belonging to one of the Liberal Professions; how they disported themselves on the Ice; and how their Visit came to a conclusion
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Well Sam,” said Mr. Pickwick as that favoured servitor entered his bed-chamber with his warm water, on the morning of Christmas Day, “Still frosty?”

“Water in the wash-hand basin’s a mask o’ ice, Sir,” responded Sam.

“Severe weather, Sam,” observed Mr. Pickwick.

“Fine time...
Is wholly devoted to a full and faithful Report of the memorable Trial of Bardell against Pickwick
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“I wonder what the foreman of the jury, whoever he’ll be, has got for breakfast,” said Mr. Snodgrass, by way of keeping up a conversation on the eventful morning of the fourteenth of February.

“Ah!” said Perker, “I hope he’s got a good one.”

“Why...
Involving a serious Change in the Weller family, and the untimely downfall of the red-nosed Mr. Stiggins
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Considering it a matter of delicacy to abstain from introducing either Bob Sawyer or Ben Allen to the young couple, until they were fully prepared to expect them; and wishing to spare Arabella’s feelings as much as possible, Mr. Pickwick proposed that he and...
Containing some Particulars relative to the Double Knock, and other Matters, among which certain Interesting Disclosures relative to Mr. Snodgrass and a Young Lady are by no means irrelevant to this History
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The object that presented itself to the eyes of the astonished clerk was a boy—a wonderfully fat boy—habited as a serving lad, standing upright on the mat, with his eyes closed as if in sleep. He had never seen such a fat boy in...
Our Mutual Friend
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boffin, who is also Bella's guardian. Disguise and concealment play an important role in the novel and individual identity is examined within the wider setting of London life: in the 1860s the city was aflame with spiralling financial speculation while thousands of homeless scratched a living from the detritus of the more fortunate-indeed John Harmon's father has amassed his wealth by recycling waste. This edition includes extensive explanatory notes and significant manuscript variants.
Chapter VIII Philosophical
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

They went back into the booth, Sleary shutting the door to keep intruders out. Bitzer, still holding the paralyzed culprit by the collar, stood in the Ring, blinking at his old patron through the darkness of the twilight.

“Bitzer,” said Mr. Gradgrind, broken down, and...
Chapter XLI New Voices in the Waves
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in...
Chapter XLIV A Separation
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

With the day, though not so early as the sun, uprose Miss Susan Nipper. There was a heaviness in this young maiden’s exceedingly sharp black eyes, that abated somewhat of their sparkling, and suggested—which was not their usual character—the possibility of their...
Chapter LIII More Intelligence
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There were two of the traitor’s own blood—his renounced brother and sister—on whom the weight of his guilt rested almost more heavily, at this time, than on the man whom he had so deeply injured. Prying and tormenting as the world was, it did...
Chapter LXII Final
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A bottle that has been long excluded from the light of day, and is hoary with dust and cobwebs, has been brought into the sunshine; and the golden wine within it sheds a lustre on the table.

It is the last bottle of the old...
Chapter 13
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Almost a whole month has passed since I touched these notes of mine, begun under the influence of impressions which, even if disorganized, were powerful. The catastrophe which at that time I felt was imminent did actually occur, only a hundred times more dramatically...
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Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Ganya’S flat was on the second floor, reached by way of a clean, bright, and spacious staircase. It comprised six or seven rooms, large and small, nothing special in themselves but rather beyond the means of an office-worker with a family, even one earning...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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. So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white boy living in America’s deep South before the Civil War, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the story of Huck’s escape from his brutal father and the relationship that grows between him and Jim, the slave who is fleeing from an even more brutal oppression. As they journey down the Mississippi their adventures address some of the most profound human conundrums: the prejudices of class, age, and colour are pitted against the qualities of hope, courage, and moral character. Enormously influential in the development of American literature, Huckleberry Finn remains a controversial novel at the centre of impassioned critical debate. This edition discusses all the current issues and the evolution of Mark Twain’s penetrating genius.
Chapter 4
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Well, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter, now. I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times...
Chapter 19
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Two or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely. Here is the way we put in the time. It was a monstrous big river down there—sometimes a mile...
Chapter 42
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The old man was up town again, before breakfast, but couldn’t get no track of Tom; and both of them set at the table, thinking, and not saying nothing, and looking mournful, and their coffee getting cold, and not eating anything. And by- and-by...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The first thing Tom heard on Friday morning was a glad piece of news—Judge Thatcher’s family had come back to town the night before. Both Injun Joe and the treasure sunk into secondary importance for a moment, and Becky took the chief place in...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Huck said: “Tom, we can slope, if we can find a rope. The window ain’t high from the ground.”

“Shucks, what do you want to slope for?”

“Well I ain’t used to that kind of a crowd. I can’t stand it. I ain’t going down...
Chapter XXIII Vashti
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

To wonder sadly, did I say? No: a new influence began to act upon my life, and sadness, for a certain space, was held at bay. Conceive a dell deep-hollowed in forest secresy; it lies in dimness and mist: its turf is dank, its herbage...
Chapter XXVII The Hotel Crécy
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The morrow turned out a more lively and busy day than we—or than I, at least—had anticipated. It seems it was the birthday of one of the young princes of Labassecour—the eldest, I think, the Duc de Dindonneau—and a general holiday was given in his...
Chapter XXXVI The Apple of Discord
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Besides Fifine Beck’s mother, another power had a word to say to M. Paul and me, before that covenant of friendship could be ratified. We were under the surveillance of a sleepless eye: Rome watched jealously her son through that mystic lattice at which I...
Chapter V
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

There is a climax to everything, to every state of feeling as well as to every position in life. I turned this truism over in my mind as, in the frosty dawn of a January Morning, I hurried down the steep and now icy...
Chapter VII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Reader—perhaps you were never in Belgium? Haply you don’t know the physiognomy of the country? You have not its lineaments defined upon your memory as I have them on mine?

Three—nay four pictures line the four-walled cell where are stored for me the Records...
VI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

About six weeks after I had left the Hall, my father and Clara returned to London for the season.

It is not my intention to delay over my life either at home or at North Villa, during the spring and summer. This would be merely...
Chapter I
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At the end of the Rue Guénégaud, coming up from the river, can be found the Passage du Pont-Neuf,* a sort of dark, narrow corridor running between the Rue Mazarine and the Rue de Seine. This arcade is some thirty paces long...
Chapter XX
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Laurent closed the door carefully behind him and stayed leaning against it for a while, looking around the room with an anxious, embarrassed expression on his face.

A fire was burning brightly in the grate, casting swathes of dancing yellow light on to the ceiling...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Just as old Michaud had hoped when he had worked to set up the marriage of Thérèse and Laurent, once the wedding was over Thursday evenings regained all their former jollity. Camille’s death had put them in great danger, for the guests had ventured...
CHAPTER II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In the bedroom, some grey slivers of daylight had gradually started to filter through the slats of the closed shutters, and fanned out over the ceiling; the close air became muggier, as they all continued their night’s sleep: Lénore and Henri lying in each...
CHAPTER VII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

They met at Le Plan-des-Dames, in a great clearing* recently opened by some tree-fellers. It stretched away in a gentle slope, surrounded by a high thicket of lofty beeches, whose regular line of straight trunks made a white colonnade, speckled green with...
CHAPTER I
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The shots fired in Montsou had rung out with a formidable echo that was heard as far away as Paris. For four days all the opposition newspapers had been indignant, spreading the story of the atrocities all over their front pages: twenty-five wounded, fourteen...
CHAPTER IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The night after the collapse of Le Voreux Monsieur Hennebeau had left for Paris, wanting to inform the Board in person before the newspapers had had time to report the events. And when he arrived back the next day, he appeared to...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One morning, six weeks later, Claude was painting in the sunshine that came streaming in through his studio window. The middle of August had been dull and wet, but now the sky was blue again his heart was back in his work. His big...
Chapter VI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

There was a costume ball at the Saccards’ on Thursday in mid-Lent. The great event of the evening was the drama, The Loves of Narcissus and Echo,* in three tableaux, which was to be performed by the ladies. The author...
Evelina
Authors: Burney Frances , Jones Vivien
Published: December 2020

‘Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!’ Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities of manners and social ambitions - as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville. Evelina, comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century, and a love story. The new introduction and full notes to this edition help make this richness all the more readily available to a modern reader.
Letter XI Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Holborn, June 9th.

Yesterday morning, we received an invitation to dine and spend the day at Mr. Branghton’s; and M. Du Bois, who was also invited, called to conduct us to Snow-hill.

Young Branghton received us at the door, and the first words he spoke...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Chariot had not proceeded far, before Mr. Adams observed it was a very fine Day. ‘Ay, and a very fine Country too,’ answered Pounce. ‘I should think so more,’ returned Adams, ‘if I had not lately travelled...
Containing such grave matter that the reader cannot laugh once through the whole chapter, unless peradventure he should laugh at the author
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When Jenny appeared, Mr Allworthy took her into his study, and spoke to her as follows:

‘You know, child, it is in my power, as a magistrate, to punish you very rigorously for what you have done,* and you will perhaps be the...
Containing an incident of a more heinous kind, with the comments of Thwackum and Square
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It hath been observed by some man of much greater reputation for wisdom than myself, that misfortunes seldom come single. An instance of this may, I believe, be seen in those gentlemen who have the misfortune to have any of their rogueries detected: for...
In which the landlady pays a visit to Mr Jones
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When Jones had taken leave of his friend, the lieutenant, he endeavoured to close his eyes, but all in vain; his spirits were too lively and wakeful to be lulled to sleep. So having amused, or rather tormented, himself with the thoughts of his...
A dreadful alarm in the inn, with the arrival of an unexpected friend of Mrs Fitzpatrick
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Sophia now, at the desire of her cousin, related—not what follows, but what hath gone before in this history, for which reason the reader will, I suppose, excuse me for not repeating it over again.

One remark, however, I cannot forbear making on her...
In which the reader will be surprised
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Jones was rather earlier than the time appointed, and earlier than the lady, whose arrival was hindered, not only by the distance of the place where she dined, but by some other cross accidents very vexatious to one in her situation of mind....
Containing strange matters
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

At his return to his lodgings, Jones found the situation of affairs greatly altered from what they had been in at his departure. The mother, the two daughters, and young Mr Nightingale were now sat down to supper together, when the uncle was, at...
The generous and grateful behaviour of Mrs Miller
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Allworthy and Mrs Miller were just sat down to breakfast, when Blifil, who had gone out very early that morning, returned to make one of the company.

He had not been long seated before he began as follows: ‘God Lord! my dear uncle, what...
Containing various matters
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Before we return to Mr Jones, we will take one more view of Sophia.

Though that young lady had brought her aunt into great good humour by those soothing methods which we have before related, she had not brought her in the least to abate...
Chapter IV Doubts and Difficulties
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Cast me upon some naked shore, Where I may tracke Only the print of some sad wracke, If thou be there, though the seas roare, I shall no gentler calm implore.’

He was gone. The house was shut up for the...
Chapter XIV Effect of the letter: sunrise
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

At dusk on the evening of St. Valentine’s Day, Boldwood sat down to supper as usual, by a beaming fire of aged logs. Upon the mantelshelf before him was a time-piece surmounted by a spread eagle, and upon the eagle’s wings was the letter...
Chapter XLVII Adventures by the shore
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Troy wandered along towards the south, though not to Budmouth as was reported.* A composite feeling, made up of disgust with the, to him, humdrum tediousness of a farmer’s life, gloomy images of her who lay in the churchyard, remorse, and a...
I.–i.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry. The miller at Cresscombe lent him the small white tilted cart and horse to carry his goods to the city of his destination, about twenty miles off, such a vehicle proving of quite sufficient...
III.–vii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Tidings from Sue a day or two after passed across Jude like a withering blast.

Before reading the letter he was led to suspect that its contents were of a somewhat serious kind by catching sight of the signature—which was in her full name, never...
III.–ix.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On the morrow between nine and half-past they were journeying back to Christminster, the only two occupants of a compartment in a third-class railway-carriage. Having, like Jude, made rather a hasty toilet to catch the train, Arabella looked a little frowsy, and her face...
V.–viii.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

In the afternoon Sue and the other people bustling about Kennetbridge fair could hear singing inside the placarded hoarding further down the street. Those who peeped through the opening saw a crowd of persons in broadcloth, with hymn-books in their hands, standing round the...
XXI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

As a maxim glibly repeated from childhood remains practically unmarked till some mature experience enforces it, so did this High-Place Hall now for the first time really show itself to Elizabeth-Jane, though her ears had heard its name on a hundred occasions.

Her mind dwelt...
Chapter IV The Halt on the Turnpike-Road
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Down, downward they went, and yet further down, their descent at each step seeming to outmeasure their advance. Their skirts were scratched noisily by the furze, their shoulders brushed by the ferns, which, though dead and dry, stood erect as when alive, no sufficient...
Chapter II The People at Blooms-End make ready
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

All that afternoon the expected arrival of the subject of Eustacia’s ruminations created a bustle of preparation at Blooms-End. Thomasin had been persuaded by her aunt, and by an instinctive impulse of loyalty towards her cousin Clym, to bestir herself on his account with...
Chapter II He is set upon by Adversities; but he sings a Song
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The result of that unpropitious interview was that Eustacia, instead of passing the afternoon with her grandfather, hastily returned home to Clym, where she arrived three hours earlier than she had been expected.

She came indoors with her face flushed, and her eyes still showing...
Chapter IV Rough Coercion is employed
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Those words of Thomasin, which seemed so little but meant so much, remained in the ears of Diggory Venn. “Help me to keep him home in the evenings.”

On this occasion Venn had arrived on Egdon Heath only to cross to the other side: he...
II
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The village of Marlott lay amid the north-eastern undulations of the beautiful Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor aforesaid—an engirdled and secluded region, for the most part untrodden as yet by tourist or landscape-painter, though within a four hours’ journey from London.

It is a vale...
XVII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The dairymaids and men had flocked down from their cottages and out of the dairyhouse with the arrival of the cows from the meads; the maids walking in pattens, not on account of the weather, but to keep their shoes above the mulch of...
XXII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

They came downstairs yawning next morning; but skimming and milking were proceeded with as usual, and they went indoors to breakfast. Dairyman Crick was discovered stamping about the house. He had received a letter, in which a customer had complained that the butter had...
XXIX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

“Now who mid ye think I’ve heard news o’ this morning?” said Dairyman Crick as he sat down to breakfast next day, with a riddling gaze round upon the munching men and maids. “Now just who mid ye think?”

One guessed, and another guessed. Mrs...
XLII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was now broad day and she started again, emerging cautiously upon the highway. But there was no need for caution: not a soul was at hand, and Tess went onward with fortitude, her recollection of the birds’ silent endurance of their night of...
LII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

During the small hours of the next morning, while it was still dark, dwellers near the highways were conscious of a disturbance of their night’s rest by rumbling noises, intermittently continuing till daylight; noises as certain to recur in this particular first week of...
Chapter I
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

I am by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics;1 and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation. He was...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

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

The Fille De Chambre Paris

What the old French officer had deliver’d upon travelling, bringing Polonius’s advice to his son° upon the same subject into my head—and that bringing in Hamlet; and Hamlet, the rest of Shakespear’s works, I stopp’d at the...
8 Madame De BelliÈ Re’S Plate and Diamonds
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Hardly had Fouquet dismissed Vanel, than he began to reflect for a few moments:—“A man never can do too much for the woman he has once loved. Marguerite wishes to be the wife of a procureur-général—and why not confer this pleasure upon her? And,...
37 The Tempter
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

“My prince,” said Aramis, turning in the carriage towards his companion, “weak creature as I am, so unpretending in genius, so low in the scale of intelligent beings, it has never yet happened to me to converse with a man without penetrating his...
55 Monsieur De Beaufort
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Prince turned round at the moment when Raoul, in order to leave him alone with Athos, was shutting the door, and preparing to go with the other officers into an adjoining apartment.

“Is that the young man I have heard M. le Prince*...
58 The Inventory of M. De Beaufort
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

To have talked of d’Artagnan with Planchet, to have seen Planchet quit Paris to bury himself in his country retreat, had been for Athos and his son like a last farewell to the noise of the capital—to their life of former days. What, in...
67 How the king, Louis Xiv., Played His Little Part
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

As Fouquet was alighting from his carriage to enter the castle of Nantes, a man of mean appearance went up to him with marks of the greatest respect, and gave him a letter. D’Artagnan endeavoured to prevent this man from speaking to Fouquet, and pushed...
73 The Ancestors of Porthos
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

When d’Artagnan had quitted Aramis and Porthos, the latter returned to the principal fort to converse with the greater liberty. Porthos, still thoughtful, was a constraint upon Aramis, whose mind had never felt itself more free.

“Dear Porthos,” said he suddenly, “I will explain d’Artagnan’s...
82 The Friends of M. Fouquet
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The King had returned to Paris, and with him d’Artagnan, who, in twenty-four hours, having made with the greatest care all possible inquiries at Belle-Isle, had learned nothing of the secret so well kept by the heavy rock of Locmaria, which had fallen on...
XIX how the duc de beaufort amused himself in the prison at vincennes
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The prisoner who caused Monsieur the Cardinal so much fear, and whose means of escape troubled the peace of the whole court, did not in the least suspect the fright that was felt on his account at the Palais-Royal.

He found himself so securely guarded...
XXXIV the absolution
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

This is what had happened. We have seen that it was not of his own will, but on the contrary much against it, that the monk attended on the wounded man so strangely recommended to him. He would perhaps have endeavoured to flee had...
XLVIII the tower of st jacques la boucherie
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At a quarter of six M. de Gondy had made all his visits, and had returned to his residence. At six the Curate of St Merri was announced. The Coadjutor threw a glance quickly behind him, and saw that he was followed by another...
A Sicilian Romance
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and covents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy. Julia and Emilia Mazzini live secluded in an ancient mansion near the Straits of Messina. After their father's return to the island a neglected part of the house is haunted by a series of mysterious sights and sounds. The origin of these hauntings is only discovered after a series of breathless pursuits through dreamlike pastoral landscapes. When revelation finally comes, it forces the heroines to challenge the united forces of religious and patriarchal authority.
Chapter II
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The day of the festival, so long and so impatiently looked for by Julia, was now arrived. All the neighbouring nobility were invited, and the gates of the castle were thrown open for a general rejoicing. A magnificent entertainment, consisting of the most luxurious...
Chapter II
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Valancourt, meanwhile, suffered the tortures of remorse and despair. The sight of Emily had renewed all the ardour, with which he first loved her, and which had suffered a temporary abatement...
Continuation of the Memoirs of the Rackrent Family
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

History of Sir Conolly Rackrent

Sir Condy Rackrent, by the grace of God heir at law to the Castle Rackrent estate, was a remote branch of the family: born to little or no fortune of his own, he was bred to the bar, at...
Chapter XXV: A Great Man attends to Business
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

HAVING seen Lord Russell murdered in the fields at Lincoln’s Inn, or rather having gone to see it, but turned away, with a sickness and a bitter flood of tears—for a whiter and a nobler neck never fell before low beast—I strode away towards Westminster,...
Chapter XLVI: Squire Faggus makes some Lucky Hits
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

THROUGH that season of bitter frost, the red deer of the forest, having nothing to feed upon, and no shelter to rest in, had grown accustomed to our ricks of corn, and hay, and clover. There we might see a hundred of them, almost any...
Chapter XLIX: Maiden Sentinels are best
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

IT was not likely that the outlaws would attack our premises, until some time after the moon was risen; because it would be too dangerous to cross the flooded valleys in the darkness of the night. And but for this consideration, I must have striven...
Chapter VII The Walk Home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

MARY MASTERS, when Reginald Morton had turned his back upon her at the bridge, was angry with herself and with him, which was reasonable; and very angry also with Larry Twentyman, which was unreasonable. As she had at once acceded to Morton’s proposal that...
Chapter XIII At Bragton
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

WHEN the ladies went upstairs the afternoon was not half over and they did not dine till half-past seven. As Morton returned to the house in the dusk he thought that perhaps Arabella might make some attempt to throw herself in his way. She...
Chapter XXXVI Mistletoe
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

WHEN Arabella Trefoil started from London for Mistletoe, with no companion but her own maid, she had given more serious consideration to her visit than she had probably ever paid to any matter up to that time. She had often been much in earnest,...
Chapter XL Lord Rufford Wants to see a Horse
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

LORD RUFFORD had been quite right about the duchess. Arabella had only taken off her hat, and was drinking her tea when the duchess came up to her. ‘Lord Rufford says that you were too tired to come in,’ said the duchess.

‘I am...
Chapter LIV Arabella Again at Bragton
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

ARABELLA TREFOIL had adhered without flinching to the purpose she had expressed of going down to Bragton to see the sick man. And yet at that very time she was in the midst of her contest with Lord Rufford. She was aware...
Chapter LXVI ‘I Must Go’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Rufford, March 5th.

‘My dear
Miss
Trefoil,

‘I am indeed sorry that I should have offended you by acceding to a suggestion which, I think I may say, originated with your mother. When she told me that her circumstances and yours were not...