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Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties
Authors: Marx Karl , Engels Friedrich
Published: December 2020

Section 2 has made clear the relations of the Communists to the existing working-class parties, such as the Chartists in England and the Agrarian Reformers in America.*

The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests...
Moby Dick
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the two discussed the philosophical depths of the novel's plot and imagery.
Etymology
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

(supplied by a late consumptive usher to a grammar school)

The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay...
Extracts
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

(supplied by a sub-sub-librarian)

It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales...
The Spouter-Inn
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft. On one side hung a very large oil painting so thoroughly be-smoked, and every way defaced, that in...
Knights and Squires
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent...
AHAB
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

For several days after leaving Nantucket, nothing above hatches was seen of Captain Ahab. The mates regularly relieved each other at the watches, and for aught that could be seen to the contrary, they seemed to be the only commanders of the ship; only...
Enter AHAB; to Him, Stubb
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August of the Tropic. The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days,...
Cetology
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored harborless immensities. Ere that come to pass; ere the Pequod’s weedy hull rolls side by side with the barnacled hulls of the leviathan; at the outset it...
The Affidavit
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

So far as what there may be of a narrative in this book; and, indeed, as indirectly touching one or two very interesting and curious particulars in the habits of sperm whales, the foregoing chapter, in its earlier part, is as important a one...
The Mat-Maker
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-colored waters. Queequeg and I were mildly employed weaving what is called a sword-mat, for an additional lashing to our boat. So still and...
The Town-Ho’s Story
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

(As told at the Golden Inn)

The Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there, is much like some noted four corners of a great highway, where you meet more travellers than in any other part.

It was not very long...
The Shark Massacre
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

When in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale, after long and weary toil, is brought alongside late at night, it is not, as a general thing at least, customary to proceed at once to the business of cutting him in. For that business...
The Funeral
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘Haul in the chains! Let the carcase go astern!’

The vast tackles have now done their duty. The peeled white body of the beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue, it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk. It is...
The Sphynx
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded. Now, the beheading of the Sperm Whale is a scientific anatomical feat, upon which experienced whale surgeons very much pride themselves: and not without reason....

Consider...
The Right Whale’s Head.—Contrasted View
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Crossing the deck, let us now have a good long look at the Right Whale’s head.

As in general shape the noble Sperm Whale’s head may be compared to a Roman war-chariot (especially in front, where it is so broadly rounded); so, at a broad...
Cistern and Buckets
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Nimble as a cat, Tashtego mounts aloft; and without altering his erect posture, runs straight out upon the overhanging main-yardarm, to the part where it exactly projects over the hoisted Tun. He has carried with him a light tackle called a whip, consisting of...
Ambergris
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Now this ambergris is a very curious substance, and so important as an article of commerce, that in 1791 a certain Nantucket-born Captain Coffin was examined at the bar of the English House of Commons on that subject. For at that time, and indeed...
The Cassock
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this post-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled forward nigh the windlass, pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small curiosity a very strange, enigmatical object, which...
The Try-Works
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Besides her hoisted boats, an American whaler is outwardly distinguished by her try-works. She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid masonry joining with oak and hemp in constituting the completed ship. It is as if from the open field a brick-kiln were...
The Lamp
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Had you descended from the Pequod’s try-works to the Pequod’s forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost thought you were standing in some illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counsellors. There they lay...
Stowing Down and Clearing Up
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Already has it been related how the great leviathan is afar off descried from the mast-head; how he is chased over the watery moors, and slaughtered in the valleys of the deep; how he is then towed alongside and beheaded; and how (on the...
Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

According to usage they were pumping the ship next morning; and lo! no inconsiderable oil came up with the water; the casks below must have sprung a bad leak. Much concern was shown; and Starbuck went down into the cabin to report this unfavorable...
The Pacific
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged at last upon the great South Sea; were it not for other things, I could have greeted my dear Pacific with uncounted thanks, for now the long supplication of my youth was answered; that serene ocean...
The Dying Whale
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune’s favorites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out. So seemed it with the Pequod. For next day...
Midnight. —The Forecastle Bulwarks
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Stubb and Flask mounted on them, and passing additional lashings over the anchors there hanging

‘No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but you will never pound into me what you were just now saying. And how long ago...
The Needle
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod’s gurgling track, pushed her on like giants’ palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world...
The Symphony
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman’s look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells,...
MS. Found in a Bottle
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Qui n’a plus qu’un moment à vivre

N’a plus rien à dissimuler.

Of my country and of my family I have little to say. Ill usage and length of years have driven me from the one, and estranged me from the...
The fall of the house of usher
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Son cœur est un luth suspendu;

Sitôt qu’on lc touchc il résonne.

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing...
The masque of the red death
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

The ‘Red Death’* had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding...
Hop-frog
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

I never knew any one so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor. Thus...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

At nine o’clock the next morning his servant came in with a cup of chocolate on a tray, and opened the shutters. Dorian was sleeping quite peacefully, lying on his right side, with one hand underneath his cheek. He looked like a boy who...
Chapter VI The Partners
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Each took a side of the fixed table; it was the first time they had sat down at it together; but now all sense of incongruity, all memory of differences, was quite swept away by the presence of the common ruin.

‘Gentlemen,’ said the captain,...
Chapter VIII Better Acquaintance
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The boat was gone again, and already halfway to the Farallone, before Herrick turned and went unwillingly up the pier. From the crown of the beach, the figure-head confronted him with what seemed irony, her helmeted head tossed back, her formidable arm...
Chapter XI David and Goliath
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Huish had bundled himself up from the glare of the day—his face to the house, his knees retracted. The frail bones in the thin tropical raiment seemed scarce more considerable than a fowl’s; and Davis, sitting on the rail with his arm about a...
Something in It
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Thenatives told him many tales. In particular, they warned him of the house of yellow reeds tied with black sinnet,* how any one who touched it became instantly the prey of Akaänga, and was handed on to him by Miru the ruddy,...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

In the drawing-room after dinner the girl found a chance to approach Owen’s late preceptor. She stood before him a moment, smiling while she opened and shut her fan, and then said abruptly, raising her strange eyes: 'I know what you've come for, but...
VII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

I Got hold of Mrs Grose as soon after this as I could; and I can give no intelligible account of how I fought out the interval. Yet I still hear myself cry as I fairly threw myself into her arms: They...
Remarkable Incident of Doctor Lanyon
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Time ran on; thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the death of Sir Danvers was resented as a public injury; but Mr Hyde had disappeared out of the ken of the police as though he had never existed. Much of his past...
Doctor Lanyon’s Narrative
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

On the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the evening delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of my colleague and old school-companion, Henry Jekyll. I was a good deal surprised by this; for we were by no means...
The Preparation
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When the mail got successfully to Dover, in the course of the forenoon, the head drawer at the Royal George Hotel* opened the coach-door as his custom was. He did it with some flourish of ceremony, for a mail journey from London...
The Wine-Shop
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just...
A Disappointment
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Attorney-General had to inform the jury, that the prisoner before them, though young in years, was old in the treasonable practices which claimed the forfeit of his life. That this correspondence with the public enemy was not a correspondence...
Monseigneur In Town
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Monseigneur was in his inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to the crowd of worshippers in the suite of...
The Fellow of No Delicacy
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

If Sydney Carton ever shone anywhere, he certainly never shone in the house of Doctor Manette. He had been there often, during a whole year, and had always been the same moody and morose lounger there. When he cared to talk, he talked well;...
Echoing Footsteps
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A wonderful corner for echoes, it has been remarked, that corner where the Doctor lived. Ever busily winding the golden thread which bound her husband, and her father, and herself, and her old directress and companion, in a life of quiet bliss, Lucie...
Fire Rises
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where the mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the highway such morsels of bread as might serve for patches to hold his poor ignorant soul...
In Secret
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The traveller fared slowly on his way, who fared towards Paris from England in the autumn* of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. More than enough of bad roads, bad equipages, and bad horses, he would have encountered to delay...
The Shadow
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

One of the first considerations which arose in the business mind of Mr. Lorry when business hours came round, was this:—that he had no right to imperil Tellson’s by sheltering the wife of an emigrant prisoner under the Bank roof. His own possessions, safety,...
Darkness
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Sydney
Carton paused in the street, not quite decided where to go. “At Tellson’s banking-house at nine,” he said, with a musing face. “Shall I do well, in the mean time, to show myself? I think so. It is best that these people should...
Fifty-Two
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In the black prison of the Conciergerie, the doomed of the day awaited their fate. They were in number as the weeks of the year. Fifty-two were to roll that afternoon* on the life-tide of the city to the boundless everlasting sea....
The Knitting Done
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In that same juncture of time when the Fifty-Two awaited their fate, Madame Defarge held darkly ominous council with The Vengeance and Jacques Three of the Revolutionary Jury. Not in the wine-shop did Madame Defarge confer with these ministers, but in the shed of...
A Discovery and a Chase
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The supper was ready laid, the chairs were drawn round the table, bottles, jugs and glasses were arranged upon the sideboard, and every thing betokened the approach of the most convivial period in the whole four and twenty hours.

“Where’s Rachael?” said Mr. Wardle.

“Aye,...
Chapter II: The Man from Somewhere
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. Veneering* were bran-new people in a bran-new house in a bran-new quarter of London, Everything about the Veneerings was spick and span new. All their furniture was new, all their friends were new, all their servants were new, their...
Chapter V: Boffin’s Bower
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Over against a London house, a corner house not far from Cavendish Square, a man with a wooden leg had sat for some years, with his remaining foot in a basket in cold weather, picking up a living on this wise:—Every morning at eight...
Chapter X: A Marriage Contract
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There is excitement in the Veneering mansion. The mature young lady is going to be married (powder and all) to the mature young gentleman, and she is to be married from the Veneering house, and the Veneerings are to give the break-fast. The Analytical,...
Chapter XVI: Minders and Reminders
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Secretary lost no time in getting to work, and his vigilance and method soon set their mark on the Golden Dustman’s affairs. His earnestness in determining to understand the length and breadth and depth of every piece of work submitted to him by...
Chapter III: A Piece of Work
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Britannia, sitting meditating one fine day (perhaps in the attitude in which she is represented on the copper coinage), discovers all of a sudden that she wants Veneering in Parliament. It occurs to her that Veneering is a ‘representative man’—which cannot in these times...
Chapter XI: Some Affairs of the Heart
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Little Miss Peecher, from her little official dwelling-house, with its little windows like the eyes in needles, and its little doors like the covers of school-books, was very observant indeed of the object of her quiet affections. Love, though said to be afflicted with...
Chapter VIII: The End of a Long Journey
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The train of carts and horses came and went all day from dawn to nightfall, making little or no daily impression on the heap of ashes, though, as the days passed on, the heap was seen to be slowly melting. My lords and gentlemen...
Chapter X: Scouts Out
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘And so, Miss Wren,’ said Mr. Eugene Wrayburn, ‘I cannot persuade you to dress me a doll?’

‘No,’ replied Miss Wren, snappishly; ‘if you want one, go and buy one at the shop.’

‘And my charming young goddaughter,’ said Mr. Wrayburn, plaintively, ‘down in...
Chapter XII: Meaning Mischief
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Up came the sun, streaming all over London, and in its glorious impartiality even condescending to make prismatic sparkles in the whiskers of Mr. Alfred Lammle as he sat at breakfast. In need of some brightening from without was Mr. Alfred Lammle, for he...
Chapter XIII: Give a Dog a Bad Name, and Hang Him
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Fascination FLEDGEBY, left alone in the counting-house, strolled about with his hat on one side, whistling, and investigating the drawers, and prying here and there for any small evidences of his being cheated, but could find none. ‘Not his merit that he don’t cheat...
Chapter I: Setting Traps
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Plashwater Weir Mill Lock looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green trees, and passed like a smooth shadow over the river, and like a smoother shadow over the yielding grass....
Chapter V: Concerning the Mendicant’s Bride
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The impressive gloom with which Mrs. Wilfer received her husband on his return from the wedding, knocked so hard at the door of the cherubic conscience, and likewise so impaired the firmness of the cherubic legs, that the culprit’s tottering condition of mind and...
Chapter VIII: A Few Grains of Pepper
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The dolls’ dressmaker went no more to the business-premises of Pubsey and Co. in Saint Mary Axe, after chance had disclosed to her (as she supposed) the flinty and hypocritical character of Mr. Riah. She often moralised over her work on the tricks and...
Chapter XII: The Passing Shadow
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The winds and tides rose and fell a certain number of times, the earth moved round the sun a certain number of times, the ship upon the ocean made her voyage safely, and brought a baby Bella home. Then who so blest and happy...
Chapter XIII: Showing how the Golden Dustman Helped to Scatter Dust
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In all the first bewilderment of her wonder, the most bewilderingly wonderful thing to Bella was the shining countenance of Mr. Boffin. That his wife should be joyous, open-hearted, and genial, or that her face should express every quality that was large and trusting,...
CHAPTER THE LAST: The Voice of Society
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Behoves Mortimer Lightwood, therefore, to answer a dinner card from Mr. and Mrs. Veneering, requesting the honour, and to signify that Mr. Mortimer Lightwood will be happy to have the other honour. The Veneerings have been, as usual, indefatigably dealing dinner cards to Society,...
POSTSCRIPT: In lieu of Preface
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When I devised this story, I foresaw the likelihood that a class of readers and commentators would suppose that I was at great pains to conceal exactly what I was at great pains to suggest:* namely, that Mr. John Harmon was not...
Chapter III relates how oliver twist was very near getting a place, which would not have been a sinecure
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room to which he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board. It appears, at...
Chapter IV oliver, being offered another place, makes his first entry into public life
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In great families: when an advantageous place cannot be obtained, either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy,* for the young man who is growing up: it is a very general custom to send him to sea. The board, in imitation of so...
Chapter V oliver mingles with new associates. going to a funeral for the first time, he forms an unfavourable notion of his master’s business
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Oliver, being left to himself in the undertaker’s shop, set the lamp down on a workman’s bench, and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread, which many people a good deal older than he will be at no...
Chapter VII oliver continues refractory
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Noah Claypole ran along the streets at his swiftest pace; and paused not once for breath, until he reached the workhouse-gate. Having rested here, for a minute or so, to collect a good burst of sobs and an imposing show of tears and terror,...
Chapter IX containing further particulars concerning the pleasant old gentleman, and his hopeful pupils
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was late next morning when Oliver awoke, from a sound, long sleep. There was no other person in the room but the old Jew; who was boiling some coffee in a saucepan for breakfast; and whistling softly to himself as he stirred it...
Chapter XIV comprising further particulars of oliver’s stay at mr. brownlow’s. with the remarkable prediction which one mr. grimwig uttered concerning him, when he went out on an errand
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Oliver soon recovered from the fainting fit into which Mr. Brownlow’s abrupt exclamation had thrown him; and the subject of the picture was carefully avoided, both by the old gentleman and Mrs. Bedwin, in the conversation that ensued: which indeed bore no reference to...
Chapter XXII the burglary
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Hallo!’ cried a loud, hoarse voice, as soon as they had set foot in the passage.

‘Don’t make such a row,’ said Sykes, bolting the door. ‘Shew a glim, Toby.’

‘Aha! my pal!’ cried the same voice; ‘a glim, Barney, a glim! Shew...
Chapter XXIII which contains the substance of a pleasant conversation between mr. bumble and a lady; and shews that even a beadle may be susceptible on some points
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The night was bitter cold. The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a hard thick crust; so that only the heaps that had drifted into by-ways and corners were affected by the sharp wind that howled abroad: which, as if expending increased fury...
Chapter XXIV treats of a very poor subject. but is a short one; and may be found of importance in this history
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was no unfit messenger of death, that had disturbed the quiet of the matron’s room. Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; and her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of some wild pencil,...
Chapter XXV wherein this history reverts to mr. fagin and company
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

While these things were passing in the country workhouse, Mr. Fagin sat in the old den—the same from which Oliver had been removed by the girl—brooding over a dull, smoky fire. He held a pair of bellows upon his knee, with which he had...
Chapter XXXII of the happy life oliver began to lead with his kind friends
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Oliver’s ailings were neither slight nor few. In addition to the pain and delay attendant on a broken limb, his exposure to the wet and cold had brought on fever and ague*: which hung about him for many weeks, and...
Chapter XXXVII in which the reader may perceive a contrast, not uncommon in matrimonial cases
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Bumble sat in the workhouse parlour, with his eyes moodily fixed on the cheerless grate, whence, as it was summer time, no brighter gleam proceeded, than the reflection of certain sickly rays of the sun, which were sent back from its cold and...
Chapter XLI containing fresh discoveries, and shewing that surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Her situation was, indeed, one of no common trial and difficulty. While she felt the most eager and burning desire to penetrate the mystery in which Oliver’s history was enveloped, she could not but hold sacred the confidence which the miserable woman...
Chapter XLV noah claypole is employed by fagin on a secret mission
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who, after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.

‘Bolter,’ said the Jew, drawing up a chair...
Chapter L the pursuit and escape
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Near to that part of the Thames on which the church at Rotherhithe* abuts, where the buildings on the banks are dirtiest and the vessels on the river blackest with the dust of colliers* and the smoke of...
Chapter LIII and last
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The fortunes of those who have figured in this tale, are nearly closed. The little that remains to their historian to relate, is told in few and simple words.

Before three months passed, Rose Fleming and Harry Maylie were married, in the village church which...
Chapter XII The Old Woman
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Old Stephen descended the two white steps, shutting the black door with the brazen door-plate, by the aid of the brazen full-stop, to which he gave a parting polish with the sleeve of his coat, observing that his hot hand clouded it. He crossed...
Chapter VI Paul’s Second Deprivation
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Polly was beset by so many misgivings in the morning, that but for the incessant promptings of her black-eyed companion, she would have abandoned all thoughts of the expedition, and formally petitioned for leave to see number one hundred and forty-seven, under the awful...
Chapter X Containing The Sequel of the Midshipman’s Disaster
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Major
Bagstock, after long and frequent observation of Paul, across Princess’s Place, through his double-barrelled opera glass; and after receiving many minute reports, daily, weekly, and monthly, on that subject, from the Native who kept himself in constant communication with Miss Tox’s maid for...
Chapter XIII Shipping Intelligence and Office Business
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Dombey’s offices were in a court where there was an old-established stall of choice fruit at the corner: where perambulating merchants, of both sexes, offered for sale at any time between the hours of ten and five, slippers, pocket-books, sponges, dogs’...
Chapter XVIII Father and Daughter
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There is a hush through Mr. Dombey’s house. Servants gliding up and down stairs rustle but make no sound of footsteps. They talk together constantly, and sit long at meals, making much of their meat and drink, and enjoying themselves after a grim unholy...
Chapter XXI New Faces
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Major, more blue-faced and staring—more over-ripe, as it were, than ever—and giving vent, every now and then, to one of the horse’s coughs, not so much of necessity as in a spontaneous explosion of importance, walked arm-in-arm with Mr. Dombey up the sunny...
Chapter XXIV The Study of a Loving Heart
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Sir
Barnet and Lady Skettles, very good people, resided in a pretty villa at Fulham, on the banks of the Thames; which was one of the most desirable residences in the world when a rowing-match happened to be going past, but had its little...
Chapter XXXI The Wedding
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Dawn, with its passionless blank face, steals shivering to the church beneath which lies the dust of little Paul and his mother, and looks in at the windows. It is cold and dark. Night crouches yet, upon the pavement, and broods, sombre and heavy,...
Chapter XXXV The Happy Pair
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The dark blot on the street is gone. Mr. Dombey’s mansion, if it be a gap among the other houses any longer, is only so because it is not to be vied with in its brightness, and haughtily casts them off. The saying is,...
Chapter XXXVII More Warnings than One
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Florence, Edith, and Mrs. Skewton, were together next day, and the carriage was waiting at the door to take them out. For Cleopatra had her galley* again now, and Withers, no longer the Wan, stood upright in a pigeon-breasted jacket and military...
Chapter XLV The Trusty Agent
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Edith went out alone that day, and returned home early. It was but a few minutes after ten o’clock, when her carriage rolled along the street in which she lived.

There was the same enforced composure on her face, that there had been when she...
Chapter XLVI Recognizant and Reflective
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Among sundry minor alterations in Mr. Carker’s life and habits that began to take place at this time, none was more remarkable than the extraordinary diligence with which he applied himself to business, and the closeness with which he investigated every detail that the...
Chapter XLVIII The Flight of Florence
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In the wildness of her sorrow, shame, and terror, the forlorn girl hurried through the sunshine of a bright morning, as if it were the darkness of a winter night. Wringing her hands and weeping bitterly, insensible to everything but the deep wound in...
Chapter LII Secret Intelligence
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Good Mrs. Brown and her daughter Alice, kept silent company together, in their own dwelling. It was early in the evening, and late in the spring. But a few days had elapsed since Mr. Dombey had told Major Bagstock of his singular intelligence, singularly...
Chapter LIV The Fugitives
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The time, an hour short of midnight; the place, a French apartment, comprising some half-dozen rooms;—a dull cold hall or corridor, a dining-room, a drawing-room, a bedchamber, and an inner drawing-room, or boudoir, smaller and more retired than the rest. All these shut in...
Chapter LV Rob the Grinder Loses his Place
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The porter at the iron gate which shut the court-yard from the street, had left the little wicket of his house open, and was gone away; no doubt to mingle in the distant noise at the door of the great staircase. Lifting the latch...
Chapter LX Chiefly Matrimonial
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The grand half-yearly festival holden by Doctor and Mrs. Blimber, on which occasion they requested the pleasure of the company of every young gentleman pursuing his studies in that genteel establishment, at an early party, when the hour was half-past seven o’clock, and when...
Chapter VI I Enlarge My Circle of Acquaintance
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Had led this life about a month, when the man with the wooden leg began to stump about with a mop and a bucket of water, from which I inferred that preparations were making to receive Mr. Creakle and the boys. I...
Chapter VII My “First Half” at Salem House
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

School began in earnest next day. A profound impression was made upon me, I remember, by the roar of voices in the schoolroom suddenly becoming hushed as death when Mr. Creakle entered after breakfast, and stood in the doorway looking round upon us like...
Chapter VIII My Holidays. Especially One Happy Afternoon
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When we arrived before day at the inn where the mail stopped, which was not the inn where my friend the waiter lived, I was shown up to a nice little bedroom, with Dolphin painted on the door. Very cold I was,...
Chapter IX I Have A Memorable Birthday
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Pass over all that happened at school, until the anniversary of my birthday came round in March. Except that Steerforth was more to be admired than ever, I remember nothing. He was going away at the end of the half-year, if not...
Chapter XI I Begin Life On My Own Account, And Don’t Like It
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything; but it is matter of some surprise to me, even now, that I can have been so easily thrown away at such an age....
Chapter XIV My Aunt Makes Up Her Mind About Me
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

On going down in the morning, I found my aunt musing so profoundly over the breakfast-table, with her elbow on the tray, that the contents of the urn had overflowed the teapot and were laying the whole table-cloth under water, when my entrance put...
Chapter XV I Make Another Beginning
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Dick and I soon became the best of friends, and very often, when his day’s work was done, went out together to fly the great kite. Every day of his life he had a long sitting at the Memorial, which never...
Chapter XVII Somebody Turns Up
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It has not occurred to me to mention Peggotty since I ran away; but, of course, I wrote her a letter almost as soon as I was housed at Dover, and another and a longer letter, containing all particulars fully related, when my aunt...
Chapter XXI Little Em’ly
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There was a servant in that house, a man who, I understood, was usually with Steerforth, and had come into his service at the University, who was in appearance a pattern of respectability. I believe there never existed in his station a more respectable-looking...
Chapter XXIV My First Dissipation
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a wonderfully fine thing to have that lofty castle to myself, and to feel, when I shut my outer door, like Robinson Crusoe, when he had got into his fortification, and pulled his ladder up after him. It was a wonderfully fine...
Chapter XXVI I Fall Into Captivity
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Saw no more of Uriah Heep, until the day when Agnes left town. I was at the coach-office to take leave of her and see her go; and there was he, returning to Canterbury by the same conveyance. It was some small...
Chapter XXVIII Mr. Micawber’s Gauntlet
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Until the day arrived on which I was to entertain my newly-found old friends, I lived principally on Dora and coffee. In my love-lorn condition, my appetite languished; and I was glad of it, for I felt as though it would have been an...
Chapter XXXII The Beginning of A Long Journey
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of...
Chapter XXXVIII A Dissolution of Partnership
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary Debates, to cool. It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately, and one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance I may honestly admire....
Chapter XLIV Our Housekeeping
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a strange condition of things, the honeymoon being over, and the bridesmaids gone home, when I found myself sitting down in my own small house with Dora; quite thrown out of employment, as I may say, in respect of the delicious old...
Chapter LVIII Absence
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

I went away from England; not knowing, even then, how great the shock was, that I...
Chapter LIX Return
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Landed in London on a wintry autumn evening. It was dark and raining, and I saw more fog and mud in a minute than I had seen in a year. I walked from the Custom House to the Monument before I found...
“To David Copperfield, Esquire, “The Eminent Author.
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“My
Dear
Sir,

“Years have elapsed, since I had an opportunity of ocularly perusing the lineaments, now familiar to the imaginations of a considerable portion of the civilised world.

“But, my dear sir, though estranged (by the force of circumstances over which...
Third Quarter
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead. Monsters uncouth and wild, arise in premature, imperfect resurrection; the several parts and shapes of different things are joined and...
Chapter I
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Everybody said so.

Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such...
Chapter Thirteen Esther’s Narrative
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

We held many consultations about what Richard was to be; first, without Mr Jarndyce, as he had requested, and afterwards with him; but it was a long time before we seemed to make progress. Richard said he was ready for anything. When Mr Jamdyce...
Chapter Fifteen Bell Yard
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

While we were in London, Mr Jarndyce was constantly beset by the crowd of exciteable ladies and gentlemen whose proceedings had so much astonished us. Mr Quale, who presented himself soon after our arrival, was in all such excitements. He seemed to project those...
Chapter Nineteen Moving On
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It is the long vacation in the regions of Chancery Lane. The good ships Law and Equity, those teak-built, copper-bottomed, iron-fastened, brazened-faced, and not by any means fast-sailing Clippers, are laid up in ordinary.* The Flying Dutchman,* with a crew...
Chapter Twenty-Four An Appeal Case
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

As soon as Richard and I had held the conversation, of which I have given an account, Richard communicated the state of his mind to Mr Jarndyce. I doubt if my guardian were altogether taken by surprise, when he received the representation; though it...
Chapter Thirty Esther’s Narrative
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Richard had been gone away some time, when a visitor came to pass a few days with us. It was an elderly lady. It was Mrs Woodcourt, who, having come from Wales to stay with Mrs Bayham Badger, and having written to my guardian,...
Chapter Thirty-Three Interlopers
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Now do those two gentlemen not very neat about the cuffs and buttons who attended the last Coroner’s Inquest at the Sol’s Arms, reappear in the precincts with surprising swiftness (being, in fact, breathlessly fetched by the active and intelligent beadle), and institute perquisitions...
Chapter Thirty-Eight A Struggle
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When our time came for returning to Bleak House again, we were punctual to the day, and were received with an overpowering welcome. I was perfectly restored to health and strength; and finding my housekeeping keys laid ready for me in my room, rang...
Chapter Forty National and Domestic
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

England has been in a dreadful state for some weeks. Lord Coodle would go out, Sir Thomas Doodle wouldn’t come in, and there being nobody in Great Britain (to speak of) except Coodle and Doodle, there has been no Government. It is a mercy...
Chapter Fifty Esther’s Narrative
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It happened that when I came home from Deal, I found a note from Caddy Jellyby (as we always continued to call her), informing me that her health, which had been for some time very delicate, was worse, and that she would be more...
Chapter Fifty-Three The Track
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr Bucket and his fat forefinger are much in consultation together under existing circumstances. When Mr Bucket has a matter of this pressing interest under his consideration, the fat forefinger seems to rise to the dignity of a familiar demon. He puts it to...
Chapter Fifty-Six Pursuit
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Impassive, as behoves its high breeding, the Dedlock town-house stares at the other houses in the street of dismal grandeur, and gives no outward sign of anything going wrong within. Carriages rattle, doors are battered at, the world exchanges calls; ancient charmers with skeleton...
Chapter Fifty-Seven Esther’s Narrative
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I had gone to bed and fallen asleep, when my guardian knocked at the door of my room and begged me to get up directly. On my hurrying to speak to him and learn what had happened, he told me, after a word or...
Chapter Sixty-Two Another Discovery
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I had not the courage to see any one that night. I had not even the courage to see myself, for I was afraid that my tears might a little reproach me. I went up to my room in the dark, and prayed in...
Chapter Sixty-Three Steel and Iron
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

George’s shooting-gallery is to let, and the stock is sold off, and George himself is at Chesney Wold, attending on Sir Leicester in his rides, and riding very near his bridle-rein, because of the uncertain hand with which he guides his horse. But not...
Chapter 3
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

How, for instance, do people who are able to take revenge and to stand up for themselves in general do this? You see, they are so overwhelmed by, let us suppose, a sense of revenge, that for a time this feeling completely pervades their whole...
Chapter 5
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

But is it really possible, can it really be possible, for a person to feel respect for himself when he has attempted to find pleasure in the actual feeling of self-humiliation? I am not saying this out of some kind of sickly repentance. Indeed,...
Chapter 1
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

At that time I was only twenty-four years old. Even then my life was gloomy, disordered, and insanely lonely. I did not associate with anyone, even avoided talking, and retreated further and further into my corner. At work, at the office, I even tried...
Chapter 3
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

I Found two more of my school-fellows with him. They seemed to be discussing some important matter. None of them paid much attention at all to my arrival, which was actually a bit odd, because I hadn’t seen them for years. Obviously they...
Chapter 4
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Even the day before, I had known that I would be the first to arrive. But it was not a question of who got there first.

Not only was none of them there, but I was barely able to find our room. The table was...
Chapter 5
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

‘So this is it, this is it, this is an encounter with reality’, I muttered, rushing headlong down the stairs. ‘This, you know, is no longer the Pope leaving Rome and setting off for Brazil; this is not a ball on Lake Como!’...

‘You...
Chapter 7
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

‘Oh, that’s enough, Liza, what can there be that’s bookish about it when I myself find it horribly alien? Or maybe it isn’t alien. All this has only just awoken in my heart … Surely, surely you yourself find it revolting here? No,...
Chapter 8
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

However, it took me some time until I was prepared to admit this truth. On waking up the following morning after a few hours of deep, leaden sleep and instantly putting my mind to all that had happened the previous day, I was really...