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Chapter IX
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Always, after someone’s death, a feeling akin to stupefaction sets in, so impossible is it to grasp the reality of this nothingness, to resign oneself to believing in it. But when Charles noticed her immobility, he flung himself upon her, crying:

‘Goodbye, goodbye!’

Homais and...
The Communist Manifesto
Authors: Marx Karl , Engels Friedrich
Published: December 2020

The Communist Manifesto is one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda ever written. It is a summary of the whole Marxist vision of history and is the foundation document of the Marxist movement. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were aged 29 and 27 respectively when The Communist Manifesto was published on the eve of the 1848 revolutions. The authors had been close collaborators since 1844, and the Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the world-view they had evolved during their hectic intellectual and political involvement of the previous few years. This new edition is critically and textually up to date, and includes the Prefaces written by Marx and Engels subsequent to the 1848 edition.
A Bosom Friend
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found Queequeg there quite alone; he having left the Chapel before the benediction some time. He was sitting on a bench before the fire, with his feet on the stove hearth, and in one...
The Quarter-Deck
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

(Enter Ahab: Then, all.)

It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one morning shortly after breakfast, Ahab, as was his wont, ascended the cabin-gangway to the deck. There most sea-captains usually walk at that hour, as country gentlemen,...
Sunset
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The cabin; by the stern windows; Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out.

I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where’er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.

Yonder, by the...
Brit
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Steering north-eastward from the Crozetts, we fell in with vast meadows of brit, the minute, yellow substance, upon which the Right Whale largely feeds. For leagues and leagues it undulated round us, so that we seemed to be sailing through boundless fields of ripe...
Stubb’s Supper
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Stubb’s whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod. And now, as we eighteen men with our thirty-six arms, and...
cutting in
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

It was a Saturday night, and such a Sabbath as followed! Ex officio professors of Sabbath breaking are all whalemen. The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher. You would have thought we were offering up...
The Praire
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

To scan the lines of his face, or feel the bumps on the head of this Leviathan; this is a thing which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has as yet undertaken. Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized the...
Schools and Schoolmasters
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The previous chapter gave account of an immense body or herd of Sperm Whales, and there was also then given the probable cause inducing those vast aggregations.

Now, though such great bodies are at times encountered, yet, as must have been seen, even at...
The Castaway
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

It was but some few days after encountering the Frenchman, that a most significant event befell the most insignificant of the Pequod’s crew; an event most lamentable; and which ended in providing the sometimes madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever...
Measurement of the Whale’s Skeleton
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

In the first place, I wish to lay before you a particular, plain statement, touching the living bulk of this leviathan, whose skeleton we are briefly to exhibit. Such a statement may prove useful here.

According to a careful calculation I have made, and which...
Ahab’s Leg
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The precipitating manner in which Captain Ahab had quitted the Samuel Enderby of London, had not been unattended with some small violence to his own person. He had lighted with such energy upon a thwart of his boat that his ivory leg had received...
The Pequod Meets the Bachelor
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

And jolly enough were the sights and the sounds that came bearing down before the wind, some few weeks after Ahab’s harpoon had been welded.

It was a Nantucket ship, the Bachelor, which had just wedged in her last cask of oil, and bolted down...
The Candles
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands. So, too, it is, that in these...
Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The Main-top-sail yard. — Tashtego passing new lashings around it

‘Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. What’s the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We don’t want thunder; we want rum; give us a glass of rum....
The Log and Line
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

While now the fated Pequod had been so long afloat this voyage, the log and line had but very seldom been in use. Owing to a confident reliance upon other means of determining the vessel’s place, some merchantmen, and many whalemen, especially when cruising,...
The pit and the pendulum
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Impia tortorum longas hic turba furores

Sanguinis innocui, non satiata, aluit.

Sospitc nunc patriâ, fracto nunc funeris antro,

Mors ubi dira fuit, vita salusque patent.

[Quatrain composed for the gates of a market to be erected upon the site of the Jacobin club house at...
The cask of amontillado
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

The, thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At...
Chapter XI
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never sought to free himself from it. He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the...
Chapter XX
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

It was a lovely night, so warm that he threw his coat over his arm, and did not even put his silk scarf round his throat. As he strolled home, smoking his cigarette, two young men in evening dress passed him. He heard one...
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here – ‘Sir Edmund Orme’, ‘Owen Wingrave’, and ‘The Friends of the Friends’ – ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave, or victims of the governess's ‘infernal imagination’, which torments but also entrals her? ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply, ‘the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read’? The texts are those of the New York Edition, with a new Introduction and Notes.
Sir Edmund Orme
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The Statement* appears to have been written, though the fragment is undated, long after the death of his wife, whom I take to have been one of the persons referred to. There is however nothing in the strange story to establish this point,...
XVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

I Had so perfectly expected the return of the others to be marked by a demonstration that I was freshly upset at having to find them merely dumb and discreet about my desertion. Instead of gaily denouncing and caressing me they made no allusion...
Search for Mr Hyde
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

That evening, Mr Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner without relish. It was his custom of a Sunday, when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a volume of some dry divinity...
Incident of the Letter
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

It was late in the afternoon, when Mr Utterson found his way to Dr Jekyll’s door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and carried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had once been a garden, to the building...
Showing how Mr. Samuel Weller got into difficulties
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In a lofty room, badly lighted and worse ventilated, situate in Portugal-street, Lincoln’s Inn-fields, there sit nearly the whole year round, one, two, three, or four gentlemen in wigs, as the case may be, with little writing desks before them, constructed after the fashion...
Descriptive of an affecting Interview between Mr. Samuel Weller and a Family Party. Mr. Pickwick makes a Tour of the diminutive World he inhabits, and resolves to mix with it in future as little as possible
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A few mornings after his incarceration, Mr. Samuel Weller, having arranged his master’s room with all possible care, and seen him comfortably seated over his books and papers, withdrew to employ himself for an hour or two to come, as he best could....
Is chiefly devoted to matters of business, and the temporal Advantage of Dodson and Fogg.—Mr. Winkle reappears under extraordinary circumstances; and Mr. Pickwick’s Benevolence proves stronger than his Obstinacy
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Job Trotter, abating nothing of his speed, ran up Holborn, sometimes in the middle of the road, sometimes on the pavement, and sometimes in the gutter, as the chances of getting along varied with the press of men, women, children, and coaches, in each...
In which the Pickwick Club is finally dissolved, and everything concluded to the satisfaction of everybody
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

For a whole week after the happy arrival of Mr. Winkle from Birmingham, Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were from home all day long, only returning just in time for dinner, and then wearing an air of mystery and importance quite foreign to their...
Hard Times
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Hard Times is Dickens’s shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author’s working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel.
Chapter VI Sleary’d Horsemanship
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The name of the public-house was the Pegasus’s Arms.* The Pegasus’s legs might have been more to the purpose; but, underneath the winged horse upon the sign-board, The Pegasus’s Arms was inscribed in Roman letters. Beneath that inscription again, in a flowing...
Chapter XIII Rachael
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A Candle faintly burned in the window, to which the black ladder had often been raised for the sliding away of all that was most precious in this world to a striving wife and a brood of hungry babies; and Stephen added to...
Chapter XV Father and Daughter
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Although Mr. Gradgrind did not take after Blue Beard,* his room was quite a blue chamber in its abundance of blue books. Whatever they could prove (which is usually anything you like), they proved there, in an army constantly strengthening by the...
Chapter I Another Thing Needful
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Louisa awoke from a torpor, and her eyes languidly opened on her old bed at home, and her old room. It seemed, at first, as if all that had happened since the days when these objects were familiar to her were the shadows of...
Dombey and Son
Authors: Dickens Charles , Walder Dennis
Published: December 2020

Dombey and Son ... Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light.' The hopes of Mr Dombey for the future of his shipping firm are centred on his delicate son Paul, and Florence, his devoted daughter, is unloved and neglected. When the firm faces ruin, and Dombey's second marriage ends in disaster, only Florence has the strength and humanity to save her father from desolate solitude. This new edition contains Dickens's prefaces, his working plans, and all the original illustrations by ‘Phiz’. The text is that of the definitive Clarendon edition. It has been supplemented by a wide-ranging Introduction, highlighting Dickens's engagement with his times, and the touching exploration of family relationships which give the novel added depth and relevance.
Chapter XII Paul’s Education
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

After the lapse of some minutes, which appeared an immense time to little Paul Dombey on the table, Doctor Blimber came back. The Doctor’s walk was stately, and calculated to impress the juvenile mind with solemn feelings. It was a sort of march; but...
Chapter XIV Paul Grows more and more Old-Fashioned, and Goes Home for the Holidays
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When the Midsummer vacation approached, no indecent manifestations of joy were exhibited by the leaden-eyed young gentlemen assembled at Doctor Blimber’s. Any such violent expression as “breaking up,” would have been quite inapplicable to that polite establishment. The young gentlemen oozed away, semi-annually, to...
Chapter XXIII Florence Solitary, and the Midshipman Mysterious
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Florence lived alone in the great dreary house, and day succeeded day, and still she lived alone; and the blank walls looked down upon her with a vacant stare, as if they had a Gorgon-like* mind to stare her youth and beauty...
Chapter XXXIX Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, Mariner
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Time, sure of foot and strong of will, had so pressed onward, that the year enjoined by the old Instrument Maker, as the term during which his friend should refrain from opening the sealed packet accompanying the letter he had left for him, was...
Chapter LVIII After a Lapse
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The sea had ebbed and flowed, through a whole year. Through a whole year, the winds and clouds had come and gone; the ceaseless work of Time had been performed, in storm and sunshine. Through a whole year, the tides of human chance and...
Chapter LIX Retribution
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Changes have come again upon the great house in the long dull street, once the scene of Florence’s childhood and loneliness. It is a great house still, proof against wind and weather, without breaches in the roof, or shattered windows, or dilapidated walls; but...
Stave II
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He was endeavouring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighbouring church...
Chirp the Second
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Caleb Plummer and his Blind Daughter lived all alone by themselves, as the Story-books say—and my blessing, with yours to back it I hope, on the Story-books, for saying anything in this workaday world!—Caleb Plummer and his Blind Daughter lived all alone by themselves,...
Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor , Jones Malcolm
Published: December 2020

Notes from the Underground (1864) is one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it examines the important political and philosophical questions that were current in Russia and Europe at the time. The Gambler (1866), set in the fictional town of Roulettenberg, explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of the author's own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama. This new translation includes a full editorial apparatus.
Chapter 10
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

You believe in the Crystal Palace, eternally indestructible, that is, in something at which you cannot secretly stick out your tongue, or make gestures of defiance. But perhaps the reason I fear this Crystal Palace is that it is crystal and that it is...
Chapter 1
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

I Have at last returned after my two-week absence. Our group has already been in Roulettenburg for three days. Goodness me, I thought they would be awaiting my return with impatience, but I was mistaken. The General looked at me with an independent...
Chapter 7
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The next morning I called for the waiter and told him to make my bill out separately. My room was not really expensive enough to give me cause for great alarm, or to leave the hotel altogether. I had sixteen gold friedrichs and there...
14
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

‘I’ve no wit, Nastasya Filippovna, that’s why I chatter so much!’ cried Ferdischenko as he commenced his story. ‘If I had as much wit as Afanasy Ivanovich or Ivan Petrovich, I’d have just sat here today and not said a word, like Afanasy...
5
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Ippolit, who had dropped off to sleep on the sofa towards the end of Lebedev’s oration, now suddenly awoke as if somebody had nudged him in the ribs; he shivered, half-raised himself, looked about him, and went pale; he gazed around half-fearfully, but his...
3
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The commotion over the general would have come to nothing at any other time. There had been similar stupid incidents in the past, though not very often; as a rule he was a very meek person with genuinely virtuous inclinations. A hundred times, perhaps,...
10
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The prince, however, did not die before his wedding, awake or ‘in his sleep’ as he had predicted to Radomsky. Perhaps he really did sleep poorly and have bad dreams; but during the day, in the company of other people, he appeared kindly and...
The Hill of Illusion
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

He. Tell your jhampanis* not to hurry so, dear. They forget I’m fresh...
On the City Wall
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Lalun is a member of the most ancient profession in the world.* Lilith...
Chapter 7
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

‘Git up! what you ’bout!’

I opened my eyes and looked around, trying to make out where I was. It was after sun-up, and I had been sound asleep. Pap was standing over me, looking sour—and sick, too. He says—

‘What you doin’ with...
Chapter 10
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

After breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess out how he come to be killed, but Jim didn’t want to. He said it would fetch bad luck; and besides, he said, he might come and ha’nt us; he said a...
Chapter 13
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Well, I catched my breath and most fainted. Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that! But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering. We’d got to find that boat, now—had to have it for ourselves. So we went...
Chapter 22
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

They swarmed up the street towards Sherburn’s house, a-whooping and yelling and raging like Injuns, and everything had to clear the way or get run over and tromped to mush, and it was awful to see. Children was heeling it ahead of the mob,...
Chapter 31
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

We dasn’t stop again at any town, for days and days; kept right along down the river. We was down south in the warm weather, now, and a mighty long ways from home. We begun to come to trees with Spanish moss on them,...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

After dinner all the gang turned out to hunt for turtle eggs on the bar. They went about poking sticks into the sand, and when they found a soft place they went down on their knees and dug with their hands. Sometimes they would...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. This desire suddenly came upon Tom one day. He sallied out to find Joe Harper, but failed of success. Next...
Chapter XLII Finis
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Man cannot prophesy. Love is no oracle. Fear sometimes imagines a vain thing.* Those years of absence! How had I sickened over their anticipation! The woe they must bring seemed certain as death. I knew the nature of their course: I never had...
Chapter IX Isidore
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

My time was now well and profitably filled up. What with teaching others and studying closely myself, I had hardly a spare moment. It was pleasant. I felt I was getting on; not lying the stagnant prey of mould and rust, but polishing my faculties...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

And Pelet himself? How did I continue to like him? Oh extremely well! Nothing could be more smooth, gentlemanlike and even friendly than his demeanour to me. I had to endure from him neither cold neglect, irritating interference nor pretentious assumption of superiority—I fear,...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

If I was punctual in quitting Mdlle. Reuter’s domicile, I was at least equally punctual in arriving there; I came the next day at five minutes before two, and on reaching the school-room door, before I opened it, I heard a rapid, gabbling sound—which...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In the course of another fortnight I had seen sufficient of Frances Evans Henri to enable me to form a more definite opinion of her character. I found her possessed in a somewhat remarkable degree of at least two good points, viz. Perseverance and...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In two months more Frances had fulfilled the time of mourning for her Aunt. One January Morning—the first of the New Year holiday— I went in a fiacre, accompanied only by M. Vandenhuten, to the Rue Notre Dame aux Neiges, and having alighted alone...
I
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

When the blind are operated on for the restoration of sight, the same succouring hand which has opened to them the visible world, immediately shuts out the bright prospect again, for a time. A bandage is passed over the eyes, lest in the first...
III
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The morning which was to decide all between my father and me, the morning on whose event hung the future of my home life, was the brightest and loveliest that my eyes ever looked on. A cloudless sky, a soft air, sunshine so joyous and...
VI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

It was still early in the morning, when a loud knock sounded at the house-door, and I heard the landlady calling to the servant: ‘A gentleman to see the gentleman who came in last night.’ The moment the words reached me, my thoughts recurred to...
VII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The next morning, Ralph never appeared—the day passed on, and I heard nothing—at last, when it was evening, a letter came from him.

The letter informed me that my brother had written to Mr Sherwin, simply asking whether he had recovered his daughter. The answer...
The First Scene
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

The hands on the hall-clock pointed to half-past six in the morning. The house was a country residence in West Somersetshire, called Combe-Raven. The day was the fourth of March, and the year was eighteen hundred and forty-six.*

No sounds but the...
Between the Scenes
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I. Chronicle for October, 1846

I have retired into the bosom of my family. We tire residing in the secluded village of Ruswarp, on the banks of the Esk, about two miles inland from Whitby. Our lodgings are comfortable, and we possess the...
Gulliver's Travels
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

‘Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.’ In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how far can we rely on a narrator whose identity is elusive and whoses inventiveness is self-evident? Gulliver’s Travels purports to be a travel book, and describes Gulliver’s encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consummately skilful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver’s Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift plays tricks on us, and delivers one of the world’s most disturbing satires of the human condition. This new edition includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions.
Chapter Three
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author sent for to Court. The Queen buys him of his Master the Farmer, and presents him to the King. He disputes with his Majesty’s great Scholars. An Apartment at Court provided for the Author. He is in high Favour with the Queen. He...
Chapter Three
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

A Phenomenon solved by modern Philosophy and Astronomy. The Laputians great Improvements in the latter. The King’s Method of suppressing Insurrections.

I desired Leave of this Prince to see the Curiosities of the Island; which he was graciously pleased to grant, and...
Chapter Six
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

A Continuation of the State of England, under Queen Anne.* The Character of a first Minister in the Courts of Europe.

My Master was yet wholly at a Loss to understand what Motives could incite this Race of Lawyers to perplex, disquiet, and...
Chapter III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

A week after his wedding Camille informed his mother bluntly that he intended to leave Vernon and go to live in Paris. Madame Raquin would not hear of it; she had her existence all planned out, and she absolutely refused to change the least...
CHAPTER I
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day, and the following days, Étienne went back to his work at the pit. He got used to it, and his life became attuned to the rhythms of the new tasks and habits which he had found so hard at first. Only...
CHAPTER IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

‘Look,’ said La Maheude to her man, ‘if you’re going to Montsou for your pay, will you bring me back a pound of coffee and a kilo of sugar?’

He was stitching one of his shoes himself, to save on the repair.

‘All...
CHAPTER V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

A Week went by, and the miners carried on working as usual, but they were sullen and suspicious, as they prepared for the coming struggle.

At the Maheus’, the fortnight’s pay looked likely to be even slimmer than before. And so La Maheude became bitter,...
CHAPTER V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Another fortnight went by. It was the beginning of January, with a cold mist blanketing the vast plain. The poverty and suffering had grown worse, the villages were getting hourly closer to their end, with the mounting famine. Four thousand francs sent from London...
CHAPTER V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Onsieur Hennebeau had stationed himself at the window of his study, in order to watch the departure of the carriage which was taking his wife off to lunch at Marchiennes. For a moment he had followed the progress of Négrel, trotting alongside the carriage...
Letter XXIX Mr. Villars to Evelina
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, May 2.

How sincerely do I sympathise in the uneasiness and concern which my beloved Evelina has so much reason to feel! The cruel scheme in agitation is equally repugnant to my judgment and my inclination,—yet to oppose it, seems impracticable. To...
Letter II Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

May 13th.

The Captain’s operations are begun,—and, I hope, ended; for indeed poor Madame Duval has already but too much reason to regret Sir Clement’s visit to Howard Grove.

Yesterday morning, during breakfast, as the Captain was reading the news-paper, Sir Clement suddenly begged to...
Letter XXIII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

July 3.

O sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one short morning of happiness!

Yesterday, the Branghtons proposed a party to Kensington-gardens, and, as usual, Madame Duval insisted upon my attendance.

We went in a hackney-coach to Piccadilly,* and...
Letter XXIV Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

July 4.

You may now, my dear Sir, send Mrs. Clinton for your Evelina with as much speed as she can conveniently make the journey, for no further opposition will be made to her leaving this town: happy had it perhaps been for her...
Letter XXVII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, July 21.

You accuse me of mystery, and charge me with reserve: I cannot doubt but I must have merited the accusation;—yet, to clear myself,—you know not how painful will be the task. But I cannot resist your kind entreaties,—indeed, I do...
Letter XXX Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Bristol Hotwell,* August 28.

You will be again surprised, my dear Maria, at seeing whence I date my letter: but I have been very ill, and Mr. Villars was so much alarmed, that he not only insisted upon my accompanying Mrs. Selwyn hither,...
Letter XXII Mr. Villars to Evelina
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Every wish of my soul is now fulfilled—for the felicity of my Evelina is equal to her worthiness!

Yes, my child, thy happiness is engraved, in golden characters, upon the tablets of my heart! and their impression is indelible; for, should the rude...
The Five Orange Pips
Authors: Doyle Arthur conan
Published: December 2020

When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years’82 and’90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features, that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave....
The Speckled Band
Authors: Doyle Arthur conan
Published: December 2020

In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor hold many secrets for Holmes and Watson to unravel. The detective is contemptuous of supernatural manifestations, but the reader will remain perpetually haunted by the hound from the moor. The editor of this volume, W.W. Robson, was Emeritus David Masson Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and author of Modern English Literature. The general editor of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes, Owen Dudley Edwards, is Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh and author or The Quest for Sherlock Holmes: A Biographical Study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Extract from the Diary of Dr Watson
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

So far I have been able to quote from the reports which I have forwarded during these early days to Sherlock Holmes. Now, however, I have arrived at a point in my narrative where I am compelled to abandon this method and to...
Chapter IX
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘Slipslop,’ said the Lady, ‘I find too much Reason to believe all thou hast told me of this wicked Joseph-, I have determined to part with him instantly; so go you to the Steward, and bid him pay him his Wages.’...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Betty, who was the Occasion of all this Hurry, had some good Qualities. She had Good-nature, Generosity and Compassion, but unfortunately her Constitution was composed of those warm Ingredients, which, though the Purity of Courts or Nunneries might have happily controuled them, were by...
Chapter II
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr. Adams and Joseph were now ready to depart different ways, when an Accident determined the former to return with his Friend, which Tow-wouse, Barnabas, and the Bookseller had not been able to do. This Accident was, that...
Chapter V
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

As soon as the Passengers had alighted from the Coach, Mr. Adams, as was his Custom, made directly to the Kitchin, where he found Joseph sitting by the Fire and the Hostess anointing his Leg: for the Horse which Mr. ...
Chapter XI
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Their Fellow-Travellers were so engaged in the hot Dispute concerning the Division of the Reward for apprehending these innocent People, that they attended very little to their Discourse. They were now arrived at the Justice’s House, and sent one of his Servants in to...
Chapter XI
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Joseph no sooner came perfectly to himself, than perceiving his Mistress gone, he bewailed her Loss with Groans, which would have pierced any Heart but those which are possessed by some People, and are made of a certain Composition not unlike Flint in its...
Chapter II
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr. Adams was not far off; for he was drinking her Ladyship’s Health below in a Cup of her Ale. He no sooner came before her, than she began in the following manner: ‘I wonder, Sir, after the many great Obligations you...
Chapter V
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The young Squire and his Lady were no sooner alighted from their Coach, than the Servants began to enquire after Mr. Joseph, from whom they said their Lady had not heard a Word to her great Surprize, since he had left Lady...
Chapter XI
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Joseph
Andrews had borne with great Uneasiness the Impertinence of Beau Didapper to Fanny, who had been talking pretty freely to her, and offering her Settlements; but the Respect to the Company had restrained him from interfering, whilst the Beau...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

About an Hour after they had all separated (it being now past three in the Morning) Beau Didapper, whose Passion for Fanny permitted him not to close his Eyes, but had employed his Imagination in Contrivances how to satisfy his...
The introduction to the work, or bill of fare to the feast
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money. In the former case, it is well known that...
Showing what kind of a history this is; what it is like, and what it is not like
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Though we have properly enough entitled this our work, a history, and not a life; nor an apology for a life,* as is more in fashion; yet we intend in it rather to pursue the method of those writers who profess to...
Containing much matter to exercise the judgment and reflection of the reader
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

I believe it is a true observation that few secrets are divulged to one person only; but certainly it would be next to a miracle that a fact of this kind should be known to a whole parish, and not transpire any farther.

And, indeed,...
Containing five pages of paper
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

AS truth distinguishes our writings from those idle romances which are filled with monsters, the productions, not of nature, but of distempered brains, and which have been therefore recommended by an eminent critic to the sole use of the pastry-cook;* so, on the...
Containing such very deep and grave matters that some readers, perhaps, may not relish it
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Square had no sooner lighted his pipe than, addressing himself to Allworthy, he thus began: ‘Sir, I cannot help congratulating you on your nephew, who, at an age when few lads have any ideas but of sensible objects, is arrived at a capacity of...
A story told by Mr Supple, the curate. The penetration of Squire Western. His great love for his daughter, and the return to it made by her
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The next morning Tom Jones hunted with Mr Western, and was at his return invited by that gentleman to dinner.

The lovely Sophia shone forth that day with more gaiety and sprightliness than usual. Her battery was certainly levelled at our hero; though, I believe,...
A dreadful accident which befell Sophia. The gallant behaviour of Jones, and the more dreadful consequence of that behaviour to the young lady; with a short digression in favour of the female sex
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Western grew every day fonder and fonder of Sophia, insomuch that his beloved dogs themselves almost gave place to her in his affections; but as he could not prevail on himself to abandon these, he contrived very cunningly to enjoy their company together...
Containing matter rather natural than pleasing
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Besides grief for her master, there was another source for that briny stream which so plentifully rose above the two mountainous cheek bones of the housekeeper. She was no sooner retired than she began to mutter to herself in the following pleasant strain. ‘Sure...
Containing two defiances to the critics
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The squire having settled matters with his sister, as we have seen in the last chapter, was so greatly impatient to communicate the proposal to Allworthy that Mrs Western had the utmost difficulty to prevent him from visiting that gentleman in his sickness, for...
Containing a conversation which Mr Jones had with himself
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Jones received his effects from Mr Allworthy’s early in the morning, with the following answer to his letter.

‘Sir,

‘I am commanded by my uncle to acquaint you, that as he did not proceed to those measures he had taken with you,...
The generous behaviour of Sophia towards her aunt
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Sophia kept silence during the foregoing speech of her father, nor did she once answer otherwise than with a sigh; but as he understood none of the language, or, as he called it, lingo of the eyes, so he was not satisfied without some...
A wonderful long chapter concerning the marvellous; being much the longest of all our introductory chapters
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

As we are now entering upon a book in which the course of our history will oblige us to relate some matters of a more strange and surprising kind than any which have hitherto occurred, it may not be amiss, in the prolegomenous or introductory...
Jones arrives at Gloucester, and goes to the bell; the character of that house, and of a pettifogger which he there meets with
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Jones and Partridge, or Little Benjamin (which epithet of little was perhaps given him ironically, he being in reality near six feet high), having left their last quarters in the manner before described, travelled on to Gloucester without meeting any adventure...

Being...
Of those who lawfully may, and of those who may not, write such histories as this
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Among other good uses for which I have thought proper to institute these several introductory chapters, I have considered them as a kind of mark or stamp, which may hereafter enable a very indifferent reader to distinguish what is true and genuine, in this...
Containing the arrival of an Irish gentleman, with very extraordinary adventures which ensued at the inn
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Now the little trembling hare, which the dread of all her numerous enemies, and chiefly of that cunning, cruel, carnivorous animal, man, had confined all the day to her lurking-place, sports wantonly o’er the lawns; now on some hollow tree the owl, shrill chorister...
In which, though the Squire doth not find his daughter, something is found which puts an end to his pursuit
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The history now returns to the inn at Upton, whence we shall first trace the footsteps of Squire Western; for as he will soon arrive at an end of his journey, we shall have then full leisure to attend our hero.

The reader may be...
Containing more adventures which Mr Jones and his companion met on the road
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Our travellers now walked so fast that they had very little time or breath for conversation; Jones meditating all the way on Sophia, and Partridge on the bank-bill, which, though it gave him some pleasure, caused him at the same time to repine at...
The disasters which befell Jones on his departure for Coventry; with the sage remarks of Partridge
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

No road can be plainer than that from the place where they now were to Coventry; and though neither Jones, nor Partridge, nor the guide, had ever travelled it before, it would have been almost impossible to have missed their way, had it not...
What happened to Mr Jones in his journey from St Albans
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

They were got about two miles beyond Barnet, and it was now the dusk of the evening, when a genteel-looking man, but upon a very shabby horse, rode up to Jones, and asked him whether he was going to London, to which Jones answered...
Which consists of visiting
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Jones had walked within sight of a certain door during the whole day, which, though one of the shortest, appeared to him to be one of the longest in the whole year. At length, the clock having struck five, he returned to Mrs...
Too short to need a preface
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it...
By what means the Squire came to discover his daughter
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Though the reader, in many histories, is obliged to digest much more unaccountable appearances than this of Mr Western, without any satisfaction at all, yet, as we dearly love to oblige him whenever it is in our power, we shall now proceed to show...
A whimsical adventure which befell the Squire, with the distressed situation of Sophia
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

We must now convey the reader to Mr Western’s lodgings, which were in Piccadilly, where he was placed by the recommendation of the landlord at the Hercules Pillars* at Hyde Park Corner; for at that inn, which was the first he saw...
In which Mr Western pays a visit to his sister, in company with Mr Blifil
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Western was reading a lecture on prudence and matrimonial politics to her niece, when her brother and Blifil broke in with less ceremony than the laws of visiting require. Sophia no sooner saw Blifil than she turned pale, and almost lost the use...
Containing a portion of introductory writing
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When a comic writer hath made his principal characters as happy as he can, or when a tragic writer hath brought them to the highest pitch of human misery, they both conclude their business to be done, and that their work is come to...
Continuation of the history
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Waters remaining a few moments silent, Mr Allworthy could not refrain from saying, ‘I am sorry, madam, to perceive, by what I have since heard, that you have made so very ill a use—’ ‘Mr Allworthy,’ says she, interrupting him, ‘I know I...
Chapter I ‘Haste to the Wedding’
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Wooed and married and a’.’*

‘Edith!’ said Margaret, gently, ‘Edith!’

But, as Margaret half suspected, Edith had fallen asleep. She lay curled up on the sofa in the back drawing-room in Harley Street, looking very lovely in her white muslin and blue...
Chapter X Wrought Iron and Gold
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘We are the trees whom shaking fastens more.’

Mr. Thornton left the house without coming into the dining-room again. He was rather late, and walked rapidly out to Crampton. He was anxious not to slight his new friend...
Chapter XIX Angel Visits
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘As angels in some brighter dreams       Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes,       And into glory peep.’

Mrs. Hale was curiously amused and interested by the idea of the...
Chapter II Fruit-Piece
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘For never any thing can be amiss When simpleness and duty tender it.’

Mr. Thornton went straight and clear into all the interests of the following day. There was a slight demand for finished goods; and as...
Chapter XVI The Journey’S End
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

I see my way as birds their trackless way— I shall arrive! what time, what circuit first, I ask not: but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet, or stifling snow, In some time—his good time—I shall arrive; He guides me and the...
Chapter XXV Changes at Milton
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Here we go up, up, up; And here we go down, down, downee!’

Meanwhile, at Milton the chimneys smoked, the ceaseless roar and mighty beat, and dizzying whirl of machinery, struggled and strove perpetually. Senseless and purposeless were wood and...
Chapter II Night: the flock: an interior: another interior
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was nearly midnight on the eve of St Thomas’,* the shortest day in the year. A desolating wind wandered from the north over the hill whereon Oak had watched the yellow waggon and its occupant in the sunshine of a few...