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Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

One thing only was wanting to make the prospect of the ball completely satisfactory to Emma—its being fixed for a day within the granted term of Frank Churchill’s stay in Surry; for, in spite of Mr. Weston’s confidence, she could not think it so...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Emma continued to entertain no doubt of her being in love. Her ideas only varied as to the how much. At first, she thought it was a good deal; and afterwards, but little. She had great pleasure in hearing Frank Churchill talked of; and,...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Elton was first seen at church: but though devotion might be interrupted, curiosity could not be satisfied by a bride in a pew, and it must be left for the visits in form which were then to be paid, to settle...
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

No misfortune occurred, again to prevent the ball. The day approached, the day arrived; and, after a morning of some anxious watching, Frank Churchill, in all the certainty of his own self, reached Randall’s before dinner, and every thing was safe.

No second meeting had...
Chapter VI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

After being long fed with hopes of a speedy visit from Mr. and Mrs. Suckling, the Highbury world were obliged to endure the mortification of hearing that they could not possibly come till the autumn. No such importation of novelties could enrich their intellectual...
Chapter IX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Emma’s pensive meditations, as she walked home, were not interrupted; but on entering the parlour, she found those who must rouse her. Mr. Knightley and Harriet had arrived during her absence, and were sitting with her father.—Mr. Knightley immediately got up, and in a...
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Till now that she was threatened with its loss, Emma had never known how much of her happiness depended on being first with Mr. Knightley, first in interest and affection.—Satisfied that it was so, and feeling it her due, she had enjoyed...
Chapter XV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

This letter must make its way to Emma’s feelings. She was obliged, in spite of her previous determination to the contrary, to do it all the justice that Mrs. Weston foretold. As soon as she came to her own name, it was irresistible; every...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

A quarter of an hour, twenty minutes, passed away, and Fanny was still thinking of Edmund, Miss Crawford, and herself, without interruption from any one. She began to be surprised at being left so long, and to listen with an anxious desire of...
Chapter I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

How is the consternation of the party to be described? To the greater number it was a moment of absolute horror. Sir Thomas in the house! All felt the instantaneous conviction. Not a hope of imposition or mistake was harboured any where. Julia’s looks...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Her uncle and both her aunts were in the drawing-room when Fanny went down. To the former she was an interesting object, and he saw with pleasure the general elegance of her appearance and her being in remarkably good looks. The neatness and propriety...
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Miss
Crawford’s uneasiness was much lightened by this conversation, and she walked home again in spirits which might have defied almost another week of the same small party in the same bad weather, had they been put to the proof; but as that very...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Could Sir Thomas have seen all his niece’s feelings, when she wrote her first letter to her aunt, he would not have despaired; for though a good night’s rest, a pleasant morning, the hope of soon seeing William again, and the comparatively quiet state...
Chapter XI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The Prices were just setting off for church the next day when Mr. Crawford appeared again. He came—not to stop—but to join them; he was asked to go with them to the Garrison chapel,* which was exactly what he had intended, and...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

In spite of Udolpho and the dress-maker, however, the party from Pulteney-street reached the Upper-rooms in very good time. The Thorpes and James Morland were there only two minutes before them; and Isabella having gone through the usual ceremonial of meeting her friend with...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The next morning was fair, and Catherine almost expected another attack from the assembled party. With Mr. Allen to support her, she felt no dread of the event: but she would gladly be spared a contest, where victory itself was painful; and was heartily...
Chapter I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Catherine’s expectations of pleasure from her visit in Milsom-street were so very high, that disappointment was inevitable; and accordingly, though she was most politely received by General Tilney, and kindly welcomed by his daughter, though Henry was at home, and no one else of...
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

A few days passed away, and Catherine, though not allowing herself to suspect her friend, could not help watching her closely. The result of her observations was not agreeable. Isabella seemed an altered creature. When she saw her indeed surrounded only by their immediate...
Chapter VII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The housemaid’s folding back her window-shutters at eight o’clock the next day, was the sound which first roused Catherine; and she opened her eyes, wondering that they could ever have been closed, on objects of cheerfulness; her fire was already burning, and a bright...
Chapter XI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

From this time, the subject was frequently canvassed by the three young people; and Catherine found, with some surprize, that her two young friends were perfectly agreed in considering Isabella’s want of consequence and fortune as likely to throw great difficulties in the way...
Chapter XV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Catherine’s disposition was not naturally sedentary, nor had her habits been ever very industrious; but whatever might hitherto have been her defects of that sort, her mother could not but perceive them now to be greatly increased. She could neither sit still, nor employ...
Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Every Neighbourhood should have a great Lady.—The great Lady of Sanditon, was Lady Denham; and in their Journey from Wil-lingden to the Coast, Mr. Parker gave Charlotte a more detailed account of her, than had been called for before.—She had been necessarily often mentioned...
Chapter VI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The Party were very soon moving after Dinner. Mr. P. could not be satisfied without an early visit to the Library, and the Library Subscription book, and Charlotte was glad to see as much, and as quickly as possible, where all was new. They...
Chapter XI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The time now approached for Lady Russell’s return; the day was even fixed, and Anne, being engaged to join her as soon as she was resettled, was looking forward to an early removal to Kellynch, and beginning to think how her own comfort was...
Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Sir
Walter had taken a very good house in Camden-place, a lofty, dignified situation, such as becomes a man of consequence; and both he and Elizabeth were settled there, much to their satisfaction.

Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of many...
Chapter VI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

It was the beginning of February; and Anne, having been a month in Bath, was growing very eager for news from Uppercross and Lyme. She wanted to hear much more than Mary communicated. It was three weeks since she had heard at all. She...
Chapter XI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

One day only had passed since Anne’s conversation with Mrs. Smith; but a keener interest had succeeded, and she was now so little touched by Mr. Elliot’s conduct, except by its effects in one quarter, that it became a matter of course the next...
The Story continued by Vincent Gilmore, of Chancery Lane, Solicitor
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I

I Write these lines at the request of my friend, Mr Walter Hartright. They are intended to convey a description of certain events which seriously affected Miss Fairlie’s interests, and which took place after the period of Mr Hartright’s departure from Limmeridge House....

There...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

The chateau, a modern building in the Italian style* with two projecting wings and three flights of steps, spread out across the far side of a huge expanse of green, on which a few cows stood grazing among widely spaced groups of big...
Chapter II
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Emma emerged first, followed by Félicité, Monsieur Lheureux, and then a nurse; they had to wake up Charles, who had fallen fast asleep in his corner as soon as it was dark.

Homais introduced himself; he presented his compliments to Madame, his respects to Monsieur,...
Chapter V
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

It was a snowy Sunday afternoon in February.

They all—Monsieur and Madame Bovary, Homais, and Léon—had gone to look at a flax mill* that was being built about a mile or so from Yonville, in the valley. The apothecary had brought Napoléon and...
Chapter VI
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

One evening, while she was sitting by the open window, after watching Lestiboudois, the sexton, trim the box-hedge, she suddenly heard the angelus ringing.

It was the beginning of April, when the primroses are in bloom; a warm breeze dances over the freshly turned flower...
Chapter II
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

When she reached the inn, Madame Bovary was astounded not to find the stagecoach there. Hivert had waited fifty-three minutes for her, but had finally left.

Actually there was nothing that compelled her to return, but she had promised to be back that evening. Besides,...
Chapter III
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

They had three intense, exquisite, glorious days, a real honeymoon.

They stayed at the Hôtel de Boulogne, down on the quay. They spent their time in their room, with their shutters latched and their doors closed, their floor strewn with flowers, drinking chilled fruit cordials...
Chapter 24 Conversion of Surplus-Value into Capital
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Section 1. Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale. Transition of the Laws of Property that Characterise Production of Commodities into Laws of Capitalist Appropriation

Hitherto we have investigated how surplus-value emanates from capital; we have now to see how capital arises from surplus-value....
Chapter 25 The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Section 1. The Increased Demand for Labour-Power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the Same

In this chapter we consider the influence of the growth of capital on the lot of the labouring class. The most important factor in this inquiry is...
Chapter 32 Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

What does the primitive accumulation of capital, i.e. its historical genesis, resolve itself into? In so far as it is not immediate transformation of slaves and serfs into wage-labourers, and therefore a mere change of form, it only means the expropriation of the immediate...
The Carpet-Bag
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford. It was on a Saturday night in December....
The Ship
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

In bed we concocted our plans for the morrow. But to my surprise and no small concern, Queequeg now gave me to understand, that he had been diligently consulting Yojo—the name of his black little god—and Yojo had told him two or three times...
The First Lowering
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there. This boat had always been deemed one of the spare...
Of the less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

In connexion with the monstrous pictures of whales, I am strongly tempted here to enter upon those still more monstrous stories of them which are to be found in certain books, both ancient and modern, especially in Pliny, Purchas, Hackluyt, Harris, Cuvier, &c. But...
Squid
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod still held on her way north-eastward towards the island of Java; a gentle air impelling her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity her three tall tapering masts mildly waved to that languid breeze, as...
Jonah Historically Regarded
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in the preceding chapter. Now some Nantucketers rather distrust this historical story of Jonah and the whale. But then there were some sceptical Greeks and Romans, who, standing out from the orthodox...
The Fountain
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

That for six thousand years—and no one knows how many millions of ages before—the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so many sprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for...
Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The allusion to the waifs and waif-poles in the last chapter but one, necessitates some account of the laws and regulations of the whale fishery, of which the waif may be deemed the grand symbol and badge.

It frequently happens that when several ships...
Does The Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—will he Perish?
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Inasmuch, then, as this Leviathan comes floundering down upon us from the head-waters of the Eternities, it may be fitly inquired, whether, in the long course of his generations, he has not degenerated from the original bulk of his sires.

But upon investigation we...
The Forge
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

With matted beard, and swathed in a bristling shark-skin apron, about mid-day, Perth was standing between his forge and anvil, the latter placed upon an iron-wood log, with one hand holding a pike-head in the coals, and with the other at his forge’s lungs,...
The Musket
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

During the most violent shocks of the Typhoon, the man at the Pequod’s jaw-bone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled to the deck by its spasmodic motions, even though preventer tackles had been attached to it—for they were slack—because some play to the...
The Life-Buoy
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Steering now south-eastward by Ahab’s levelled steel, and her progress solely determined by Ahab’s level log and line; the Pequod held on her path towards the Equator. Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled...
William wilson
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

What say of it? What say of Conscience grim,

That spectre in my path?

Let me call myself, for the present, William Wilson. The fair page now lying before me need not be sullied with my real appellation. This has been...
Chapter XII
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

It was on the ninth of November, the eve of his own thirty-eighth birthday, as he often remembered afterwards.

He was walking home about eleven o’clock from Lord Henry’s, where he had been dining, and was wrapped in heavy furs, as the night was cold...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

The next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet indifferent to life itself. The consciousness of being hunted, snared, tracked down, had begun to...
Chapter VI
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

‘I suppose you have heard the news, Basil?’ said Lord Henry that evening, as Hallward was shown into a little private room at the Bristol where dinner had been laid for three.

‘No, Harry,’ answered the artist, giving his hat and coat to the...
Chapter II The Ban
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

I Came on the verandah just before the sun rose on the morrow. My house was the last on the east; there was a cape of woods and cliffs behind that hid the sunrise. To the west, a swift cold river ran down,...
Chapter IV Devil-Work
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Near a month went by without much doing. The same night of our marriage Galoshes called round, and made himself mighty civil, and got into a habit of dropping in about dark and smoking his pipe with the family. He could talk to Uma,...
Chapter II Morning on the Beach — the Three Letters
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The clouds were all fled, the beauty of the tropic day was spread upon Papeete; and the wall of breaking seas upon the reef, and the palms upon the islet, already trembled in the heat. A French man-of-war was going out, homeward bound; she...
Chapter X The Open Door
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The captain and Herrick meanwhile turned their back upon the lights in Attwater’s veranda, and took a direction towards the pier and the beach of the lagoon.

The isle, at this hour, with its smooth floor of sand, the pillared roof overhead, and the prevalent...
The Cart-Horses and the Saddle-Horse
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Two cart-horses, a gelding and a mare, were brought to Samoa, and put in the same field with a saddle-horse to run free on the island.* They were rather afraid to go near him, for they saw he was a saddle-horse, and...
VI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He broke it by presently saying: 'There’s absolutely no doubt of her death?'

'Unfortunately none. I've just risen from my knees by the bed where they've laid her out.'

He fixed his eyes hard on the floor; then he raised them to mine. 'How does...
V
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

OH she let me know as soon as, round the corner of the house, she loomed again into view. ‘What in the name of goodness is the matter—?’ She was now flushed and out of breath.

I said nothing till she came quite near. ‘With...
VIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

What I had said to Mrs Grose was true enough: there were in the matter I had put before her depths and possibilities that I lacked resolution to sound; so that when we met once more in the wonder of it we were of...
XVII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

I Went so far, in the evening, as to make a beginning. The weather had changed back, a great wind was abroad, and beneath the lamp, in my room, with Flora at peace beside me, I sat for a long time before...
XXIV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

My grasp of how he received this suffered for a minute from something that I can describe only as a fierce split of my attention*—a stroke that at first, as I sprang staight up, reduced me to the mere blind movement of...
Incident at the Window
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

It chanced on Sunday, when Mr Utterson was on his usual walk with Mr Enfield, that their way lay once again through the by-street; and that when they came in front of the door, both stopped to gaze on it.

‘Well,’ said Enfield, ‘that story’s...
The Last Night
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Mr
Utterson was sitting by his fireside one evening after dinner, when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole.

‘Bless me, Poole, what brings you here?’ he cried; and then taking a second look at him, ‘What ails you?’ he added, ‘is the...
Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

I was born in the year 18— to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellow-men, and thus, as might have been supposed, with every guarantee of an...
A Chapter on Dreams
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The past is all of one texture—whether feigned or suffered—whether acted out in three dimensions, or only witnessed in that small theatre of the brain which we keep brightly lighted all night long, after the jets are down, and darkness and sleep reign undisturbed...
An old-fashioned Card-Party—The Clergyman’s Verses—The Story of the Convict’s Return
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Several guests who were assembled in the old parlour, rose to greet Mr. Pickwick and his friends upon their entrance; and during the performance of the ceremony of introduction, with all due formalities, Mr. Pickwick had leisure to observe the appearance, and speculate upon...
Clearing up all Doubts (if any existed) of the Disinterestedness of Mr. Jingle’s Character
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There are in London several old inns, once the head quarters of celebrated coaches in the days when coaches performed their journeys in a graver and more solemn manner than they do in these times; but which have now degenerated into little more than...
Chapter XI Involving another Journey, and an Antiquarian Discovery. Recording Mr. Pickwick’s determination to be present at an Election; and containing a Manuscript of the old Clergyman’s
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A night of quiet and repose in the profound silence of Dingley Dell, and an hour’s breathing of its fresh and fragrant air on the ensuing morning, completely recovered Mr. Pickwick from the effects of his late fatigue of body and anxiety of...
Descriptive of a very important Proceeding on the part of Mr. Pickwick; no less an epoch in his Life, than in this History
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Pickwick’s apartments in Goswell Street, although on a limited scale, were not only of a very neat and comfortable description, but peculiarly adapted for the residence of a man of his genius and observation. His sitting-room was the first floor front, his bedroom...
In which is given a faithful Portraiture of two distinguished Persons; and an accurate description of a Public Breakfast in their House and Grounds: which Public Breakfast, leads to the Recognition of an old Acquaintance, and the commencement of another Chapter
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Pickwick’s conscience had been somewhat reproaching him, for his recent neglect of his friends at the Peacock; and he was just on the point of walking forth in quest of them, on the third morning after the election had terminated, when his faithful...
Chapter XX Showing how Dodson and Fogg were Men of Business, and their Clerks Men of Pleasure; and how an affecting Interview took place between Mr. Weller and his long-lost Parent; showing also, what Choice Spirits assembled at the Magpie and Stump, and what a capital Chapter the next one will be
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In the ground-floor front of a dingy house, at the very furthest end of Freeman’s Court, Cornhill, sat the four clerks of Messrs. Dodson and Fogg, two of His Majesty’s Attorneys of the Courts of King’s Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster, and solicitors...
In which Mr. Samuel Weller begins to devote his energies to the Return Match between Himself and Mr. Trotter
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In a small room in the vicinity of the stable-yard, betimes in the morning, which was ushered in by Mr. Pickwick’s adventure with the middle-aged lady in the yellow curl-papers, sat Mr. Weller senior, preparing himself for his journey to London. He was sitting...
Wherein Mr. Peter Magnus grows jealous, and the middle-aged Lady apprehensive, which brings the Pickwickians within the Grasp of the Law
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When Mr. Pickwick descended to the room in which he and Mr. Peter Magnus had spent the preceding evening, he found that gentleman with the major part of the contents of the two bags, the leathern hat-box, and the brown-paper parcel, displayed to all...
A good-humoured Christmas Chapter, containing an account of a Wedding, and some other Sports beside, which although in their way, even as good customs as Marriage itself, are not quite so religiously kept up, in these degenerate times
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

As brisk as bees, if not altogether as light as fairies, did the four Pickwickians assemble on the morning of the twenty-second day of December, in the year of grace in which these, their faithfully-recorded adventures, were undertaken and accomplished. Christmas was close at hand,...
Relates how Mr. Pickwick, with the assistance of Samuel Weller, essayed to soften the heart of Mr. Benjamin Allen, and to mollify the wrath of Mr. Robert Sawyer
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Ben Allen and Mr. Bob Sawyer sat together in the little surgery behind the shop, discussing minced veal and future prospects, when the discourse, not unnaturally, turned upon the practice acquired by Bob the aforesaid, and his present chances of deriving...
Chapter II Murdering the Innocents
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Thomas Gradgrind,* Sir. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over, and who is not to be talked into allowing for anything over. Thomas...
Chapter IV MR. Bounderby
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Not being Mrs. Grundy, who was Mr. Bounderby?

Why, Mr. Bounderby was as near being Mr. Gradgrind’s bosom friend, as a man perfectly devoid of sentiment can approach that spiritual relationship towards another man perfectly devoid of sentiment. So near was Mr. Bounderby—or, if the...
Chapter VIII Never Wonder
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Let us strike the key-note again, before pursuing the tune.

When she was half-a-dozen years younger, Louisa had been overheard to begin a conversation with her brother one day, by saying “Tom, I wonder”—upon which Mr. Gradgrind, who was the person overhearing, stepped forth into...
Chapter IV Men and Brothers
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Oh my friends, the down-trodden operatives of Coketown! Oh my friends and fellow-countrymen, the slaves of an iron-handed and a grinding despotism! Oh my friends and fellow-sufferers, and fellow-workmen, and fellow-men! I tell you that the hour is come, when we must rally...
Chapter VI Fading Away
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was falling dark when Stephen came out of Mr. Bounderby’s house. The shadows of night had gathered so fast, that he did not look about him when he closed the door, but plodded straight along the street. Nothing was further from his thoughts...
Chapter III Very Decided
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The indefatigable Mrs. Sparsit, with a violent cold upon her, her voice reduced to a whisper, and her stately frame so racked by continual sneezes that it seemed in danger of dismemberment, gave chase to her patron until she found him in the metropolis;...
Chapter XX Mr. Dombey Goes Upon a Journey
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Mr. Dombey, Sir,” said Major Bagstock, “Joey B. is not in general a man of sentiment, for Joseph is tough. But Joe has his feelings, Sir, and when they are awakened—Damme, Mr. Dombey,” cried the Major with sudden ferocity,...
Chapter XXIX The Opening of the Eyes of Mrs. Chick
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Miss
Tox, all unconscious of any such rare appearances in connexion with Mr. Dombey’s house, as scaffoldings and ladders, and men with their heads tied up in pocket-handkerchiefs, glaring in at the top windows like flying genii or strange birds,—having breakfasted one morning at...
Chapter XXXIV Another Mother and Daughter
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In an ugly and dark room, an old woman, ugly and dark too, sat listening to the wind and rain, and crouching over a meagre fire. More constant to the last-named occupation than the first, she never changed her attitude, unless, when any stray...
Chirp the Third
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Dutch clock in the corner struck Ten, when the Carrier sat down by his fireside. So troubled and griefworn, that he seemed to scare the Cuckoo, who, having cut his ten melodious announcements as short as possible, plunged back into the Moorish Palace...
Chapter 8
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

‘Ha, ha, ha! You see, as a matter of fact, if you want, this desire doesn’t exist!’ you interrupt with a guffaw. ‘By now science has succeeded so far in its dissection of man that we know that desire and this so-called free...
Chapter 11
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The end of it all, gentlemen, is this: it’s better to do nothing at all! Better conscious inertia. And so, long live the underground! I might have said that I’m green with envy of the normal person, but in the circumstances in which I...
Chapter 6
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

… Somewhere behind the partition a clock began wheezing, as if under some kind of strong pressure, as if someone were suffocating it. After an unnaturally long wheeze there followed a thin, nasty, and rather unexpectedly rapid chime—just as if someone had suddenly...
Chapter 6
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Two days have already passed since that stupid day. And what a fuss and palaver, what noise and commotion! And how confused, disordered, stupid, and vulgar the whole thing is, and I am the cause of it all. However, it can be funny at...
Chapter 11
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The armchair was wheeled towards the doors at the other side of the hall. Grandmother was radiant. We all instantly crowded around her with our congratulations. However eccentric Grandmother’s behaviour was, her triumph made up for a great deal, and the General was no...
Chapter 14
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

I Just yelled.

‘What is it? What is it?’ she asked strangely. She was pale and looked sombre.

‘What do you mean, what is it? You? Here in my room!’

‘If I come, all of me comes. That is my custom. You’ll see...
6
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

‘Here you all are’, the prince began, ‘looking at me with such curiosity that if I didn’t satisfy it, you would probably be very angry with me. No, I’m just joking’, he added hastily, smiling. ‘There … there it was children all the...
10
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The hallway had suddenly become extraordinarily noisy and crowded; from the drawing-room it seemed as if a number of persons had come in from the courtyard and more were still arriving. Various voices were talking and shouting at once; there was more talking and...
11
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The prince left the drawing-room and shut himself in his own room. Kolya at once came running in to soothe him. By now the poor boy couldn’t keep away from him, it seemed.

‘You were right to come away’, he said. ‘Now there’ll be a...
16
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

‘It’s the genuine article’, announced Ptitsyn, folding it up and returning it to the prince. ‘You are to receive an extremely large sum, without any strings attached, through the incontestable will of your aunt.’

‘Impossible!’ exclaimed the general, like a pistol-shot.

All mouths gaped...
12
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

It was seven o’clock in the evening and the prince was thinking of going for a walk in the park. All of a sudden, Lizaveta Prokofievna came on to the veranda unaccompanied.

‘First of all, don’t you dare imagine I’ve come to apologize’, she...
6
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

“I have no wish to lie: reality has been seeking to snag even me on its hook this last six months and sometimes I have been distracted enough to forget my own death sentence, or rather, I didn’t wish to think about it;...
7
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

“I had a small pocket pistol; I got it when I was a boy, at that silly age when when one suddenly develops a fancy for stories of duels and bandit hold-ups; or I’d be challenged to a duel and stand nobly facing...
2
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Five days had passed since Ippolit had moved into Ptitsyn’s house. It happened naturally somehow, without too many words or any disagreement between him and the prince; not only had they not quarrelled, but to all appearances they had parted friends. Gavrila Ardalionovich, so...
9
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

A fortnight had passed since the events related in the last chapter, and the situation of the characters in our story had altered to such an extent that we should find it difficult to continue without making certain things clear. We feel, however,...
12
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The teacher’s widow, who had rushed off to Pavlovsk, went straight to Darya Alexeyevna, still upset after the previous day’s events, and by telling her everything she knew contrived to alarm her thoroughly. Both ladies decided to get in touch with Lebedev, who was...
Chapter VI
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Song of Diego Valdez

Very early in...
Gemini
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

This is your English Justice, Protector of the Poor. Look at my back and loins which are beaten with sticks—heavy sticks! I am a poor man, and there is...
Dray Wara Yow Dee
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Almonds and raisins, Sahib? Grapes from Kabul? Or a pony of the rarest if the Sahib will only come with me. He is...
Black Jack
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

As the Three Musketeers share their silver, tobacco, and liquor together, as they protect each other in barracks or camp, and as they rejoice together over...
Chapter 2
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

We went tip-toeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow’s garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn’t scrape our heads. When we was passing by the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise. We...
Chapter 3
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Well, I got a good going-over in the morning, from old Miss Watson, on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn’t scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave a while...
Chapter 8
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The sun was up so high when I waked, that I judged it was after eight o’clock. I laid there in the grass and the cool shade, thinking about things and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied. I could see the sun out...
Chapter 11
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

‘Come in,’ says the woman, and I did. She says:

‘Take a cheer.’

I done it. She looked me all over with her little shiny eyes, and says:

‘What might your name be?’

‘Sarah Williams.’

‘Where ’bouts do you live? In this neighborhood?’

‘No’m....
Chapter 12
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

It must a been close onto one o’clock when we got below the island at last, and the raft did seem to go mighty slow. If a boat was to come along, we was going to take to the canoe and break for the...
Chapter 14
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

By-and-by, when we got up, we turned over the truck the gang had stole off of the wreck, and found boots, and blankets, and clothes, and all sorts of other things, and a lot of books, and a spyglass, and three boxes of seegars....
Chapter 17
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

In about half a minute somebody spoke out of a window, without putting his head out, and says:

‘Be done, boys! Who’s there?’

I says:

‘It’s me.’

‘Who’s me?’

‘George Jackson, sir.’

‘What do you want?’

‘I don’t want nothing, sir. I only want to...
Chapter 20
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

They asked us considerable many questions; wanted to know what we covered up the raft that way for, and laid by in the day-time instead of running—was Jim a runaway nigger? Says I—

‘Goodness sakes, would a runaway nigger run south?’

No, they allowed...
Chapter 24
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Next day, towards night, we laid up under a little willow tow-head out in the middle, where there was a village on each side of the river, and the duke and the king begun to lay out a plan for working them towns. Jim...
Chapter 39
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

In the morning we went up to the village and bought a wire rat trap and fetched it down, and unstopped the best rat hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen of the bulliest kind of ones; and then we took it...
Chapter The Last
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The first time I catched Tom, private, I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion?—what it was he’d planned to do if the evasion worked all right and he managed to set a nigger free that was already free before? And...
Chapter VI
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Monday morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week’s slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Tom dodged hither and thither through lanes until he was well out of the track of returning scholars, and then fell into a moody jog. He crossed a small “branch” two or three times, because of a prevailing juvenile superstition that to cross water...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

As the earliest suspicion of dawn appeared on Sunday morning, Huck came groping up the hill and rapped gently at the old Welchman’s door. The inmates were asleep but it was a sleep that was set on a hair-trigger, on account of the exciting...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The reader may rest satisfied that Tom’s and Huck’s windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg. So vast a sum, all in actual cash, seemed next to incredible. It was talked about, gloated over, glorified, until the reason...
Chapter XX
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

A competency was what I wanted; a competency it was now my aim and resolve to secure; but never had I been farther from the mark. With August the school-year (l’année scolaire) closed, the examinations concluded, the prizes were adjudged, the schools dispersed, the...
II
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I am the second son of an English gentleman of large fortune. Our family is, I believe, one of the most ancient in this country. On my father’s side, it dates back beyond the Conquest; on my mother’s, it is not so old, but the...
VIII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

My manuscript lay before me, set in order by Clara’s careful hand. I slowly turned over the leaves one by one; but my eye only fell mechanically on the writing. Yet one day since, and how much ambition, how much hope, how many of my...
XII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

That night I went home with none of the reluctance or the apprehension which I had felt on the last occasion, when I approached our own door. The assurance of success contained in the events of the afternoon, gave me a trust in my own...
I
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

An epoch in my narrative has now arrived. Up to the time of my marriage, I have appeared as an active agent in the different events I have described. After that period, and—with one or two exceptional cases—throughout the whole year of my probation,...
IV
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

We are seldom able to discover under any ordinary conditions of self-knowledge, how intimately that spiritual part of us, which is undying, can attach to itself and its operations the poorest objects of that external world around us, which is perishable. In the ravelled skein,...
VIII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

On the fourth day from the morning when she had died, I stood alone in the churchyard by the grave of Margaret Sherwin.

It had been left for me to watch her dying moments; it was left for me to bestow on her remains the...
The Fourth Scene
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

The most striking spectacle presented to a stranger by the shores of Suffolk, is the extraordinary defencelessness of the land against the encroachments of the sea.

At Aldborough, as elsewhere on this coast, local traditions are, for the most part, traditions which have...
The Sixth Scene
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

It wanted little more than a fortnight to Christmas; but the weather showed no signs yet of the frost and snow, conventionally associated with the coming season. The atmosphere was unnaturally warm; and the old year was dying feebly in sapping rain...
Roxana
Authors: Defoe Daniel
Published: December 2020

I was
born, as my Friends told me, at the City of Poictiers, in the Province, or County of Poictou, in France, from whence I was brought to England by my...
A Letter From Capt. Gulliver To His Cousin Sympson
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

I hope you will be ready to own publickly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent Urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect Account of my Travels; with Direction to hire some...
The Publisher to the Reader
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The
Author of these Travels, Mr Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate Friend; there is likewise some Relation between us by the Mother’s Side. About three Years ago Mr Gulliver growing weary of the Concourse of curious People coming...
Chapter Four
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Country described. A Proposal for correcting modern Maps. The King’s Palace, and some Account of the Metropolis. The Author’s Way of travelling. The chief Temple described.

Inow intend to give the Reader a short Description of this Country, as far as I...
Chapter Two
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Humours and Dispositions of the Laputians described. An Account of their Learning. Of the King and his Court. The Author’s Reception there. The Inhabitants subject to Fears and Disquietudes. An Account of the Women.

At my alighting I was surrounded by a...
Chapter Eight
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

A further Account of Glubbdubdrib. Antient and Modern History corrected.

Having a Desire to see those Antients, who were most renowned for Wit and Learning, I set apart one Day on purpose. I proposed that Homer* and Aristotle...
Chapter Ten
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Luggnuggians commended. A particular Description of the Struldbrugs* with many Conversations between the Author and some eminent Persons upon that Subject.

The Luggnuggians are a polite and generous People, and although they are not without some Share of that Pride which...
Chapter Eleven
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author leaves Luggnugg and sails to Japan. From thence he returns in a Dutch Ship to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to England.

I thought this Account of the Struldbrugs might be some Entertainment to the Reader, because it seems to...
Chapter Four
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Houyhnhnms Notion of Truth and Falshood. The Author’s Discourse disapproved by his Master. The Author gives a more particular Account of himself, and the Accidents of his Voyage.

My Master heard me with great Appearances of Uneasiness in his Countenance; because ...
Chapter Ten
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author’s Oeconomy and happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. His great Improvement in Virtue, by conversing with them. Their Conversations. The Author hath Notice given him by his Master that he must depart from the Country. He falls into a Swoon for Grief,...
Chapter IX
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One afternoon, as Laurent was about to leave the office to go running into the waiting arms of Thérèse, his boss sent for him and told him firmly that in future he was forbidden to take time off. He had taken unfair advantage, and...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Fifteen months went by. The stress of the first hours subsided; each day brought greater tranquility and indifference, and life resumed its normal languid course, slipping into the dull monotony which follows all great crises. And, at the beginning, Laurent and Thérèse fell in...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The nights that followed were even more cruel. The murderers had wanted to be with each other at night to defend themselves against the drowned man, yet, strangely, being together only increased their fear. They became exasperated, got on each other’s nerves, went through...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Little by little, Laurent fell into a state of raving fury. He resolved to chase Camille away from his bed. First he had gone to bed with all his clothes on, then he had avoided touching Thérèse. In the end, driven by rage and...
CHAPTER V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Without looking at his watch, which he had left in his jacket, Maheu stopped, and said:

‘Nearly one o’clock … Zacharie, have you finished?’

His son had been putting up props for a while. But he had stopped in the middle of the job and,...
CHAPTER I
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The Grégoires’ property, La Piolaine, was situated two kilometres to the east of Montsou, on the Joiselle road. It was a large square house of no particular style, built at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Of the vast lands which had originally depended...
CHAPTER I
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That Monday, the Hennebeaus had invited the Grégoires and their daughter Cécile round to lunch. They had arranged a full day’s entertainment: after lunch Paul Négrel was going to show the ladies round one of the mines, Saint-Thomas, which was being luxuriously refitted. But...
CHAPTER II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

AT Jean-Bart Catherine had been pushing for at least an hour, taking the tubs to the relay point; and she was drenched in such a flood of sweat that she stopped for a moment to wipe her face.

Back at the coal-face, where he was...
CHAPTER II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

For two days it had been snowing; then that morning it had stopped, and the whole vast white carpet was frozen solid; thus this black country with its inky roads, whose walls and trees were covered in coal-dust, was white all over, absolutely white,...
CHAPTER IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When they had left Rasseneur’s, Étienne and Catherine walked on silently. A slow, chilly thaw had started, dirtying the snow without melting it. The outline of a full moon could be seen in the livid sky behind the ragged clouds billowing high above as...