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“I Must Change My Life”
Authors: Abzug Robert H.
Published: December 2020

The chapter recounts the intimate and public missionary life of May in Greece from 1930 to 1933. He finds the experience daunting, thrust from small town American life both to the scenes of classical antiquity and contemporary conflict between Greece and Turkey. He teaches refugee kids and realizes they have seen more and experienced worse moments than he ever has. All of this leads to a religious crisis in which May commits to a personalist vision of Christianity in opposition to a typical missionary attitude of simply counting saved souls without guiding their individual growth in grace. His crisis is also an exercise in rebellion against what he sees as his father’s superficial Christianity. In all, early 1932 is a turning point in his sense of self and his vision of the future borne of both the challenge and discomfort of Europe and Salonika in particular
“I will not become a professional Christian”
Authors: Abzug Robert H.
Published: December 2020

In the spring of 1934, May’s father leaves his family and Rollo is recalled to Michigan to take charge. He does so and becomes a counselor at the Michigan State Y and a campus counselor. That experience and his time with Adler in Vienna spur him to write about student counseling in several articles. He begins to craft a future merging religious and psychological themes. These articles and word-of-mouth in the Y network make him known as a future practitioner of pastoral psychology. At the same time, he works hard and successfully puts his family on an even keel.
The Italian
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

‘Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.’ Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further his own ends. His menacing presence dominates a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and assassination, and incarceration in the dreadful dungeons of the Inquisition. Uncertainty and doubt lie everywhere, in Radcliffe's last and most unnerving novel. Ann Radcliffe defined the ‘terror’ genre of writing and helped to establish the Gothic novel, thrilling readers with her mysterious plots and eerie effects. In The Italian she rejects the rational certainties of the Enlightenment for a more ambiguous and unsettling account of what it is to be an individual - particularly a woman - in a culture haunted by history and dominated by institutional power. This new edition includes Radcliffe's important essay ‘On the Supernatural in Poetry’, in which she distinguishes terror writing from horror.
A Love Story
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

‘Everything revolved around their love. They were constantly bathed in a passion that they carried with them, around them, as though it were the only air they could breathe.’ Hélène Grandjean, an attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her only child, Jeanne. Jeanne is a delicate and nervous girl who jealously guards her mother's affections. When Jeanne falls ill, she is attended by Dr Deberle, whose growing admiration for Hélène gradually turns into mutual passion. Deberle's wife Juliette, meanwhile, flirts with a shallow admirer, and Hélène, intent on preventing her adultery, precipitates a crisis whose consequences are far-reaching. Jeanne realizes she has a rival for Hélène's devotion in the doctor, and begins to exercise a tyrannous hold over her mother. The eighth novel in Zola's celebrated Rougon-Macquart series, A Love Story is an intense psychological and nuanced portrayal of love's different guises. Zola's study extends most notably to the city of Paris itself, whose shifting moods reflect Hélène's emotional turmoil in passages of extraordinary lyrical description.
New Grub Street
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

‘Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.’ Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of critical acclaim for his fourth novel, he has married the refined Amy Yule. But the brilliant future Amy expected has evaded her husband. The catastrophe of the Reardon's failing marriage is set among the rising and falling fortunes of novelists, journalists, and scholars who labour ‘in the valley of the shadow of books’. George Gissing's New Grub Street was written at breakneck speed in the autumn of 1890 and is considered his best novel. Intensely autobiographical, it reflects the literary and cultural crisis in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After arriving in Moscow on the morning train, Levin went to stay with his elder maternal half-brother Koznyshev and, after a change of clothes, he went into his study, intending to tell him straight away the reason for his visit, and to ask his...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In the middle of July, Levin received a visit from the elder in his sister’s village, fifteen miles from Pokrovskoye, who came to report on the general state of affairs and on the haymaking. The main income on his sister’s estate came from the...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On Monday there was the usual meeting of the 2nd of June Commission. Alexey Alexandrovich walked into the meeting room, greeted the members and the chairman as usual, and sat down in his place, putting his hand on the papers lying ready before him....
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The streets were still empty. Levin walked over to the Shcherbatskys’ house. The front door was locked and everyone was asleep. He retraced his steps, went back to his room, and ordered coffee. It was brought to him by a daytime waiter, who was...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

During that first period of her liberation and rapid recovery, Anna felt unpardonably happy and full of the joys of life. Recollection of her husband’s unhappiness did not spoil her happiness. On the one hand that recollection was too terrible to contemplate. On the...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The next day, the ladies had not yet risen before the trap and the little cart which made up the two hunting vehicles were standing by the front steps, and Laska, aware since early morning that they were going shooting, and having yelped and...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The coachman pulled up the four-in-hand and looked round to the right, to a field of rye in which some peasants were sitting by a cart. The clerk was about to jump down but then changed his mind and shouted imperiously to one of...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

During this stay Levin had once again become close to his old university friend Professor Katavasov, whom he had not seen since getting married. What he liked about Katavasov was the clarity and simplicity of his outlook on life. Levin thought that the clarity...
My Bondage and My Freedom
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

It was said to me, “Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; ‘tis not best that you seem too learned.”’ Appearing in 1855, My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography written by Frederick Douglass (1818–95), a man who was born into slavery in Maryland and who went on to become the most famous antislavery author, orator, philosopher, essaysist, historian, intellectual, statesman and freedom-fighter in US history. An instant bestseller, Douglass's autobiography tells the story of his early life as lived in ‘bondage’ and of his later life as lived in a ‘freedom’ that was in name only. Recognizing that his body and soul were bought and sold by white slaveholders in the US South, he soon realized his story was being traded by white northern antislavery campaigners. Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom is a literary, intellectual and philosophical tour-de-force in which he betrays his determination not only to speak but to write ‘just the word that seemed to me the word to be written by me.’ This new edition examines Douglass's biography, literary strategies and political activism alongside his depiction of Black women's lives and his narrative histories of Black heroism. This volume also reproduces Frederick Douglass's only work of fiction, The Heroic Slave, published in 1853.
The Portrait of a Lady
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that.’ Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent commitment to liberty and independence, declaring that she will never marry. Thanks to the generosity of her devoted cousin Ralph, she is free to make her own choice about her destiny. Yet in the intoxicating worlds of Paris, Florence, and Rome, her fond illusions of self-reliance are twisted by the machinations of her friends and apparent allies. What had seemed to be a vista of infinite promise steadily closes around her and becomes instead a ‘house of suffocation’. Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, this is Henry James’s most poised achievement, written at the height of his fame in 1881. It is at once a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in a web of relations she only comes to understand too late. This edition reproduces the revised New York Edition, with James’s own Preface.
On the Origin of Species
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Can we doubt … that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?’ In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length of the past and on the abundance of life-forms, present and extinct, dislodged man from his central position in creation and called into question the role of the Creator. He showed that new species are achieved by natural selection, and that absence of plan is an inherent part of the evolutionary process. Darwin's prodigious reading, experimentation, and observations on his travels fed into his great work, which draws on material from the Galapagos Islands to rural Staffordshire, from English back gardens to colonial encounters. The present edition provides a detailed and accessible discussion of his theories and adds an account of the immediate responses to the book on publication. The resistances as well as the enthusiasms of the first readers cast light on recent controversies, particularly concerning questions of design and descent.
Great Expectations
Authors: Dickens Charles , Douglas-Fairhurst Robert
Published: December 2020

‘You are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret.’ Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip is haunted by figures from his past - the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havisham and her proud and beautiful ward, Estella - and in time uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of his own heart. A powerful and moving novel, Great Expectations is suffused with Dickens’s memories of the past and its grip on the present, and it raises disturbing questions about the extent to which individuals affect each other’s lives. This edition includes a lively introduction, Dickens’s working notes, the novel’s original ending, and an extract from an early theatrical adaptation. It reprints the definitive Clarendon text.
Chapter VII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

At the time when I stood in the churchyard, reading the family tombstones, I had just enough learning to be able to spell them out. My construction even of their simple meaning was not very correct, for I read “wife of the Above” as...
Chapter IV
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr.
Pocket said he was glad to see me, and he hoped I was not sorry to see him. “For, I really am not,” he added, with his son’s smile, “an alarming personage.” He was a young-looking-man, in spite of his perplexities and his...
Chapter XX
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I was three-and-twenty years of age. Not another word had I heard to enlighten me on the subject of my expectations, and my twenty-third birthday was a week gone. We had left Barnard’s Inn more than a year and lived in the Temple....
Chapter III
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Dear boy and Pip’s comrade. I am not a going fur to tell you my life, like a song or a story-book.* But to give it you short and handy, I’ll put it at once into a mouthful of English. In...
Capital
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology. Millions of readers this century have treated Capital as a sacred text, subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the bible itself. No mere work of dry economics, Marx’s great work depicts the unfolding of industrial capitalism as a tragic drama - with a message which has lost none of its relevance today. This is the only abridged edition to take account of the whole of Capital. It offers virtually all of Volume 1, which Marx himself published in 1867, excerpts from a new translation of ‘The Result of the Immediate Process of Production’, and a selection of key chapters from Volume 3, which Engels published in 1895.
Afterword to the Second German Edition
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Since 1848 capitalist production has developed rapidly in Germany, and at the present time it is in the full bloom of speculation and swindling. But fate is still unpropitious to our professional economists. At the time when they were able to deal with Political...
Chapter 11 Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

In this chapter, as hitherto, the value of labour-power, and therefore the part of the working-day necessary for the reproduction or maintenance of that labour-power, are supposed to be given, constant magnitudes.

This premised, with the rate, the mass is at the same time given...
Chapter 12 The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

That portion of the working-day which merely produces an equivalent for the value paid by the capitalist for his labour-power, has, up to this point, been treated by us as a constant magnitude, and such in fact it is, under given conditions of production...
Chapter 16 Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

In considering the labour-process, we began (see Chapter 7) by treating it in the abstract, apart from its historical forms, as a process between man and Nature. We there stated, p. 118: ‘If we examine the whole process from the point of view of...
Chapter 19 The Transformation of the Value (and Respectively the Price) of Labour-Power into Wages
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

On the surface of bourgeois society the wage of the labourer appears as the price of labour, a certain quantity of money that is paid for a certain quantity of labour. Thus people speak of the value of labour and call its expression in...
Chapter 26 The Secret of Primitive Accumulation
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

We have seen how money is changed into capital; how through capital surplus-value is made, and from surplus-value more capital. But the accumulation of capital pre-supposes surplus-value; surplus-value pre-supposes capitalistic production; capitalistic production pre-supposes the pre-existence of considerable masses of capital and of labour-power...
Chapter 28 Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

The proletariat created by the breaking up of the bands of feudal retainers and by the forcible expropriation of the people from the soil, this ‘free’ proletariat could not possibly be absorbed by the nascent manufactures as fast as it was thrown upon the...
Chapter 43 The Trinity Formula
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

I

Capital—profit (profit of enterprise plus interest), land—ground-rent, labour—wages, this is the trinity formula which comprises all the secrets of the social production process.

Furthermore, since as previously demonstrated interest appears as the specific characteristic product of capital and profit of enterprise on the contrary...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

‘The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.’ When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to stay forever young, and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. Set in fin-de-siécle London, the novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Hallward to the opium dens of the East End. As Dorian's slide into crime and cruelty progresses he stays magically youthful, while his beautiful portrait changes, revealing the hideous corruption of moral decay. Ever since its first publication in 1890 Wilde's only novel has remained the subject of critical controversy. Acclaimed by some as an instructive moral tale, it has been denounced by others for its implicit immorality. Combining elements of the supernatural, aestheticism, and the Gothic, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an unclassifiable and uniquely unsettling work of fiction.
The Mail
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business. The Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up Shooter’s Hill.*...
An Opinion
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the tenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of the sun into the room where a heavy slumber had overtaken him when it was dark night.

He rubbed...
The Wood-Sawyer
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

One year and three months.* During all that time Lucie was never sure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her husband’s head next day. Every day, through the stony streets, the tumbrils now jolted heavily, filled with...
Chapter XIV: The Bird of Prey Brought Down*
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Cold on the shore, in the raw cold of that leaden crisis in the four-and-twenty hours when the vital force of all the noblest and prettiest things that live is at its lowest, the three watchers looked each at the blank faces of the...
Chapter V: Mercury Prompting
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle’s eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection...
Chapter VI: The Golden Dustman Falls into Worse Company
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It had come to pass that Mr. Silas Wegg now rarely attended the minion of fortune and the worm of the hour, at his (the worm’s and minion’s) own house, but lay under general instructions to await him within a certain margin of hours...
Chapter IX: Somebody Becomes the Subject of a Prediction
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘ “We Give Thee Hearty Thanks For That It Hath Pleased Thee To Deliver This Our Sister Out Of The Miseries Of This Sinful World.” ’ So read the Reverend Frank Milvey in a not untroubled voice, for his heart misgave him that...
Chapter XI: In the Dark
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There was no sleep for Bradley Headstone on that night when Eugene Wrayburn turned so easily in his bed; there was no sleep for little Miss Peecher. Bradley consumed the lonely hours, and consumed himself, in haunting the spot where his careless rival lay...
Chapter XIV: Checkmate to the Friendly Move
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. John Harmon had so timed their taking possession of their rightful name and their London house, that the event befell on the very day when the last waggon-load of the last Mound was driven out at the gates of Boffin’s Bower....
Chapter XV: What was Caught in the Traps that were Set
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

How Bradley Headstone had been racked and riven in his mind since die quiet evening when by the river-side he had risen, as it were, out of the ashes of the Bargeman, none but he could have told. Not even he could have told,...
Chapter I treats of the place where oliver twist was born; and of the circumstances attending his birth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Among other public buildings in a certain town,* which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit,...
Chapter VI oliver, being goaded by the taunts of noah, rouses into action, and rather astonishes him
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The month’s trial over, Oliver was formally apprenticed. It was a nice sickly season just at this time. In commercial phrase, coffins were looking up; and, in the course of a few weeks, Oliver had acquired a great deal of experience. The...
Chapter XVIII how oliver passed his time, in the improving society of his reputable friends
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

About noon next day, when the Dodger and Master Bates had gone out to pursue their customary avocations, Mr. Fagin took the opportunity of reading Oliver a long lecture on the crying sin of ingratitude: of which he clearly demonstrated he had...
Chapter XXXIII wherein the happiness of oliver and his friends, experiences a sudden check
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had...
Chapter XXXVI is a very short one, and may appear of no great importance in its place. but it should be read notwithstanding, as a sequel to the last, and a key to one that will follow when its time arrives
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘And so you are resolved to be my travelling-companion this morning; eh?’ said the doctor, as Harry Maylie joined him and Oliver at the breakfast-table. ‘Why, you are not in the same mind or intention two half-hours together.’

‘You will tell me a different...
Chapter XXXIX introduces some respectable characters with whom the reader is already acquainted, and shews how monks and the jew laid their worthy heads together
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

On the evening following that upon which the three worthies mentioned in the last chapter, disposed of their little matter of business as therein narrated, Mr. William Sikes, awakening from a nap, drowsily growled forth an inquiry what time of night it was.

The room...
Chapter XLVII fatal consequences
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was nearly two hours before daybreak; that time which, in the autumn of the year, may be truly called the dead of night; when the streets are silent and deserted; when even sounds appear to slumber, and profligacy and riot have staggered home...
Chapter LII the jew’s last night alive
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The court was paved, from floor to roof, with human faces. Inquisitive and eager eyes peered from every inch of space. From the rail before the dock, away into the sharpest angle of the smallest corner in the galleries, all looks were fixed upon...
Chapter XIII The Sequel of My Resolution
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

For anything I know, I may have had some wild idea of running all the way to Dover, when I gave up the pursuit of the young man with the donkey-cart, and started for Greenwich. My scattered senses were soon collected as to that...
Chapter XXV Good and Bad Angels
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Was going out at my door on the morning after that deplorable day of headache, sickness, and repentance, with an odd confusion in mind relative to the date of my dinner-party, as if a body of Titans had taken an enormous lever...
Chapter XXXIII Blissful
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

All this time, I had gone on loving Dora, harder than ever. Her idea was my refuge in disappointment and distress, and made some amends to me, even for the loss of my friend. The more I pitied myself, or pitied others, the more...
Chapter XLIX I Am Involved in Mystery
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Received one morning by the post, the following letter, dated Canterbury, and addressed to me at Doctors’ Commons; which I read with some surprise:

“My
Dear
Sir,

“Circumstances beyond my individual controul have, for a considerable lapse of time, effected a...
Chapter LIV Mr. Micawber’s Transactions
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

This is not the time at which I am to enter on the state of my mind beneath its load of sorrow. I came to think that the Future was walled up before me, that the energy and action of my life were at...
Chapter LVII The Emigrants
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

One thing more, I had to do, before yielding myself to the shock of these emotions. It was, to conceal what had occurred, from those who were going away; and to dismiss them on their voyage in happy ignorance. In this, no time was...
Chapter Sixteen Tom-All-Alone’s
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

My Lady Dedlock is restless, very restless. The astonished fashionable intelligence hardly knows where to have her. To-day, she is at Chesney Wold; yesterday, she was at her house in town; to-morrow, she may be abroad, for anything the fashionable intelligence can with confidence...
Chapter Twenty A New Lodger
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The long vacation saunters on towards term-time, like an idle river very leisurely strolling down a flat country to the sea. Mr Guppy saunters along with it congenially. He has blunted the blade of his penknife, and broken the point off, by sticking that...
Chapter Twenty-Two MR Bucket
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Allegory looks pretty cool in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, though the evening is hot; for, both Mr Tulkinghorn’s windows are wide open, and the room is lofty, gusty, and gloomy. These may not be desirable characteristics when November comes with fog and sleet, or January...
Chapter Twenty-Three Esther’s Narrative
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

We came home from Mr Boythorn’s after six pleasant weeks. We were often in the park, and in the woods, and seldom passed the Lodge where we had taken shelter without looking in to speak to the keeper’s wife; but we saw...
Chapter Twenty-Six Sharpshooters
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Wintry morning, looking with dull eyes and sallow face upon the neighbourhood of Leicester Square, finds its inhabitants unwilling to get out of bed. Many of them are not early risers at the brightest of times, being birds of night who roost when the...
Chapter Forty-One In Mr Tulkinghorn’a Room
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr Tulkin Ghorn arrives in his turret-room, a little breathed by the journey up, though leisurely performed. There is an expression on his face as if he had discharged his mind of some grave matter, and were, in his close way, satisfied....
Chapter Fifty-Eight A Wintry Day and Night
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Still impassive, as behoves its breeding, the Dedlock town-house carries itself as usual towards the street of dismal grandeur. There are powdered heads from time to time in the little windows of the hall, looking out at the untaxed powder* falling all...
Chapter Sixty-Seven The Close Of Esther’s Narrative
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Full seven happy years I have been the mistress of Bleak House. The few words that I have to add to what I have written, are soon penned; then I, and the unknown friend to whom I write, will part for ever. Not without...
Villette
Authors: Brontë Charlotte , Dolin Tim
Published: December 2020

‘I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.’ George Eliot Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's school in 'Villette'. Strongly drawn to the fiery autocratic schoolmaster Monsieur Paul Emanuel, Lucy is compelled by Madame Beck's jealous interference to assert her right to love and be loved. Based in part on Charlotte Brontë's experience in Brussels ten years earlier, Villette (1853) is a cogent and dramatic exploration of a woman's response to the challenge of a constricting social environment. Its deployment of imagery comparable in power to that of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and its use of comedy-ironic or exuberant-in the service of an ultimately sombre vision, make Villette especially appealing to the modern reader. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Chapter XIV The Fête
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

As soon as Georgette was well, madame sent her away into the country. I was sorry; I loved the child, and her loss made me poorer than before. But I must not complain. I lived in a house full of robust life; I might have...
Chapter XXIV M. de Bassompierre
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other walled-in and guarded dwellings, are liable to be suddenly and for a long while dropped out of the memory of their friends, the denizens of a freer world....
Chapter II Paulina
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Some days elapsed, and it appeared she was not likely to take much of a fancy to anybody in the house. She was not exactly naughty or wilful: she was far from disobedient; but an object less conducive to comfort—to tranquillity even—than she presented, it...
Chapter V Turning a New Leaf
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

My mistress being dead, and I once more alone, I had to look out for a new place. About this time I might be a little—a very little, shaken in nerves. I grant I was not looking well, but on the contrary, thin, haggard, and...
Regret
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

Mamzelle Aurélie possessed a good strong figure, ruddy cheeks, hair that was changing from brown to gray, and a determined eye. She wore a man’s hat about the farm, and an old blue army overcoat* when it was cold, and sometimes top-boots.

Mamzelle Aurélie...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

`So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!' These words, said to have been uttered by Abraham Lincoln, signal the celebrity of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The first American novel to become an international best-seller, Stowe's novel charts the progress from slavery to freedom of fugitives who escape the chains of American chattel slavery, and of a martyr who transcends all earthly ties. At the middle of the nineteenth-century, the names of its characters - Little Eva, Topsy, Uncle Tom - were renowned. A hundred years later, `Uncle Tom' still had meaning, but, to Blacks everywhere it had become a curse. This edition firmly locates Uncle Tom's Cabin within the context of African-American writing, the issues of race and the role of women. Its appendices include the most important contemporary African-American literary responses to the glorification of Uncle Tom's Christian resignation as well as excerpts from popular slave narratives, quoted by Stowe in her justification of the dramatization of slavery, Key to Uncles Tom's Cabin.
Jo Meets Apollyon
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

‘Girls, where are you going?’ asked Amy, coming into their room one Saturday afternoon, and finding them getting ready to go out, with an air of secrecy which excited her curiosity.

‘Never mind; little girls shouldn’t ask questions,’ returned Jo, sharply.

Now if there is...
17 Little Faithful
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

For a week the amount of virtue in the old house would have supplied the neighborhood. It was really amazing, for every one seemed in a heavenly frame of mind, and self-denial was all the fashion. Relieved of their first anxiety about their father, the...
Just So Stories for Little Children
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world. He plays games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends’ children over many years before he wrote them down, adding poems and his own illustrations. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other's pleasure but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading. This fully illustrated edition icludes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title.
The Golden Bough
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume edition (1906–15) which was abridged in 1922 by the author and his wife. That abridgement has never been reconsidered for a modern audience. In it some of the more controversial passages were dropped, including Frazer’s daring speculations on the Crucifixion of Christ. For the first time this one-volume edition restores Frazer’s bolder theories and sets them within the framework of a valuable introduction and notes. A seminal work of modern anthropolgy, The Golden Bough also influenced many twentieth-century writers, including D H Lawrence, T S Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis. Its discussion of magical types, the sacrificial killing of kings, the dying god, and the scapegoat is given fresh pertinence in this new edition.
The House of the Seven Gables
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies the spot where Matthew Maule, ‘an obscure man’, had lived in a log hut, until his execution for witchcraft. From the scaffold, Maule points his finger at the presiding Colonel and cries ‘God will give him blood to drink!’ The fate of Colonel Pyncheon exerts a heavy influence on his descendants in the crumbling mansion for the next century and a half. Hawthorne called his novel a ‘Romance’, drawing on the Gothic tradition which embraced and exploited the thrills of the supernatural. Unlike The Scarlet Letter, with its unrelentingly dark view of human nature and guilt, Hawthorne sought to write ‘a more natural and healthy product of my mind’, a story which would show guilt to be a trick of the imagination. The tension between fantasy and a new realism underpins the novel's descriptive virtuosity.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Authors: Twain Mark , Beard Daniel Carter
Published: December 2020

When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture grew into a disturbing satire of modern technology and social thought. The story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Twain’s finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years. In his introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how A Connecticut Yankee develops from comedy to tragedy and so into a novel that remains a major literary and cultural text for new generations of readers. This edition reproduces a number of the original drawings by Dan Beard, of whom Twain said ‘he not only illustrates the text but he illustrates my thoughts’.
The Spoils of Poynton
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs Gareth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d’art from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fiancée. When she discovers that her young friend and sympathizer Fleda Vetch is secretly in love with Owen, she thrusts her into the battle-line. The power struggle that ensues between the three women leaves Owen vacillating. What is at stake is not the mere possession of tables and chairs; it is, for Fleda, a conflict between aesthetic ideals, ethical imperatives, and her innermost feelings, in which she risks betraying, and being betrayed by, all that she holds most dear.
Hide and Seek
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

At the centre of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known as Madonna? It is not until his young friend Zack Thorpe, who is in rebellion against his repressive father, gets into bad company and meets a mysterious stranger that the secret of Madonna can be unravelled. Wilkie Collins's third novel, dedicated to his life-long friend Dickens, is a story in which excitement is combined with charm and humour. In its mixture of the everyday and the extraordinary, Hide and Seek forms a bridge between the domestic novel and the sensational fiction for which Collins later became famous.
A Child of the Jago
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

‘The Jago had got him, and it held him fast.’ In the worst of London’s East End slums, in an area called the Jago, young Dicky Perrott is used to a life of poverty, crime, and violence. Gang warfare is the order of the day, deaths are commonplace, and thieving the only way to survive. At first Dicky dreams of becoming a High Mobsman – one of the aristocrats of Jago crime – but the efforts of Father Sturt to improve conditions offer him a different path. Dicky’s journey takes him through a savage but colourful community of pickpockets and cosh-carriers, where the police only enter in threes, and where murder erupts with an unusual horror and intimacy. Morrison’s portrayal of the Victorian underclass and its underworld drew attention to the bleak prospects for children living in such surroundings, and it is a classic of slum-fiction. In this edition Peter Miles provides a rich contextual background to the creation of the novel, and the social debates to which it contributed.
Black Beauty
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

‘I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing.’ Anna Sewell's famous ‘Autobiography of a Horse, published in 1877, is one of the bestselling novels in English. It was written not for children, but to expose and prevent cruelty to horses, and is a classic of Victorian literature that continues to captivate readers young and old. Black Beauty's moving story recounts his idyllic colthood and his experiences at the hands of a variety of owners, good and bad. Describing his life as a horse in Victorian England, he tells of his equine companions and human carers, and of the unthinking brutality to which horses were often subjected. A sympathetic hero who faces danger and excitement, Black Beauty never wavers in his principles, and the powerful lessons he teaches influenced animal welfare in England and America. This edition restores the original 1877 text and explores the multiple ways in which the novel has been read: as accessible horse-care manual, protest novel, feminist text, autobiography, slave narrative, and classic animal story.
Barchester Towers
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Mr Slope flattered himself that he could out-manoeuvre the lady…he did not doubt of ultimate triumph.’ Barchester Towers (1857) was the book that made Trollope's reputation and it remains his most popular and enjoyable novel. The arrival of a new bishop in Barchester, accompanied by his formidable wife and ambitious chaplain, Obadiah Slope, sets the town in turmoil as Archdeacon Grantly declares ‘War, war, internecine war!’ on Bishop Proudie and his supporters. Who will come out on top in the battle between the archdeacon, the bishop, Mr Slope, and Mrs Proudie? The livelihood of Mr Harding, the saintly hero of The Warden, is once more under threat but clerical warfare finds itself tangled up in the wayward (and sometimes perverse) desires of the many courtships, seductions, and romances of the book. Who will marry Eleanor Bold? Can any man resist the charms of the exotically beautiful ‘La Signora Madeline Vesey Neroni’? Will the oily Mr Slope finally get his comeuppance? Trollope's matchless handling of plot and character displays a skill whose distinctive literary qualities are celebrated in this new edition.
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
Authors: Mill John Stuart
Published: December 2020

‘it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings’ Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes - whether in the nineteenth century or the twenty-first. They have formed the basis for many of the political institutions of the West since the late nineteenth century, tackling as they do the appropriate grounds for protecting individual liberty, the basic principles of ethics, the benefits and the costs of representative institutions, and the central importance of gender equality in society. These essays are central to the liberal tradition, but their interpretation and how we should understand their connection with each other are both contentious. In their introduction Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen set the essays in the context of Mill's other works, and argue that his conviction in the importance of the development of human character in its full diversity provides the core to his liberalism and to any defensible account of the value of liberalism to the modern world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Electoral Consequences of Scandals: A Meta-Analysis
Authors: Praino Rodrigo , Stockemer Daniel
Published: December 2020

As the number of scandals involving politicians in office rises worldwide, the number of studies dedicated to analysing these scandals and their consequences rises as well. In this article, we try to summarise this emerging literature focusing on quantitative studies that use scandal as an independent variable to model its influence on politicians’ electoral results. The analysis finds that scandal-ridden politicians tend to get fewer votes at the ballot box, are more likely to lose elections, and are less likely to win re-election. It also finds that the link between scandal and turnout is unclear; some models indicate that scandals depress turnout, while others report an increase in turnout.
JAK1 inhibition and inflammatory bowel disease
Authors: Harris Clare , Cummings J R Fraser
Published: December 2020

Primary non-response and secondary loss of response remain a significant issue with the currently available treatment options for a significant proportion of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). There are multiple unmet needs in the IBD treatment algorithm and new treatment options are required. As our understanding of the pathogenesis of IBD evolves, new therapeutic targets are being identified. The JAK-STAT pathway has been extensively studied. Tofacitinib, a JAK1 inhibitor, is now licensed for use in the induction and maintenance of ulcerative colitis and there are a large number of molecules currently under investigation. These new small molecule drugs (SMDs) will challenge current treatment pathways at a time when clinical therapeutic outcomes are rapidly evolving and becoming more ambitious. This is a review of the current JAK1 inhibitors in IBD including the current evidence from clinical trials.