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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘I’VE come to get you. Your laundry took a long time today,’ said Petritsky. ‘Well, is it done?’

‘It is,’ answered Vronsky, smiling with just his eyes, and twirling the tips of his moustaches cautiously, as though too bold or rapid a movement might...
25
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

There was no railway or post road to the Surov district and Levin went in the tarantass* with his own horses.

At the halfway point on his journey he stopped to feed his horses at a wealthy peasant’s house. A bald, sprightly looking old...
26
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Sviyazhsky was Marshal of the Nobility in his district. He was five years older than Levin, and had been married a long time. His young sister-in-law, a girl towards whom Levin was very well disposed, lived in his house. And Levin knew that Sviyazhsky...
28
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Levin was insufferably bored with the ladies that evening: more than ever before, he was excited by the thought that the dissatisfaction he was now experiencing with his farming was not exclusive to him, but symptomatic of the general state of agriculture in Russia,...
29
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The execution of Levin’s plan presented many difficulties; but he put his heart and soul into it, and although what he achieved was not what he wanted, it was enough to enable him to believe without any self-deception that it was worth the effort....
1
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The Karenins, husband and wife, continued to live in the same house and meet every day, but they were complete strangers to one another. Alexey Alexandrovich made it a rule to see his wife every day so that the servants had no grounds for...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The next day was Sunday. Stepan Arkadyich dropped in at a ballet rehearsal at the Bolshoi Theatre to give Masha Chibisova, a pretty dancer recently taken on through his patronage, the coral necklace he had promised her the previous day, and in the wings,...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Pestsov liked to bring arguments to their conclusion, and was not satisfied with Sergey Ivanovich’s remarks, particularly as he felt his opinion was flawed.

‘I never had in mind density of population on its own,’ he said, addressing Alexey Alexandrovich over the soup, ‘but in...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Everyone took part in the general conversation except Kitty and Levin. At first, while they were discussing the influence of one nation on another, things he had to say on this subject started involuntarily coming into Levin’s mind; but these thoughts, previously very important...
13
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When everyone rose from the table, Levin wanted to follow Kitty into the drawing room; but he was afraid she might be displeased by his too obvious courtship of her. He remained in the company of the men, taking part in the general conversation,...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The Princess sat smiling silently in an armchair; the Prince sat down next to her. Kitty stood by her father’s armchair, still holding his hand. Everyone was silent.

The Princess was the first to put everything into words and translate all thoughts and feelings into...
19
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The error committed by Alexey Alexandrovich while preparing to see his wife, in not considering the possibility that her repentance might be sincere, that he might forgive her, and that she might not die—this error became glaringly evident to him two months after his...
21
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Betsy had not yet managed to leave the ballroom when in the doorway she ran into Stepan Arkadyich, who had just arrived from Yeliseyev’s, where they had just received a consignment of fresh oysters.

‘Ah, Princess! Now this is a pleasant meeting!’ he began. ‘I...
1
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Princess
Shcherbatskaya found that it would be impossible to arrange the wedding before Lent, which was five weeks away, as half the trousseau would not be ready by then; but she could not help agreeing with Levin that after Lent would be too late,...
2
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On the day of the wedding, in accordance with custom (the Princess and Darya Alexandrovna insisted on strict observance of all the customs), Levin did not see his fiancée and dined at his hotel with three bachelor friends who had happened to gather with...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

All Moscow, including relatives and friends, was in the church. And during the betrothal ceremony, in the brilliant illumination of the church, there was an unceasing, decorously hushed conversation amongst the group of elegantly dressed women and girls and men in white ties, tails,...
6
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When the ceremony of betrothal was over, a clergyman spread out a piece of pink silk cloth in front of the lectern in the middle of the church, the choir sang an elaborate and complicated psalm, in which the bass and the tenor sang...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Vronsky and Anna had been travelling together in Europe for three months now. They had visited Venice, Rome, and Naples, and had just arrived in a small Italian town where they intended to settle for a while.

A handsome maître d’hôtel with thick, pomaded hair...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The artist Mikhailov was, as always, at work when the cards of Count Vronsky and Golenishchev were brought to him. He had spent the morning working in his studio on the big painting. When he returned home he lost his temper with his wife...
13
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Mikhailov sold Vronsky his little painting and agreed to paint a portrait of Anna. On the appointed day he came and started work.

From the fifth sitting onwards the portrait astonished everyone, and Vronsky in particular, not only with its likeness but also its special...
15
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

They had just arrived back from Moscow and were relishing their solitude. He was sitting at the desk in his study, writing. She, in that dark mauve gown she had worn in the first days of their marriage and put on again today, and...
20
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Death

The next day the sick man took communion and received Holy Unction. Nikolay Levin prayed fervently during the service. There was such passionate entreaty and hope expressed in his large eyes, which were fixed on an icon set up on a card-table covered...
21
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

From the moment Alexey Alexandrovich grasped from his discussions with Betsy and Stepan Arkadyich that all that was required of him was that he should leave his wife in peace and not trouble her with his presence, and that his wife desired this herself,...
26
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Well, Kapitonich?’ said Seryozha, returning from his walk on the eve of his birthday red-cheeked and in high spirits, and handing his pleated coat to the tall, elderly doorman smiling down at the little person from his great height. ‘Did the bandaged official...
1
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Darya
Alexandrovna was spending the summer with her children in Pokrovskoye, at her sister Kitty Levina’s. The house on her own estate had completely fallen apart, and Levin and his wife had persuaded her to spend the summer with them. Stepan Arkadyich greatly approved...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Levin only came home when they sent to call him in to supper. Kitty and Agafya Mikhailovna were standing on the stairs, discussing the wines for supper.

‘Why are you making such a fuss?2 Serve the same ones as usual.’

‘No, Stiva won’t...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Well, so what’s our route? Tell us all about it,’ said Stepan Arkadyich.

‘This is the plan: at the moment we’re driving to Gvozdevo. On this side of Gvozdevo there’s a marsh with great snipe, and beyond Gvozdevo there are some superb marshes...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Vasenka drove the horses so hard that they arrived at the marsh too early, when it was still hot.

Having driven up to the real marsh, the main object of their trip, Levin could not help thinking about how to get rid of Vasenka so...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The next day at ten o’clock, having already been round the estate, Levin knocked at the room in which Vasenka was staying.

‘Entrez,’ Veslovsky called out to him. ‘You must excuse me, I’ve only just finished my ablutions,’ he said, smiling as he...
18
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Anna looked at Dolly’s thin, worn-out face with its little wrinkles lined with dust, and was about to say what she thought—which was that Dolly had lost weight; but remembering that she herself had grown prettier and that Dolly’s look told her this, she...
19
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Left alone, Darya Alexandrovna inspected her room with a housewifely eye. Everything she had seen driving up to the house and walking through it, and now in her room, gave her the impression of abundance and splendour and that new European opulence she had...
24
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Then there is all the more need for you to regularize your position, if possible,’ said Dolly.

‘Yes, if possible,’ said Anna in a suddenly completely different, quiet and sad voice.

‘A divorce is not impossible, is it? I was told your husband...
31
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The newly elected Provincial Marshal and many of the victorious new party dined that day with Vronsky.

Vronsky had come to the elections partly because he was bored in the country and wanted to assert his right to freedom before Anna, partly to repay Sviyazhsky...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Two very interesting things were performed at the matinée concert.

One was a fantasia, King Lear on the Heath, and the other was a quartet dedicated to Bach’s memory.* Both were new and in the new style, and Levin wanted to...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After getting up from the table, Levin set off with Gagin through the lofty rooms to the billiard room, feeling his arms were swinging with a particular regularity and lightness as he walked. As he was walking through the main lounge, he bumped into...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

She had risen to greet him without concealing her pleasure at seeing him. And in the composure with which she extended her energetic small hand to him, introduced him to Vorkuyev, and indicated a pretty girl with reddish hair she called her ward, who...
12
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After seeing her guests out Anna did not sit down, but started pacing about the room. Although she had unconsciously spent the whole evening doing all she could to arouse in Levin a feeling of love for her (as she did with all young...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Some time after nine o’clock the old Prince, Sergey Ivanovich, and Stepan Arkadyich were sitting with Levin and, having talked about the new mother, chatting about other things. Involuntarily recalling the past during this conversation, what there had been before that morning, Levin was...
17
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Stepan
Arkadyich’s affairs were in a bad way.

Two-thirds of the money for the wood had already been spent and, with a ten-per-cent deduction, he had obtained almost all of the remaining third from the merchant in advance. The merchant would not give any more...
21
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After a splendid dinner and a large quantity of cognac drunk at Bartnyansky’s, Stepan Arkadyich arrived at Countess Lydia Ivanovna’s only a little after the appointed time.

‘Who else is with the Countess? The Frenchman?’ Stepan Arkadyich asked the hall-porter as he observed Alexey Alexandrovich’s...
22
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Stepan
Arkadyich felt completely perplexed by the strange new discourses he heard. The sophistication of Petersburg life generally had an invigorating effect on him, drawing him out of his Moscow lethargy; but he only liked and understood this sophistication in the spheres he knew...
1
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Almost two months had passed. It was already the middle of the hot summer, but Sergey Ivanovich was only now ready to leave Moscow.

Some important events had taken place in Sergey Ivanovich’s life during this time. His book, entitled Towards a Survey of...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After taking leave of the Princess, Sergey Ivanovich got into the overcrowded carriage with Katavasov, who had joined him, and the train departed.

At Tsaritsyno station the train was met by a harmonious choir of young men singing ‘Glory’.* The volunteers poked their...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In his long coat and pulled-down hat, with his hands in his pockets, Vronsky was walking along in the slanting evening shadow of some sacks piled up on the platform like a caged animal, turning round smartly every twenty paces. It seemed to Sergey...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

From the moment when the sight of his beloved dying brother had caused Levin to look for the first time at the issues of life and death through the prism of those new convictions, as he called them, which between the ages...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

These thoughts taxed and tormented him with varying degrees of intensity, but they never left him. He went on reading and thinking, and the more he read and thought, the further he felt from the goal he was pursuing.

Having come to the conclusion...
12
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Levin strode along the highway, heedful not so much of his thoughts (he could not decipher them yet) as of a spiritual state that he had never experienced before.

The words spoken by the peasant had produced in his soul the effect of an electric...
15
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Kostya, do you know who Sergey Ivanovich travelled with on his way here?’ said Dolly, after she had doled out cucumbers and honey to the children. ‘Vronsky! He’s going to Serbia.’

‘And not alone either; he’s taking a squadron with him at his...
17
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The old Prince and Sergey Ivanich got into the trap and drove off; the rest of the party set off home on foot, quickening their pace.

But the clouds, white one minute and black the next, were gathering so rapidly that it was necessary to...
18
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

During the course of the whole day, and throughout the most varied conversations, in which he participated with, as it were, only the outer part of his mind, Levin did not cease to be joyously aware of the fullness of his heart, despite the...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

From the very first week, Pauline’s presence brought joy into the house. Her glowing health, common sense, and calm smile soothed away the unspoken bitterness from the Chanteaus’ lives. In her, the father had found a nurse, while the mother was happy that her...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Every evening in the dining room, once Véronique had cleared the table, the same conversation would begin again between Madame Chanteau and Louise, while Chanteau, his head buried in a newspaper, offered only the briefest replies to his wife’s occasional questions. During the fortnight...
Chapter 8
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The root cause of Lazare’s melancholy was boredom, an oppressive, unrelenting boredom that leached out from everything, like dirty water from a poisoned spring. He was bored with both work and rest, and with himself even more than with others. However, he took himself...
Chapter I Childhood, And Early Education
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

It seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch, some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a...
Chapter II Moral Influences In Early Youth. My Father’s Character and Opinions
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

In my education, as in that of every one, the moral influences, which are so much more important than all others, are also the most complicated, and the most difficult to specify with any approach to completeness. Without attempting the hopeless task of detailing...
Chapter II
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘Will any one do anything about Hybiscus?’ sang out a gentleman in the ring at Epsom. It was full of eager groups; round the betting post a swarming cluster, while the magic circle itself was surrounded by a host of horsemen shouting from...
Chapter V
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Lord Marney left several children; his heir was five years older than the next son Charles who at the period of his father’s death was at Christchurch and had just entered the last year of his minority.* Attaining that age, he received...
Chapter III
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

The situation of the rural town of Marney* was one of the most delightful easily to be imagined. In a spreading dale, contiguous to the margin of a clear and lively stream, surrounded by meadows and gardens, and backed by lofty hills,...
Chapter XII
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘And how do you find the people about you, Marney?’ said Lord de Mowbray, seating himself on a sofa by his guest.

‘All very well, my lord,’ replied the earl, who ever treated Lord de Mowbray with a certain degree of ceremony, especially when...
Chapter XV
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘Where have you been all the morning, Charles?’ said Lord Marney, coming into his brother’s dressing-room a few minutes before dinner; ‘Arabella had made the nicest little riding party for you and Lady Joan, and you were to be found nowhere. If you...
Chapter VI
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

A bloom was spread over the morning sky. A soft golden light bathed with its fresh beam the bosom of the valley, except where a delicate haze, rather than a mist, still partially lingered over the river, which yet occasionally gleamed and sparkled...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

We left Sybil and Egremont just at the moment that Gerard arrived at the very threshold which they had themselves reached.

‘Ah! my father,’ exclaimed Sybil, and then with a faint blush of which she was perhaps unconscious, she added, as if apprehensive Gerard would...
Chapter IX
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

It was Monday morning. Hatton, enveloped in his chamber robe and wearing his velvet cap, was lounging in the best room of the principal commercial inn of Mowbray, over a breakfast table covered with all the delicacies of which a northern matin meal may...
Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Dashwood remained at Norland several months; not from any disinclination to move when the sight of every well known spot ceased to raise the violent emotion which it produced for a while; for when her spirits began to revive, and her...
Chapter IX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The Dashwoods were now settled at Barton with tolerable comfort to themselves. The house and the garden, with all the objects surrounding them, were now become familiar, and the ordinary pursuits which had given to Norland half its charms, were engaged in again with...
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

As Elinor and Marianne were walking together the next morning the latter communicated a piece of news to her sister, which in spite of all that she knew before of Marianne’s imprudence and want of thought, surprised her by its extravagant testimony of both....
Chapter XVII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Dashwood was surprised only for a moment at seeing him; for his coming to Barton was, in her opinion, of all things the most natural. Her joy and expressions of regard long outlived her wonder. He received the kindest welcome from...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Elinor saw, with great uneasiness, the low spirits of her friend. His visit afforded her but a very partial satisfaction, while his own enjoyment in it appeared so imperfect. It was evident that he was unhappy; she wished it were equally evident that he...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Marianne, who had never much toleration for any thing like impertinence, vulgarity, inferiority of parts, or even difference of taste from herself, was at this time particularly ill-disposed, from the state of her spirits, to be pleased with the Miss Steeles, or to encourage...
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

In a firm, though cautious tone, Elinor thus began.

‘I should be undeserving of the confidence you have honoured me with, if I felt no desire for its continuance, or no farther curiosity on its subject. I will not apologize therefore for bringing it forward...
Chapter VI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Nothing occurred during the next three or four days, to make Elinor regret what she had done, in applying to her mother; for Willoughby neither came nor wrote. They were engaged about the end of that time to attend Lady Middleton to a party,...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Jennings came immediately to their room on her return, and without waiting to have her request of admittance answered, opened the door and walked in with a look of real concern.

‘How do you do my dear?’—said she in a voice of...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Elinor, starting back with a look of horror at the sight of him, obeyed the first impulse of her heart in turning instantly to quit the room, and her hand was already on the lock, when its action was suspended by his hastily advancing,...
The Fictional Characters
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

(Identifiable historical figures have an explanatory note where they first appear in the text)

Adolphe

driver in the fifth artillery battery under Honoré Fouchard

Bastian

drummer in Capt. Beaudoin‘s 106th Regiment

Beaudoin, Capt.

captain in the 106th Regiment; lover of Gilberte Delaherche

Bourgain-Desfeuilles, Gen....
Chapter One
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In the small, dark bedroom in Bazeilles, a sudden disturbance made Weiss jump out of bed. He listened: it was the cannon. Fumbling, he had to light a candle to see what time his watch said: four o’clock, the day was only barely beginning.*...
Chapter Seven
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At that hour, all around Sedan, a terrified mass of men, horses, and cannon was surging back towards the city, flooding in from all the positions which had been lost, from Floing, Illy Plateau, Garenne Wood, Givonne Valley, and the Bazeilles road. The fortified city,...
Chapter Eight
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At about half-past five, before the gates were shut, Delaherche had gone back again to the Sous-Préfecture, worried about what the consequences would be now that he knew the battle was lost. He stayed there for nearly three hours, plodding up and down the courtyard...
A Convivial Meeting
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the whole Mr Dockwrath was satisfied with the results of his trip to Groby Park, and was in a contented frame of mind as he was driven back to Leeds. No doubt it would have been better could he have persuaded Mr Mason...
Mrs Furnival at Home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lucius Mason on his road to Liverpool had passed through London, and had found a moment to call in Harley Street. Since his return from Germany he had met Miss Furnival both at home at his mother’s house — or rather his own — and at The Cleeve....
Mr Dockwrath in His Own Office
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the conversation which had taken place after dinner at Noningsby with regard to the Masons Peregrine Orme took no part, but his silence had not arisen from any want of interest on the subject. He had been over to Hamworth that day on...
Christmas in Great St Helen’s
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

We will now look in for a moment at the Christmas doings of our fat friend, Mr Moulder. Mr Moulder was a married man living in lodgings over a wine-merchant’s vaults in Great St Helen’s. He was blessed — or troubled, with no children, and prided...
Monkton Grange
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

During these days Peregrine Orme — though he was in love up to his very chin, seriously in love, acknowledging this matter to himself openly, pulling his hair in the retirement of his bedroom, and resolving that he would do that which he had hitherto in...
Another Fall
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Felix Graham had plenty of nurses, but Madeline was not one of them. Augustus Staveley came home while the Alston doctor was still busy at the broken bones, and of course he would not leave his friend. He was one of those who had...
Footsteps in the Corridor
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Upon my word I am very sorry,’ said the judge. ‘But what made him go off so suddenly? I hope there’s nobody ill at The Cleeve!’ And then the judge took his first spoonful of soup.

‘No, no; there is nothing of that sort,’ said...
Mr Furnival Looks for Assistance
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘And you think that nothing can be done down there?’ said Mr Furnival to his clerk, immediately after the return of Mr Crabwitz from Hamworth to London.

‘Nothing at all, sir,’ said Mr Crabwitz, with laconic significance.

‘Well; I dare say not. If the...
How Can I Save Him?
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘I will not consent to live with you while such deeds as these are being done.’ Such were the last words which Mrs Furnival spoke as she walked out of her own drawing-room, leaving her husband still seated in his arm-chair.

What was he...
Showing How Lady Mason Could Be Very Noble
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady Mason returned to The Cleeve after her visit to Mr Furnival’s chambers, and nobody asked her why she had been to London or whom she had seen. Nothing could be more gracious than the deference which was shown to her, and...
A Woman’s Idea of Friendship
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Sir Peregrine, after the hour that he had spent with his daughter-in-law, — that terrible hour during which Lady Mason had sat alone on the bed-side — returned to the library and remained there during the whole of the afternoon. It may be remembered that he had agreed...
Showing How Affairs Settled Themselves at Noningsby
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

We must now go back to Noningsby for one concluding chapter, and then our work will be completed.

‘You are not to go away from Noningsby when the trial is over, you know. Mamma said that I had better tell you so.’ It was thus...
Chapter III
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful night-mare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars. I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow sound, and as if...
Chapter IX
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring drew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased; its snows were melted; its cutting winds ameliorated. My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air...
Chapter XV
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Mr. Rochester did, on a future occasion, explain it.

It was one afternoon, when he chanced to meet me and Adèle in the grounds; and while she played with Pilot and her shuttlecock, he asked me to walk up and down a long beech avenue...
Chapter VI
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs: and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key. I never laughed at presentiments in my life; because I have had strange ones of my...
Chapter VII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Mr. Rochester had given me but one week’s leave of absence: yet a month elapsed before I quitted Gateshead. I wished to leave immediately after the funeral; but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to London: whither she was now...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour, even singly, our wave-girt* land. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

It was near Christmas by the time all was settled: the season of general holiday approached. I now closed Morton-school; taking care that the parting should not be barren on my side. Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and...
Chapter 8
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

On the fourth floor of a small lodging in the Rue Véron in Montmartre, Nana and Fontan had invited a few friends round for Twelfth Night celebrations. They were having a house-warming, as they had moved in only three days ago.

It had happened quite...
Chapter 10
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

And so Nana became a fashionable lady, queen of the boulevards, a woman of pleasure living at ease on the beastliness and stupidity of men. It was a sudden and definitive rise to fame in the glittering world of gallantry, financial folly, and reckless...
Chapter V
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

‘Hard students are commonly troubled with gowts, catarrhs, rheums, cachexia, bradypepsia, bad eyes, stone, and collick, crudities, oppilations,* vertigo, winds, consumptions, and all such diseases as come by over-much sitting: they are most part lean, dry, ill-coloured . . . and all through...
Chapter IX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Mr
Casaubon...
Chapter XII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The ride to Stone Court, which Fred and Rosamond took the next morning, lay through a pretty bit of midland landscape, almost all meadows and pastures, with hedgerows still allowed to...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

When George the Fourth was still reigning over the privacies of Windsor, when the Duke of Wellington was Prime Minister, and Mr Vincy was mayor of the old corporation in...
Chapter XX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Two hours later, Dorothea was seated in an inner room or boudoir of a handsome apartment in the...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Fred
Vincy, we have seen, had a debt on his mind, and though no such immaterial burthen could depress that...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Mr
Casaubon had no second attack of equal severity with the first, and in a few days began to recover his usual condition. But Lydgate seemed to think the case worth a great deal of...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

That night after twelve o’clock Mary Garth relieved the watch in Mr Featherstone’s room, and sat there alone through the small hours. She often chose...
Chapter XLIX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

‘I wish to God we could hinder Dorothea from knowing this,’ said Sir James Chettam, with the little frown...
Chapter LX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

A few days afterwards—it was already the end of August—there was an occasion which caused some excitement in Middlemarch: the public, if it chose, was to have the advantage of buying, under...
Chapter LXXXV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

‘Then went the jury out, whose names were Mr Blindman, Mr No-good, Mr Malice, Mr Love-lust, Mr Live-loose, Mr Heady, Mr High-mind, Mr Enmity, Mr Liar, Mr Cruelty, Mr Hate-light, Mr Implacable, who every one gave in his private verdict against him among themselves, and...
Book IV. Terror.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. Charlotte Corday.

In the leafy months of June and July, several French Departments germinate a set of rebellious paper-leaves, named Proclamations, Resolutions, Journals, or Diurnals ‘of the Union for Resistance to Oppression.’ In particular, the Town of Caen, in Calvados,...
Book VI. Thermidor.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. The Gods are Athirst.

What then is this Thing, called La Révolution, which, like an Angel of Death, hangs over France, noyading, fusillading, fighting, gun-boring, tanning human skins? La Révolution is but so many Alphabetic Letters; a thing...
Pros and Cons
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

At the time of these events, I was returning from a scientific exploration of the Badlands of Nebraska, in the United States. The French government had attached me to this expedition in my capacity as a part-time lecturer* at the Museum of...
The Nautilus
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Captain Nemo got up. I followed. Double doors opened at the back of the dining-room, and I discovered a room of the same size as the one I had just left.

It was a library.* Tall furniture, made of black rosewood and inset...
A Few Figures
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

A moment later, we were sitting on a divan in the salon, smoking cigars. The captain laid before me a blueprint containing the floor plan, section, and elevation of the Nautilus. Then he began his description:

‘The various dimensions of the ship you are on...
The Red Sea
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

On 29 January the island of Ceylon disappeared below the horizon, and the Nautilus, moving at 20 knots, slid into the labyrinth of channels separating the Maldives from the Laccadives. It even came close to Kiltan Island, a land of madreporian origin...
The Ice-Cap
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The
Nautilus had continued its imperturbable route southwards. It was tracing the 50th meridian at considerable speed. Did the Nautilus wish to reach the Pole? I hardly thought so, because all attempts so far had failed to get to that point of...
The Gulf Stream
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

None of us will ever forget that terrible scene of 20 April. I wrote about it under the impression of powerful emotions. Since then, I have re-examined the narrative and read it to Conseil and Ned. They found it factually correct, but too pallid....
A Massacre
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The way he spoke, the unexpectedness of the scene, the recounting of the tale of the patriotic ship, and the vehemence with which this strange individual had pronounced the final words about the Vengeur, leaving me in no doubt about his meaning:...
Second Period
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The Discovery of the Truth (1848–1849)

The events related in several narratives

First Narrative

Contributed by
Miss Clack; niece of the late Sir John Verinder

Chapter I

I am indebted to my dear parents (both now in heaven) for having had habits...
Seventh Narrative
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

In a letter from Mr Candy

Frizinghall, Wednesday, September 26th, 1849.*—Dear Mr Franklin Blake, you will anticipate the sad news I have to tell you, on finding your letter to Ezra Jennings returned to you, unopened, in this enclosure. He died in...
Chapter II
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I spoke of my lady a line or two back. Now the Diamond could never have been in our house, where it was lost, if it had not been made a present of to my lady’s daughter; and my lady’s daughter would never...
Chapter III
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The question of how I am to start the story properly I have tried to settle in two ways. First, by scratching my head, which led to nothing. Second, by consulting my daughter Penelope, which has resulted in an entirely new idea.

Penelope’s notion is...
Chapter V
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The first thing I did, after we were left together alone, was to make a third attempt to get up from my seat on the sand. Mr Franklin stopped me.

‘There is one advantage about this horrid place,’ he said; ‘we have got it all...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Here, for one moment, I find it necessary to call a halt. On summoning up my own recollections—and on getting Penelope to help me, by consulting her journal—I find that we may pass pretty rapidly over the interval between Mr Franklin Blake’s arrival and...
Chapter III
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The prominent personage among the guests at the dinner-party I found to be Mr Murthwaite.

On his appearance in England, after his wanderings, society had been greatly interested in the traveller, as a man who had passed through many dangerous adventures, and who...
Chapter III
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I have only the most indistinct recollection of what happened at Hotherstone’s Farm.

I remember a hearty welcome; a prodigious supper, which would have fed a whole village in the East; a delightfully clean bedroom, with nothing in it to regret but that detestable product...
Chapter IV
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I have not a word to say about my own sensations.

My impression is, that the shock inflicted on me completely suspended my thinking and feeling power. I certainly could not have known what I was about when Betteredge joined me—for I have it on...
Chapter VI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I walked to the railway station accompanied, it is needless to say, by Gabriel Betteredge. I had the letter in my pocket, and the nightgown safely packed in a little bag—both to be submitted, before I slept that night, to the investigation of...
Chapter VII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

At the moment when I showed myself in the doorway, Rachel rose from the piano.

I closed the door behind me. We confronted each other in silence, with the full length of the room between us. The movement she had made in rising appeared to...
Chapter IX
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The doctor’s pretty housemaid stood waiting for me, with the street door open in her hand. Pouring brightly into the hall, the morning light fell full on the face of Mr Candy’s assistant when I turned, and looked at him.

It was impossible to dispute...
V
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

This was the story told by your cousin (under pressure of necessity) to Mr Luker.

Mr Luker believed the story to be, as to all main essentials, true—on this ground, that Mr Godfrey Ablewhite was too great a fool to have invented it. Mr Bruff...
Eighth Narrative
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Contributed by Gabriel Betteredge

I am the person (as you remember no doubt) who led the way in these pages, and opened the story. I am also the person who is left behind, as it were, to close the story up.

Let nobody suppose that...
III
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The statement of
Mr
Murthwaite (1850) (In a letter to
Mr
Bruff)

Have you any recollection, my dear sir, of a semi-savage person whom you met out at dinner, in London, in the autumn of ’forty-eight? Permit me to remind you that...
The Author’s Childhood.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Place of birth—Character of the district—Tuckahoe—Origin of the name—Choptank river—Time of birth—Genealogical trees—Mode of counting time—Names of grandparents—Their position—Grandmother especially esteemed—‘Born to good luck’—Sweet potatoes—Superstition—The log cabin—Its charms—Separating children—Author’s aunts—Their names—First knowledge of being a slave—‘Old master’—Griefs and joys of childhood—Comparative happiness of the slave-boy...
The Author’s Parentage.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Author’s father shrouded in mystery—author’s mother—her personal appearance—interference of slavery with the natural affections of mother and children—situation of author’s mother—her nightly visits to her boy—striking incident—her death—her place of burial.

If the reader will now be kind enough to allow me time to...
Life in Baltimore.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

City annoyances—plantation regrets—my mistress, Miss Sopha—her history—her kindness to me—my master, Hugh Auld—his sourness —my increased sensitiveness—my comforts—my occupation—the baneful effects of slaveholding on my dear and good mistress—how she commenced teaching me to read—why she ceased teaching me—clouds gathering over my bright prospects—Master Auld’s exposition...
Religious Nature Awakened.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Abolitionists spoken of—my eagerness to know what this word meant—my consultation of the dictionary—incendiary information—how and where derived—the enigma solved —Nathaniel Turner’s insurrection—the cholera—religion—first awakened by a Methodist minister, named Hanson—my dear and good old colored friend, Lawson—his character and occupation—his influence over me—our mutual attachment—the...
Experience in St Michael’s.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

The village—its inhabitants—their occupation and low propensities—Captain Thomas Auld—his character—his second wife, Rowena—well matched—sufferings from hunger—obliged to take food—mode of argument in vindication thereof—no moral code of free society can apply to slave society—southern camp meeting—what Master Thomas did there—hopes—suspicions about his conversion—the result—faith and...
Covey, The Negro Breaker.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Journey to my new master’s—meditations by the way—view of Covey’s residence—the family—the author’s awkwardness as a field hand—a cruel beating—why it was given—description of Covey—first adventure at ox driving—hair breadth escapes—ox and man alike property—Covey’s manner of proceeding to whip—hard labor better than the whip...
The Run-Away Plot.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

New year’s thoughts and meditations—Again bought by free land—No ambition to be a slave—Kindness no compensation for slavery—Incipient steps toward escape—Considerations leading thereto—Irreconcilable hostility to slavery—Solemn vow taken—Plan divulged to the slaves—Columbian Orator—Scheme gains favor, despite pro-slavery preaching—Danger of discovery—Skill of slaveholders in reading the...
Apprenticeship Life.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Nothing lost by the attempt to run away—Comrades in their old homes—Reasons for sending author away—Return to Baltimore—Contrast between ‘Tommy’ and that of his colored companion—Trials in Gardiner’s ship yard—Desperate fight—its causes—Conflict between white and black labor—Description of the outrage—Colored testimony nothing—Conduct of Master Hugh—Spirit...
Chapter VI
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

Mr. Hindley came home to the funeral; and—a thing that amazed us, and set the neighbours gossiping right and left—he brought a wife with him.

What she was, and where she was born, he never informed us; probably, she had neither money nor name...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

On the morning of a fine June day, my first bonny little nursling, and the last of the ancient Earnshaw stock, was born.

We were busy with the hay in a far away field, when the girl that usually brought our breakfasts came running, an...
Chapter XII
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

While Miss Linton moped about the park and garden, always silent, and almost always in tears; and her brother shut himself up among books that he never opened—wearying, I guessed, with a continual vague expectation that Catherine, repenting her conduct, would come of her...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

For two months the fugitives remained absent; in those two months, Mrs. Linton encountered and conquered the worst shock of what was denominated a brain fever. No mother could have nursed an only child more devotedly than Edgar tended her. Day and night he...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

As soon as I had perused this epistle, I went to the master, and informed him that his sister had arrived at the Heights, and sent me a letter expressing her sorrow for Mrs. Linton’s situation, and her ardent desire to see him; with...
Chapter I
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

Another week over—and I am so many days nearer health, and spring! I have now heard all my neighbour’s history, at different sittings, as the housekeeper could spare time from more important occupations. I’ll continue it in her own words, only a little condensed....
Chapter II
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

About twelve o’clock, that night, was born the Catherine you saw at Wuthering Heights, a puny, seven months’ child; and two hours after the mother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss Heathcliff, or know Edgar.

The latter’s distraction at his bereavement is a...
Chapter V
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

A letter, edged with black, announced the day of my master’s return. Isabella was dead; and he wrote to bid me get mourning for his daughter, and arrange a room, and other accommodations, for his youthful nephew.

Catherine ran wild with joy at the...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

Yesterday was bright, calm, and frosty. I went to the Heights as I proposed; my housekeeper entreated me to bear a little note from her to her young lady, and I did not refuse, for the worthy woman was not conscious of anything odd...
LETTER IV.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

To Mrs.
Saville, England.

So strange an accident has happened to us, that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your possession.

Last Monday ( July 31st),...
Chapter VI.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

On my return, I found the following letter from my father:—

‘To V. Frankenstein.

‘my dear victor,

‘You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to...
Chapter V.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

‘I now hasten to the more moving part of my story. I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I was, have made me what I am.

‘Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine, and the skies cloudless. It...
Chapter II.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several months in this wonderful and celebrated city. Clerval desired the intercourse of * the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time; but this was with me a secondary...
Chapter 5
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

When they met before dinner, Mr. Parker was looking over Letters.—‘Not a Line from Sidney!’—said he.—‘He is an idle fellow.—I sent him an account of my accident from Willingden, and thought he would have vouchsafed me an Answer.—But perhaps it implies that he is...
Chapter 7
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The popularity of the Parkers brought them some visitors the very next morning;—amongst them, Sir Edward Denham and his Sister, who having been at Sanditon House drove on to pay their Compliments; and the duty of Letter-writing being accomplished, Charlotte was settled with Mrs....