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Chapter 1 Commodities
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Section 1. The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value (the Substance of Value and the Magnitude of Value)

The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as ‘an immense accumulation of commodities’, its unit being a...
Chapter 14 Division of Labour and Manufacture
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Section 1. Two-Fold Origin of Manufacture

That co-operation which is based on division of labour, assumes its typical form in manufacture, and is the prevalent characteristic form of the capitalist process of production throughout the manufacturing period properly so called. That period, roughly speaking, extends...
Chapter 13 The Law as Such
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Assuming a given wage and working-day, a variable capital, for instance of 100, represents a certain number of employed labourers. It is the index of this number. Suppose £100 are the wages of 100 labourers for, say, one week. If these labourers...
Chapter 42 Genesis of Capitalist Ground-Rent
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

II. Labour Rent

If we consider ground-rent in its simplest form, that of labour rent, where the direct producer, using instruments of labour (plough, cattle, etc.) which actually or legally belong to him, cultivates soil actually owned by him during part of the...
The Chapel
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

In the same New Bedford there stands a Whaleman’s Chapel, and few are the moody fishermen, shortly bound for the Indian Ocean or the Pacific, who fail to make a Sunday visit to the spot. I am sure that I did not.

Returning from my...
The Pulpit
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable robustness entered; immediately as the storm-pelted door flew back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation, sufficiently attested that this fine old man was...
The Sermon
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense. ‘Starboard gangway, there! side away to larboard—larboard gangway to starboard! Midships! midships!’

There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling...
Biographical
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down on any map; true places never are.

When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats,...
Nantucket
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Nothing more happened on the passage worthy the mentioning; so, after a fine run, we safely arrived in Nantucket.

Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore,...
Chowder
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

It was quite late in the evening when the little Moss came snugly to anchor, and Queequeg and I went ashore; so we could attend to no business that day, at least none but a supper and a bed. The landlord of the Spouter-Inn...
The Ramadan
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

As Queequeg’s Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, was to continue all day, I did not choose to disturb him till towards night-fall; for I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to...
His Mark
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

As we were walking down the end of the wharf towards the ship, Queequeg carrying his harpoon, Captain Peleg in his gruff voice loudly hailed us from his wigwam, saying he had not suspected my friend was a cannibal, and furthermore announcing that he...
Postscript
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated facts. But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blameworthy?...

It...
The Specksynder
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Concerning the officers of the whale-craft, this seems as good a place as any to set down a little domestic peculiarity on ship-board, arising from the existence of the harpooneer class of officers, a class unknown of course in any other marine than the...
Dusk
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

By the Mainmast; Starbuck leaning against it.

My soul is more than matched; she’s overmanned; and by a madman! Insufferable sting, that sanity should ground arms on such a field! But he drilled deep down, and blasted all my reason out of me!...
The Chart
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his cabin after the squall that took place on the night succeeding that wild ratification of his purpose with his crew, you would have seen him go to a locker in the transom, and bringing out a...
The Gam
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The ostensible reason why Ahab did not go on board of the whaler we had spoken was this: the wind and sea betokened storms. But even had this not been the case, he would not after all, perhaps, have boarded her—judging by his subsequent...
The Dart
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

A word concerning an incident in the last chapter.

According to the invariable usage of the fishery, the whale-boat pushes off from the ship, with the headsman or whale-killer as temporary steersman, and the harpooneer or whale-fastener pulling the foremost oar, the one known as...
The Whale as a Dish
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp, and, like Stubb, eat him by his own light, as you may say; this seems so outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and philosophy of...
The Jeroboam’s Story
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than the ship, and soon the Pequod began to rock.

By and by, through the glass the stranger’s boats and manned mast-heads proved her a whale-ship. But as she was...
Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and then have a Talk over Him
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

It must be borne in mind that all this time we have a Sperm Whale’s prodigious head hanging to the Pequod’s side. But we must let it continue hanging there a while till we can get a chance to attend to it. For the...
The Sperm Whale’s Head. —Contrasted View
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Here, now, are two great whales, laying their heads together; let us join them, and lay together our own.

Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales...
The Nut
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.

In the full-grown creature the skull will measure at least twenty feet in length. Unhinge the lower jaw, and the side view...
The Pequod Meets the Virgin
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The predestinated day arrived, and we duly met the ship Jungfrau, Derick De Deer, master, of Bremen.

At one time the greatest whaling people in the world, the Dutch and Germans are now among the least; but here and there at very wide intervals of...
The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘In vain it was to rake for Ambergriese in the paunch of this Leviathan, insufferable fetor denying that inquiry.’

It was a week or two after the last whaling scene recounted, and when we were slowly sailing over...
The Doubloon
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Ere now it has been related how Ahab was wont to pace his quarterdeck, taking regular turns at either limit, the binnacle and mainmast; but in the multiplicity of other things requiring narration it has not been added how that sometimes in these walks,...
The Decanter
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Ere the English ship fades from sight, be it set down here, that she hailed from London, and was named after the late Samuel Enderby, merchant of that city, the original of the famous whaling house of Enderby & Sons;*...
A Bower in the Arsacides
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail upon some few interior structural features. But to a large and thorough sweeping comprehension of him, it behoves me now...
The Gilder
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Penetrating further and further into the heart of the Japanese cruising ground, the Pequod was soon all astir in the fishery. Often, in mild, pleasant weather, for twelve, fifteen, eighteen, and twenty hours on the stretch, they were engaged in the boats, steadily pulling,...
The Quadrant
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The season for the Line at length drew near; and every day when Ahab, coming from his cabin, cast his eyes aloft, the vigilant helmsman would ostentatiously handle his spokes, and the eager mariners quickly run to the braces, and would stand...
The Deck Towards the end of the First Night Watch
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Ahab standing by the helm. Starbuck approaching him

‘We must send down the main-top-sail yard, sir. The band is working loose, and the lee lift is half-stranded. Shall I strike it, sir?’

‘Strike nothing; lash it. If I had sky-sail poles, I’d sway them...
The Hat
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

And now that at the proper time and place, after so long and wide a preliminary cruise, Ahab,—all other whaling waters swept—seemed to have chased his foe into an ocean-fold, to slay him the more securely there; now, that he found himself hard by...
BerenicË
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Dicebant mihi sodales, si sepulchrum amicæ visitarem,

curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas.

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch—as distinct too,...
The man of the crowd
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul.

It was well said of a certain German book that ‘er lässt sich nicht lesen’—it does not permit itself to be read. There are some secrets which do not permit themselves...
The tell–tale heart
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven...
Von kempelen and his discovery
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

After the very minute and elaborate paper by Arago, to say nothing of the summary in ‘Silliman’s Journal,’ with the detailed statement just published by Lieutenant Maury, it will not be supposed, of course, that in offering a few hurried remarks in reference to...
Chapter X
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

When his servant entered, he looked at him steadfastly, and wondered if he had thought of peering behind the screen. The man was quite impassive, and waited for his orders. Dorian lit a cigarette, and walked over to the glass and glanced into it....
Chapter XIII
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

He passed out of the room, and began the ascent, Basil Hallward following close behind. They walked softly, as men do instinctively at night. The lamp cast fantastic shadows on the wall and staircase. A rising wind made some of the windows rattle.

When they...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

A week later Dorian Gray was sitting in the conservatory at Selby Royal talking to the pretty Duchess of Monmouth, who with her husband, a jaded-looking man of sixty, was amongst his guests. It was tea-time, and the mellow light of the huge lace-covered...
Chapter IV The Yellow Flag
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The schooner Farallone lay well out in the jaws of the pass, where the terrified pilot had made haste to bring her to her moorings and escape. Seen from the beach through the thin line of shipping, two objects stood conspicuous to...
Chapter VII The Pearl-Fisher
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

About four in the morning, as the captain and Herrick sat together on the rail, there arose from the midst of the night in front of them the voice of breakers. Each sprang to his feet and stared and listened. The sound was continuous,...
Chapter IX The Dinner Party
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

They sat down to an island dinner, remarkable for its variety and excellence: turtle-soup and steak, fish, fowls, a sucking pig, a cocoanut salad, and sprouting cocoanut roasted for dessert. Not a tin had been opened; and save for the oil and vinegar in...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

I Remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little see-saw of the right throbs and the wrong. After rising, in town, to meet his appeal I had at all events a couple of very bad days—found all my doubts...
IX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

I Waited and waited, and the days took as they elapsed something from my consternation. A very few of them, in fact, passing, in constant sight of my pupils, without a fresh incident, sufficed to give to grievous fancies and even to odious memories...
XXIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘Oh more or less.' I imagine my smile was pale. ‘Not absolutely. We shouldn't like that!’ I went on.

'No—I suppose we shouldn't. Of course we've the others.'

'We've the others—we've indeed the others,' I concurred.

‘Yet even though we have them,’ he returned,...
The Period
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was the best of times,* it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light,...
The Shoemaker
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Good day!” said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at the white head that bent low over the shoemaking.

It was raised for a moment, and a very faint voice responded to the salutation, as if it were at a distance:

“Good day!”

“You are...
A Sight
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“You know the Old Bailey* well, no doubt?” said one of the oldest of clerks to Jerry the messenger.

“Ye-es, sir,” returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. “I do know the Bailey.”

“Just so. And you know Mr. Lorry.”

“I know...
Still Knitting
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Madame
Defarge and monsieur her husband returned amicably to the bosom of Saint Antoine, while a speck in a blue cap toiled through the darkness, and through the dust, and down the weary miles of avenue by the wayside, slowly tending towards that point...
One Night
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Never did the sun go down with a brighter glory on the quiet corner in Soho, than one memorable evening when the Doctor and his daughter sat under the plane-tree together. Never did the moon rise with a milder radiance over great London, than...
A Plea
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When the newly-married pair came home, the first person who appeared, to offer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton. They had not been at home many hours, when he presented himself. He was not improved in habits, or in looks, or in manner; but there...
Dusk
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die, fell under the sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. But, she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was she of all the world...
The First Day’s Journey, and the First Evening’s Adventures; with their consequences
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

That Punctual servant of all work, the sun, had just risen, and begun to strike a light on the morning of the thirteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, when Mr. samuel pickwick burst like another sun from his slumbers; threw open...
A Field-day and Bivouac—More new Friends; and an Invitation to the Country
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Many authors entertain, not only a foolish, but a really dishonest objection, to acknowledge the sources from whence they derive much valuable information. We have no such feeling. We are merely endeavouring to discharge in an upright manner, the responsible duties of our editorial...
Strongly illustrative of the Position, that the course of true love is not a Railway
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The quiet seclusion of Dingley Dell, the presence of so many of the gentler sex, and the solicitude and anxiety they evinced in his behalf, were all favourable to the growth and development of those softer feelings which nature had implanted deep in the...
A pleasant Day, with an unpleasant Termination
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The birds, who, happily for their own peace of mind, and personal comfort, were in blissful ignorance of the preparations which had been making to astonish them, on the first of September, hailed it no doubt, as one of the pleasantest mornings they had...
Mr. Pickwick journeys to Ipswich, and meets with a romantic Adventure with a middle-aged Lady in Yellow Curl Papers
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“That ’ere your governor’s luggage, Sammy?” inquired Mr. Weller senior, of his affectionate son, as he entered the yard of the Bull inn, Whitechapel, with a travelling bag and a small portmanteau.

“You might ha’ made a worser guess than that, old feller,” replied...
Showing, among a variety of pleasant matters, how majestic and impartial Mr. Nupkins was; and how Mr. Weller returned Mr. Job Trotter’s Shuttlecock, as heavily as it came. With another matter, which will be found in its place
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Violent was Mr. Weller’s indignation as he was borne along; numerous were the allusions to the personal appearance and demeanour of Mr. Grummer and his companion; and valorous were the defiances to any six of the gentlemen present, in which he vented his dissatisfaction....
Introduces Mr. Pickwick to a new, and it is hoped not uninteresting scene, in the great Drama of Life
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The remainder of the period which Mr. Pickwick had assigned as the duration of the stay at Bath, passed over without the occurrence of anything material. Trinity Term commenced. On the expiration of its first week, Mr. Pickwick and his friends returned to London,...
What befel Mr. Pickwick when he got into the Fleet; what Debtors he saw there; and how he passed the Night
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Tom Roker, the gentleman who had accompanied Mr. Pickwick into the prison, turned sharp round to the right when he got to the bottom of the little flight of steps, and led the way through an iron gate which stood open,...
Chapter XLII Illustrative, like the preceding one, of the old Proverb, that Adversity Brings a Man acquainted with strange Bed-Fellows. Likewise containing Mr. Pickwick’s extraordinary and startling announcement to Mr. Samuel Weller
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When Mr. Pickwick opened his eyes next morning, the first object upon which they rested was Samuel Weller, seated upon a small black portmanteau, intently regarding, apparently in a condition of profound abstraction, the stately figure of the dashing Mr. Smangle, while Mr. Smangle...
Containing the Story of the Bagman’s Uncle
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“My uncle, gentlemen,” said the bagman, “was one of the merriest, pleasantest, cleverest fellows that ever lived. I wish you had known him, gentlemen. On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don’t wish you had known him, for if you had, you would...
Chapter VI: Cut Adrift
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Six Jolly Fellowship-Porters,* already mentioned as a tavern of a dropsical appearance, had long settled down into a state of hale infirmity. In its whole constitution it had not a straight floor, and hardly a straight line; but it had outlasted,...
Chapter XI: Podsnappery
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. PODSNAP* was well to do, and-stood very high in Mr. Podsnap’s opinion. Beginning with a good inheritance, he had married a good inheritance, and had thriven exceedingly in the Marine Insurance way, and was quite satisfied. He never could make out...
Chapter XII: The Sweat of an Honest Man’s Brow
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. MORTIMER LIGHTWOOD and Mr. Eugene Wrayburn took a coffee-house dinner together in Mr. Lightwood’s office. They had newly agreed to set up a joint establishment together. They had taken a bachelor cottage near Hampton, on the brink of the Thames, with a lawn,...
Chapter XIII: Tracking the Bird of Prey
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The two lime merchants, with their escort, entered the dominions of Miss Abbey Potterson, to whom their escort (presenting them and their pretended business over the half-door of the bar, in a confidential way) preferred his figurative request that ‘a mouthful of fire’ might...
Chapter IV: Cupid Prompted
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

To use the cold language of the world, Mrs. Alfred Lammle rapidly improved the acquaintance of Miss Podsnap. To use the warm language of Mrs. Lammle, she and her sweet Georgiana soon became one: in heart, in mind, in sentiment, in soul.

Whenever Georgiana could...
Chapter VI: A Riddle without an Answer
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Again Mr. Mortimer Lightwood and Mr. Eugene Wray-burn sat together in the Temple. This evening, however, they were not together in the place of business of the eminent solicitor, but in another dismal set of chambers facing it on the same second floor; on...
Chapter XVII oliver’s destiny, continuing unpropitious, brings a great man to london to injure his reputation
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky, well-cured bacon. The hero sinks upon his straw...
Chapter XX wherein oliver is delivered over to mr. william sikes
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When Oliver awoke in the morning, he was a good deal surprised to find that a new pair of shoes, with strong thick soles, had been placed at his bedside; and that his old shoes had been removed. At first, he was pleased with...
Chapter XXVI in which, a mysterious character appears upon the scene; and many things, inseparable from this history, are done and performed
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The old man had gained the street corner, before he began to recover the effect of Toby Crackit’s intelligence. He had relaxed nothing of his unusual speed; but was still pressing onward, in the same wild and disordered manner, when the sudden dashing past...
Chapter XXVIII looks, after oliver, and proceeds with his? adventures
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Wolves tear your throats!’ muttered Sikes, grinding his teeth. ‘I wish I was among some of you; you’d howl the hoarser for it.’

As Sikes growled forth this imprecation, with the most desperate ferocity that his desperate nature was capable of, he rested the...
Chapter XXIX has an introductory account of the inmates of the house, to which oliver resorted
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In a handsome room: though its furniture had rather the air of old-fashioned comfort, than of modern elegance: there sat two ladies at a well-spread breakfast-table. Mr. Giles, dressed with scrupulous care in a full suit of black, was in attendance upon them. He...
Chapter XXXVIII containing an account of what passed between mr. and mrs. bumble, and monks, at their nocturnal interview
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a dull, close, overcast summer evening: the clouds, which had been threatening all day, spread out in a dense and sluggish mass of vapour, already yielded large drops of rain, and seemed to presage a violent thunder-storm: when Mr. and Mrs. Bumble,...
Chapter XLIII wherein is shown how the artful dodger got into trouble
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘And so it was you that was your own friend, was it?’ asked Mr. Claypole, otherwise Bolter, when, by virtue of the compact entered into between them, he had removed next day to Fagin’s house. ‘’Cod, I thought as much last night!’

‘Every man’s...
Chapter V The Key-Note
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Coketown, to which Messrs. Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind herself. Let us strike the key-note, Coketown, before pursuing our tune.

It was a town of red brick,...
Chapter VII Mrs. Sparsit
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Bounderby being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend. Mrs. Sparsit was this lady’s name; and she was a prominent figure in attendance on Mr. Bounderby’s car, as it rolled along in...
Chapter VIII Explosion
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The next morning was too bright a morning for sleep, and James Harthouse rose early, and sat in the pleasant bay window of his dressing-room, smoking the rare tobacco that had had so wholesome an influence on his young friend. Reposing in the sunlight,...
Chapter I Dombey and Son
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great armchair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as...
Chapter IV In Which Some More First Appearances are Made on the Stage of these Adventures
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Though the offices of Dombey and Son were within the liberties of the City of London, and within hearing of Bow Bells, when their clashing voices were not drowned by the uproar in the streets, yet were there hints of adventurous and romantic story...
Chapter XI Paul’s Introduction to a New Scene
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Pipchin’s constitution was made of such hard metal, in spite of its liability to the fleshly weaknesses of standing in need of repose after chops, and of requiring to be coaxed to sleep by the soporific agency of sweet-breads, that it...
Chapter XIX Walter Goes Away
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The wooden Midshipman at the Instrument Maker’s door, like the hard-hearted little Midshipman he was, remained supremely indifferent to Walter’s going away, even when the very last day of his sojourn in the back parlour was on the decline. With his quadrant at his...
Chapter XXXIII Contrasts
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Turn we our eyes upon two homes; not lying side by side, but wide apart, though both within easy range and reach of the great city of London.

The first is situated in the green and wooded country near Norwood.* It is not...
Chapter XXXVI Housewarming
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Many succeeding days passed in like manner; except that there were numerous visits received and paid, and that Mrs. Skewton held little levees in her own apartments, at which Major Bagstock was a frequent attendant, and that Florence encountered no second look from her...
Chapter XLIII The Watches of the Night
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Florence, long since awakened from her dream, mournfully observed the estrangement between her father and Edith, and saw it widen more and more, and knew that there was greater bitterness between them every day. Each day’s added knowledge deepened the shade upon her love...
Chapter XLIX The Midshipman makes a Discovery
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was long before Florence awoke. The day was in its prime, the day was in its wane, and still, weary in mind and body, she slept on; unconscious of her strange bed, of the noise and turmoil in the street, and of the...
Chapter LVII Another Wedding
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Sownds the Beadle, and Mrs. Miff the pew-opener, are early at their posts in the fine church where Mr. Dombey was married. A yellow-faced old gentleman from India, is going to take unto himself a young wife this morning, and six...
Chapter XII Liking Life on My Own Account No Better, I Form a Great Resolution
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In due time, Mr. Micawber’s petition was ripe for hearing; and that gentleman was ordered to be discharged under the act, to my great joy. His creditors were not implacable; and Mrs. Micawber informed me that even the revengeful bootmaker had declared in open...
Chapter XXVII Tommy Traddles
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It may have been in consequence of Mrs. Crupp’s advice, and, perhaps, for no better reason than because there was a certain similarity in the sound of the words skittles and Traddles, that it came into my head, next day, to go and look...
Chapter XXXVII A Little Cold Water
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

My new life had lasted for more than a week, and I was stronger than ever in those tremendous practical resolutions that I felt the crisis required. I continued to walk extremely fast, and to have a general idea that I was getting on....
Chapter XLVI Intelligence
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Must have been married, if I may trust to my imperfect memory for dates, about a year or so, when one evening, as I was returning from a solitary walk, thinking of the book I was then writing—for my success had steadily...
Chapter XLVII Martha
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

We were now down in Westminster. We had turned back to follow her, having encountered her coming towards us; and Westminster Abbey was the point at which she passed from the lights and noise of the leading streets. She proceeded so quickly, when she...
Chapter LV Tempest
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Now approach an event in my life, so indelible, so awful, so bound by an infinite variety of ties to all that has preceded it, in these pages, that, from the beginning of my narrative, I have seen it growing larger and...
Chapter LXII A Light Shines on My Way
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The year came round to Christmas-time, and I had been at home above two months. I had seen Agnes frequently. However loud the general voice might be in giving me encouragement, and however fervent the emotions and endeavours to which it roused me, I...
Stave V
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!

‘I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!’...
First Quarter
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There are not many people—and as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but...
Part the Second
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Snitchey and Craggs had a snug little office on the old Battle Ground, where they drove a snug little business, and fought a great many small pitched battles for a great many contending parties. Though it could hardly be said of these conflicts that...
Chapter II
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A Small man sat in a small parlour, partitioned off from a small shop by a small screen, pasted all over with small scraps of newspapers. In company with the small man, was almost any amount of small children you may please to...
Chapter III
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Night was still heavy in the sky. On open plains, from hill-tops, and from the decks of solitary ships at sea, a distant low-lying line, that promised by-and-by to change to light, was visible in the dim horizon; but its promise was remote and...
Chapter One In Chancery
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

London Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to...
Chapter Four Telescopic Philanthropy
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

We were to pass the night, Mr Kenge told us when we arrived in his room, at Mrs Jellyby’s; and then he turned to me, and said he took it for granted I knew who Mrs Jellyby was?

‘I really don’t, sir,’ I returned. ‘Perhaps...
Chapter Nine Signs and Tokens
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I don’t know how it is, I seem to be always writing about myself. I mean all the time to write about other people, and I try to think about myself as little as possible, and I am sure, when I find myself coming...
Chapter Eleven Our Dear Brother
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A touch on the lawyer’s wrinkled hand, as he stands in the dark room, irresolute, makes him start and say ‘What’s that?’

‘It’s me,’ returns the old man of the house, whose breath is in his ear. ‘Can’t you wake him?’

‘No.’

‘What have you...
Chapter Thirty-Four A Turn of the Screw
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Now, what,’ says Mr George, ‘may this be? Is it blank cartridge, or ball? A flash in the pan, or a shot?’

An open letter is the subject of the trooper’s speculations, and it seems to perplex him, mightily. He looks at it at arm’s...
Chapter Thirty-Nine Attorney and Client
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The name of Mr Vholes, preceded by the legend Ground Floor, is inscribed upon a doorpost in Symond’s Inn, Chancery Lane: a little, pale, well-eyed, woe-begone inn, like a large dustbinn of two compartments and a sifter.* It...
Chapter Forty-Eight Closing In
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The place in Lincolnshire has shut its many eyes again, and the house in town is awake. In Lincolnshire, the Dedlocks of the past doze in their picture-frames, and the low wind murmurs through the long drawing-room as if they were breathing pretty regularly....
Chapter Fifty-Four Springing a Mine
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Refreshed by sleep, Mr Bucket rises betimes in the morning, and prepares for a field-day. Smartened up by the aid of a clean shirt and a wet hair-brush, with which instrument, on occasions of ceremony, he lubricates such thin locks as remain to him...
Chapter Sixty-Six Down in Lincolnshire
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There is a hush upon Chesney Wold in these altered days, as there is upon a portion of the family history. The story goes, that Sir Leicester paid some who could have spoken out, to hold their peace; but it is a lame story,...
Chapter 4
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

‘Ha, ha, ha! Next you’ll be trying to find pleasure in toothache!’ you’ll shout with a laugh.

‘And what if I do? There is pleasure in toothache’, I’ll reply. ‘I had toothache for a whole month, I know what it’s like. In this...
Chapter 10
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

A Quarter of an hour later I was running up and down the room in a state of wild impatience, time and again going up to the screen and peering through the crack at Liza. She was sitting on the floor, leaning her...
Chapter 8
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

On the promenade, as they call it here, that is to say in the chestnut avenue, I met my Englishman.

‘Oh, oh!’ he began, catching sight of me, ‘I’m on my way to you, and you to me. Have you already left your party?’

‘First...
1
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

At around nine in the morning towards the end of a thawing November, the Warsaw train was approaching Petersburg at full steam. The weather was so dank and misty that it was a long time getting light; anything beyond a dozen yards to left...
13
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

As he went up the steps, the prince was much troubled and tried his best to cheer himself: ‘The worst they can do’, he reasoned, ‘is to turn me away and think ill of me, or perhaps let me in and laugh at me...
1
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Some two days after the strange goings-on at Nastasya Filippovna’s soirée with which we concluded the first part of our narrative, Prince Myshkin made haste to leave for Moscow to settle the business of his unexpected legacy. There was talk at the time that...
2
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

It was the beginning of June, and the weather in Petersburg had been unusually fine for a whole week. The Yepanchins had their own luxurious country villa in Pavlovsk and Lizaveta Prokofievna suddenly got all excited, bestirred herself, and after less than two days’...
4
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

They passed through the same rooms the prince had already traversed once, Rogozhin walking a little in front and the prince following. They entered the great hall. Here there were several pictures on the walls, all portraits of bishops or landscapes, of which it...
5
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

It was already late, almost half-past two, and the prince failed to catch General Yepanchin at home. Leaving his card, he resolved to go to The Scales hotel and ask for Kolya—and leave him a note if he wasn’t there. At the hotel he...
10
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Ippolit moistened his lips a little with the cup of tea Vera Lebedeva handed him, set it down on the table, and then suddenly looked about him in bemusement, almost as if he were embarrassed.

‘Look, Lizaveta Prokofievna, these cups’, he began speaking with an...
1
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

You hear complaints all the time that we lack practical people; there are plenty of politicians for instance; plenty of generals too; nowadays directors of all sorts can be found in any quantity you like—but there are no practical people. At least that’s the...
7
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

While he was lost in the delightful contemplation of Aglaya chatting gaily to Prince N and Radomsky, all of a sudden the middle-aged anglophile nobleman, who had been entertaining the dignitary in another corner of the room and relating something to him in a...
11
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

An hour later he was already in Petersburg, and was ringing at Rogozhin’s house some time after nine. He went in by the main entrance, and for a long time no one opened the door. At length the door of Rogozhin’s old mother opened...
PAMELA; or, Virtue Rewarded. In a Series of Familiar Letters, &c.
Authors: Richardson Samuel
Published: December 2020

Letter I

Dear Father and Mother,

I Have great Trouble, and some Comfort, to acquaint you with. The Trouble is, that my good Lady died of the Illness I mention’d to you, and left us all much griev’d for her Loss; for she was...
Chapter 5
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

I had shut the door to. Then I turned around, and there he was. I used to be scared of him all the time, he tanned me so much. I reckoned I was scared now, too; but in a minute I see I was...
Chapter 6
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Well, pretty soon the old man was up and around again, and then he went for Judge Thatcher in the courts to make him give up that money, and he went for me, too, for not stopping school. He catched me a couple of...
Chapter 25
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people tearing down on the run, from every which way, some of them putting on their coats as they come. Pretty soon we was in the middle of a crowd,...
Chapter 30
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

When they got aboard, the king went for me, and shook me by the collar, and says:

‘Tryin’ to give us the slip, was ye, you pup! Tired of our company—hey?’

I says:

‘No, your majesty, we warn’t—please don’t, your majesty!’

‘Quick, then, and...
Chapter 33
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

So I started for town, in the wagon, and when I was half-way I see a wagon coming, and sure enough it was Tom Sawyer, and I stopped and waited till he come along. I says ‘Hold on!’ and it stopped alongside, and his...
Chapter 38
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Making them pens was a distressid-tough job, and so was the saw; and Jim allowed the inscription was going to be the toughest of all. That’s the one which the prisoner has to scrabble on the wall. But we had to have it; Tom...
Chapter 41
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The doctor was an old man; a very nice, kind-looking old man, when I got him up. I told him me and my brother was over on Spanish Island hunting, yesterday afternoon, and camped on a piece of a raft we found, and about...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

When Tom awoke in the morning, he wondered where he was. He sat up and rubbed his eyes and looked around. Then he comprehended. It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Tom arrived at home in a dreary mood, and the first thing his aunt said to him showed him that he had brought his sorrows to an unpromising market:

“Tom, I’ve a notion to skin you alive!”

“Auntie, what have I done?”

“Well, you’ve done...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Vacation was approaching. The schoolmaster, always severe, grew severer and more exacting than ever, for he wanted the school to make a good showing on “Examination” day. His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now—at least among the smaller pupils. Only the biggest...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The adventure of the day mightily tormented Tom’s dreams that night. Four times he had his hands on that rich treasure and four times it wasted to nothingness in his fingers as sleep forsook him and wakefulness brought back the hard reality of his...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Tuesday afternoon came, and waned to the twilight. The village of St. Petersburg still mourned. The lost children had not been found. Public prayers had been offered up for them, and many and many a private prayer that had the petitioner’s whole heart in...
Chapter XIII A Sneeze Out of Season
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

I had occasion to smile—nay, to laugh, at madame again, within the space of four and twenty hours after the little scene treated of in the last chapter.

Villette owns a climate as variable, though not so humid, as that of any English town. A...
Chapter XXI Reaction
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Yet three days, and then I must go back to the Pensionnat. I almost numbered the moments of these days upon the clock; fain would I have retarded their flight; but they glided by while I watched them: they were already gone while I yet...
Chapter XXXV Fraternity
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

“Oubliez les Professeurs.” So said Madame Beck. Madame Beck was a wise woman, but she should not have uttered those words. To do so was a mistake. That night she should have left me calm—not excited, indifferent—not interested, isolated in my own estimation and that...
Chapter XXXVIII Cloud
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

But it is not so for all. What then? His will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not. The impulse of creation forwards it; the strength of powers, seen and unseen, has its fulfilment in charge....
Chapter III The Playmates
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Mr. Home stayed two days. During his visit he could not be prevailed on to go out: he sat all day long by the fire-side, sometimes silent, sometimes receiving and answering Mrs. Bretton’s chat, which was just of the proper sort for a man in...
Chapter XLI Faubourg Clotilde
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Must I, ere I close, render some account of that Freedom and Renovation which I won on the fête-night? Must I tell how I and the two stalwart companions I brought home from the illuminated park bore the test of intimate acquaintance?

I tried them...
Chapter VI
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

I re-entered the town, a hungry man; the dinner I had forgotten recurred seductively to my recollection, and it was with a quick step and sharp appetite I ascended the narrow street leading to my lodgings. It was dark when I opened the front...
Chapter XI
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

I had indeed had a very long talk with the crafty little politician* and on regaining my quarters I found that dinner was half over. To be late at meals was against a standing rule of the establishment and had it been...
Chapter XII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Daily, as I continued my attendance at the seminary of Mdlle. Reuter, did I find fresh occasions to compare the ideal with the real. What had I known of female character previously to my arrival at Brussels? Precious little. And what was my notion...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real Life—if they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures checquered with vivid contrasts of light and shade; they would seldom elevate their heros and heroines to the heights of...
IX
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

London was rousing everywhere into morning activity, as I passed through the streets. The shutters were being removed from the windows of public-houses: the drink-vampyres that suck the life of London, were opening their eyes betimes to look abroad for the new day’s prey! Small...
IV
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

About the time of my introduction to Mr Mannion—or, to speak more correctly, both before and after that period—certain peculiarities in Margaret’s character and conduct, which came to my knowledge by pure accident, gave me a little uneasiness and even a little displeasure. Neither of...
Between the Scenes
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I. From Miss Garth to Mr. Pendril

‘Westmoreland House, Jan. 3rd, 1848.

‘Dear
Mr
Pendril,

‘I write, as you kindly requested, to report how Norah is going on, and to tell you what changes I see for the better in the state of...
Between the Scenes
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I. From George Bertram to Admiral Bartram

‘London, April 3rd, 1848.

‘My
dear
Uncle,

‘One hasty line, to inform you of a temporary obstacle, which we neither of us anticipated when we took leave of each other at St. Crux. While I was...
Chapter One
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

A great Storm described, The long Boat sent to fetch Water, the Author goes with it to discover the Country. He is left on Shoar, is seized by one of the Natives, and carried* to a Farmer’s House. His Reception there, with several Accidents...