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Barnaby Rudge
Authors: Dickens Charles , Mee Jon
Published: December 2020

What dark history is this?’ This is the question that hangs over Dickens’s brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Barnaby Rudge tells a story of individuals caught up in the mindless violence of the mob. Lord George Gordon’s dangerous appeal to old religious prejudices is interwoven with the murder mystery surrounding the father of the simple-minded Barnaby. The discovery of the murderer and his involvement in the riots put Barnaby’s life in jeopardy. Culminating in the terrifying destruction of Newgate prison by the rampaging hordes, the descriptions of the riots are among Dickens’s most powerful. Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain, Barnaby Rudge explores the relationship between repression and liberation in private and public life. It looks forward to the dark complexities of Dickens’s later novels, whose characters also seek refuge from a chaotic and unstable world.
In which the Occurrence of the Accident mentioned in the last Chapter, affords an Opportunity to a couple of Gentlemen to tell Stories against each other
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Wo ho!’ cried the guard, on his legs in a minute, and running to the leaders’ heads. ‘Is there ony genelmen there as can len’a hond here? Keep quiet, dang ye! Wo ho!’

‘What’s the matter?’ demanded Nicholas, looking sleepily up.

‘Matther mun, matther...
Of the Internal Economy of Dotheboys Hall
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A ride of two hundred and odd miles in severe weather, is one of the best softeners of a hard bed that ingenuity can devise. Perhaps it is even a sweetener of dreams, for those which hovered over the rough couch of Nicholas...
Of Miss Squeers, Mrs. Squeers, Master Squeers, and Mr. Squeers; and of various Matters and Persons connected no less with the Squeerses than with Nicholas Nickleby
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When Mr. Squeers left the school-room for the night, he betook himself, as has been before remarked, to his own fireside, which was situated—not in the room in which Nicholas had supped on the night of his arrival, but in a smaller apartment in...
Whereby the Reader will be enabled to trace the further course of Miss Fanny Squeers’s Love, and to ascertain whether it ran smooth or otherwise
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a fortunate circumstance for Miss Fanny Squeers that when her worthy papa returned home on the night of the small tea-party, he was what the initiated term ‘too far gone’ to observe the numerous tokens of extreme vexation of spirit which were...
Is fraught with some Danger to Miss Nickleby’s Peace of Mind
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The place was a handsome suit of private apartments in Regent Street; the time was three o’clock in the afternoon to the dull and plodding, and the first hour of morning to the gay and spirited; the persons were Lord Frederick Verisopht, and his...
Of the Proceedings of Nicholas, and certain Internal Divisions in the Company of Mr. Vincent Crummles
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The unexpected success and favour with which his experiment at Portsmouth had been received, induced Mr. Crummles to prolong his stay in that town for a fortnight beyond the period he had originally assigned for the duration of his visit, during which time Nicholas...
Of Ralph Nickleby and Newman Noggs, and some wise Precautions, the success or failure of which will appear in the Sequel
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In blissful unconsciousness that his nephew was hastening at the utmost speed of four good horses towards his sphere of action, and that every passing minute diminished the distance between them, Ralph Nickleby sat that morning occupied in his customary avocations, and yet unable...
Wherein Mr. Ralph Nickleby is visited by Persons with whom the Reader has been already made acquainted
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘What a demnition long time you have kept me ringing at this confounded old cracked tea-kettle of a bell, every tinkle of which is enough to throw a strong man into blue convulsions, upon my life and soul, oh demmit,’ said Mr. Mantalini...
In which another old Friend encounters Smike, very opportunely and to some Purpose
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The night, fraught with so much bitterness to one poor soul, had given place to a bright and cloudless summer morning, when a north-country mail-coach traversed, with cheerful noise, the yet silent streets of Islington, and, giving brisk note of its approach with the...
In which Nicholas falls in Love. He employs a Mediator, whose Proceedings are crowned with unexpected Success, excepting in one solitary Particular
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Once more out of the clutches of his old persecutor, it needed no fresh stimulation to call forth the utmost energy and exertion that Smike was capable of summoning to his aid. Without pausing for a moment to reflect upon the course he was...
Officiates as a kind of Gentleman Usher, in bringing various People together
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The storm had long given place to a calm the most profound, X and the evening was pretty far advanced—indeed supper was over, and the process of digestion proceeding as favourably as, under the influence of complete tranquillity, cheerful conversation, and a moderate allowance...
Mr. Ralph Nickleby cuts an old Acquaintance. It would also appear from the Contents hereof, that a Joke, even between Husband and Wife, may be sometimes carried too far
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There are some men who, living with the one object of enriching themselves, no matter by what means, and being perfectly conscious of the baseness and rascality of the means which they will use every day towards this end, affect nevertheless—even to themselves—a high...
Containing thefurther Progress of the Plot contrived by Mr. Ralph Nickleby and Mr. Arthur Gride
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

With that settled resolution, and steadiness of purpose to which extreme circumstances so often give birth, acting upon far less excitable and more sluggish temperaments than that which was the lot of Madeline Bray’s admirer, Nicholas started, at dawn of day, from the restless...
The Crisis of the Project and its Result
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There are not many men who lie abed too late, or over-sleep themselves on their wedding morning. A legend there is of somebody remarkable for absence of mind, who opened his eyes upon the day which was to give him a young wife, and...
The Plots begin to fail, and Doubts and Dangers to disturb the Plotter
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Ralph sat alone, in the solitary room where he was accus-tomed to take his meals, and to sit of nights when no profitable occupation called him abroad. Before him was an untasted breakfast, and near to where his fingers beat restlessly upon the table,...
The Dangers thicken, and the Worst is told
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Instead of going home, Ralph threw himself into the first street cabriolet he could find, and, directing the driver towards the police-office of the district in which Mr. Squeers’s misfortunes had occurred, alighted at a short distance from it, and, discharging the man, went...
Chapter the Second
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

After combating, for nearly a week, the feeling which impelled me to revisit the place I had quitted under the circumstances already detailed, I yielded to it at length; and determining that this time I would present myself by the light of day, bent...
Chapter the Sixth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

ITTLE NELL stood timidly by, with her eyes raised to the countenance of Mr. Quilp as he read the letter, plainly showing by her looks that while she entertained some fear and distrust of the little man, she was much inclined to laugh...
Chapter the Twentieth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Day after day as he bent his steps homeward, returning from some new effort to procure employment, Kit raised his eyes to the window of the little room he had so much commended to the child, and hoped to see some indication of her...
Chapter the Sixty-Seventh
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Unconscious of the proceedings faithfully narrated in the last chapter, and little dreaming of the mine which had been sprung beneath him (for to the end that he should have no warning of the business a-foot, the profoundest secrecy was observed in the whole...
Chapter XXIV mrs gibson’s little dinner
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

All this had taken place before Roger’s first meeting with Molly and Cynthia at Miss Brownings’; and the little dinner on the Friday at Mr Gibson’s, which followed in due sequence.

Mrs Gibson intended the Hamleys to find this dinner pleasant; and they did. Mr...
Chapter III
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Kirkwood’s face, as he turned to greet the new-comer, changed suddenly to an expression of surprise.

Why, what have you been doing to your hair ? ’ he asked abruptly.

A stranger would have seen nothing remarkable in John Hewett’s hair, unless he had reflected...
Chapter IV
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Rain no longer fell, but the gusty and bitter wind still swept about the black streets. Walking side by side without speech, Clara and her companion left the neighbourhood of the prison, and kept a northward direction till they reached the junction of highways...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

In the social classification of the nether world—a subject which so eminently adapts itself to the sportive and gracefully picturesque mode of treatment—it will be convenient to distinguish broadly, and with reference to males alone, the two great sections of those who do,, and...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

With the first breath of winter there passes a voice half-menacing, half-mournful, through all the barren ways and phantom-haunted refuges of the nether world. Too quickly has vanished the brief season when the sky is clement, when a little food suffices, and the chances...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

John
Hewett no longer had membership in club or society. The loss of his insurance-money made him for the future regard all such institutions with angry suspicion. ‘ Workin’ men ain’t satisfied with bein’ robbed by the upper classes ; they must go and...
1: The Fold and the Shepherd
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

‘So to-morrow, Alice,’ said Dr Madden, as he walked with his eldest daughter on the coast-downs by Clevedon, ‘I shall take steps for insuring my life for a thousand pounds.’*

It was the outcome of a long and intimate conversation. Alice Madden, aged...
26: The Unideal Tested
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

And neither was content.

Barfoot, over his cigar and glass of whisky at the hotel, fell into a mood of chagrin. The woman he loved would be his, and there was matter enough for ardent imagination in the indulgence of that thought; but his temper...
28: The Burden of Futile Souls
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

‘My own dearest love, if I could but describe to you all I have suffered before sitting down to write this letter! Since our last meeting I have not known one hour of quietness. To think that I missed you when you called...
Chapter III
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Captain
John
Porteous, a name memorable in the...
Chapter VII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The evil you teach us, we will execute; and it shall go hard but we will better the instruction.

Merchant of Venice

The unhappy object of this remarkable disturbance had been that day delivered from the apprehension of a public execution, and his joy...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The...
Chapter XLVII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Within a reasonable time after Butler was safely and comfortably settled in his living, and Jeanie had taken up her abode at Auchin-gower with her father, -...
Chapter XLVIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The letter, which Mrs Butler, when retired into her own apartment, perused with anxious wonder, was certainly from...
Chapter L
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Not long after the incident of the Bible and the bank notes, Fortune showed that she...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

There was brave feasting in the Castle of...
Chapter XLII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The mode of entering the...
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Authors: Hardy Thomas , Dolin Tim
Published: December 2020

‘Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.’ Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began the book during the first days of his courtship of his first wife Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals, and Elfride faces an agonizing choice. Written at a crucial time in Hardy’s life, A Pair of Blue Eyes expresses more directly than any of his novels the events and social forces that made him the writer he was. Elfride’s dilemma mirrors the difficult decision Hardy himself had to make with this novel: to pursue the profession of architecture, where he was established, or literature, where he had yet to make his name?
A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The widely discussed possibility of an invasion of England through a Channel tunnel* has more than once recalled old Solomon Selby’s* story to my mind.

The occasion on which I numbered myself among his audience was one evening when he was sitting in...
The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

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Here stretch the downs,* high and breezy and green, absolutely unchanged since those eventful days. A plough has never disturbed the turf, and the sod that was uppermost then is uppermost now. Here stood the camp; here are distinct traces of...
XVIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Grace approached the house. Her knock, always soft in virtue of her nature, was softer to-day by reason of her strange errand. However it was heard by the farmer’s wife who kept the house, and Grace was admitted. Opening the door of the doctor’s...
XX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The leaves over Hintock unrolled their creased tissues, and the woodland seemed to change from an open filigree to a solid opaque body of infinitely larger shape and importance. The boughs cast green shades, which disagreed with the complexion of the girls who walked...
XXII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The sunny leafy week which followed the tender doings of Midsummer Eve brought a visitor to Fitzpiers’s door; a voice that he knew sounded in the passage. Mr. Melbury had called. At first he had a particular objection to enter the parlour because his...
XXVII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The doctor’s professional visit to Hintock House was promptly repeated the next day and the next. He always found Mrs. Charmond reclining on a sofa, and behaving generally as became a patient who was in no great hurry to lose that title. On each...
XXXV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The mare paced along with firm and cautious tread through the copse where Winterborne had worked, and into the heavier soil where the oaks grew: thence towards Marshcombe Bottom, intensely dark now with overgrowth, and popularly supposed to be haunted by spirits....
XXXVI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Grace was not the only one who watched and meditated in Hintock that night.

Felice Charmond was in no mood to retire to rest at a customary hour; and over her drawing-room fire at the Manor House she sat as motionless and in as deep...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He had none the less to confess to this friend that evening that he knew almost nothing about her, and it was a deficiency that Waymarsh, even with his memory refreshed by contact, by her own prompt and lucid allusions and enquiries, by their...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

As the door of Mrs Pocock’s salon was pushed open for him, the next day, well before noon, he was reached by a voice with a charming sound that made him just falter before crossing the threshold. Madame de Vionnet was already on the...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘The difficulty is,’ Strether said to Madame de Vionnet a couple of days later, ‘that I can’t surprise them into the smallest sign of his not being the same old Chad they’ve been for the last three years glowering at across the sea....
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

There they were yet again, accordingly, for two days more; when Strether, on being, at Mrs Pocock’s hotel, ushered into that lady’s salon, found himself at first assuming a mistake on the part of the servant, who had introduced him and retired. The occupants...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Strether occupied beside little Bilham, three evenings after his interview with Mamie Pocock, the same deep divan they had enjoyed together on the first occasion of our friend’s meeting Madame de Vionnet and her daughter in the apartment of the Boulevard Malesherbes, where his...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He went late that evening* to the Boulevard Malesherbes, having his impression that it would be vain to go early, and having also, more than once in the course of the day, made inquiries of the concierge. Chad hadn’t come in and...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

One of the features of the restless afternoon passed by him after Mrs Pocock’s visit was an hour spent, shortly before dinner, with Maria Gostrey, whom of late, in spite of so sustained a call on his attention from other quarters, he had by...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The first was in the country, at a small tea-party, one snowy night of some seventeen years ago*. My friend Latouche, going to spend Christmas with his mother, had insisted on my company, and the good lady had given in our honour...
VII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Adam
Verver, at Fawns, that autumn Sunday, might have been observed to open the door of the billiard-room with a certain freedom—might have been observed, that is, had there been a spectator in the field. The justification of the push he had applied, however,...
VIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

What
was at all events not permanently hidden from him was a truth much less invidious about his years of darkness. It was the strange scheme of things again: the years of darkness had been needed to render possible the years of light. A...
XII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It
Wasat Brighton, above all, that this difference came out; it was during the three wonderful days he spent there with Charlotte that he had acquainted himself further— though doubtless not even now quite completely—with the merits of his majestic scheme. And while, moreover,...
XXXI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The
understanding appeared to have come to be that the Colonel and his wife were to present themselves toward the middle of July for the ‘good long visit’ at Fawns on which Maggie had obtained from her father that he should genially...
XXXV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

After
thelittle party was again constituted at Fawns— which had taken, for completeness, some ten days—Maggie naturally felt herself still more possessed, in spirit, of every-thing that had last happened in London. There was a phrase that came back to her from old American...
XXXVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

They
hadbeen alone that evening—alone as a party of six, and four of them, after dinner, under suggestion not to be resisted, sat down to ‘bridge’ in the smoking-room. They had passed together to that apartment, on rising from table, Charlotte and Mrs Assingham...
What Maisie Knew
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The litigation had seemed interminable and had in fact been complicated; but by the decision on the appeal the judgement of the divorce-court was confirmed as to the assignment of the child. The father, who, though bespattered from head to foot, had made good...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

All this led her on, but it brought on her fate as well, the day when her mother would be at the door in the carriage in which Maisie now rode on no occasions but these. There was no question at present of Miss...
VI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She became aware in time that this phase wouldn’t have shone by lessons, the care of her education being now only one of the many duties devolving on Miss Overmore; a devolution as to which she was present at various passages between that lady...
XII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She had not at the moment explained her ominous speech, but the light of remarkable events soon enabled her companion to read it. It may indeed be said that these days brought on a high quickening of Maisie’s direct perceptions, of her sense of...
XV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was Susan Ash who came to her with the news: ‘He’s downstairs, miss, and he do look beautiful.’

In the schoolroom at her father’s, which had pretty blue curtains, she had been making out at the piano a lovely little thing, as Mrs Beale...
The Cat that Walked by Himself
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

EAR and attend and listen;* for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was...
Tods’ Amendment
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The World hath set its heavy yoke

Upon the old white-bearded folk

Who strive to please the King.

God’s mercy is upon the young,

God’s wisdom in the baby tongue

That fears not anything.

The Parable of Chajju Bhagat.

Now Tods’ Mamma was...
Pig
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Go, stalk the red deer o’er the heather,

Ride, follow the fox if you can!

But, for pleasure and profit together,

Allow me the hunting of Man—

The chase of the Human, the search for the Soul

To its ruin,—the hunting of Man.

The Old...
La Bête humaine
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola’s most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his ‘most finely worked’ novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.
Chapter IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

There followed four years of hard work. In the neighbourhood Gervaise and Coupeau were known as a happy couple who kept themselves to themselves, didn’t fight, and regularly took their Sunday walk over Saint-Ouen* way. The wife put in twelve-hour days at...
Chapter IX
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That winter, a fit of wheezing almost carried Maman Coupeau off. Every year, in December, she could count on her asthma keeping her flat on her back for two or three weeks. She wasn’t a young thing any longer, she’d be seventy-three come the...
Chapter XII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It must have been the Saturday after rent day, something like the twelfth or thirteenth of January, Gervaise wasn’t really sure. She was going off her nut because it was such ages since she’d had anything warm in her belly. Oh, what a bloody...
III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

As soon as the fish had been served (some dubiously fresh skate in black butter, which the clumsy Adèle had swamped in vinegar), Hortense and Berthe, seated on either side of uncle Bachelard, kept urging him to drink, filling his glass in turns and...
XII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One morning, when Berthe was at her mother’s, Adèle came in looking very scared, to say that Monsieur Saturnin was there, with a man. Doctor Chassagne, the director of the Moulineaux Asylum, had told the Josserands on a number of occasions that he could...
XVI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

On the Wednesday morning, when Marie took Berthe to see Madame Josserand, the latter, outraged at a scandal which touched her pride, turned very pale and said not a word. She took her daughter’s hand as brutally as if she were a schoolmistress dragging...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

I had no inclination nor power to move from this spot. For more than an hour, my faculties and limbs seemed to be deprived of all activity. The door below creaked on its hinges, and steps ascended the stairs. My wandering and confused thoughts...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Brockden Brown Charles
Published: December 2020

‘My morals will appear to you far from rigid, yet my conduct will fall short of your suspicions. I am now to confess actions less excusable, and yet surely they will not entitle me to the name of a desperate or sordid criminal....

‘Your...
Chapter II
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘Try your Luck with Professor Challenger’

I always liked McArdle, the crabbed old, round-backed, red-headed news editor, and I rather hoped that he liked me. Of course, Beaumont was the real boss, but he lived in the rarefied atmosphere of some Olympian height...
Chapter VII
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘Tomorrow we Disappear into the Unknown’

I will not bore those whom this narrative may reach by an account of our luxurious voyage upon the Booth liner, nor will I tell of our week's stay at Para (save that I should wish to...
Chapter IX
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘Who could have Foreseen it?’

A dreadful thing has happened to us. Who could have foreseen it? I cannot foresee any end to our troubles’. It may be that we are condemned to spend our whole lives in this strange, inaccessible place. I am...
Chapter X
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘The most Wonderful Things have Happened’

The most wonderful things have happened and are continually happening to us. All the paper that I possess consists of five old notebooks and a lot of scraps, and I have only the one stylographic pencil; but so...
Part Second
Authors: Maurier George Du
Published: December 2020

Nobody knew exactly how Svengali lived, and very few knew where (or why). He occupied a roomy dilapidated garret,...
Part Fifth
Authors: Maurier George Du
Published: December 2020

Little Billee

An Interlude
Chapter 2 the killing of the divine king
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

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Human gods are killed to prevent them from growing old and feeble.

If the high gods, who dwell remote from the fret and fever of this earthly life, are yet believed to die at last, it is not to be expected that a...
Chapter 9 attis
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

Attis the Phrygian counterpart of Adonis.

His relation to Cybele.

His miraculous birth.

The death of Attis.

Another of those gods whose supposed death and resurrection struck such deep roots into the faith and ritual of Western Asia is Attis. He was to Phrygia...
Chapter 13 isis
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

Multifarious attributes of Isis.

The original meaning of the goddess Isis is more difficult to determine than that of her brother and husband Osiris. Her attributes and epithets were so numerous that in the hieroglyphics she is called ‘the many-named’, ‘the thousand-named’, and in...
Chapter 15 dionysus
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

Death and resurrection of Oriental gods of vegetation. The Dying and Reviving god of vegetation in ancient Greece.

In the preceding chapters we saw that in antiquity the civilised nations of western Asia and Egypt pictured to themselves the changes of the seasons, and...
Chapter 18 the corn-mother and corn-maiden
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

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Suggested derivation of the name Demeter.

It has been argued by W. Mannhardt* that the first part of Demeter’s name is derived from an alleged Cretan word deai, ‘barley’, and that accordingly Demeter means neither more nor less than...
Chapter 19 lityerses
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

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Death and resurrection a leading incident in the myth of Persephone, as in the myths of Adonis, Attis, Osiris, and Dionysus.

An attempt has been made to shew that in the Corn-mother and Harvest-maiden of Northern Europe we have the prototypes of Demeter...
Chapter 1 the transference of evil
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

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The principle of vicarious suffering.

In the preceding parts of this work we have traced the practice of killing a god among peoples in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society; and I have attempted to explain the motives which led men...
Chapter 4 the saturnalia
Authors: Frazer James George
Published: December 2020

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Annual periods of license.

The Roman Saturnalia.

In an earlier part of this book we saw that many peoples have been used to observe an annual period of license, when the customary restraints of law and morality are thrown aside, when the whole...
The Unexpected
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

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‘It is the unexpected which happens,’ says the French pro-verb. I like the proverb, because it is true—and because it is French.

Edouard Charpentier is my name.

I am an American by birth, but that is all. From infancy, when I had a...
The Cottagette
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

‘Why not?’ said Mr Mathews. ‘It is far too small for a house, too pretty for a hut, too—unusual—for a cottage.’

‘Cottagette, by all means,’ said Lois, seating herself on a porch chair. ‘But it is larger than it looks, Mr Mathews. How...
Turned
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

In her soft-carpeted, thick-curtained, richly furnished chamber, Mrs Marroner lay sobbing on the wide, soft bed.

She sobbed bitterly, chokingly, despairingly; her shoulders heaved and shook convulsively; her hands were tight-clenched; she had forgotten her elaborate dress, the more elaborate bed-cover; forgotten her dignity, her...
Her Beauty
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

Amaryllis was her name.

She used bitterly to reflect, chin on hands, eyes staring gloomily into the ill-natured little mirror—a dull, green-tinted, worse than truthful mirror—that her name was the only beautiful thing about her.

Amaryllis Delong! Some remote Huguenot refugee ancestor put that ‘de’...
Mrs Hines’s Money
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

Mrs Hines lay quietly on her back, looking sideways out of the window. She was quite conscious of the dull ache in the splinted arms, the bandaged head, but with a strange, unusual sense of peace. Physically she was far from comfortable, but in...
Bee Wise
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

‘It’s a queer name,’ said the man reporter.

‘No queerer than the other,’ said the woman reporter. ‘There are two of them, you know—Beewise and Herways.’

‘It reminds me of something,’ he said, ‘some quotation—do you get it?’

‘I think I do,’ she said....
Mr Peebles’s Heart
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

He was lying on the sofa in the homely, bare little sitting room; an uncomfortable stiff sofa, too short, too sharply upcurved at the end, but still a sofa, whereon one could, at a pinch, sleep.

Thereon Mr Peebles slept, this hot still afternoon; slept...
Pallinghurst Barrow
Authors: Allen Grant
Published: December 2020

I

Rudolph Reeve sat by himself on the Old Long Barrow on Pallinghurst Common. It was a September evening, and the sun was setting. The west was all aglow with a mysterious red light, very strange and lurid—a light that reflected itself in glowing...
Magic Lantern
Authors: Lorrain Jean
Published: December 2020

The Orchestra Colonne completed, with muted strings teased by the tips of the bows, the most delightful movements of The Sleep of Faust: the Choir of Spirits and the Dance of the Sylphs. Entirely under the spell of that hallucinatory music—and perhaps...
Chapter I
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of...
Chapter XI
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

I now come to that part of my life during which I planned, and finally succeeded in making, my escape from slavery. But before narrating any of the peculiar circumstances, I deem it proper to make known my intention not to state all the facts...
II The Little Shop-Window
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

IT STILL lacked half-an-hour of sunrise, when Miss Hep-zibah Pyncheon—we will not say awoke; it being doubtful whether the poor lady had so much as closed her eyes, during the brief night of mid-summer—but, at all events, arose from her solitary pillow, and began what...
V May and November
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

PHOEBE PYNCHEON slept, on the night of her arrival, in a chamber that looked down on the garden of the old house. It fronted towards the east, so that, at a very seasonable hour, a glow of crimson light came flooding through the window, and...
13
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs Tarrant was delighted, as may be imagined, with her daughter’s account of Miss Chancellor’s interior, and the reception the girl had found there; and Verena, for the next month, took her way very often to Charles Street. ‘Just you be as nice to...
17
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The next time Verena saw Olive, she said to her that she was ready to make the promise she had asked the other night; but, to her great surprise, this young woman answered her by a question intended to check such rashness. Miss Chancellor...
24
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

A little more than a hour after this he stood in the parlour of Doctor Tarrant’s suburban residence, in Monad-noc Place. He had induced a juvenile maid-servant, by an appeal somewhat impassioned, to let the ladies know that he was there; and she...
The Eagle’s Nest (1872)
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

The Relation of Wise Art to Wise Science

Our task to-day is to examine the relation between art and science, each governed by sophia,* and becoming capable, therefore, of consistent and definable relation to each other. Between foolish art and foolish science,...
Volume II
Authors: Cleland John
Published: December 2020

MADAM,

If I have delay’d the sequel* of my history, it has been purely to afford myself a little breathing time, not without some hopes that, instead of pressing me to a continuation, you would have acquitted me of the task of pursuing...
The Female Quixote
Authors: Lennox Charlotte , Doody Margaret Anne
Published: December 2020

The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella, whose passion for reading romances leads her into all manner of misunderstandings. Praised by Fielding, Richardson and Samuel Johnson, the book quickly established Charlotte Lennox as a foremost writer of the Novel of Sentiment. With an excellent introduction and full explanatory notes, this edition will be of particular interest to students of women's literature, and of the eighteenth-century novel.
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘When Elinor arrived in Yorkshire, she found her aunt was dead. Elinor went to visit her grave. It was, in compliance with her last request, placed near the window of the independent meetinghouse, and bore for inscription her favourite...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘In less than half an hour, the superb apartments, the illuminated gardens of Aliaga, did not echo a footstep; all were gone, except a few who lingered, some from curiosity, some from humanity, to witness...
Chapter XXXVII
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘The first examination of Isidora was conducted with the circumspective formality that has always been known to mark...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

We now found ourselves in the wide and desolate Antarctic Ocean, in a latitude exceeding eighty-four degrees* in a frail canoe, and with no provision but the three turtles. The long Polar winter, too, could not be considered as far distant, and...
Chapter 1
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

In setting out to describe the recent and very strange events that occurred in our hitherto completely undistinguished little town, I am compelled by my own lack of talent to begin from some time back, that is, with a few biographical details about...
Chapter 3
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

About a week went by and things became rather more complicated.

I’ll note in passing that during this unhappy week I had to endure a great deal of anguish while remaining in almost constant attendance on my affianced friend and serving as his closest...
Chapter 1
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

Eight days passed. Now that everything is over and I’m actually writing this chronicle, we know what it was all about; but at that time we knew nothing, and it’s only natural that several things seemed strange to us. At any rate, Stepan...
Chapter 8
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

They went out. Peter Stepanovich was about to rush back to the ‘meeting’ to quell the chaos, but probably deciding it wasn’t worth the trouble he left it all and two minutes later was already rushing down the street after the other pair. Along...
Memoirs from the House of the Dead
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their ten-pound leg-fetters is an extraordinary tour de force, compared by Turgenev to passages from Dante’s Inferno. Terror and resignation - the rampages of a pyschopath, the brief serence interlude of Christmas Day - are evoked by Dostoevsky, writing several years after his release, with a strikingly uncharacteristic detachment. For this reason, House of the Dead is certainly the least Dostoevskian of his works, yet, paradoxically, it ranks among his great masterpieces.
Desperate People. Luke
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

It is difficult to say much about desperate characters; in prison, as elsewhere, there were rather few of them. One man, perhaps, would be terrible in appearance, and you might have regard to the tales told about another and keep out of his way....
The Hospital (II)
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The doctors went round the wards in the morning between ten and eleven; they all appeared in a group, escorting the head physician. About an hour and a half before them our house-surgeon visited the ward. At that time the house-surgeon was a young...
Akulka’s Husband (A Story)
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

It was already late, after 11 o’clock. I had dropped asleep, but suddenly I was awake. The small, dim flame of the night-light scarcely relieved the darkness of the ward. Almost everybody was asleep. Even Ustyantsev slept, and in the stillness his laboured breathing...
Prison Animals
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The purchase of a bay horse, which took place soon afterwards, occupied and entertained the prisoners much more pleasantly than the exalted visitor. We were supposed to have a horse to bring in water, remove refuse, and so on. A prisoner was...
I Leave the Prison
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

When all this happened I had already reached the last year of my penal servitude. This last year, and especially the very end of my time in the prison, is almost as clear in my memory as the first one. But why should I...
The Waggons
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The evening was pitch-dark: star and moon were quenched in gray rain-clouds—gray they would have been by day, by night they looked sable. Malone was not a man given to close observation of Nature; her changes passed, for the most part, unnoticed by him;...
Briarmains
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Messrs. Helstone and Sykes began to be extremely jocose and congratulatory with Mr. Moore when he returned to them after dismissing the deputation; he was so quiet, however, under their compliments upon his firmness, &c., and wore a countenance so...
Chapter I
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

How have I sinn’d, that this affliction

Should light so heavy on me? I have no more sons, And this no more mine own.—My grand curse Hang o’er his head that thus transform’d thee!—Travel?

I’ll send my horse to travel next.

Monsieur Thomas*

You...
Chapter V
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

How melts my beating heart, as I behold Each lovely nymph, our island's boast and pride, Push on the generous steed, that sweeps along O’er rough, o’er smooth, nor heeds the steepy hill, Nor falters in the extended vale below!

The Chase*

I Approached...
Chapter VII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Bardolph. The sheriff, with a monstrous watch, is at the door.

Henry IV. First Part*

I Found out with some difficulty the apartment which was destined for my accommodation; and, having secured myself the necessary good-will and attention from my uncle's domestics, by...
Chapter XII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Drunk?—and speak parrot?—and squabble?—

swagger?—

Swear?—and discourse fustian with one's own shadow?

Othello*

I Have already told you, my dear Tresham, what probably was no news to you, that my principal fault was an unconquerable pitch of pride, which exposed me to frequent...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

‘It happened one day about noon, going to my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.’

Robinson Crusoe*

With the blended feelings of interest...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

And hurry, hurry, off they rode, As fast as fast might be;

Hurra, hurra, the dead can ride, Dost fear to ride with me?

Burgher*

There is one advantage in an accumulation of evils, differing in cause and character, that the distraction which...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

So stands the Thracian herdsman with his spear Full in the gap, and hopes the hunted bear;

And hears him in the rustling wood, and sees His course at distance by the bending trees, And thinks—Here comes my mortal enemy, And either he must fall...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

And be he safe restored ere evening set, Or, if there's vengeance in an injured heart, And power to wreak it in an armed hand, Your land shall ache for’t.

Old Play*

I Know not why it is, that a single deed...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

A hopeless darkness settles o’er my fate;

I’ve seen the last look of her heavenly eyes,—

I’ve heard the last sound of her blessed voice,—

I’ve seen her fair form from my sight depart:

My doom is closed.

Count Basil*

‘I Ken...
Hume’s Endnotes
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

[For the editorial principles applied here, please see the Note on the Text, above.]

Endnote [A] to 2.9, p. 151

IT is probable that no more was meant by those, who denied innate ideas, than that all ideas were copies of our impressions;...
Chapter III
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

My mother’s brother arrives—relieves me—a description of him—goes along with me to the house of my grandfather—is encountered by his dogs—defeats them after a bloody engagement—is admitted to the old gentleman—a dialogue between them

About this time, my mother’s only brother, who had been...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

We visit Strap’s friend——a description of him——his advice——we go to Mr. Cringed’s house——are denied admittance——an accident befals Strap——his behaviour thereupon——an extraordinary adventure occurs, in the course of which I lose all my money

In the afternoon, my companion proposed to call at...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I am reduced to great misery—assaulted on Tower-hill by a press-gang, who put me on board a tender—my usage there—my arrival on board of the Thunder man of war, where I am put in irons, and afterwards released by the good offices of Mr. Thomson,...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

The captain enraged, threatens to put the madman to death with his own hand——is diverted from that resolution by the arguments and persuasion of the first lieutenant and surgeon——we set sail for St. Helens, join the fleet under the command of Sir C——n——r O—le,1...
Chapter XXXVII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

We depart for Europe——a misunderstanding arises between the captain and surgeon, through the scandalous aspersions of Crampley——the captain dies—Crampley tyrannizes over the surgeon, who falls a victim to his cruelty——I am also ill used——the ship strikes—the behaviour of Crampley and the seamen on...
Chapter XLII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

He takes his passage in a Cutter for Deal—we are accosted by a priest, who proves to be a Scottishman——his professions of friendship——he is affronted by the lieutenant, who afterwards appeases him by submission—my uncle embarks——I am introduced by the priest to a capuchin, in...
Chapter XLIII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

We lodge at a house near Amiens,1 where I am robbed by the capuchin, who escapes while I am asleep——I go to Noyons in search of him, but without success——I make my condition known to several people; but find no relief——...
Chapter XLVII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

Strap communicates to me a conquest he had made on a chandler’s widow—finds himself miserably mistaken——I go to the opera——admire Melinda——am cautioned by Banter——go to the assembly at Hampstead——dance with that young lady—receive an insolent message from Bragwell, whose mettle is soon cooled——am in favour...