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Centres without Sensibility
Authors: Ganeri Jonardon
Published: December 2020

A fundamental claim in Pessoa’s philosophy is that selves are grounded in fields of experience. What, though, if there are no sensations? This very possibility, which seems at first sight to be wholly unavailable to Pessoa, is exactly what is countenanced by the eleventh-century Central Asian philosopher Avicenna. Avicenna says that one can imagine a human being who is created out of nothing flying through the air but having no sensory perceptions. However, there is a phenomenological field, and so a type of centrality, available even to the flying man. A positional conception of self can be grounded in the centrality of a purely cognitive phenomenology. If a purely cognitive landscape of presence is a possibility, then so too is a virtual subject, a heteronym, whose manner of experiencing is purely cognitive.
Language and the Standard Interpretation
Authors: Weiner Joan
Published: December 2020

On the Standard Interpretation, Frege means to be giving some sort of theory of the workings of language. The interpretation is easily justified, many think, by mere reportage of the words on his pages. This chapter begins with a closer look at this reportage and shows that a great deal of the widely accepted reportage is inaccurate. The chapter goes on to exhibit problems with the Standard Interpretation. Frege’s aim is to develop, not a perfect language, but a logically perfect language—a language adequate for the expression and evaluation of inference. And, as it turns out, a language that does the work of a natural language cannot satisfy the demands that must be satisfied by a logically perfect language.
Wordhood in Chamacoco
Authors: Ciucci Luca
Published: December 2020

This chapter investigates ‘wordhood’ in Chamacoco, a Zamucoan language with about 2,000 speakers who traditionally inhabit the department of Alto Paraguay in Paraguay. After having examined the concept of ‘word’ in Chamacoco culture and the phonological inventory of the language, this chapter defines the phonological word according to its phonological rules, segmental features, and prosodic features (stress, nasal harmony and vowel harmony). Then, the morphological structure of the main word classes (verbs, nouns and adjectives) is outlined in order to identify the grammatical word and the mismatches between phonological and grammatical word. The latter can consist of one or more phonological words, as for compound subordinators, complex predicates, and instances of reduplication. By contrast, owing to cliticization, one phonological word can comprise two or more grammatical words. Finally, the chapter describes the properties of regular clitics and distinguishes them from morphemes which are independent phonological words frequently undergoing cliticization.
The phonological and grammatical status of Murui ‘word’
Authors: Wojtylak Katarzyna I.
Published: December 2020

Different sorts of phonological and grammatical criteria can be used to identify wordhood in Murui, a Witotoan language from Northwest Amazonia. A phonological word is determined on entirely phonological principles. Its key indicators include prosody (stress) and segmental phonology (vowel length). A phonological word is further produced by applying relevant phonological processes within it and not across its word boundaries. The further criterion is moraicity which requires that the minimal phonological word contains at least two moras. A grammatical word, determined entirely on grammatical principles, consists of one lexical root to which morphological processes (affixation, cliticization, and reduplication) are applied. The components of a grammatical word are cohesive and occur in a relatively fixed order. Although Murui grammatical and phonological words mostly coincide, the ‘mismatches’ include nominal compounds (that is, one phonological word consisting of two grammatical words), verbal root reduplication (one grammatical but two phonological words), and clitics.
The notion of ‘word’ in Makary Kotoko
Authors: Allison Sean
Published: December 2020

Based on criteria proposed by Dixon and Aikhenvald (2002) for identifying grammatical and phonological words in a language, this chapter presents the notion of ‘word’ in Makary Kotoko (Chadic, Cameroon). The criteria of (i) pause phenomena, (ii) isolatability, (iii) meaning, and (iv) tone assignment are determinative, not for the identification of word per se, but for identifying word classes—in particular, the major word classes of the language: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and ideophone. Misalignment between grammatical and phonological words occurs with functional elements of the language and is addressed in a discussion of the clitics of the language. Clitic behaviour creates issues for determining orthographic words for this language which has had no known written tradition until fairly recently. Words used for expressing the concept of ‘word’ are discussed and the chapter concludes with a brief presentation of some word games used by speakers of Makary Kotoko.
Words altogether
Authors: Aikhenvald Alexandra Y. , Dixon R. M. W.
Published: December 2020

This chapter recapitulates the essence of the concepts of phonological and grammatical word discussed throughout the volume. Defining a phonological and a grammatical word is relatively straightforward for some languages, less so for others. For instance, components of a grammatical word generally occur in fixed order; but this can be challenged by highly synthetic languages of Amazonia. Generally, a phonological and a grammatical word tend to coincide. Recurrent mismatches between phonological and grammatical word involve reduplication, compounding, and noun incorporation. Further typical mismatches involve clitics—morphemes which can be shown to form a grammatical word, but cannot be pronounced on their own. Clitics can be distinguished from affixes based on a number of features, including selectivity of the host, position in a word, and phonological rules applying on the respective boundaries. The chapter then addresses the question of the applicability of the concept ‘word’ to languages of different types discussed in the volume.
Superficial and Full-Depth Avalanches
Authors: Louchet Francois
Published: December 2020

This chapter is dedicated to two geometrically extreme and opposite cases of snow avalanches, respectively qualified as loose snow and full-depth ones. A general feature is the absence of a weak layer, which eliminates any basal crack initiation by collapse. The former type consists of superficial flows of low-cohesion snow grains, whereas the latter essentially involves the whole snow cover gliding on the bare ground. Superficial avalanches are often released on high-angle slopes, gradually gathering new snow grains as they propagate in fan-like shapes. The smallest ones are known as “sluffs”. Their release mechanism is reminiscent of Bak’s sand pile described in appendix A. Different types of full-depth avalanches can be defined in terms of water percolation through the snow cover or at the snow/ground interface. They correspond to different release processes. Their flow and arrest mechanisms are also analyzed in terms of grain sintering in a granular fluid.
Financial Markets, Financial Instruments, and Financial Engineering
Authors: Gilligan John , Wright Mike
Published: December 2020

This chapter focuses on debt and equity. Debt is a contractual obligation to pay an amount to a lender on given dates; it may be secured or unsecured. The cost of debt is interest. Banks and other lenders provide the debt in buyouts. This debt may take many forms and be provided by many different market participants, including one or more of commercial banks, debt funds, investment banks, dedicated mezzanine providers, hedge funds or similar specialist funds, or the public markets via high yield bonds. The chapter then provides a brief background of the 2008 global financial crisis. It also addresses the risks of leveraged lending and defines deep discounted securities (DDS) as well as mezzanine finance. Finally, the chapter explains the structure and terms of a standard Loan Markets Association (LMA) leveraged finance contract to give a sense of the size and complexity of the contract and the negotiations surrounding it.
A Detailed Worked Example of a Leveraged Buyout
Authors: Gilligan John , Wright Mike
Published: December 2020

This chapter explores the major criticisms levelled at the private equity sector. It clarifies some misrepresentations and myths in the light of experience over the evolution of the market and the weight of systematic evidence summarized in this book. It is important to distinguish between analysis at the fund level and at the level of the underlying individual investments. The majority of studies in the finance literature are at the fund level and discuss private equity as an investment strategy. Analysis at the investment level is often done by case study, which always risks creating general conclusions from specific examples. The chapter then looks at areas which are under-researched. These areas include performance and returns; deal structures; the private equity process; new and secondary markets; and political environment.
Introduction
Authors: Osborne James F.
Published: December 2020

This chapter presents the overall argument and structure of the book. In today’s understanding of the ancient Near East, the Iron Age kingdoms of southeastern Anatolia and northern Syria are often seen as a cultural backwater, peripheral to the concerns of larger and more powerful contemporaries. Instead, one of the book’s main arguments is the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex (SACC)’s hitherto underappreciated significance in antiquity. Part of the reason for this lack of scholarly recognition is the tacit application of an inappropriate model of the state, the nation-state, which is wholly inaccurate in this context. This chapter reviews how this model manifests in archaeological, art historical, and philological Iron Age research. It then surveys the historical trajectory of SACC across the Iron Age and overviews the region’s geographical context.
Diaspora and the Origins of the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex
Authors: Osborne James F.
Published: December 2020

This chapter proposes a model for how the Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex (SACC) arose during the Late Bronze–Iron Age transition at the end of the second millennium and start of the first millennium BCE. It presents SACC as a case study for diaspora studies in the tradition of Paul Gilroy and James Clifford. A series of demographic transformations took place at this time, including small-scale migrations from central Anatolia and the Aegean into southeastern Anatolia, as well as a ruralization of the local settlement patterns from previous major urban centers. Together, these transformations brought several different populations into close contact with one another, resulting in a diverse ethnolinguistic landscape reminiscent of certain contemporary situations of diaspora. It is precisely these mixed cultural origins that have led SACC to be so difficult for scholars to characterize, leading as it did to multiple affiliation groups sharing cultural and political traditions.
Commodities, Futures, Options, and Swaps, 1970–92
Authors: Michie Ranald C.
Published: December 2020

One of the most dynamic financial markets to appear after 1970 was the trading of derivatives. Prior to 1970 the fixed nature of both interest rates and exchange rates, because of government controls and central bank intervention, limited the need to cover risks in these areas. With the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s both interest rates and exchange rates experienced rising volatility, forcing banks to turn to derivatives as one way to coping. Governments of countries also began relaxing the prohibition on the trading of futures contracts that had been introduced in the past as a way of coping with destabilizing speculation. The commodity exchanges responded to these opportunities by devising contracts that allowed users to cover risks in financial markets as had already been done for such products as wheat, copper, and, later, oil. Leading these developments were the Chicago commodity exchanges such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange but numerous contracts were also traded in the Over-the-Counter (OTC) market, directly between banks or through interdealer brokers.
Banks and Brokers, 1993–2006
Authors: Michie Ranald C.
Published: December 2020

There was a banking crisis in the early 1990s centred on non-performing loans to third world countries, the property sector, and leveraged buy-outs. This left many banks holding loans that could not be repaid, creating a natural reluctance to take risks. What followed was a permanent shift away from the lend-and-hold model of banking to the originate-and-distribute one. Rather than raise finance through loans from banks governments and companies issued bonds instead. Rather than accept the interest paid on bank deposits savers bought these bonds. Rather than hold loans until maturity banks repackaged them as transferable securities and sold them on, releasing funds, which could be used for further lending, and so repeat the cycle. Rather than act as intermediaries between savers and borrowers banks moved into the realm of creators and retailers of financial assets. The interdealer brokers aided this process by acting as intermediaries between banks, making markets in all manner of financial assets. Helping drive this shift in the 1990s, away from lend-and-hold to originate-and-distribute, was the attitude of regulators. They believed that the originate-and-distribute model of banking provided greater resilience to a liquidity crisis than the lend-and-hold one, because assets could be sold to release cash which could be used to repay depositors.
Commodities and Derivatives, 1993–2006
Authors: Michie Ranald C.
Published: December 2020

Derivatives blossomed in volume and variety during the 1990s. Derivatives provided a means of insuring against fluctuations in prices, exchange rates, and interest rates, the default of borrowers, the collapse of issuers of securities, and the miscalculation of investors. In a world of uncertainty a derivatives contract could be used to guarantee a particular outcome regardless of the turn of events. Those guarantees underpinned countless decisions as they generated confidence that the risks being taken were predictable and manageable. Through the use of derivatives, buyers and sellers, borrowers and investors, savers and lenders, could experience the flexibility derived from liquid markets, combined with the returns generated by a long term commitment, without the rigidity imposed by government controls, business collusion, and the suppression of competition produced by division and compartmentalization. Derivatives offered a means of coping with the risks and volatility produced by open and competitive markets, where prices, exchange rates, and interest rates experienced wild fluctuations and counterparties defaulted on deals. For that reason derivatives were embraced by all ranging from regulators to speculators.
Trends, Events, and Centres, 2007–20
Authors: Michie Ranald C.
Published: December 2020

To many the Global Financial Crisis that engulfed the world in 2008 was an event that could not happen because of the trends that had preceded it. The emergence of the megabanks, the switch to the originate-and-distribute model, the introduction of the Basel Rules, and the use of derivative contracts were all meant to make the global financial system much more resilient. Under the collective guidance of central banks the world appeared to have discovered the secret of how to deliver a financial system that met the needs of all users and was also both competitive and stable. This system balanced the desire of governments to pursue independent economic, monetary, and financial policies with the free movement of funds around the world and relatively stable exchange rates. The various financial crises that had occurred during the 1980s and 1990s provided ample warnings of this instability but faith was placed in business models and mathematical formula to deliver the stability that had once been associated with the pre-1970s era of control and compartmentalization. As a financial crisis did occur many have pointed to it being the inevitable consequence of what had happened since the 1970s, and especially during the previous fifteen years. Conversely, others predicted that the crisis would lead to major change in direction for the world’s banks and financial markets, and the demise of London and New York as global financial centres.
Afterword
Authors: Michie Ranald C.
Published: December 2020

The shock to the global financial system in 2020, caused by the coronavirus, provides is a test for the measures taken since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The coronavirus has caused a shock to the global economic system, disrupting both supply and demand, and this demands more direct government intervention than central banks are able to provide. Whereas the 2008 crisis was one centred on the global banking system that of 2020 was an event akin to a war, natural disaster, or a political revolution. In turn that had implications for the global financial system as it contained the potential to destabilize banks by threatening the solvency of those to whom they had made loans and extended credit. To forestall such an event central banks are called upon to act as lenders of last resort, particularly the Federal Reserve, as it was the only one capable of supplying the US$s on which all banks relied when making and receiving payments, and borrowing and lending, among themselves. From the outset that response appears to have learned lessons from the mistakes of the 2008 crisis, in terms of speed, scale, and co-ordination, while the global banking system is far more resilient.
“Rasputin, Shelley, Van Gogh and Fosdick in One”
Authors: Abzug Robert H.
Published: December 2020

May returns to Union for summer classes and studies the giving of sermons with Harry Emerson Fosdick. He expands his sense of self and begins to teach at the New York YMCA. He studies Carl Jung and imagines his future in the image of Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He then returns to do another year in East Lansing.
Looking Backward, Moving Forward
Authors: Abzug Robert H.
Published: December 2020

May turns to writing a fond and interpretively acute short book on his relationship to Paul Tillich-Paulus—and runs into difficulties with Hannah Arendt’s own memoir of her marriage. He then publishes The Courage to Create. May becomes more and more alienated in New York, feeling drawn to California and its more open and psychologically progressive atmosphere. He accepts a Regents Professorship at the University of California Santa Cruz, but has a mixed time because of health problems and marital strife with Ingrid. At the same time, May becomes more critical of the more narcissistic and quick-fix nature of some of the humanistic psychology movement, and he along with others convene as theory conference to establish a more serious and scientifically sound basis for the movement,also one that focused on social issues in addition to personal well-being. By fall 1975, he moves to Tiburon, California, and separates from Ingrid.
Papa and Mamma
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

139. The work to which, as partly above described, I set myself during the year 1834 under the excitement remaining from my foreign travels, was in four distinct directions, in any one of which my strength might at that time have been fixed...
Vester, Camenae
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

159. The death of Charles closed the doors of my heart again for that time; and the self-engrossed quiet of the Herne Hill life continued for another year, leaving little to be remembered, and less to be told. My parents made one effort,...
Otterburn
Authors: Ruskin John
Published: December 2020

225. In blaming myself, as often I have done, and may have occasion to do again, for my want of affection to other people, I must also express continually, as I think back about it, more and more wonder that ever anybody had...
Jezebel's Daughter
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘The power that I have dreamed of all my life is mine at last!’ How far is a mother prepared to go to secure her daughter's future? Madame Fontaine, widow of an eminent chemist, has both the determination and the cunning to bring young Minna's marriage plans to fruition, with dangerous consequences for anyone who dares to stand in her way. But has she met her match in Jack Straw, one-time inmate of Bedlam lunatic asylum? It will take a visit to the morgue to find out who triumphs - and who comes out alive. Reminiscent of Collins's blockbusters The Woman in White and Armadale, this suspenseful case study in villainy is set against the financial world of 1820s Frankfurt and tells the story of two widows, one of them devoted to realizing her husband's social reforms, the other equally devoted to the pursuit of her daughter's happiness.
Chapter VIII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘I will lay any wager you like,’ said Fritz, when we had come to the end of the letter, ‘that the wretch who has written this is a woman.’

‘What makes you think so?’

‘Because all the false reports about poor Madame Fontaine, when...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Mr Keller and Mr Engelman were both waiting to receive me. They looked over my written report of my inquiries at Hanau, and expressed the warmest approval of it. So far, all was well.

But, when we afterwards sat down to our supper, I noticed...
III
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The third and last letter which I present is written by me, and was addressed to Mrs Wagner during her stay at Frankfort:—

‘I exaggerate nothing, my dear aunt, when I say that I write in great distress. Let me beg you to prepare yourself...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The widow presented herself, with a dogged resignation singularly unlike her customary manner. Her eyes had a set look of hardness; her lips were fast closed; her usually colourless complexion had faded to a strange greyish pallor. If her dead husband could have risen...
V
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘Whose writing is this?’ I asked.

‘The writing of Madame Fontaine’s late husband.’

‘And she put it into your hands!’

‘Yes—and asked me to interpret the cypher for her.’

‘It’s simply incomprehensible.’

‘Not in the least. She knew the use to which Jack had put...
The Castle of Otranto
Authors: Walpole Horace
Published: December 2020

‘Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions’ The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest Middle Ages, the novel tells of Manfred, prince of Otranto, whose fear of an ancient prophecy sets him on a course of destruction. After the grotesque death of his only son, Conrad, on his wedding day, Manfred determines to marry the bride–to–be. The virgin Isabella flees through a castle riddled with secret passages. Chilling coincidences, ghostly visitations, arcane revelations, and violent combat combine in a heady mix that terrified the novel's first readers. In this new edition Nick Groom examines the reasons for its extraordinary impact and the Gothic culture from which it sprang. The Castle of Otranto was a game-changer, and Walpole the writer who paved the way for modern horror exponents.
Chapter III
Authors: Walpole Horace
Published: December 2020

Manfred’s heart misgave him when he beheld the plumage on the miraculous casque shaken in concert with the sounding of the brazen trumpet. Father! said he to Jerome, whom he now ceased to treat as count of Falconara, what mean these portents? If I...
Chapter IV
Authors: Lewis Matthew
Published: December 2020

–––––Ah! how dark

These long-extended realms and rueful wastes;

Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark night,

Dark as was Chaos ere the Infant Sun

Was rolled together, or had tried its beams

Athwart the gloom profound! The sickly Taper

By glimmering through thy...
After the Ball
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘It’s weary work,’ said Sir Felix as he got into the brougham with his mother and sister.

‘What must it have been to me then, who had nothing to do?’ said his mother.

‘It’s the having something to do that makes me call it...
Lady Pomona’s Dinner Party
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Roger Carbury’s half-formed plan of keeping Henrietta at home while Lady Carbury and Sir Felix went to dine at Caversham fell to the ground. It was to be carried out only in the event of Hetta’s yielding to his prayer. But he had in...
Miss Melmotte’s Courage
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady Carbury continued to ask frequent questions as to the prosecution of her son’s suit, and Sir Felix began to think that he was persecuted. ‘I have spoken to her father,’ he said crossly.

‘And what did Mr Melmotte say?’

‘Say;—what should he say? He...
Paul Montague’s Troubles
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Paul Montague had other troubles on his mind beyond this trouble of the Mexican Railway. It was now more than a fortnight since he had taken Mrs Hurtle to the play, and she was still living in lodgings at Islington. He had seen her...
Miss Longestaffe Writes Home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady Monogram, when she left Madame Melmotte’s house after that entertainment of Imperial Majesty which had been to her of so very little avail, was not in a good humour. Sir Damask, who had himself affected to laugh at the whole thing, but who...
Melmotte Makes a Friend
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Have you been thinking any more about it?’ Lord Nidderdale said to the girl as soon as Madame Melmotte had succeeded in leaving them alone together.

‘I have thought ever so much more about it,’ said Marie.

‘And what’s the result?’

‘Oh,—I’ll have you.’...
Mr Cohenlupe Leaves London
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Dolly Longestaffe had found himself compelled to go to Fetter Lane immediately after that meeting in Bruton Street at which he had consented to wait two days longer for the payment of his money. This was on a Wednesday, the day appointed for the...
Hetta’s Sorrow
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Hetta Carbury received that letter from her lover which was given to the reader some chapters back, it certainly did not tend in any way to alleviate her misery. Even when she had read it over half-a-dozen times, she could not bring herself...
The Longestaffe Marriages
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In another part of Suffolk, not very far from Bungay, there was a lady whose friends had not managed her affairs as well as Ruby’s friends had done for Ruby. Miss Georgiana Longestaffe in the early days of August was in a very miserable...
Marie Melmotte’s Fate
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the meantime Marie Melmotte was living with Madame Melmotte in their lodgings up at Hampstead, and was taking quite a new look out into the world. Fisker had become her devoted servant,—not with that old-fashioned service which meant making love, but with perhaps...
The Interesting Narrative
Authors: Equiano Olaudah
Published: December 2020

‘I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.’ Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative gives the author)s account of his enslavement after his childhood kidnapping in Africa, and his journey from slavery to freedom. Equiano was slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later to a Quaker merchant, and he vividly depicts the appalling treatment of enslaved people at sea and on land. He takes part in naval engagements, is shipwrecked, and has other exciting adventures on his travels to the Caribbean, America, and the Arctic. Equiano claimed his own freedom and became an important abolitionist, but his Narrative is much more than merely a political pamphlet. The most important African autobiography of the eighteenth century, it has achieved an increasingly central position among the century)s great works of literature. The introduction to this edition surveys recent debates about Equiano's birthplace and identity, and considers his campaigning role and literary achievements.
Chapter XII
Authors: Equiano Olaudah
Published: December 2020

Different transactions of the author’s life till the present time—His application to the late Bishop of London to be appointed a missionary to Africa—Some account of his share in the conduct of the late expedition to Sierra Leona—Petition to the Queen—Conclusion.

Such were the...
Chapter VI: The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It Was Easter week, and Mrs Tulliver’s cheese-cakes were more exquisitely light than usual: ‘a puff o’ wind ’ud make ’em blow about like feathers,’ Kezia the housemaid said,—feeling proud to live under a mistress who could make such pastry; so that no season...
Chapter I: Tom’s ‘First Half’
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Tom Tulliver’s sufferings during the first quarter he was at King’s Lorton, under the distinguished care of the Rev. Walter Stelling, were rather severe. At Mr Jacobs’ academy, life had not presented itself to him as a difficult problem: there were plenty of fellows...
Chapter VII: The Golden Gates Are Passed
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

So
Tom went on even to the fifth half-year—till he was turned sixteen—at King’s Lorton, while Maggie was growing with a rapidity which her aunts considered highly reprehensible, at Miss Firniss’s boarding-school in the ancient town of Laceham on the Floss, with cousin Lucy...
Chapter II: Mrs Tulliver’s Teraphim, or Household Gods
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

When the coach set down Tom and Maggie, it was five hours since she had started from home, and she was thinking with some trembling that her father had perhaps missed her, and asked for ‘the little wench’ in vain. She thought of no...
Chapter III: Confidential Moments
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

When Maggie went up to her bedroom that night, it appeared that she was not at all inclined to undress. She set down her candle on the first table that presented itself, and began to walk up and down her room, which was a...
Chapter IV: Brother and Sister
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Maggie was obliged to go to Tom’s lodgings in the middle of the day, when he would be coming in to dinner, else she would not have found him at home. He was not lodging with entire strangers. Our friend Bob Jakin had, with...
II. The New Master and Mistress
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

Dr. Flint, a physician in the neighborhood, had married the sister of my mistress, and I was now the property of their little daughter. It was not without murmuring that I prepared for my new home; and what added to my unhappiness,...
VII. The Lover
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

Why does the slave ever love? Why allow the tendrils of the heart to twine around objects which may at any moment be wrenched away by the hand of violence? When separations come by the hand of death, the pious soul can bow in...
XVI. Scenes at the Plantation
Authors: Jacobs Harriet
Published: December 2020

Early the next morning I left my grandmother’s with my youngest child. My boy was ill, and I left him behind. I had many sad thoughts as the old wagon jolted on. Hitherto, I had suffered alone; now, my little one was to be...
Chapter V Choice of a Profession
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

From the minuteness with which I have traced Waverley’s pursuits, and the bias which they unavoidably communicated to his imagination, the reader may perhaps anticipate, in the following tale, an imitation of the romance of Cervantes. But he will do my prudence injustice in...
Chapter VIII A Scottish Manor House Sixty Years since
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

It was about noon when Captain Waverley entered the straggling village, or rather hamlet, of Tully-Veolan, close to which was situated the mansion of the proprietor. The houses seemed miserable in the extreme, especially to an eye accustomed to the smiling neatness of English...
Chapter VIII An Examination
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Major
Melville of Cairnvreckan, an elderly gentleman, who had spent his youth in the military service, received Mr Morton with great kindness, and our hero with civility, which the equivocal circumstances in which Edward was placed rendered constrained and distant.

The matter of the smith’s...
Chapter XIII Chapter of Accidents
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Edward was in a most unpleasant and dangerous situation. He soon lost the sound of the bagpipes; and what was yet more unpleasant, when, after searching long in vain, and scrambling through many enclosures, he at length approached the high road, he learned, from...
Chapter XVIII More Explanation
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about her house to wake the Baron, who usually slept sound and heavily.

“I must go back,” he said to Waverley, “to my cove; will you walk down the glen wi’ me?” They went out...
Prefaces and Introduction to the 1829 Edition
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

To

THE KING’S

Most Gracious Majesty
King Solomon's Mines
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

Don’t you see that we are buried alive?’ When Allan Quatermain is approached by Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good to search for Sir Henry’s missing brother, deep in the African interior, he agrees to lead their expedition. Quatermain has a map to the fabled King Solomon’s Mines, whose treasure the missing man sought to attain. Their journey takes them to Kukuanaland, where they find a warrior tribe in thrall to King Twala. Soon the white men are embroiled in a desperate tribal battle, and Quatermain’s expedition can only reach its goal with the aid of Gagool, the ancient ‘mother’ no one trusts. Haggard’s exciting adventure story captivated readers when it was first published in 1885. It helped inaugurate a wave of ‘lost world’ romances inspired by the exploits of British explorers in colonial Africa. This new edition looks at Haggard’s own African experiences and unlikely literary success, and his ambivalent attitude to the native tribes and the ravages of the British Empire.
Chapter IV: An Elephant Hunt
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

Now I do not propose to narrate at full length all the incidents of our long journey up to Sitanda’s Kraal, near the junction of the Lukanga and Kalukwe Rivers, a journey of more than a thousand miles from Durban, the last three hundred...
Chapter X: The Witch-Hunt
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

On reaching our hut, I motioned to Infadoos to enter with us.

‘Now, Infadoos,’ I said, ‘we would speak with thee.’

‘Let my lords say on.’

‘It seems to us, Infadoos, that Twala, the king, is a cruel man.’

‘It is so, my lords. Alas!...
Chapter XIII: The Attack
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

Slowly, and without the slightest appearance of haste or excitement, the three columns crept on. When within about five hundred yards of us, the main or centre column halted at the root of a tongue of open plain which ran up into the hill,...
Stories and Poems
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

‘Hear and attend and listen...’ Rudyard Kipling is a supreme master of the short story in English and a poet of brilliant gifts. His energy and inventiveness poured themselves into every kind of tale, from the bleakest of fables to the richest of comedies, and he illuminated every aspect of human behaviour, of which he was a fascinated (and sometimes appalled) observer. This generous selection of stories and poems, first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series, covers the full range of Kipling’s career from the youthful volumes that brought him fame as the chronicler of British India, to the bittersweet fruits of age and bereavement in the aftermath of the First World War. It includes stories such as ‘The Man who would be King’, ‘Mrs Bathurst’, and ‘Mary Postgate’, and poems from Barrack-Room Ballads and other collections. In his introduction and notes Daniel Karlin addresses the controversial political engagement of Kipling’s art, and the sources of its imaginative power.
My Sunday at Home
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

It was the unreproducible slid r, as he said this was his ‘fy-ist’ visit...
Conclusion
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

There was one time of the year which was held in Raveloe to be especially suitable for a wedding. It was when the great lilacs and laburnums in the old-fashioned gardens showed their golden and purple wealth above the lichen-tinted walls, and when there...
Before the Curtain
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and...
Chapter XI
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

esides these honest folks at the Hall (whose simplicity and sweet rural purity surely show the advantage of a country life over a town one), we must introduce the reader to their relatives and neighbours at the Rectory, Bute Crawley and his wife...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

onducted to the ladies, at the Ship Inn, Dobbin assumed a jovial and rattling manner, which proved that this young officer was becoming a more consummate hypocrite every day of his life. He was trying to hide his own private feelings, first upon...
Chapter XLVI
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

ur friends at Brompton were meanwhile passing their Christmas after their fashion, and in a manner by no means too cheerful.

Out of the hundred pounds a year*, which was about the amount of her income, the widow Osborne had been in the...
Chapter LIV
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

He mansion of Sir Pitt Crawley in Great Gaunt Street was just beginning to dress itself for the day, as Rawdon, in his evening costume, which he had now worn two days, passed by the scared female who was scouring the steps, and...
Chapter LXI
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

Here came a day when the round of decorous pleasures and solemn gaieties in which Mr. Jos Sedley’s family indulged, was interrupted by an event which happens in most houses. As you ascend the staircase of your house from the drawing-towards the bed-room...
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was a wonderful month. The garden grew green in the April sun, a soft green as light and fine as lace. The unruly stems of the clematis pushed their thin shoots up the iron fence, while from the honeysuckle wafted a delicate, almost...
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When they left the table the doctor told his wife there was a lady about to give birth, whom he would doubtless have to spend the night attending. He left at nine, went down to the waterside and walked along the deserted banks, in...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When Madame Deberle learned of Jeanne’s death, she wept, she had one of those passionate outbursts that sent her into a frenzy for forty-eight hours. A noisy despair, out of all proportion. She went up and threw herself into the arms of Hélène. Then,...
Chapter XI Respite
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

The last volume was written in fourteen days. In this achievement Reardon rose almost to heroic pitch, for he had much to contend with beyond the mere labour of composition. Scarcely had he begun when a sharp attack of lumbago* fell upon...
Chapter XVII The Parting
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Amy did not go to church. Before her marriage she had done so as a mere matter of course, accompanying her mother, but Reardon’s attitude with regard to the popular religion speedily became her own; she let the subject lapse from her mind, and...
The Surgeon of Gaster Fell
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

How the Woman Came to Kirkby-Malhouse

B
leak and wind-swept is the little town of Kirkby-Malhouse,* harsh and forbidding are the fells upon which it stands. It stretches in a single line of grey-stone, slate-roofed houses, dotted down the furze-clad slope of...
The Lord of ChÂteau Noir
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It was in the days when the German armies had broken their way across France, and when the shattered forces of the young Republic had been swept away to the north of the Aisne and to the south of the Loire.*...
The Fiend of the Cooperage
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It was no easy matter to bring the Gamecock up to the island, for the river had swept down so much silt that the banks extended for many miles out into the Atlantic. The coast was hardly to be seen when...
The New Catacomb
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘L
ook here, Burger,’ said Kennedy, ‘I do wish that you would confide in me.’

The two famous students of Roman remains sat together in Kennedy’s comfortable room overlooking the Corso.* The night was cold, and they had both pulled up their...
How it Happened
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

S
he was a writing medium.* This is what she wrote: —

I can remember some things upon that evening most distinctly, and others are like some vague, broken dreams. That is what makes it so difficult to tell a connected story. I have...
Chapter IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

A sea of greenery in front, on the right, on the left, and everywhere. A sea, rolling its great swell of leaves to the far horizon, with nothing to interrupt it, no house, no stretch of wall or dusty road. A sea like a...
Chapter X
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Désirée came towards him, with her noisy cheerfulness.

‘There you are! there you are!’ she cried. ‘Are you playing hide-and-seek? I’ve called you at least ten times, at the top of my voice... I thought you must have gone out.’

She looked inquisitively into the...
The History of England
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

By a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant Historian.*

To Miss Austen* eldest daughter of the Revd George Austen, this Work is inscribed with all due respect by

The Author

N.B. There will be very few Dates in this History.*
Chapter 6
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

For two days Angélique was overwhelmed with remorse. As soon as she was alone, she wept as though she had done something wrong. A dark and disturbing doubt plagued her: had she committed a sin with the young man? Was she lost, like the...
4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One week later the household had sunk back into the same uneasiness. Pascal and Clotilde once again snubbed each other for whole afternoons, and there were constant mood swings. Martine herself was always cranky. The household of three was becoming a hell.

Then suddenly everything...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When the professor had gone, Sergey Ivanovich turned to his brother:

‘I’m very glad you’ve come. Are you here for long? How is the estate?’

Levin knew that his elder brother had little interest in the estate and was only making a concession in asking...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Vronsky had never known family life. In her youth his mother had been a brilliant society woman who had a great many affairs during her marriage, and particularly after it, which all of society knew about. He barely remembered his father, and had been...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Arriving home in the best of spirits, Levin heard the sound of sleigh-bells coming from the main entrance of the house.

‘Yes, that’s someone coming from the station,’ he thought, ‘it’s just the right time for the Moscow train . . . Who could it...
30
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At the end of September the timber to build the cattle-yard on the land allotted to the peasants’ co-operative was delivered, the butter from the cows was sold, and the profits were shared out. The farming system was working splendidly in practice, or at...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘You met him?’ she asked, when they had sat down at a table under a lamp. ‘That’s your punishment for being late.’

‘Yes, but what happened? Wasn’t he supposed to be at the council?’

‘He was there, and he came back, and now he...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

It was past five, and some of the guests had already arrived, when the host also arrived himself. He came in together with Sergey Ivanovich Koznyshev and Pestsov, who had bumped into each other on the doorstep. They were the two main representatives of...
26
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In September Levin moved to Moscow for Kitty’s confinement. He had already spent a whole month in Moscow without doing anything when Sergey Ivanovich, who had property in Kashin Province and took an active interest in the question of the forthcoming elections, started making...
15
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

He did not know whether it was late or early. The candles had all burned down already. Dolly had just come into the study and suggested to the doctor that he lie down for a while. Levin was sitting listening to the doctor’s stories...
30
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Here it is again! I understand everything again!’ said Anna to herself as soon as the carriage moved off, rocking as it clattered over the small cobbles, and different impressions started again coming into her mind, one after the other.

‘Yes, what was it...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

During the stop in the provincial capital, Sergey Ivanovich did not go to the buffet but instead started walking up and down the platform.

The first time he walked past Vronsky’s compartment he noticed the curtains were drawn. But as he passed it the second...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When the cuckoo clock in the dining room struck six, Chanteau gave up all hope. He levered himself painfully out of the armchair where he had been warming his gouty legs in front of the coke fire. For the past two hours, he had...
Chapter IV
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘My dear Charles,’ said Lady Marney to Egremont the morning after the Derby, as breakfasting with her in her boudoir he detailed some of the circumstances of the race, ‘we must forget your naughty horse. I sent you a little note this morning,...
Chapter III
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘Strangers must withdraw.’

‘Division: clear the gallery. Withdraw.’

‘Nonsense; no; it’s quite ridiculous; quite absurd. Some fellow must get up. Send to the Carlton; send to the Reform;* send to Brookes’s. Are your men ready? No; are your’s? I am sure I can’t...
Chapter VI
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

It is much to be deplored that our sacred buildings are generally closed* except at the stated periods of public resort. It is still more to be regretted that when with difficulty entered, there is so much in their arrangements to offend...