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president grant (1869)
Authors: Adams Henry
Published: June 2023

The first effect of this leap into the unknown was a fit of low spirits new to the young man’s education; due in part to the overpowering beauty and sweetness of the Maryland autumn, almost unendurable for its strain on one who had toned...
indian summer (1898–1899)
Authors: Adams Henry
Published: June 2023

The summer of the Spanish War* began the Indian summer of life to one who had reached sixty years of age, and cared only to reap in peace such harvest as these sixty years had yielded. He had reason to be more...
the dynamo and the virgin (1900)
Authors: Adams Henry
Published: June 2023

Until the Great Exposition of 1900* closed its doors in November, Adams haunted it, aching to absorb knowledge, and helpless to find it. He would have liked to know how much of it could have been grasped by the best-informed man in...
twilight (1901)
Authors: Adams Henry
Published: June 2023

While the world that thought itself frivolous, and submitted meekly to hearing itself decried as vain, fluttered through the Paris Exposition, jogging the futilities of St. Gaudens, Rodin,* and Besnard,* the world that thought itself serious, and showed other infallible...
a law of acceleration (1904)
Authors: Adams Henry
Published: June 2023

Images are not arguments, rarely even lead to proof, but the mind craves them, and, of late more than ever, the keenest experimenters find twenty images better than one, especially if contradictory; since the human mind has already learned to deal in contradictions.

The image...
I
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:

—...
III
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion, which he very badly needed. His (Stephen’s) mind was not exactly what you would...
IV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

He stopped, and lifted his hat with a shy smile. “I beg your pardon,” he said. “I thought there was no one here.”

Charity stood before him, barring his way.

“You can’t come in. The library ain’t open to the public Wednesdays.”

“I know it’s...
XIV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

North Dormer’s celebration naturally included the villages attached to its township, and the festivities were to radiate over the whole group, from Dormer and the two Crestons to Hamblin, the lonely hamlet on the north slope of the Mountain where the first snow always...
Dover: ‘The Fisherman’s Rest’
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

In the kitchen Sally was extremely busy—saucepans and frying-pans were standing in rows on the gigantic hearth, the huge stock-pot stood in a corner, and the jack turned with slow deliberation, and presented alternately to the glow every side of a noble sirloin of...
The Refugees
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

Feeling in every part of England certainly ran very high at this time against the French and their doings. Smugglers and legitimate traders between the French and English coasts brought snatches of news from over the water, which made every honest Englishman’s blood boil,...
Marguerite
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

In a moment the pleasant oak-raftered coffee-room of the inn became the scene of hopeless confusion and discomfort. At the first announcement made by the stable boy, Lord Antony, with a fashionable oath, had jumped up from his seat and was now giving many...
An Exquisite of ’92
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

Sir Percy Blakeney, as the chronicles of the time inform us, was in this year of grace 1792, still a year or two on the right side of thirty. Tall, above the average, even for an Englishman, broad-shouldered and massively built, he would have...
The Secret Orchard
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

Once outside the noisy coffee-room, alone in the dimly-lighted passage, Marguerite Blakeney seemed to breathe more freely. She heaved a deep sigh, like one who had long been oppressed with the heavy weight of constant self-control, and she allowed a few tears to fall...
One O’clock Precisely!
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

Supper had been extremely gay. All those present declared, that never had Lady Blakeney been more adorable, nor that ‘demmed idiot’ Sir Percy more amusing.

His Royal Highness had laughed until the tears streamed down his cheeks at Blakeney’s foolish yet funny repartees. His doggerel...
Richmond
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

A Few minutes later she was sitting, wrapped in cosy furs, near Sir Percy Blakeney on the box-seat of his magnificent coach, and the four splendid bays had thundered down the quiet street.

The night was warm in spite of the gentle breeze which fanned...
Farewell
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

When Marguerite reached her room, she found her maid terribly anxious about her.

‘Your ladyship will be so tired,’ said the poor woman, whose own eyes were half closed with sleep. ‘It is past five o’clock.’

‘Ah, yes, Louise, I daresay I shall be tired...
The Mysterious Device
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

The day was well advanced when Marguerite woke, refreshed by her long sleep. Louise had brought her some fresh milk and a dish of fruit, and she partook of this frugal breakfast with hearty appetite.

Thoughts crowded thick and fast in her mind as she...
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

At what particular moment the strange doubt first crept into Marguerite’s mind, she could not herself afterwards have said. With the ring tightly clutched in her hand, she had run out of the room, down the stairs, and out into the garden, where, in...
Hope
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

‘Faith, Madame!’ said Sir Andrew, seeing that Marguerite seemed desirous to call her surly host back again, ‘I think we’d better leave him alone. We shall not get anything more out of him, and we might arouse his suspicions. One never knows what...
The Père Blanchard’s Hut
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

As in a dream, Marguerite followed on; the web was drawing more and more tightly every moment round the beloved life, which had become dearer than all. To see her husband once again, to tell him how she had suffered, how much she had wronged,...
Trapped
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

She did not know how long she was thus carried along; she had lost all notion of time and space, and for a few seconds tired nature, mercifully, deprived her of consciousness.

When she once more realized her state, she felt that she was placed...
The Schooner
Authors: Orczy Baroness
Published: June 2023

Marguerite’s aching heart stood still. She felt, more than she heard, the men on the watch preparing for the fight. Her senses told her that each, with sword in hand, was crouching, ready for the spring.

The voice came nearer and nearer; in the vast...
Camp Life
Authors: Baden-Powell Robert
Published: June 2023

Camp Fire Yarn.—No. 11

Pioneering

Knot-tying—Hutmaking—Felling Trees—Bridging—Measurements—Handicrafts.

Pioneers are men who go ahead to open up a way in the jungles or elsewhere for those coming after them.

When I was on service on the West Coast of Africa* I had command of...
An Unwritten Novel
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Such an expression of unhappiness was enough by itself to make one’s eyes slide above the paper’s edge to the poor woman’s face — insignificant without that look, almost a symbol of human destiny with it. Life’s what you see in people’s eyes; life’s what they...
Monday or Tuesday
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky. White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains. A lake? Blot the shores of it out!...
A Society
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

This is how it all came about. Six or seven of us were sitting one day after tea. Some were gazing across the street into the windows of a milliner’s shop where the light still shone brightly upon scarlet feathers and golden slippers. Others...
Experiments in Convalescence
Authors: Fitzgerald F. Scott
Published: June 2023

The Knickerbocker Bar,* beamed upon by Maxfield Parrish’s jovial, colorful “Old King Cole,” was well crowded. Amory stopped in the entrance and looked at his wrist-watch; he wanted particularly to know the time, for something in his mind that catalogued and classified...
Fitz-James O’brien
Authors: O’Brien Fitz-James
Published: June 2023

The Bending of the Twig

From a very early period of my life the entire bent of my inclinations had been towards microscopic investigations. When I was not more than ten years old, a distant relative of our family, hoping to astonish my inexperience,...
Grant Allen
Authors: Allen Grant
Published: June 2023

Walking along the Strand one evening last year towards Pall Mall, I was accosted near Charing Cross Station by a strange-looking, middle-aged man in a poor suit of clothes, who surprised and startled me by asking if I could tell him from what inn...
FRANK R. STOCKTON
Authors: Stockton Frank R.
Published: June 2023

In the village of Riprock there was neither tavern nor inn, for it was but a small place through which few travellers passed; but it could not be said to be without a place of entertainment, for if by chance a stranger—or two or...
THE RADIANT HOUR
Authors: Fitzgerald F. Scott
Published: June 2023

After a fortnight Anthony and Gloria began to indulge in “practical discussions,” as they called those sessions when under the guise of severe realism they walked in an eternal moonlight.

“Not as much as I do you,” the critic of belles-lettres would insist. “If you...
2
Authors: Arnim Elizabeth Von
Published: June 2023

Of course Mrs. Arbuthnot was not miserable — how could she be, she asked herself, when God was taking care of her? — but she let that pass for the moment unrepudiated, because of her conviction that here was another fellow-creature in urgent need of her help; and...
13
Authors: Arnim Elizabeth Von
Published: June 2023

The uneventful days — only outwardly uneventful — slipped by in floods of sunshine, and the servants, watching the four ladies, came to the conclusion there was very little life in them.

To the servants San Salvatore seemed asleep. No one came to tea, nor did the ladies go...
17
Authors: Arnim Elizabeth Von
Published: June 2023

On the first day of the third week Rose wrote to Frederick.

In case she should again hesitate and not post the letter, she gave it to Domenico to post; for if she did not write now there would be no time left at all....
The Village Mayor
Authors: Kafka Franz
Published: June 2023

To his own surprise, K.’s conversation with the village mayor went smoothly. He accounted for that by telling himself that, in his experience so far, official dealings with the count’s authorities had been very simple. One reason was that a definite decision on his...
On the Road
Authors: Kafka Franz
Published: June 2023

K. went out on the steps up to the inn, where the wind was blowing wildly, and peered into the darkness. It was appalling weather. The thought of that somehow made him remember how hard the landlady had tried to make him comply...
Hans
Authors: Kafka Franz
Published: June 2023

After a little while there was a quiet knock at the door. ‘Barnabas!’ cried K., throwing down his broom, and in a few strides he was at the door. Frieda looked at him in alarm, more because of that name than anything else. But...
24
Authors: Kafka Franz
Published: June 2023

He would probably have passed Erlanger’s door with equal indifference if Erlanger hadn’t been standing in the doorway, crooking his forefinger to beckon him in. Erlanger was already fully clothed, preparing to leave; he wore a black fur coat with a high-buttoned collar. A...
25
Authors: Kafka Franz
Published: June 2023

When K. woke up he thought at first that he had hardly slept at all; the room was just the same, warm and empty, all the walls in darkness, but with that one electric light above the beer-pulls, and night outside the windows. But...
The Thrasher
Authors: Kafka Franz
Published: June 2023

As K. was going along the corridor from his office to the main stairs one evening soon afterwards—on that day he was almost the last to leave, there were just two messengers still working in dispatch in the little circle of light from a...
His Uncle ⋅ Leni
Authors: Kafka Franz
Published: June 2023

One afternoon—it was just before the post was due to go, and K. was very busy—his Uncle Karl, a small landowner from the country, pushed his way into the room between two messengers who were bringing documents. K. was less horrified to see him...
In the Cathedral
Authors: Kafka Franz
Published: June 2023

K. was given the task of showing a very important Italian business associate of the bank, who was visiting the city for the first time, some of its artistic treasures. It was a task which at any other time he would have regarded as...
The Lawyer from the State Prosecution Service
Authors: Kafka Franz
Published: June 2023

Despite the knowledge of human nature and experience of the world that K. had acquired during all the years he had worked for the bank, the company he was part of at their regular table* in the inn had always seemed to...
The Building
Authors: Kafka Franz
Published: June 2023

On various occasions K. had tried, without at first being motivated by any specific intention, to discover the location of the office which had issued the initial indictment in his case. There was no difficulty in finding this out, as soon as he asked,...
Chapter I
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. His voice was deep, loud,...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“How long he stood stock-still by the hatch expecting every moment to feel the ship dip under his feet and the rush of water take him at the back and toss him like a chip, I cannot say. Not very long—two minutes perhaps....
Chapter IX
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“ ‘I was saying to myself, “Sink—curse you! Sink!” ’ These were the words with which he began again. He wanted it over. He was severely left alone, and he formulated in his head this address to the ship in a tone of...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“He came in at last; but I believe it was mostly the rain that did it; it was falling just then with a devastating violence which quieted down gradually while we talked. His manner was very sober and set; his bearing was that...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“The coast of Patusan (I saw it nearly two years afterwards) is straight and sombre, and faces a misty ocean. Red trails are seen like cataracts of rust streaming under the dark-green foliage of bushes and creepers clothing the low cliffs. Swampy plains...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“This was the theory of Jim’s marital evening walks. I made a third on more than one occasion, unpleasantly aware every time of Cornelius, who nursed the aggrieved sense of his legal paternity, slinking in the neighbourhood with that peculiar twist of his...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Marlow swung his legs out, got up quickly, and staggered a little, as though he had been set down after a rush through space. He leaned his back against the balustrade and faced a disordered array of long cane-chairs. The bodies prone in them...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“But next morning, at the first bend of the river shutting off the houses of Patusan, all this dropped out of my sight bodily, with its colour, its design, and its meaning, like a picture created by fancy on a canvas, upon which,...
Of the Meaning of Progress
Authors: Du Bois W. E. B.
Published: June 2023

Once...
Of the Wings of Atalanta
Authors: Du Bois W. E. B.
Published: June 2023

South of...
Of the Training of Black Men
Authors: Du Bois W. E. B.
Published: June 2023

From the shimmering swirl...
Of the Sons of Master and Man
Authors: Du Bois W. E. B.
Published: June 2023

The world-old phenomenon of the contact of diverse races of men is to have new exemplification...
After the Race
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

The cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road. At the crest of the hill at Inchicore sightseers had gathered in clumps to watch the cars careering homeward and through this channel of poverty and...
The Boarding House
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Mrs Mooney was a butcher’s daughter. She was a woman who was quite able to keep things to herself: a determined woman. She had married her father’s foreman and opened a butcher’s shop near Spring Gardens. But as soon as his father-in-law was dead...
Grace
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Two gentlemen who were in the lavatory at the time tried to lift him up: but he was quite helpless. He lay curled up at the foot of the stairs down which he had fallen. They succeeded in turning him over. His hat had...
12
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

She folded the green shawl about her shoulders. She took his arm. His beauty was so great, she said, beginning to speak of Kennedy the gardener at once; he was so awfully handsome, that she couldn’t dismiss him. There was a ladder against the...
6
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

[Prue Ramsay, leaning on...
3
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

So they’re gone, she thought, sighing with relief and disappointment. Her sympathy seemed to fly back in her face, like a bramble sprung. She felt curiously divided, as if one part of her were drawn out there—it was a still day, hazy; the Lighthouse...
The Work and the Workers
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Sunday, April 23.—Winter Quarters. The last day of the sun and a very glorious view of its golden light over the Barne Glacier. We could not see the sun itself on account of the Glacier, the fine ice cliffs of which were in deep...
The Summit Journey to the Pole
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

A Fresh Ms. Book

On the Flyleaf.—Ages: Self 43, Wilson 39, Evans (P.O.) 37, Oates 32, Bowers 28. Average 36.

Friday, December 22.—Camp 44, about 7100 feet. T. -1°. Bar. 22.3. This, the third stage of our journey, is opening with good promise....
The Little Governess
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

Oh dear, how she wished that it wasn’t night-time. She’d have much rather travelled by day, much much rather. But the lady at the Governess Bureau* had said: ‘You had better take an evening boat and then if you get into a compartment...
Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

If there was one thing that he hated more than another it was the way she had of waking him in the morning. She did it on purpose, of course. It was her way of establishing her grievance for the day, and he was not...
The Fly
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

‘Y’are very snug in here,’ piped old Mr Woodifield, and he peered out of the great, green leather armchair by his friend the boss’s desk as a baby peers out of its pram. His talk was over; it was time for him to be off....
Further Adventures of the Same
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Next morning there was a touch of frost and a nip in the air which stirred my blood and put me in buoyant spirits. I forgot my precarious position and the long road I had still to travel. I came down to breakfast in great...
The Battered Caravanserai
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Two days later, in the evening, we came to Angora,* the first stage in our journey.

The passports had arrived next morning, as Frau von Einem had promised, and with them a plan of our journey. More, one of the Companions, who spoke a...
Trouble by the Waters of Babylon
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

From that moment I date the beginning of my madness. Suddenly I forgot all cares and difficulties of the present and future and became foolishly light-hearted. We were rushing towards the great battle where men were busy at my proper trade. I realised how much...
Of the Princess in the Tower
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Very early next morning, while Mrs Morran was still cooking breakfast, Dickson and Heritage might have been observed taking the air in the village street. It was the Poet who had insisted upon this walk, and he had his own purpose. They looked at...
How Mr McCunn Departed With Relief and Returned With Resolution
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

At seven o’clock on the following morning the post-cart, summoned by an early message from Mrs Morran, appeared outside the cottage. In it sat the ancient postman, whose real home was Auchenlochan, but who slept alternate nights in Dalquharter, and beside him Dobson the...
Sundry Doings in the Mirk
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

From Kirkmichael on the train stopped at every station, but no passenger seemed to leave or arrive at the little platforms white in the moon. At Dalquharter the case of provisions was safely transferred to the porter with instructions to take charge of it...
How a Middle-Aged Crusader Accepted a Challenge
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

The first cocks had just begun to crow and the clocks had not yet struck five when Dickson presented himself at Mrs Morran’s back door. That active woman had already been half an hour out of bed, and was drinking her morning cup of...
In Which A Princess Leaves A Dark Tower And A Provision Merchant Returns To His Family
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

The three days of storm ended in the night, and with the wild weather there departed from the Cruives something which had weighed on Dickson’s spirits since he first saw the place. Monday—only a week from the morning when he had conceived his plan...
The Adventure of the Radical Candidate
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

You may picture me driving that 40 h.p. car for all she was worth over the crisp moor roads on that shining May morning; glancing back at first over my shoulder, and looking anxiously to the next turning; then driving with a vague eye,...
IX
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

At the kitchen door Daniel Byrne sat in his sleigh behind a big-boned gray who pawed the snow and swung his long head restlessly from side to side.

Ethan went into the kitchen and found his wife by the stove. Her head was wrapped in...
IV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The next morning, on her breakfast tray, Miss Bart found a note from her hostess.

‘Dearest Lily,’ it ran, ‘if it is not too much of a bore to be down by ten, will you come to my sitting-room to help me with some tiresome...
VIII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The first thousand dollar cheque* which Lily received with a blotted scrawl from Gus Trenor strengthened her self-confidence in the exact degree to which it effaced her debts.

The transaction had justified itself by its results: she saw now how absurd it would have...
III
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Miss Bart’s telegram caught Lawrence Selden at the door of his hotel; and having read it, he turned back to wait for Dorset. The message necessarily left large gaps for conjecture; but all that he had recently heard and seen made these but too...
XIII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The street-lamps were lit, but the rain had ceased, and there was a momentary revival of light in the upper sky.

Lily walked on unconscious of her surroundings. She was still treading the buoyant ether which emanates from the high moments of life. But gradually...
Cuzak’s Boys
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

I

I Told Ántonia I would come back, but life intervened, and it was twenty years before I kept my promise. I heard of her from time to time; that she married, very soon after I last saw her, a young Bohemian, a cousin...
Paul Launches into Life
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

Morel was rather a heedless man, careless of danger. So he had endless accidents. Now, when Mrs Morel heard the rattle of an empty coal-cart cease at her entry-end, she ran into the parlour to look, expecting almost to see her husband seated in...
Strife in Love
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

Arthur finished his apprenticeship, and got a job on the electrical plant at Minton Pit. He earned very little, but had a good chance of getting on. But he was wild and restless. He did not drink nor gamble. Yet he somehow contrived to...
Passion
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

He was gradually making it possible to earn a livelihood by his art. Liberty’s had taken several of his painted designs on various stuffs, and he could sell designs for embroideries, for altar-cloths, and similar things, in one or two places. It was not...
Derelict
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

Clara went with her husband to Sheffield, and Paul scarcely saw her again. Walter Morel seemed to have let all the trouble go over him, and there he was, crawling about on the mud of it, just the same. There was scarcely any bond...
Who has won to Mastership
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

“Eh? Wot I say? I spik true w’en I say dat Buck two devils.”

This was François’s speech next morning when he discovered Spitz missing and Buck covered with wounds. He drew him to the fire and by its light pointed them out....
The She-wolf
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

Breakfast eaten and the slim camp-outfit lashed to the sled, the men turned their backs on the cheery fire and launched out into the darkness. At once began to rise the cries that were fiercely sad—cries that called through the darkness and cold to...
The Lair
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

For two days the she-wolf and One Eye hung about the Indian camp. He was worried and apprehensive, yet the camp lured his mate and she was loath to depart. But when, one morning, the air was rent with the report of a rifle...
The Law of Meat
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

The cub’s development was rapid. He rested for two days, and then ventured forth from the cave again. It was on this adventure that he found the young weasel whose mother he had helped eat, and he saw to it that the young weasel...
The Indomitable
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

“It’s hopeless,” Weedon Scott confessed.

He sat on the step of his cabin and stared at the dog-musher, who responded with a shrug that was equally hopeless.

Together they looked at White Fang at the end of his stretched chain, bristling, snarling, ferocious, straining...
The Southland
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

White Fang landed from the steamer in San Francisco. He was appalled. Deep in him, below any reasoning process or act of consciousness, he had associated power with godhead. And never had the white men seemed such marvellous gods as now, when he trod...
To Build a Fire
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. It was a steep bank, and...
I
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Captain MacWhirr, of the steamer Nan-Shan*, had a physiognomy that, in the order of material appearances, was the exact counterpart of his mind: it presented no marked characteristics of firmness or stupidity; it had no pronounced characteristics whatever; it was simply...
II
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Observing the steady fall of the barometer, Captain MacWhirr thought, “There’s some dirty weather knocking about.” This is precisely what he thought. He had had an experience of moderately dirty weather—the term dirty as applied to the weather implying only moderate discomfort to the...
Chapter V
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

She was not able to follow up her observations, however, or to come to any conclusion, for by one of those accidents which are liable to happen at sea, the whole course of their lives was now put out of order.

Even at tea the...
Chapter VII
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

From a distance the Euphrosyne looked very small. Glasses were turned upon her from the decks of great liners, and she was pronounced a tramp, a cargo-boat, or one of those wretched little passenger steamers where people rolled about among the cattle...
Chapter XII
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

When Susan’s engagement had been approved at home, and made public to anyone who took an interest in it at the hotel—and by this time the society at the hotel was divided so as to point to invisible chalk-marks such as Mr Hirst had...
Chapter XV
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Whether too slight or too vague the ties that bind people casually meeting in a hotel at midnight, they possess one advantage at least over the bonds which unite the elderly, who have lived together once and so must live for ever. Slight they...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

It was now the height of the season, and every ship that came from England left a few people on the shores of Santa Marina who drove up to the hotel. The fact that the Ambroses had a house where one could escape momentarily...
VIII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

It was generally agreed in New York that the Countess Olenska had ‘lost her looks.’

She had appeared there first, in Newland Archer’s boyhood, as a brilliantly pretty little girl of nine or ten, of whom people said that she ‘ought to be painted.’ Her...
XII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Old-Fashioned New York dined at seven, and the habit of after-dinner calls, though derided in Archer’s set, still generally prevailed. As the young man strolled up Fifth Avenue from Waverley Place,* the long thoroughfare was deserted but for a group of carriages...
XVII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

‘Your cousin the Countess called on mother while you were away,’ Janey Archer announced to her brother on the evening of his return.

The young man, who was dining alone with his mother and sister, glanced up in surprise and saw Mrs Archer’s gaze...
XXXII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

‘At the court of the Tuileries,’ said Mr Sillerton Jackson with his reminiscent smile, ‘such things were pretty openly tolerated.’

The scene was the van der Luydens’ black walnut dining-room in Madison Avenue, and the time the evening after Newland Archer’s visit to the...
XXXIII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

It was, as Mrs Archer smilingly said to Mrs Welland, a great event for a young couple to give their first big dinner.

The Newland Archers, since they had set up their household, had received a good deal of company in an informal way. Archer...
III
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

It invariably happened in the same way.

Mrs Julius Beaufort, on the night of her annual ball, never failed to appear at the Opera; indeed, she always gave her ball on an Opera night in order to emphasise her complete superiority to household cares, and...
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

‘If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.’

In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Émile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigated what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. Aboriginal religion was an avenue ‘to yield an understanding of the religious nature of man, by showing us an essential and permanent aspect of humanity’. The need and capacity of men and women to relate socially lies at the heart of Durkheim's exploration, in which religion embodies the beliefs that shape our moral universe.

The Elementary Forms has been applauded and debated by sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, philosophers, and theologians, and continues to speak to new generations about the origin and nature of religion and society. This new, lightly abridged edition provides an excellent introduction to Durkheim's ideas.
The Leading Conceptions of Elementary Religion (Continued)
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

Naturism

The naturist school is inspired by a very different mentality.

It finds recruits, moreover, in different circles. The animists are, for the most part, ethnographers or anthropologists. The religions they have studied figure among the crudest ever practised by humanity. Hence the primary importance...
Central Totemic Beliefs
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

The Totem as Name and Emblem

Our study naturally falls into two sections. Since all religion is composed of conceptual representations and ritual practices, we must deal successively with the beliefs and rites peculiar to totemic religion. Of course, these elements of religious life...
Central Totemic Beliefs (Continued)
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

The Cosmological System of Totemism and Thenotion of Genus

We begin to see that totemism is a much more complex religion than it seemed at first. We have already identified three categories of things that it recognizes as sacred in varying degrees: the totemic...
The Origins of these Beliefs (Continued)
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

The Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana, and the Idea of Force

Since individual totemism is more recent than clan totemism and even seems to be derived from it, clan totemism should be considered first. Before going on, however, since our analysis...
The Positive Cult
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

The Elements of Sacrifice

Despite the importance of the negative cult and its indirectly positive effects, this is not its intrinsic rationale; it is an introduction to religious life, but it presupposes more than it constitutes that life. It enjoins the worshipper to flee...
The Cyclorve.
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

Dorothy* lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies,* with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by...
The Discovery of oz, The Terrible.
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

The four travellers walked up to the great gate of the Emerald City and rang the bell. After ringing several times it was opened by the same Guardian of the Gates they had met before.

“What! are you back again?” he asked, in surprise....
The Country of the Quadlings
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

The four travellers passed through the rest of the forest in safety, and when they came out from its gloom saw before them a steep hill, covered from top to bottom with great pieces of rock.

“That will be a hard climb,” said...
The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best...
Davies
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

I dozed but fitfully, with a fretful sense of sore elbows and neck and many a draughty hiatus among the blankets. It was broad daylight before I had reached the stage of torpor in which such slumber merges. That was finally broken by the descent...
The Theory
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

Davies leaned back and gave a deep sigh, as though he still felt the relief from some tension; I did the same, and felt the same relief. The chart, freed from the pressure of our fingers, rolled up with a flip, as though to say,...
The Meaning of Our Work
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

Nothing happened during the next ten days to disturb us at our work. During every hour of daylight and many of darkness, sailing or anchored, aground or afloat, in rain and shine, wind and calm, we studied the bed of the estuaries, and practised ourselves...
I Double Back
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

‘Goodbye, old chap,’ called Davies.

‘Goodbye.’ The whistle blew and the ferry-steamer forged ahead, leaving Davies on the quay, bareheaded and wearing his old Norfolk jacket and stained grey flannels, as at our first meeting in Flensburg station. There was no bandaged hand this time,...
The Fynes and the Girl-Friend
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

We were on our feet in the room by then, and Marlow, brown and deliberate, approached the window where Mr. Powell and I had retired.

“What was the name of your chance again?” he asked. Mr. Powell stared for a moment.

“Oh! The Ferndale...
V
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

Alexandra and Emil spent five days down among the river farms, driving up and down the valley. Alexandra talked to the men about their crops and to the women about their poultry. She spent a whole day with one young farmer who had been...
III
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

Alexandra was to hear more of Ivar’s case, however. On Sunday her married brothers came to dinner. She had asked them for that day because Emil, who hated family parties, would be absent, dancing at Amédée Chevalier’s wedding, up in the French country. The...
IV
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

The next morning Angélique, Amédée’s wife, was in the kitchen baking pies, assisted by old Mrs. Chevalier. Between the mixing-board and the stove stood the old cradle that had been Amédée’s, and in it was his black-eyed son. As Angélique, flushed and excited, with...
I
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

The origin of Mr. Razumov’s record is connected with an event characteristic of modern Russia in the actual fact: the assassination of a prominent statesman—and still more characteristic of the moral corruption of an oppressed society where the noblest aspirations of humanity, the desire...
IV
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Several days elapsed before I met Nathalie Haldin again. I was crossing the place in front of the theatre when I made out her shapely figure in the very act of turning between the gate pillars of the unattractive public promenade of the Bastions....
II
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“Perhaps life is just that,” reflected Razumov, pacing to and fro under the trees of the little island, all alone with the bronze statue of Rousseau. “A dream and a fear.” The dusk deepened. The pages written over and torn out of his...
Early Days at Tuskegee
Authors: Washington Booker T.
Published: June 2023

During the time that I had charge of the Indians and the night-school at Hampton, I pursued some studies myself, under the direction of the instructors there. One of these instructors was the Rev. Dr H. B. Frissell, the present Principal of the Hampton...
Raising Money
Authors: Washington Booker T.
Published: June 2023

When we opened our boarding department, we provided rooms in the attic of Porter Hall, our first building, for a number of girls. But the number of students, of both sexes, continued to increase. We could find rooms outside the school grounds for many...
Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute speech
Authors: Washington Booker T.
Published: June 2023

Soon after the opening of our boarding department, quite a number of students who evidently were worthy, but who were so poor that they did not have any money to pay even the small charges at the school, began applying for admission. This class...
Why I Am So Wise
Authors: Nietzsche Friedrich
Published: June 2023

1

The fortunate thing about my existence, perhaps its unique feature, is its fatefulness:* to put it in the form of a riddle, as my father I have already died, as my mother I am still alive and growing old. This twofold provenance,...
How Tom Brangwen Married a Polish Lady
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

I

The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire. Two miles away, a church-tower stood on a hill, the houses of the little country town climbing assiduously...
The Cathedral
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

During the first year of her marriage, before Ursula was born, Anna Brangwen and her husband went to visit her mother’s friend, the Baron Skrebensky. The latter had kept a slight connection with Anna’s mother, and had always preserved some officious interest in the...
The Child
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

From the first, the baby stirred in the young father a deep, strong emotion he dared scarcely acknowledge, it was so strong and came out of the dark of him. When he heard the child cry, a terror possessed him, because of the answering...
The Widening Circle
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

It was very burdensome to Ursula, that she was the eldest of the family. By the time she was eleven, she had to take to school Gudrun and Theresa and Catherine. The boy, William, always called Billy, so that he should not be confused...
Cottonwoods
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

Venters appeared too deeply moved to speak the gratitude his face expressed. And Jane turned upon the rescuer and gripped his hands. Her smiles and tears seemingly dazed him. Presently, as something like calmness returned, she went to Lassiter’s weary horse.

‘I will water him...
The Daughter of Withersteen
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

‘Lassiter, will you be my rider?’ Jane had asked him.

‘I reckon so,’ he had replied.

Few as the words were, Jane knew how infinitely much they implied. She wanted him to take charge of her cattle and horses and ranges, and save them if...
Silver Spruce and Aspens
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

The rest of that night seemed to Venters only a few moments of starlight, a dark overcasting of sky, an hour or so of gray gloom, and then the lighting of dawn.

When he had bestirred himself, feeding the hungry dogs and breaking his long...
Lassiter’s Way
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

Footprints told the story of little Fay’s abduction. In anguish Jane Withersteen turned speechlessly to Lassiter; and confirming her fears, she saw him gray-faced, aged all in a moment, stricken as if by a mortal blow.

Then all her life seemed to fall about her...
The Day of the Rabblement
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

No man, said the Nolan, can be a lover of the true or the good unless he abhors the multitude;1 and the artist, though he may employ the crowd, is very careful to isolate himself. This radical principle of artistic economy applies specially...
An Effort at Precision in Thinking
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

He must be a hardy man who contends that the disputants in this book are common people. They are, happily for the peace of human animals, very uncommon people. For common people will not argue for any considerable time as to whether succession of appearances...
[A Ne’er-Do-Weel]
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

After all a pseudonym library has its advantages; to acknowledge bad literature by signature is, in a manner, to persevere in evil.1 ‘Valentine Caryl’s’ book is the story of a gypsy genius, whose monologues are eked out by accompaniments on the violin—a story...
Unequal Verse
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Mr Langbridge, in his preface to this volume of his verses, has confessed to so great a number of literary discipleships that one is well prepared for the variety of styles and subjects of which the book is full. Mr Langbridge’s worst manner is very...
The Home Rule Comet
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

The idea of Irish autonomy has been gradually surrounded by a thin and pale mistiness. A few weeks ago, when a royal decree dissolved the English parliament, a weak and tremulous something could be seen dawning towards the east.1 It was the Home...
The Centenary of Charles Dickens
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

The influence which Dickens has exercised on the English language (second perhaps to that of Shakespeare alone) depends to a large extent on the popular character of his work. Examined from the standpoint of literary art or even from that of literary craftmanship he hardly...
[On the Moral Right of Authors]
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

A particular point in the history of the publication of Ulysses in the United States seems to me both interesting and noteworthy: it makes explicit one aspect of an author’s right over his work which has not been brought to light until now....
I
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as “black diamonds.” Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much...
VII
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Some considerable time afterward—we did not meet very often—I asked Davidson how he had managed about the shawl and heard that he had tackled his mission in a direct way, and had found it easy enough. At the very first call he made in...
V
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Three weeks later, after putting his cash-box away in the safe which filled with its iron bulk a corner of their bedroom, Schomberg turned toward his wife, but without looking at her exactly, and said:

“I must get rid of these two. It won’t do!”...
IV
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

With her knees drawn up, Lena rested her elbows on them and held her head in both her hands.

“Are you tired of sitting here?” Heyst asked.

An almost imperceptible negative movement of the head was all the answer she made.

“Why are you looking...
VI
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Heyst was astounded. Looking all round, as if to take the whole room to witness of this outrage, he became aware of Wang materialised in the doorway. The intrusion was as surprising as anything could be, in view of the strict regularity with which...
VI
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

As luck would have it, Ricardo was lounging alone on the verandah of the former counting-house. He scented some new development at once, and ran down to meet the trotting, bear-like figure. The deep, growling noises it made, though they had only a very...
VIII
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Meantime Heyst and Lena, walking rather fast, approached Wang’s hut. Asking the girl to wait, Heyst ascended the little ladder of bamboos giving access to the door. It was as he had expected. The smoky interior was empty, except for a big chest of...
IX
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Stumbling up the steps, as if suddenly exhausted, Lena entered the room and let herself fall on the nearest chair. Before following her, Heyst took a survey of the surroundings from the verandah. It was a complete solitude. There was nothing in the aspect...
XI
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Two candles were burning on the stand-up desk. Mr. Jones, tightly enfolded in an old but gorgeous blue silk dressing-gown, kept his elbows close against his sides and his hands deeply plunged into the extraordinarily deep pockets of the garment. The costume accentuated his...