bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Chapter XXIII: First Weeks of Matrimony
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Feb. 18th, 1822. Early this morning, Arthur mounted his hunter and set off in high glee to meet the —— hounds. He will be away all day; and so I will amuse myself with my neglected diary—if I can give that name to such...
Chapter XXXI: Social Virtues
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

March 20th, 1824. The dreaded time is come, and Arthur is gone, as I expected. This time he announced it his intention to make but a short stay in London, and pass over to the continent, where he should probably stay a few weeks;...
Chapter XXXIX: A Scheme of Escape
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

My greatest source of uneasiness, in this time of trial, was my son, whom his father and his father’s friends delighted to encourage in all the embryo vices a little child can show, and to instruct in all the evil habits* he...
Chapter XLI: ‘Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast’
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

March 20th.—Having now got rid of Mr. Huntingdon for a season, my spirits begin to revive. He left me early in February; and the moment he was gone, I breathed again, and felt my vital energy return; not with the hope of escape—he has...
Chapter XLVI: Friendly Counsels
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

I Felt strongly tempted, at times, to enlighten my mother and sister on the real character and circumstances of the persecuted tenant of Wildfell Hall; and at first I greatly regretted having omitted to ask that lady’s permission to do so; but, on...
Chapter XLIX
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

‘The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.’*

Though Mr. Lawrence’s health was now quite re-established, my visits to Woodford were as unremitting as ever;...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs Touchett was certainly a person of many oddities, of which her behaviour on returning to her husband’s house after many months was a noticeable specimen. She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs Ludlow was the eldest of the three sisters, and was usually thought the most sensible; the classification being in general that Lilian was the practical one, Edith the beauty and Isabel the ‘intellectual’ superior. Mrs Keyes, the second of the group, was the...
X
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The day after her visit to Lockleigh she received a note from her friend Miss Stackpole—a note of which the envelope, exhibiting in conjunction the postmark of Liverpool and the neat calligraphy of the quick-fingered Henrietta, caused her some liveliness of emotion. ‘Here I...
XIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was this feeling and not the wish to ask advice—she had no desire whatever for that—that led her to speak to her uncle of what had taken place. She wished to speak to some one; she should feel more natural, more human, and...
XVII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She was not praying; she was trembling—trembling all over. Vibration was easy to her, was in fact too constant with her, and she found herself now humming like a smitten harp. She only asked, however, to put on the cover, to case herself again...
XVIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It had occurred to Ralph that, in the conditions, Isabel’s parting with her friend might be of a slightly embarrassed nature, and he went down to the door of the hotel in advance of his cousin, who, after a slight delay, followed with the...
XIX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

As Mrs Touchett had foretold, Isabel and Madame Merle were thrown much together during the illness of their host, so that if they had not become intimate it would have been almost a breach of good manners. Their manners were of the best, but...
XXVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Gilbert Osmond came to see Isabel again; that is he came to Palazzo Crescentini. He had other friends there as well, and to Mrs Touchett and Madame Merle he was always impartially civil; but the former of these ladies noted the fact that in...
XXVII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

I may not attempt to report in its fulness our young woman’s response to the deep appeal of Rome, to analyse her feelings as she trod the pavement of the Forum or to number her pulsations as she crossed the threshold of Saint...
XXXVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

One afternoon of the autumn of 1876, toward dusk, a young man of pleasing appearance rang at the door of a small apartment on the third floor of an old Roman house. On its being opened he enquired for Madame Merle; whereupon the servant,...
XLIX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Madame Merle had not made her appearance at Palazzo Roccanera on the evening of that Thursday of which I have narrated some of the incidents, and Isabel, though she observed her absence, was not surprised by it. Things had passed between them which added...
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Sinner
Authors: Hogg James
Published: December 2020

My life has been a life of trouble and turmoil; of change and vicissitude; of anger and exultation; of sorrow and of vengeance. My sorrows have all been for a slighted gospel, and my vengeance has been wreaked on its adversaries. Therefore, in the...
Difficulties on Theory
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

Difficulties on the theory of descent with modification—Transitions—Absence or rarity of transitional varieties—Transitions in habits of life—Diversified habits in the same species—Species with habits widely different from those of their allies—Organs of extreme perfection—Means of transition—Cases of difficulty—Natura non facit saltum—Organs of small...
Father and Son
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

M. noirtier—for it was, indeed, he who entered—followed the servant with his eyes until he had closed the door, and then, fearing, no doubt, that he might be overheard in the antechamber, he opened the door again; nor was the precaution useless, as...
The Death of the Abbé
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Now that this treasure which had so long been the object of the abbé’s meditations could ensure the future happiness of one who Faria really loved as a son, it had doubled its value in his eyes, and every day he expatiated on the...
The Smugglers
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

DantÈs had not been a day on board before he had an insight into the men with whom he sailed. Without being in the class of the Abbé Faria, the worthy master of The Young Amelia (the name of the Genoese tartane)...
Italy: Sinbad the Sailor
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Towards the commencement of the year 1838, two young men belonging to the highest society of Paris, the Viscount Albert de Morcerf and the Baron Franz d’Epinay, were in Florence. They had agreed to see the carnival at Rome that year, and that Franz,...
Vampa
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

‘The time of the Carnival was at hand. The Comte de San-Felice announced a grand masked ball, to which all who were distinguished in Rome were invited.

‘Teresa had a great desire to see this ball. Luigi asked the permission of his protector,...
The Guests
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

In the house in the Rue du Helder, where Albert had invited the Count of Monte Cristo, everything was being prepared on the morning of the 21st of May to fulfil the engagement.

Albert de Morcerf inhabited a pavilion situated at the corner of a...
Haydée
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It will be remembered that the new, or rather old acquaintances of the Count of Monte Cristo, residing in the Rue Meslay, were no other than Maximilian, Julie, and Emmanuel.

The anticipations of delight to be enjoyed in his forthcoming visits—the bright, pure light...
The Will
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

As soon as Barrois had left the room, Noirtier looked at Valentine with that singular expression which conveyed so much deep meaning. The young girl understood the look, and so did Villefort, for his countenance became clouded and he knitted his eyebrows angrily. He...
Shadows
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At first sight the exterior of the house at Auteuil offered nothing splendid, nothing one would expect from the residence of the magnificent Count of Monte Cristo; but this simplicity was the deliberate decision of its master, who ordered nothing to be altered outside;...
The Beggar
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The evening passed on; Madame de Villefort expressed a wish to return to Paris, which Madame Danglars had not dared to do notwithstanding the uneasiness she experienced. On his wife’s request, M. de Villefort was the first to give the signal of departure. He...
The Ball
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It was in the warmest days of July when the Saturday arrived upon which the ball of M. de Morcerf was to take place. It was ten o’clock at night; the large trees in the garden of the count’s house threw up their branches...
The Burglary
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The day following that on which the conversation we have related took place, the Count of Monte Cristo set out for Auteuil, accompanied by Ali and several attendants, and also taking with him some horses whose qualities he was desirous of ascertaining. He was...
The Insult
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At the banker’s door Beauchamp stopped Morcerf.

‘Listen,’ said he; ‘just now I told you it was of M. de Monte Cristo you must demand an explanation.’

‘Yes, and we are going to his house.’

‘Reflect, Morcerf, one moment before you go.’

‘On what shall...
The Law
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

We have seen how quietly Mademoiselle Danglars and Mademoiselle d’Armilly accomplished their transformation and flight; the fact was that everyone was too much occupied in his or her own affairs to think of theirs. We will leave the banker contemplating the enormous columns of...
The Lions’ Den
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

One wing of La Force,* in which the most dangerous and desperate prisoners are confined, is called the Court of Saint-Bernard. The prisoners, in their expressive language, have named it the Lions’ Den, probably because the captives possess teeth which frequently gnaw...
The Pardon
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The next day Danglars was again hungry; the air of that dungeon was very appetising. The prisoner expected that he would pay out nothing that day, for, like an economical man, he had concealed half of his fowl and a piece of the bread...
The Fifth of October
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It was about six o’clock in the evening; an opal-coloured light, through which an autumnal sun shed its golden rays, was sinking into the blue sea. The heat of the day had gradually decreased, and a light breeze now arose, like nature breathing on...
Chapter I
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

I give Pirrip as my father’s family name,...
Chapter III
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a rimy morning, and very damp. I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief. Now, I saw the damp lying...
Chapter IV
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I fully expected to find a Constable* in the kitchen, waiting to take me up. But not only was there no Constable there, but no discovery had yet been made of the robbery. Mrs. Joe was prodigiously busy in getting...
Chapter VI
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

My state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so unexpectedly exonerated, did not impel me to frank disclosure; but I hope it had some dregs of good at the bottom of it.

I do not recal that I felt any tenderness...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Pumblechook’s premises in the High-street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a corn-chandler and seedsman should be. It appeared to me that he must be a very happy man indeed, to have so many...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a trial to my feelings, on the next day but one, to see Joe arraying himself in his Sunday clothes to accompany me to Miss Havisham’s. However, as he thought his court-suit* necessary to the occasion, it was not for...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life, and brightened it so much that it scarcely seemed the same. What lay heaviest on my mind, was, the consideration that six days intervened between me and the day of departure; for, I...
Chapter I
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The journey from our town to the metropolis, was a journey of about five hours. It was a little past mid-day when the four-horse stage-coach by which I was a passenger, got into the ravel of traffic frayed out about the Cross Keys, Wood-street,...
Chapter II
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Casting my eyes on Mr. Wemmick as we went along, to see what he was like in the light of day, I found him to be a dry man, rather short in stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been...
Chapter III
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The pale young gentleman and I stood contemplating one another in Barnard’s Inn until we both burst out laughing. “The idea of its being you!” said he. “The idea of its being you!” said I. And then we contemplated one another afresh,...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In her furred travelling-dress, Estella seemed more delicately beautiful than she had ever seemed yet, even in my eyes. Her manner was more winning than she had cared to let it be to me before, and I thought I saw Miss Havisham’s influence in...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was the first time that a grave had opened in my road of life, and the gap it made in the smooth ground was wonderful. The figure of my sister in her chair by the kitchen fire, haunted me night and day. That...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

If that staid old house near the Green at Richmond should ever come to be haunted when I am dead, it will be haunted, surely, by my ghost. O the many, many nights and days through which the unquiet spirit within me haunted that...
Chapter IV
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Why should I pause to ask how much of my shrinking from Provis might be traced to Estella? Why should I loiter on my road, to compare the state of mind in which I had tried to rid myself of the stain of the...
Chapter V
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In the room where the dressing-table stood, and where the wax candles burnt on the wall, I found Miss Havisham and Estella; Miss Havisham seated on a settee near the fire, and Estella on a cushion at her feet. Estella was knitting, and Miss...
Chapter XI
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

My hands had been dressed twice or thrice in the night, and again in the morning. My left arm was a good deal burned to the elbow, and, less severely, as high as the shoulder; it was very painful, but the flames had set...
Chapter XII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

What purpose I had in view when I was hot on tracing out and proving Estella’s parentage, I cannot say. It will presently be seen that the question was not before me in a distinct shape, until it was put before me by a...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

He was taken to the Police Court next day, and would have been immediately committed for trial, but that it was necessary to send down for an old officer of the prison-ship from which he had once escaped, to speak to his identity. Nobody...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The only young people remaining in the drawing-room, not counting the young lady visitor and the countess’s eldest daughter (who was four years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), were Nikolai and Sonya, the niece. Sonya was a slender...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Natasha ran out of the drawing-room she only went as far as the conservatory. There she paused and stood listening to the conversation in the drawing-room, waiting for Boris to come out. She was already growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to...
17
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The card-tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing-rooms, some in the sitting-room, some in the library.

The count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from dropping into his usual after-dinner...
19
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

While these conversations were going on in the reception-room and the princess’s room, a carriage containing Pierre (who had been sent for) and Anna Mikhailovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was driving into the court of Count Bezukhov’s house. As the wheels...
I
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In October 1805 the Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from Russia were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the inhabitants on whom they were quartered. Braunau was the...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where there was a bottleneck. Halfway across stood Prince Nesvitsky, who had alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the railings. He looked back laughing to the Cossack who...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. At last the baggage-wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last battalion came onto the bridge. Only Denisov’s squadron of...
20
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and retreated as a disorderly crowd. One soldier in his fear uttered the senseless cry, ‘Cut off!’ that is so terrible...
6
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. Both in Petersburg and in Moscow their house was always full of visitors. The night after the duel he did not go to his bedroom, but as he often did, remained in his father’s room,...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Rostov’s share in Dolokhov’s duel with Bezukhov was hushed up by the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor-general of Moscow. As a result he could not...
13
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

For two days after that Rostov did not see Dolokhov at his own or at Dolokhov’s home: on the third day he received a note from him:

‘As I do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know of, and am...
6
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The duel between Pierre and Dolokhov was hushed up and, in spite of the Emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the principals nor their seconds suffered for it. But the story of the duel, confirmed by Pierre’s rupture with his wife, was...
1
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The Bible legend tells us that the absence of labour—idleness—was a condition of the first man’s blessedness before the Fall. Fallen man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nikolai
Rostov meanwhile remained at his post waiting for the wolf. By the way the hunt approached and receded, by the cries of the dogs whose notes were familiar to him, by the way the voices of the huntsmen approached, receded, and rose, he...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Princess
Marya, as she sat listening to the old men’s talk and fault-finding, understood nothing of what she heard; she only wondered whether the guests had all observed her father’s hostile attitude towards her. She did not even notice the special attentions and amiabilities...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Next day, on Marya Dmitrievna’s advice, Count Ilya Andreich took Natasha to call on Prince Nikolai Andreich. The count did not set out cheerfully on this visit, at heart he felt afraid. He well remembered the last interview he had had with the old...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After his interview with Pierre in Moscow, Prince Andrei went to Petersburg, on business as he told his family, but really to meet Anatole Kuragin whom he felt it necessary to encounter. On reaching Petersburg he inquired for Kuragin but the latter had already...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Prince
Andrei’S eyes were still following Pfuel out of the room when Count Bennigsen entered hurriedly, and nodding to Bolkonsky, but not pausing, went into the study giving instructions to his adjutant as he went. The Emperor was following him, and Bennigsen had hastened...
15
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Rostov, with his keen sportsman’s eye, was one of the first to catch sight of these blue French dragoons pursuing our uhlans. Nearer and nearer in disorderly crowds came the uhlans and the French dragoons pursuing them. He could already see how these men,...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Well, that’s all!’ said Kutuzov as he signed the last of the documents, and rising heavily and smoothing out the folds in his fat white neck he moved towards the door with a more cheerful expression.

The priest’s wife, flushing rosy red, caught up...
39
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Several tens of thousands of the slain lay in diverse postures and various uniforms on the fields and meadows belonging to the Davydov family and to the Crown serfs—those fields and meadows where for hundreds of years the peasants of Borodino, Gorky, Shevardino, and...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At that very time, in circumstances even more important than retreating without a battle, namely, the evacuation and burning of Moscow, Rastopchin, who is usually represented as being the instigator of that event, acted in an altogether different manner from Kutuzov.

After the battle of...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Berg, the Rostovs’ son-in-law, was already a colonel wearing the orders of Vladimir and Anna, and he still filled the quiet and agreeable post of assistant to the head of the staff of the assistant-commander of the first division of the Second Army.

On...
23
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

From an unfinished house on the Varvarka, the ground floor of which was a dram-shop, came drunken shouts and songs. On benches round the tables in a dirty little room sat some ten factory hands. Tipsy and perspiring, with dim eyes and wide-open mouths,...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On the 8th of September an officer—a very important one judging by the respect the guards showed him—entered the coach-house where the prisoners were. This officer, probably someone on the staff, was holding a paper in his hand, and called over all the Russians...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Princess Marya heard from Nikolai that her brother was with the Rostovs at Yaroslavl she at once prepared to go there, in spite of her aunt’s efforts to dissuade her—and not merely to go herself but to take her nephew with her. Whether...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Not only did Prince Andrei know he would die, but he felt that he was dying and was already half dead. He was conscious of an aloofness from everything earthly and a strange and joyous lightness of existence. Without haste or agitation he awaited...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Next day the decrepit Kutuzov, having given orders to be called early, said his prayers, dressed, and with an unpleasant consciousness of having to direct a battle he did not approve of, got into his calèche and drove from Letashovka (a village three and...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Napoleon enters Moscow after the brilliant victory de la Moskowa; there can be no doubt about the victory, for the battlefield remains in the hands of the French. The Russians retreat and abandon their ancient capital. Moscow, abounding in provisions, arms, munitions,...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Petya, having left his people after their departure from Moscow, joined his regiment and was soon taken as orderly by a general commanding a large guerrilla detachment. From the time he received his commission, and especially since he had joined the active army and...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The arrival of Dolokhov diverted Petya’s attention from the drummer-boy, to whom Denisov had had some mutton and vodka given, and whom he had had dressed in a Russian coat so that he might be kept with their band and not sent away with...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Princess
Marya postponed her departure. Sonya and the count tried to replace Natasha but could not. They saw that she alone was able to restrain her mother from unreasoning despair. For three weeks Natasha remained constantly at her mother’s side, sleeping on a lounge...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In 1812 and 1813 Kutuzov was openly accused of blundering. The Emperor was dissatisfied with him. And in a history recently written by order of the Highest Authorities it is said that Kutuzov was a cunning court liar,* frightened of the name...
18
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

It was a long time before Pierre could fall asleep that night. He paced up and down his room, now turning his thoughts on a difficult problem and frowning, now suddenly shrugging his shoulders and wincing, and now smiling happily.

He was thinking of Prince...
19
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

There was nothing in Pierre’s soul now at all like what had troubled it during his courtship of Hélène.

He did not repeat to himself, with a sickening feeling of shame, the words he had spoken, or say: ‘Oh, why did I not say that?’...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The flood of nations begins to subside into its normal channels. The waves of the great movement abate, and on the calm surface eddies are formed in which float the diplomatists who imagine that they have caused the floods to abate.

But the smooth sea...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

One matter connected with his management sometimes worried Nikolai, and that was his quick temper together with his old hussar habit of making free use of his fists. At first he saw nothing reprehensible in this, but in the second year of his marriage...
6
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Only the expression of the will of the Deity, not dependent on time, can relate to a whole series of events occurring over a period of years or centuries, and only the Deity, independent of everything, can by His sole will determine the direction...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

If history dealt with external phenomena, the establishment of this simple and obvious law would suffice and we should have finished our argument. But the law of history relates to man. A particle of matter cannot tell us that it does not feel the...
12
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved, the mere recognition of the fact that it was not the sun but the earth that moves sufficed to destroy the whole cosmography of the ancients. By disproving that law it might have...
Chapter II
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Mother,’ then said Will, ‘why will you keep on thinking she's alive? If she were but dead, we need never name her name again. We’ve never heard nought on her, since father wrote her that letter; we never knew whether she got it...
Part IV
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

When I went over on Easter Day I heard the chapel-gossips complimenting cousin Holman on her daughter's blooming looks, quite forgetful of their sinister prophecies three months before. And I looked at Phillis, and did not wonder at their words. I had not seen...
The Parsonage
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history...
The Uncle
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Besides the old lady, there was another relative of the family, whose visits were a great annoyance to me—this was “uncle Robson,” Mrs. Bloomfield’s brother, a tall, self-sufficient fellow, with dark hair and sallow complexion like his sister, a nose that seemed to disdain...
The Parsonage Again
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

For a few months I remained peaceably at home, in the quiet enjoyment of liberty and rest, and genuine friendship, from all of which I had fasted so long, and in the earnest prosecution of my studies to recover what I had lost during...
Horton Lodge
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

The thirty-first of January was a wild, tempestuous day; there was a strong north wind, with a continual storm of snow drifting on the ground, and whirling through the air. My friends would have had me delay my departure, but fearful of prejudicing my...
The Church
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

“Well, Miss Grey, what do you think of the new curate?” asked Miss Murray, on our return from church the Sunday after the re-commencement of my duties.

“I can scarcely tell,” was my reply: “I have not even heard him preach.”

“Well, but...
The Cottagers
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

As I had now only one regular pupil—though she contrived to give me as much trouble as three or four ordinary ones, and though her sister still took lessons in German and drawing—I had considerably more time at my own disposal than I had...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I Have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.—Accordingly I set off thus.

If the fixure of Momus's glass,1 in the human breast, according to the proposed emendation of that...
Chapter VII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Tho' my father was a good natural philosopher, yet he was something of a moral philosopher too; for which reason, when his tobacco-pipe snapp'd short in the middle, he had nothing to do,—as such,—but to have taken hold of the two pieces, and thrown...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——If you have any objection,—said my father, addressing himself to Dr. Slop: Not in the least, replied Dr. Slop;—for it does not appear on which side of the question it is wrote;—— it may be a composition of a divine of...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

My father's collection was not great, but to make amends, it was curious; and consequently, he was some time in making it; he had the great good fortune however to set off well, in getting Bruscambille's1 prologue upon long noses, almost...
CHAPTER III
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

DID ever man, brother Toby, cried my father, raising himself up upon his elbow, and turning himself round to the opposite side of the bed where my uncle Toby was sitting in his old fringed chair, with his chin...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

FROM this moment I am to be considered as heir-apparent to the Shandy family—and it is from this point properly, that the story of my LIFE and my OPINIONS sets out; with all my hurry and precipitation I have but been clearing the...
Chapter III
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

—— ——And a chapter it shall have, and a devil of a one too—so look to yourselves.

Tis either Plato,1 or Plutarch,2 or Seneca,3 or Xenophon,4 or Epictetus,5 or ...
Chapter V
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

MY mother was going very gingerly in the dark along the passage which led to the parlour, as my uncle Toby pronounced the word wife.—'Tis a shrill, penetrating sound of itself, and Obadiah had helped it by leaving the...
Chapter XV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

HAD this volume been a farce, which, unless every one's life and opinions are to be looked upon as a farce as well as mine, I see no reason to suppose—the last chapter, Sir, had finished the first act of it, and then this chapter...
CHAPTER XVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

We should begin, said my father, turning himself half round in bed, and shifting his pillow a little towards my mother's, as he opened the debate——We should begin to think, Mrs. Shandy, of putting this boy into breeches.——

We should so,—said my mother.——We defer it,...
CHAPTER XXII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

When the town, with its works, was finished, my uncle Toby and the corporal began to run their first parallel——not at random, or any how——but from the same points and distances the allies had begun to run theirs; and regulating their approaches...
CHAPTER XXIX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I Beg the reader will assist me here, to wheel off my uncle Toby's ordnance behind the scenes, to remove his sentry-box, and clear the theatre, if possible, of horn-works and half moons, and get the rest of his...
CHAPTER V
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Calais,
Calatium, Calusium, Calesium.

This town, if we may trust it's archives, the authority of which I see no reason to call in question in this place—was once no more than a small village belonging to one of the first Counts de Guines;...
CHAPTER XVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

The French are certainly misunderstood:——but whether the fault is theirs, in not sufficiently explaining themselves; or speaking with that exact limitation and precision which one would expect on a point of such importance, and which moreover, is so likely to be contested by us——or...
CHAPTER XXIX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I am glad of it, said I, settling the account with myself as I walk'd into Lyons——my chaise being all laid higgledy-piggledy with my baggage in a cart, which was moving slowly before me——I am heartily glad, said I, that 'tis all broke to pieces;...
CHAPTER XLII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I HAD now the whole south of France, from the banks of the Rhone to those of the Garonne to traverse upon my mule at my own leisure—at my own leisure——for I had left Death, the lord knows——and He only—how far behind me——"I...
CHAPTER IV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

SHE cannot, quoth my uncle Toby, halting, when they had march'd up to within twenty paces of Mrs. Wadman's door— she cannot, Corporal, take it amiss.——

——She will take it, an' please your honour, said the Corporal, just as the Jew's widow at Lisbon took...
Emma
Authors: Austen Jane , Pinch Adela
Published: December 2020

‘I wonder what will become of her!’ So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen‘s fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition. Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television. This new edition shows how Austen brilliantly turns the everyday into the exceptional.
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘I do not know what your opinion may be, Mrs. Weston,’ said Mr. Knightley, ‘of this great intimacy between Emma and Harriet Smith, but I think it a bad thing.’

‘A bad thing! Do you really think it a bad thing?—why so?’

‘I think they...
Chapter IX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr.
Knightley might quarrel with her, but Emma could not quarrel with herself. He was so much displeased, that it was longer than usual before he came to Hartfield again; and when they did meet, his grave looks shewed that she was not forgiven....
Chapter XIV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Some change of countenance was necessary for each gentleman as they walked into Mrs. Weston’s drawing-room;—Mr. Elton must compose his joyous looks, and Mr. John Knightley disperse his ill-humour. Mr. Elton must smile less, and Mr. John Knightley more, to fit them for the...
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

A Very few days had passed after this adventure, when Harriet came one morning to Emma with a small parcel in her hand, and after sitting down and hesitating, thus began:

‘Miss Woodhouse—if you are at leisure—I have something that I should like to tell...
Chapter XI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘Harriet, poor Harriet!’—Those were the words; in them lay the tormenting ideas which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted the real misery of the business to her. Frank Churchill had behaved very ill by herself—very ill in many ways,—but it...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

It was a very great relief to Emma to find Harriet as desirous as herself to avoid a meeting. Their intercourse was painful enough by letter. How much worse, had they been obliged to meet!

Harriet expressed herself very much as might be supposed, without...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Weston’s friends were all made happy by her safety; and if the satisfaction of her well-doing could be increased to Emma, it was by knowing her to be the mother of a little girl. She had been decided in wishing for...
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Tom
Bertram had of late spent so little of his time at home, that he could be only nominally missed; and Lady Bertram was soon astonished to find how very well they did even without his father, how well Edmund could supply his place...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

It was, indeed, a triumphant day to Mr. Bertram and Maria. Such a victory over Edmund’s discretion had been beyond their hopes, and was most delightful. There was no longer any thing to disturb them in their darling project, and they congratulated each other...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Every thing was now in a regular train; theatre, actors, actresses, and dresses, were all getting forward: but though no other great impediments arose, Fanny found, before many days were past, that it was not all uninterrupted enjoyment to the party themselves, and that...
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Edmund’s first object the next morning was to see his father alone, and give him a fair statement of the whole acting scheme, defending his own share in it as far only as he could then, in a soberer moment, feel his motives to...
Chapter I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Fanny had by no means forgotten Mr. Crawford, when she awoke the next morning; but she remembered the purport of her note, and was not less sanguine, as to its effect, than she had been the night before. If Mr. Crawford would but go...
Chapter VII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The novelty of travelling, and the happiness of being with William, soon produced their natural effect on Fanny’s spirits, when Mansfield Park was fairly left behind, and by the time their first stage was ended, and they were to quit Sir Thomas’s carriage, she...
Chapter IX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Fanny was right enough in not expecting to hear from Miss Crawford now, at the rapid rate in which their correspondence had begun; Mary’s next letter was after a decidedly longer interval than the last, but she was not right in supposing that such...
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

It was presumed that Mr. Crawford was travelling back to London, on the morrow, for nothing more was seen of him at Mr. Price’s; and two days afterwards, it was a fact ascertained to Fanny by the following letter from his sister, opened and...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

At about the week’s end from his return to Mansfield, Tom’s immediate danger was over, and he was so far pronounced safe, as to make his mother perfectly easy; for being now used to the sight of him in his suffering, helpless state, and...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore every body, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

My Fanny indeed at this very...
Chapter VI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The following conversation, which took place between the two friends in the Pump-room one morning, after an acquaintance of eight or nine days, is given as a specimen of their very warm attachment, and of the delicacy, discretion, originality of thought, and literary taste...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The Allens, Thorpes, and Morlands, all met in the evening at the theatre; and, as Catherine and Isabella sat together, there was then an opportunity for the latter to utter some few of the many thousand things which had been collecting within her for...
Chapter XI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The morrow brought a very sober looking morning; the sun making only a few efforts to appear; and Catherine augured from it, every thing most favourable to her wishes. A bright morning so early in the year, she allowed would generally turn to rain,...
The Watsons
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The first winter assembly* in the Town of D.* in Surry was to be held on Tuesday October the 13th, and it was generally expected to be a very good one; a long list of Country Families was confidently...
Chapter I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

A Gentleman and Lady travelling from Tunbridge towards that part of the Sussex Coast which lies between Hastings and E. Bourne, being induced by Business to quit the high road, and attempt a very rough Lane, were overturned in toiling up its long ascent...
Postscript
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Since concluding the above remarks, the writer of them has been put in possession of some extracts from the private correspondence of the authoress. They are few and short; but are submitted to the public without apology, as being more truly descriptive of her...
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Though Charles and Mary had remained at Lyme much longer after Mr. and Mrs. Musgrove’s going, than Anne conceived they could have been at all wanted, they were yet the first of the family to be at home again, and as soon as possible...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Anne went home to think over all that she had heard. In one point, her feelings were relieved by this knowledge of Mr. Elliot. There was no longer any thing of tenderness due to him. He stood, as opposed to Captain Wentworth, in all...
The Woman in White
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest ‘Sensation Novel’. Walter Hartright’s mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction – Marion Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant ‘Napoleon of Crime’. A masterwork of intricate construction, The Woman in White sets new standards of suspense and excitement, and achieved sales which topped even those of Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor.
The Story continued by Frederick Fairlie, Esq., of Limmeridge House
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

It is the grand misfortune of my life that nobody will let me alone.

Why—I ask everybody—why worry me? Nobody answers that question; and nobody lets me alone. Relatives, friends, and strangers all combine to annoy me. What have I done? I ask...
The Story continued by Eliza Michelson, Housekeeper at Blackwater Park
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I

I am asked to state plainly what I know of the progress of Miss Halcombe’s illness, and of the circumstances under which Lady Glyde left Blackwater Park for London.

The reason given for making this demand on me is, that my testimony is wanted...
The Story continued by Mrs Catherick
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Sir,

You have not come back, as you said you would. No matter; I know the news, and I write to tell you so. Did you see anything particular in my face when you left me? I was wondering, in my own mind, whether...
The Story continued by Walter Hartright
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I

My first impulse, after reading Mrs Catherick’s extraordinary narrative, was to destroy it. The hardened, shameless depravity of the whole composition, from beginning to end—the atrocious perversity of mind which persistently associated me with a calamity for which I was in no sense...
Chapter XV
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

The crowd was neatly lined up between railings, along the wall on either side of the theatre entrance. At the adjoining street corners, huge posters announced in baroque lettering: ‘Lucie de Lammermoor* … Lagardy … Opéra etc.’ It was a fine evening;...
Chapter IV
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Very soon, Léon began putting on airs in front of his fellow clerks, avoiding their company, and completely neglecting his paperwork.

He lived for her letters; he read and reread them. He wrote to her constantly. He would conjure up her image with all the...
Chapter X
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

The pharmacist’s letter had not reached him until thirty-six hours after the event. Homais, out of consideration for his feelings, had worded it in such a way that it was impossible to know what to think.

On first reading it, the old man collapsed, as...
Chapter 3 Money, or the Circulation of Commodities
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Section 1. The Measure of Values

Throughout this work, I assume, for the sake of simplicity, gold as the money-commodity.

The first chief function of money is to supply commodities with the material for the expression of their values, or to represent their values as...
Chapter 7 The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Section 1. The Labour-Process or the Production of Use-Values

The capitalist buys labour-power in order to use it; and labour-power in use is labour itself. The purchaser of labour-power consumes it by setting the seller of it to work. By working, the latter becomes actually,...