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Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

So with the house empty and the doors locked and the mattresses rolled round, those stray airs, advance guards of great armies, blustered in, brushed bare boards, nibbled and fanned, met nothing in bedroom or drawing-room that wholly resisted them but only hangings that...
2
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

‘No going to the Lighthouse, James,’ he said, as he stood by the window, speaking awkwardly, but trying in deference to Mrs Ramsay to soften his voice into some semblance of geniality at least.

Odious little man, thought Mrs Ramsay, why go on saying...
10
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

It was like that then, the island, thought Cam, once more drawing her fingers through the waves. She had never seen it from out at sea before. It lay like that on the sea, did it, with a dent in the middle and two...
6
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

But what had happened?

Someone had blundered.

Starting from her musing she gave meaning to words which she had held meaningless in her mind for a long stretch of time. ‘Someone had blundered’—Fixing her short-sighted eyes upon her husband, who was now bearing down upon...
Land
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Saturday, December 31. New Year’s Eve.—Obs. 72° 54′ S., 174° 55′ E. Made good S. 45 W. 55′; C. Crozier S. 17 W. 286′. ‘The New Year’s Eve found us in the Ross Sea, but not at the end of our misfortunes.’ We had...
Settling In
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Sunday, January 8.—A day of disaster. I stupidly gave permission for the third motor to be got out this morning. This was done first thing and the motor placed on firm ice. Later Campbell told me one of the men had dropped...
At Discovery Hut
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Monday, March 6, a.m.—Roused the hands at 7.30. Wilson, Bowers, Garrard, and I went out to Castle Rock. We met Evans just short of his camp and found the loads had been dragged up the hill. Oates and Keohane had gone back...
In Winter Quarters: Modern Style
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Monday, May 15.—The wind has been strong from the north all day—about 30 miles an hour. A bank of stratus cloud about 6000 or 7000 feet (measured by Erebus) has been passing rapidly overhead towards the north; it is nothing new to...
To Midwinter Day
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Thursday, June 1.—The wind blew hard all night, gusts arising to 72 m.p.h.; the anemometer choked five times—temperature +9°. It is still blowing this morning. Incidentally we have found that these heavy winds react very conveniently on our ventilating system. A fire is always...
On the Beardmore Glacier
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Sunday, December 10.—Camp 32.† I was very anxious about getting our loads forward over such an appalling surface, and that we have done so is mainly due to the ski. I roused everyone at 8, but it was noon before all the...
Something Childish but Very Natural
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

Whether he had forgotten what it felt like, or his head had really grown bigger since the summer before, Henry could not decide. But his straw hat hurt him: it pinched his forehead and started a dull ache in the two bones just over the...
An Indiscreet Journey
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

She is like St Anne.* Yes, the concierge is the image of St Anne, with that black cloth over her head, the wisps of grey hair hanging, and the tiny smoking lamp in her hand. Really very beautiful, I thought, smiling at St...
Feuille D’album
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

He really was an impossible person. Too shy altogether. With absolutely nothing to say for himself. And such a weight. Once he was in your studio he never knew when to go, but would sit on and on until you nearly screamed, and burned to...
A Dill Pickle
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

And then, after six years, she saw him again. He was seated at one of those little bamboo tables decorated with a Japanese vase of paper daffodils. There was a tall plate of fruit in front of him, and very carefully, in a way she...
Miss Brill
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

Although it was so brilliantly fine—the blue sky powdered with gold and great spots of light like white wine splashed over the Jardins Publiques*—Miss Brill was glad that she had decided on her fur. The air was motionless, but when you opened your...
Mr and Mrs Dove
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

Of course he knew—no man better—that he hadn’t a ghost of a chance, he hadn’t an earthly. The very idea of such a thing was preposterous. So preposterous that he’d perfectly understand it if her father—well, whatever her father chose to do he’d perfectly understand....
At The Bay
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

I

Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills* at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the paddocks*...
The Voyage
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

The Picton boat* was due to leave at half-past eleven. It was a beautiful night, mild, starry, only when they got out of the cab and started to walk down the Old Wharf that jutted out into the harbour, a faint wind blowing...
The Scientific Literature on the Problems of Dreams
Authors: Freud Sigmund , Crick Joyce , Robertson Ritchie
Published: June 2023

In the following pages I shall provide proof that there is a psychological technique which allows us to interpret dreams, and that when this procedure is applied, every dream turns out to be a meaningful psychical formation which can be given an identifiable place in...
The Material and Sources of Dreams
Authors: Freud Sigmund , Crick Joyce , Robertson Ritchie
Published: June 2023

When we gathered from our analysis of the dream of Irma’s injection that the dream is a wish-fulfilment, our interest was first captured by whether this discovery had led us to identify a universal characteristic of dreams, and for the time being we silenced...
The Dream-Work
Authors: Freud Sigmund , Crick Joyce , Robertson Ritchie
Published: June 2023

Until now every other effort to solve the problems presented by dreams has latched directly on to the dream’s manifest content as it is present in the memory, and has attempted to use this as the basis of an interpretation; or, if it dispensed...
The Psychology of the Dream-Processes
Authors: Freud Sigmund , Crick Joyce , Robertson Ritchie
Published: June 2023

Among the dreams I have learned of through others, there is one that now has very special claims on our attention. It was told me by a patient who had heard it herself in a lecture on dreams; its actual source remains unknown to...
A Mission is Proposed
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I had just finished breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant’s telegram. It was at Furling, the big country house in Hampshire where I had come to convalesce after Loos,* and Sandy, who was in the same case, was hunting...
The Indiscretions of the Same
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I was standing stark naked next morning in that icy bedroom, trying to bathe in about a quart of water, when Stumm entered. He strode up to me and stared me in the face. I was half a head shorter than him to begin with,...
Peter Pienaar Goes to the Wars
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

This chapter is the tale that Peter told me—long after, sitting beside a stove in the hotel at Bergen, where we were waiting for our boat.

He climbed on the roof and shinned down the broken bricks of the outer wall. The outbuilding we were...
Huntingtower
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer of romantic heart, plans a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English poet and, contrary to his better sense, finds himself in the thick of a plot involving the kidnapping of a Russian princess, who is held prisoner in the rambling mansion, Huntingtower.

This modern fairy-tale is also a gripping adventure story, and in it Buchan introduces some of his best-loved characters, including the Gorbals Die-Hards, who reappear in later novels. He also paints a remarkable picture of a man rejuvenated by joining much younger comrades in a challenging and often dangerous fight against tyranny and fear.
Prologue
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

The girl came into the room with a darting movement like a swallow, looked round her with the same birdlike quickness, and then ran across the polished floor to where a young man sat on a sofa with one leg laid along it.

‘I have...
The First Battle of the Cruives
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

The old keep of Huntingtower stood some three hundred yards from the edge of the cliffs, a gnarled wood of hazels and oaks protecting it from the sea-winds. It was still in fair preservation, having till twenty years before been an adjunct of the...
The Second Battle of the Cruives
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

The military historian must often make shift to write of battles with slender data, but he can pad out his deficiencies by learned parallels. If his were the talented pen describing this, the latest action fought on British soil against a foreign foe, he...
The Man Who Died
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would...
The Dry-Fly Fisherman
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I sat down on a hill-top and took stock of my position. I wasn’t feeling very happy, for my natural thankfulness at my escape was clouded by my severe bodily discomfort. Those lentonite fumes had fairly poisoned me, and the baking hours on...
I
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper* hung like icicles and Orion* flashed his cold fires. The moon had set, but the night...
IV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

As soon as his wife had driven off Ethan took his coat and cap from the peg. Mattie was washing up the dishes, humming one of the dance tunes of the night before. He said ‘So long, Matt,’ and she answered gaily ‘So long,...
V
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

They finished supper, and while Mattie cleared the table Ethan went to look at the cows and then took a last turn about the house. The earth lay dark under a muffled sky and the air was so still that now and then he...
The House of Mirth
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of the tragedy that finally overwhelms her.

The House of Mirth is a lucid, disturbing analysis of the stifling limitations imposed upon women of Wharton’s generation. Herself born into Old New York Society, Wharton watched as an entirely new set of people living by new codes of conduct entered the metropolitan scene. In telling the story of Lily Bart, who must marry to survive, Wharton recasts the age-old themes of family, marriage, and money in ways that transform the traditional novel of manners into an arresting modern document of cultural anthropology.
I
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station* his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart.

It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into...
XIV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Gerty Farish, the morning after the Wellington Brys’ entertainment, woke from dreams as happy as Lily’s. If they were less vivid in hue, more subdued to the half-tints of her personality and her experience, they were for that very reason better suited to her...
IV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The blinds of Mrs Peniston’s drawing-room were drawn down against the oppressive June sun, and in the sultry twilight the faces of her assembled relatives took on a fitting shadow of bereavement.

They were all there: Van Alstynes, Stepneys and Melsons—even a stray Peniston or...
VII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The light projected on the situation by Mrs Fisher had the cheerless distinctness of a winter dawn. It outlined the facts with a cold precision unmodified by shade or colour, and refracted, as it were, from the blank walls of the surrounding limitations: she...
XII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The library looked as she had pictured it. The green-shaded lamps made tranquil circles of light in the gathering dusk, a little fire flickered on the hearth, and Selden’s easy-chair, which stood near it, had been pushed aside when he rose to admit her....

He...
XIV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The next morning rose mild and bright, with a promise of summer in the air. The sunlight slanted joyously down Lily’s street, mellowed the blistered house-front, gilded the paintless railings of the door-step, and struck prismatic glories from the panes of her darkened window....

When...
The Pioneer Woman’s Story
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

I

Two years after I left Lincoln, I completed my academic course at Harvard. Before I entered the Law School I went home for the summer vacation.* On the night of my arrival, Mrs Harling and Frances and Sally came over to...
The Test on Miriam
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

With the spring came again the old madness and battle. Now he knew he would have to go to Miriam. But what was his reluctance? He told himself it was only a sort of overstrong virginity in her and him which neither could break...
Baxter Dawes
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

Soon after Paul had been to the theatre with Clara, he was drinking in the Punch Bowl with some friends of his when Dawes came in. Clara’s husband was growing stout; his eyelids were getting slack over his brown eyes; he was losing his...
Into the Primitive
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

“Old longings nomadic leap,

Chafing at custom’s chain;

Again from its brumal sleep

Wakens the ferine strain”*

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of...
The Law of Club and Fang
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

Buck’s first day on the Dyea beach was like a nightmare. Every hour was filled with shock and surprise. He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial. No lazy, sun-kissed life was this, with...
For the Love of a Man
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

When John Thornton froze his feet in the previous December, his partners had made him comfortable and left him to get well, going on themselves up the river to get out a raft of saw-logs for Dawson. He was still limping slightly at the...
The Battle of the Fangs
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

It was the she-wolf who had first caught the sound of men’s voices and the whining of the sled-dogs; and it was the she-wolf who was first to spring away from the cornered man in his circle of dying flame. The pack had been...
The Makers of Fire
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

The cub came upon it suddenly. It was his own fault. He had been careless. He had left the cave and run down to the stream to drink. It might have been that he took no notice because he was heavy with sleep. (He...
The Enemy of his Kind
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

Had there been in White Fang’s nature any possibility, no matter how remote, of his ever coming to fraternize with his kind, such possibility was irretrievably destroyed when he was made leader of the sled-team. For now the dogs hated him—hated him for the...
Bâtard
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

Bâtard was a devil. This was recognized throughout the Northland. “Hell’s Spawn” he was called by many men, but his master, Black Leclère, chose for him the shameful name “Bâtard.” Now Black Leclère was also a devil, and the twain were well matched. There...
Moon-Face
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumference, flattened against the very centre of the face like...
That Spot
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

I don’t think much of Stephen Mackaye any more, though I used to swear by him. I know that in those days I loved him more than my own brother. If ever I meet Stephen Mackaye again, I shall not be responsible for my...
II
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

The skipper of the Sephora had a thin red whisker all round his face, and the sort of complexion that goes with hair of that colour; also the particular, rather smeary shade of blue in the eyes. He was not exactly a...
Chapter III
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Early next morning there was a sound as of chains being drawn roughly overhead; the steady heart of the Euphrosyne slowly ceased to beat; and Helen, poking her nose above deck, saw a stationary castle upon a stationary hill. They had dropped...
Chapter VI
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

‘That’s the tragedy of life—as I always say!’ said Mrs Dalloway. ‘Beginning things and having to end them. Still, I’m not going to let this end, if you’re willing.’ It was the morning, the sea was calm, and the...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

The next few months passed away, as many years can pass away, without definite events, and yet, if suddenly disturbed, it would be seen that such months or years had a character unlike others. The three months which had passed had brought them to...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

The sun of that same day going down, dusk was saluted as usual at the hotel by an instantaneous sparkle of electric lights. The hours between dinner and bedtime were always difficult enough to kill, and the night after the dance they were further...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Everything he saw was distasteful to him. He hated the blue and white, the intensity and definiteness, the hum and heat of the south; the landscape seemed to him as hard and as romantic as a cardboard background on the stage, and the mountain...
Chapter XX
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

When considered in detail by Mr Flushing and Mrs Ambrose the expedition proved neither dangerous nor difficult. They found also that it was not even unusual. Every year at this season English people made parties which steamed a short way up the river, landed,...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

They reached the hotel rather early in the afternoon, so that most people were still lying down, or sitting speechless in their bedrooms, and Mrs Thornbury, although she had asked them to tea, was nowhere to be seen. They sat down, therefore, in the...
IX
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The Countess Olenska had said ‘after five’; and at half after the hour Newland Archer rang the bell of the peeling stucco house with a giant wisteria throttling its feeble cast-iron balcony, which she had hired, far down West Twenty-third Street,* from...
XI
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Some two weeks later, Newland Archer, sitting in abstracted idleness in his private compartment of the office of Letterblair, Lamson and Low, attorneys at law, was summoned by the head of the firm.

Old Mr Letterblair, the accredited legal adviser of three generations of New...
XIV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

As he came out into the lobby Archer ran across his friend Ned Winsett, the only one among what Janey called his ‘clever people’ with whom he cared to probe into things a little deeper than the average level of club and chop-house banter....

He...
II
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Newland Archer, during this brief episode, had been thrown into a strange state of embarrassment.

It was annoying that the box which was thus attracting the undivided attention of masculine New York should be that in which his betrothed was seated between...
IV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

In the course of the next day the first of the usual betrothal visits were exchanged. The New York ritual was precise and inflexible in such matters; and in conformity with it Newland Archer first went with his mother and sister to call on...
VII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Mrs Henry van der Luyden listened in silence to her cousin Mrs Archer’s narrative.

It was all very well to tell yourself in advance that Mrs van der Luyden was always silent, and that, thought non-committal by nature and training, she was very kind to...
Introduction
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

The Subject of Study Sociology of Religion and Theories of Knowledge

I

In this book we propose to study the most primitive* and simplest religion currently known, to analyse it and attempt to explain it. We call a religious system the most...
A Definition of the Religious Phenomenon and of Religion
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

In order to identify the simplest and most primitive religion known to us from observation, we must first define what is meant by a religion. If we do not, we might either call a system of ideas and practices religion that are not in...
Totemism as Elementary Religion
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

Historical Review of the Question method of Treating It

Despite their apparently opposite conclusions, the two systems we have just examined are in accord on one essential point: they pose the problem in identical terms. Both try to construct the notion of the divine...
Central Totemic Beliefs (Continued)
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

The Totemic Animal and Man

Totemic images are not the only sacred things. There are real beings who are also the object of rites because of their relationship to the totem. These are primarily creatures of the totemic species and members of the clan....
The Origins of these Beliefs (Continued)
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

The Genesis of the Notion of The totemic principle or Mana

The proposition established in the previous chapter defines the terms in which the problem of the origins of totemism must be posed. Since totemism is entirely dominated by the notion of a quasi-divine...
The Notion of Spirits and Gods
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

With the notion of soul we have left the circle of impersonal forces. But even the Australian religions recognize a higher order of mythic personalities above and beyond the soul: spirits, civilizing heroes, and even gods proper. Without going into the mythologies in detail,...
The Positive Cult (Continued)
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

Mimetic Rites and the Principle of Causality

The methods just discussed are not the only ones used to ensure the fertility of the totemic species. There are others with the same purpose that either accompany them or take their place.

I

In the same ceremonies...
Piacular Rites and The ambiguity of the Notion of the Sacred
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

As different as the gestures they involve may be, the various positive rites we have just reviewed have a common character: they are all performed in a state of confidence, alacrity, and even enthusiasm. Although the expectation of a future and contingent event is not...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

‘The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick,’ said the Witch; ‘so you cannot miss it. When you get to Oz do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you.’

A cyclone hits Kansas and whirls away Dorothy and her little dog Toto to the magical Land of Oz, where wild beasts talk, silver shoes have magic powers, and good witches offer protection with a kiss. But Dorothy has made an enemy of the Wicked Witch of the West. With her new friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion, they brave many dangers in search of the Wonderful Wizard in his Emerald City at the heart of Oz to ask him to grant each of them what they most desire - only to find that they already possess it.

Published at the dawn of the twentieth century, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) immediately captivated child and adult readers alike. This new edition includes many of W. W. Denslow’s original illustrations, and the introduction considers both the famous MGM film version and recent literary theory in a fascinating discussion of this children’s classic.
The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto had long been out chasing birds and squirrels. She sat up and looked around her. There was the Scarecrow, still standing patiently in his corner, waiting for her.

“We must go...
The Cowardly Lion.
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

All this time Dorothy and her companions had been walking through the thick woods. The road was still paved with yellow brick, but these were much covered by dried branches and dead leaves from the trees, and the walking was not at all...
The Search for the Wicked Witch
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

The soldier with the green whiskers led them through the streets of the Emerald City until they reached the room where the Guardian of the Gates lived. This officer unlocked their spectacles to put them back in his great box, and then he...
The Rescue
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

The Cowardly Lion was much pleased to hear that the Wicked Witch had been melted by a bucket of water, and Dorothy at once unlocked the gate of his prison and set him free. They went in together to the castle, where Dorothy’s...
Away to the South.
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

Dorothy wept bitterly at the passing of her hope to get home to Kansas again; but when she thought it all over she was glad she had not gone up in a balloon. And she also felt sorry at losing Oz, and so...
Attacked by the Fighting Trees
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

The next morning Dorothy kissed the pretty green girl good-bye, and they all shook hands with the soldier with the green whiskers, who had walked with them as far as the gate. When the Guardian of the Gates saw them again he wondered...
The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts.
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

After climbing down from the china wall the travellers found themselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and covered with tall, rank grass. It was difficult to walk far without falling into muddy holes, for the grass was so thick...
The Dulcibella
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

That two days later I should be found pacing the deck of the Flushing steamer with a ticket for Hamburg in my pocket may seem a strange result, yet not so strange if you have divined my state of mind. You will guess, at any...
Retrospect
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

‘Wake up!’ I rubbed my eyes and wondered where I was; stretched myself painfully, too, for even the cushions had not given me a true bed of roses. It was dusk, and the yacht was stationary in glassy water, coloured by the last after-glow. A...
Schlei Fiord
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

I make no apology for having described these early days in some detail. It is no wonder that their trivialities are as vividly before me as the colours of earth and sea in this enchanting corner of the world. For every trifle, sordid or picturesque,...
The First Night in the Islands
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

A low line of sandhills, pink and fawn in the setting sun, at one end of them a little white village huddled round the base of a massive four-square lighthouse—such was Wangeroog, the easternmost of the Frisian Islands, as I saw it on the evening...
Bensersiel
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

The decisive incidents of our cruise were now fast approaching. Looking back on the steps that led to them, and anxious that the reader should be wholly with us in our point of view, I think I cannot do better than give extracts from my...
The Rubicon
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

It was a cold, vaporous dawn, the glass rising, and the wind fallen to a light air still from the north-cast. Our creased and sodden sails scarcely answered to it as we crept across the oily swell to Langeoog. ‘Fogs and calms,’ Davies prophesied. The...
The Little Drab Book
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

I found Davies at the cabin table, surrounded with a litter of books. The shelf was empty, and its contents were tossed about among the cups and on the floor. We both spoke together.

‘Well, what was it?’

‘Well, what did she say?’

I gave...
By the Editor
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

An interesting document, somewhat damaged by fire, lies on my study table.

It is a copy (in cipher) of a confidential memorandum to the German Government embodying a scheme for the invasion of England by Germany. It is unsigned, but internal evidence, and the fact...
The Tea-Party
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“ ‘Amiable personality,’ I observed seeing Fyne on the point of falling into a brown study. But I could not help adding with meaning: ‘He hadn’t the gift of prophecy though.’

“Fyne got up suddenly with a muttered ‘No, evidently not.’ He was gloomy,...
The Ferndale
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

I Have said that the story of Flora de Barral was imparted to me in stages. At this stage I did not see Marlow for some time. At last, one evening rather early, very soon after dinner, he turned up in my rooms.

I had...
The Forsyte Saga
Authors: Galsworthy John
Published: June 2023

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. Soames Forsyte is the brilliantly portrayed central figure, a Victorian who outlives the age, and whose baffled passion for his beautiful but unresponsive wife Irene reverberates throughout the saga.

Written with both compassion and ironic detachment, Galsworthy’s masterly narrative examines not only the family’s fortunes but also the wider developments within society, particularly the changing position of women in an intensely competitive male world. Above all, Galsworthy is concerned with the conflict at the heart of English culture between the soulless materialism of wealth and property and the humane instincts of love, beauty, and art.
The Man of Property
Authors: Galsworthy John
Published: June 2023

‘… You will answer

“The slaves are ours” …’*

to

Edward Garnett*
VIII
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

On the evening of the day of Alexandra’s call at the Shabatas’, a heavy rain set in. Frank sat up until a late hour reading the Sunday newspapers. One of the Goulds was getting a divorce,* and Frank took it as a...
III
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

One evening, a week after Signa’s wedding, Emil was kneeling before a box in the sitting-room, packing his books. From time to time he rose and wandered about the house, picking up stray volumes and bringing them listlessly back to his box. He was...
II
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

The Egeria of the “Russian Mazzini”* produced, at first view, a strong effect by the deathlike immobility of an obviously painted face. The eyes appeared extraordinarily brilliant. The figure, in a close-fitting dress, admirably made, but by no means fresh, had an...
Boyhood Days
Authors: Washington Booker T.
Published: June 2023

After the coming of freedom there were two points upon which practically all the people on our place were agreed, and I find that this was generally true throughout the South: that they must change their names, and that they must leave the old...
Teaching School in a Stable Anda Hen-House
Authors: Washington Booker T.
Published: June 2023

I confess that what I saw during my month of travel and investigation left me with a very heavy heart. The work to be done in order to lift these people up seemed almost beyond accomplishing. I was only one person, and it seemed...
A Harder Task than Making Rricks without Straw
Authors: Washington Booker T.
Published: June 2023

From the very beginning, at Tuskegee, I was determined to have the students do not only the agricultural and domestic work, but to have them erect their own buildings. My plan was to have them, while performing this service, taught the latest and best...
Why I Am So Clever
Authors: Nietzsche Friedrich
Published: June 2023

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—Why do I know a thing or two more? Why am I generally so clever? I have never thought about questions that are not real ones—I have not squandered myself.—I have no personal experience, for example, of true religious difficulties....
The Marsh and the Flood
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

There was always regular connection between the Yew Cottage and the Marsh, yet the two households remained separate, distinct.

After Anna’s marriage, the Marsh became the home of the two boys, Tom and Fred. Tom was a rather short, good-looking youth, with crisp black hair...
The Rainbow
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

Ursula went home to Beldover faint, dim, closed up.

She could scarcely speak or notice. It was as if her energy were frozen. Her people asked her what was the matter. She told them, she had broken off the engagement with Skrebensky. They looked blank...
Riders of the Purple Sage
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

The novel that set the pattern for the modern Western, Riders of the Purple Sage was first published in 1912, immediately selling over a million copies.

In the remote border country of South Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero, Lassiter, a gunman in black leather, who routs the persecutors and then gradually recounts his own history of an endless search for a woman abducted long ago by the Mormons. Secrecy, seduction, captivity, and escape: out of these elements Zane Grey built his acclaimed story of the American West.
Deception Pass
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

The rider thundered up and almost threw his foam-flecked horse in the sudden stop. He was of giant form, and with fearless eyes.

‘Judkins, you’re all bloody!’ cried Jane, in affright. ‘Oh, you’ve been shot!’

‘Nothin’ much, Miss Withersteen. I got a nick in the...
Love
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

During all these waiting days Venters, with the exception of the afternoon when he had built the gate in the gorge, had scarcely gone out of sight of camp, and never out of hearing. His desire to explore Surprise Valley was keen, and on the...
Oldring’s Knell
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

Some forty hours or more later Venters created a commotion in Cottonwoods by riding down the main street on Black Star and leading Bells and Night. He had come upon Bells grazing near the body of a dead rustler, the only incident of his quick...
The Study of Languages
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

In the church of San’ Maria Novella there are seven figures by Memmi, named the seven earthly Sciences.1 Reading from right to left, the first is the ‘Art of Letters’ and the seventh ‘Arithmetic’. The first is oftener called Grammar, because it refers...
George Meredith
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Mr George Meredith has been included in the English men of letters series, where he may be seen in honourable nearness to Mr Hall Caine and Mr Pinero.1 An age which has too keen a scent for contemporary values will often judge amiss,...
Catilina
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

The French translators of this play have included in their preface some extracts from Ibsen’s preface to the Dresden edition of 1875 and these extracts tell somewhat humorously the history of Ibsen’s early years. The play was written in 1848, when Ibsen was twenty, a...
A Peep Into History
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

One may have no satirical reference either to the subject of this book, or to its treatment by Mr Pollock, in saying that this account of the Popish Plot1 is far more diverting than many works of fiction. Mr Pollock, though he seems...
The Bruno Philosophy
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Except for a book in the English or Foreign Philosophical Library,1 a book the interest of which was chiefly biographical, no considerable volume has appeared in England to give an account of the life and philosophy of the heresiarch martyr of Nola.2...
James Clarence Mangan (1907)
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

There are certain poets who, in addition to their virtue of revealing aspects of the human consciousness to us that were unknown until their age, also possess the more questionable virtue of embodying in themselves the thousand conflicting tendencies of their age, of turning themselves...
[The Irish Literary Renaissance]
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

physical, either open or masked. Since the great rebellion in the last years of the eighteenth century,1 we find no less than three decisive clashes between the two nationalist tendencies. The first was in 1848 when the Young Ireland Party disdainfully detached itself...
Ireland at the Bar
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Several years ago a sensational trial took place in Ireland. In the western province, in a remote place called Maamtrasna, a murder was committed.1 Four or five peasants from the village were arrested, all of them members of the ancient tribe of the...
Politics and Cattle Disease
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Though the country has not been deceived by the pitiable endeavours of Unionists and factionists1 to make political capital out of the national calamity involved in the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease in a few Irish districts, Mr Dillon renders a...
Programme Notes for the English Players
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

The Twelve Pound Look

BY J. M. BARRIE
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One Sims is about to be knighted: possibly, as the name would suggest, for having patented a hairgrower He is discovered rehearsing his part with his wife whose portrait we see on the wall, painted by...
II
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

It was about this time that Heyst became associated with Morrison on terms about which people were in doubt. Some said he was a partner, others said he was a sort of paying guest, but the real truth of the matter was more complex....
I
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

As we know, Heyst had gone to stay in Schomberg’s hotel in complete ignorance that his person was odious to that worthy. When he arrived, Zangiacomo’s Ladies’ Orchestra had been established there for some time.

The business which had called him out from his seclusion...
III
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

For fifteen years Heyst had wandered, invariably courteous and unapproachable, and in return was generally considered a “queer chap.” He had started off on these travels of his after the death of his father, an expatriated Swede who died in London, dissatisfied with his...
IV
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

The business was done by a guest who arrived one fine morning by mail-boat—immediately from Celebes, having boarded her in Macassar,* but generally, Schomberg understood, from up China Sea way; a wanderer, clearly, even as Heyst was, but not alone and of...
II
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

During his master’s absence at Sourabaya, Wang had busied himself with the ground immediately in front of the principal bungalow. Emerging from the fringe of grass growing across the shore end of the coal-jetty, Heyst beheld a broad, clear space, black and level, with...
III
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

That morning, as on all the others of the full tale of mornings since his return with the girl to Samburan, Heyst came out on the verandah and spread his elbows on the railing, in an easy attitude of proprietorship. The bulk of the...
VIII
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Heyst walked away slowly. There was still no light in his bungalow, and he thought that perhaps it was just as well. By this time he was much less perturbed. Wang had preceded him with the lantern, as if in a hurry to get...
IX
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

That night the girl woke up, for the first time in her new experience, with the sensation of having been abandoned to her own devices. She woke up from a painful dream of separation brought about in a way which she could not understand,...
III
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

To Ricardo the girl had been so unforeseen that he was unable to bring upon her the light of his critical faculties. Her smile appeared to him full of promise. He had not expected her to be what she was. Who, from the talk...
V
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Waking up suddenly, Lena looked, without raising her head from the pillow, at the room in which she was alone. She got up quickly, as if to counteract the awful sinking of her heart by the vigorous use of her limbs. But this sinking...
VII
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

It was at this precise moment of their conversation that Heyst had intruded on Mr. Jones and his secretary with his warning about Wang, as he had related to Lena. When he left them, the two looked at each other in wondering silence. Mr....
X
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

She passed by Heyst as if she had indeed been blinded by some secret, lurid, and consuming glare into which she was about to enter. The curtain of the bedroom door fell behind her into rigid folds. Ricardo’s vacant gaze seemed to be watching...
Enter the Man
Authors: Wister Owen
Published: June 2023

Some notable sight was drawing the passengers, both men and women, to the window; and therefore I rose and crossed the car to see what it was. I saw near the track an enclosure, and round it some laughing men, and inside it some...
“When you call me that, smile !”
Authors: Wister Owen
Published: June 2023

We cannot see ourselves as others see us, or I should know what appearance I cut at hearing this from the tall man. I said nothing, feeling uncertain.

“I reckon I am looking for you, seh,” he repeated politely.

“I am looking for Judge...
Em’ly
Authors: Wister Owen
Published: June 2023

My personage was a hen, and she lived at the Sunk Creek Banch.

Judge Henry’s ranch was notable for several luxuries. He had milk, for example. In those days his brother ranchmen had thousands of cattle very often, but not a drop of milk, save...
Dr. Macbride Begs Pardon
Authors: Wister Owen
Published: June 2023

Judge and Mrs. Henry, Molly Wood, and two strangers, a lady and a gentleman, were the party which had been driving in the large three-seated wagon. They had seemed a merry party. But as I came within hearing of their talk, it was a...
Various Points
Authors: Wister Owen
Published: June 2023

Love had been snowbound for many weeks. Before this imprisonment its course had run neither smooth nor rough, so far as eye could see; it had run either not at all, or, as an undercurrent, deep out of sight. In their rides, in their...
Grandmother Stark
Authors: Wister Owen
Published: June 2023

Except for its chair and bed, the cabin was stripped almost bare. Amid its emptiness of dismantled shelves and walls and floor, only the tiny ancestress still hung in her place, last token of the home that had been. This miniature, tacked against the...
Chapter Two
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

I SEEMED swinging in a mighty rhythm through orbit vastness. Sparkling points of light spluttered and shot past me. They were stars, I knew, and flaring comets, that peopled my flight among the suns. As I reached the limit of my swing and prepared to...
Chapter Five
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

BUT my first night in the hunters’ steerage was also my last. Next day Johansen, the new mate, was routed from the cabin by Wolf Larsen, and sent into the steerage to sleep thereafter, while I took possession of the tiny cabin stateroom, which, on...
Chapter Twenty-Two
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

I KNEW what it was as she came toward me. For ten minutes I had watched her talking earnestly with the engineer, and now, with a sign for silence, I drew her out of earshot of the helmsman. Her face was white and set; her...
Chapter Twenty-Four
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

AMONG the most vivid memories of my life are those of the events on the Ghost which occurred during the forty hours succeeding the discovery of my love for Maud Brewster. I, who had lived my life in quiet places, only to enter...
Chapter Thirty
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

NO wonder we called it Endeavor Island. For two weeks we toiled at building a hut. Maud insisted on helping, and I could have wept over her bruised and bleeding hands. And still, I was proud of her because of it. There was something heroic...
The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

‘I shall never forget the day I wrote “The Mark on the Wall” - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. “The Unwritten Novel” was the great discovery, however. That - again in one second - showed me how I could embody all my deposit of experience in a shape that fitted it… I saw, branching out of the tunnel I made, when I discovered that method of approach, Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway etc - How I trembled with excitement.’

The thrill Woolf got from these stories is readily apparent to the reader. She wrote them in defiance of convention, with a heady feeling of liberation and with a clear sense that she was breaking new ground. Indeed, if she had not made her bold and experimental forays into the short story in the period leading up to the publication of Jacob’s Room (1922), it seems certain that her arrival as a great modernist novelist would have been delayed. Quirky, unrestrained, disturbing and surprising, many of these stories, particularly the early ones, are essential to an understanding of Woolf’s development as a writer. She thought some of her short fiction might be ‘unprintable’ but, happily, she was mistaken.
Kew Gardens
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

From the oval shaped flower–bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart shaped or tongue shaped leaves halfway up and unfurling at the tip red or blue or yellow petals marked with spots of colour raised upon the surface; and from the...
II
Authors: Saunders Max
Published: June 2023

I don’t know how it is best to put this thing down—whether it would be better to try and tell the story from the beginning, as if it were a story; or whether to tell it from this distance of time, as it reached me...
I
Authors: Saunders Max
Published: June 2023

the odd thing is that what sticks out in my recollection of the rest of that evening was Leonora’s saying:

“Of course you might marry her,” and, when I asked whom, she answered:

“The girl.”

Now that is to me a very amazing thing—amazing for...
IV
Authors: Saunders Max
Published: June 2023

It is very difficult to give an all-round impression of any man. I wonder how far I have succeeded with Edward Ashburnham. I dare say I haven’t succeeded at all. It is even very difficult to see how such things matter. Was it the important...