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Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The first event of any importance in the family was the death of Mr. Norris, which happened when Fanny was about fifteen, and necessarily introduced alterations and novelties. Mrs. Norris, on quitting the parsonage, removed first to the park, and afterwards to a small...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Fanny’s rides recommenced the very next day, and as it was a pleasant fresh-feeling morning, less hot than the weather had lately been, Edmund trusted that her losses both of health and pleasure would be soon made good. While she was gone, Mr. Rushworth...
Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Sir thomas’s return made a striking change in the ways of the family, independent of Lovers’ Vows. Under his government, Mansfield was an altered place. Some members of their society sent away and the spirits of many others saddened, it was all sameness and...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

A week was gone since Edmund might be supposed in town, and Fanny had heard nothing of him. There were three different conclusions to be drawn from his silence, between which her mind was in fluctuation; each of them at times being held...
Advertisement, by the Authoress, to Northanger Abbey
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

This little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication. It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even advertised, and why the business proceeded no farther, the author has never been able to learn. That any bookseller should...
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Catherine was not so much engaged at the theatre* that evening, in returning the nods and smiles of Miss Thorpe, though they certainly claimed much of her leisure, as to forget to look with an inquiring eye for Mr. Tilney in every...
Chapter IX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The progress of Catherine’s unhappiness from the events of the evening, was as follows. It appeared first in a general dissatisfaction with every body about her, while she remained in the rooms, which speedily brought on considerable weariness and a violent desire to go...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. Morland’s surprize on being applied to by Mr. Tilney, for their consent to his marrying their daughter, was, for a few minutes, considerable; it having never entered their heads to suspect an attachment on either side; but as nothing, after all,...
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘And whose very snug-looking Place is this?’—said Charlotte, as in a sheltered Dip within two miles of the Sea, they passed close by a moderate-sized house, well fenced and planted, and rich in the Garden, Orchard and Meadows which are the best embellishments...
Chapter XI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

It would not do.—Not all that the whole Parker race could say among themselves, could produce a happier catastrophée than that the Family from Surry and the Family from Camberwell were one and the same.—The rich Westindians, and the young Ladies Seminary had all...
Chapter IX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Captain
Wentworth was come to Kellynch as to a home, to stay as long as he liked, being as thoroughly the object of the Admiral’s fraternal kindness as of his wife’s. He had intended, on first arriving, to proceed very soon into Shropshire, and...
Preface [1860]
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

An experiment is attempted in this novel, which has not (so far as I know) been hitherto tried in fiction. The story of the book is told throughout by the characters of the book.* They are all placed in different positions along...
Chapter III
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

One morning, old Rouault came to pay Charles for setting his broken leg: seventy-five francs in two-franc pieces, and a turkey. He had heard about his misfortune, and comforted him as best he could.

‘I know what it’s like!’ he told him, slapping him on...
Chapter IX
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Six weeks went by. Rodolphe did not return. Finally, one evening, he appeared.

The morning after the Show, he had told himself:

‘Better not go back there too soon, it would be a mistake.’

And, at the week’s end, he had left on a...
Chapter V
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

It was Thursday. She always slipped out of bed and dressed without a sound so as not to disturb Charles, who would have pointed out that she was getting ready far too soon. Then she would pace up and down, or stand by the window...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

She wondered, while she walked along, what she would say, where she would begin. As she drew nearer, she began to recognize bushes and trees, the furze growing on the hill, then the chateau, beyond. She found herself reliving the emotions of her first love...
Preface to the First German Edition
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences. To understand the first chapter, especially the section that contains the analysis of commodities, will, therefore, present the greatest difficulty. That which concerns more especially the analysis of the substance of value and the magnitude of...
Chapter 2 Exchange
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

It is plain that commodities cannot go to market and make exchanges of their own account. We must, therefore, have recourse to their guardians, who are also their owners. Commodities are things, and therefore without power of resistance against man. If they are wanting...
Chapter 6 The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

The change of value that occurs in the case of money intended to be converted into capital, cannot take place in the money itself, since in its function of means of purchase and of payment, it does no more than realise the price of...
Chapter 8 Constant Capital and Variable Capital
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

The various factors of the labour-process play different parts in forming the value of the product.

The labourer adds fresh value to the subject of his labour by expending upon it a given amount of additional labour, no matter what the specific character and utility...
Chapter 9 The Rate of Surplus-Value
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Section 1. The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power

The surplus-value generated in the process of production by C, the capital advanced, or in other words, the self-expansion of the value of the capital C, presents itself for our consideration, in the first place, as a...
Chapter 10 The Working-Day
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Section 1. The Limits of the Working-Day

We started with the supposition that labour-power is bought and sold at its value. Its value, like that of all other commodities, is determined by the working-time necessary to its production. If the production of the average daily...
Chapter 13 Co-Operation
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Capitalist production only then really begins, as we have already seen, when each individual capital employs simultaneously a comparatively large number of labourers; when consequently the labour-process is carried on on an extensive scale and yields, relatively, large quantities of products. A greater number...
Chapter 23 Simple Reproduction
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

Whatever the form of the process of production in a society, it must be a continuous process, must continue to go periodically through the same phases. A society can no more cease to produce than it can cease to consume. When viewed, therefore, as...
Chapter 15 Exposition of the Internal Contradictions of the Law
Authors: Marx Karl
Published: December 2020

I. General

We have seen in the first part of this book that the rate of profit expresses the rate of surplus-value always lower than it actually is. We have just seen that even a rising rate of surplus-value has a tendency to express itself...
Socialist and Communist Literature
Authors: Marx Karl , Engels Friedrich
Published: December 2020

REACTIONARY SOCIALISM

Feudal Socialism

Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society. In the French revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation,* these...
The Street
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

If I had been astonished at first catching a glimpse of so outlandish an individual as Queequeg circulating among the polite society of a civilized town, that astonishment soon departed upon taking my first daylight stroll through the streets of New Bedford.

In thoroughfares nigh...
The Lee Shore
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Some chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, new-landed mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn.

When on that shivering winter’s night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see standing at her helm but...
The Advocate
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

As Queequeg and I are now fairly embarked in this business of whaling; and as this business of whaling has somehow come to be regarded among landsmen as a rather unpoetical and disreputable pursuit; therefore, I am all anxiety to convince ye, ye landsmen, of...
Knights and Squires
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit....
The Pipe
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

When Stubb had departed, Ahab stood for a while leaning over the bulwarks; and then, as had been usual with him of late, calling a sailor of the watch, he sent him below for his ivory stool, and also his pipe. Lighting the pipe...
The Cabin-Table
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master, who, sitting in the lee quarter-boat, has just been taking an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude...
The Mast-Head
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

It was during the more pleasant weather, that in due rotation with the other seamen my first mast-head came round.

In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost simultaneously with the vessel’s leaving her port; even though she may have fifteen thousand...
The Whiteness of the Whale
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he was to me, as yet remains unsaid.

Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally awaken in any man’s soul some alarm, there was another...
The Line
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

With reference to the whaling scene shortly to be described, as well as for the better understanding of all similar scenes elsewhere presented, I have here to speak of the magical, sometimes horrible whale-line.

The line originally used in the fishery was of the best...
Leg and Arm
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

the pequod, of nantucket, meets the samuel enderby, of london

‘Ship, ahoy! Hast seen the White Whale?’

So cried Ahab, once more hailing a ship showing English colors, bearing down under the stern. Trumpet to mouth, the old man was standing in his...
Ahab and the Carpenterthe Deck—First Night Watch
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

(Carpenter standing before his vice-bench, and by the light of two lanterns busily filing the ivory joist for the leg, which joist is firmly fixed in the vice. Slabs of ivory, leather straps, pads, screws, and various tools of all sorts lying about the bench....
The Cabin
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

(Ahab moving to go on deck; Pip catches him by the hand to follow)

‘Lad, lad, I tell thee thou must not follow Ahab now. The hour is coming when Ahab would not scare thee from him, yet would not have thee by...
The Chase—Third Day
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The morning of the third day dawned fair and fresh, and once more the solitary night-man at the fore-mast-head was relieved by crowds of the daylight look-outs, who dotted every mast and almost every spar.

‘D’ye see him?’ cried Ahab; but the whale was not...
Epilogue‘And I only am Escaped Alone to tell Thee.’ — Job
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

The drama’s done. Why then here does any one step forth?—Because one did survive the wreck.

It so chanced, that after the Parsee’s disappearance, I was he whom the Fates ordained to take the place of Ahab’s bowsman, when that bowsman assumed the vacant...
The black cat
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not—and...
The purloined letter
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio.                                     

At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18—, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation amd a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library,...
The system of doctor tarr and professor fether
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

During the autumn of 18—, while on a tour through the extreme provinces of France, my route led me within a few miles of a certain Maison de Santé, or private Mad House, about which I had heard much, in Paris, from...
The domain of arnheim
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

The garden like a lady fair was cut,

That lay as if she slumbered in delight,

And to the open skies her eyes did shut.

The azure fields of Heaven were ’sembled right

In a large round set with the flowers of light.

The flowers...
Chapter XV
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

That evening, at eight-thirty, exquisitely dressed, and wearing a large buttonhole of Parma violets,* Dorian Gray was ushered into Lady Narborough’s drawing-room by bowing servants. His forehead was throbbing with maddened nerves, and he felt wildly excited, but his manner as he...
Chapter I
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn....
Chapter XIX
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

‘There is no use your telling me that you are going to be good,’ cried Lord Henry, dipping his white fingers into a red copper bowl filled with rose-water. ‘You are quite perfect. Pray, don’t change.’

Dorian Gray shook his head. ‘No, Harry, I...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

It was long past noon when he awoke. His valet had crept several times on tiptoe into the room to see if he was stirring, and had wondered what made his young master sleep so late. Finally his bell sounded, and Victor came in...
Chapter V Night in the Bush
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Well, I was committed now; Tiapolo had to be smashed up before next day, and my hands were pretty full, not only with preparations, but with argument. My house was like a mechanics’ debating society:* Uma was so made up that I...
The Isle of Voices
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Keola was married with Lehua, daughter of Kalamake,* the wise man of Molokai,* and he kept his dwelling with the father of his wife. There was no man more cunning than that prophet; he read the stars, he could divine...
Chapter V The Cargo of Champagne
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The ship’s head was laid to clear Eimeo to the north, and the captain sat down in the cabin, with a chart, a ruler, and an epitome.

‘East a half no’the,’ said he, raising his face from his labours. ‘Mr Hay, you’ll have to watch...
Chapter XII A Tail-Piece
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

On a very bright, hot, lusty, strongly blowing noon, a fortnight after the events recorded, and a month since the curtain rose upon this episode, a man might have been spied, praying on the sand by the lagoon beach. A point of palm-trees isolated...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Before seeing young Lechmere Mr Coyle had determined to telegraph an enquiry to Miss Wingrave. He had prepaid the answer, which, being promptly put into his hand, brought the interview we have just related to a close. He immediately drove off to Baker Street,...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Less than a week after this the elder man received a note from Miss Wingrave, who had immediately quitted London with her nephew. She proposed he should come down to Paramore for the following Sunday—Owen was really so tiresome. On the spot, in that...
XIV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Walking to church a certain Sunday morning, I had little Miles at my side and his sister, in advance of us and at Mrs Grose's, well in sight. It was a crisp clear day, the first of its order for some time; the night...
XXII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Yet it was when she had got off—and I missed her on the spot—that the great pinch really came. If I had counted on what it would give me to find myself alone with Miles I quickly recognised that it would give me at...
Dr Jekyll was Quite at Ease
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

A fortnight later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine; and Mr Utterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others...
The Jackal
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night,...
Monseigneur In The Country
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A beautiful landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant.* Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. On inanimate nature, as on the...
The Honest Tradesman
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

To the eyes of Mr. Jeremiah Cruncher, sitting on his stool in Fleet Street with his grisly urchin beside him, a vast number and variety of objects in movement were every day presented. Who could sit upon anything in Fleet Street during the busy...
A Knock At The Door
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“I have saved him.” It was not another of the dreams in which he had often come back; he was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a vague but heavy fear was upon her.

All the air around was so thick and dark,...
The Substance Of The Shadow
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“I, Alexandre
Manette,* unfortunate physician, native of Beauvais, and afterwards resident in Paris, write this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastille, during the last month of the year, 1767. I write it at stolen intervals, under every difficulty. I design...
How Mr. Winkle, instead of shooting at the Pigeon and killing the Crow, shot at the Crow and wounded the Pigeon; how the Dingley Dell Cricket Club, played all Muggleton, and how all Muggleton dined at the Dingley Dell expense: with other interesting and instructive matters
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The fatiguing adventures of the day or the somniferous influence of the clergyman’s tale, operated so strongly on the drowsy tendencies of Mr. Pickwick, that, in less than five minutes after he had been shown to his comfortable bed-room, he fell into a sound...
Briefly illustrative of two Points;—First, the Power of Hysterics, and, Secondly, the Force of Circumstances
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

For two days after the dejeune at Mrs. Hunter’s, the Pickwickians remained at Eatanswill, anxiously awaiting the arrival of some intelligence from their revered leader. Mr. Tupman and Mr. Snodgrass, were once again left to their own means of amusement; for Mr....
Which contains a brief account of the Progress of the Action of Bardell against Pickwick
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Having accomplished the main end and object of his journey by the exposure of Jingle, Mr. Pickwick resolved on immediately returning to London, with the view of becoming acquainted with the proceedings which had been taken against him, in the mean time, by ...
The Story of the Goblins who stole a Sexton
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“In an old abbey town, down in this part of the country, a long, long while ago—so long, that the story must be a true one, because our great grandfathers implicitly believed it—there officiated as sexton and grave-digger in the church-yard, one Gabriel...
Chapter XXXI Which is all about the Law, and sundry Great Authorities learned therein
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Scattered about, in various holes and corners of the Temple, are certain dark and dirty chambers, in and out of which, all the morning in Vacation, and half the evening too in Term time, there may be seen constantly hurrying with bundles of papers...
The chief features of which, will be found to be an authentic Version of the Legend of Prince Bladud, and a most extraordinary Calamity that befel Mr. Winkle
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

As Mr. Pickwick contemplated a stay of at least two months in Bath, he deemed it advisable to take private lodgings for himself and friends for that period; and as a favourable opportunity offered for their securing, on moderate terms, the upper portion of a...
Chapter LI In which Mr. Pickwick encounters an old Acquaintance, to which fortunate circumstance the Reader is mainly indebted for matter of thrilling interest herein set down, concerning two great Public Men of might and power
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The morning which broke upon Mr. Pickwick’s sight at eight o’clock was not at all calculated to elevate his spirits, or to lessen the depression which the unlooked-for result of his embassy inspired. The sky was dark and gloomy, the air damp and raw,...
Comprising the final exit of Mr. Jingle and Job Trotter; with a Great Morning of Business in Gray’s Inn Square. Concluding with a Double Knock at Mr. Perker’s door
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When Arabella, after some gentle preparation, and many assurances that there was not the least occasion for being low-spirited, was at length made acquainted by Mr. Pickwick with the unsatisfactory result of his visit to Birmingham, she burst into tears, and sobbing aloud, lamented...
Chapter XV: Two New Servants
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat after breakfast, in the Bower, a prey to prosperity. Mr. Boffin’s face denoted Care and Complication. Many disordered papers were before him, and he looked at them about as hopefully as an innocent civilian might look at a crowd...
Chapter II: Still Educational
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The person of the house, dolls’ dressmaker and manufacturer of ornamental pincushions and penwipers, sat in her quaint little low arm-chair, singing in the dark, until Lizzie came back. The person of the house had attained that dignity while yet of very tender years...
Chapter X: A Successor
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Some of the Reverend Frank Milvey’s brethren had found themselves exceedingly uncomfortable in their minds, because they were required to bury the dead too hopefully*.But the Reverend Frank, inclining to the belief that they were required to do one or two other...
Chapter XVI: An Anniversary Occasion
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The estimable Twemlow, dressing himself in his lodgings over the stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James’s, and hearing the horses at their toilet below, finds himself on the whole in a disadvantageous position as compared with the noble animals at livery. For whereas, on...
Chapter II: A Respected Friend in a New Aspect
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In the evening of this same foggy day when the yellow window-blind of Pubsey and Co. was drawn down upon the day’s work, Riah the Jew once more came forth into Saint Mary Axe. But this time he carried no bag, and was not...
Chapter VII: The Friendly Move Takes up a Strong Position
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The friendly movers sat upright on the floor, panting and eyeing one another, after Mr. Boffin had slammed the gate and gone away. In the weak eyes of Venus, and in every reddish dust-coloured hair in his shock of hair, there was a marked...
Chapter VII: Better to be Abel than Cain
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light of night. The moon had gone down, and a mist crept along the banks of the river, seen through...
Chapter X: The Dolls’ Dressmaker Discovers a Word
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Adarkened and hushed room; the river outside the windows flowing on to the vast ocean; a figure on the bed, swathed and bandaged and bound, lying helpless on its back, with its two useless arms in splints at its sides. Only two days of...
Chapter II treats of oliver twist’s growth, education, and board
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish...
Chapter VIII oliver walks to london. he encounters on the road, a strange sort of young gentleman
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Oliver reached the stile at which the by-path terminated; and once more gained the high-road. It was eight o’clock now. Though he was nearly five miles away from the town, he ran, and hid behind the hedges, by turns, till noon: fearing that he...
Chapter X oliver becomes better acquainted with the characters of his new associates; and purchases experience at a high price. being a short, but very important chapter, in this history
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

For many days, Oliver remained in the Jew’s room, picking the marks out of the pocket-handkerchiefs, (of which a great number were brought home,) and sometimes taking part in the game already described: which the two boys and the Jew played, regularly,...
Chapter XII in which oliver is taken better care of, than he ever was before. and in which the narrative reverts to the merry old gentleman and his youthful friends
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The coach rattled away, down Mount Pleasant and up Exmouthstreet: over nearly the same ground as that which Oliver had traversed when he first entered London in company with the Dodger; and, turning a different way when it reached the Angel at Islington, stopped...
Chapter XIII some new acquaintances are introduced to the intelligent reader; connected with whom, various pleasant matters are related, appertaining to this history
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Where’s Oliver?’ said the Jew, rising with a menacing look. ‘Where’s the boy?’

The young thieves eyed their preceptor as if they were alarmed at his violence; and looked uneasily at each other. But they made no reply.

‘What’s become of the boy?’ said...
Chapter XIX in which a notable plan is discussed and determined on
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a chill, damp, windy night, when the Jew: buttoning his great-coat tight round his shrivelled body, and pulling the collar up over his ears so as completely to obscure the lower part of his face: emerged from his den. He paused on...
Chapter XXXI involves a critical position
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Who’s that?’ inquired Brittles, opening the door a little way, with the chain up, and peeping out: shading the candle with his hand.

‘Open the door,’ replied a man outside; ‘it’s the officers from Bow-street, as was sent to, to-day.’

Much comforted by this...
Chapter XXXIV contains some introductory particulars relative to a young gentleman who now arrives upon the scene; and a new adventure which happened to oliver
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was almost too much happiness to bear. Oliver felt stunned and stupefied by the unexpected intelligence; he could not weep, or speak, or rest. He had scarcely the power of understanding anything that had passed, until, after a long ramble in the quiet...
Chapter XXXV containing the unsatisfactory result of oliver’s adventure; and a conversation of some importance between harry maylie and rose
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When the inmates of the house, attracted by Oliver’s cries, hurried to the spot from which they proceeded, they found him, pale and agitated, pointing in the direction of the meadows behind the house, and scarcely able to articulate the words, ‘The Jew! the...
Chapter XL a strange interview, which is a sequel to the last chapter
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The girl’s life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews* and dens of London, but there was something of the woman’s original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching...
Chapter XLVI the appointment kept
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The church clocks chimed three quarters past eleven, as two figures emerged on London Bridge. One, which advanced with a swift and rapid step, was that of a woman, who looked eagerly about her as though in quest of some expected object; the other...
Chapter XLVIII the flight of sikes
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Of all bad deeds that, under cover of the darkness, had been committed within wide London’s bounds since night hung over it, that was the worst. Of all the horrors that rose with an ill scent upon the morning air, that was the foulest...
Chapter LI affording an explanation of more mysteries than one, and comprehending a proposal of marriage with no word of settlement or pin-money
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The events narrated in the last chapter were yet but two days old, when Oliver found himself, at three o’clock in the afternoon, in a travelling-carriage rolling fast towards his native town. Mrs. Maylie, and Rose, and Mrs. Bedwin, and the good doctor, were...
Chapter I The One Thing Needful
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever...
Chapter X Stephen Blackpool
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Entertain a weak idea that the English people are as hard-worked as any people upon whom the sun shines. I acknowledge to this ridiculous idiosyncrasy, as a reason why I would give them a little more play.

In the hardest working part of Coketown;...
Chapter XIV The Great Manufacturer
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Time went on in Coketown like its own machinery: so much material wrought up, so much fuel consumed, so many powers worn out, so much money made. But, less inexorable than iron, steel, and brass, it brought its varying seasons even into that wilderness...
Chapter XVI Husband and Wife
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Bounderby’s first disquietude on hearing of his happiness, was occasioned by the necessity of imparting it to Mrs. Sparsit. He could not make up his mind how to do that, or what the consequences of the step might be. Whether she would instantly...
Chapter I Effects in the Bank
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A Sunny midsummer day. There was such a thing sometimes, even in Coketown.

Seen from a distance in such weather, Coketown lay shrouded in a haze of its own, which appeared impervious to the sun’s rays. You only knew the town was there, because you...
Chapter VII Whelp-Hunting
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Before the ring formed round the Old Hell Shaft was broken, one figure had disappeared from within it. Mr. Bounderby and his shadow had not stood near Louisa, who held her father’s arm, but in a retired place by themselves. When Mr. Gradgrind was...
Chapter IX Final
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself. Mr. Bounderby felt that Mrs. Sparsit had audaciously anticipated him, and presumed to be wiser than he. Inappeasably indignant with her for...
Chapter II In Which Timely Provision is Made for an Emergency that will Sometimes Arise in the Best Regulated Families
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“I shall never cease to congratulate myself,” said Mrs. Chick, “on having said, when I little thought what was in store for us,—really as if I was inspired by something,—that I forgave poor dear Fanny everything. Whatever happens, that must always be a...
Chapter XXV Strange News of Uncle Sol
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Captain
Cuttle, though no sluggard, did not turn out so early on the morning after he had seen Sol Gills, through the shopwindow, writing in the parlour, with the Midshipman upon the counter, and Rob the Grinder making up his bed below it, but...
Chapter XXXVIII Miss Tox Improves an Old Acquaintance
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The forlorn Miss Tox, abandoned by her friend Louisa Chick, and bereft of Mr. Dombey’s countenance—for no delicate pair of wedding cards, united by a silver thread, graced the chimney-glass in Princess’s Place, or the harpsichord, or any of those little posts of display...
Chapter LXI Relenting
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Florence had need of help. Her father’s need of it was sore, and made the aid of her old friend invaluable. Death stood at his pillow. A shade, already, of what he had been, shattered in mind, and perilously sick in body, he laid...
Chapter II I Observe
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as I look far back, into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with her pretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty with no shape at all, and eyes so dark that they...
Chapter XX Steerforth’s Home
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When the chambermaid tapped at my door at eight o’clock, and informed me that my shaving-water was outside, I felt severely the having no occasion for it, and blushed in my bed. The suspicion that she laughed too, when she said it, preyed upon...
Chapter XXXV Depression
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

As soon as I could recover my presence of mind, which quite deserted me in the first overpowering shock of my aunt’s intelligence, I proposed to Mr. Dick to come round to the chandler’s shop, and take possession of the bed which Mr. Peggotty...
Chapter XXXVI Enthusiasm
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I Began the next day with another dive into the Roman bath, and then started for Highgate. I was not dispirited now. I was not afraid of the shabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant greys. My whole manner of thinking of...
Chapter XXXIX Wickfield and Heep
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

My aunt, beginning, I imagine, to be made seriously uncomfortable by my prolonged dejection, made a pretence of being anxious that I should go to Dover, to see that all was working well at the cottage, which was let; and to conclude an agreement,...
Chapter L Mr. Peggotty’s Dream Comes True
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

By this time, some months had passed, since our interview on the bank of the river with Martha. I had never seen her since, but she had communicated with Mr. Peggotty on several occasions. Nothing had come of her zealous intervention; nor could I...
Chapter LII I Assist At An Explosion
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When the time Mr. Micawber had appointed so mysteriously, was within four-and-twenty hours of being come, my aunt and I consulted how we should proceed; for my aunt was very unwilling to leave Dora. Ah! how easily I carried Dora up and down stairs,...
Chapter LVI The New Wound, and The Old
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

No need, O Steerforth, to have said, when we last spoke together, in that hour which I so little deemed to be our parting-hour—no need to have said, “Think of me at my best!” I had done that ever; and could I change now,...
Chapter LXIV A Last Retrospect
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

And now my written story ends. I look back, once more—for the last time—before I close these leaves.

I see myself, with Agnes at my side, journeying along the road of life. I see our children and our friends around us; and I hear the...
Stave III
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One. He felt that he was restored to consciousness...
Fourth Quarter
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Some new remembrance of the ghostly figures in the Bells; some faint impression of the ringing of the Chimes; some giddy consciousness of having seen the swarm of phantoms reproduced and reproduced until the recollection of them lost itself in the confusion...
Chapter Two In Fashion
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion that we want on this same miry afternoon. It is not so unlike the Court of Chancery, but that we may pass from the one scene to the other, as the crow flies. Both...
Chapter Three A Progress
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I have a great deal of difficulty in beginning to write my portion of these pages, for I know I am not clever. I always knew that. I can remember, when I was a very little girl indeed, I used to say to my...
Chapter Five A Morning Adventure
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Although the morning was raw, and although the fog still seemed heavy—I say seemed, for the windows were so encrusted with dirt, that they would have made Midsummer sunshine dim—I was sufficiently forewarned of the discomfort within doors at that early hour, and sufficiently...
Chapter Six Quite at Home
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The day had brightened very much, and still brightened as we went westward. We went our way through the sunshine and the fresh air, wondering more and more at the extent of the streets, the brilliancy of the shops, the great traffic, and the...
Chapter Twelve On the Watch
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It has left off raining down in Lincolnshire, at last, and Chesney Wold has taken heart. Mrs Rouncewell is full of hospitable cares, for Sir Leicester and my Lady are coming home from Paris. The fashionable intelligence has found it out, and communicates the...
Chapter Thirty-Six Chesney Wold
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Charley and I did not set off alone upon our expedition into Lincolnshire. My guardian had made up his mind not to lose sight of me until I was safe in Mr Boythorn’s house; so he accompanied us, and we were two...
Chapter Forty-Seven Jo’s Will
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

As Allan Woodcourt and Jo proceed along the streets, where the high church spires and the distances are so near and clear in the morning light that the city itself seems renewed by rest, Allan revolves in his mind how and where he shall bestow...
Chapter Fifty-Two Obstinacy
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

But one other day had intervened, when, early in the morning as we were going to breakfast, Mr Woodcourt came in haste with the astounding news that a terrible murder had been committed, for which Mr George had been apprehended and was...
Chapter Sixty-One A Discovery
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The days when I frequented that miserable corner which my dear girl brightened, can never fade in my remembrance. I never see it, and I never wish to see it, now; I have been there only once since; but in my memory there is...
Chapter 2
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Gentlemen, I now want to tell you, whether or not you wish to hear it, why I did not even manage to become an insect. I tell you solemnly, that I often wanted to become an insect. But I wasn’t even granted...
Chapter 9
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Gentlemen, I’m joking of course, and I myself know that I’m not joking very successfully, but you see you mustn’t take it all for a joke. Maybe I’m joking through clenched teeth. Gentlemen, I’m tormented with questions; resolve them for me. For example, here...
Chapter 9
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

And into my house, boldly and freely, Enter as mistress of it all.

I Stood before her, crushed, discredited, sickeningly ashamed, and I think I smiled, trying with all my might to wrap the folds of my shaggy old quilted dressing-gown round...
7
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

When the prince had concluded they all looked brightly at him, even Aglaya, and especially Lizaveta Prokofievna.

‘Well, you’ve certainly put him through an examination!’ she exclaimed. ‘So then, dear ladies, you thought to take him under your wing like some poor little soul, but...
3
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

By now it was after eleven. The prince knew that the general would be the only one he might find at home at the Yepanchin town-house, attending to his business affairs, though even that was unlikely. It struck him that the general might well...
8
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

‘Gentlemen, I did not expect to see any of you’, the prince began. ‘I’ve been unwell up till today and I entrusted your case (he was speaking to Antip Burdovsky) to Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin at least a month ago, as I informed you...
8
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

She was laughing, but she was annoyed too.

‘Asleep! You were asleep!’ she exclaimed in scornful surprise.

‘It’s you!’ mumbled the prince, recognizing her with astonishment, still not fully awake. ‘Ah yes! The meeting … I was asleep here.’

‘So I saw.’

‘Were you the...
9
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

On arriving at her villa, Lizaveta Prokofievna halted in the first room; she could go no further and subsided on to a settee, completely worn out, even omitting to invite the prince to sit down. It was a fairly large drawing-room, with a circular...
10
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The prince eventually realized why he went cold whenever he touched the three letters, and had kept putting off the evil moment of reading them till the evening. When he had fallen into a heavy slumber on the couch, still unable to nerve himself...
4
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The appointed hour was eleven, but the prince was, quite unexpectedly, late. On his return home he found the general waiting for him. He could see at once that he was none too pleased, perhaps indeed because he had had to wait. Making his...
5
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

When talking to her brother, if truth be known, Varvara Ardalionovna had rather exaggerated the accuracy of her information concerning the prince’s proposal to Aglaya. Perhaps, being a perceptive woman, she had merely foreseen what was bound to happen in the near future in...
8
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

For the prince too, that morning began with grim forebodings; they might have been accounted for by his medical condition, but his misery was too ill-defined for that, which only made it the more tormenting. He was certainly confronted by clear-cut, painful, and galling...
The Undertakers
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

‘Respect the aged!’

It was a thick voice—a muddy voice that would have made...
The Education of Otis Yeere
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

I

This is the history of a failure; but the woman who failed said that it might...
The Man who would be King
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances...
Chapter 12
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

We judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after. We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the...
Chapter 18
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Col.
Grangerford was a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He was well born, as the saying is, and that’s worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas...
Chapter 23
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Well, all day him and the king was hard at it, rigging up a stage, and a curtain, and a row of candles for footlights; and that night the house was jam full of men in no time. When the place couldn’t hold no...
Chapter 27
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

I Crept to their doors and listened; they was snoring, so I tiptoes along, and got down stairs all right. There warn’t a sound anywheres. I peeped through a crack of the dining-room door, and see the men that was watching the corpse...
Chapter 32
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny—the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs and flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody’s...
Chapter I
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

“Tom!”

No answer.

“Tom!”

No answer.

“What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!”

No answer.

The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom...
Chapter IV
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction. Breakfast over, Aunt Polly had family worship; it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a...
Chapter XII
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

One of the reasons why Tom’s mind had drifted away from its secret troubles was, that it had found a new and weighty matter to interest itself about. Becky Thatcher had stopped coming to school. Tom had struggled with his pride a few days,...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

But there was no hilarity in the little town that same tranquil Saturday afternoon. The Harpers, and Aunt Polly’s family, were being put into mourning, with great grief and many tears. An unusual quiet possessed the village, although it was ordinarily quiet enough, in...