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Chapter LII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I attempt to recover my watch and jewel, but to no purpose——resolve to revenge myself on Strutwell by my importunity——am reduced to my last guinea——obliged to inform Strap of my necessity, who is almost distracted with the news——but nevertheless obliged to pawn my best sword...
Chapter LVII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

Miss Williams informs me of Narcissa’s approbation of my flame——I appease the Squire—write to my Mistress, am blessed with an answer——beg leave of her brother to dance with her at a ball; obtain his consent and her’s——enjoy a private conversation with her—am perplexed with reflections——have...
Chapter LXIII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

The continuation and conclusion of Mr. Melopoyn’s story

I Made shift, notwithstanding, to maintain myself till the beginning of next winter, when I renewed my addresses to my friend Mr. Supple, and was most graciously received.—‘I have been thinking of your affair Mr....
Chapter II
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Mr. Monckton had, at this time, a party of company assembled at his house for the purpose of spending the Christmas holidays. He waited with anxiety the arrival of Cecilia, and flew to hand her from the chaise before Mr. Harrel could alight. He...
Chapter III
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

As soon as they lost sight of the house, Cecilia expressed her surprise at the behaviour of the old gentleman who sat in the corner, whose general silence, seclusion from the company, and absence of mind, had strongly excited her curiosity.

Mr. Harrel could give...
Chapter VI
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Cecilia the next morning, between nine and ten o’clock, went to St. James’-square; she found nobody immediately ready to receive her, but in a short time was waited upon by Mr. Delvile.

After the usual salutations, “Miss Beverley,” he said, “I have given express orders...
Chapter V
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Never had the heart of Cecilia felt so light, so gay, so glowing as after the transaction of this affair: her life had never appeared to her so important, nor her wealth so valuable. To see five helpless children provided for by herself, rescued...
Chapter IV
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

A fortnight had now elapsed in which Cecilia had had no sort of communication with the Delviles, whom equally from pride and from prudence she forbore to seek herself, when one morning, while she was sitting with Miss Belfield, her maid told her...
Chapter VII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

When Cecilia returned home, she heard with much concern that no tidings of Mr. Harrel had yet been obtained. His lady, who did not stay out late, was now very seriously frightened, and entreated Cecilia to sit up with her till some news could...
Chapter V
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

As soon as Mrs. Charlton was acquainted with the departure of young Delvile, she returned to Cecilia, impatient to be informed what had passed. The narration she heard both hurt and astonished her; that Cecilia, the Heiress of such a fortune, the possessor of...
Chapter III
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The journey was melancholy and tedious: Mrs. Charlton, extremely fatigued by the unusual hurry and exercise both of mind and body which she had lately gone through, was obliged to travel very slowly, and to lie upon the road.* Cecilia, however, was...
Chapter I
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Lady Margaret Monckton received Cecilia with the most gloomy coldness: she apologised for the liberty she had taken in making use of her ladyship’s house, but, meeting no return of civility, she withdrew to the room which had been prepared for her, and resolved...
Chapter X
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Another week past still without any further intelligence. Cecilia was then summoned to the parlour, and to Delvile himself.

He looked hurried and anxious; yet the glow of his face, and the animation of his eyes, immediately declared he at least came not to take...
Chapter XI
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Cecilia now had no time for after-thoughts or anxious repentance, since notwithstanding the hurry of her spirits, and the confusion of her mind, she had too much real business, to yield to pensive indulgence.

Averse to all falsehood, she invented none upon this occasion; she...
Chapter VII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The moment the porter came to the door, Cecilia eagerly called out from the coach, “Is Mr. Delvile here?”

“Yes, madam,” he answered, “but I’ believe he is engaged.”

“Oh no matter for any engagement!” cried she, “open the door,—I must speak to him this...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Two whole days passed thus; no enquiries reached Mrs. Wyers, and she found in the news-papers no advertisement. Meanwhile Cecilia grew worse every moment, tasted neither drink nor food, raved incessantly, called out twenty times in a breath, “Where is he? which way is...
The Vampyre
Authors: Polidori John
Published: December 2020

It happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant upon a London winter, there appeared at the various parties of the leaders of the ton* a nobleman, more remarkable for his singularities, than his rank. He gazed upon the mirth...
Chapter II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

These were neither more nor less than the things with which she had had time to learn from Mrs Gereth that Poynton overflowed. Poynton, in the south of England, was this lady’s established, or rather her disestablished, home: it had recently passed into the...
Chapter XX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

There came to her at her sister’s no telegram in answer to her own: the rest of that day and the whole of the next elapsed without a word either from Owen or from his mother. She was free, however, to her infinite relief,...
Chapter XXII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Her relation with her wonderful friend had however in becoming a new one begun to shape itself almost wholly on breaches and omissions. Something had dropped out altogether, and the question between them, which time would answer, was whether the change had made them...
The Wild Irish Girl
Authors: Owenson Sydney
Published: December 2020

`I long to study the purely national, natural character of an Irishwoman.' When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father's Irish estate as punishment for gambling debts and dissipated living, he adopts the persona of knight errant and goes off in search of adventure. On the wild west coast of Connaught he finds remnants of a romantic Gaelic past a dilapidated castle, a Catholic priest, a deposed king and the king's lovely and learned daughter, Glorvina. In this setting and among these characters Horatio learns the history, culture and language of a country he had once scorned, but he must do so in disguise for his own English ancestors are responsible for the ruin of the Gaelic family he comes to love. Written after the Act of Union, The Wild Irish Girl (1806) is a passionately nationalistic novel and a founding text in the discourse of Irish nationalism. The novel proved so controversial in Ireland that Sydney Owenson, later Lady Morgan, was put under surveillance by Dublin Castle.
LETTER XXI
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

I cannot promise you any more Irish history. I fear my Hiberniana* is closed, and a volume of more dangerous, more delightful tendency, draws towards its bewitching subject every truant thought. To him who is deep in the...
Chapter VI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

For this are all these warriors come,

To hear an idle tale;

And o’er our death-accustom’d arms

Shall silly tears prevail?

On the evening of the day when the Lord Keeper and his daughter were saved from such imminent peril, two strangers...
Chapter XX
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Lovelier in her own retired abode

——than Naiad by the side

Of Grecian brook—or Lady of the Mere

Lone sitting by the shores of old romance.

The meditations of Ravenswood were of a very mixed complexion. He saw himself at once in...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

——-—-What doth ensue

But moody and dull melancholy,

Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,

And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop

Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life?

As some vindication of the ease with which Bucklaw (who otherwise, as...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

* * * * * * *

In which a witch did dwell, in loathly weeds,

And wilful want, all careless of her needs;

So choosing solitary to abide,

Far from all neighbours, that her devilish deeds

And hellish arts from people she might hide,...
Around the World in Eighty Days
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Having assured the members of London’s exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg – stiff, repressed, English – starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchman, Passepartout, and then with a ravishing Indian beauty, Aouda. Together they slice through jungles, over snowbound passes, even across an entire isthmus – only to get back five minutes late. Fogg faces despair and suicide, but Aouda makes a new man of him, able to face even the Reform Club again. Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) contains a strong dose of post-Romantic reality plus extensive borrowing from the author’s own Journey to England and Scotland – but not a shred of science fiction. Its modernism lies instead in the experimental literary technique, with parallel plots, a narrator constantly made to look foolish, four characters in search of their own unconscious, and a unique twisting of space and time. Verne's classic, a bestseller for over a century, has never appeared in a critical edition before. William Butcher's stylish new translation moves as fast and as brilliantly as Fogg’s own journey.
11. Where Phileas Fogg Buys a Mount at a Fabulous Price
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The train had left on time. In it were a few officers, and tourists, civil servants, and opium and indigo merchants, travelling to the eastern part of the Subcontinent on business.

Passepartout was in the same compartment as his master. Another person was in the...
17. Where a Number of Things Happen During the journey From Singapore to Hong Kong
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

From that day onwards, Passepartout and the detective met frequently, although the detective maintained an extreme reserve towards his companion, and made no further attempt to make him talk. Once or twice he caught a glimpse of Mr Fogg, who usually stayed in the...
25. Where Some Slight Impression Is Given of San Francisco on an Election Day
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

It was seven in the morning when Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout set foot on the North American Continent*—or rather on a floating quayside. These quays move up and down with the tide, and so help with the loading and unloading. Clippers of...
34. Which Provides Passepartout With the Opportunity To Make an Atrocious Pun, Possibly Never Heard Before
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Phileas
Fogg was in prison. He had been locked up in the Custom House in Liverpool, where he would have to spend the night until his transfer to London.

During the arrest, Passepartout had wanted to throw himself on the detective. Policemen held him back....
35. In Which Passepartout Does Not Need To Be Told Twice by His Master
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The following day, the people living in Savile Row would have been highly surprised to learn that Mr Fogg was back home again. The doors and windows stayed firmly shut. Nothing had changed in the outward appearance of the house.*

After leaving the station,...
The Blue Hotel
Authors: Crane Stephen
Published: December 2020

I

The Palace Hotel at Fort Romper was painted a light blue, a shade that is on the legs of a kind of heron,* causing the bird to declare its position against any background. The Palace Hotel, then, was always screaming and...
Cousin Bette
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

To Don Michele Angelo Cajetani, Prince of Téano*

It is not to the Roman prince, nor to the heir of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given popes to Christendom, that I dedicate this small fragment of a long story;...
3. Josépha
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

’I’d been a widower for five years,’ continued Crevel, speaking like a man who is going to tell a story, ‘and in the interests of my daughter, whom I idolize, I didn’t want to marry again; and I also didn’t want to have liaisons in...
8. Hortense
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The Baroness had a fervent admirer in her brother-in-law, Lieutenant-General Hulot, the venerable commander of the Infantry Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard, who was to be awarded a marshal’s baton in his declining years. The old man, who from 1830 to 1834 had commanded the...
14. In which one can see that pretty women cross the libertine’s path, just as dupes put themselves in the way of scoundrels
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Just as Baron Hulot had seen his wife’s cousin to the door of her house and said, ‘Goodbye, Cousin,’ a small, slim, pretty, very smartly dressed young woman, exuding an expensive perfume, passed between the carriage and the door, to enter the same house.

Without...
26. A terrible indiscretion
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

After hearing his story, Madame Marneffe had a burning desire to see the young Comte de Steinbock. Perhaps she wanted to obtain a piece of jewellery from him while they still lived under the same roof.

The Baron disliked this curiosity so much that Valérie...
32. Failed revenge
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Two days later, at half past four in the morning, when Count Steinbock was fast asleep, he heard a knock at his attic door. He went to open it and saw two badly dressed men come in. They were accompanied by a third man whose...
33. The way many marriage contracts are made
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

When the Baron came home, he found all his family complete, for the Baroness had officially called Count Steinbock son and fixed the marriage for a fortnight later, subject to her husband’s approval. So, as soon as he set foot in the drawing-room,...
38. In which we can see the result of Crevel’s opinions
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

In 1841, about three years after Hortense’s marriage, it was commonly held that Baron Hulot d’Ervy had settled down, had ‘taken off his harness’, as Louis XV’s first surgeon* put it, and yet Madame Marneffe was costing him twice what he had spent...
42. The extremities to which libertines reduce their legitimate wives
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Lisbeth went off to the Rue Plumet, where for some time she had been in the habit of going as one goes to the theatre, in order to indulge her emotions.

The dwelling selected by Hulot for his wife comprised a large, spacious hall, a...
52. Two brothers-in-arms
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The Baron was too upset to find the answer to his question. Beauty is the greatest of human powers. All autocratic, unbridled power, with nothing to counterbalance it, leads to abuse, to mad excess. Despotism is power gone mad. In women, despotism takes the form...
55. What makes great artists
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Here is the story of that honeymoon in brief; the account will perhaps not be lost on artists.

Intellectual work, the pursuit of achievement in the high regions of the mind, is one of the greatest of human endeavours. What most deserves glory in art...
68. The discovery of a child
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

After about three weeks, Madame Marneffe was greatly irritated by Hortense. Women of her sort have their pride. They want men to kiss the devil’s hoof; they never forgive virtue that is not afraid of their power or that fights against them.

Now Wenceslas had...
74. A sad happiness
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Lisbeth realized how necessary her presence was to the family scene which was to take place the next day. So she went first thing in the morning to Victorin’s and told him of the separation of Hortense and Wenceslas.

When the Baron returned home about...
78. Another summons
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Two hours later, the Baron was ending his instructions to Claude Vignon, whom he was planning to send to the Ministry of Justice to get information about the judicial authorities under whose jurisdiction Johann Fischer was, when Reine opened the door of the Director’s office...
79. The door shut in his face
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

At half past four the Baron went straight to Madame Marneffe’s. As he went upstairs his heart was beating like a young man’s, for he was mentally asking himself the question, ‘Shall I see her? Shall I not see her?’ How could he remember the...
91. A picture of Marshal Hulot
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

As he had to live in a style appropriate to the highest military rank, Marshal Hulot had taken up his quarters in a splendid house in the Rue du Montparnasse, where there were two or three princely establishments.

Although he had rented the whole house,...
110. A family scene
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The next day, after lunch, when all the family were together in the drawing-room, Crevel was announced. Célestine rushed forward, threw her arms round her father’s neck, and behaved as if he had been there the day before, although it was his first visit for...
111. Another family scene
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Twenty minutes later, Lisbeth and Crevel entered the house in the Rue Barbet where, mildly impatient, Madame Marneffe was awaiting the outcome of the step she had ordered Crevel to take.

In the end Valérie had succumbed to the overwhelming love which, once in a...
125. In which we are not told why all the stove-fitters of Paris are Italians
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

It so happened that during the Baroness’s illness this quarter, for which she was a second Providence, had acquired a public letter-writer who had set up business in the Passage du Soleil, its name being one of those antitheses familiar to Parisians, for it is...
How Pinocchio sells his alphabet book to go and see a puppet play.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

Once the snow had stopped falling, Pinocchio set out along the road that led to the school, with his fine new alphabet book under his arm, and he went along thinking great thoughts in his little head and imagining all manner of castles in Spain,...
How Pinocchio acquires donkey’s ears, and then turns into a real donkey and begins to bray.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

And what was this surprise?

I’ll tell you, my dear little readers: the surprise was that when Pinocchio awoke, not unnaturally he happened to scratch his head, and in scratching it he noticed ...

Can you guess what he noticed?

To his very great astonishment...
The Notes of A Madman
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

20th October 1883.

Today I was taken to the Provincial Government Board to be certified. Opinions differed. They disputed, and finally decided that I was not insane, but they arrived at this decision only because during the examination I did my utmost to restrain myself...
Chapter III: In which certain other Persons are introduced; on the same Terms as in the last Chapter
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mention has been already made more than once, of a certain Dragon who swung and creaked complainingly before the village alehouse-door. A faded, and an ancient dragon he was; and many a wintry storm of rain, snow, sleet, and hail, had changed his colour...
Chapter XV: The Burden whereof, is Hail Columbia!
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A dark and dreary night; people nestling in their beds or circling late about the fire; Want, colder than Charity, shivering at the street corners; church-towers humming with the faint vibration of their own tongues, but newly resting from the ghostly preachment ‘One!’ The...
Chapter XIX: The Reader is brought into Communication with some Professional Persons, and sheds a Tear over the Filial Piety of good Mr. Jonas
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Pecksniff was in a hackney cabriolet, for Jonas Chuzzlewit had said “Spare no expense.” Mankind is evil in its thoughts and in its base constructions, and Jonas was resolved it should not have an inch to stretch into an ell against...
Chapter XXII: From which it will be seen that Martin became a Lion on his own Account. Together with the Reason why
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

as soon as it was generally known in the National Hotel, that the young Englishman, Mr. Chuzzlewit, had purchased “a lo-cation” in the Valley of Eden, and intended to betake himself to that earthly Paradise by the next steam-boat; he became a popular character....
Chapter XXIII: Martin and his Partner take Possession of their Estate. The Joyful Occasion involves some further Account of Eden
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There happened to be on board the steam-boat several gentlemen passengers, of the same stamp as Martin’s New York friend Mr. Bevan; and in their society he was cheerful and happy. They released him as well as they could from the intellectual entanglements of...
Chapter XXIV: Reports Progress in certain homely Matters of Love, Hatred, Jealousy, and Revenge
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Hallo, Pecksniff!” cried Mr. Jonas from the parlour. “Isn’t somebody a going to open that precious old door of yours?”

“Immediately, Mr. Jonas. Immediately.”

“Ecod,” muttered the orphan, “not before it’s time neither. Whoever it is, has knocked three times, and each one...
Chapter XXIX: In which some People are Precocious, others Professional, and others Mysterious: all in their several Ways
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It may have been the restless remembrance of what he had seen and heard over-night, or it may have been no deeper mental operation than the discovery that he had nothing to do, which caused Mr. Bailey, on the following afternoon, to feel particularly...
Chapter XXXII: Treats of Todgers’s again; and of another Blighted Plant besides the Plants upon the Leads
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Early on the day next after that on which she bade adieu to the halls of her youth and the scenes of her childhood, Miss Pecksniff, arriving safely at the coach-office in London, was there received, and conducted to her peaceful home beneath the...
Chapter XXXVI: Tom Pinch departs to seek his Fortune. What he finds at starting
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Oh! what a different town Salisbury was in Tom Pinch’s eyes to be sure, when the substantial Pecksniff of his heart melted away into an idle dream! He possessed the same faith in the wonderful shops, the same intensified appreciation of the mystery and...
Chapter XLV: In which Tom Pinch and his Sister take a little Pleasure; but quite in a Domestic Way, and with no Ceremony about it
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Tom Pinch and his sister having to part, for the dispatch of the morning’s business, immediately after the dispersion of the other actors in the scene upon the wharf with which the reader has been already made acquainted, had no opportunity of discussing the...
Chapter LIII: What John Westlock said to Tom Pinch’s Sister; what Tom Pinch’s Sister said to John Westlock; what Tom Pinch said to both of them; and how they all passed the Remainder of the Day
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Brilliantly the Temple Fountain sparkled in the sun, and laughingly its liquid music played, and merrily the idle drops of water danced and danced, and peeping out in sport among the trees, plunged lightly down to hide themselves, as little Ruth and her companion...
VIII: The Suburban Villa
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Donatello, while it was still a doubtful question betwixt afternoon and morning, set forth, to keep the appointment which Miriam had carelessly tendered him, in the grounds of the Villa Borghese.

The entrance to these grounds (as all my readers know, for everybody, now-a-days,...
XV: An Æsthetic Company
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

On the evening after Miriam’s visit to Kenyon’s studio, there was an assemblage, composed almost entirely of Anglo-Saxons, and chiefly of American artists, with a sprinkling of their English brethren, and some few of the tourists who still lingered in Rome, now that Holy...
XXXV: The Bronze Pontiff’s Benediction
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

When the last of the twelve strokes had fallen from the Cathedral clock, Kenyon threw his eyes over the busy scene of the marketplace, expecting to discern Miriam somewhere in the crowd. He looked next towards the Cathedral itself, where it was reasonable to...
XXXVII: The Emptiness of Picture-Galleries
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Hilda descended, day by day, from her dove-cote, and went to one or another of the great, old palaces—the Pamfili-Doria, the Corsini, the Sciarra, the Borghese, the Colonna—where the door-keepers knew her well, and offered her a kindly greeting. But they shook their heads...
XXXIX: The World’a Cathedral
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Still gliding onward, Hilda now looked up into the Dome, where the sunshine came through the western windows, and threw across long shafts of light. They rested upon the mosaic figures of two Evangelists, above the cornice. These great beams of radiance, traversing what...
XL: Hilda and a Friend
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

When Hilda knelt to receive the priest’s benediction, the act was witnessed by a person who stood leaning against the marble balustrade that surrounds the hundred golden lights, before the high altar. He had stood there, indeed, from the moment of the girl’s entrance...
Chapter II: A Dean, And A Chapter Also
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Whosoever has observed that sedate and clerical bird, the rook, may perhaps have noticed that when he wings his way homeward towards nightfall, in a sedate and clerical company, two rooks will suddenly detach themselves from the rest, will retrace their flight for some...
Chapter III: The Nuns’ House
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

For sufficient reasons which this narrative will itself unfold as it advances, a fictitious name must be bestowed upon the old Cathedral town. Let it stand in these pages as Cloisterham. It was once possibly known to the Druids by another name, and certainly...
Chapter VI: Philanthropy in Minor Canon Corner
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The reverend septimus crisparkle (septimus, because six little brother crisparkles before him went out, one by one, as they were born, like six weak little rushlights, as they were lighted), having broken the thin morning ice near cloisterham weir with his amiable head, much...
Chapter VII: More Confidences than One
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I know very little of that gentleman, sir,” said Neville to the Minor Canon as they turned back.

“You know very little of your guardian?” the Minor Canon repeated.

“Almost nothing.”

“How came he————”

“To be my guardian? I’ll tell you, sir. I...
Chapter XII: A Night with Durdles
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When Mr. Sapsea has nothing better to do, towards evening, and finds the contemplation of his own profundity becoming a little monotonous in spite of the vastness of the subject, he often takes an airing in the Cathedral Close and thereabout. He likes to...
Chapter XV: Impeached
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Neville Landless had started so early and walked at so good a pace, that when the church bells began to ring in Cloisterham for morning service, he was eight miles away. As he wanted his breakfast by that time, having set forth on a...
Chapter XVI: Devoted
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When John Jasper recovered from his fit or swoon, he found himself being tended by Mr. and Mrs. Tope, whom his visitor had summoned for the purpose. His visitor, wooden of aspect, sat stiffly in a chair, with his hands upon his knees, watching...
On the Age of the Sun’s Heat (1862)
Authors: Thomson William , Kelvin Lord
Published: December 2020

The second great law of Thermodynamics involves a certain principle of irreversible action in nature. It is thus shown that, although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat,...
From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832)
Authors: Babbage Charles
Published: December 2020

On The Division of Labour

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work. The first application of this principle must have been made in a very...
From Erewhon (1872)
Authors: Butler Samuel
Published: December 2020

‘It can be answered that even though machines should hear never so well and speak never so wisely, they will still always do the one or the other for our advantage and not for their own; that man will be the ruling spirit...
From The Physical Basis of Mind (1877)
Authors: Henry Lewes George
Published: December 2020

The progress of science involves an ever-increasing Analysis. Investigation is more and more directed towards the separated details of the phenomena previously studied as events: the observed facts are resolved into their component factors, complex wholes into their simpler elements, the organism into organs and...
From The Story of an African Farm (1883)
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

Bonaparte Blenkins, a wandering con-artist, has just gained control of a South African farm by convincing its owner, ‘the Boer-woman’ Tant’ Sannie, to marry him. Bonaparte has driven off its deeply religious German overseer, who until that time cared for the 14-year-old orphan Waldo. Blenkins...
Nature is a Heraclitean Fire (1888)
Authors: Manley Hopkins Gerard
Published: December 2020

That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection

Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows | flaunt forth, then chevy* on an air- built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs | they throng; they glitter in marches.

Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, ...
From The Moonstone (1868)
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Going round to the terrace, I found three mahogany-colored Indians, in white linen frocks and trowsers, looking up at the house.

The Indians, as I saw on looking closer, had small hand-drums slung in front of them. Behind them stood a little, delicate-looking, light-haired, English...
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Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar

We know all about the habits of the ant, we know all about...
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Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

When the doctor arrived at Aunt Patsy Cooper’s house, he found the lights going and everybody up and dressed and in a great state of solicitude and excitement. The twins were stretched on a sofa in the sitting-room, Aunt Patsy was fussing at Angelo’s...
10
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Dawson’s
Landing had a week of repose, after the election, and it needed it, for the frantic and variegated nightmare which had tormented it all through the preceding week had left it limp, haggard, and exhausted at the end. It got the week of...
III
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The town hall had never looked finer. The platform at the end of it was backed by a showy draping of flags; at intervals along the walls were festoons of flags; the gallery fronts were clothed in flags; the supporting columns were swathed in flags;...
Chapter I
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Dorriforth, bred at St. Omer’s1 in all the scholastic rigour of that college, was by education, and the solemn vows of his order, a Roman Catholic priest—but nicely discriminating between the philosophical and the superstitious part of that character,2 and...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Although Miss Milner had foreseen no fatal event from the indignity offered Lord Frederick, yet she passed a night very different from those to which she had been accustomed. No sooner was she falling into a sleep, than a thousand vague, but distressing ideas...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

When Dorriforth was alone with Sandford, he explained to him what before, he had only hinted; and this learned jesuit frankly confessed, ‘That the mind of a woman was far above, or rather beneath, his comprehension.’—It was so, indeed—for with all his penetration, and...
Chapter IX
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

At half after eleven, Miss Milner’s chair,1 and another with Miss Woodley, took them from Lord Elmwood’s house to call upon the party (a group of wood-nymphs and huntresses) which were to accompany them, and make up the suit of Diana.

They had not...
Chapter X
Authors: Inchbald Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Two whole days passed in the bitterest suspense on the part of Miss Milner, while neither one word or look from Lord Elmwood, denoted the most trivial change of those sentiments he had declared on the night of the masquerade.—Still those sentiments, or intentions,...
Chapter I
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The Leeds and Skipton railway runs along a deep valley of the Aire; a slow and sluggish stream, compared to the neighbouring river of Wharfe. Keighley station* is on this line of railway, about a quarter of a mile from the town...
• Chapter 6 • Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

The papers next day were full of the ‘Brixton Mystery’, as they termed it. Each had a long account of the affair, and some had leaders* upon it in addition. There was some information in them which was new to me. I...
• Chapter 1 • On the Great Alkali Plain
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

In the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert,* which for many a long year served as a barrier against the advance of civilization. From the Sierra Nevada to Nebraska, and from the Yellow-stone...
• Chapter 5 • The Avenging Angels
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

All night their course lay through intricate defiles and xx over irregular and rock-strewn paths. More than once they lost their way, but Hope’s intimate knowledge of the mountains enabled them to regain the track once more. When morning broke, a scene of marvellous...
Chapter V
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

That was the first of many talks with Dan, who told Harvey why he would transfer his dory’s name to the imaginary Burgess-modelled haddocker. Harvey heard a good deal about the real Hattie at Gloucester; saw a lock of her hair—which Dan, finding fair...
Chapter VI
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

—‘ You—pish! Why will the captain suffer these begging fellows on board ? ’

These pettish words were breathed by a well-to-do gentleman in a ruby-coloured velvet vest, and with a ruby-coloured cheek, a ruby-headed cane in his hand, to a man in a gray...
Chapter VII
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

At an interesting point of the narration, and at the moment when, with much curiosity, indeed, urgency, the narrator was being particularly questioned upon that point, he was, as it happened, altogether diverted both from it and his story, by just then catching sight...
CHAPTER XIX
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘ Mexico? Molino del Rey ? Resaca de la Palma ? ’*

‘ Resaca de la Tombs ! ’*

Leaving his reputation to take care of itself, since, as is not seldom the case, he knew nothing of its being in debate,...
CHAPTER XXII
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

—‘ “Philosophical
Intelligence
Office ”*—novel idea! But how did you come to dream that I wanted anything in your absurd line, eh ? ’

About twenty minutes after leaving Cape Giradeau, the above was growled out over his shoulder by the Missourian...
CHAPTER XXII
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

‘ Coming to mention the man to whose story all thus far said was but the introduction, the judge, who, like you, was a great smoker, would insist upon all the company taking cigars, and then lighting a fresh one himself, rise in...
Slaves of the Lamp Part I
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The music-room on the top floor of Number Five was filled with the ‘Aladdin’* company at rehearsal. Dickson Quartus, commonly known as Dick Four, was Aladdin, stage-manager, ballet-master, half the orchestra, and largely librettist, for the ‘book’ had been rewritten and filled...
9
Authors: Huysmans Joris-karl
Published: December 2020

The nightmares returned; he was afraid to go to sleep. He lay for hours on end stretched out on his bed, sometimes in a state of persistent insomnia and feverish agitation, at other times in appalling dreams from which he awoke with a start, convinced...
Roger Malvin’s Burial
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

One of the few incidents of Indian warfare naturally susceptible of the moonlight of romance was that expedition undertaken for the defence of the frontiers in the year 1725, which resulted in the well-remembered ‘Lovell’s Fight’. Imagination, by casting certain circumstances judicially into the...
Chapter IV
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Two days after Aurora’s birthnight festival, Talbot Bulstrode’s phaeton dashed once more into the avenue at Felden Woods. Again the captain made a sacrifice on the shrine of friendship, and drove Francis Maldon from Windsor to Beckenham, in order that the young comet...
Chapter IX
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

There was no more happiness for Talbot Bulstrode that day. He roamed forlornly hither and thither, hoping to find Aurora, now in the billiard-room, now in the drawing-room. He loitered in the hall, upon the shallow pretence of looking at barometers and thermometers, in...
Chapter X
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The new year began in sadness at Felden Woods, for it found Archibald Floyd watching in the sick-room of his only daughter.

Aurora had taken her place at the long dinner-table upon the night of Talbot’s departure; and except for being perhaps a little more...
Chapter XII
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Early in October Aurora Floyd returned to Felden Woods, once more ‘engaged.’ The county families opened their eyes to the widest extent when the report reached them that the banker’s daughter was going to be married, not to Talbot Bulstrode, but to Mr John...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mr
James
Conyers made himself very much at home at Mellish Park. Poor Langley, the invalid trainer, who was a Yorkshireman, felt himself almost bewildered by the easy insolence of his town-bred successor. Mr Conyers looked so much too handsome and dashing for his...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Archibald
Floyd was very lonely at Felden Woods without his daughter. He took no pleasure in the long drawing-room, or the billiard-room and library, or the pleasant galleries, in which there were all manner of easy corners, with abutting bay-windows, damask-cushioned oaken benches, china...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mr and Mrs Mellish returned to the house in which they had been so happy; but it is not to be supposed that the pleasant country mansion could be again, all in a moment, the home that it had been before the advent of...
XVII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Newman was fond of music, and went often to the opera, where, a couple of evenings after Madame de Bellegarde’s ball, he sat listening to ‘Don Giovanni’;* having in honour of this work, which he had never yet seen represented, come to...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Venice Preserved*

The prudence of Morton found sufficient occupation in stemming the furious current of these contending parties, when, two days after his return to Hamilton, he was visited by his friend...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Anonymous*

When the desperate affray had ceased, Claverhouse commanded his soldiers to remove the dead bodies, to...
Chapter 18
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

Thus, for all their deep devotion to the prisoner, the Duchess and the Prime Minister had been able to do very little for him. The Prince was angry with Fabrice, while the Court and the public were out of humour with him and delighted to...
Chapter 20
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

One night, about one in the morning, Fabrice was lying along the window sill with his head thrust through the opening made in the shutter; he was looking at the stars and the vast horizon which can be seen from the top of the Farnese...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

A prime reason, we must add, why sundry impressions were not to be fully present to the girl till later on was that they yielded at this stage, with an effect of sharp supersession, to a detached quarter of an hour—her only one—with...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

What it really came to, on the morrow, this first time—the time Kate went with her—was that the great man had, a little, to excuse himself; had, by a rare accident—for he kept his consulting-hours in general rigorously free—but ten minutes to...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He had said to her in the Park when challenged on it that nothing had ‘happened’ to him as a cause for the demand he there made of her—happened he meant since the account he had given, after his return, of his recent experience....
VI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was after he had in fact, two months later, heard from New York that she paid him a visit one morning at his own quarters*—coming not as she had come in Venice, under his extreme solicitation, but as a need recognised...
Chapter IX Of The Pernicious Effects Which Arise From The Unnatural Distinctions Established In Society
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind. For it is in the most polished society that noisome reptiles and venomous serpents lurk...
Book I, Chapter III
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

After the dismission of Calonne, M. de Brienne,* a man whose talents Turgot had overrated, was now chosen by the queen, because he had formerly seconded her views, and was still the obsequious slave of that power, which he had long been courting,...
Book I, Chapter IV
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

Such were the measures pursued to exasperate a people beginning to open their eyes, and now clamourously demanding the restitution of their long-estranged rights; when the court, having in vain attempted to terrify or deceive them, found it expedient to still the storm by recalling...
Silver Blaze
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go,’ said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

‘Go! Where to?’

‘To Dartmoor—to King’s Pyland.’

I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed...
The Crooked Man
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

One summer night, a few months after my marriage, I was seated by my own hearth smoking a last pipe and nodding over a novel, for my day’s work had been an exhausting one. My wife had already gone upstairs, and the sound of...
War Stories and Poems
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

A unique anthology of Kipling’s war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War.
A Friend of the Family
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

There had been rather a long sitting at Lodge ‘Faith and Works’, 5837 E.C.,* that warm April night. Three initiations and two raisings, each conducted with the spaciousness and particularity that our Lodge prides itself upon, made the Brethren a little silent,...
Epitaphs of the War (Selection)
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

1914–18

a servant

a son
Rapunzel
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There once lived a husband and a wife who had long wished for a child, but in vain. At last the wife had hopes that the good Lord would fulfil her wish. In the parlour at the back of their house they had a...
The Pack of No-good,Low-life Ruffians
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

Cock said to Hen: ‘Now is the time when the nuts are growing ripe. Let’s go up the mountain together and eat our fill before the squirrel carries them all off.’ ‘Yes,’ answered Hen, ‘let’s go and have a good time together.’ So off...
Hansel and Gretel
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

On the edge of a great forest there lived a poor woodcutter with his wife and his two children; the little boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little enough to put in his belly, and once, when a
Ashy pet
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A Rich man had a wife who fell gravely ill, and when she felt that her end was drawing near she called her only little daughter to her bedside and said: ‘Dear child, stay godly and good, and the good Lord will always...
The Seven Ravens
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a man who had seven sons, but he still didn’t have a little daughter, however much he wished for one. At last his wife again gave him hope of another child, and when the baby came into the world...
Thumbling’s Travels
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A tailor once had a son who turned out to be tiny, indeed, no bigger than a thumb—which is why he was called Thumbling. But he had a brave spirit, and one day he said to his father: ‘Father, I must and will...
The Tale of the Juniper Tree
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A long time ago now, perhaps two thousand years, there was a rich man who had a fair and godly wife, and they loved each other very much. But they had no children, and they greatly wished for some. The wife prayed for...
Rumpelstiltskin
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a miller who was poor, but he had a beautiful daughter. Now it so happened that he came to speak with the king, and to make himself seem important he said to him: ‘I have a daughter who can...
The Bearskin Man
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a young fellow who got himself recruited as a soldier; he bore himself bravely and was always to the fore when it was raining bullets. As long as the war lasted all went well, but when peace was made...