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CHAPTER VIII
Authors: Fitzgerald F. Scott
Published: June 2023

I Couldn’t sleep all night; a fog-horn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams. Toward dawn I heard a taxi go up Gatsby’s drive, and immediately I jumped out of bed and began...
CHAPTER IX
Authors: Fitzgerald F. Scott
Published: June 2023

After two years I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day, only as an endless drill of police and photographers and newspaper men in and out of Gatsby’s front door. A rope stretched across the main gate and...
Counterparts
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

The bell rang furiously and, when Miss Parker went to the tube, a furious voice called out in a piercing North of Ireland accent:

—Send Farrington here!

Miss Parker returned to her machine, saying to a man who was writing at a desk:

—Mr Alleyne...
A Painful Case
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Mr James Duffy lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious. He lived in an old sombre...
9
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Yes, Mr Bankes said, watching him go. It was a thousand pities. (Lily had said something about his frightening her—he changed from one mood to another so suddenly.) Yes, said Mr Bankes, it was a thousand pities that Ramsay could not behave a little...
13
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

He had been to Amsterdam, Mr Bankes was saying as he strolled across the lawn with Lily Briscoe. He had seen the Rembrandts. He had been to Madrid. Unfortunately, it was Good Friday and the Prado* was shut. He had been to...
18
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

As usual, Lily thought. There was always something that had to be done at that precise moment, something that Mrs Ramsay had decided for reasons of her own to do instantly, it might be with everyone standing about making jokes, as now, not being able...
19
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Of course, she said to herself, coming into the room, she had to come here to get something she wanted. First she wanted to sit down in a particular chair under a particular lamp. But she wanted something more, though she did not know,...
2
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

So with the lamps all put out, the moon sunk, and a thin rain drumming on the roof a downpouring of immense darkness began.* Nothing, it seemed, could survive the flood, the profusion of darkness which, creeping in at keyholes and crevices,...
5
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

As she lurched (for she rolled like a ship at sea) and leered (for her eyes fell on nothing directly, but with a sidelong glance that deprecated the scorn and anger of the world—she was witless, she knew it), as she clutched the banisters...
7
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Night after night, summer and winter, the torment of storms, the arrow-like stillness of fine weather, held their court without interference. Listening (had there been anyone to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have...
8
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Thinking no harm, for the family would not come, never again, some said, and the house would be sold at Michaelmas* perhaps, Mrs McNab stooped and picked a bunch of flowers to take home with her. She laid them on the table...
9
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sand-hill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long night seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths,...
10
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Then indeed peace had come.* Messages of peace breathed from the sea to the shore. Never to break its sleep any more, to lull it rather more deeply to rest and whatever the dreamers dreamt holily, dreamt wisely, to confirm—what else was...
1
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

What does it mean then, what can it all mean? Lily Briscoe asked herself, wondering whether, since she had been left alone, it behoved her to go to the kitchen to fetch another cup of coffee or wait here. What does it mean?—a catchword...
2
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

She seemed to have shrivelled slightly, he thought. She looked a little skimpy, wispy; but not unattractive. He liked her. There had been some talk of her marrying William Bankes once, but nothing had come of it. His wife had been fond of her....
6
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

[Macalister’s boy took one of the fish and cut a square out of its side to bait his hook with. The mutilated body (it was alive still) was thrown back into the sea.]
7
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

‘Mrs Ramsay!’ Lily cried, ‘Mrs Ramsay!’ But nothing happened. The pain increased. That anguish could reduce one to such a pitch of imbecility, she thought! Anyhow the old man had not heard her. He remained benignant, calm—if one chose to think it, sublime....
8
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

They don’t feel a thing there, Cam thought, looking at the shore, which, rising and falling, became steadily more distant and more peaceful. Her hand cut a trail in the sea, as her mind made the green swirls and streaks into patterns and, numbed...
11
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

So much depends then, thought Lily Briscoe, looking at the sea which had scarcely a stain on it, which was so soft that the sails and the clouds seemed set in its blue, so much depends, she thought, upon distance: whether people are near...
7
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

But his son hated him. He hated him for coming up to them, for stopping and looking down on them; he hated him for interrupting them; he hated him for the exaltation and sublimity of his gestures; for the magnificence of his head; for...
In The Pack
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Sunday, December 11.—The ice grew closer during the night, and at 6 it seemed hopeless to try and get ahead. The pack here is very regular; the floes about 2½ feet thick and very solid. They are pressed closely together, but being irregular in...
Depôt Laying to One Ton Camp
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Tuesday, January 24.—People were busy in the hut all last night—we got away at 9 a.m. A boat from the Terra Nova fetched the Western Party and myself as the ponies were led out of the camp. Meares and Wilson...
Adventure and Peril
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Saturday, February 18.—Camp 12. North 22 miles 1996 yards. I scattered some oats 50 yards east of depôt.† The minimum thermometer showed -16° when we left camp: inform Simpson!

The ponies started off well, Gran leading my pony with Weary Willy behind, the...
Awaiting the Crozier Party
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Friday, June 23—Saturday, June 24.—Two quiet, uneventful days and a complete return to routine.

Sunday, June 25.—I find I have made no mention of Cherry-Garrard’s first number of the revived South Polar Times,* presented to me on Midwinter Day....

It is...
Preparations: The Spring Journey
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Friday, September 1.—A very windy night, dropping to gusts in morning, preceding beautifully calm, bright day. If September holds as good as August we shall not have cause of complaint. Meares and Demetri started for Hut Point just before noon. The dogs were in...
The Last Weeks at Cape Evans
Authors: Scott Robert Falcon
Published: June 2023

Friday, October 6.—With the rise of temperature there has been a slight thaw in the hut; the drips come down the walls and one has found my diary, as its pages show. The drips are already decreasing, and if they represent the whole accumulation...
Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

Getting ready was a terrible business. After supper Frau Brechenmacher packed four of the five babies to bed, allowing Rosa to stay with her and help to polish the buttons of Herr Brechenmacher’s uniform. Then she ran over his best shirt with a hot iron,...
The Woman at the Store
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

All that day the heat was terrible. The wind blew close to the ground—it rooted among the tussock grass—slithered along the road, so that the white pumice dust swirled in our faces—settled and sifted over us and was like a dry-skin itching for growth on...
Millie
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

Millie stood leaning against the verandah until the men were out of sight. When they were far down the road Willie Cox turned round on his horse and waved. But she didn’t wave back. She nodded her head a little and made a grimace. Not...
The Wind Blows
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

Suddenly—dreadfully—she wakes up. What has happened? Something dreadful has happened. No—nothing has happened. It is only the wind shaking the house, rattling the windows, banging a piece of iron on the roof and making her bed tremble. Leaves flutter past the window, up and away;...
Je Ne Parle Pas FranÇais
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

I do not know why I have such a fancy for this little café. It’s dirty and sad, sad. It’s not as if it had anything to distinguish it from a hundred others—it hasn’t; or as if the same strange types came here every day,...
Sun and Moon
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

In the afternoon the chairs came, a whole big cart full of little gold ones with their legs in the air. And then the flowers came. When you stared down from the balcony at the people carrying them the flower pots looked like funny awfully...
The Stranger
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

It seemed to the little crowd on the wharf that she was never going to move again. There she lay, immense, motionless on the grey crinkled water, a loop of smoke above her, an immense flock of gulls screaming and diving after the galley droppings...
Life of Ma Parker
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

When the literary gentleman, whose flat old Ma Parker cleaned every Tuesday, opened the door to her that morning, he asked after her grandson. Ma Parker stood on the doormat inside the dark little hall, and she stretched out her hand to help her gentleman...
A Married Man’s Story
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

It is evening. Supper is over. We have left the small, cold dining room; we have come back to the sitting room where there is a fire. All is as usual. I am sitting at my writing table which is placed across a corner so...
The Garden Party
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it...
A Cup of Tea
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

Rosemary Fell was not exactly beautiful. No, you couldn’t have called her beautiful. Pretty? Well, if you took her to pieces.… But why be so cruel as to take anyone to pieces? She was young, brilliant, extremely modern, exquisitely well dressed, amazingly well read in...
The Dream is a Wish-Fulfilment
Authors: Freud Sigmund , Crick Joyce , Robertson Ritchie
Published: June 2023

After passing through a narrow defile and suddenly arriving at the top of a rise where the paths divide and the most fertile prospect opens out in all directions, one may pause for a moment and consider where to make for next. A similar...
The Gathering of the Missionaries
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I wrote out a wire to Sandy, asking him to come up by the two-fifteen train and meet me at my flat.

‘I have chosen my colleague,’ I said.

‘Billy Arbuthnot’s boy? His father was at Harrow with me. I know the fellow—Harry used to...
Peter Pienaar
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Our various departures were unassuming, all but the American’s. Sandy spent a busy fortnight in his subterranean fashion, now in the British Museum, now running about the country to see old exploring companions, now at the War Office, now at the Foreign Office, but mostly...
Adventures of two Dutchmen on the Loose
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

The Germans, as Peter said, are a careful people. A man met us on the quay at Rotterdam. I was a bit afraid that something might have turned up in Lisbon to discredit us, and that our little friend might have warned his pals by...
Christmastide
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Everything depended on whether the servant was in the hall. I had put Stumm to sleep for a bit, but I couldn’t flatter myself he would long be quiet, and when he came to he would kick the locked door to matchwood. I must get...
The Garden-House of Suliman the Red
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

We reached Rustchuk on January 10, but by no means landed on that day. Something had gone wrong with the unloading arrangements, or more likely with the railway behind them, and we were kept swinging all day well out in the turbid river. On the...
Four Missionaries See Light in Their Mission
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

A spasm of incredulity, a vast relief, and that sharp joy which comes of reaction chased each other across my mind. I had come suddenly out of very black waters into an unbelievable calm. I dropped into the nearest chair and tried to grapple with...
I Move in Good Society
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I walked out of that house next morning with Blenkiron’s arm in mine, a different being from the friendless creature who had looked vainly the day before for sanctuary. To begin with, I was splendidly dressed. I had a navy-blue suit with square padded shoulders,...
An Embarrassed Toilet
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I was soaked to the bone, and while Peter set off to look for dinner I went to my room to change. I had a rub down and then got into pyjamas for some dumb-bell exercises with two chairs, for that long wet ride had...
The Little Hill
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

It was a wise man who said that the biggest kind of courage was to be able to sit still. I used to feel that when we were getting shelled in the reserve trenches outside Vermelles.* I felt it before we went over...
Deals With an Escape and a Journey
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Five scouts’ lanterns burned smokily in the ground room of the keep when Dickson ushered his charges through its cavernous door. The lights flickered in the gusts that swept after them and whistled through the slits of windows, so that the place was full...
Gravity Out of Bed
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

It is probable that Sir Archibald Roylance did not altogether believe Dickson’s tale; it may be that he considered him an agreeable romancer, or a little mad, or no more than a relief to the tedium of a wet Sunday morning. But his incredulity...
The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I had a solemn time travelling north that day. It was fine May weather, with the hawthorn flowering on every hedge, and I asked myself why, when I was still a free man, I had stayed on in London and not got the...
The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I spent the night on a shelf of the hillside, in the lee of a boulder where the heather grew long and soft. It was a cold business, for I had neither coat nor waistcoat. These were in Mr Turnbull’s keeping, as was...
The Coming of the Black Stone
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I came down to breakfast next morning, after eight hours of blessed dreamless sleep, to find Sir Walter decoding a telegram in the midst of muffins and marmalade. His fresh rosiness of yesterday seemed a thought tarnished.

‘I had a busy hour on the telephone...
II
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

As the dancers poured out of the hall Frome, drawing back behind the projecting storm-door, watched the segregation of the grotesquely muffled groups, in which a moving lantern ray now and then lit up a face flushed with food and dancing. The villagers, being...
VI
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The next morning at breakfast Jotham Powell was between them, and Ethan tried to hide his joy under an air of exaggerated indifference, lounging back in his chair to throw scraps to the cat, growling at the weather, and not so much as offering...
VII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Ethan went out into the passage to hang up his wet garments. He listened for Zeena’s step and, not hearing it, called her name up the stairs. She did not answer, and after a moment’s hesitation he went up and opened her door. The...
II
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

In the hansom she leaned back with a sigh.

Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape from routine? Why could one never do a natural thing without having to screen it behind a structure of artifice? She had yielded...
V
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The observance of Sunday at Bellomont was chiefly marked by the punctual appearance of the smart omnibus destined to convey the household to the little church at the gates. Whether any one got into the omnibus or not was a matter of secondary importance,...
VI
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The afternoon was perfect. A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the glitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the brightness without dulling it.

In the woody hollows of the park there was already a faint chill; but as the...
IX
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

In Mrs Peniston’s youth, fashion had returned to town in October; therefore on the tenth day of the month the blinds of her Fifth Avenue residence were drawn up, and the eyes of the Dying Gladiator* in bronze who occupied the drawing-room...
XI
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Meanwhile the holidays had gone by and the season was beginning. Fifth Avenue had become a nightly torrent of carriages surging upward to the fashionable quarters about the Park, where illuminated windows and outspread awnings betokened the usual routine of hospitality. Other tributary currents...
XIII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Lily woke from happy dreams to find two notes at her bed-side.

One was from Mrs Trenor, who announced that she was coming to town that afternoon for a flying visit, and hoped Miss Bart would be able to dine with her. The...
I
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

It came vividly to Selden on the Casino* steps that Monte Carlo had, more than any other place he knew, the gift of accommodating itself to each man’s humour.

His own, at the moment, lent it a festive readiness of welcome that might well,...
II
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Miss Bart, emerging late the next morning from her cabin, found herself alone on the deck of the Sabrina.

The cushioned chairs, disposed expectantly under the wide awning, showed no signs of recent occupancy, and she presently learned from a steward that...
V
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

It seemed to Lily, as Mrs Peniston’s door closed on her, that she was taking a final leave of her old life. The future stretched before her dull and bare as the deserted length of Fifth Avenue, and opportunities showed as meagrely as the...
VI
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

As became persons of their rising consequence, the Gormers were engaged in building a country-house on Long Island; and it was a part of Miss Bart’s duty to attend her hostess on frequent visits of inspection to the new estate. There, while Mrs Gormer...
XI
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Lily, lingering for a moment on the corner, looked out on the afternoon spectacle of Fifth Avenue.

It was a day in late April, and the sweetness of spring was in the air. It mitigated the ugliness of the long crowded thoroughfare, blurred the...
Lena Lingard
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

I

At the university I had the good fortune to come immediately under the influence of a brilliant and inspiring young scholar. Gaston Cleric* had arrived in Lincoln only a few weeks earlier than I, to begin his work as head of...
The Casting off of Morel, The Taking on of william
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

During the next week Morel’s temper was almost unbearable. Like all miners, he was a great lover of medicines, which, strangely enough, he would often pay for himself.

‘You mun get me a drop o’ laxy vitral,’ he said. ‘It’s a winder as we...
The Young Life of Paul
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

Paul would be built like his mother, slightly and rather small. His fair hair went reddish, and then dark brown; his eyes were grey. He was a pale, quiet child, with eyes that seemed to listen, and with a full, dropping underlip.

As a...
Death in the Family
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

Arthur Morel was growing up. He was a quick, careless, impulsive boy, a good deal like his father. He hated study, made a great moan if he had to work, and escaped as soon as possible to his sport again.

In appearance he remained the...
Defeat of Miria
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

Paul was dissatisfied with himself and with everything. The deepest of his love belonged to his mother. When he felt he had hurt her, or wounded his love for her, he could not bear it. Now it was spring, and there was battle between...
The Release
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

‘By the way,’ said Dr Ansell one evening when Morel was in Sheffield, ‘we’ve got a man in the fever hospital here who comes from Nottingham—Dawes. He doesn’t seem to have many belongings in this world.’

‘Baxter Dawes!’ Paul exclaimed.

‘That’s the man—has been...
The Dominant Primordial Beast
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew. Yet it was a secret growth. His new-born cunning gave him poise and control. He was too busy adjusting himself to the new life...
The Toil of Trace and Trail
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

Thirty days from the time it left Dawson, the Salt Water Mail, with Buck and his mates at the fore, arrived at Skaguay. They were in a wretched state, worn out and worn down. Buck’s one hundred and forty pounds had dwindled to one...
The Sounding of the Call
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

When Buck earned sixteen hundred dollars in five minutes for John Thornton, he made it possible for his master to pay off certain debts and to journey with his partners into the East after a fabled lost mine, the history of which was as...
White Fang
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

THE WILD
The Hunger Cry
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

The day began auspiciously. They had lost no dogs during the night, and they swung out upon the trail and into the silence, the darkness, and the cold with spirits that were fairly light. Bill seemed to have forgotten his forebodings of the previous...
The Wall of the World
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

By the time his mother began leaving the cave on hunting expeditions, the cub had learned well the law that forbade his approaching the entrance. Not only had this law been forcibly and many times impressed on him by his mother’s nose and paw,...
The Bondage
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

The days were thronged with experience for White Fang. During the time that Kiche was tied by the stick, he ran about over all the camp, inquiring, investigating, learning. He quickly came to know much of the ways of the man-animals, but familiarity did...
The Covenant
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

When December was well along, Gray Beaver went on a journey up the Mackenzie. Mit-sah and Kloo-kooch went with him. One sled he drove himself, drawn by dogs he had traded for or borrowed. A second and smaller sled was driven by Mit-sah, and...
The Clinging Death
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

Beauty Smith slipped the chain from his neck and stepped back.

For once White Fang did not make an immediate attack. He stood still, ears pricked forward, alert and curious, surveying the strange animal that faced him. He had never seen such a dog before....
The Love-Master
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

As White Fang watched Weedon Scott approach, he bristled and snarled to advertise that he would not submit to punishment. Twenty-four hours had passed since he had slashed open the hand that was now bandaged and held up by a sling to keep the...
The Long Trail
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

It was in the air. White Fang sensed the coming calamity, even before there was tangible evidence of it. In vague ways it was borne in upon him that a change was impending. He knew not how nor why, yet he got his feel...
IV
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

All that the boatswain, out of a superabundance of yells, could make clear to Captain MacWhirr was the bizarre intelligence that “All them Chinamen in the fore ’tween-deck have fetched away, sir.”

Jukes to leeward could hear these two shouting within six inches of his...
V
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

He waited. Before his eyes the engines turned with slow labour, that in the moment of going off into a mad fling would stop dead at Mr. Rout’s shout, “Look out, Beale!” They paused in an intelligent immobility, stilled in mid-stroke, a heavy crank...
VI
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

On a bright sunshiny day, with the breeze chasing her smoke far ahead, the Nan-Shan came into Fu-chau. Her arrival was at once noticed on shore, and the seamen in harbour said: “Look! Look at that steamer. What’s that? Siamese—isn’t she? Just...
Falk: A Reminiscence
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Several of us, all more or less connected with the sea,* were dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to which our coasting men give the grandiose...
Amy Foster
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Kennedy is a country doctor, and lives in Colebrook, on the shores of Eastbay. The high ground rising abruptly behind the red roofs of the little town crowds the quaint High Street against the wall which defends it from the sea. Beyond the sea-wall...
Chapter II
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Uncomfortable as the night, with its rocking movement, and salt smells, may have been, and in one case undoubtedly was, for Mr Pepper had insufficient clothes upon his bed, the breakfast next morning wore a kind of beauty. The voyage had begun, and had...
Chapter IV
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Next morning Clarissa was up before anyone else. She dressed, and was out on deck, breathing the fresh air of a calm morning, and, making the circuit of the ship for the second time, she ran straight into the lean person of Mr Grice,...
Chapter IX
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

An hour passed, and the downstairs rooms at the hotel grew dim and were almost deserted, while the little boxlike squares above them were brilliantly irradiated. Some forty or fifty people were going to bed. The thump of jugs set down on the floor...
Chapter X
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Among the promises which Mrs Ambrose had made her niece should she stay was a room cut off from the rest of the house, large, private—a room in which she could play, read, think, defy the world, a fortress as well as a sanctuary....
Chapter XVI
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Hewet and Rachel had long ago reached the particular place on the edge of the cliff where, looking down into the sea, you might chance on jelly-fish and dolphins. Looking the other way, the vast expanse of land gave them a sensation which is...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

But no brush was able to efface completely the expression of happiness, so that Mrs Ambrose could not treat them when they came downstairs as if they had spent the morning in a way that could be discussed naturally. This being so, she joined...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

For two or three hours longer the moon poured its light through the empty air. Unbroken by clouds it fell straightly, and lay almost like a chill white frost over the sea and the earth. During these hours the silence was not broken, and...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

All that evening the clouds gathered, until they closed entirely over the blue of the sky. They seemed to narrow the space between earth and heaven, so that there was no room for the air to move in freely; and the waves, too, lay...
XVIII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

‘What are you two plotting together, aunt Medora?’ Madame Olenska cried as she came into the room.

She was dressed as if for a ball. Everything about her shimmered and glimmered softly, as if her dress had been woven out of candle-beams; and she...
XIX
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The day was fresh, with a lively spring wind full of dust. All the old ladies in both families had got out their faded sables and yellowing ermines, and the smell of camphor from the front pews almost smothered the faint spring scent of...
XXIII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The next morning, when Archer got out of the Fall River* train, he emerged upon a steaming midsummer Boston. The streets near the station were full of the smell of beer and coffee and decaying fruit and a shirt-sleeved populace moved through...
XXV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Once more on the boat, and in the presence of others, Archer felt a tranquillity of spirit that surprised as much as it sustained him.

The day, according to any current valuation, had been a rather ridiculous failure; he had not so much as touched...
XXVI
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Every year on the fifteenth of October Fifth Avenue opened its shutters, unrolled its carpets and hung up its triple layer of window-curtains.

By the first of November this household ritual was over, and society had begun to look about and take stock of itself....
I
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music* in New York.

Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ‘above the Forties,’ of a new Opera House which should...
XXVIII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

‘Ol—Ol—howier spell it, anyhow?’ asked the tart young lady to whom Archer had pushed his wife’s telegram across the brass ledge of the Western Union office.

‘Olenska—O-len-ska,’ he repeated, drawing back the message in order to print out the foreign syllables above May’s...
XXIX
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

His wife’s dark blue brougham (with the wedding varnish still on it) met Archer at the ferry, and conveyed him luxuriously to the Pennsylvania terminus in Jersey City.

It was a sombre snowy afternoon, and the gas-lamps were lit in the big reverberating station. As...
V
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The next evening old Mr Sillerton Jackson came to dine with the Archers.

Mrs Archer was a shy woman and shrank from society; but she liked to be well-informed as to its doings. Her old friend Mr Sillerton Jackson applied to the investigation of his...
Central Totemic Beliefs (Continued)
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem

In the previous chapters, we have examined totemism as a public institution. The only totems at issue until now were the common property of a clan, a phratry, or, in a sense, a tribe; the individual figured...
The Positive Cult (Continued)
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

Representative or Commemorative Rites

The explanation we have given of the positive rites just considered in the two preceding chapters attributes a meaning to them that is primarily moral and social. The physical efficacy ascribed to them by the faithful is the product of...
The Council with The Munchkins.
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt. As it was, the jar made her catch her breath and wonder what had happened; and Toto...
The Road through the Forest.
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

After a few hours the road began to be rough, and the walking grew so difficult that the Scarecrow often stumbled over the yellow brick, which were here very uneven. Sometimes, indeed, they were broken or missing altogether, leaving holes that Toto jumped...
The Journey to The Great Oz.
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

They were obliged to camp out that night under a large tree in the forest, for there were no houses near. The tree made a good, thick covering to protect them from the dew, and the Tin Woodman chopped a great pile of...
The Queen of the Field Mice
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

We cannot be far from the road of yellow brick, now,” remarked the Scarecrow, as he stood beside the girl, “for we have come nearly as far as the river carried us away.”

The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he heard...
The Guardian of the Gates.
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

It was some time before the Cowardly Lion awakened, for he had lain among the poppies a long while, breathing in their deadly fragrance; but when he did open his eyes and roll off the truck he was very glad to find himself...
The Wonderful Emerald City of OZ.
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City. The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble and studded everywhere with sparkling emeralds. They walked...
The Winged Monkeys
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

You will remember there was no road—not even a pathway—between the castle of the Wicked Witch and the Emerald City. When the four travellers went in search of the Witch she had seen them coming, and so sent the Winged Monkeys to bring...
The Missing Page
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

I woke (on October 1st) with that dispiriting sensation that a hitch has occurred in a settled plan. It was explained when I went on deck, and I found the Dulcibella wrapped in a fog, silent, clammy, nothing visible from her decks but...
I Sign Articles
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

It was not an easy question to answer, for the affair was utterly outside all my experience; its background the sea, and its actual scene a region of the sea of which I was blankly ignorant. There were other difficulties that I could see perhaps...
Commander von Brüning
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

To resume my story in narrative form.

I was awakened at ten o’clock on the 19th, after a long and delicious sleep, by Davies’s voice outside, talking his unmistakable German. Looking out, in my pyjamas, I saw him on the quay above in conversation with...
A Change of Tactics
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

We pushed off without a word, and paddled out of sight of the beach. A voice was approaching, hailing us. ‘Hail back,’ whispered Davies; ‘pretend we’re a galliot.’

‘Ho-a,’ I shouted, ‘where am I?’

‘Off Memmert,’ came back. ‘Where are you bound?’

‘Delfzyl,’ whispered Davies....
The Seven Siels
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

Selecting the very humblest Gasthaus* I could discover, I laid down my bundle and called for beer, bread, and Wurst* The landlord, as I had expected, spoke the Frisian dialect,* so that though he was rather difficult...
We Achieve Our Double Aim
Authors: Childers Erskine
Published: June 2023

When, exactly, the atmosphere of misunderstanding on the stranded tug was dissipated, I do not know, for by the time I had fitted the rowlocks and shipped sculls, tide and wind had caught me, and were sweeping me merrily back on the road to Norderney,...
Thrift—and The Child
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“But there was nothing improper in my observing to Fyne that, last night, Mrs. Fyne seemed to have some idea where that enterprising young lady had gone to. Fyne shook his head. No; his wife had been by no means so certain as...
Devoted Servants—and the Light of a Flare
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“Young Powell thought to himself: ‘The men, too, are noticing it.’ Indeed, the captain’s behaviour to his wife and to his wife’s father was noticeable enough. It was as if they had been a pair of not very congenial passengers. But perhaps it...
I
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

One January day, thirty years ago,* the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the cluster of low drab buildings huddled on...
IV
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

For the first three years after John Bergson’s death, the affairs of his family prospered. Then came the hard times that brought every one on the Divide to the brink of despair; three years of drouth and failure, the last struggle of a wild...
I
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

It is sixteen years since John Bergson died. His wife now lies beside him, and the white shaft that marks their graves gleams across the wheat-fields. Could he rise from beneath it, he would not know the country under which he has been asleep....
V
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

Alexandra did not find time to go to her neighbor’s the next day, nor the next. It was a busy season on the farm, with the cornplowing going on, and even Emil was in the field with a team and cultivator. Carl went about...
VII
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

Marie’s father, Albert Tovesky, was one of the more intelligent Bohemians who came West in the early seventies. He settled in Omaha and became a leader and adviser among his people there. Marie was his youngest child, by a second wife, and was the...
X
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

While Emil and Carl were amusing themselves at the fair, Alexandra was at home, busy with her account-books, which had been neglected of late. She was almost through with her figures when she heard a cart drive up to the gate, and looking out...
XI
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

Emil came home at about half-past seven o’clock that evening. Old Ivar met him at the windmill and took his horse, and the young man went directly into the house. He called to his sister and she answered from her bedroom, behind the sitting-room,...
II
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

If Alexandra had had much imagination she might have guessed what was going on in Marie’s mind, and she would have seen long before what was going on in Emil’s. But that, as Emil himself had more than once reflected, was Alexandra’s blind side,...
I
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

The French Church, properly the Church of Sainte-Agnes, stood upon a hill. The high, narrow, red-brick building, with its tall steeple and steep roof, could be seen for miles across the wheat-fields, though the little town of Sainte-Agnes was completely hidden away at the...
V
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

When Frank Shabata came in from work at five o’clock that evening, old Moses Marcel, Raoul’s father, telephoned him that Amédée had had a seizure in the wheatfield, and that Doctor Paradis was going to operate on him as soon as the Hanover doctor...
III
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

The next afternoon Carl and Alexandra were walking across the fields from Mrs. Hiller’s. Alexandra had left Lincoln after midnight, and Carl had met her at the Hanover station early in the morning. After they reached home, Alexandra had gone over to Mrs. Hiller’s...
II
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

The words and events of that evening must have been graven as if with a steel tool on Mr. Razumov’s brain since he was able to write his relation with such fullness and precision a good many months afterwards.

The record of the thoughts which...
III
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Approaching this part of Mr. Razumov’s story, my mind, the decent mind of an old teacher of languages, feels more and more the difficulty of the task.

The task is not in truth the writing in the narrative form a précis of...
I
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

In the conduct of an invented story there are, no doubt, certain proprieties to be observed for the sake of clearness and effect. A man of imagination, however inexperienced in the art of narrative, has his instinct to guide him in the choice of...
IV
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Razumov walked straight home on the wet glistening pavement. A heavy shower passed over him; distant lightning played faintly against the fronts of the dumb houses with the shuttered shops all along the Rue de Carouge; and now and then, after the faint flash,...
V
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

It was nearly a fortnight after her mother’s funeral that I saw Natalia Haldin for the last time.

In those silent, sombre days the doors of the appartement on the Boulevard des Philosophes were closed to every one but myself. I believe I...
The Reconstruction Period
Authors: Washington Booker T.
Published: June 2023

The years from 1867 to 1878 I think may be called the period of Reconstruction. This included the time that I spent as a student at Hampton and as a teacher in West Virginia. During the whole of the Reconstruction period two ideas were...
Anxious Days and Sleepless Nights
Authors: Washington Booker T.
Published: June 2023

The coming of Christmas, that first year of our residence in Alabama, gave us an opportunity to get a farther insight into the real life of the people. The first thing that reminded us that Christmas had arrived was the ‘foreday’ visits of scores...
The Secret of Success in Public Speaking
Authors: Washington Booker T.
Published: June 2023

As to how my address at Atlanta was received by the audience in the Exposition building, I think I prefer to let Mr James Creelman, the noted war correspondent, tell. Mr Creelman was present, and telegraphed the following account to the New York World:—...

Atlanta...
They Live at the Marsh
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

She was the daughter of a Polish landowner who, deeply in debt to the Jews, had married a German wife with money, and who had died just before the rebellion. Quite young, she had married Paul Lensky, an intellectual who had studied at Berlin,...
Childhood of Anna Lensky
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

Tom Brangwen never loved his own son as he loved his stepchild Anna. When they told him it was a boy, he had a thrill of pleasure. He liked the confirmation of fatherhood. It gave him satisfaction to know he had a son. But...
Wedding at the Marsh
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

It was a beautiful sunny day for the wedding, a muddy earth but a bright sky. They had three cabs and two big closed-in vehicles. Everybody crowded in the parlour in excitement. Anna was still upstairs. Her father kept taking a nip of brandy....
Shame
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

Ursula had only two more terms at school. She was studying for her matriculation examination.* It was dreary work, for she had very little intelligence when she was disjointed from happiness. Stubbornness and a consciousness of impending fate kept her half-heartedly pinned...
The Widening Circle
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

Maggie’s people, the Schofields, lived in the large gardener’s cottage, that was half a farm, behind Belcote Hall. The hall was too damp to live in, so the Schofields were caretakers, gamekeepers, farmers, all in one. The father was gamekeeper and stock-breeder, the eldest...
Amber Spring
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

No unusual circumstance was it for Oldring and some of his men to visit Cottonwoods in the broad light of day; but for him to prowl about in the dark with the hoofs of his horses muffled meant that mischief was brewing. Moreover, to Venters...
The Mill-wheel of Steers
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

Meantime, at the ranch, when Judkins’s news had sent Venters on the trail of the rustlers, Jane Withersteen led the injured man to her house and with skilled fingers dressed the gunshot wound in his arm.

‘Judkins, what do you think happened to my riders?’...
The Invisible Hand
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

Jane received a letter from Bishop Dyer, not in his own handwriting, which stated that the abrupt termination of their interview had left him in some doubt as to her future conduct. A slight injury had incapacitated him from seeking another meeting at present, the...
Solitude and Storm
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

In his hidden valley Venters awakened from sleep, and his ears rang with innumerable melodies from full-throated mocking-birds, and his eyes opened wide upon the glorious golden shaft of sunlight shining through the great stone bridge. The circle of cliffs surrounding Surprise Valley lay shrouded...
West Wind
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

When the storm abated Venters sought his own cave, and late in the night, as his blood cooled and the stir and throb and thrill subsided, he fell asleep.

With the breaking of dawn his eyes unclosed. The valley lay drenched and bathed, a burnished...
Gold
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

As Lassiter had reported to Jane, Venters ‘went through’ safely, and after a toilsome journey reached the peaceful shelter of Surprise Valley. When finally he laid wearily down under the silver spruces, resting from the strain of dragging packs and burros up the slope and...
Wrangle’s Race Run
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

The plan eventually decided upon by the lovers was for Venters to go to the village, secure a horse and some kind of a disguise for Bess, or at least less striking apparel than her present garb, and to return post-haste to the valley. Meanwhile,...
Black Star and Night
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

The time had come for Venters and Bess to leave their retreat. They were at great pains to choose the few things they would be able to carry with them on the journey out of Utah.

‘Bern, whatever kind of a pack’s this, anyhow?’ questioned...
Riders of the Purple Sage
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

Black Star and Night, answering to spur, swept swiftly westward along the white, slow-rising, sage-bordered trail. Venters heard a mournful howl from Ring, but Whitie was silent. The blacks settled into their fleet, long-striding gallop. The wind sweetly fanned Venters’s hot face. From the summit...
Royal Hibernian Academy ‘Ecce Homo’
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Munkacsy’s picture which has been exhibited in the principal cities of Europe, is now on view at the Royal Hibernian Academy.1 With the other two pictures ‘Christ before Pilate’ and ‘Christ on Calvary’ it forms almost a complete trilogy of the later portion...
Drama and Life
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Although the relations between drama and life are, and must be of the most vital character, in the history of drama itself these do not seem to have been at all times, consistently in view. The earliest and best known drama, this side of the...
An Irish Poet
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

These are the verses of a writer lately dead, whom many consider the Davis of the latest national movement.1 They are issued from headquarters, and are preceded by two introductions wherein there is much said concerning the working man, mutual improvement, the superior...