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CHAPTER VI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——BUT courage! gentle reader!——I scorn it———'tis enough to have thee in my power———but to make use of the advantage which the fortune of the pen has now gained over thee, would be too much——No——! by that all powerful fire which warms the visionary brain, and...
CHAPTER XV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——"So hating, I say, to make mysteries of nothing"——I intrusted it with the post-boy, as soon as ever I got off the stones; he gave a crack with his whip to balance the compliment; and with the thill-horse1 trotting, and a...
Chapter VII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——But for heaven's sake, let us not talk of quarts or gallons——let us take the story straight before us; it is so nice and intricate a one, it will scarce bear the transposition of a single tittle; and some how or other, you have got...
Chapter XII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——"Not touch it for the world" did I say——

Lord, how I have heated my imagination with this metaphor!
Chapter XXI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——But 'tis no marvel, continued the corporal—seeing my uncle Toby musing upon it—for Love, an' please your honour, is exactly like war, in this; that a soldier, though he has escaped three weeks compleat o'Saturday-night,—may nevertheless be shot through his heart on Sunday morning ...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THE world is ashamed of being virtuous——My uncle Toby knew little of the world; and therefore when he felt he was in love with widow Wadman, he had no conception that the thing was any more to be made a mystery of, than if Mrs....
CHAPTER XXIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

MRS. Bridget had pawn'd all the little stock of honour a poor chambermaid was worth in the world, that she would get to the bottom of the affair in ten days; and it was built upon one of the most concessible postulatums1...
Chapter VII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The very day of Mr. Elton’s going to London produced a fresh occasion for Emma’s services towards her friend. Harriet had been at Hartfield, as usual, soon after breakfast; and after a time, had gone home to return again to dinner: she returned, and...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Though now the middle of December, there had yet been no weather to prevent the young ladies from tolerably regular exercise; and on the morrow, Emma had a charitable visit to pay to a poor sick family, who lived a little way out of...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The appearance of the little sitting-room as they entered, was tranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usual employment, slumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near her, most deedily* occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax,...
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

In this state of schemes, and hopes, and connivance, June opened upon Hartfield. To Highbury in general it brought no material change. The Eltons were still talking of a visit from the Sucklings, and of the use to be made of their barouche-landau; and...
Mansfield Park
Authors: Austen Jane , Stabler Jane
Published: December 2020

‘Me!’ cried Fanny … ‘Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act.’ At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts her lowly status, and gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund. When the dazzling and sophisticated Henry and Mary Crawford arrive, Fanny watches as her cousins become embroiled in rivalry and sexual jealousy. As the company starts to rehearse a play by way of entertainment, Fanny struggles to retain her independence in the face of the Crawfords’ dangerous attractions; and when Henry turns his attentions to her, the drama really begins… This new edition does full justice to Austen’s complex and subtle story, placing it in its Regency context and elucidating the theatrical background that pervades the novel.
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘But why should Mrs. Grant ask Fanny?’ said Lady Bertram. ‘How came she to think of asking Fanny?—Fanny never dines there, you know, in this sort of way. I cannot spare her, and I am sure she does not want to go.—Fanny, you...
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The next morning brought the following very unexpected letter from Isabella:—

bath, April —

My dearest Catherine,

I received your two kind letters with the greatest delight, and have a thousand apologies to make for not answering them sooner. I really am quite ashamed of...
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

He was not Mr. Wentworth, the former curate of Monkford, however suspicious appearances may be, but a captain Frederick Wentworth, his brother, who being made commander in consequence of the action off St. Domingo,* and not immediately employed, had come into Somersetshire,...
The Story concluded by Walter Hartright
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I

When I closed the last leaf of the Count’s manuscript, the half-hour during which I had engaged to remain at Forest-road had expired. Monsieur Rubelle looked at his watch, and bowed. I rose immediately, and left the agent in possession of the empty...
Chapter IX
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Often, when Charles was away, she would go to the cupboard and take out, from between the folded linen where she had left it, the green silk cigar-case.

She would look at it, open it, and even sniff its lining, which smelled of verbena and...
Chapter IV
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

As soon as it turned cold, Emma moved out of her room into the parlour, a long, low-ceilinged room where a many-branched piece of coral stood on the mantel in front of the mirror. Seated in her armchair near the window, she would watch the...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

In the first place, he could not see how to reimburse Monsieur Homais for all the medicines his pharmacy had provided; although, as a doctor, he was not required to pay for them, he found such an obligation rather demeaning. Then the household expenses, now...
Loomings
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Call me Ishmael.* Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It...
Merry Christmas
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

At length, towards noon, upon the final dismissal of the ship’s riggers, and after the Pequod had been hauled out from the wharf, and after the ever-thoughtful Charity had come off in a whale-boat, with her last gift—a nightcap for Stubb, the second mate,...
The Hyena
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at...
Stubb Kills a Whale
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents, to Queequeg it was quite a different object.

‘When you see him ‘quid,’ said the savage, honing his harpoon in the bow of his hoisted boat, ‘then you quick see him ‘parm...
The Pequod Meets the Rachel
Authors: Melville Herman
Published: December 2020

Next day, a large ship, the Rachel, was descried, bearing directly down upon the Pequod, all her spars thickly clustering with men. At the time the Pequod was making good speed through the water; but as the broad-winged windward stranger shot nigh to her,...
Morella
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Αυτο κα0’ αντο με0’ αντον, μονο ειδεζ αιει ον.

Itself, by itself solely, one; everlastingly, and single.

With a feeling of deep yet most singular affection I regarded my friend Morella. Thrown by accident into her society many...
The murders in the rue morgue
Authors: Allan Poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis....
Chapter V
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

‘Mother, mother, I am so happy!’ whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with back turned to the shrill intrusive light, was sitting in the one arm-chair that their dingy sitting-room contained. ‘I am so...
Chapter I A South Sea Bridal
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

I Saw that island first when it was neither night nor morning. The moon was to the west, setting, but still broad and bright. To the east, and right amidships of the dawn, which was all pink, the daystar sparkled like a diamond....
Chapter III The Missionary
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

As I came out on the verandah, the mission boat was shooting for the mouth of the river. She was a long whale-boat painted white; a bit of an awning astern; a native pastor crouched on the wedge of the poop, steering; some four-and-twenty paddles...
Chapter I Night on the Beach
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Throughout the island world of the Pacific, scattered men of many European races and from almost every grade of society carry activity and disseminate disease. Some prosper, some vegetate. Some have mounted the steps of thrones and owned islands and navies. Others again must...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘Upon My honour you must be off your head!' cried Spencer Coyle as the young man, with a white face, stood there panting a little and repeating ‘Really I've quite decided,’ and ‘I assure you I've thought it all out.’ They were both...
V
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

In the train the next day this struck me as a good deal for him to have consented to; but my purpose was firm enough to carry me on. I mounted the long hill to where the view begins, and then I knocked at...
VII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was my theory, my conviction, it became, as I may say, my attitude, that they had still never 'met'; and it was just on this ground I felt it generous to ask him to stand with me at her grave. He did so...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

This came home to me when, two days later, I drove over with Flora to meet, as Mrs Grose said, the little gentleman; and all the more for an incident that, presenting itself the the second evening, had deeply disconcerted me. The first day...
X
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

I Remained a while at the top of the stair, but with the effect presently of understanding that when my visitor had gone, he had gone; then I returned to my room. The foremost thing I saw there by the light of the candle...
Five Years Later
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Tellson’s Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in...
A short one—showing, among other matters, how Mr. Pickwick undertook to drive, and Mr. Winkle to ride; and how they both did it
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Bright and pleasant was the sky, balmy the air, and beautiful the appearance of every object around, as Mr. Pickwick leant over the balustrades of Rochester Bridge, contemplating nature, and waiting for breakfast. The scene was indeed one, which might well have charmed a...
In which the old Man launches forth into his favourite theme, and relates a Story about a queer Client
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Aha!” said the old man, a brief description of whose manner and appearance concluded the last chapter, “Aha! who was talking about the Inns?”

“I was, Sir,” replied Mr. Pickwick—“I was observing what singular old places they are.”

“Your!” said the...
Samuel Weller makes a Pilgrimage to Dorking, and beholds his Mother-in-law
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There still remaining an interval of two days, before the time agreed upon, for the departure of the Pickwickians to Dingley Dell, Mr. Weller sat himself down in a back room at the George and Vulture, after eating an early dinner, to muse on...
Chapter IX: Mr. and Mrs. Boffin in Consultation
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Betaking himself straight homeward, Mr. Boffin, with-out further let or hindrance, arrived at the Bower, and gave Mrs. Boffin (in a walking dress of black velvet and feathers, like a mourning-coach horse) an account of all he had said and done since breakfast.

‘This brings...
Chapter XV: The Golden Dustman at his Worst
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The breakfast table at Mr. Boffin’s was usually a very pleasant one, and was always presided over by Bella. As though he began each new day in his healthy natural character, and some waking hours were necessary to his relapse into the corrupting influences...
Chapter II: The Golden Dustman Rises a Little
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. Lammle had come to breakfast with Mr. and Mrs. Boffin. They were not absolutely uninvited, but had pressed themselves with so much urgency on the golden couple, that evasion of the honour and pleasure of their company would have been difficult,...
Chapter VI: A Cry for Help
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Paper Mill had stopped work for the night, and the paths and roads in its neighbourhood were sprinkled with clusters of people going home from their day’s labour in it. There were men, women, and children in the groups, and there was no...
Chapter IX: Two Places Vacated
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Set down by the omnibus at the corner of Saint Mary Axe, and trusting to her feet and her crutch-stick within its precincts, the dolls’ dressmaker proceeded to the place of business of Pubsey and Co. All there was sunny and quiet externally, and...
Chapter XXI the expedition
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a cheerless morning when they got into the street; blowing and raining hard; and the clouds looking dull and stormy. The night had been very wet: large pools of water had collected in the road: and the kennels were overflowing. There was...
Chapter XXVII atones for the unpoliteness of a former chapter; which deserted a lady, most unceremoniously
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so mighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and the skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as it might...
Chapter XXX relates what oliver’s new visitors thought of him
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

With many loquacious assurances that they would be agreeably surprised in the aspect of the criminal, the doctor drew the young lady’s arm through one of his; and offering his disengaged hand to Mrs. Maylie, led them, with much ceremony and stateliness, up stairs....

‘Now,’...
Chapter XLIX monks and mr. brownlow at length meet. their conversation, and the intelligence that interrupts it
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The twilight was beginning to close in, when Mr. Brownlow alighted from a hackney-coach at his own door, and knocked softly. The door being opened, a sturdy man got out of the coach and stationed himself on one side of the steps, while another...
Chapter V Men and Masters
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“Well, Stephen,” said Bounderby, in his windy manner, “what’s this I hear? What have these pests of the earth been doing to you? Come in, and speak up.”

It was into the drawing-room that he was thus bidden. A tea-table was set...
Chapter X Mrs. Sparsit’s Staircase
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Sparsit’s nerves being slow to recover their tone, the worthy woman made a stay of some weeks in duration at Mr. Bounderby’s retreat, where, notwithstanding her anchorite* turn of mind based upon her becoming consciousness of her altered station, she resigned...
Chapter VIII Paul’s Further Progress, Growth, and Character
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Beneath the watching and attentive eyes of Time—so far another Major—Paul’s slumbers gradually changed. More and more light broke in upon them; distincter and distincter dreams disturbed them; an accumulating crowd of objects and impressions swarmed about his rest; and so he passed from...
Chapter IX In Which the Wooden Midshipman Gets into Trouble
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

That spice of romance and love of the marvellous, of which there was a pretty strong infusion in the nature of young Walter Gay, and which the guardianship of his uncle, old Solomon Gills, had not very much weakened by the waters of stern...
Chapter XXXII The Wooden Midshipman Goes to Pieces
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Honest Captain Cuttle, as the weeks flew over him in his fortified retreat, by no means abated any of his prudent provisions against surprise, because of the non-appearance of the enemy. The Captain argued that his present security was too profound and wonderful to...
Chapter L Mr. Toots’s Complaint
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

There was an empty room above-stairs at the wooden Midshipman’s, which, in days of yore, had been Walter’s bedroom. Walter, rousing up the Captain betimes in the morning, proposed that they should carry thither such furniture out of the little parlour, as would grace...
Chapter IV I Fall into Disgrace
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

If the room to which my bed was removed, were a sentient thing that could give evidence, I might appeal to it at this day—who sleeps there now, I wonder!—to bear witness for me what a heavy heart I carried to it. I went...
Chapter X I Become Neglected, And Am Provided For
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The first act of business Miss Murdstone performed when the day of the solemnity was over, and light was freely admitted into the house, was to give Peggotty a month’s warning. Much as Peggotty would have disliked such a service, I believe she would...
Chapter XXXI A Greater Loss
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was not difficult for me, on Peggotty’s solicitation, to resolve to stay where I was, until after the remains of the poor carrier should have made their last journey to Blunderstone. She had long ago bought, out of her own savings, a little...
Chapter LXIII A Visitor
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

What I have purposed to record is nearly finished; but there is yet an incident conspicuous in my memory, on which it often rests with delight, and without which one thread in the web I have spun, would have a ravelled end.

I had advanced...
Part the First
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand...
Chapter Seven The Ghost’s Walk
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

While Esther sleeps, and while Esther wakes, it is still wet weather down at the place in Lincolnshire. The rain is ever falling, drip, drip, drip, by day and night, upon the broad flagged terrace-pavement, The Ghost’s Walk. The weather is so very bad,...
Chapter Fifty-Five Flight
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Inspector Bucket of the Detective has not yet struck his great blow, as just now chronicled, but is yet refreshing himself with sleep preparatory to his field-day, when, through the night and along the freezing wintry roads, a chaise and pair comes out of...
Chapter 1
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

I ama sick man … I’m a spiteful man. I’m an unattractive man. I think there is something wrong with my liver. But I cannot make head or tail of my illness and I’m not absolutely certain which part of me is sick. I’m...
Chapter 4
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Today has been a ridiculous, shocking, absurd day. It is now eleven o’clock at night. I am sitting in my tiny little room recollecting it. It began in the morning when I had to go and play roulette for Polina Aleksandrovna. I took her...
Chapter 10
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

At spas—and all over Europe, it seems—when it comes to assigning rooms to their guests, hotel managers and head waiters are guided not so much by the demands and wishes of the guests as by their own personal opinion of them; and one should...
6
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

Lebedev’s villa was not large, but it was comfortable and even pretty. The part to be let had been specially embellished. On the rather spacious veranda by the street entrance, a number of orange, lemon, and jasmine trees had been placed in large, green,...
3
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

The pleasure-garden incident horrified both mother and girls. In her alarm and agitation, Lizaveta Prokofievna had literally almost run all the way home with her daughters. In her view and understanding, so much had happened and come to light as a result that, despite...
1
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

About a week had gone by since the meeting of two characters in our story on the green bench. One fine morning, at about half-past ten, Varvara Ardalionovna Ptitsyna, who had been out visiting friends, returned home, immersed in melancholy reflection.

There are people who...
Kim
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O’Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road.
Chapter II
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

They entered the fort-like railway station, black in the end of night; the electrics sizzling over the goods-yard where they...
Chapter III
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Behind them an angry farmer brandished a bamboo pole. He was a market-gardener, Arain by caste, growing vegetables...
Chapter 28
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

By-and-by it was getting-up time; so I come down the ladder and started for down stairs, but as I come to the girls’ room, the door was open, and I see Mary Jane setting by her old hair trunk, which was open and she’d...
Chapter 36
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

As soon as we reckoned everybody was asleep, that night, we went down the lightning-rod, and shut ourselves up in the lean-to, and got out our pile of fox-fire, and went to work. We cleared everything out of the way, about four or five...
Chapter II
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a...
Chapter XI
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Close upon the hour of noon the whole village was suddenly electrified with the ghastly news. No need of the as yet undreamed-of telegraph; the tale flew from man to man, from group to group, from house to house, with little less than telegraphic...
Chapter XXXIII M. Paul Keeps His Promise
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

On the first of May, we had all—i.e. the twenty boarders and the four teachers—notice to rise at five o’clock of the morning, to be dressed and ready by six, to put ourselves under the command of M. le Professeur Emanuel, who was...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Next morning I rose with the dawn and having dressed myself and stood half an hour, my elbow leaning on the chest of drawers, considering what means I should adopt to restore my spirits, fagged with sleeplessness, to their ordinary tone—for I had no...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

A week is soon gone; le jour des noces arrived; the marriage was solemnized at St. Jacques; Mdlle. Zoraïde became Mde. Pelet née Reuter, and in about an hour after this transformation, “the happy pair”, as newspapers phrase it, were on their way to...
Basil
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the nineteenth century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world. Contemporary reviewers vehemently disapproved of this explicit treatment of adultery; and even today the passionate and lurid atmosphere he creates still has the power to disturb the reader.
VI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I have now completed all the preliminary notices of my near relatives, which it is necessary to present in these pages; and may proceed at once to the more immediate subject of my narrative.

Imagine to yourself that my father and my sister have been...
X
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

On my arrival at North Villa, I was shown into what I presumed was the drawing-room.

Everything was oppressively new. The brilliantly-varnished door cracked with a report like a pistol when it was opened; the paper on the walls, with its gaudy pattern of birds,...
Letters in Conclusion
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Letter I

from william penhale, miner, at bartallock, in cornwall,* to his wife in london.

My dear Mary,

I received your letter yesterday, and was more glad than I can say, at hearing that our darling girl Susan has got such...
Between the Scenes
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I. From Mrs. Noel Vans tone to Mr. Loscombe

‘Park Terrace, St. John’s Wood,

‘November 5th.

‘Dear
Sir,

‘I came to London yesterday, for the purpose of seeing a relative, leaving Mr. Vanstone at Baliol Cottage, and proposing to return to him in...
Roxana
Authors: Defoe Daniel
Published: December 2020

Roxana (1724), Defoe’s last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own ‘wicked’ life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful adventuress, she is also an unforgiving analyst of her own susceptibilities, who tells us of the price she pays for her successes. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. Unlike Defoe’s other penitent anti-heroes, however, she fails to triumph over these weaknesses. The novel’s drama lies not only in the heroine’s ‘vast variety of fortunes’, but in her attempts to understand the sometimes bitter lessons of her life as a ‘Fortunate Mistress’. Defoe’s achievement was to invent, in ‘Roxana’, a gripping story-teller as well as a gripping story. This edition uses the rare first edition text, with a new introduction, detailed notes, textual history, and a map.
Chapter Seven
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author being informed of a Design to accuse him of High Treason, makes his Escape to Blefuscu. His Reception there.

Before I proceed to give an Account of my leaving this Kingdom, it may be proper to inform the Reader of a...
Chapter Nine
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

A grand Debate at the General Assembly of the Houyhnhnms; and how it was determined. The Learning of the Houyhnhnms. Their Buildings. Their Manner of Burials. The Defectiveness of their Language.

One of these Grand Assemblies was held in my time, about three...
Chapter Twelve
Authors: Swift Jonathan
Published: December 2020

The Author’s Veracity. His Design in publishing this Work. His Censure of those Travellers who swerve from the Truth. The Author clears himself from any sinister Ends in writing. An Objection answered. The Method of planting Colonies. His Native Country commended. The Right of the...
Chapter XII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In a dark corner of the public omnibus which brought him back to Paris, Laurent put the finishing touches to his plan. He was almost certain he would get away with it. His heart was filled with the anxious, grim joy of a crime...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The time came when Madame Raquin, to escape the suffering that she was enduring, had the idea of letting herself starve to death. Her courage was exhausted, she could no longer stand the martyrdom of the murderers’ constant presence, and she started dreaming of...
Chapter I
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

On the drive home, the barouche* was reduced to a crawl by the long line of carriages returning by the side of the lake.* At one point they had to pull up completely.

The sun was setting in a grey October sky,*...
Letter VIII Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard Grove, March 26.

This house seems to be the house of joy; every face wears a smile, and a laugh is at every body’s service. It is quite amusing to walk about, and see the general confusion; a room leading to the garden...
Letter XVII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Friday Morning, April 15.

Sir Clement Willoughby called here yesterday at noon, and Captain Mirvan invited him to dinner. For my part, I spent the day in a manner the most uncomfortable imaginable.

I found Madame Duval at breakfast in bed, though Monsieur Du Bois...
Letter XXV Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard Grove, April 25.

No, my dear Sir, no; the work of seventeen years remains such as it was, ever unworthy your time and your labour, but not more so now,—at least I hope not,—than before that fortnight which has so much alarmed...

And...
Letter XIV Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Clifton, Oct. 3d.

This morning I saw from my window, that Lord Orville was walking in the garden; but I would not go down stairs till breakfast was ready: and then, he paid me his compliments almost as coldly as Lady Louisa paid her’s....

I...
La Belle Zoraïde
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

A Tragedy of the Old Régime.

The summer night was hot and still; not a ripple of air swept over the marais. Yonder, across Bayou St. John* lights twinkled here and there in the darkness, and in the dark sky above a few...
Tonie (At Chênière Caminada)
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

I

There was no clumsier looking fellow in church that Sunday morning than Antoine Bocaze—the one they called Tonie. But Tonie did not really care if he were clumsy or not. He felt that he could speak intelligibly to no woman save his mother; but...
The Storm: A Sequel to “The ’Cadian Ball”
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

I

The leaves were so still that even Bibi thought it was going to rain. Bobinôt, who was accustomed to converse on terms of perfect equality with his little son, called the child’s attention to certain sombre clouds that were rolling with sinister intention from...
Chapter VI
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

To Mrs. Pamela Andrews, living with Squire Booby.

’Dear Sister,

‘Since I received your Letter of your good Lady’s Death, we have had a Misfortune of the same kind in our Family. My worthy Master, Sir Thomas, died about four Days...
A dialogue between Mr Jones and the barber
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

This conversation passed partly while Jones was at dinner in his dungeon, and partly while he was expecting the barber in the parlour. And, as soon as it was ended, Mr Benjamin, as we have said, attended him, and was very kindly desired to...
In which the Man of the Hill concludes his history
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘Mr
Watson,’ continued the stranger, ‘very freely acquainted me that the unhappy situation of his circumstances, occasioned by a tide of ill luck, had in a manner forced him to a resolution of destroying himself.

‘I now began to argue very seriously with...
In which the history goes backward
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Before we proceed any farther in our history, it may be proper to look a little back, in order to account for the extraordinary appearance of Sophia and her father at the inn at Upton.

The reader may be pleased to remember that, in the...
The adventures which Sophia met with, after her leaving Upton
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Our history, just before it was obliged to turn about and travel backwards, had mentioned the departure of Sophia and her maid from the inn; we shall now, therefore, pursue the steps of that lovely creature, and leave her unworthy lover a little longer...
The history of Mrs Fitzpatrick
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Fitzpatrick, after a silence of a few moments, fetching a deep sigh, thus began:

‘It is natural to the unhappy to feel a secret concern in recollecting those periods of their lives which have been most delightful to them. The remembrance of past...
Containing various matters
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Jones was no sooner alone than he eagerly broke open his letter, and read as follows.

‘Sir, it is impossible to express what I have suffered since you left this house; and as I have reason to think you intend coming here again, I have...
In which various misfortunes befall poor Jones
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Affairs were in the aforesaid situation when Mrs Honour arrived at Mrs Miller’s, and called Jones out from the company, as we have before seen, with whom, when she found herself alone, she began as follows.

‘O my dear sir, how shall I get spirits...
Chapter VII New Scenes and Faces
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Mist clogs the sunshine,       Smoky dwarf houses Have we round on every side.’

The next afternoon, about twenty miles from Milton-Northern, they entered on the little branch railway that led to Heston. Heston itself was one long straggling street, running...
Chapter XIII A Soft Breeze in a Sultry Place
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘That doubt and trouble, fear and pain, And anguish, all, are shadows vain, That death itself shall not remain;

That weary deserts we may tread, A dreary labyrinth may thread, Thro’ dark ways underground be led;

Yet, if we will one Guide obey, The dreariest...
Chapter XIX Ease Not Peace
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘A dull rotation, never at a stay, Yesterday’s face twin image of to-day.’

‘Of what each one should be, he sees the form and rule, And till he reach to that, his joy can ne’er be full.’

It...
Far from the Madding Crowd
Authors: Hardy Thomas , Shires Linda M.
Published: December 2020

‘I shall do one thing in this life – one thing for certain – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.’ Gabriel Oak is only one of three suitors for the hand of the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene. He must compete with the dashing young soldier Sergeant Troy and respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. And while their fates depend upon the choice Bathsheba makes, she discovers the terrible consequences of an inconstant heart. Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy’s novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. Set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year, the story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. This new edition retains the critical text that restores previously deleted and revised passages.
Chapter XXIX Particulars of a twilight walk
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

We now see the element of folly distinctly mingling with the varying particulars which made up the character of Bathsheba Everdene. It was almost foreign to her intrinsic nature. Introduced as lymph on the dart of Eros,* it eventually permeated and coloured...
Chapter XLVIII Doubts arise: doubts linger
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband’s absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference. She belonged to him: the...
I.–iv.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Walking somewhat slowly by reason of his concentration, the boy—an ancient man in some phases of thought, much younger than his years in others—was overtaken by a light-footed pedestrian whom, notwithstanding the gloom, he could perceive to be wearing an extraordinarily tall hat, a...
I.–v.
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

During the three or four succeeding years a quaint and singular vehicle might have been discerned moving along the lanes and byroads near Marygreen, driven in a quaint and singular way.

In the course of a month or two after the receipt of the books...
X
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

While she still sat under the Scotchman’s eyes a man came up to the door, reaching it as Henchard opened the door of the inner office to admit Elizabeth. The new-comer stepped forward like the quicker cripple at Bethesda,* and entered in...
XXXIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

At this date there prevailed in Casterbridge a convivial custom—scarcely recognized as such, yet none the less established. On the afternoon of every Sunday a large contingent of the Casterbridge journeymen—steady church-goers and sedate characters—having attended service, filed from the church doors across the...
XXXIX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

When Farfrae descended out of the loft, breathless from his encounter with Henchard, he paused at the bottom to recover himself. He arrived at the yard with the intention of putting his horse into the gig himself (all the men having a holiday), and...
XLII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

But the emotional conviction that he was in Somebody’s hand began to die out of Henchard’s breast as time slowly removed into distance the event which had given that feeling birth. The apparition of Newson haunted him. He would surely return.

Yet Newson did not...
XLV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was about a month after the day which closed as in the last chapter. Elizabeth-Jane had grown accustomed to the novelty of her situation, and the only difference between Donald’s movements now and formerly was that he hastened indoors rather more quickly after...
Chapter I “My Mind to me a Kingdom is”
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

In Clym Yeobright’s face could be dimly seen the typical countenance of the future. Should there be a classic period to art hereafter, its Phidias* may produce such faces. The view of life as a thing to be put up with, replacing...
LVI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Brooks, the lady who was the householder at The Herons, and owner of all the handsome furniture, was not a person of an unusually curious turn of mind. She was too deeply materialized, poor woman, by her long and enforced bondage to that...
LIX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The city of Wintoncester—that fine old city, aforetime capital of Wessex—lay amidst its convex and concave downlands in all the brightness and warmth of a July morning. The gabled brick, tile, and freestone houses had almost dried off for the season their integument of...
Frankenstein
Authors: Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft
Published: December 2020

Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture--the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the effects of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more.
Chapter XIV
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

‘Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. It was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfolding as it did a number of circumstances, each interesting and wonderful to one so utterly inexperienced as I...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several months in this wonderful and celebrated city. Clerval desired the intercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time; but this was with me a secondary object; I...
11 In Which the Author Thinks It Is Now Time to Return to the Vicomte De Bragelonne
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Our readers will have observed in this story, the adventures of the new and of the past generation being detailed, as it were, side by side. To the former, the reflection of the glory of earlier years, the experience of the bitter things of...
32 The Patterns
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

During all this time the crowd was slowly rolling away, leaving at every angle of the counter either a murmur or a menace, as the waves leave foam or scattered sea-weed on the sands, when they retire with the ebbing tide. In about ten...
41 Nectar and Ambrosia
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

M. Fouquet held the stirrup of the King, who, having dismounted, bowed most graciously, and more graciously still held out his hand to him, which Fouquet, in spite of a slight resistance on the King’s part, carried respectfully to his lips. The King...
46 A Night at the Bastille
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Pain, anguish, and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man’s capability of endurance the anguish with which he afflicts him; such,...
76 The Grotto
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

In spite of the sort of divination which was the remarkable side of the character of Aramis, the event, subject to the chances of things over which uncertainty presides, did not fall out exactly as the Bishop of Vannes had foreseen. Biscarrat, better mounted...
85 The Vision of Athos
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

When this fainting of Athos had ceased, the Comte, almost ashamed of having given way before this super-natural event, dressed himself and ordered his horse, determined to ride to Blois, to open more certain correspondence with either Africa, d’Artagnan, or Aramis. In fact, this...
XVIII monsieur de beaufort
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

This is what had taken place, and these are the reasons which necessitated d’Artagnan’s return to Paris.

One evening when Mazarin, according to his custom, went to visit the queen after every one had retired, and on passing near the guard-room, the door of which...
XXVII the king’s highway
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

They dashed along thus the whole length of the faubourg St Antoine towards Vincennes. They were soon out of the city, soon in the forest, and then in sight of the village. The horses seemed to become more and more excited at each step,...
LI misfortune is a help to memory
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Anne, furious, had gone into her oratory. ‘What!’ cried she, wringing her beautiful arms—’what! the people have seen M. de Condé,* the first prince of the blood, arrested by my mother-in-law, Marie de Médicis; they have seen my mother-in-law, their old regent,...
LXXII cromwell’s house
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It was really Mordaunt whom d’Artagnan had followed, but without recognizing him.

On entering the house he had taken off the mask, removed the grey beard which he had worn for a disguise, and then gone upstairs and entered a room hung with dark-coloured hangings,...
LXXXVII strength of mind and strength of arm
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Now let us cross over to the hunting pavilion. At the end of the court, where through a portico formed of Ionic columns some dog-kennels were seen, arose an oblong building, which seemed to stretch like an arm before this other arm, the orangery...
XCIII in which one begins to believe that porthos will at last be made a baron, and d’artagnan a captain
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

In about ten minutes Aramis arrived, accompanied by Grimaud and eight or ten gentlemen. He was quite delighted, and threw himself on his friends’ necks.

‘You are free then, brothers, free without my help! I have then done nothing in your behalf in spite of...
Chapter II
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

“And the King commandeth and forbiddeth, that from henceforth neither fairs nor markets be kept in churchyards, for the honour of the Church.’,Statutes :* 13 Edw. I. Stat. n. cap. vi

s that venerable and learned poet (whose voluminous works we...
Chapter I
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

On the pleasant banks of the Garonne, in the province of Gascony, stood, in the year 1584, the...
Chapter VI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Daylight dispelled from Emily’s mind the glooms of superstition, but not those of apprehension. The Count Morano was the first image, that occurred...
Chapter X
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

We now return to Languedoc and to the mention of Count...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Count de villefort, at length, received a letter from the advocate at...
2 Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

As with you, so also with us, there are four points of the compass North, South, East, and West.

There being no sun nor other heavenly bodies, it is impossible for us to determine the North in the usual way; but we have a method...
22 How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

My failure with my Grandson did not encourage me to communicate my secret to others of my household; yet neither was I led by it to despair of success. Only I saw that I must not wholly rely on the catch-phrase ‘Upward, not Northward,’...
2. Debating the Tour
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

The Gentleman’s Magazine (vol. 1, 7 August 1731), ‘London Journal’

The Gentleman’s Magazine, or Monthly Intelligencer, launched by the printer Edward Cave in 1731, was perhaps the most influential of the mid-eighteenth-century English periodicals. The magazine’s critique of the Grand Tour attacks its educational...
Chapter VIII: A Boy and a Girl
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

WHEN I came to myself again, my hands were full of young grass and mould; and a little girl kneeling at my side was rubbing my forehead tenderly, with a dock-leaf and a handkerchief.

‘Oh, I am so glad,’ she whispered softly, as I opened...
Chapter XLIII: Not too soon
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

WHEN I started on my road across the hills and valleys (which now were pretty much alike), the utmost I could hope to do was to gain the crest of hills, and look into the Doone Glen. Hence I might at least descry whether Lorna...