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Eveline
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired.

Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his...
A Little Cloud
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Eight years before he had seen his friend off at the North Wall and wished him godspeed. Gallaher had got on. You could tell that at once by his travelled air, his well-cut tweed suit, and fearless accent. Few fellows had talents like his...
Clay
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

The matron had given her leave to go out as soon as the women’s tea was over and Maria looked forward to her evening out. The kitchen was spick and span: the cook said you could see yourself in the big copper boilers. The...
The Dead
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Lily, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had...
III
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and...
IV
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Sunday was dedicated to the mystery of the Holy Trinity, Monday to the Holy Ghost, Tuesday to the Guardian Angels, Wednesday to saint Joseph, Thursday to the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, Friday to the Suffering Jesus, Saturday to the Blessed Virgin Mary....

Every...
V
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

He drained his third cup of watery tea to the dregs and set to chewing the crusts of fried bread that were scattered near him, staring into the dark pool of the jar. The yellow dripping had been scooped out like a boghole and...
10
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

For Cam grazed the easel by an inch; she would not stop for Mr Bankes and Lily Briscoe; though Mr Bankes, who would have liked a daughter of his own, held out his hand; she would not stop for her father, whom she grazed...
11
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out—a refrigerator, a mowing-machine, a gentleman in evening dress—children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they...
15
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

‘Yes,’ said Prue, in her considering way, answering her mother’s question, ‘I think Nancy did go with them.’
17
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

But what have I done with my life? thought Mrs Ramsay, taking her place at the head of the table, and looking at all the plates making white circles on it. ‘William, sit by me,’ she said. ‘Lily,’ she said, wearily, ‘over there.’ They...
1
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

‘Well, we must wait for the future to show,’ said Mr Bankes, coming in from the terrace.*

‘It’s almost too dark to see,’ said Andrew, coming up from the beach.

‘One can hardly tell which is the sea and which is the...
3
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a cock crows, or a faint green quickens, like a turning leaf, in the hollow of the wave. Night, however, succeeds...
1
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

‘Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,’ said Mrs Ramsay.* ‘But you’ll have to be up with the lark,’ she added.

To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled the expedition were bound to take place,...
4
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

The sails flapped over their heads. The water chuckled and slapped the sides of the boat, which drowsed motionless in the sun. Now and then the sails rippled with a little breeze in them, but the ripple ran over them and ceased. The boat...
5
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Yes, that is their boat, Lily Briscoe decided, standing on the edge of the lawn. It was the boat with greyish-brown sails, which she saw now flatten itself upon the water and shoot off across the bay. There he sits, she thought, and the...
9
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

[The sea without a stain on it, thought Lily Briscoe, still standing and looking out over the bay. The sea is stretched like silk across the bay. Distance had an extraordinary power; they had been swallowed up in it, she felt, they were...
12
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Mr Ramsay had almost done reading. One hand hovered over the page as if to be in readiness to turn it the very instant he had finished it. He sat there bareheaded with the wind blowing his hair about, extraordinarily exposed to everything. He...
3
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

‘Perhaps you will wake up and find the sun shining and the birds singing,’ she said compassionately, smoothing the little boy’s hair, for her husband, with his caustic saying that it would not be fine, had dashed his spirits she could see. This...
4
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Indeed, he almost knocked her easel over, coming down upon her with his hands waving, shouting out ‘Boldly we rode and well’, but, mercifully, he turned sharp, and rode off, to die gloriously she supposed upon the heights of Balaclava.* Never was...
5
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

‘And even if it isn’t fine tomorrow,’ said Mrs Ramsay, raising her eyes to glance at William Bankes and Lily Briscoe as they passed, ‘it will be another day. And now,’ she said, thinking that Lily’s charm was her Chinese eyes, aslant in...
How Pearl Button was Kidnapped
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

Pearl Button swung on the little gate in front of the House of Boxes. It was the early afternoon of a sunshiny day with little winds playing hide-and-seek in it. They blew Pearl Button’s pinafore frill into her mouth and they blew the street dust...
Prelude
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

I

There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy.* When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother’s lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a...
Bliss
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to...
Psychology
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

When she opened the door and saw him standing there she was more pleased than ever before, and he, too, as he followed her into the studio, seemed very very happy to have come.

‘Not busy?’

‘No. Just going to have tea.’

‘And you are...
Pictures
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

Eight o’clock in the morning. Miss Ada Moss lay in a black iron bedstead, staring up at the ceiling. Her room, a Bloomsbury top-floor back, smelled of soot and face powder and the paper of fried potatoes she brought in for supper the night before....
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

I

The week after was one of the busiest weeks of their lives. Even when they went to bed it was only their bodies that lay down and rested; their minds went on, thinking things out, talking things over, wondering, deciding, trying to remember where....
Her First Ball
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

Exactly when the ball began Leila would have found it hard to say. Perhaps her first real partner was the cab. It did not matter that she shared the cab with the Sheridan girls* and their brother. She sat back in her own...
Marriage À La Mode
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

On his way to the station William remembered with a fresh pang of disappointment that he was taking nothing down to the kiddies. Poor little chaps! It was hard lines on them. Their first words always were as they ran to greet him, ‘What have...
The Doll’s House
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

When dear old Mrs Hay went back to town after staying with the Burnells she sent the children a doll’s house. It was so big that the carter and Pat* carried it into the courtyard, and there it stayed, propped up on two...
The Canary
Authors: Mansfield Katherine
Published: June 2023

… You see that big nail to the right of the front door? I can scarcely look at it even now and yet I could not bear to take it out. I should like to think it was there always even after my time. I...
The Method of Interpreting Dreams
Authors: Freud Sigmund , Crick Joyce , Robertson Ritchie
Published: June 2023

Analysis of a Specimen Dream

The title I have given my treatise makes it clear which tradition I would like to take up in the way dreams are understood. I propose to show that dreams are capable of yielding an interpretation; and any contribution...
Dream-Distortion
Authors: Freud Sigmund , Crick Joyce , Robertson Ritchie
Published: June 2023

Now if I make the assertion that wish-fulfilment is the meaning of each and every dream, and hence that there can be no other dreams besides wishful dreams, I am sure in advance that I shall encounter the strongest opposition. It will...
The Essen Barges
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I lay for four days like a log in that garret bed. The storm died down, the thaw set in, and the snow melted. The children played about the doors and told stories at night round the fire. Stumm’s myrmidons no doubt beset every road...
The Return of the Straggler
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Before I turned in that evening I had done some good hours’ work in the engine-room. The boat was oil-fired, and in very fair order, so my duties did not look as if they would be heavy. There was nobody who could be properly called...
The Companions of the Rosy Hours
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

We battled to a corner, where a jut of building stood out into the street. It was our only chance to protect our backs, to stand up with the rib of stone between us. It was only the work of seconds. One instant we were...
The Lady of the Mantilla
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Since that first night I had never clapped eyes on Sandy. He had gone clean out of the world, and Blenkiron and I waited anxiously for a word of news. Our own business was in good trim, for we were presently going east towards Mesopotamia,...
Sparrows on the Housetops
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

‘I’ve often regretted,’ said Blenkiron, ‘that miracles have left off happening.’

He got no answer, for I was feeling the walls for something in the nature of a window.

‘For I reckon,’ he went on, ‘that it wants a good old-fashioned copper-bottomed miracle to get...
Greenmantle
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Peter scarcely looked up from his breakfast.

‘I’m willing, Dick,’ he said. ‘But you mustn’t ask me to be friends with Stumm. He makes my stomach cold, that one.’

For the first time he had stopped calling me ‘Cornelis.’ The day of make-believe was over...
The Guns of the North
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

But no more shells fell.

The night grew dark and showed a field of glittering stars, for the air was sharpening again towards frost. We waited for an hour, crouching just behind the far parapets, but never came that ominous familiar whistle.

Then Sandy rose...
How a Retired Provision Merchant Felt the Impulse of Spring
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Mr Dickson McCunn completed the polishing of his smooth cheeks with the towel, glanced appreciatively at their reflection in the looking-glass, and then permitted his eyes to stray out of the window. In the little garden lilacs were budding, and there was a gold...
Of Mr John Heritage and the Difference in Points of View
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Dickson McCunn was never to forget the first stage in that pilgrimage. A little after midday he descended from a grimy third-class carriage at a little station whose name I have forgotten. In the village near-by he purchased some new-baked buns and ginger biscuits,...
How Childe Roland and Another Came to the Dark Tower
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Dickson woke with a vague sense of irritation. As his recollections took form they produced a very unpleasant picture of Mr John Heritage. The poet had loosened all his placid idols, so that they shook and rattled in the niches where they had been...
Dougal
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

‘You’ll do nothing of the kind,’ said Dickson. You’re coming home to your supper. It was to be on the chap of nine.’

‘I’m going back to that place.’

The man was clearly demented and must be humoured. ‘Well, you must wait till the...
How Mr Mccunn Committed an Assault Upon an Ally
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Dickson always maintained that his senses did not leave him for more than a second or two, but he admitted that he did not remember very clearly the events of the next few hours. He was conscious of a bad pain above his eyes,...
The Coming of the Danish Brig
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

Mr John Heritage, solitary in the old Tower, found much to occupy his mind. His giddiness was passing, though the dregs of a headache remained, and his spirits rose with his responsibilities. At daybreak he breakfasted out of the Mearns Street provision box, and...
The Gorbals Die-Hards go Into Action
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

We left Mr McCunn, full of aches but desperately resolute in spirit, hobbling by the Auchenlochan road into the village of Dalquharter. His goal was Mrs Morran’s hen-house, which was Thomas Yownie’s poste de commandement.* The rain had come on...
The Milkman Sets Out on his Travels
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I sat down in an armchair and felt very sick. That lasted for maybe five minutes, and was succeeded by a fit of the horrors. The poor staring white face on the floor was more than I could bear, and I managed to...
The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

I sat down on the very crest of the pass and took stock of my position.

Behind me was the road climbing through a long cleft in the hills, which was the upper glen of some notable river. In front was a flat space of...
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

‘Nonsense!’ said the official from the Admiralty.

Sir Walter got up and left the room while we looked blankly at the table. He came back in ten minutes with a long face. ‘I have spoken to Alloa,’ he said. ‘Had him out of...
Various Parties Converging on the Sea
Authors: Buchan John
Published: June 2023

A pink and blue June morning found me at Bradgate looking from the Griffin Hotel over a smooth sea to the lightship on the Cock sands which seemed the size of a bell-buoy. A couple of miles farther south and much nearer the...
VIII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

When Ethan was called back to the farm by his father’s illness his mother gave him, for his own use, a small room behind the untenanted ‘best parlour.’ Here he had nailed up shelves for his books, built himself a box-sofa out of boards...
III
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

There was some hauling to be done at the lower end of the wood-lot, and Ethan was out early the next day.

The winter morning was as clear as crystal. The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the...
III
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Bridge at Bellomont usually lasted till the small hours; and when Lily went to bed that night she had played too long for her own good.

Feeling no desire for the self-communion which awaited her in her room, she lingered on the broad stairway, looking...
VII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

It spoke much for the depth of Mrs Trenor’s friendship that her voice, in admonishing Miss Bart, took the same note of personal despair as if she had been lamenting the collapse of a house-party.

‘All I can say is, Lily, that I can’t make...
X
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The autumn dragged on monotonously. Miss Bart had received one or two notes from Judy Trenor, reproaching her for not returning to Bellomont; but she replied evasively, alleging the obligation to remain with her aunt. In truth, however, she was fast wearying of her...
XII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Miss Bart had in fact been treading a devious way, and none of her critics could have been more alive to the fact than herself; but she had a fatalistic sense of being drawn from one wrong turning to another, without ever perceiving the...
XV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

When Lily woke she had the bed to herself, and the winter light was in the room.

She sat up, bewildered by the strangeness of her surroundings; then memory returned, and she looked about her with a shiver. In the cold slant of light reflected...
VIII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The autumn days declined to winter. Once more the leisure world was in transition between country and town, and Fifth Avenue, still deserted at the week-end, showed from Monday to Friday a broadening stream of carriages between house-fronts gradually restored to consciousness....

The Horse...
IX
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

When Lily woke on the morning after her translation to the Emporium Hotel, her first feeling was one of purely physical satisfaction. The force of contrast gave an added keenness to the luxury of lying once more in a soft-pillowed bed, and looking across...
X
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

‘Look at those spangles, Miss Bart—every one of ’em sewed on crooked.’

The tall forewoman, a pinched perpendicular figure, dropped the condemned structure of wire and net on the table at Lily’s side, and passed on to the next figure in the line.

There...
The Shimerdas
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

I

I first heard of Ántonia1 on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother* within a year, and...
The Hired Girls
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

I

I Had been living with my grandfather for nearly three years* when he decided to move to Black Hawk. He and grandmother were getting old for the heavy work of a farm, and as I was now thirteen they thought I...
The Early Married Life of the Morels
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

‘The Bottoms’* succeeded to ‘Hell Row’. Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brook-side on Greenhill Lane. There lived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits* two fields away. The brook ran...
The Birth of Paul, and Another Battle
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

After such a scene as the last, Walter Morel was for some days abashed and ashamed, but he soon regained his old bullying indifference. Yet there was a slight shrinking, a diminishing in his assurance. Physically even, he shrank, and his fine full presence...
Lad-and-Girl Love
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

Paul had been many times up to Willey Farm during the autumn. He was friends with the two younger boys. Edgar, the eldest, would not condescend at first. And Miriam also refused to be approached. She was afraid of being set at nought, as...
Clara
Authors: Lawrence D. H.
Published: June 2023

When he was twenty-three years old Paul sent in a landscape to the winter exhibition at Nottingham Castle. Miss Jordan had taken a good deal of interest in him, had invited him to her house, where he met other artists. He was beginning to...
The Trail of the Meat
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned...
The Gray Cub
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

He was different from his brothers and sisters. Their hair already betrayed the reddish hue inherited from their mother, the she-wolf; while he alone, in this particular, took after his father. He was the one little gray cub of the litter. He had bred...
The Outcast
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

Lip-Lip continued so to darken his days that White Fang became wickeder and more ferocious than it was his natural right to be. Savageness was a part of his make-up, but the savageness thus developed exceeded his make-up. He acquired a reputation for wickedness...
The Trail of the Gods
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

In the fall of the year, when the days were shortening and the bite of the frost was coming into the air, White Fang got his chance for liberty. For several days there had been a great hubbub in the village. The summer camp...
The Famine
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

The spring of the year was at hand when Gray Beaver finished his long journey. It was April, and White Fang was a year old when he pulled into the home village and was loosed from the harness by Mit-sah. Though a long way...
The Mad God
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

A small number of white men lived in Fort Yukon. These men had been long in the country. They called themselves Sour-doughs, and took great pride in so classifying themselves. For other men, new in the land, they felt nothing but disdain. The men...
The Reign of Hate
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

Under the tutelage of the mad god, White Fang became a fiend. He was kept chained in a pen at the rear of the fort, and here Beauty Smith teased and irritated and drove him wild with petty torments. The man early discovered White...
The God’s Domain
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

Not only was White Fang adaptable by nature, but he had travelled much, and knew the meaning and necessity of adjustment. Here, in Sierra Vista, which was the name of Judge Scott’s place, White Fang quickly began to make himself at home. He had...
The Call of Kind
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

The months came and went. There was plenty of food and no work in the Southland, and White Fang lived fat and prosperous and happy. Not alone was he in the geographical Southland, for he was in the Southland of life. Human kindness was...
The Sleeping Wolf
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

It was about this time that the newspapers were full of the daring escape of a convict from San Quentin prison. He was a ferocious man. He had been ill-made in the making. He had not been born right, and he had not been...
Brown Wolf
Authors: London Jack
Published: June 2023

She had delayed, because of the dew-wet grass, in order to put on her overshoes, and when she emerged from the house found her waiting husband absorbed in the wonder of a bursting almond-bud. She sent a questing glance across the tall grass and...
III
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Jukes was as ready a man as any half-dozen young mates that may be caught by casting a net upon the waters; and though he had been somewhat taken aback by the startling viciousness of the first squall, he had pulled himself together on...
I
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

On my right hand there were lines of fishing-stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes, and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad tribe of fishermen now gone to...
Chapter I
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers’ clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud; young lady typists will have to fidget behind...
Chapter XI
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

One after another they rose and stretched themselves, and in a few minutes divided more or less into two separate parties. One of these parties was dominated by Hughling Elliot and Mrs Thornbury, who, having both read the same books and considered the same...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

There were many rooms in the villa, but one room which possessed a character of its own because the door was always shut, and no sound of music or laughter issued from it. Everyone in the house was vaguely conscious that something went on...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

But Hewet need not have increased his torments by imagining that Hirst was still talking to Rachel. The party very soon broke up, the Flushings going in one direction, Hirst in another, and Rachel remaining in the hall, pulling the illustrated papers about, turning...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

Thanks to Mr Flushing’s discipline, the right stages of the river were reached at the right hours, and when next morning after breakfast the chairs were again drawn out in a semicircle in the bow, the launch was within a few miles of the...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

The darkness fell, but rose again, and as each day spread widely over the earth and parted them from the strange day in the forest when they had been forced to tell each other what they wanted, this wish of theirs was revealed to...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Woolf Virginia
Published: June 2023

The afternoon was very hot, so hot that the breaking of the waves on the shore sounded like the repeated sigh of some exhausted creature, and even on the terrace under an awning the bricks were hot, and the air danced perpetually over the...
X
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The next day he persuaded May to escape for a walk in the Park after luncheon. As was the custom in old-fashioned Episcopalian New York, she usually accompanied her parents to church on Sunday afternoons; but Mrs Welland condoned her truancy, having that very...
XIII
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

It was a crowded night at Wallack’s theatre.*

The play was ‘The Shaughraun,’* with Dion Boucicault in the title rôle and Harry Montague and Ada Dyas as the lovers. The popularity of the admirable English company was at its height, and the...
XV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Newland Archer arrived at the Chiverses’ on Friday evening, and on Saturday went conscientiously through all the rites appertaining to a week-end at Highbank.

In the morning he had a spin in the ice-boat with his hostess and a few of the hardier guests; in...
XXI
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

The small bright lawn stretched away smoothly to the big bright sea.

The turf was hemmed with an edge of scarlet geranium and coleus, and cast-iron vases painted in chocolate colour, standing at intervals along the winding path that led to the sea, looped their...
XXX
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

That evening when Archer came down before dinner he found the drawing-room empty.

He and May were dining alone, all the family engagements having been postponed since Mrs Manson Mingott’s illness; and as May was the more punctual of the two he was surprised...
XXXI
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Archer had been stunned by old Catherine’s news. It was only natural that Madame Olenska should have hastened from Washington in response to her grandmother’s summons; but that she should have decided to remain under her roof—especially now that Mrs Mingott had almost regained...
XXXIV
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

Newland Archer sat at the writing-table in his library in East Thirty-ninth Street.

He had just got back from a big official reception for the inauguration of the new galleries at the Metropolitan Museum, and the spectacle of those great spaces crowded with the spoils...
VI
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: June 2023

That evening, after Mr Jackson had taken himself away, and the ladies had retired to their chintz-curtained bedroom, Newland Archer mounted thoughtfully to his own study. A vigilant hand had, as usual, kept the fire alive and the lamp trimmed; and the room, with...
The Origins of these Beliefs
Authors: Durkheim Émile
Published: June 2023

A Critical Examination of the Theories

The beliefs we have just reviewed are clearly religious in nature since they involve a classification of things as sacred and profane. To be sure, spiritual beings are not invoked here, and in the course of our discussion...
The Deadly Poppy Field.
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

Our little party of travellers awakened next morning refreshed and full of hope, and Dorothy breakfasted like a princess off peaches and plums from the trees beside the river. Behind them was the dark forest they had passed safely through, although they had...
How the Balloon was Launched.
Authors: Baum L. Frank , Denslow W. W.
Published: June 2023

For three days Dorothy heard nothing from Oz. These were sad days for the little girl, although her friends were all quite happy and contented. The Scarecrow told them there were wonderful thoughts in his head; but he would not say what they...
Chance
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Chance (1914) was the first of Conrad’s novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and abandoned young girl who is ‘like a beggar,without a right to anything but compassion’. After her bankrupt father is imprisoned, she learns the harsh fact that a woman in her position ‘has no resources but in herself. Her only means of action is to be what she is.’ Flora’s long struggle to achieve some dignity and happiness makes her Conrad’s most moving female character.

Reflecting the contemporary interest in the New Woman and the Suffragette question, Chance also marks the final appearance of Marlow, Conrad’s most effective and wise narrator. This revised edition uses the English first edition text and has a new chronology and bibliography.
Young Powell and his Chance
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

I Believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage...
Flora
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“ ‘A Very singular prohibition,’ remarked Mrs. Fyne after a short silence. ‘He seemed to love the child.’

“She was puzzled. But I surmised that it might have been the sullenness of a man unconscious of guilt and standing at bay to fight his...
The Great de Barral
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“Renovated certainly the saloon of the Ferndale was to receive the ‘strange woman.’ The mellowness of its old-fashioned, tarnished decoration was gone. And Anthony looking round saw the glitter, the gleams, the colour of new things, untried, unused, very bright—too bright....
… A Moonless Night, Thick With Stars Above, Very Dark on the Water
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

“In the mess-room Powell found Mr. Franklin hacking at a piece of cold salt beef with a table knife. The mate, fiery in the face and rolling his eyes over that task, explained that the carver belonging to the mess-room could not be...
In Chancery*
Authors: Galsworthy John
Published: June 2023

‘Two households, both alike in dignity,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny.’*

to

Jessie and Joseph Conrad*
To Let
Authors: Galsworthy John
Published: June 2023

‘From out the fatal loins of those two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.’*

to

CHARLES SCRIBNER*
O Pioneers!
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

Willa Cather’s second novel, O Pioneers! (1913) tells the story of Alexandra Bergson and her determination to save her immigrant family’s Nebraska farm. Clear-headed and fiercely independent, Alexandra’s passionate faith in the prairie makes her a wealthy landowner.

By placing a strong, self-reliant woman at the centre of her tale, Cather gives the quintessentially American novel of the soil a radical cast. Yet, although influenced by the democratic utopianism of Walt Whitman and the serene regionalism of Sarah Orne Jewett, O Pioneers! is more than merely an elegy for the lost glories of America’s pioneer past. In its rage for order and efficiency, the novel testifies to the cultural politics of the Progressive Era, the period of massive social and economic transformations that helped to modernize the United States in the years between the Civil War and World War.
III
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

One Sunday afternoon in July, six months after John Bergson’s death, Carl was sitting in the doorway of the Linstrum kitchen, dreaming over an illustrated paper, when he heard the rattle of a wagon along the hill road. Looking up he recognized the Bergsons’...
II
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

Emil reached home a little past noon, and when he went into the kitchen Alexandra was already seated at the head of the long table, having dinner with her men, as she always did unless there were visitors. He slipped into his empty place...
IV
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

Carl had changed, Alexandra felt, much less than one might have expected. He had not become a trim, self-satisfied city man. There was still something homely and wayward and definitely personal about him. Even his clothes, his Norfolk coat* and his very...
II
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

Signa’s wedding supper was over. The guests, and the tiresome little Norwegian preacher who had performed the marriage ceremony, were saying good-night. Old Ivar was hitching the horses to the wagon to take the wedding presents and the bride and groom up to their...
VI
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

The Church has always held that life is for the living. On Saturday, while half the village of Sainte-Agnes was mourning for Amédée and preparing the funeral black for his burial on Monday, the other half was busy with white dresses and white veils...
VII
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

When Frank Shabata got home that night, he found Emil’s mare in his stable. Such an impertinence amazed him. Like everybody else, Frank had had an exciting day. Since noon he had been drinking too much, and he was in a bad temper. He...
VIII
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

When old Ivar climbed down from his loft at four o’clock the next morning, he came upon Emil’s mare, jaded and lather-stained, her bridle broken, chewing the scattered tufts of hay outside the stable door. The old man was thrown into a fright at...
I
Authors: Cather Willa
Published: June 2023

Winter has settled down over the Divide again; the season in which Nature recuperates, in which she sinks to sleep between the fruitfulness of autumn and the passion of spring. The birds have gone. The teeming life that goes on down in the long...
A Slave Among Slaves
Authors: Washington Booker T.
Published: June 2023

I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but at any rate I suspect I must have been born somewhere and at some time. As...
Black Race and Red Race
Authors: Washington Booker T.
Published: June 2023

During the year that I spent in Washington, and for some little time before this, there had been considerable agitation in the state of West Virginia over the question of moving the capital of the state from Wheeling to some other central point. As...
Girlhood of Anna Brangwen
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

When Anna was nine years old, Brangwen sent her to the dame’s school* in Cossethay. There she went, flipping and dancing in her inconsequential fashion, doing very much as she liked, disconcerting old Miss Coates by her indifference to respectability and by...
First Love
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

As Ursula passed from girlhood towards womanhood, gradually the cloud of self-responsibility gathered upon her. She became aware of herself, that she was a separate entity in the midst of an unseparated obscurity, that she must go somewhere, she must become something. And she was...
The Man’s World
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

Ursula came back to Cossethay to fight with her mother. Her schooldays were over. She had passed the matriculation examination. Now she came home to face that empty period between school and possible marriage.

At first she thought it would be just like holidays all...
The Bitterness of Ecstasy
Authors: Lawrence D.H.
Published: June 2023

A Storm of industry raged on in the house. Ursula did not go to college till October. So, with a distinct feeling of responsibility, as if she must express herself in this house, she laboured arranging, re-arranging, selecting, contriving.

She could use her father’s ordinary...
Lassiter
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

A sharp clip-clop of iron-shod hoofs deadened and died away, and clouds of yellow dust drifted from under the cottonwoods out over the sage.

Jane Withersteen gazed down the wide purple slope with dreamy and troubled eyes. A rider had just left her and it...
The Masked Rider
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

Venters looked quickly from the fallen rustlers to the cañon where the others had disappeared. He calculated on the time needed for running horses to return to the open, if their riders heard shots. He waited breathlessly. But the estimated time dragged by and no...
Surprise Valley
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

Back in that strange cañon, which Venters had found indeed a valley of surprises, the wounded girl’s whispered appeal, almost a prayer, not to take her back to the rustlers crowned the events of the last few days with a confounding climax. That she should...
Faith and Unfaith
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

At Jane Withersteen’s home the promise made to Mrs Larkin to care for little Fay had begun to be fulfilled. Like a gleam of sunlight through the cottonwoods was the coming of the child to the gloomy house of Withersteen. The big, silent halls echoed...
Shadows on the Sage-slope
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

In the cloudy, threatening, waning summer days shadows lengthened down the sage-slope, and Jane Withersteen likened them to the shadows gathering and closing in around her life.

Mrs Larkin died, and little Fay was left an orphan with no known relative. Jane’s love redoubled. It...
Fay
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

At the home of Jane Withersteen Little Fay was climbing Lassiter’s knee.

‘Does oo love me?’ she asked.

Lassiter, who was as serious with Fay as he was gentle and loving, assured her in earnest and elaborate speech that he was her devoted subject. Fay...
The Fall of Balancing Rock
Authors: Grey Zane
Published: June 2023

Through tear-blurred sight Jane Withersteen watched Venters and Elizabeth Erne and the black racers disappear over the ridge of sage.

‘They’re gone!’ said Lassiter. ‘An’ they’re safe now. An’ there’ll never be a day of their comin’ happy lives but what they’ll remember Jane Withersteen...
Trust Not Appearances
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

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There is nothing so deceptive and for [all] that so alluring as a good surface. The sea, when beheld in the warm sunlight of a summer’s day; the sky, blue in the faint and amber glimmer of an Autumn sun, are pleasing to...
[Subjugation]
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

[The first half page of the manuscript is missing.]

—both questions of moment and difficult to answer. And although it is, in the main, evident that the conquest gained in a righteous war, is itself righteous, yet it will not be necessary to digress into...
Ibsen’s New Drama
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Twenty years have passed since Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll’s House, thereby almost marking an epoch in the history of drama. During those years his name has gone abroad through the length and breadth of two continents, and has provoked more discussion and...
James Clarence Mangan (1902)
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

‘Memorial I would have … a constant presence with those that love me.’1

It is many a day since the dispute of the classical and romantic schools began in the quiet city of the arts, so that criticism, which has wrongly decided that the...
Aristotle on Education
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

This book is compiled from the first three books of the Ethics, and the tenth book, with some extracts from the Politics. Unfortunately, the compilation is not a complete treatise on education, nor is it even exhaustive so far as it goes. The Ethics is...
Mr Arnold Graves’s New Work
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

In the introduction which Dr Tyrrell1 has written for Mr Graves’s tragedy, it is pointed out that ‘Clytemnaestra’ [sic] is not a Greek play in English, like ‘Atalanta in Calydon’,2 but rather a Greek story treated from the standpoint...
A Neglected Poet
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Tennyson is reported to have said that if God made the country and man made the city, it must have been the devil that made the country town.1 The dreary monotonousness, the squalor, the inevitable moral decay—all, in fine, that has been called...
Mr Mason’s Novels
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

These novels, much as they differ in their subjects and styles, are curiously illustrative of the truth of one of Leonardo’s observations. Leonardo, exploring the dark recesses of consciousness in the interests of some semi-pantheistic psychology, has noted the tendency of the mind to impress...
[Borlase and Son]
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

‘Borlase and Son’ has the merit, first of all, of ‘actuality’. As the preface is dated for May last, one may credit the author with prophetic power, or at least with that special affinity for the actual, the engrossing topic, which is a very necessary...
[Aesthetics]
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

[Paris Notebook]1

… … … … Desire is the feeling which urges us to go to something and loathing is the feeling which urges us to go from something: and that art is improper which aims at exciting these feelings in us whether by...
Fenianism: the Last Fenian
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

The death of John O’Leary, which took place in Dublin recently, on St Patrick’s Day,1 the Irish national holiday, perhaps marked the disappearance of the last actor in the turbulent drama that was Fenianism. A traditional name, from the ancient Irish, the word...
The Battle Between Bernard Shaw and the Censor: ‘The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet’
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

Dublin, 31 August

There is a proud week in the Dublin calendar. In the last week of August the famous Horse Show attracts a multi-coloured and polyglot crowd to the Irish capital from the sister island, from the continent and even from as far away...
[A Curious History]
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

To the Editor

17 August 1911

Via della Barriera Vecchia 32, III, Trieste (Austria)

Sir May I ask you to publish this letter which throws some light on the present conditions of authorship in England and Ireland?

Nearly six years ago Mr Grant Richards,1...
The Shade of Parnell
Authors: Joyce James
Published: June 2023

By voting for the bill on Irish autonomy on its second reading, the House of Commons has resolved the Irish question; a question which, like the hen of Mugello, is a hundred years of age but looks a month old.1

The century that began...
II
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

That was how it began. How it was that it ended as we know it did end, is not so easy to state precisely. It is very clear that Heyst was not indifferent, I won’t say to the girl, but to the girl’s fate....
VIII
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Schomberg felt desperation, that lamentable substitute for courage, ooze out of him. It was not so much the threat of death as the weirdly circumstantial manner of its declaration which affected him. A mere “I’ll murder you,” however ferocious in tone and earnest in...
I
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Tropical nature had been kind to the failure of the commercial enterprise. The desolation of the headquarters of the Tropical Belt Coal Company had been screened from the side of the sea; from the side where prying eyes—if any were sufficiently interested, either in...
V
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

When she opened her eyes at last and sat up, Heyst scrambled quickly to his feet and went to pick up her cork helmet, which had rolled a little way off. Meanwhile she busied herself in doing up her hair, plaited on the top...
VII
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

The explanation lay in the two simple facts that the light winds and strong currents of the Java Sea had drifted the boat about until they partly lost their bearings; and that by some extraordinary mistake one of the two jars put into the...
X
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

The observer was Martin Ricardo. To him life was not a matter of passive renunciation, but of a particularly active warfare. He was not mistrustful of it, he was not disgusted with it, still less was he inclined to be suspicious of its disenchantments;...
I
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Ricardo advanced prudently by short darts from one tree-trunk to another, more in the manner of a squirrel than a cat. The sun had risen some time before. Already the sparkle of open sea was encroaching rapidly on the dark, cool, early-morning blue of...
II
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

The clock—which once upon a time had measured the hours of philosophic meditation—could not have ticked away more than five seconds when Wang materialised within the living-room. His concern primarily was with the delayed breakfast, but at once his slanting eyes became immovably fixed...
IV
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

Heyst, seated at the table with his chin on his breast, raised his head at the faint rustle of Lena’s dress. He was startled by the dead pallor of her cheeks, by something lifeless in her eyes, which looked at him strangely, without recognition....
Author’s Note
Authors: Conrad Joseph
Published: June 2023

On approaching the task of writing this Note for “Victory” the first thing I am conscious of is the actual nearness of the book, its nearness to me personally, to the vanished mood in which it was written and to the mixed feelings aroused...
Steve Treats
Authors: Wister Owen
Published: June 2023

It was for several minutes, I suppose, that I stood drawing these silent morals. No man occupied himself with me. Quiet voices, and games of chance, and glasses lifted to drink, continued to be the peaceful order of the night. And into my thoughts...
Deep into Cattle Land
Authors: Wister Owen
Published: June 2023

Morning had been for some while astir in Medicine Bow before I left my quilts. The new day and its doings began around me in the store, chiefly at the grocery counter. Dry-goods were not in great request. The early rising cow-boys were off...
Through Two Snows
Authors: Wister Owen
Published: June 2023

“Dear Friend [thus in the spring the Virginian wrote me], Yours received. It must be a poor thing to be sick. That time I was shot at Cañada de Oro would have made me sick if it had been a little lower or...
The Spinster Meets the Unknown
Authors: Wister Owen
Published: June 2023

On a Monday noon a small company of horsemen strung out along the trail from Sunk Creek to gather cattle over their allotted sweep of range. Spring was backward, and they, as they rode galloping and gathering upon the cold week’s work, cursed cheerily...
Quality and Equality
Authors: Wister Owen
Published: June 2023

To the circle at Bennington, a letter from Bear Creek was always a welcome summons to gather and hear of doings very strange to Vermont. And when the tale of the changed babies arrived duly by the post, it created a more than usual...