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...uppress them. This is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little ... ... the work, but because the work would be altogether suppressed. Richardson’s novels—Pamela, Clarissa Har- lowe, and so on—are now the preserve of the ... ...ur intuitive understanding that “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. All of this was much clearer before the assim... ...ver new types of products, whose economics were very different from those of novels. Rather than let the dominant software compa- nies use copyright t... ...en if the red dot rule were only to be applied to hardback books, or graphic novels, or cassette tapes, it would still be unconstitutional. Nor do we ... ...tine Thompson),” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quar- terly 14 (January, 1905): 291–312. Since the copyright has expired you can read it in full, ...

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...very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius are but the highest of a great host of minds th... ...y to all that had hith- erto seemed nonsense about love. I took to reading novels, and if the heroine could not possibly be like her, dusky and warm a... ... pursuing such interests, went so far as to read political memoirs and the novels of Disraeli and Mrs. Humphry Ward. From gossip, example and the illu... ...find some readable book in the place, but apart from miscellaneous popular novels, some veterinary works, a number of comic books, old bound volumes o... ... of the system that heaped my cousins with trinkets and provided the comic novels and the abundant cigars and spacious bil- liard-room of my uncle’s h... ...e contest that followed the re- turn of Mr. Camphell-Bannerman to power in 1905. So far as the Kinghamstead Division was concerned it was a de- presse...

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...ks about working overtime, that wants to spend his evenings reading trashy novels or spooning and exchanging a lot of nonsense and foolishness with so... ...pants for the children of the poor while Mrs. Drew read aloud from earnest novels. Though Dr. Drew’s theology was Presbyterian, his church- building w... ... could, she fre- quently did, tell whether it was in November or December, 1905, that Mack Harker? the renowned screen cowpuncher and badman, began hi... ...ored with real wine); Orville Jones spent hours in picking out the kind of novels Mrs. Babbitt liked— nice love stories about New York millionaries an...

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...her Anne of Green Gables books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and poetry. She published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty novels before her death in 1942. The Project Gutenberg collection of her short stories was gathered from numerous sources and is presented in chronological publishing order: Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Lu...

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..................................................................... 8 BOOKS—1905 ......................................................................... .............................................. 8 HENRY JAMES—AN APPRECIA TION—1905 ......................................................................... ....................................................... 71 AUTOCRACY AND W AR—1905 ......................................................................... ... sinners against themselves are entitled. J. C. 1920. PART I—LETTERS BOOKS—1905 I “I HAVE NOT READ this author’s books, and if I have read them I have... ...ong ago—in his giddy youth maybe—were about. And the books in question are novels, or, at any rate, were written as novels. I proceed thus cau- tiousl... ...he lifetime of one fleeting generation. 11 Joseph Conrad II OF ALL BOOKS, novels, which the Muses should love, make a serious claim on our compassion... ...y the truth of a childish theatrical ardour in the game of life, as in the novels of Dumas the father. But the fair truth of human delicacy can be fou... ...er. But the fair truth of human delicacy can be found in Mr. Henry James’s novels; and the comical, appall- ing truth of human rapacity let loose amon... ...ad them I have forgotten …” 15 Joseph Conrad HENRY JAMES—AN APPRECIATION— 1905 THE CRITICAL FACULTY hesitates before the magnitude of Mr. Henry James...

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...The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature, and one of the first to openl...

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...all but lost it again by tragic poems. So he was just the man to be chosen king of the fairies... George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 – September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Though no longer well known, his works (particularly his fairy tales and fantasy novels) have inspired admiration in such notables as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, a...

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...e, makes a U-turn –- and changes everything. H.G. Wells’ early life as the son of a semi-insolvent shopkeeper and as a draper’s apprentice fueled his novels of the lower middle class: The Wheels of Chance (1896), Kipps (1905), and The History of Mr. Polly (1910). These works evoke the desperation of apprentices, clerks, and small traders in their monotonous toil behind sho...

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...her Anne of Green Gables books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and poetry. She published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty novels before her death in 1942. The Project Gutenberg collection of her short stories was gathered from numerous sources and is presented in chronological publishing order: Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Lu...

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...as saying to myself, fiercely, hissing it between my teeth, as they say in novels—and really clenching them together: I was saying to myself: ‘Now, I’... ...t add that poor dear Edward was a great reader—he would pass hours lost in novels of a sentimental type—novels in which typewriter girls mar- ried Mar... ...throat. I daresay Florence had asked him to come over for that purpose. In 1905 he was in Paris three times—once with Leonora, who wanted some frocks.... ...re. Even when he was twenty-two he would pass hours reading one of Scott’s novels or the Chronicles of Froissart. Mrs Ashburnham considered that she w... ...well read as Lenora, at any rate in learned books. Leonora could not stand novels. But, even with all her differences, Mrs Basil did not appear to Leo... ...excess, his nights out, his, let us say, rutting seasons. She had read few novels, so that the idea of a pure and constant love succeeding the sound o...

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...ed. There are also its narrative and imagi- native uses, as in history and novels. Let us take as an instance the telling of some remembered event. We... ... J. Watt, “Experimentelle Beitrage zu einer Theorie des Denkens,” vol. iv (1905) pp. 289-436. ** August Messer, “Experimentell-psychologische Untersuc...