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...Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have...

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...Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The two other main characters are his earthy wife, Arabella, and his intellectual cou...

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...Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, domineering father. The book is often compared to Jane Austen...

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...they may seek adventure together. And so they do. – “A Horse’s Tale” was first published in the August and September, 1906 issues of Harper’s Monthly magazine. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)...

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...tended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was first published serially in the magazine Niva as an effort to raise funds for the resettlement of the Dukhobors. The story concerns a nobleman named Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier. His brief affair with a maid resulted in...

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...tended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was first published serially in the magazine Niva as an effort to raise funds for the resettlement of the Dukhobors. The story concerns a nobleman named Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier. His brief affair with a maid resulted in...

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...round Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. The novel was first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...glish rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It first appeared, anonymously, as a monthly magazine serial, where it gained a wide readership and critical acclaim. According to Virginia Woolf, The subject was right; the method was right; the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the m...

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...The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who affronts her destiny and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently be...

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...tended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was first published serially in the magazine Niva as an effort to raise funds for the resettlement of the Dukhobors. The story concerns a nobleman named Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier. His brief affair with a maid resulted in...

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...The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who affronts her destiny and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently be...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and created a...

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...R XI. OF SOME DOMESTIC QUARRELS, AND THE CONSEQUENCE THEREOF. AN INGENIOUS MAGAZINE-WRITER, who lived in the time of Mr. Brock and the Duke of Marlbor...

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...Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at English life in the 1830s through the experiences of Molly Gibson, the daughter of a widowed doctor growing up in the provincial town of Hollin...

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...ager--it was not in his interest; but how could he maintain a godlike calm, principled though he was in favour of it, the first time one of the great magazines had accepted, even with a cruel reservation, a specimen of his ardent young genius?...

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... principled though he was in favour of it, the first time one of the great magazines had accepted, even with a cruel reservation, a specimen of his ar... ...d, and one edition was a low esti- mate of the probable performance of the magazine. Peter left the letters behind him and, on withdrawing from the ed... ...s hand also at prose, and his offerings are now not always declined by the magazines. But he has never approached the Promiscuous again. This periodic...

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...en 1897. Deze drie zijn later ook in diverse boekuitgaven uitgekomen. Short English description: Six short story’s, all but one published in literary magazines in the Netherlands....

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...t which this book was written. It was done in 1907: it appeared in various magazines as a serial in 1908 and it was published in the Fall of that year... ..., and it was brought home to Grubb and Bert Smallways only by means of the magazine page of the half-penny newspapers or by cinematograph records. But... ...newspapers; articles and allusions increased and multiplied in the serious magazines. People asked in mono-rail trains, “When are we going to fly?” A ... ...” The next day it was clear the fits had been given even as he said: their magazine pages were black with hasty photographs, their prose was convulsiv... ...l backbone which termi- nated in the engine and propeller, and the men and magazines were forward in a series of cabins under the expanded headlike fo... ...ope ladder, so to speak.” Aft of the habitable part of the airship was the magazine of explosives, coming near the middle of its length. They were all... ...forward in the gallery upon the shield at the heart of the eagle. From the magazine amidships a covered canvas gallery with aluminium treads on its fl... ...hey are whacking away at each other, great guns going, shells ex- ploding, magazines bursting, ironwork flying about like straw in a gale, all we’ve b... ...et of war was merely to intensify her normal vehemence. The newspapers and magazines that fed the American mind—for books upon this impatient continen...

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... name. The motion of the train set it dancing up and down on the page of a magazine that a man in front of him was reading… . At the door he was told ... ...and walked down the platform. Flamel rejoined him with an innocent-looking magazine in his hand; but Glennard dared not even glance at the cover, lest... ...ing, when Alexa had left him to go to a dance, he chanced to turn over the magazines on her table, and the copy of the Horoscope, to which he settled ... ...ng, and she went on: “Y ou haven’t seen it?” “No,” he returned coldly. The magazine was locked in his desk. His wife had moved to the mantel-piece. Sh...

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...ents, from annual reference-books, from Sunday School periodicals, fiction-magazines, and journals of discussion. One bene- factor implored, “Don’t be... ...rprised. CHAPTER VII I H e solemnly finished the last copy of the American Magazine, while his wife sighed, laid away her darning, and looked enviousl... ...y her darning, and looked enviously at the lingerie de- signs in a women’s magazine. The room was very still. It was a room which observed the best Fl... ...the table was a runner of gold-threaded Chinese fab- 82 Babbitt ric, four magazines, a silver box containing cigarette- crumbs, and three “gift-books... ...ee; Mr. Frink, you sit there.” The dinner was in the best style of women’s-magazine art, whereby the salad was served in hollowed apples, and 103 Sin... ...s lecture, and read some of my best poetry—not the newspaper stuff but the magazine things. But say, when I get out in the tall grass, there’s nothing... ...indow- shopping, went in gossiping twos and threes to card-par- ties, read magazines, thought timorously of the lovers who never appeared, and accumul... ...nd decided, “Absolutely simple. Just a matter of will-power.” He started a magazine serial about a scien- tific detective. Ten miles on, he was consci... ...around and say, “Well, well!” For there would be the same news-stand, same magazines and candies grand, same smokes of fa- mous standard brand, I’d fi...

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...nery for the dramatic club, over soliciting advertisements for the college magazine. She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played in chap... ...w of these stolid worlds wanted to be moved. When she was in charge of the magazine room the readers did not ask for suggestions about el- evated essa... ... that he did not lie to patients, and that he did keep up with the medical magazines. What aroused her to something more than liking was his boyishnes... ...icott was satisfied that he had corrected all her worries and had opened a magazine of saffron detective stories, she sat upright. Here—she meditated—... ...ess before his mature fixity, and touched by his excitement as he sent his magazine skittering along the aisle, stooped for their bags, came up with f... ...inum ash-tray labeled “Greetings from Gopher Prairie” —a Christian Science magazine—a stamped sofa-cushion portraying a large rib- bon tied to a small... ...ted a long mock-quarrel. She pretended that he cheated her in the price of magazines and candy; he pretended she was a detective from the Twin Cities.... ...nts who looked up to her as the squire’s lady and thanked her for toys and magazines. Evenings she went with her husband to the motion pictures and wa... ... from three till midnight. She wearied of reading pure love stories in the magazines and sat by a radiator, beginning to brood. Thus she chanced to di...