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...ndian history and found the greatest Empire the world has ever known? Historians have much to say about the British in India, but it is an irrevocab... ... he observed that she was stark naked, her pupils pinpoints in her dark eyes, her black hair wild about her shoulders and her fingers flexed like cl... ... and, frankly, I do not believe he is making much effort in that direction. You know, of course, about the conditions of the family inheritance. It ... ...he mechanics of mating, but the veiled references to burning desire in her favourite Jane Austen novels, was all she knew. Even if she allowed Gavin... ...mes as soon as possible and Blanche was organising places in the Catholic Mission for the little orphans. THE CURSE OF KALI 251 Little Lazarus w...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, th...

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...D by Willis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

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... THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de fo... ...ess in the delineation of character.” FORD MADOX FORD, English novelist, about Bartlett: “...a writer of very considerable merit.” LON TINKLE in t... ... Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, which is 2006030830. ABOUT AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS Autograph Editions is committed to bringing rea... ...AL LINCOLN’S JOURNAL BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leon... .... -- 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: "A collection of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesb... ...NCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625 xiii PREFACE Steven Jame... ...heart and memory among men, consideration for the maimed, the widows, the orphans, the deceased. Some men war for glory. No...peace is the glory. T...

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...art -- The ghost of Capt. Kidd -- The screaming woman of Marblehead -- Stories about spectral crews -- A ghostly company that come up out of the sea o... ...heir Independence maintained by constant war with Montezuma -- Wonderful walls about their capital city -- A bloody battle with the Tlascalans -- Six ... ...- Suspicious death of Cortez's wife -- The white wings of peace -- Cortez sets about new conquests -- Fatal rebellion of Olid -- Cortes leads a land m... ... inspirational and mind-invigorating, that kills the miasmatic influence which novels exhale, and which gives nourishment to laudable ambition towards... ... sailor of the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage... ...town, and to suggest that the reward for his capture be paid to the widows and orphans of the sailors of the captured ship. OTHER CRUEL AND DESPERATE ...

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...to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress ...

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...ing popularity as to encourage the author to a sec- ond attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were com... ...mpt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simp... ...y influence, in an important manner, the future prospects of the child now about to come into this busy and changeful world. I will not conceal from y... ...nt, which threatens to subject him to an unhallowed and unhappy temptation about the time 5 Sir Walter Scott when he shall attain the age of twenty-o... ...n is also applicable to one or two similar passages, in this and the other novels, introduced for the same rea- son.] But the truth is undeniable; the... ... oppress the poor—, and remove landmarks.” “Or who devour the substance of orphans.” subjoined the Dominie. “Anathema, Maranatha!” So saying, he rose,...

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...o that no one without could watch him at his work. When Eve began to speak about the future, he looked un- easily at her, and cut her short at the fir... ...me, and David rec- ognized the man’s face at a review just as his time was about to expire. Kolb came to see David, and was smitten forth- with by the... ...ices; but the most part of the time he had nothing to do, and used to read novels in his den at the back of the workshop while he waited for an order ... ...manac of Liege, a ream (five hundred sheets) costing in the first instance about four francs; while the printed sheets sell at the rate of a halfpenny... ...took into her head to apply for advice to the legal guardian of widows and orphans. She wanted to know if she could relieve David from his embarrassme...

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...p time from passing over me, or as if the loss of my hand had been brought about in some tavern, and not on the grandest occasion the past or present ... ...ter all, I am grateful to this gentle- man, the author, for saying that my novels are more satirical than exemplary, but that they are good; for they ... ... CHAPTER I Of the interview the curate and the barber had with Don Quixote about his malady C ide Hamete Benengeli, in the Second Part of this history... ...ly received by him; they asked him after his health, and he talked to them about himself very naturally and in very well-chosen language. In the cours... ...oulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of th... ...e money; and I know not what could have led the author to have recourse to novels and irrelevant stories, when he had so much to write about in mine; ... ... he is defrauding the world of the redress of wrongs, of the protection of orphans, of the honour of virgins, of the aid of widows, and of the support... ...my design, succouring widows, protecting maidens, and giving aid to wives, orphans, and minors, the proper and natural duty of knights-er- rant; and, ... ...at to avoid this he had in the First Part availed himself of the device of novels, like “The Ill-advised Curiosity,” and “The Captive Captain,” which ...

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... John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned... ...instructive. Shelton’s, the first in any language, was made, appar- ently, about 1608, but not published till 1612. This of course was only the First ... ...act that it has less spirit, less of what we generally understand by “go,” about it than the first, which would be only natural if the first were the ... ...s” as he afterwards called them, with a view to making a book of them. The novels were published in the summer of 1613, with a dedi- cation to the Con... ...ook completed that time twelvemonth. But more than poems, or pastorals, or novels, it was his dra- matic ambition that engrossed his thoughts. The sam... ...ntes was essentially sanguine. The portrait he draws in the preface to the novels, with the aquiline features, chestnut hair, smooth untroubled forehe... ... was instituted, to defend maidens, to pro- tect widows and to succour the orphans and the needy. To this order I belong, brother goatherds, to whom I... ...oulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of 4... ... he is defrauding the world of the redress of wrongs, of the protection of orphans, of the honour of virgins, of the aid of widows, and of the support...

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... closely watched. With ingenuity beyond her years, the child used to stray about among the soldiers, who were rather kind to her, and thus seize the m... ...ned to the care of some aged butler or housekeeper, whose trembling steps, about the middle of the second vol- ume, were doomed to guide the hero, or ... ...of the particular ingredients necessary to the composition of romances and novels of various descrip- tions: but it is enough, and I scorn to tyranniz... ... gaffers, by whose hard and horny hands it was generally worn to pieces in about a month after its arrival. This slow succession of intelligence was o... ...cum Beverley. I beg pardon, once and for all, of those readers who take up novels merely for amusement, for plaguing them so long with old-fashioned p... ...prin- cess to the parents of Fergus and his sister, and to themselves when orphans, had riveted their faith. Fergus, upon the death of his parents, ha...

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...soup tureen, from which a gentleman had helped himself and a young girl of about thirteen, without much apparent con- sciousness of what he was about,... ... a black evening frock, whose white trimmings were, like ev- erything else about the place, rather dingy. She was far less absorbed than her father, a... ...the dreariness which had settled down on the house since his wife’s death, about eighteen months previously, he had ac- cepted it, and she had specula... ...dit to Primrose, and the recollection came across her of all the oppressed orphans who had been made household drudges, so that her reading did not be... ...never takes in society papers. I believe he does criti- cisms on plays and novels. I know he always has tickets for all the theatres and exhibitions. ... ...d no less than four stories based on the cruelty and injustice suffered by orphans from their aunts. The wicked step-mothers are gone out, and the bar... ...aphy, of the old book-club class of her youth. Her principles were against novels, and the tale she viewed as only fit for children. Lady Merrifield c...

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...hat she no longer had reticences before her husband, and no longer worried about not having reticences. She was in a petticoat now, and corsets which ... ... pawed at the clothes hunched on a chair in their bedroom, while she moved about mysteriously adjusting and patting her petticoat and, to his jaundice... ...ced eye, never seeming to get on with 9 Sinclair Lewis her dressing. “How about it? Shall I wear the brown suit another day?” “Well, it looks awfully... ...and yearned over its employees; that all its stock was owned by Widows and Orphans; and that whatever it desired to do would benefit property-owners b... ...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... ...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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...MILIAR PREFACE AS A GENERAL RULE we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestio... ... invented world, among imagi- nary things, happenings, and people. Writing about them, he is only writing about himself. But the disclosure is not com... ...” This is the danger incurred by an author of fiction who sets out to talk about himself without disguise. While these reminiscent pages were appearin... ... this book, begun in ’89 and finished in ’94—with that shortest of all the novels which it was to be my lot to write. Between its opening exclamation ... ... a subscription of all his wards then living. He had been guardian of many orphans of land-owning families from the three south- ern provinces—ever si... ...ces; and the Marshal of the Nobility (ex-officio guardian of all well-born orphans) called a meeting of landowners to “as- certain in a friendly way h... ...and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew “Gil Blas” and “Don Quixote” in abridged editions; I had rea... ...as a novel, and it is quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope’s novels. It is very likely. My acquaintance with him was then very recent. H...

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... of squaws and portages, and the Yankee fur-traders whose shadows were all about her. She was meditating upon walnut fudge, the plays of Brieux, the r... ...si- ness positions; even they who knew that they would have to work hinted about fabulous suitors. As for Carol, she was an orphan; her only near rela... ...nd her knees up under her chin. She stroked a satin pillow while she read. About her was the clothy exuberance of a Blodgett College room: cretonne-co... ...d, shut, forbidding unit bookcases that were half filled with swashbuckler novels and un- read-looking sets of Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Elbert ... ...old Bell Wright is a lovely writer, and he teaches such good morals in his novels, and folks say he’s made prett’ near a million dollars out of ‘em.” ... ...ar to Gopher Prairie: Mosher editions of the poets, black and red Ger- man novels, a Charles Lamb in crushed levant. Guy did not sit down. He quartere... ...house.” Once, strolling companies had used it for performances of “The Two Orphans,” and “Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model,” and “Othello” with specia...

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...esitate to guess, the crowd began to move, heavily straining through itself. About the same time some lamps were lighted, and threw a sudden flare ove... ...le; I was in the last carriage, and, seeing some others strolling to and fro about the lines, I opened the door and stepped forth, as from a caravan b... ...ion this meal, not only because it was the first of which I had partaken for about thirty hours, but because it was the means of my first introduction... ...eted a quarter. WEDNESDAY. – A little after midnight I convoyed my widow and orphans on board the train; and morning found us far into Ohio. This had ... ...ar) and the London Journal, dear to me for its startling pictures, and a few novels, dear for their suggestive names: such, as well as memory serves m... ...ke us different from our fellowmen, or it would make us incapable of writing novels; and the average man (a murrain on the word!) is just like you and... ...e taste was not only genuine, it was exclusive; I tried in vain to offer him novels; he would none of them, he cared for noth- ing but romantic langua...

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...liar Preface A s a general rule we do not want much en couragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestio... ...nvented world, amongst imaginary things, hap- penings, and people. Writing about them, he is only writing about himself. But the disclosure is not com... ...” This is the danger incurred by an author of fiction who sets out to talk about himself without disguise. While these reminiscent pages were appearin... ... this book, begun in ’89 and finished in ’94—with that shortest of all the novels which it was to be my lot to write. Between its opening exclamation ... ... a subscription of all his wards then living. He had been guardian of many orphans of land-owning families from the three southern provinces—ever sinc... ...ces; and the Marshal of the Nobility (ex-officio guardian of all well-born orphans) called a meeting of landowners to “ascertain in a friendly way how... ...d other ro- mantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew “Gil Blas” and “Don 70 Some Reminiscences Quixote” in abrid... ...ve only a vague notion that it might have been one of Trollope’s political novels. And I remem- ber, too, the character of the day. It was an autumn ...

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...sity will carry you out in search of papa,’ said Charles; ‘he is somewhere about, zeal- ously supplying the place of Jenkins.’ ‘Really, Philip,’ said ... ...me, Philip?’ ‘I must go back soon, thank you,’ replied Philip. ‘I must see about my leave; only we should first settle when to set off.’ 8 The Heir o... ...th our branch of the family. Do you know the history of it, aunt?’ ‘It was about some property,’ said Mrs Edmonstone, ‘though I don’t know the rights ... ...hs. In this, however, he failed when his wit consisted in allusions to the novels of the day, of which Guy knew nothing. One morning he under- went a ... ...did not occur to her; she was eighteen, she had no experience, not even in novels, she did not know what she had done; and above all, she had so leant... ...n to plume himself on making his judgment conquer his inclination, setting novels at defiance. How magnanimously he would resolve to stifle a hopeless... ... not only taught the young, and vis- ited the distressed, but she gathered orphans into her house, and nursed the sick day and night. Neither the mean...

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...e a number of inners and outers, and some clean misses. Much that he wrote about in anticipation is now established commonplace. In 1894 there were st... ...now proposes to treat. In this book he intends to hazard certain forecasts about the trend of events in the next decade or so. Mechanical novelties wi... ...high explosives, poison gas and submarines, there could be no doubt at all about the response. “Give peace in our time, O Lord,” is more than ever the... ...n a world financially strained and abounding in wounded, cripples, widows, orphans and help- less people. In the next year or so the lives of half the... ...ost completely in Great Britain—that- newspapers were party organs. In the novels of Disraeli the Press appears as an ambigu- ously helpful person who...

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...Af- ter much thought, I decided that I was a person fitted to furnish to mankind this spectacle. So I determined to do it. This was in March, 1878. I ... ...o little lunches from the same larder. I shall not mar Garnharn’s translation by meddling with its English; for the most tooth- 5 A Tramp Abroad some... ...ights. All seemed pleasure, joy, and roguish gaiety, only one of the numerous guests had a gloomy exte- rior; but exactly the black armor in which he ... ...urse. His daughter was the “catch” of 107 A Tramp Abroad the region, and she may be already entering into immortal- ity as the heroine of one of Auer... ...ently could after the de- scent; and as he had shown a chilly indifference about the calamity, and offered neither sympathy nor assistance to the wido...

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...vel Newspaper, 143]) and (London: N. Bruce, 72 pp., 1842 (Series: Standard Novels, 5]). It also appeared by itself as “Imagination: A Tale for Young W... ...imagination gets the better of her, presumably because of reading romantic novels. This, of course, was a commonplace notion in the 1820s, except that... ...nt the dear girl for the world.” “It is not your cousin Katherine, but the Orphans, who will have to wait; and surely a promise to a relation is as sa... ...nnessee, June 15, 1816. “P . S. Don’t forget to jog aunt Emmerson’s memory about asking me to Park-place. “P . S. June 25th. Not having yet sent my le... ...s while to remember such a chick as me. I should like to hear what he says about me, and I will tell you all Edward Stanley says of you. Once more, ad... ...and froze the genial current of the soul.’ However, say nothing to Charles about it, I charge you.” Julia fairly gasped for breath as she read this ep...

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...to the scene, and near the avenue were a party of village children running about gathering cowslips, or seated on the grass, devouring sub- stantial p... ...ass, devouring sub- stantial plum buns. Under a lordly elm sat a maiden of about nineteen years; at her feet a Skye terrier, like a walking door-mat, ... ...d tone, her cheeks glowing; ‘it is very silly of him to get himself talked about; but of course it is all nothing.’ ‘I wish I could think so,’ said Mr... ...lip Augustus” itself.’ ‘James’s novel, you mean?’ ‘Have you read it?’ ‘His novels are exactly alike,’ said Theodora, leaving the room, but checked by ... ...k with me! There is no one at home, and I am stupefied with reading French novels to my aunt. Such horrid things! She has lost her taste for the natur... ...nd I suppose they cost—’ said Theodora. ‘The keep of half-a-dozen starving orphans,’ said Mrs. Finch, triumphantly. ‘ Ay, you may look, Theodora; but ... ...Chichester. Have you seen that last article of his?’ ‘What, that on modern novels? I was almost sure it was his, and yet I doubted. It was like and ye... ...ar the thought of it,’ said Emma, in an under- tone. ‘How glad your little orphans will be! How many have you?’ ‘There are five.’ Theodora saw she hat... ...rtsease ‘If I only knew where it was.’ ‘Your mother, your dependants, your orphans, your beau- tiful old plan. Emma only groaned, and held up her hand...

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...is person followed. As if it had been a theatre-bill, crowds were gathered about the announcement, and among them certain chevaliers, whose eyes, it w... ...usion; and upon a more attentive survey , perceiving no badge of authority about him, but rather something quite the contrary—he being of an aspect so... ... old coal-sifter of a tamborine in his hand, who, owing to something wrong about his legs, was, in effect, cut down to the stature of a New-foundland ... ... without stooping to it. T o the plea in behalf of the Seminole widows and orphans, the gentleman, after a question or two duly answered, re- sponded ... ...r the less improbable if it be considered that, after poring over the best novels professing to portray human nature, the stu- dious youth will still ... ...al compliment, like those of some public bodies; for, on the same day, the orphans were officially installed in that hos- pitable edifice where their ...