...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... and entertaining as its matter permits, because I want it read by as many people as possible, but I do not promise anything but rage and confusion to... ...ph entertainment is the one to grasp. There will be an effect of these two people going to and fro in front of the circle of a rather defective lanter... ...owards it, to face it in no ascetic spirit, but in the mood of the Western peoples, whose pur- pose is to survive and overcome. So much we adopt in co... ...ish is a coalesced language; it is a coalescence of Anglo-Saxon and Norman French and Scholar’s Latin, welded into one speech more ample and more powe... ...xample. It is only a reasonable tribute to the distinctive lucidity of the French mind to suppose the central index housed in a vast series of buildin... ...of his hands. On earth, where there is nationality, this would have been a Frenchman—the inferior sort of Frenchman—the sort whose only happiness is i...

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...red, happier, finer, securer. They imagined cities grown more powerful and peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in ter... ...ow that stir and whirl of human thought one calls by way of embodiment the French Revolution, has altered absolutely the approach to such a question. ... ... Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, Irving’s Companions of Columbus, a great number of unbound parts of... ...The Science and Art Department has vanished altogether from the world, and people are forgetting it now with the utmost readiness and generosity. Part... ...lying fragments of abortive salad. It was a fantastic massacre. It was the French Revolution of that cold tyranny, the vindictive overthrow of the pam... ...istic leanings— he had suffered the martyrdom of ducking for it—and a huge French May-day poster displaying a splendid proletarian in red and black on...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. I and My Chimney by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...r the grass, every spring it is like Kossuth’s rising of what he calls the peoples. Mountains, too, a regular camp-meeting of them. For the same reaso... ...the roof, like an anvil- headed whale, through the crest of a billow. Most people, 7 Melville though, liken it, in that part, to a razed observatory,... ...ee citizen of this free land, stands upon an independent basis of its own, people passing it, wonder how such a brick- kiln, as they call it, is suppo... ...n their beds, they all sleep round one warm chimney, like so many Iroquois Indians, in the woods, round their one heap of embers. And just as the Ind... ...h that warm mass of masonry. Better for wines is it than voy- ages to the Indias; my chimney itself a tropic. A chair by my chimney in a November day... ...er; and still goes on at odd hours with her new course of history, and her French, and her music; and likes a young company; and offers to ride young ...

...Excerpt: Herman Melville. I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. We are, I may say, old settlers here; particularly my old chimney, which settles more and more every day. Though I always say, I and my chimney, as Cardinal Wolsey used to say, ?I and my king,? yet this egotis...

...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...imited range of produce; but Progress came shoving things into his window, French artichokes and aub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of... ...gravel from the wharf of the Bun Hill gas-works and drop it upon deserving people’s lawns and gardens. There were half a dozen reassuring years for T ... ...ing. The latter had an ivory plate bearing “statoscope” and other words in French, and a little indica- tor quivered and waggled, between Montee and D... ...t him thinking about lan- guages and trying to recall his seventh-standard French. “Je suis Anglais. C’est une meprise. Je suis arrive par accident ic...

Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... the leaders of mankind. I have represented the native common sense of the French mind and of the English mind—for manifestly King Egbert is meant to ... ...ank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disaster, upon t... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ...e corn ships of imperial Rome, a petty inci- dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—no... ...nd he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so that he wrote and spoke them freely, and used them with an uncon...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage a... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...fficer, who no doubt had previ- ously traversed a country across which the French armies had been drafted in the course of Napoleon’s wars, enjoyed th... ...is son took after him. Men like Genestas are met with now and again in the French army; natures that show themselves to be wholly great at need, and r... ...Luckily he is M. Benassis’ miller. M. Benassis, ah! he is a friend to poor people. He has never asked for his due from anybody, and he will not begin ... ...ting heap of dried 13 Balzac plums. They advanced to the attack, not like French sol- diers, but as stealthily as Germans, impelled by frank animal g... ...a clever doctor?” he asked at last. “I do not know, sir, but he cures poor people for nothing.” “It seems to me that this is a man and no mistake!” he... ..., which had nothing beyond it, and no connection with any other place. The people who lived in it seemed to belong to one family that dwelt beyond the...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Kim by Rudyard Kipling , the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... as in the Annunciation, the Cu rator supplied it from his mound of books–French and Ger man, with photographs and reproductions. Here was the devou... ...ead to one side, considering and interested. ‘Give me the bowl. I know the people of this city–all who are charitable. Give, and I will bring it back ... ...hild the old man handed him the bowl. [start here] ‘Rest, thou. I know the people.’ He trotted off to the open shop of a kunjri, a low caste vegetable... ..., too, I think that so old a man as thou, speaking the truth to chance met people at dusk, is in great need of a disciple.’ ‘But the River–the River o... ...attention to Latin and Wordsworth’s Excursion (all this was Greek to Kim). French, too was vital, and the best was to be picked up in Chandernagore a ... ...ait for them. I want to walk with them to Simla. You see, one Russian is a Frenchman, and I know my French pretty well. I have friends in Chandernagor...

...Excerpt: He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold t...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ble— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishmen that Wellington was a grea... ...own-trodden country of slaves and pau- pers.” Under such circumstances the Frenchman would probably be shut up. And when I strove to speak of Wash- in... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ...ilections and sympathies of his life. Here has been the hardship. For such people there has been no neutrality possible. Ladies even have not been abl... ...must probably be given mainly to Madison and Hamilton, Madison finding the French democratic element, and Hamilton the English conserva- tive element—...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...hanical ex- pert of some sort, a railway peer, geniuses, hairy and Celtic, people of no clearly definable position, but all quite unequal to the task ... ...h and reality. London had not disillusioned him. It was a strange waste of people, it made him feel like a mis- sionary in infidel parts, but it was a... ... when the heather was not in flower it must have been a black country. Its people were dour uncandid individuals, who slanted their heads and knitted ... ...med that the church should hold back its curates from enlistment while the French priests were wearing their uni- forms in the trenches; the expeditio... ...thing rather jolly and familiar, something like a very good and successful French or Irish priest, something that came easily and readily into their h... ...; and as for the Mariposa, the dancer, she had nothing but Spanish and bad French, she looked all right, and it wasn’t very likely she would go out of...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from N... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden. He heard the... ...em too. They would teach him something about the history and distinguished people of his country which he has never read in any of his schoolbooks.” C... ...hem to make laws for the set tlers. In the year 1628 they sent over a few people, with John Endicott at their bead, to commence a plantation at Salem... ... to the north and to the south. In Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had tak... ...overnor Endicott sat in it when he gave audience to an ambassador from the French governor of Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A treaty of peace between Massac... ...of Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A treaty of peace between Massachusetts and the French colony was then signed.” “Did England allow Massachusetts to make wa...

...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

...tate University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpos... ...h the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmi... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...he carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately gro... ...e lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. The... .... I saw that they had the advantage of me, and so I concluded to get out of the scrape by walking out of it. They enjoyed my defeat as much as any low... ...e next chapter, will show the reader that duels between boys, for fun, and duels between men in earnest, are very different affairs.] CHAPTER VIII The... ... tions of our day. Since it is always fought in the open air, the combatants are nearly sure to catch cold. M. Paul de Cassagnac, the most inveterate ... ...nd draughts cannot intrude—he will eventually endanger his life. This ought to moderate the talk of those people who are so stubborn in maintaining th...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Upanishads trans. with commentary by Swami Paramananda, the... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...pon the vital message they 6 The Upanishads contain for all times and all peoples. There is nothing peculiarly racial or local in them. The ennobling... ... in the seventeenth century. More than a century later the dis- tinguished French scholar, Anquetil Duperron, brought a copy of the manuscript from Pe... ...ht a copy of the manuscript from Persia to France and trans- lated it into French and Latin. Publishing only the Latin text. Despite the distortions w... ...(1775-1833). Since that time there have been various European translations—French, German, Italian and English. But a mere translation, how- ever accu... ... thy fire that leads to heaven, which thou hast chosen as thy second boon. People will call this fire after thy name. Ask the third boon, Nachiketas. ... ...ich all the Vedas glorify, which all austerities proclaim, desiring which (people) practice Brahmacharya (a life of continence and service), that goal...

... COMET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State... ...ering of a palace, of a terrace, of the vista of a great roadway with many people, people exaggerated, im- possible-looking because of the curvature o... ... Change, so far as it has affected my own life and the lives of one or two people closely connected with me, primarily to please myself. Long ago in m... ... scrap I could get about the world of literature and the lives of literary people. It is something, even amidst this present happiness, to find leisur... ...that my mind ran persistently that evening upon revolutions after the best French pattern, and I sat on a Committee of Safety and tried backsliders. P... ...- ing, towered over her, becoming for an instant at least a sort of second French Revolution, and delivered myself with the intensest concentration of... ...icourt and Donen. The hills beyond Spincourt were dusted thick with hidden French riflemen; the thin lash of the French skir- mishers sprawled out ami...

...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. A...

...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Du... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...f the Duc de Saint-Simon. They stand, by universal consent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all histo... ...thor shows to be anything but grand—and of the Regency. The opinion of the French critic, Sainte-Beuve, is fairly typi- cal. “With the Memoirs of De R... ....” Villemain declared their author to be “the most original of geniuses in French literature, the foremost of prose satirists; inexhaustible in detail... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... himself, measured and insistent. In the frosty evening the sound carried. People passing down the street hesitated, listening. The neighbours knew it... ...son was greeted with Good- night—Good-night, Aaron—Good-night, Mr. Sisson. People carrying parcels, children, women, thronged home on the dark paths. ... ...ut quiet contest, a subdued fight, going on all the afternoon and evening: people struggling to buy things, to get things. Money was spent like water,... ...e, was a cameo-like girl with neat black hair done tight and bright in the French mode. She had strangely-drawn eyebrows, and 27 D. H. Lawrence her c... ...w very curious! May we look at it?” Josephine now turned the handle of the French windows, and stepped out. “Beautiful!” they heard her voice exclaim ... ... care isn’t in me. And I’m not going to be forced to it.” The fat, aproned French waiter was hovering near. Josephine let him remove the plates and th...

...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now ...

....................... 55 CHAPTER VII: THE DARK SQUARE GARDEN................................................................. 64 CHAPTER VIII: A PUNCH IN THE WIND........................................................................ 71 CHAPTER IX: LOW-WATER MARK ................................................................................... 84 CHAPTER X: THE WAR AGAIN...

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Sa... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...ss of his company — for he did all the talking. We fell together, as modest people will, in the tail of the herd that was being shown through, and he... ...s?” I said I had not heard of it. He was so little interested — just as when people speak of the weather — that he did not notice whether I made him ... ...nd the buzzing of insects, and the twitter ing of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court M... ...so added for their ser vants. Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a t... ... too hefty for a novice he unlimbered his tongue and cursed like a bishop — French bishop of the Regency days, I mean. Matters were about as I expect... ... went cruising about, and after a fortnight of this we stepped ashore on the French coast, and the doctors thought it would be a good idea to make som...

Excerpt: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur?s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...He had already gained fame in India, where scores of cultured and critical people, after reading “Departmental Ditties,” “Plain Tales from the Hills,”... ...1; then a collection of verse, “Life’s Handicap, being stories of Mine Own People,” was published simultaneously in London and New York City; then fol... ... men with an acquaint-ance who had access to the house- hold gods of these people. He returned to England in August, 1896, and did not visit America a... ...indoo is a Hindoo and a brother to the man who knows his vernacular. And a French-man is French because he speaks his own language. But the American h... ...icatured themselves, their associ- ates, and their aims. There was a slick French audacity about 15 Rudyard Kipling the workmanship of these men of t... ... went straight to the heart of the beholder. And yet it was not altogether French. A dry grimness of treatment, almost Dutch, marked the difference. T...

...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Seven Poor Travellers by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ltered man. In that year , one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, the French were in Egypt, in Italy , in Germany , where not? Napoleon Bonaparte... ...y , where not? Napoleon Bonaparte had likewise begun to stir against us in India, and most men could read the signs of the great troubles that were co... ...nce with Austria against him, Captain Taunton’s regiment was on service in India. And there was not a finer non-commissioned officer in it,—no, nor in... ...ficers found themselves hurrying forward, face to face, against a party of French infantry , who made a stand. There was an officer at their head, enc... ... of hair he was to give to Taunton’s mother; the other , to encounter that French officer who had rallied the men under whose fire Taunton fell. A new... ...spring, when those three were first able to ride out to- gether , and when people flocked about the open carriage to cheer and congratulate Captain Ri...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ka... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... dreaming, my friend.” “I am not dreaming, my beautiful white doe. Listen. People should always do what their position in life demands. Gov- ernment h... ...l store-house for bottle, crystals, and porcelains. The work- shop for our people, in the attic! Passers-by shall no longer see them gumming on the la... ...tune. The poor Ragonines look to me half-starved of late.” “Bah! all those people want your money.” “But what people, my treasure? Is it your uncle Pi... ...elt’s on the piano, and singing a ballad; or when he found her writing the French language correctly, or reading Racine, father and son, and explainin... ... Astronomers lived on spiders. These striking points of information on the French lan- guage, on dramatic art, politics, literature, and science, will... ...e eau-de-cologne. The names of these places were shams, invented to please French- men who could not endure the things of their own country. A French ...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Presc... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ok (much too long) on the era of imperial Rome. If it had not been for the French Revolution, criticism applied to history might then have prepared th... ... vigorously defended. Moreover, un- der Henry VI. he defeated ten thousand French troops with fifteen hundred weary and famished men. So much for war.... ...ridiculous stories are told about the author of one of the finest books in French literature,—”Pantagruel.” Aretino, the friend of Titian, and the Vol... ...the Abbaye; answered on the steps of Saint-Roch; answered once more by the people against the king before the Louvre in 1830, as it has since been ans... ... must defend itself when attacked; but the strange thing is that where the people are held heroic in their victory over the nobility, power is called ... ... victory over the nobility, power is called murderous in its duel with the people. If it succumbs after its appeal to force, power is then called imbe...