...y NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England H... ...ew England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...habitants must all have felt like brethren. They were fitted to become one united People at a future period. Perhaps their feelings of brother hood w... ... good old gentleman really seemed to suppose that the whole surface of the United States was not too broad a foundation to place the four legs of his ... ...ld gentleman really seemed to suppose that the whole surface of the United States was not too broad a foundation to place the four legs of his chair u... ...hile thus at work, he was visited by learned men, who desired to know what literary undertaking Mr. Eliot had in hand. They, like himself, had been br... ...r’s younger days there used to be a wax figure of him in one of the Boston museums, representing a solemn, dark visaged person, in a minister’s black ...

...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. ...

...nry James A PENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ous “serialisation” in the two countries that the chang- ing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then l... ... the chang- ing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered. It is a long novel, and I was ... ...these reminiscences; though on the whole, no doubt, one’s book, and one’s “literary effort” at large, were to be the better for them. Strangely fertil... ...ferent fitted parts of him as she had seen, 132 The Portrait of a Lady in museums and portraits, the different fitted parts of armoured warriors—in p... ...—not to the ruins and the catacombs, not even perhaps to the monuments and museums, the church ceremonies and the scenery; but certainly to all the re...

Excerpt: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

...he Air by 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 Stat... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...n with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years... ...war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have b... ...a life of pleasure and enlightenment. All of this without hindrance to his literary studies, which carried him up to the seventh standard at an except... ...ness of equipment and military efficiency. The great powers were first the United States, a nation ad- dicted to commerce, but roused to military nece... ...ts. It was a sprawl of undistinguished popula- tion. There were, no doubt, museums and town halls and even cathedrals of a sort to mark theoretical ce...

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

... 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... ...MET 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 Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...nvy every scrap I could get about the world of literature and the lives of literary people. It is something, even amidst this present happiness, to fi... ...on-holes when it was open, and which made him seem not merely cultured but literary. At that he wrote sermons, composing them himself! “Y es,” he said... ...l find if you care to look for them, in out-of-the-way corners of our book museums, the shriveled cheap publications—the publi- cations of the Rationa... ...purse-proud farmer with an enormous belly, that fine dream of freedom, the United States, by a cunning, lean-faced rascal in striped trousers and a bl... ...y a few carefully disinfected types and vestiges of that remain now in our museums. One writes now with a peculiar horror of the dress of the old worl...

...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...

...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...s which are only houses. The trouble with the domestic architecture of the United States is that it is not scenic, thank Heaven! and the good fortune ... ...me to go to the Musee; the more so that I have a weakness for pro- vincial museums,—a sentiment that depends but little on the quality of the collecti... ... the inner en- ceinte; and as I am bound to assume, at whatever cost to my literary vanity, that there is not the slightest danger of his reading thes... ...t a little, and that it is neither better nor worse than most provin- cial museums. It has the usual musty chill in the air, the usual grass-grown for... ...oise had been made; and I was convinced that her singer was factitious and literary, and that there are half a dozen stanzas in Wordsworth that speak ...

Excerpt: A Little Tour in France by Henry James.

... 483 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as a... ...U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circ... ... dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course nev... ...as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself ... ... there—you had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve b... ..., that he should be delighted to receive her at Gardencourt. “Though she’s a literary lady,” he said, “I suppose that, being an American, she won’t sh... ... considerable stay at Gardencourt. She occupied herself in the mornings with literary labour; but in spite of this Isabel spent many hours with her fr... ...ch was so much: she saw the different fitted parts of him as she had seen, in museums and portraits, the different fitted parts of armoured warriors—in ... ...me—not to the ruins and the catacombs, not even perhaps to the monuments and museums, the church ceremonies and the scenery; but certainly to all the ...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself deligh...

...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... 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... ...i, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of his vast ... ...still hard at it, and Heaven frightfully upset about the Sunday opening of museums and the falling birth-rate, and as touchy and vindictive as ever. T... ...irst experience of writing is like a tiger’s first taste of blood, and our literary flowerings led very directly to the revival of the school magazine... ...urged upon me, “as once those vast unmeaning Saurians whose bones encumber museums came and went rejoicing noisily in fruitless lives.” … Fruitless li... ...o Republican and Democrat, for example, and you have the conditions in the United States. The Crown or a dethroned dynasty, the Estab- lished Church o...

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...ns Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by... ...ise. Nothing but an accident now was needed to sever finally the bond that united them; nor was that blow, so terrible for Lucien, very long delayed. ... ...more scarce among Parisian women than a staunch and loyal critic among the literary tribe. The flutter of curiosity in the house was too marked to be ... ... dead, the works of art which quicken the imagination in the galleries and museums here; nowhere else will you find great reference libraries always o... ...a spirit which you breathe in the air; it infuses the least details, every literary creation bears traces of its influence. You learn more by talk in ... ...s, and the watch; and the same odd mixture appeared in the man himself. He united the magis- terial, dogmatic air, and the hollow countenance of the p...

...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual pre...

...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A... ...e Dove by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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 Wings of the Dove by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...f, of “The Wings” would verily, I think, form a signal object lesson for a literary critic bent on improving his occasion to the profit of the budding... ...fteen or twenty weeks to America. The idea of a series of letters from the United States from the strictly social point of view had for some time been... ...had much con- tributed: she copied, patient lady, famous pictures in great museums, having begun with a happy natural gift and taking in betimes the s... ... knew others who had not; and to speak for them had thus become with her a literary mission. To be in truth literary had ever been her dearest thought... ...uivocal quan- tity was what had haunted her during their previous days, in museums and churches, and what was again spoiling for her the pure taste of...

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...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...es Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne, the Penn... ...bly injure a specimen by his too great ardour in handling it; but still he united the genius of a true geolo- gist with the keen eye of the mineralogi... ...cal lines.” I caught his meaning, and immediately produced the fol- lowing literary wonder: I y l o a u l ... ...s Verne reading runs in Icelandic blood. In 1816 we founded a pros- perous literary society; learned strangers think themselves honoured in becoming m... ...e to the light of the sun by rending asunder the huge arches of rock which united over my head, buttressing each other with impregnable strength? Who ... ... the possession of which is a matter of rivalry and contention between the museums of great cities. A thousand Cuviers could never have reconstructed ...

...Excerpt: While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, li...

...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ach week to a more severe mortifica- tion. I have never failed to read the Literary Supplement of The Times. It is a salutary disci- pline to consider... ...ation, and I recall long excursions by bus to the hospitable houses of the literary . In my timidity I wandered up and down the street while I screwed... ...g any. I missed a wonderful chance. Most of them have found their way into museums, and the rest are the treasured possessions of wealthy amateurs. I ... ... sailing West. T wice Strickland refused a berth on tramps sailing for the United States, and once on a collier going to Newcastle. Tough Bill had no ... ...g West. T wice Strickland refused a berth on tramps sailing for the United States, and once on a collier going to Newcastle. Tough Bill had no patienc...

Excerpt: The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham.

...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of... ...RIES P P P P PUBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA TION TION TION TION TION The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania S... ...was eighteen he had cher- ished an ambition to become the President of the United States. “Yes, yes,” he said to Laura, “the bridge was turned. It was... ...mind telling you this much—that he’s not the least important member of the United States Lega- tion. Well, now and then he is supposed to send me what... ...nd—they did not get to the Continent—had been a disappointment to her. The museums, art galleries, and cathedrals were not of the least interest to Ja... ...s” and “Mr. Barnes of New York.” But she had set herself to accomplish his literary education, so, Meredith failing, she took up “Treasure Island” and... ...und out that there’s a really fine course of lectures to be given soon on “Literary Tendencies,” or something like that. Quel chance. Landry is intens...

Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

...Out by Virginia Woolf A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ..., or done ordinary things in their lives. It’s what I’ve always said about literary people—they’re far the hardest of any to get on with. The worst of... ...rved in the Bechuanaland Expedition 1884-85 (honourably mentioned). Clubs: United Service, Naval and Military. Recreations: an en- thusiastic curler.’... ... done a good many things since—” “Profession?” “None—at least—” “Tastes?” “Literary. I’m writing a novel.” “Brothers and sisters?” “Three sisters, no ... ...p into the air seemed like the fiery way in which lovers suddenly rose and united, leaving the crowd gazing up at them with strained white faces. But ... ...,” she continued. “Mouldy old pictures, dirty old books, they stick ‘em in museums when they’re only fit for burnin’ .” “I quite agree,” Helen laughed...

Excerpt: The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf.

...ies Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State U... ...hile Lords and Commons suggest the decapitation of the leading figure. The united three, however, no longer cast re- flections on one another, and wer... ...ipation of the general Election. The Address, moreover, was ultra-Radical: museums to be opened on Sundays; omi- nous references to the Land question,... ... to be the old gentleman’s until some of the apparatus of an Institute for literary and scientific instruction revealed itself to him, and he heard Mr... ...ectively silent. Carpendike would not vote for a man that proposed to open museums on the Sabbath day. The striking simile of the thin end of the wedg... ...osition of the reply against Lydiard, yielding to him on a point or two of literary judge- ment, only the more vehemently to maintain his ideas of dis...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some cr...

...cott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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. Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott... ...ainted from designs by Boucher. Bath, table and love are therefore closely united. After the salon, which, I should tell you, my dear fellow, exhibits... ...’s white on its back; for the sub-prefect told me there wasn’t one o’ them museums that had the like; but he knows everything, our sub-prefect,— no fo... ...uture of her husband’s son by marrying him to Rigou’s only daugh- ter. The united fortunes of the Soudrys and the ex-monk, which would come eventually... ...rble, bearing shells in their arms and baskets of grapes upon their heads. Literary travellers who may pass this way (should any such follow Emile Blo... ...au- thors carries on at all moments under our very eyes in behalf of their literary works or their marriageable daughters, the late Mademoiselle Coche...

Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...wo by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of... ...he Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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 Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas, the Pe... ...one, but who, nevertheless, possessed a fund of knowledge and penetration, united with a will as powerful as ever although clogged by a body rendered ... ...ses un- der one’s hand, such as mines, lands, and funded property, in such states as France, Austria, and England, provided these treasures and proper... ...w I ex- isted when it was arranged by your two families that you should be united. I have no enmity against M. Franz, and promise you the pun- ishment... ... in the financial department, respected in the army, or illustrious in the literary world, and which was acknowledged by a slight movement in the diff... ...o are always to be found in Rome at the doors of banking-houses, churches, museums, or theatres. With the Frenchman, the man who had followed him ente...

...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

...sadors by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Ambassadors by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ambassadors by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...e right persuasion, the most independent, most elastic, most prodigious of literary forms. Henry James 21 Henry James Book First I S trether’s first ... ...m, affected our friend as a dazzling prodigy of type. Strether had seen in museums—in the Luxembourg as well as, more reverently, later on, in the New... ... Strether’s destiny. It might after all, to the end, only be that they had united to save him, and indeed, so far as Waymarsh was concerned, that had ... ...ade the most of having to be himself explanatory. “I’m not leaving for the United States direct. Mr. and Mrs. Pocock and Miss Mamie are thinking of a ... ...f the empty town, with plenty of seats in the shade, cool drinks, deserted museums, drives to the Bois in the evening, and our wonderful woman all to ...

...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second cha...

... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edi- tor, nor anyo... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvan... ...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the... ...flutterings of effort, the foundation of some ridiculous little academy of literary busybodies and hangers-on, the public recognition of this or that ... ... before a fire, and a little distended by dinner and a sense of social and literary precedences, who uses the first person in Thackeray’s novels. It i... ...nd was invaded by the idea of classification, by memories of specimens and museums; and he initiated that accumulation of desiccated anthropological a...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices i...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT...................................................................................

...ication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell, the Pennsylvania... ...he working-class, a class always in- creasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist produc... ...action and simplicity, and complete absence of life, action and simplicity—literary and argumen- tative artisans and repulsive coquetry with them: ‘Fe... ... between two insurrections. There is something of Anarchism in his lack of literary order. His best- known work is a fragment entitled by its editors ... ...the free road. The same spirit per- vades thousands of other institutions. Museums, free librar- ies, and free public schools; parks and pleasure grou... ...ing such valuable objects of art as would naturally be preserved in public museums. It may be contended that such forms of theft would be prevented by...

...ER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM........................................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER III THE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ...............................................................

...HAPTER IV — CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . .... ...— CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . . . . .... ...9 CHAPTER VII — MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . .... ... 5 to. For not this man and that man, but all men make up mankind, and their united tasks the task of mankind. How often have we seen some such advent... ...fer of Heuschrecke’s. Form rose out of void solution and discontinuity; like united itself with like in definite arrangement: and soon ei ther in actu... ...pts) effected a partial clearance, a jail delivery of such lumber as was not Literary. These were herErdbeben (earth quakes), which Teufelsdr¨ ockh d... ...ble courtesy, now and often before sponta neously manifested to him, a mere literary stranger, he cannot soon forget,—the bulky Weissnichtwo Packet, ... ...ts with care: when did we see any injected Prepa ration of the Dandy in our Museums; any specimen of him preserved in spirits! Lord Herringbone may d...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever,...

...CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII? THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES, 34 -- CHAPTER IX? ADAMITISM, 39 -- CHAPTER X? PURE REASON, 43 -- CHAPTER XI? PROSPECTI...

... i i i i n n n n n A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ... ...and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...onfess it. Next the Senator’s son and the son of the Vice President of the United States—perfectly right, there’s no permanency about those little dis... ...ognize that note anywhere. There be myriads of instruments in this world’s literary orchestra, and a multitudinous confusion of sounds that they make,... ...des among the rac coons, alligators, and things, that has merit, peculiar literary merit. See how Achilles woos. Dwell upon the second sen tence (pa... ...t they very soon arrived at Rural Retreat, where they dismounted, and were united with all the solemnities that usually attended such divine operation... ...a treasure and the most perfect thing of its kind that the storehouses and museums of literature could show. He did not dare to say no to the dread po...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

...Contents THE $30,000 BEQUEST ............................................................................................................................................. 5 A DOG?S TALE ...................................................

...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind. They shed an united light on the advancing actor. He is attended as by a visible escort ... ...t we can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable. There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon ev- ery book a... ... the windows, and the gnomes and vices also. By all the vir- tues they are united. If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess a... ...not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Among the multitude of scholars and aut... ...ost-office, of the highway, of commerce and the exchange of prop- erty, of museums and libraries, of institutions of art and science can be answered. ...

...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen a...

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... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnish... .... Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ... way does so at his or person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ...r own risk. her own risk. her own risk. her own risk. her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...njury. For the same reason, we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its no... ...to blink the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable m... ...ely realized—where both society and the government are most demo cratic—the United States—the feeling of the ma jority , to whom any appearance of a... ...nting intemperance the people of one English colony , and of nearly half the United States, have been interdicted by law from making any use whatever ... ...s to stop railway travelling on Sunday , in the resistance to the opening of Museums, and the like, has not the cruelty of the old persecutors, the st...

...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be ...

...story of Hursley and Otterbourne by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by ... ...e disinterred before the time when diggers had learnt to preserve them for museums, and only reported that they had seen remains. Of human times, a br... ...thes having been found insufficient for the main- tenance of the vicar, he united to Hursley the rectory of Otterbourne, giving the great tithes to th... ...e crossing the moat fell in and choked it; it became a marsh; the farm was united to another, the picture removed, and the only inhabitants are such a... ...the next generation. With change of time comes also change of men; and the states- men and politicians of the new world, whatever their merits or deme... ...o much friendly as fatherly, and he was the best and kindest of critics in literary affairs. But throughout, the vicar was the personal minister to ea...

...Preface: To explain the present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable a...

...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn St... ...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publica... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publicatio... .... And of the two atmospheres it is hard to say which was the more fatal to statesmanship. Revolution on the Shelf Heartbreak House was quite familiar ... ..., the poems of Meredith and Thomas Hardy, and, generally speaking, all the literary implements 6 Heartbreak House for forming the mind of the perfect... ...e flung off as an intolerable affectation; and the picture galler- ies and museums and schools at once occupied by war work- ers. The British Museum i... ... wrath on which many suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of America where nobody slept the worse for the war, that the... ...He strums the piano, and sketches, and runs after married women, and reads literary books and poems. He actually plays the flute; but I never let him ...

...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby ...

...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...VE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication o... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...e Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...or two motives, each of a given value, have not, necessarily, a value when united, equal to the sum of their values apart. There are numerous other ma... ...d very remarkable work, I was not a little astonished to discover that the literary world has hitherto been strangely in error respecting the fate of ... ...ach square yard, gives 2,230,272,000 Pigeons. — “Travels in Canada and the United States,” by Lieut. F . Hall. 34 Poe in Five V olumes “‘No sooner ha... ...ed, or will attain in a few days, is not a small matter, as times go. ‘The Literary World’ speaks of him, confidently, as a native of Presburg (misled... ...t ministerial power—or purchasing increase of nobility—or collecting large museums of virtu—or playing the munificent patron of letters, of science, o...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

...Contents THE PURLOINED LETTER ...................................................................................................................................... 4 THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE..........................

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 ii The Golden Bowl Chapter 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...E A mong many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with “The Golden Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked in... ...erson who contributes to the case mainly a certain amount of criticism and in terpretation of it. Again and again, on review, the shorter things in e... ...ries have ranged themselves not as my own impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody’s impression of it—the terms of this... ... for that, is that we shall really see about as much of them as a coherent literary form permits. That was my problem, so to speak, and my gageure—to ... ...han that, I nat urally allow, with the desire or the pretension to cast a literary spell. Charming, that is, for the projector and creator of figures ... ... the bondage of ugliness he was in a position to measure—in this museum of museums, a palace of art which was to show for compact as a Greek temple wa... ...plain of being neglected. Nothing perhaps in truth had done more than this united participation to confirm in the elder parties that sense of a life no... ... her so; and always therefore without Maggie where in fine would he be? She united 132 The Golden Bowl them, brought them together as with the click o...

...Excerpt: PREFACE; Among many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrar...