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Excerpt: A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad.

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Excerpt: Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith.

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Excerpt: The Rescue by Joseph Conrad.

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Preface: For an explanation of the allusions in the present Tale, scarcely any Notes are necessary, save a reference to the bewitching Chronicle of Froissart; and we cannot but hope that our sketch may serve as an inducement to some young readers to make acquaintance with the delectable old Canon for themselves, undeterred by the size of his tomes....

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Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. On the afternoon of a warm day in the end of July, an open carriage was waiting in front of the painted toy-looking building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the attacks of hosts of winged foes, too well-behaved to express their annoyance otherwise than by twitchings of their sleek shining skins, but duly grateful to the coachman, who roused himself now and then to whisk off some more pertinacious tormentor with the end of his whip....

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Excerpt: The Pupil by Henry James.

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Excerpt: Recuerdo. We were very tired, we were very merry-- We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable-- But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table, We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon; And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon....

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Contents First Fig ........................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Second Fig .................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Recuerdo ....................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Thursday ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Macdougal Street ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 The Singing-Woman from theWood’s Edge .............................................................................................................. 7 She Is Overheard Singing ...............................................................................

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Excerpt: Florence, April 5th, 1874.--They told me I should find Italy greatly changed; and in seven-and-twenty years there is room for changes. But to me everything is so perfectly the same that I seem to be living my youth over again; all the forgotten impressions of that enchanting time come back to me. At the moment they were powerful enough; but they afterwards faded away....

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Excerpt: Using sing Equations Sitting here in a Pennsylvania afternoon grading papers just before mid-term break I read a technical report about blueprints and think of you in the ground, how you came home after Vo-Tech school to drink beer and turn the kitchen light on to read books or draw lines/ your thin hands moving on that paper in a way they never did before....

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Table of Contents Using Equations............................................................. 6 Coal ..............................................................................7 Fighting......................................................................... 8 Lines of Rain ............................................................... 10 Wind over Land........................................................... 11 Drunk in the Snow ......................................................12 Ritual .......................................................................... 13 Rebuilding a House Near the Delaware River ................15 Making Breakfast ......................................................... 16 The Servant ................................................................. 17 First Rooms ................................................................. 18 Floating ....................................................................... 19 The Whole Way ........................................................... 21 On Waking from a Dream of Coal Miners .................... 22 One More Thing..............................

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Excerpt: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.

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Excerpt: A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ernest Dowson.

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Excerpt: A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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Excerpt: ?The Phoenix and the Turtle? is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsyvlania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission in any way....

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Excerpt: Ladies and gentlemen, it will be very difficult for an audience so large as this to hear distinctly what a speaker says, and consequently it is important that as profound silence be preserved as possible. While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five minutes in saying something in regard to it....

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Contents LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS FOURTH JOINT DEBATE, AT CHARLESTON, SEPTEMBER 18, 1858. ............ 4 FIFTH JOINT DEBATE, AT GALESBURGH, OCTOBER 7, 1858 ....................................................................... 26 SIXTH JOINT DEBATE, AT QUINCY, OCTOBER 13, 1858. ................................................................................ 44 LAST JOINT DEBATE, AT ALTON, OCTOBER 15, 1858. .................................................................................... 64...

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Excerpt: ?The Raven? by Edgar Allan Poe.

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?THERE, I?ve done every bit I can do! I?m going to see what o?clock it is.? ?I heard it strike eleven just now.? ?Sylvia, you?ll tip up! What a tremendous stretch!? ?Wha-ooh! Oh dear! We sha?n?t get one moment before dinner! Oh, horrible! oh, horrible! most horrible!? ?Sylvia, you know I hate hearing Hamlet profaned.? ?You can?t hate it more than having no one to hear our lessons.?...

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?They?ve got him for life!? I said to myself that evening on my way back to the station; but later on, alone in the compartment (from Wimbledon to Waterloo, before the glory of the District Railway) I amended this declaration in the light of the sense that my friends would probably after all not enjoy a monopoly of Mr. Saltram. I won?t pretend to have taken his vast measure on that first occasion, but I think I had achieved a glimpse of what the privilege of his acquaintance might mean for many persons in the way of charges accepted....

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Excerpt: The Shaving of Shagpat by George Meredith.

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Excerpt: ?The Lake Gun? is one of James Fenimore Cooper?s very few short stories, and was written in the last year of his life. It was commissioned by George E. Wood for publication in a volume of miscellaneous stories and poems called ?The Parthenon? (New York: George E. Wood, 1850), and Cooper received $100 for it. The story was reprinted a few years later in a similar volume called ?Specimens of American Literature? (New York, 1866). It was published in book form in 1932 in a slipcased edition limited to 450 copies (New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1932) with an introduction by Robert F. Spiller....