...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...s, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, listed below: III. “Pertubata seu inordinata,” as Euclid has it. XXX. cry, ... ..., which was by slow degrees making my naiad into a negress. Now and then I listened to hear whether a well-known step was on the stairs. No. Where cou... ...volcanoes has diminished since the first days of creation? and if there is central heat may we not thence con- clude that it is in process of diminuti... ...his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic, or to the scientific conclu... ...long the seashore. In fact, the great plutonic action is con- fined to the central portion of the island; there, rocks of the trappean and volcanic cl... ...ted of trap rocks slowly upraised to the level of the sea by the action of central forces. The internal fires had not yet forced their way through. 7...

...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, listed below?...

...eries Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...thanks. The many who fail sit idly for hours, undergoing the weary task of listening to platitudes, and enjoy in return the now absolutely valueless p... ...ed for her love. And he had even taken the trouble to allure Dick, and had listened to and had talked whole pages out of “Bell’s Life”. On his own beh... ...cy thinking of all that, I’d sit up all night every night of my life,—I’ d listen to every debate in the House myself,— to have Plantagenet Prime Mini... ...n. Under those circum- stances I must leave England, and try my fortune in Central America. There is an opening for me at Guatemala, though not a very... ....’ ‘But where is Guatemala;—and for how long, Ferdinand?’ ‘Guatemala is in Central America, and we shall probably settle there for the rest of our liv... ...er troubles,—only say- ing that she believed her husband would take her to Central America early in the spring, and begging him to come home before sh...

...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...gh yon low-arched way—cut through what in old times must have been a great central chimney with fireplaces all round—you enter the pub- lic room. A st... ...s mast- 56 Moby Dick head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads me that other and more aw... ...ned cala- bash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held. Now a certain ... ...ptain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in col... ... it’s very punctual then. I went down to supper. After sitting a long time listening to the long stories of some sailors who had just come from a plum... ...rial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased be- fore the tremendous centralization. Nor, will the tragic drama- tist who would depict mortal in...

... S ERIES P UBLICA TION Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ning on his elbow, his head resting against the knuckles of his left hand, listened with great attention, but gave no sign of that surprise which Reno... ... every way… Socially too. Quite the fashion in the highest world. Renouard listened with profoundly concealed attention. “A charlatan,” he muttered la... ... could see you. Not an inch further. Y ou are such a sophisticated beggar. Listen: the man is the man Miss Moorsom was engaged to for a year. He could... ... feeling suddenly as steady as a rock. “But I can show you a view from the central hill which your father has not seen. A view of reefs and of broken ... ...ld go up tiny creeks and into shallow bays and through reefs and over sand-banks, col- lecting produce, where no other vessel but a native craft would...

...Contents of Within the Tides THE PLANTER OF MALATA......................................................................4 THE PARTNER ............................................................................................66 THE I...

...ERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ... about the mildness, the convenient quality, of the physical conditions of central France,— “son climat souple et chaud, ses pluies abondantes et cour... ...you feel that the building has something to say, and that you must stop to listen to it. Within, it has a vast and splendid nave, of immense height,—t... ... and some ad- mirable old glass. I spent half an hour there one morn- ing, listening to what the church had to say, in perfect solitude. Not a worship... ...ir. Every inch of this structure, of its balconies, its pillars, its great central columns, is wrought over with lovely images, strange and ingenious ... ...Azay is a most perfect and beautiful thing; I should place it third in any list of the great houses of this part of France in which these houses shoul... ...y. Loches is certainly one of the greatest impressions of the traveller in central France,— the largest cluster of curious things that presents itself...

...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... really, provisionally conceived as pigs—go up elabo- rate approaches to a central pen, from which they went down a cardboard slide four at a time, an... ...ued so that at times he produced an effect of weird world-forgetfulness. I listened puzzled, and at that time not upderstanding many things that after... ...ntinual pleasure to me. But these things were certainly not the living and central interests of my life. I had to conceal my wider outlook to a certai... ...to do any fine writing,” said Shoesmith. “What you’ve got to do is just to list all the chaps and put a note to their play:—’Naylor minor must pass mo... ... ery inch of Redmayne’s floor space except the hearthrug- platform, and we listened to him and thought him over. He was the voice of wrongs that made ... ...dnor, the “infernal punctilio,” and Dudley Sowerby’s limitations, were the central substance of that inalertness the book set itself to assail. So man...

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...led it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted ...

........................................................................................................................................... 36 THE POWER OF THE DOG ............................................................................................................................................51 THE MOTHER HIVE ..........................................................

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ... yon low arched way — cut through what in old times must have been a great central chimney with fire places all round — you enter the public room. A st... ...e down from this mast head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads me that other and more aw... ...ained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held. Now a certain ... ...ptain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in col... ... it’s very punctual then. I went down to supper. After sitting a long time listening to the long stories of some sailors who had just come from a plum... ...perial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization. Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indo...

... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ge, but I do not think the present decade can produce any parallel to this list, or what is more remarkable, that the later achievements in this field... ...lames, stood the great cylinders of the Jeddah Company Blast Furnaces, the central edifices of the big ironworks of which Horrocks was the manager. Th... ...blood pulsing, it might have been the rustle in my own ears, like what you listen to in a seashell. “Then came the atoll. Came out of the sunrise, as ... ...some glass smash in the other room. I stopped writing, and turned round to listen. For a moment I heard nothing; the hail was play- ing the devil’s ta... ...revious god, just as they’d left me overnight. I’d got my back against the central pillar of the hut, and, practically, I was asleep. And that’s how I... ...o satisfy me yet,” he told me nearly a year ago. “Either they increase the central energy without affecting the nerves, or they simply increase the av...

...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

...RODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN BACILLUS......

... This publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...d some of the people who were sitting on the bench outside the door—came and listened, and then looked at me, most of them pityingly. I could hear a l... ...the coming dawn. There seemed a strange stillness over everything. But as I listened, I heard as if from down below in the valley the howl ing of ma... ... ing of many wolves. The Count’s eyes gleamed, and he Chapter 2 24 said. “Listen to them, the children of the night. What mu sic they make!” Seein... ...s away to nothing,and there is merely the stream of the Esk, running between banks of sand, with rocks here and there. Outside the harbour on this sid... ...he result in ex post facto manner. From thence I went to Carter Paterson’s central of fice, where I met with the utmost courtesy. They looked up t... ...river in an open boat, pro pelled probably either by oars or poles, for the banks are near and it is working against stream. There would be no such i...

...Excerpt: Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible....

...sics Series Publication The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...r the fashion of their sex, highly trained in promoting men’s talk without listening to it, could think—about the education of children, about the use... ...swamp. ’ Again and again my words have proved true. But d’you suppose they listen to me when I tell ‘em so, when I point out the consequences, the con... ...und which is represented by “Tush.” But Willoughby, whose discomfort as he listened was manifested by a slight movement rocking of his body, said awkw... ...ow deep in shade with moving trees and canoes sliding out from the tangled banks, be- set her. Helen promised a river. Then she did not want to leave ... ...London, gets into good society, owing to an early-morning adventure on the banks of the Serpen- tine. He is led into telling lies—my idea, you see, is... ...seemed inclined to sit down, but they collected in little groups under the central skylight, where they stood in a yellow atmosphere, looking upwards....

...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 Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ...ICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA TION TION TION TION TION The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ess of a girl who had lived for twenty-two years in a second-class town of central Mas- sachusetts, was in great distress. She had never seen Grand Op... ... something.” But Laura, preoccupied with looking for the Cresslers, hardly listened. Aunt Wess’, whose count was confused by all these figures murmure... ...m closely during their interview in the vestibule, but now, as she sat and listened to him talk, she could not help being a little attracted. He was a... ...in which she moved. And here he sat, this Jadwin, quiet, in evening dress, listening good-naturedly to this beauti- ful music, for which he did not ca... ... pick and drill leaped to the assault of veins of anthracite, moved by her central power. Her force turned the wheels of harvester and seeder a thousa... ...eamers crowding the Sault Sainte Marie. For her and because of her all the Central States, all the Great Northwest roared with traffic and industry; s...

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

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...ce came galloping before hell-for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of... ...for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached ... ... parting, and we’ll never see some of the bunch again!” “Carol, you got to listen to me! You always duck when I try to talk seriously to you, but you ... ...to me! You always duck when I try to talk seriously to you, but you got to listen to me. I’m going to be a big lawyer, maybe a judge, and I need you, ... ...re grotesquely squat. But the frock had an original back, very low, with a central triangular section from the waist to a string of jet beads at the n... ... day she tried to devise a way of giving Erik up. Tele- phone? The village central would unquestionably “listen in.” A letter? It might be found. Go t...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

...y R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of t... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ument or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott, the Pennsylvania Sta... ... suites are decorously separated by the two main blocks, as well as by the central one, which contained those vast, gloomy, resounding halls shown me ... ...t was one of those au- tumn days which we used to find so beautiful on the banks of the Loire. So I have seen Paris at last! The Place Louis XV . is c... ...ords and manners of the men you meet. Your other self will be always there—listening, dancing, feeling her finger-tips pressed—with you. If only I cou... ...ich was still un- known when the Abencerrages arrived as conquerors on the banks of the Loire. My idea had been to live on the income of these huge es... ... for any of them; not one has roused in me the emotion which I feel when I listen to Garcia in his splendid duet with Pellegrini in Otello. Heavens! h... ...all the things you have sent me. Give a glance at my needs on the enclosed list. I am determined to live in an atmosphere of refinement and luxury, an...

...that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and separations, and triumphed over the busy malice of the world....

...s Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...on to Passepartout’s trouble about the gas? It is not probable. He was not listening, but was cogitating a project. Passepartout and he had now reache... ..., by the visa, that he had passed through Suez?” “Why? I have no idea; but listen to me.” He reported in a few words the most important parts of his c... ... com- manding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for th... ...rancis, putting out his head. “I don’t know, officer,” replied the Parsee, listening atten- tively to a confused murmur which came through the thick b... ...acific Railroad is, however, really divided into two dis- tinct lines: the Central Pacific, between San Francisco and Ogden, and the Union Pacific, be... ...a. The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly. The Central Pacific, taking Sacramento for its start- ing-point, extends eastwa...

... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...the entire world by this supernatural apparition. As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question. On the 20th of July, 1866... ... from this point of view. The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, the Lloyd’s List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers dev... ... expression; his recital took the form of an epic poem, and I seemed to be listening to a Canadian Homer singing the Iliad of the regions of the North... ...assed, the frigate took a more decided westerly direction, and scoured the central waters of the Pacific. Commander Farragut thought, and with reason,... ...tilus, then it stopped. “We have arrived,” said the Captain. I went to the central staircase which opened on to the platform, clambered up the iron st... ...ace of the ocean to renew our supply of oxygen. I directed my steps to the central stair- case, and mounted the platform. 73 Jules Verne It was six o...

...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

...e by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ians who were lurking behind the curtains. He put his ear to the floor and listened to the herd of buffaloes that raced across the prairie. Presently ... ...ately up- stairs. Outside the door of his mother’s bed-room he stopped and listened. Though no one had told him not to go in, he had a feeling that it... ...y , knowing by what train they were coming, waited in the drawing-room and listened for the click of the gate. When she heard it she went to the door.... ...air with melancholy cries. Along one side lay the Cathedral with its great central tower , and Philip, who knew as yet nothing of beauty , felt when h... ...u in the train tomorrow morning. He will meet you himself in Berlin at the Central Bahnhof.” “ Very good, Frau Professor. ” Herr Sung smiled in the Fr... ...sed a mind with which he felt himself at home. He was like the explorer in Central Africa who comes suddenly upon wide uplands, with great trees in th...

... The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles D... ... The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...ennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, ... ...rrible bedstead set upright again, and this horrible court swept clean? What can she rise to, under any quantity of opium, higher than that! – Eh?’ He... ...on the bed. The Chinaman clutches the aggressive hands, resists, gasps, and protests. ‘What do you say?’ A watchful pause. ‘Unintelligible!’ Slowly lo... ...oorway 11 Charles Dickens and conveys it down-stairs. Sounds of recognition and greeting pass between the Reverend Septimus and somebody else, at the... ...th a half-protesting and half-appealing countenance. ‘“We have,”’ the old lady read on with a little extra emphasis, ‘“a meeting of our Convened Chief... ... He was labouring along, when he became aware of some other pedestrians behind him. As they were coming up at a faster pace than his, he stood aside, ... ...e went on, as in a dream, until they came again into the high road, and into the midst of a little group of people. The men who had turned back were a...

...Excerpt: An ancient English cathedral tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up...

...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...her-in-law. “If you will give me a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, and some list braces, so as not to disgrace Vermichel on the mu- sic stand at Tivoli... ...ges of France cannot be reached. They make it a law unto themselves not to listen to us; whereas the church does get some hold on the savages of Ameri... ...le-aux-Fayes. Thunder! what a no- bly governed town!—” “Do me the honor to listen, Monsieur le comte, and to believe that I am talking of serious matt... ...walk from the pavilion to the pheasantry, had turned the large hall of the central building into a stable,—a hall with panelled ceiling, and in the ce... ..., well-known to the gov- erning powers, is doubtless diminishing; but what central- ization (against which every one declaims, as it is the fashion in... ... in France to declaim against all things good and useful and strong),—what centralization cannot touch, the Power against which it will forever fling ...

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