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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. 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... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle... ...d he stood waiting for an op- portunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. CHAPTER III ANNA PA VLOVNA’S RECEPTION was in ful... ...story today and must treat you to it. Excuse me, Vicomte—I must tell it in Russian or the point will be lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell h... ...int will be lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia. E... ...from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. At each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the din of shouting more... ...myantsev, the Chan- cellor; Stein, a former Prussian minister; Armfeldt, a Swedish general; Pfuel, the chief author of the plan of campaign; Paulucci,... ...tions for the Emperor personally. To this semicouncil had been invited the Swedish General Armfeldt, Adjutant General W olzogen, Wintzingerode (whom N...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...lication Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ... the same cause. “Prevention is better than cure,” and I would rather help people to abstain from killing and wounding each other than devote the mone... ...th evident intent. The face of the woman was of that whiteness peculiar to people who have lived long in confinement, and which puts one in mind of sh... ...ing to another tune then.” “This son of a priest will be saying ‘thou’ [in Russian, as in many other languages, “thou” is used generally among people ... ...irty-three; born in the year one thousand eight—” “What religion?” “Of the Russian religion, orthodox.” 32 Resurrection “Married?” “Oh, no, sir.” “Yo... ...sher said she might. Having got permission, she removed the three-buttoned Swedish kid glove from her plump, white hand, and from an elegant purse bro... ...of the Petersburg prisoners was an old General of repute—a baron of German descent, who, as it was said of him, had out- lived his wits. He had receiv...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

...tion The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings 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... ...d- ded a number of times. The moustache rang. I understood that these kind people were planning to make me out the innocent victim of a wily villain, ... ... as my friend has so often said to me, the French are after all the finest people in the world.” This double-blow stopped Noyon dead, but only for a s... ...s (I counted as I lay Dutch, Bel- gian, Spanish, Turkish, Arabian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, German, French—and English) at distances varying from 51... ...ted as I lay Dutch, Bel- gian, Spanish, Turkish, Arabian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, German, French—and English) at distances varying from 51 e e cumm... ...ow-German and which was Belgian, Dutch, Pol- ish, and what I guessed to be Russian. T rembling with this chaos, my hand sought the cup. The cup was no... ... the ground floor, I regretted that no whispers and titters had greeted my descent. Probably the furious planton had seen to it that les femmes kept t...

...my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...ns. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle 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... ... an interruption, he said that tragedy ought to be the school of kings and peoples; that there was no subject worthier of treatment than the death of ... ... a commotion in our young heads that was not easily settled. But the young people felt the in- convenience less, because they had somewhat more space ... ... “Last Judgment” of Elias Schlegel. One of these, written to celebrate the descent of Christ into hell, re- ceived much applause from my parents and f... ...ent circuit, resolved to take up the pavements, and to con- trive a gentle descent and ascent. With the same view, they had also removed all the proje... ...habitants of the Eastern countries in their strange dresses, the Poles and Russians, and, above all, the Greeks, for the sake of whose handsome forms ... ...Hofrath Pfeil, author of the “Count von P .,” a continuation of Gellert’s “Swedish Countess;” Zachariä, a brother of the poet; and Krebel, editor of g...

...resented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty millions of reflective, serious and cultivated men, invites us to study him; and to determine for ourselves, whether and how far such influence h...

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