...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...mple and buoyant conviction that I could do what he desired. There existed at the time only the little sketch, “The Jilting of Jane,” included in this... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ...lliam was at first a rather shabby young man of the ready- made black coat school of costume. He had watery gray eyes, and a complexion appropriate to... ...ude of the creature. I’d been more than a brother to him. I’d hatched him, educated him. A great gawky, out-of-date bird! And me a human being—heir of... ...cene. The thing happened at the Harlow T echnical College, just beyond the Highgate Archway. He was alone in the larger laboratory when the thing happ... ... George Eden, then adopt- ing me as his own son. He was a single man, self-educated, and well-known in Birmingham as an enterprising journal- ist; he ... ...s in tears, and her voice was a little thick. She had just re- turned from Highgate. Her mind seemed occupied with her own prospects and the honourabl...

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim... ...t is curious to re- call some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps... ...ons of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the im- mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material... ...elow in the darkness were Ottershaw and Chertsey and all their hundreds of people, sleeping in peace. He was full of speculation that night about the ... ...had arisen at the Horse Guards. The ordinary sapper is a great deal better educated than the common soldier, and they dis- cussed the peculiar conditi... ...ent, and defeated the invaders in a dozen striking ways; some- thing of my schoolboy dreams of battle and heroism came back. It hardly seemed a fair f... ...is knees. Presently he began waving his hand. “All the work—all the Sunday schools—What have we done—what has Weybridge done? Everything gone—every- t... ...n possession of the whole of Lon- don was confirmed. They had been seen at Highgate, and even, it was said, at Neasden. But they did not come into my ... ...look at the lights of which he had spoken that blazed so greenly along the Highgate hills. At first I stared unintelligently across the London valley....

Excerpt: The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.

...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ER I CHAPTER I INSOMNIA INSOMNIA INSOMNIA INSOMNIA INSOMNIA ONE AFTERNOON, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked fro... ... part. Drugs. My nervous system... . They are all very well for the run of people. It’s hard to explain. I dare not take … sufficiently powerful drugs... ...he said in a tone of commonplace gossip, “but in those cases I have known, people have usually found something—” “I dare make no experiments.” He spok... ...alist—or typical Liberal, as they used to call themselves,-of the advanced school. Energetic—flighty—undisciplined. Overwork upon a controversy did th... ...had observed. His boyhood seemed the most accessible at first, he recalled school books and certain lessons in mensuration. Then he revived the more s... ... Hills rose blue and faint; to the north and nearer, the sharp contours of Highgate and Muswell Hill were simi- larly jagged. And all over the country... ...ht have given the same sensations. He recognised the Council House and the Highgate Ridge. And then he looked straight down between his feet. For a mo... ...rteen, and they pay two years’ service. You may be sure these children are educated for the blue can- vas. And so it is the Company works.” “And none ...

Excerpt: When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.