...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ... yet wider knowledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two A... ... type of some- thing not so much realised as widely sought after among the late generations of their countrymen; and to see them clearly in a nice rel... ...emans and the Furnivalls, sets himself up to right the wrongs of universal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a su... ...loam fell nineteen hundred years ago; yet we have still to desire a little Christianity, or, failing that, a little even of that rude, old, Norse nobi... ...oad could atone for slavery, even as no bills in Parliament can redeem the ancient wrongs of Ireland. But here at least is a new light shed on the Wal... ...here you see no good, silence is the best. Though this penitence comes too late, it may be well, at least, to give it expression. The spirit of Villon... ...“the satisfaction and aplomb of animals.” If he preaches a sort of ranting Christianity in morals, a fit consequent to the ranting opti- mism of his c...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad 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... ...manipulation of conventions or by sol- emn hanging on to the skirts of the latest scientific theory, is the only theme that can be legitimately develo... ...to what brand of ink Mr. Henry James dips his pen; indeed, I heard that of late he had been dictating; but I know that his mind is steeped in the wate... ...the duality of man’s nature and the com- petition of individuals, the life-history of the earth must in the last instance be a history of a really ver... ...m cannot be contested, and that the posi- tion is unassailable. Fiction is history, human his- tory, or it is nothing. But it is also more than that; ... ...rt has served Religion; artists have found the most exalted inspiration in Christianity; but the light of Transfiguration which has illumi- nated the ... ...ue of its sufferings, but in virtue of its mi- raculous rebirth and of its ancient claim for services rendered to Europe. Not a single one of the comb... ...emselves. It is hon- est to give value for your wages; and the “bravos” of ancient Venice who kept their stilettos in good order and never failed to d...

.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is... ...s by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... That nothing might be lacking to the sombre and mysterious poesy of their history, these Thirteen men have remained to this day unknown; though all h... ...this short preface is contracting for him; but he also knows enough of the history of the thirteen to be certain that his present tale will never be t... ...ed to him. If readers were not surfeited with horrors served up to them of late in cold blood, he might reveal the calm 5 Balzac atrocities, the surp... ...o his book which seems at first sight unnatural. Ferragus is, according to ancient custom, a name taken by the chief or Grand Master of the Devorants.... ...ient times from the great mystical association formed among the workers of Christianity to rebuild the temple at Jerusa- lem. Companionism (to coin a ... ...oach, and got into it. “The house will always be there and I can search it later,” thought the young man, following the carriage at a run, to solve hi... ...l. This young man belonged to a good family, whose nobil- ity was not very ancient; but there are so few really old fami- lies in these days, that all...

...fore innocence; accepting each other for such as they were, without social prejudices,--criminals, no doubt, but certainly remarkable through certain of the qualities that make great men, and recruiting their number only among men of mark....

...DROLL STORIES COLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN T... ...ronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a pub... ...at no year passes without his giving an instalment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas mixed up with bad syllables, at which the la... ... interpretation 6 Balzac from Rabelais, who told it to him. If you search history, has France ever breathed a word when she was joyous mounted, brave... ...clergy, you will see by that which is related the part they played in this history, the testimony of which was by them preserved. This said man, calle... ...king new re- ceipts, and in seeking, meeting with inventions of all kinds. Late idlers, watchmen, and vagrants saw always a modest lamp shining throug... ... is shrouded in darkness to a degree that would make you ruin your eyes in ancient books; but it was certainly something of great importance. Neverthe... ... about considerable mischief, and proved abundantly that error is worse in Christianity than the adultery of the Church. Now at this time, when the de... ...o you like music? We will play together. Let us sing the lay of some sweet ancient bard. Eh? What do you say? Come to my organ; come along. As you lov...

... Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an installment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas mixed up with bad syllables, at which the ladies publicly knit their brows, and have put to him other questions of a like character....

.................... 9 CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS............................. 25 ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY... 34 BERTHA THE PENITENT .......................................................................................................... 51 I HOW BERTHA REMAINED A MAIDEN IN THE MARRIED STATE ............................

...st and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania 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 ... ...den acre, paid half of the money down and moved her family in. Seven years later she was out of debt and had several hundred dol lars out earning its... ... husband and the children were happy in her. It is at this point that this history begins. The youngest girl, Clytemnestra—called Clytie for short— wa... ...Gwen for short— was thirteen; nice girls, and comely. The names betray the latent romance tinge in the parental blood, the parents’ names indicate tha... ... la dies in the flash and stir and splendor of noble palaces and grim and ancient castles. CHAPTER II NOW CAME GREAT NEWS! Stunning news—joyous news... ...ou know, without intending anything improper, but just out of trade habit, ancient policy, petrified custom, loyalty to—to—hang it, I can’t find the r... ...ing Chinamen to trade off twenty four carat Con fucianism for counterfeit Christianity.” This rude and unfeeling language hurt Aleck to the heart, an... ...he upper sky. Ambulinia insisted upon Elfonzo to be seated, and give her a history of his unneces sary absence; assuring him the family had retired, ...

...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 religio...

.... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ................................................................................................................................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES ............................................................

...ublication North America: Volume One 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... ... his liberty creep into his mind and water his heart; and thus, earlier or later in life, according to the nature of his intelligence, he understands ... ...ouri, of Mississippi and Arkansas, and through the State of Louisiana. The ancient province so called, the proudest monument of the mighty monarch who... ...politics of the West; and it was perfectly well understood that, sooner or later, she 25 Trollope would be content with nothing less than the soverei... ... city popu- lation is ever the one that is going most ahead in the world’s history. If this be so, I say that the argument of my Canadian friend was n... ...e politicians heard so much in England. I am not going back to recount the history of the period, otherwise than to say that the En- glish Canadians a... ...New Zealand fighting, and the rest of it. Such complaints remind one of an ancient pater familias who insists on having his children and his grandchil... ...sumed that every man will worship a God, and no allu- sion is made even to Christianity. In Massachusetts they are again hardly honest. “It is the rig...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett 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... ...gether with the sacra- ment bread, regularly sent him on Sundays after the late mass by the Father Superior, made up his weekly rations. The wa- ter i... ...e related afterwards, approached in the utmost apprehension. It was rather late in the evening. Father Ferapont was sitting at the door of his cell on... ...less lot! How do you keep the fasts?” “Our dietary is according to the ancient conventual rules. During Lent there are no meals provided for Monda... ...he- ists, who have destroyed everything! For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christia... ...oked round the summer-house, which somehow struck him as a great deal more ancient than be- fore. Though the day was just as fine as yesterday , it se... ...ccasion, but express in three words, three human phrases, the whole future history of the world and of human- ity—dost Thou believe that all the wisdo... ...he absolute and eternal. For in those three questions the whole subsequent history of mankind is, as it were, brought together into one whole, and for...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Father Ferapont. Alyosha was roused early, before daybreak. Father Zossima woke up feeling very weak, though he wanted to get out of bed and sit up in a chair. His mind was quite clear; his face looked very tired, yet bright and almost joyful. It wore an expression of gaiety, kindness and cordiality. ?Maybe I shall not live through the coming day,? he s...

... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett 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 pur- pose, and in... ... Mikhailovich Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett PART I Book I The History of a Family Chapter 1 Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov ALEXY FYODOROVITC... ... one of her married daughters. I believe he changed his home a fourth time later on. I won’t enlarge upon that now, as I shall have much to tell later... ...im from time to time small doles, instalments. In the end, when four years later, Mitya, losing patience, came a second time to our little town to set... ...an nose,” he used to say, “with my goitre I’ve quite the countenance of an ancient Roman patri- cian of the decadent period.” He seemed proud of it. N... ... it has existed over a thousand years. It is maintained that it existed in ancient times in Rus- sia also, but through the calamities which overtook R... ...n him and them. The story is told, for instance, that in the early days of Christianity one such novice, failing to fulfil some command laid upon him ... ...e devil! You have the soul of a lackey. Stay, here’s Smaragdov’s Universal History. That’s all true. Read that.” But Smerdyakov did not get throug...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov. Alexy Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its p...

...Series Publication Framley Parsonage 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...y readers. The Framley property belonged to her son; but as Lufton Park—an ancient ramshackle place in another county—had heretofore been the family r... ...ng hard at his trade could ensure success, he ought to obtain it sooner or later. He had already filled more than one subordinate station, had been at... ...d said, and there would be some hope of reform, some chance that England’s ancient glory would not be allowed in these perilous times to go headlong i... ... the bishop. ‘All they want is guidance, encouragement, instruction—’ ‘And Christianity, ’ suggested the bishop. ‘And Christianity, of course, ’ said ... ...h and I, ’ said Mrs Proudie to him. ‘This lecture at Barchester will be so late on Saturday evening, that you had all better come and dine with us. ’ ... ...stern divi- sion. I almost fear that it will become necessary, before this history be completed, to provide a map of Barsetshire for the due explanati... ...ently, although Lord Lufton, as he made himself more and more angry by the history of his own wrongs, did not hesitate to pro- nounce certain threats ...

...ol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his eldest son and second child; and the fi...

...nd that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife t... ...hree days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every pers... ...e—a conservative,” said Stepan Arkadye vitch. “However, we can go into that later.” “Yes, later. But I wanted to see you,” said Levin, looking with h... ...t over. But what’s brought you up to town?” “Oh, we’ll talk about that, too, later on,” said Levin, reddening again up to his ears. “All right. I see,... ... always angry; and she always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.” After Countess Lidia Ivanovna another frien... ...ace. If England can point to the most brilliant feats of cavalry in military history, it is simply owing to the fact that she has historically develop... ... And Sergey Ivanovitch carried the subject into the regions of philosophical history where Konstantin Levin could not follow him, and showed him all t... ...the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of cer tain tribes to their ancient beliefs, etc.—questions which, but for the convenient interventio... ...low outfield lying bathed in the slanting sunshine, and beyond it the distant ancient forest flecked with yellow and melting into the 534 Anna Karenina...

... had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in ...

...Table of Contents: Part I 1 -- Chapter 1, 1 -- Chapter 2, 3 -- Chapter 3, 6 -- Chapter 4, 9 -- Chapter 5, 13 -- Chapter 6, 20 -- Chapter 7, 23 -- Chapter 8, 24 -- Chapter 9, 27 -- Chapter 10, 32 -- Chapter 11, 38 -- Chapter 12, 42 ...

...pe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...e had been one creditor, Fletcher, the butcher at Silverbridge, who had of late been specially hard upon poor Crawley. This man, who had not been with... ...Trollope Grantly had not a shilling of his own beyond his half-pay and his late wife’s fortune, which was only six thousand pounds. Others, who were i... ...archdeacon had made a splendid matri- monial alliance—so splendid that its history was at the time known to all the aristocracy of the county, and had... ... strength would not give them. At the further end of the room there was an ancient piece of furniture, which was always called ‘papa’s secretary’, at ... ...e right with him, that he would remember, before it was too late, the true history of that unhappy piece of paper, and that he was rising above that h... ...myself. I think the world would be very much the poorer. I am very fond of ancient masters, though I do not suppose that I understand them.’ ‘They are... ...n wife! She had meant to be a good Christian; but she had so exercised her Christianity that not a soul in the world loved her, or would endure her pr...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How did he get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of...