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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpiec...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, trans. D. J. Hogarth, ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ery big-wig in this world of ours is not a very easy one; but at least our visitor displayed the greatest activity in his work of pay- ing calls, seei... ... kind likely to be impressive was wanting; and, on reaching the salon, the visitor actually found him- self obliged to close his eyes for a moment, so... ...a sea of perplexity. 28 Dead Souls CHAPTER II For more than two weeks the visitor lived amid a round of evening parties and dinners; wherefore he spe... ...d. In short, they not only discovered in him a host of recommendations and attractions, but also began to see in his face a sort of grand, Mars-like, ... ... 343 Gogol barrelled flourish of cities superior to mere “Karlsruhe” and “Copenhagen” he designed to acquire business and cut out his local rivals. C...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... and sat himself down behind it. He was usually addressed as Captain, this visitor; and had been a pi- lot, or a skipper, or a privateersman, or all t... ...bsequent departure of Mrs Chick. But the nurs- ery being at length free of visitors, she made herself some recompense for her late restraint. 59 Char... ...ly had all this timeretained her own child, and Jemima little Paul—and the visitors took leave. But first the young T oodles, victims of a pious fraud... ...he seemed with her own pride to defy her very self. Whether she held cheap attractions that could only call forth admiration that was worthless to her... ... gardless of herself and him and everything around, and spurn- ing her own attractions with her haughty brow and lip, as if they were a badge or liver... ...erself the beauty of the bride, and her own comparatively feeble and faded attractions; but the stately image of Mr Dombey in his lilac waistcoat, and...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been rem...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... rich in the modern conveniences, and Tristram lost no time in calling his visitor’s attention to their principal household treasures, the gas-lamps a... ...er to reside, she returned some very unexpected an- swer. She would say in Copenhagen, or in Barcelona; hav- ing, while making the tour of Europe, spe... ...pted; a servant stepped out upon the balcony and announced that there were visitors in the drawing-room. When Newman’s host- ess had gone in to receiv... ... the afternoon. He found Mrs. Tristram in her drawing-room; with her was a visitor, a woman young and pretty, dressed in white. The two ladies had ris... ...color, she is upon my honor, extremely entertaining.” “It’s a fine list of attractions,” said Newman; “they would serve as a police-detective’s descri...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... and sat himself down behind it. He was usually addressed as Captain, this visitor; and had been a pi- lot, or a skipper, or a privateersman, or all t... ...bsequent departure of Mrs Chick. But the nurs- ery being at length free of visitors, she made herself some recompense for her late restraint. 59 Char... ...ly had all this timeretained her own child, and Jemima little Paul—and the visitors took leave. But first the young T oodles, victims of a pious fraud... ...and of sweet peas was always dis- played ostentatiously , crowned with the Copenhagen and Bird Waltzes in a Music Book of Miss T ox’s own copying. Ove... ...he seemed with her own pride to defy her very self. Whether she held cheap attractions that could only call forth admiration that was worthless to her... ... gardless of herself and him and everything around, and spurn- ing her own attractions with her haughty brow and lip, as if they were a badge or liver...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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Excerpt: Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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...ille A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Penn... ...ey had told us. However, when our errand was made known to the rest of our visitors, one of them, a fine, stal- wart fellow, his face all eyes and exp... ...wance of Pisco was suspended; with a view, undoubtedly, of heightening the attractions of being out of sight of land. Now, owing to the absence of pro... ...to look up, and behold the man who gave his countrymen such a thrashing at Copenhagen. “Look you, Dunk,” says he, staggering about, and winking hard w... ...m the hand of the Creator. Upon a near approach, the picture loses not its attractions. It is no exaggeration to say that, to a European of any sensi-... ... sympathies of all readers of South Sea voyages. The journals of its first visitors, con- taining, as they did, such romantic descriptions of a countr... ... Such a man, or devil, if you will, was Bembo. CHAPTER XX. THE ROUND ROBIN—VISITORS FROM SHORE AFTER THE CAPTAIN LEFT, the land-breeze died away; and,...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with sm...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sketches by Box Volume One by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... the urn, and the best china tea-service, and the Pope Joan board; and the visitors are received in the drawing-room in great state. She has but few r... ...s Browns; forms were placed across the room for the accommoda- tion of the visitors, specimens in writing were carefully selected, and as carefully pa... ...ppearance of the houses, or a glance at their inhabitants, present but few attractions, a closer 73 Charles Dickens acquaintance with either is littl... ...e servant; not ill-pleased to have such an opportu- nity of displaying her attractions. She brings him back, and, after casting two or three gracious ... ...ully preserved under a wine-glass on the sideboard, for the edification of visitors, who are duly informed that Mr. So-and-so planted the tree which ... ...ve that it was really spring, and not Christmas. After wandering as far as Copenhagen House, without meeting anything calculated to dispel 175 Charle...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...s soon as the guests began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her aunt, Anna Pavlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left ... ...her aunt, Anna Pavlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. Each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not one of th... ...nd the health of Her Majesty, “who, thank God, was better today.” And each visitor, though polite- ness prevented his showing impatience, left the old... ...as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna. Both the foreig... ...Moravian hole, it is more difficult, and I beg you all to help me. Brunn’s attractions must be shown him. Y ou can undertake the theater, I society, a... ...after the opera he described to Dolokhov with the air of a connoisseur the attractions of her arms, 323 Tolstoy shoulders, feet, and hair and express...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...distance from the metropolis, she had positively no friends on her list of visitors who resided in this great capital; secondly, and far above all bes... ... hour had sounded, sud- denly the gate opened; and in we streamed. I, as a visitor for the first time, was immediately distinguished by the jailers, w... ...not to the Don, as harborer of his daughter, but to the Don, as ex officio visitor of the convent, that the hidalgo was appealing. Probably Kate might... ...ular mortality at this time pre- vailed amongst the cats of Vienna, Basle, Copenhagen, and other places. Cats being so eminently an electric animal, o... ...ed for the coming of spring and summer, not so much for their own peculiar attractions, as because they were the seasons for travelling. In his memo- ...