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...ication Publication Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson 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... ...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... ...t the village (about which Anderson was always ambiva-lent) has faded into history. The espousal of sexual freedom would soon be exceeded in boldness ... ... the minds of others. The beginning of the most materi- alistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when me... ... exultant and could not conceal his delight. For the first time in all the history of his ownership of the farms, he went among his men with a smiling... ...han an ordi- nary Winesburg back yard, quite definite and lim- ited in its outlines. 120 Sherwood Anderson “What will you do up there?” she whispered...

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...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ... 90 The God of His Fathers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 The League of the Old Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Bˆ atard . . . . .... ... 40 JACK LONDON ing frost, and there, to the north, the wind vane lay in vague outline on the snow. A shadow! A shadow! It was exactly midday. They je... ...udicrous happening. Prince was led away by these uncrowned heroes who had seen history made, who regarded the great and the romantic as but the ordina... ...the willow bud, the fall of the yellow leaf — in this alone was told the whole history. But one task did Nature set the individual. Did he not perform... ...ut.” The clerk scratched steadily away, and another paragraph was added to the history of the North. “There be little more,” Imber went on slowly. “It... ...ormless mists and vapors, which gave an impression of mass and density without outline or tangibility. The man pulled out his watch, the while resting... ...ng near at hand, but he waited patiently. Again came the snuffle and cough, and outlined between two jagged rocks not a score of feet away he made out ...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its...

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...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 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... ...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... ...es dying in bed, making exemplary ends and sound- ing speeches; and polite history, more servile than their instru- ments, embalming them! At last, Jo... ...sense of injury in his heart, and no more real knowledge of the beneficent history of the New Testament than if he had been bred among idolaters. Ther... ... to be waiting for some adventurous Belzoni to dig it out and discover its history; passing silent warehouses and wharves, and here and there a narrow... ...rriage, my feelings were of the profoundest anguish—acute.’ She traced the outline of her left eyebrow, and put it right. ‘In a distracted condition, ... ..., but speaking vaguely of a relation of his, confided to Mr Pancks a broad outline of the misgivings he entertained, and of the interview he had witne... ...that song the last time?’ With his rapid native action, his hands made the outline of a high hook nose, pushed his eyes near together, dishevelled his...

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...many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest poss...

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...Table of Contents: PREFACE, iii -- Volume I 3 -- Book I 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 15 -- Chapter 3, 25 -- Chapter 4, 35 -- Chapter 5, 50 -- Chapter 6, 58 -- Book II 69 -- Chapter 1, 69 -- Chapter 2, 79 -- Chapter 3, 85 -- Chap...

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...Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indee... ... of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, t... ...matter, for “seeing my story,” through the opportunity and the sensibility of some more or less detached, some not strictly involved, though thoroughl... ... in this glance at our general intention for the sake of the small page of history thereby added to my already voluminous, yet on the whole so unabash... ...teresting, and I dare say admirably difficult, to go into would be the very history of this effect of experience; the history, in other words, of the g... ...It is over the fact of such a phenomenon and its so pos sibly rich little history that I am moved just fondly to linger—and for the reason xii The G... ...reserved, have been prized curiosities. A few commemorative medals of neat outline but dull ref erence; a classic monument or two, things of the first... ..., and as he stood in the aperture looking back at her, his tall lean figure outlined in darkness and with his crush hat, according to his wont, worn ca...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ... distance from both. The nations that, according to the best authenticated history, appear to have been first civilized, were those that dwelt round t... ...r value, though perhaps the greatest, is by no means the only one of which history gives some account. But as a measure of quantity, such as the natur... ...to this subject {See his scheme for the maintenance of the poor, in Burn’s History of the Poor Laws.}. In 1688, Mr Gregory King, whose skill in politi... ...much as in the good management of their slaves. Such have been the general outlines of the policy of the differ- ent European nations with regard to t... .... I shall endeavour to explain, however, as distinctly as I can, the great outlines of this very ingenious system. Mr. Colbert, the famous minister of...

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...er 1. Pro and con monsieur de manerville, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The Norman then sold the estate he owned in Bessin, and became a Gascon, allured by the beauty of the chateau de Lanstrac, a d...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm...

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...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confidence 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 docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...ature, and at one time had made several lively excursions into medi- aeval history. His friends thought him very clever, and at the same time had an e... ...interview at Siena. She had a charmingly chiselled face, with a free, pure outline, a clear, fair complexion, and the eyes and hair of a dusky beauty.... ...years—a period of his life of which it is not proposed to offer a complete history. The East is a wonderful region, and Bernard, investigating the mys... ...I think he would believe you, because he knows you know a great deal about history and all that. I don’t mean this evening, but some time when it is c...

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...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES... ...reatise on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis 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... ...tic study of a wide range of facts. His criticism of Plato in the light of history, in Book II. chap, v., though as a criticism it is curiously inept,... ...political experience, which makes the Politics in some respects a critical history of the workings of the institutions of the Greek city state. In Boo... ...ght of the ideal, we must think of that ideal as progressively revealed in history, not as something to be discovered by turning our back on experienc... ...Aristotle, edited by A. Bain and G. C. Robertson, 1872, 1880; E. W allace, Outlines of the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1875, 1880; A. Grant (Ancient Clas...

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...Excerpt: Chapter I; ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comfor...

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...338 XLVIII 347 Part I Chapter I A BOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to ca... ...only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raise... ...sfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an hands... ...in itself. Miss Lee taught her French, and heard her read the daily portion of History; but he recom mended the books which charmed her leisure hours... ... grandeur, regal visits and loyal efforts, delighted to connect any thing with history already known, or warm her imagination with scenes of the past.... ...each at last; and had been sitting down under one of the trees. This was their history. It was evident that they had been spending their time pleasant... ...s settled too Sir Thomas had been amusing himself with shaping a very complete outline of the business; and as soon as she would listen quietly, could...

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...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease,...

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.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................

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...ics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... “Help! Oiler! Fitter! Stoker! Help I’m choking,” it gasped. “Never in the history of maritime invention has such a calamity over-taken one so young a... ...entirely changes the situa- tion. We have found, for the first time in the history of ship- building, that the inward pull of the deck-beams and the o... ...ils. 81 The Day’s Work His quarters began to look like an amateur natural-history museum, in spite of duplicate heads and horns and skulls that he se... ...can be rather trying. First, shadowy under closing eyelids, would come the outline of the brushwood-pile; next the white sand of the beach-road, almos...

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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 small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from h...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Last year, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one was very damp, and I had begun to have an ominous cough. Ever since the autumn I had been meanin...

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..................................................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I THE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS ............................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II THE BIRTH OF PAUL, AND ANOTHER BATTLE......................................................................... 31 CHAPTER...

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...ics Series Publication Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 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... ...metimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves 10 Sons & Lovers oneself as it we... ... was mostly a love-letter. He would read it now; she felt as if her soul’s history were going to be desecrated by him in his present mood. He sat besi... ...e the light of home right across, and on the ridge of the hill a thin dark outline with little lights, where the colliery village touched the sky. “It... ...stery about her. She was so reserved, he felt she had much to reserve. Her history was open on the surface, but its inner meaning was hidden from ever...