...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 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... ...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... ...o generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking ... ...on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to contain the Elsie boo... ...mnastics in a high school, a chief clerk from the Great 15 Sinclair Lewis Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer. But there was also a stranger, a ... ...ick. One window of excellent clothes for men, interspersed with collars of floral pique which showed mauve daisies on a saffron ground. Newness and an... ...e snow was too deep for his motor he went off on country calls in a shiny, floral, steel-tipped cutter, only his ruddy nose and his cigar emerging fro... ...he whitewashed walls of the dress- ing-rooms the pencil inscriptions: “The Flora Flanders Com- edy Company,” and “This is a bum theater,” and felt tha...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... ...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... ... masterpieces of the century. The first chapter, upon the exterior form of North America, as the theatre upon which the great drama is to be enacted, ... ...oughts to the Future. 26 Democracy in America Chapter I: Exterior Form Of North America Chapter Summary North America divided into two vast regions, ... ...n where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery – Forests of Nort... ...w England.*** *This was the case in the State of New York. **Maryland, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were in this situation. See “Pitkin... ...them had earned a considerable degree of celebrity. South 217 Tocqueville Carolina alone, which afterwards took up arms in the same cause, sent sixty... ...tropics, produces an incredible profusion of climbing plants, of which the flora of the Antilles alone presents us with forty different species. Among...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

... 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on issues of The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents... ... Red headed League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A Case of Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4... ...h the Twisted Lip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 The Adven... ...vertisement. “I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his ha... .... It was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of comm... ...ng part in opposing the carpet bag politicians who had been sent down from the North. “Well, it was the beginning of ’84 when my father came to live a... ... of the morning papers, but it is a suggestive one.” “And it is — ” “That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, has actually bee... ... “Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who had already made a... ...o just cause of complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot headed and devotedly...

...HERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reaso...

...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The...

...I. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Expl... ...ation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan 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... ...the southern wit sublimes, 400 But ripens spirits in cold northern climes; Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the ... ...0 Their ancient bounds the banish’d Muses pass’d; Thence Arts o’er all the northern world advance, But critic-learning flourish’d most in France: The ... ...etray’d. Oh, had I rather unadmired remain’d In some lone isle, or distant northern land; Where the gilt chariot never marks the way, Where none learn... ...V olume One See Pan with flocks, with fruits Pomona crown’d, Here blushing Flora paints the enamell’d ground, Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect sta... ...und his falling horse? 123 F. Then all your Muse’s softer art display, Let Carolina smooth the tuneful lay, 30 Lull wit... ...’s sense; 189 Or teach the melancholy Muse to mourn, Hang the sad verse on Carolina’s 190 urn, 80 And hail her passage to the ...

Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

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... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevens... ... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and... ...Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document Fi... ...oked ahead; and, by George, I was no longer pioneering, I had struck an old track overgrown, and was restoring an old path. So I laboured till I was i... ...ber dawn, a dove-coloured dawn, insensi- bly brightening to gold. I was looking at it some while over the down-hill profile of our eastern road, when ... ...of the Stevensons with great pleasure and profit and some advance; one chapter and a part drafted. The whole promises well Chapter I. Domes- tic Anna... ...s Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent. Name, a puzzle. A Scottish Family, A F... ..., comme vous voulez; Prince Charlie; Earl Marischal; Master of Ballantrae; and a spy, and Dr. Archie Campbell, and a few nondescripts; then, of women...

...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ... J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... no end to our projected travels, and we im- mediately directed our course northward, rather for the plea- sure of crossing the Alps, than from a supp... ... proper place, but which ought not to be omitted. My uncle Bernard died at Carolina, where he had been employed some years in the building of Charles ... ...ad concluded on was a valley between two toler- ably high hills, which ran north and south; at the bottom, among the trees and pebbles, ran a rivulet,... ...to di 303 Rousseau conidenza’, in an undress more than wanton, unknown to northern countries, and which I will not amuse myself in describing, althou... ...d, formerly tutor to the young Chenonceaux, and known as a botanist by his Flora Parisiensis.* However austere my sumptuary reform might be, I did not... ...ke measures for making, with an immense collection of obser- vations, the ‘Flora Petrinsularis’. 623 Rousseau I sent for Theresa, who brought with he...

...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...