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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

... universe to another Sophia University of Rome 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S... ... Under the following conditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way tha... ...anslations authorized by the Author. 3 Note from the translator: In this text, several of the author’s books are mentioned. Some are alread... ...e mentioned. Some are already available English, and their titles are only in English. Some are in the process of being translated, and their titles... ...1985, at the IV National Congress of the Sophia University of Rome. It was published for the first time in French, in my book “La vie comme oeuvre d... ...s of the Sophia University of Rome in Milan, Italy, in September 1985, and published for the first time in French, in my book “La vie comme oeuvre d’... ...alian at the II International Congress of the Sophia University of Rome in Paris, in July 1988. This is the first time the text with commentary has ... ... road of suicide or of homicide or sometimes of both at the same time. The newspapers are full of stories of both types. Sometimes it means homicide ... ...g while he, at the same time, became a man capable of doing the same. The newspapers are full of sad stories that tell about how, when many couple ...

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Hypotheses on Ulysses

By: Antonio Mercurio

... new look at Homer’s Odyssey 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S... ... Under the following conditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way tha... ...n forces. The Odyssey is the greatest love story that has ever been told in the history of world literature. It is based not on love and death (li... ... renowned translation from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, Published by Einaudi. I have translated these passages, instead of utiliz... ... from Greek into English of the concept of “glorious concordance”, as found in Calzecchi Onesti’s work, which is an essential theme in the Author’s w... ...know more can read the books I have written on the subject: The Ulysseans, Published by the Sophia University of Rome, (S.U.R.) 2009, “La nascita de... ...nterpretation. There is also a second one. The Trojan War begins because Paris, a Trojan prince, stole Helen from Menelaus and brought her with hi... ...ooses Menelaus and the princes make their pact. When, some years later, Paris, the Trojan prince, kidnaps Helen and takes her off to Troy, the Gr... ...is can help us understand the case of Maradona and of many others that our newspapers continuously publish stories about. We can thus understand the ...

...fe of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as a project. It is not a tale of love based on falling in love or, worse, on love as passion, which is so greatly celebrated in literature and in the public opinion, but which has never brought happiness to anyone and has, instead, brought great grief and tragedy. It is based on ...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...phical essays and Musings http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/culture.html World in Conflict and T ransition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.htm... ... PHYSICS Time Asymmetry Re-Visited Abstract Time does not feature in the equations describing the world of elementary particles an... ...sing supersymmetric formalism. BY WAY O F INTRODUCTION "There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of re... ...es and Universes In 1936 an American (Alonzo Church) and a Briton (Alan M. Turing) published independently (as is often the coincidence in science)... ...quirements. II. The Life Cycle of Scientific Theories " There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of re... ...elves ex- communicated, harassed, imprisoned, tortured, their works banished or not published, ridiculed and so on. This is really the triumph of te... ... brain". The tide turned with Robert Burton who wrote "Anatomy of Melancholy" and published it in 1621. He forcefully propounded the theory that p... ...982 to 1985 Senior positions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): Chief Analyst of Edi...

Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.

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Poems

By: Thomas Stearns

...Poems by T. S. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot Originally Published in 1920 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Poem... ...Poems by T. S. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot Originally Published in 1920 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Poems by T. 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. Poems by T. S. Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...rencier; A Londres, un peu banquier, Vous me paierez bien la tête. C’est à Paris que je me coiffe Casque noir de jemenfoutiste. En Allemagne, philosop... ...a. “Y et with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the Spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be... ...gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-... ...five and six o’clock; And short square fingers stuffing pipes, And evening newspapers, and eyes Assured of certain certainties, The conscience of a bl...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...od and how magnificently has Poe come into his own, For “The Raven,” first published in 1845, and, within a few months, read, recited and parodied whe... ...oe in Baltimore with another manu- script volume of verses, which was soon published. Its title was “Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems.” Neither of... ...ring the fifteen years of his literary life Poe was connected with various newspapers and magazines in Richmond, Phila- delphia and New Y ork. He was ... ...ring the fifteen years of his literary life Poe was connected with various newspapers and magazines in Richmond, Phila- delphia and New Y ork. He was ... ...f at once to authorship for a support. Previously to this, however, he had published (in 1827) a small volume of poems, which soon ran through three e... ...reenest laurels. If we may be- lieve the Longinuses; and Aristotles of our newspapers, we have quite too many geniuses of the loftiest order to render...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

...EOPARD .............................................................................................................................. 108 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE............................................................................................................ 115 THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET. ......................................................................

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the ... ...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... ...ghout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and c... ...uld in some way get enough education to enable me to read common books and newspapers. Soon after we got settled in some manner in our new cabin in We... ...ess: “We wants you to be sure to vote jes’ like we votes. We can’t read de newspapers very much, but we knows how to vote, an’ we wants you to vote je... ...xious to shake hands with me. The papers in all parts of the United States published the address in full, and for months afterward there were complime... ...eeks, until I finally received a letter from the editor of the Age-Herald, published in Birmingham, Ala., asking me if I would say just what I meant b... ...said in in- troducing me, as well as a synopsis of what I said, was widely published in England and in the American papers at the time. Dr. and Mrs. H...

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Pillars of Society a Play in Four Acts

By: Henrik Ibsen

...Pillars of Society A play in four acts by Henrik Ibsen Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp Translated ... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pillars of Society: A Play in Four Acts by Henrik Ibsen, trans. R. Farquharson Sharp is a publi- catio... ...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... ... salutary contrast to what, unfortunately, meets our eyes every day in the newspapers and magazines. Look at the gilded and painted exterior displayed... ...heme. Mrs.Bernick: And yet they said such horrible things about him in the newspapers! But we have quite forgotten to thank you, Mr. Rorlund. It is re... ...in old Mrs. Bernick’s office then; Karsten Bernick had just come back from Paris—he had not yet become engaged— Mrs.Lynge: Yes, but what was the scan... ...e imagined that he and she would make a match of it when he came back from Paris. Mrs.Holt: The idea of her thinking such a thing! Karsten Bernick—a... ...r there— Mrs.Holt: And has given lectures in public— Mrs.Rummel: And has published some mad kind of book. 16 Pillars of Society Mrs.Lynge: You don... ...e you know that if you drive me away you will at all events have given the newspapers proof of your good will. 34 Pillars of Society Bernick: And sup...

Excerpt: Pillars of Society. A Play in Four Acts by Henrik Ibsen, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp.

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

By: George Bernard Shaw

...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 Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw, the Pen... ...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... ...he House of Lords then proceeded to its selection. As fashionable drama in Paris and London concerns itself almost exclusively with adultery, the firs... ...erests of the managers or theatri- cal speculators on the other. The Times published the summarized conclusions of my statement, and gave me an opport... ... Tyndall, Spencer, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Samuel Butler, would not have been published, as they were all immoral and hereti- cal in the very highest deg... ...ed in En- gland or made the subject of legal proceedings, yet I have never published in my life an article, a play, or a book, as to which, if I had t... ...ed all round. I should not object to a law to compel everybody to read two newspapers, each violently opposed to the other in politics; but to forbid ... ... each violently opposed to the other in politics; but to forbid us to read newspapers at all would be to maim us mentally and cashier our country in t...

...Excerpt: This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived ...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...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 Brothers Karamazov – Part I by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevs... ...oing stu- dent publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...in of Mitya’s mother, Pyotr Alexandrovitch Miusov, happened to return from Paris. He lived for many years afterwards abroad, but was at that time quit... ...d in his declining years was very fond of describing the three days of the Paris Revolution of February, 1848, hinting that he himself had almost take... ...r se- curing the revenues of his estates was in haste to return at once to Paris, he left the boy in charge of one of his cousins, a lady living in Mo... ...nny lessons and afterwards getting paragraphs on street incidents into the newspapers under the signature of “Eye-Witness.” These paragraphs, it was s... ... up his connection with them, and in his latter years at the university he published brilliant re- views of books upon various special subjects, so th... ...as preparing to go abroad upon his two thousand roubles, Ivan Fyodorovitch published in one of the more important journals a strange article, which at...

...xcerpt: 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 proper place. For the present I will only say that this ...

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The Perfect Wagnerite : A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs

By: George Bernard Shaw

...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Ge... ...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... ... fused attempt at a socialist, military, and municipal adminis- tration in Paris in 1871 (that is to say, from the beginning of The Niblung’s Ring by ... ... lasted twelve years. His first idea was to get his Tannhauser produced in Paris. With the no- tion of explaining himself to the Parisians he wrote a ... ...onale of this, I must refer disciples of Siegfried to a tract from my hand published by the Fabian Society and entitled The Impossibilities of Anarchi... ... in 1861 by Karl Marx in London, and mistaken for several years by nervous newspapers for a red spectre, was really only a turnip ghost. It achieved s... ...onary socialistic side it was a romantic figment. The sup- pression of the Paris Commune, one of the most tragic ex- amples in history of the pitiless...

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An Unsocial Socialist

By: George Bernard Shaw

...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. An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ... terms a high opinion of the beauty and capacity of his own nature. He had published a tragedy en- titled, “The Patriot Martyrs,” with an etched front... ...resentations to the friends of the artist and poet, and to the reviews and newspapers. Sir Charles had asked an eminent tragedian of his acquaintance ... ...ll you join?” “Erskine is already committed to the cause of liberty by his published writings,” said Trefusis. “Three of the pam- phlets on that shelf... ...sity from his conventional cowardice and preju- dice. We must get his name published in as many journals as possible as a signatory to the great petit... ... been engaged three hours. Have you seen these?” And he pushed a couple of newspapers across the table. Erskine had to make several efforts before he ... ...who have committed themselves to an opinion are always in trouble with the newspapers; some because they cannot get into them, others because they can...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...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. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling,... ...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... ...French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling TO MARIE-ANTOINE-JULES SENARD Member of the Paris Bar, Ex-President of the National Assembly , and Former Minister of t... ...er attain the height of your eloquence and your devotion. Gustave Flaubert Paris, 12 April 1857 MADAME BOVARY PART I Chapter One W E WERE IN CLASS whe... ...said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theatre to see the actors from Paris. He could neither swim, nor fence, nor shoot, and one day he could no... ...s, to see it dis- 55 Flaubert played at the booksellers’, repeated in the newspapers, known to all France. But Charles had no ambition. An Yvetot doc... ... cholera distinguished my- self by a boundless devotion; second, by having published, at my expense, various works of public utility, such as” (and he...

...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his ...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ... 2 THE PURLOINED LETTER Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. —Seneca. AT PARIS, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18—, I was enjoyi... ...wn open and admitted our old acquaintance, Monsieur G—, the Prefect of the Parisian police. We gave him a hearty welcome; for there was nearly half as... ...g of the summary in ‘Silliman’s Journal,’ with the detailed statement just published by Lieutenant Maury, it will not be supposed, of course, that in ... ...e a general impression (gleaned, as usual in a case of this kind, from the newspapers), viz.: that this discovery, astounding as it unquestionably is,... ...s.’ A hundred similar instances go to show that the MS. so inconsiderately published, was merely a rough note- book, meant only for the writer’s own e... ... failed; and until V on Kempelen chooses to let us have the key to his own published enigma, it is more than probable that the matter will remain, for...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

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The Forged Coupon, And Other Stories and Dramas

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec tronic transmission, in any way. The Forged Coupon and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Lou... ...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... ... nearer to each other”; while he looked back regretfully to the pension in Paris where the table d’ hote was a scene of sponta neous gaiety. The prob... ...ur of love. The series of educational primers which Tolstoy pre pared and published concurrently with the Popular Tales have had an equally large, t... ... on the privileged few who read it, and some mention of it appeared in the newspapers. Shortly afterwards a young man came to see Tolstoy in private. ... ...nce. You are a learned man, and I rely on you. Go to the village, call the parishioners together, and convince them of their error.” “If your Grace bi... ...er Missael with great honours, and the next day after he had ar rived the parishioners were invited to assemble in the church. Missael in a new silk ... ...the enve lope, took it to Nicholas Petrovich. “Good bye.” Volgin read the newspapers till luncheon. He only read the Liberal papers: The Russian Gaze...

...Introduction: In an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the ?divine right? of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocrat...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of Th... ...ng Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...ion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same... ...ot possibly keep our heads still. If I should only give a few pulls at the parish bell rope, as for a fire, that is, without setting the bell, there i... ... in it, if Walden 86 that is done as handsomely; yes, even if it were the parish church itself. Hardly a man takes a half hour’s nap after dinner, bu... ...a merely pecu niary character. If one may judge who rarely looks into the newspapers, nothing new does ever happen in for eign parts, a French revol... ... offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial? If we will read newspapers, why not skip the gossip of Boston and take the best newspaper W... ...vents speak without metaphor, which alone is copious and standard. Much is published, but little printed. The rays which stream through the shut ter ...

Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...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. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...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... ... made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign? London and Paris and New York must go the same way. “What is history,” said Napoleon, ... ...hanging of witches; before a fanatic Revival and the Animal Magne- tism in Paris, or in Providence. We assume that we under like influence should be a... ...? of Montaigne? of Kant? Therefore, Aristotle said of his works, “They are published and not published.” 79 Emerson No man can learn what he has not ... ...lf, the other half is his expression. Notwithstanding this necessity to be published, ad- equate expression is rare. I know not how it is that we need... ...ulation of the kingdom of known cause and effect. In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adhe... ...epudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed be- fore new flashes of moral worth. Char...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, 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 Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans... ...oing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...nny lessons and afterwards getting paragraphs on street incidents into the newspapers under the signature of “Eye-Witness.” These paragraphs, it was s... ... up his connection with them, and in his latter years at the university he published brilliant re- views of books upon various special subjects, so th... ...as preparing to go abroad upon his two thousand roubles, Ivan Fyodorovitch published in one of the more important journals a strange article, which at... ...eggars, ought never to show themselves, but to ask for charity through the newspapers. One can love one’s neighbours in the abstract, or even at a dis... ...acts, and, would you believe, I even copy anecdotes of a certain sort from newspapers and books, and I’ve already got a fine collection. The T urks, o... ...-case for it, A Kinsman of Mahomet, or Salu- tary Folly, a scandalous book published in Moscow a hun- dred years ago, before they had any censorship. ...

...xcerpt: 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 proper place. For the present I will only say that this ...

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The Longest Journey

By: E. M. Forster

...e of any kind. Any per- son 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 Longest Journey by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...sher. Herbert believes that a collection of short sto- ries is hard to get published. It is, after all, better to write one long one. But you must not... ...eship. To his relief a man came forward, and murmuring, “Worst gate in the parish,” pushed it wide and held it respectfully. “Thank you,” cried Rickie... ...ondered whether they were Henry Adams and Jessica Thomp- son, both of this parish, whose banns had been asked for the second time in the church this m... ...e had a curious breakdown,—partly in the attempt to get his little stories published. He had writ- ten eight or nine, and hoped they would make up a b... ... alone?” “Sometimes. Sometimes other people.” “Will Uncle Tony’s Essays be published?” Here she was more communicative. The book was at last in proof.... ...ssed. He drew up a list of grievances, some absurd, others fundamental. No newspapers in the reading-room, you could put a plate under the Thompsons’ ...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... two countries, which in the course of the last summer had been commenced at Paris, has since been transferred to this city, and will be pursued on th... ...the public officers can be effectually checked by renew ing the prohibition published by Mr. Jefferson forbid ding their interference in elections f... ...ile existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one ... ... international law which now rest upon the United States under the treaty of Paris. The con vention elected by the people to frame a constitution is ... ...evelt. Mr. Truman’s victory in the 1948 election was so unexpected that many newspapers had declared the Republican candidate, Gov ernor Thomas E. De...

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Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

...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. Howards End by E.M. Forster, 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... ...lt for a moment that the whole Wilcox fam- ily was a fraud, just a wall of newspapers and mo- tor-cars and golf-clubs, and that if it fell I should fi... ...he saw the dyed moustaches of Napoleon going grey; another when he entered Paris, and saw the smashed windows of the Tuileries. Peace came—it was all ... ...e left her boxes for a few weeks at Oniton Grange, and her banns were duly published in the parish church, and for a couple of days the little town, d... ...for a few weeks at Oniton Grange, and her banns were duly published in the parish church, and for a couple of days the little town, dreaming between t... ...self to a rural life. Society, too, promised favourably. The rector of the parish had dined with them last night, and she found that he was a friend o...

...Excerpt: ?Dearest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and th...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intens... ...strated volume can do this through any bookstore by giving the store the published book’s ISBN, which is ISBN 978-0-6151-4120-6 or you can ord... ... The press was established in 1975. Over the years Autograph Editions has published a variety of distinguished and widely commended books of fiction... ...nother “Shepherd’s Song”? I should have collected his works and seen them published. Now I could not track down his pieces. Ah, the shoulds of life.... ...lly overloaded with documents—like some outland- ish mule. Legal books and newspapers filled shelves. A narrow window faced the street; another windo... ...hakespeare? I have not. That I have read LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 547 the newspapers? I have not. During bouts of fever I let myself return to other ... ... In Norfolk, two thousand former slaves paraded. I have gone through many newspapers to read of the rejoicing. A black is quoted: “Freedom are an u...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the pri...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...economy in his influential and exquisitely-timed "Principles of Political Economy", published in 1848. Undaunted by mounting evidence of market fail... ...t rich because he got his millions from the national lottery. Cloning In a paper, published in "Science" in May 2005, 25 scientists, led by Woo Su... ...n its trading and economic prowess to obtain and secure political autonomy. John of Paris, arguably one of the first capitalist cities (at least acc... ...y to occur and indeed, they don't. Excerpts from an Interview about DREAMS - First published in Suite101 Dreams are by far the most mysterious phen... ...ime examples of this stratagem. Science, Development of "There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of re... ...ange of a particle ("Chronon"). BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION "There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of re...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ... heroes. They should be yours, too. Some of the work contained here has been published in other forms else- where. Portions of Chapters 2 and 3 appear... ...wonderful pudding of songs and pictures and films and books and magazines and newspapers, there is perhaps a hand- ful of raisins’ worth of works that ... ...s of the work long after the original author is dead. In 2001, Alice Randall published The Wind Done Gone. As its ti- tle might indicate, The Wind Don... ...searchers. 38 If a conservative Web site reposted news articles from liberal newspapers with critical commentary, that, too, would have seemed like fa... ...press was—in 1995, at least—clueless about these issues. It was not that the newspapers were ignoring the Internet. They were paying attention—obsessi... ...—wanted to convince American readers that the version of Hitler’s Mein Kampf published in the United States was distorted. He be- lieved it to be slan...

...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...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. Autobiography by John Stuart Mill , the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ... in the best sense of the term, was my father’s History of India . It was published in the beginning of 1818. During the year previ ous, while it wa... ...itical economy. His loved and intimate friend, Ricardo, had shortly before published the book which formed so great an epoch in political economy; a b... ...so great an epoch in political economy; a book which would never have been published or written, but for the entreaty and strong en couragement of my... ...arried on more vigorously. It was about this time that I began to write in newspapers. The first writings of mine which got into print were two letter... ... proposing of the Reform Bill. For the next few years I wrote copiously in newspapers. It was about this time that Fonblanque, who had for some time w... ...at I wrote during these years, which, independently of my contributions to newspapers, was considerable. In 1830 and 1831 I wrote the five Essays sinc...

...ine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to the public as a narrative or as being connected with myself. But I have thought that in an age in which education and its improvement are the subject of more, if not of profounder, study than at any former period of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was u...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...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. Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell, the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...llowing year on account of its ad- vanced opinions. This led Marx to go to Paris, where he be- came known as a Socialist and acquired a knowledge of h... ...pp. 237, 238.] In the last week of June, 1863, all the London daily papers published a paragraph with the “sensational” heading, “Death from simple ov... ...Neue Rheinische Zeitung,” denying this statement in toto. The denials were published by Marx, and there was a nominal reconciliation, but from this ti... ... (Bell & Sons, 1914), and in Cole’s “World of Labour” (Bell & Sons), first published in 1913. Cole’s “Self- Government in Industry” (Bell & Sons, 1917... ... financiers. So long as enmity between England and Russia was desired, our newspapers were full of the cruel treatment meted out to Russian political ... ... foreign policy changed, these items disappeared from the more im- portant newspapers, and we heard instead of the misdeeds of Germany. Most men are n...

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Miscellaneous Prose

By: George Meredith

...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State ... ...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.... ...here is one circumstance, which, if I am not mistaken, has not as yet been published by the newspapers, and it is this. There was a fight on the 25th ... ...mstance, which, if I am not mistaken, has not as yet been published by the newspapers, and it is this. There was a fight on the 25th on a place at the... ...esent the first official relation of the unhappy fight of the 24th June is published, and is accordingly anxiously scanned and closely studied. It is ... ... they happened to be honest trad- ers with cases of coral and lava for the Paris market, and therefore they merely stood silent and aghast at the fata... ...s possible. I had no sooner got to my hotel than I inquired for the latest Paris journal, when the France was handed me, and I obtained confirmation i...

...in part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quotations and allusions, his favourite of the classics was Horace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him ...

........................................................ 4 INTRODUCTION TO W. M. THACKERAY?S ?THE FOUR GEORGES?............................... 4 A PAUSE IN THE STRIFE?1886 .................................................................................................. 6 LESLIE STEPHEN?1904 ........................................................................................

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...— CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . .... ...ne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps mo... ...ognition even that we have no such Philosophy, stands here for the first time published in our language. What English intellect could have chosen such ... ...fe: a man devoted to the higher Philosophies, indeed; yet more likely, if he published at all, to publish a refutation of Hegel and Bardili, both of w... ... not, like all works of genius, like the very Sun, which, though the highest published creation, or work of genius, has nevertheless black spots and t... ...such cases, your resource is to talk little, and that little mostly from the Newspapers. Now when I look back, it was a strange isolation I then lived... ...s us the dung they flourish in! Men speak much of the Printing Press with its Newspapers: du Himmel! what are these to Clothes and the Tailor’s Goose? ... ...n 3 I was preparing,” concludes this won derful Professor, “I read in their Newspapers that the ‘Champion of England,’ he who has to offer battle to ...

...of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest ...

...?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII? THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES, 34 -- CHAPTER IX? ADAMITISM, 39 -- CHAPTER X? PURE REASON, 43 -- CHAPTER XI? PROSPECTIVE, 47 -- ...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State U... ...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... ..., “The soul,” said the former—I give the words of an acute and intelligent Parisian—“ne demeure qu’un seul fois dans un corps sensible: au reste—un ch... ... He displayed, also, with much pompos- ity, Brantome’s “Memoirs of Duels,”—published at Cologne, 1666, in the types of Elzevir—a precious and unique v... ...oins, a long scroll of names, several documents which appear to re- semble newspapers, with other matters of intense interest to the antiquarian! Ther... ...nly time enough to add that, from a hasty inspection of the fac-similes of newspapers, &c., &c., I find that the great men in those days among the Amr... ...dingly we find that it attracted very little attention. In 1789 a book was published at Dresden by M. I. F. Freyhere in which another endeavor was mad... ... it altogether the true one. His Essay was first 168 Poe in Five V olumes published in a Baltimore weekly paper, was illustrated by cuts, and was ent...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four.

...Contents THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY ................................................................................................................................... 4 LIONIZING ......................................................................

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

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Man and Superman a Comedy and a Philosophy

By: George Bernard Shaw

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...ou made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set i...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

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The Insulted and Injured

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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...nous cough. Ever since the autumn I had been meaning to move, but I had hung on till the spring. I had not been able to find anything decent all day. In the first place I wanted a separate tenement, not a room in other people?s lodgings; secondly, though I could do with one room, it must be a large one, and, of course, it had at the same time to be as cheap as possible. I ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

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