...of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Page The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ... Uni- versity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...ctronic transmission, in any way. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ... captain, John Davies, did start from Africa with a puma and certain other animals aboard in January, 1887, that the vessel was well known at several ... ...ned to take a man and his attendant to and from Arica, and bring back some animals. I never bar- gained to carry a mad devil and a silly Sawbones, a—”... ... part to talk. It struck me too that the men regarded my companion and his animals in a singularly unfriendly manner. I found Montgomery very reticent... ...r an occasional sound in the yel- low-lit forecastle and a movement of the animals now and then, the night was very still. The puma lay crouched to- g...

...Introduction: On February the first 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months and four days after--my uncle, Edward Prendick, a priva...

...sion by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Penn... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ... transmission, in any way. The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis,... ...hing big and alive. Not a dog—more like a sheep, rather. But there were no animals in the ship. How could an animal… . It was an added and fantastic h...

Excerpt: The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad.

...Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Wav... ...ssion, in any way. Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis,... ... balustrade, ornamented from space to space with huge grotesque figures of animals seated upon their haunches, among which the favourite bear was repe... ...own as great fools excel), great kindness and humanity in the treatment of animals entrusted to him, warm affections, a prodigious memory, and an ear ... ...abstinance was with the lower ranks wholly compulsory, and that, like some animals of prey, those who practise it were usually gifted with the power o... ...The followers of Donald Bean Lean used little food except the flesh of the animals which they drove away from the Lowlands; bread itself was a delicac...

...ion Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ... Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mos... ...ansmission, in any way. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, ... ... of Nature as exemplified in the flight of birds or the activity of little animals. It seemed, in fact, a new develop ment of the love of the beautif...

...DYNEVOR TERRACE: OR THE CLUE OF LIFE BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,’ CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. V V V V VOL OL O... ...I A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Dynevor Terrace: or The Clue of Life, Volume One by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the P... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University as- sumes any responsibility for the mate... ... University as- sumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dyn... ... her nephew’ s arm for love, and not for need, as he discoursed of all the animals that might be naturalized in England, obtained from Mary an account...

...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her tight...

...ted by Alexander Pope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope is a publication of the Pennsy... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ... Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...ic transmission, in any way. The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series , Jim Manis,... ...oy our delights, our composure, our devotion to superior power. Of all the animals on earth we least know what is good for us. My opinion is, that wha...

Excerpt: The Odyssey of Homer translated by Alexander Pope.

...ation Amelia by Henry Fielding, ed. George Saintsbury is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ame... ...transmission, in any way. Amelia by Henry Fielding, ed. George Saintsbury, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ... you all of the neuter gender; or, as we say in English, he hath made mere animals of you; for, if we translate it thus, “Woman is a various and chang...

...Introduction: Fielding?s third great novel has been the subject of much more discordant judgments than either of its forerunners. If we take the period since its appearance as covering four generations, we find the greatest authority in the earliest, Johnson, speaking of it wi...

... Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ile, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...tate University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. G... ... electronic transmission, in any way. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series , Jim Mani... ...lic good, that the Yahoos were a species of Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 5 animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it h... ...l im prove in some virtues without any mixture of vice. Do these miserable animals presume to think, that I Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 7 am so de... ...st intelligence he received of me. I observed there was the flesh of several animals, but could not distinguish them by the taste. There were shoulder... ...t of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters very curi...

...Excerpt: The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curio...

... Cratylus by Plato , trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...tate University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. C... ...ronic transmission, in any way. Cratylus by Plato , trans. Benjamin Jowett , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis... ... do you mean? SOCRATES: I mean to say that the word ‘man’ implies that other animals never examine, or consider, or look up at what they see, but that... ... but considers and looks up at that which he sees, and hence he alone of all animals is rightly anthropos, mean ing anathron a opopen. HERMOGENES:... ...ll be obliged to admit that the people who imitate sheep, or cocks, or other animals, name that which they imitate. HERMOGENES: Quite true. SOCRATES: ...

...Excerpt: Persons of the dialogue: Socrates, Hermogenes, Cratylus. Hermogenes: Suppose that we make Socrates a party to the argument? Cratylus: If you please. Hermogenes: I should explain to you, Socrates, that our friend Cratylus has been arguin...

... by Robert Louis Stevenson Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Steve... ...y 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 University... ... her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University... ...one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- rial contained within the document or for the file as a... ...al contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Steve... ...ckage on my own, merely human, shoulders. It remained to choose a beast of burden. Now, a horse is a fine lady among animals, flighty, timid, delicate... ...hed him, half prepared to feel offended, until he had satisfied his mirth; and then, ‘You must have no pity on these animals,’ said he; and, plucking ... ...against a trunk; for even the leaves are serviceable, and the peasants use them in winter by way of fodder for their animals. I picked a meal in fear ...

...Excerpt: The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travelers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of th...

... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevens... ...ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or... ...nt file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor ... ...ia State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mat... ...es any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. In The South Seas by R... ...ted cross-legged upon the floor, and regarding me in silence with embarrassing eyes. The eyes of all Polynesians are large, luminous, and melting; the... ... orbs, and be thus blocked in a corner of my cabin by this speechless crowd: and a kind of rage to think they were beyond the reach of articulate comm... ...s about the middle height of males; they are strongly muscled, free from fat, swift in action, graceful in repose; and the women, though fatter and du... ...other animal, whether dog or pig, was suffered to approach him at his food, and for human beings he showed a full mea- sure of that toadying fondness ...

Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

...blication T anglewood T ales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ... Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. T a... ...nic transmission, in any way. T anglewood T ales by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series , Jim Manis,... ...used to go to the battle, mounted on the backs of goats and rams; but such animals as these must have been far too big for Pygmies to ride upon; so th... ... they shared with wolves and swine; so that they resembled those vilest of animals far more than they did kings—if, indeed, kings were what they ought... ...ysses reached the lawn, in front of the palace, the lions and other savage animals came bounding to meet him, and would have fawned upon him and licke... ...e you to find out in the moment of peril. As for the fiery breath of these animals, I have a charmed ointment here, which will prevent you from being ...

...Contents THE WAYSIDE. INTRODUCTORY. .............................................................................................. 4 THE MINOTAUR ...........................................................................................

...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cat... ...therine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...different storeys, was covered with arabesques of fantastic personages and animals wreathed with conven- tional foliage. On the street side, as on the... ...tone is made to look like lace-work. The flow- ers, the figures of men and animals clinging to the structure of the stairway, are multiplied, step by ... ...ar intervals through those long gargoyles carved in the shape of fantastic animals with gaping mouths. In spite of 211 Balzac the zeal with which our... ...tory could be seen, because of the myriads of hanging skeletons, bodies of animals, dried plants, minerals, and articles of all kinds that masked the ...

...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Gre...

... A Second Home by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A S... ...mission, in any way. A Second Home by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis,... ... days. I will no longer attach myself to any creature but to unreason- ing animals, or plants, or superficial things. I think more of Taglioni’s grace...

...Excerpt: The Rue Du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the...

...tion of Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...tronic transmission, in any way. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...human lassitude, seemed to me sadder than the misery of starved and beaten animals. I should have liked to rouse them for a minute, to coax them into ... ... breast of the uncommunicative old woman a vague tenderness for plants and animals. It was, perhaps, this tenderness which made her cling so fervently...

Excerpt: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton.

................... 4 MRS. MANSTEY?S VIEW............................................................................................................ 25 THE BOLTED DOOR ................................................................................................................... 35 THE DILETTANTE ..............................................................................

... POPE VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI. V... ....LVI. VI. VI. VI. VI. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dis... ...: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...he mighty Stagyrite; His sacred head a radiant zodiac crown’d, And various animals his side surround; His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view Superio... ...e wholly for itself, nor yet wholly for another, ver. 27. The happiness of animals mutual, ver. 49. II. Reason or instinct operate alike to the good o... ...ch individual, ver. 79. Reason or instinct operate also to society, in all animals, ver. 109. III. How far society carried by instinct, ver. 115. How ...

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

....................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING ............................

...ics SeriesPublication Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bun... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...isition of a cat; but Ann Eliza shook her head. She had never been used to animals, and she felt the vague shrinking of the pious from creatures divid...

...Excerpt: In the days when New York?s traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National ...

...sics Series Publication Billy Budd by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bil... ... as an electronic transmission, in any way. Billy Budd by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...ke pretty much as he was wont to take any vicissitude of weather. Like the animals, though no philosopher, he was, without knowing it, practically a f...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-ofwar?s men or merchant-...

...cs Series Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Nig... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ...tions occasionally, but there were always one or two at home, nursing sick animals, tending silkworms, or play- ing the flute in their bedrooms. The d... ...vor of the Zoological Gardens. She had once trifled with the psychology of animals, and still knew something about inherited char- acteristics. On Sun... ...ly wish later on to confide in her. She forgot all about the psychology of animals, and the recurrence of blue eyes and brown, and became 319 Virgini... ... pondered. “Walking in and out of other people’s houses. I wonder if these animals are happy?” she speculated, stopping before a gray bear, who was ph...

...ND By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The... ...smission, in any way. The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis,... ...ced, and whimpered, ‘I could pull the pony’s mane right out.’ ‘Don’t treat animals like your dolls,’ said I. She ran to the squire, and refused the po... ...going at double time, hooting and scream- ing with the delight of loosened animals, not quite so agree- ably; but animals never hunted on a better sce... ...ed, for the windows were closed, the tobacco-smoke thickened, the hides of animals wrapping our immense companions reeked; fire occasionally glowed in... ...edly. ‘Here, see, are the horses. I will you to mount. Are they not pretty animals?’ She whispered, ‘I believe your fater have been hurt in his mind b...

...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a marr...