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...The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction i...

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...An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in the present, and takes place within a single day. Soo...

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...Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The two other main characters are his earthy wife, Arabella, and his intellectual cousin, Sue. Themes include class, scholarship, religio...

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... 1836; Dead Souls, 1842; Correspondence with Friends, 1847; Letters, 1847, 1895, 4 vols. 1902. ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS: Cossack Tales (The Night of Chris... ...mother! All the rest people stuff your heads with is rubbish; the academy, books, primers, philosophy, and all that, I spit upon it all!” Here Bulba a... ...rst year. They brought him back, whipped him well, and set him down to his books. Four times did he bury his primer in the earth; and four times, afte... ...at all about it. From that moment, Ostap began to pore over his tire- some books with exemplary diligence, and quickly stood on a level with the best.... ...ght in by their feet. They were quite at their ease, handling pictures and books without ceremony, when de- sirous of ascertaining the value of the go... ...ctures were lying about in disorder: with them were mingled furniture, and books with the cipher of the former owner, who never was moved by any laud-...

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...Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame's 1895 collection The Golden Age (some of its selections feature the same family of five children), Dream Days was first published in 1898 under the imprint John Lane: The Bodley Head. (The first six selections in the book had ...

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...a perfectly fictitious “Co.,” by the bye—of Putney, on the 14th of August, 1895, had turned to the right-hand side, where the blocks of white linen an... ...than strong, sharp and resolute rather than clever (cp., as the scientific books say, p. 2). In- variably this person possessed an iron will. The stor... ...rt of it was decorated with framed Oddfellows’ certificates and giltbacked books and portraits, and kettle-holders, and all kinds of beautiful things ... ... her, among other things. He knows Passion ought to awaken, from the text- books he has studied. He knows she admires his genius, but he is unaware th... ...-haired little figure was the woman that people who knew her only from her books, called bold, prurient even! Simply because she was great-hearted—int... ...opment. “I want to write, you see,” said the Young Lady in Grey, “to write Books and alter things. T o do Good. I want to lead a Free Life and Own mys...

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...y restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-con- ceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way ... ...content- ment to those wider dreams. I like to think of him so, with brown books before him lit by the light of candles in silver candlesticks, or hea... ... trunks and boxes. There are cupboards on either side of the fireplace and bookshelves with books above them, and on the wall and rather tattered is a... ...ook in my boy- hood except those of Jules Verne. But my father used to get books for himself and me from the Bromstead Institute, Fenimore Cooper and ... ...s New T estament with a map of Palestine, and a variety of other informing books bought at sales. There was a Sowerby’s Botany also, with thousands of... ... crude and sec- ond-hand impressions by felt and realised distinctions. In 1895—that was my last year with Britten, for I went up to Cambridge in Sept...

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...; Tales from the Notebook of a Sportsman, from the Russian, by E. Richter, 1895; Fathers and Sons, from the Russian, by E. Schuyler, 1867, 1883; Smoke... ..., from the Russian, by S. M. Batts, 1874; from the Russian, by E. Richter, 1895; A Lear of the Steppe, from the French, by W . H. Browne, 1874; Virgin... ...orner, a table in the middle, several chairs, and a bookcase piled up with books. At the table sat a woman of about thirty. She was bareheaded, clad i... ...sked. “Yes. He will be back directly. He has gone to the library with some books.” Ostrodumov spat to one side. “Why is he always rushing about nowada... ...t he should be in love! Mashurina scowled. “He has gone to the library for books. As for falling in love, he has neither the time nor the opportunity.... ... time a young man of twenty- three, with a cap on his head and a bundle of books under his arm, entered the room. It was Nejdanov himself. 12 Virgin ... ...d in the doorway, took them in at a glance, threw off his cap, dropped the books on to the floor, walked over to the bed, and sat down on the very edg...

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...he Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to contain the Elsie books. I’ll make ‘em put in a village green, and darling cottages, and a qu... ...ersuading children to read charming fairy tales, helping young men to find books on mechanics, being ever so courteous to old men who were hunting for... ... who were hunting for newspapers—the light of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinners with poets and explorers, read- ing a paper to an... ...ear Carol spent in Chicago. Her study of library-cata- loguing, recording, books of reference, was easy and not too somniferous. She reveled in the Ar... ...find the Leather Goods Gazette for last February.” When she was giving out books the principal query was, “Can you tell me of a good, light, exciting ... ... spot on each piece of the set of china purchased by Kennicott’s mother in 1895—discreet china with a pattern of washed-out for- get-me-nots, rimmed w...

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...pus 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of M... ...DDA Flat, Mansarover Park, Shahdara, Delhi-110032, India. More science books can be downloaded from the E-Library of Science: www.gallup.unm.ed... ...k review, The Internet Pilot TO Physics, http://physicsweb.org/TIPTOP/FORUM/BOOKS. 12. Rincon, Paul, Teleportation breakthrough made, BBC News On... ...s the time of Lewis Carroll's highly popular "Alice in Wonderland" stories; 1895 was the time of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine". The general public...

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...his B.A. degree at the London University with “hons. in all subjects,” and 1895 as the date of his “gold medal.” Subsequently there were to be “pam- p... ... and the penny Life of Confucius, there were battered and de- faced school books, a number of the excellent manuals of the Universal Correspondence As... ...he excellent manuals of the Universal Correspondence Association, exercise books, ink (red and black) in penny bottles, and an india-rubber stamp with... ..., and that this was no vain boasting, a cheap American alarum clock by the books on the box witnessed. The lumps of mellow chocolate on the papered le... ... knees were con- veniently stuck into the cavity . The bed was strewn with books and copygraphed sheets of instructions from his remote cor- responden... ...se,” she went on, “I’m not clever like some people are. And I have to read books as I get hold of them.” “So do I,” said Mr. Lewisham, “for the matter...

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...s Three The Story of the Gadsbys In Black and White By Rudyard Kipling 1895 THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE Hit a man an’ help a woman, an’ ye can’t be f... ...ut this is a mixed story wot’s comin’.’ ‘Wanst upon a time, as the childer-books say, I was a recruity.’ ‘Was you though?’ said Ortheris; ‘now that’s ... ...is a shuparfluous an’ impert’nint observation.’ OF THOSE CALLED [Footnote: 1895] WE WERE WALLOWING through the China Seas in a dense fog, the horn blo... ...p!’ And we drank. 31 Rudyard Kipling THE WRECK OF THE VISIGOTH [Footnote: 1895] ‘Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound ... ... an’, if he divn’t, he can breeak t’ fore- arm o’ t’ gaard.’ Tis not i’ t’ books, though. Gie me t’ butt.’ ‘Each does ut his own way, like makin’ love... ... I slep’ off my liquor wid an easy conscience. I did not desire to come on books too frequent; my characther havin’ been shpotless for the good half a... ... MISS DEERCOURT meet among the ‘rickshaws. MISS T. is carrying a bundle of books under her left arm. MISS D. (Level intonation.) Well? MISS T. (Ascend... ...tion.) Well? MISS D. (Capturing her friend’s left arm, taking away all the books, placing books in ‘rickshaw, returning to arm, securing hand by the t...

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... its own still,” went on Mr. Pepper, “which is surprising, seeing how text-books change.” “There was a theory about the planets, wasn’t there?” asked ... .... “I’ve got all his pamphlets,” she said. “Little pamphlets. Little yellow books.” It did not appear that she had read them. “Has he ever been in love... ...d from the view of people passing. Unless he made this a holiday, when his books were all packed, he would have no holiday whatever; for out at Santa ... ...erience, that he would work all day; his boxes, she said, were packed with books. “Leave it to me—leave it to me!” said Willoughby, ob- viously intend... ...g at Mrs. Ambrose compassionately, as she helped to shift and carry. “It’s books,” sighed Helen, lifting an armful of sad vol- umes from the floor to ... ...tence spoken quite dis- tinctly. “And there we lived from the year 1860 to 1895, the happiest years of my parents’ lives, and there in 1862 my brother...

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...e Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnett LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1895 INTRODUCTION THIS EXQUISITE NOVEL, first published in 1859, like so ma... ... fixes his enigmatical stare into the far distance. Edward Garnett January 1895. I ON ONE OF THE HOTTEST DAYS of the summer of 1853, in the shade of a... ... he got up, lighted a candle, put on his dressing-gown, took down from the bookshelf the second volume of Raumer’s History of the Hohenstaufen, and si... ...ach to Moscow. He had to get some money from the post- office, to buy some books, and he wanted to seize the oppor- tunity to see Insarov and have som... ...u see, still in disorder,’ added Insarov, pointing to a pile of papers and books on the floor, ‘I haven’t got settled in as I ought. I have not had ti... ... with history and philosophy. All that would interest you. I have a lot of books.’ Insarov got up and walked about the room. ‘Let me know,’ he said, ‘... ...ited visits; he was for ever bringing them some, as they said, far-fetched books on education. Even the schoolboys were embarrassed at the sight of th...

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... in a storm, flooding all the floor, the tables, and the chairs—billows of books.” Richard Woodhouse speaks of the “depth and reality of his knowledge... ...ersonal notes from a host of friends]. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1895. 9. E. T . MASON. Personal T raits of British Authors. New York, 1885.... ...essor Dowden’s article, “How De Quincey worked,” Saturday Review, Feb. 23, 1895. This selection is found in Works, Masson’s ed., Vol. XIII, pp. 270-32... ... suitors of Penelope, his wife, by Ulysses, after his return. Cf. Odyssey, Books XXI-XXII. 19 3 ABOUT WATERLOO: i.e. about 1815. This phrase is one of...

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...ntion to a convenient deck-chair before the window, and to an array of old books, chiefly, I found, surgical works and editions of the Latin and Greek... ...call, and for the moment I do not think I no- ticed. Then as I handled the books on the shelf it came up in consciousness: Where had I heard the name ... ...pe-man had done; or into some library, and there the intent faces over the books seemed but patient creatures waiting for prey. Particularly nauseous ... ...confu- sion of cities and multitudes, and spend my days surrounded by wise books,—bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men... ...the story, appeared as a middle article in the Saturday Review in January, 1895. This is the only portion of this story that has been previously publi...

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...roviding public access to the world's most complete collection of electronic books on-line as well as offer a variety of services and resources that ... ...12 The University of Chicago Press 25. Names for the Bible and other sacred books: (Holy, Sacred) Scriptures, Holy Writ, Word of God, Book of Books... ...Authorized Version (A. V.), Revised Version (R. V.), Polychrome Bible. 27. Books and divisions of the Bible: Old Testament, Pentateuch, Exodus, I1 ... ...k," "epistle," or "psalm" in such connections as the following : the five books of Moses, the first forty psalms, the gospels and epistles of the ... ...s, adverbs, verbs, first and last words) in English titles of publications (books, pamphlets, doc- uments, periodicals, reports, proceedings, etc.),... ...-I+, pp. 102-7. NoTE.-T~~ Astrophysicai Jownal repeats the hundreds: 1880- 1895, pp. 113-116. 158. Let a dash precede the reference (author, title ...

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...rist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time Machine of 1895 (however, unlike Wells, Twain does not give any real explanation of his protagonist's traveling in time). Some early editions are entitled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur....

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...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Ta... ..., and my children both, 1894 And you the Kalenders of their Natiuity, 1895 Go to a Gossips feast, and go with mee, 1896 After so long gree...

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...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Ta... ...senger. 1376 Nicke. Mistresse, your father prayes you leaue your |(books, 1377 And helpe to dresse your sisters chamber vp, 1378 You k... ...a Louers blessed case: 1894 Nay, I haue tane you napping gentle Loue, 1895 And haue forsworne you with Hortensio. 1896 Bian. Tranio ...