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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...s Barnstone Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Indiana University aul Alexander Bartlett’s journal of Sappho is a m... ...l of our fleet. I had pictured the ships as fast moving, bright on bright water. As the first one approached, I saw no happy faces, no lifted hands,... ... 11 I watched an anchor plunge slowly and saw the sail topple into the water and heard a man cry some name. Shouts went up. A chorus began. Vo... ...m lie down with me under the hides. Were we seven or eight? Together, our bodies grew warm and we lay still, listening to the wind and the rain thud... ...terra-cotta lamps, their wicks flaming coldly. Perspiration glowed on our bodies. A cat jumped on our bed and Phaon pushed it away: wind rustled: le...

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...Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State U... ...uddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, hi... ... white bulk with two tiers of small embrasure-like windows, well above the water-line, the Fidèle, though, might at distance have been taken by strang... ...ndi- ana, years ago. I begged about, to make up a sum to go to him; got to Indiana at last, and they directed me to his grave. It was on a great plain... ... of Illinois stealing out now and then, during a recess of the legislative bodies, for a few days’ shooting at human beings, within the limits of his ... ...ed the town’s guests. No mere verbal compliment, like those of some public bodies; for, on the same day, the orphans were officially installed in that...

...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a lo...

...ics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...t he calls a nasal accent. I know better. They stole books from across the water without paying for ‘em, and the snort of delight was fixed in their n... ...certain of it, why, then—I waited developments. “And what did you think of Indiana when you came through?” was the next question. It revealed the myst... ... eye had looked up the name of his victim in the hotel register, and read “Indiana” for India. The provincialism with which I had cursed his people ex... ...est collection of humanity on God’s earth, sir, started this town, and the water came up to the foot of Market Street.” Very terrible were some of the... ...ity I have encountered. It holds rather more than a million of people with bodies, and stands on the same sort of soil as Calcutta. Having seen it, I ...

...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...uestion, involving the extent of the maritime jurisdiction of Spain in the waters which surround the island of Cuba, has been debated without reaching... ...ve been heretofore adopted in regard to the imposts upon navigation in the waters of Denmark. The long-pending controversy between this government and... ...W ASHINGTON, December 19, 1863. GENERAL GRANT, Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Indiana delegation in Congress, or at least a large part of them, are very ... ...NATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: By a joint resolution of your honorable bodies approved De- cember 23, 1863, the paying of bounties to veteran volu... ...the Secretary of State, with my approval, to the Hon. Joseph A. Wright, of Indiana, that patriotic and distinguished gentleman repaired to Europe and ...

...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck...

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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...t of methodical order seems to have regulated the separa- tion of land and water, mountains and valleys. A simple, but grand, arrangement is discovera... ...orm vast marshes, losing all trace of their chan- nels in the labyrinth of waters they have themselves created; and thus, at length, after innumerable... ...n of these three divisions. The American System of Townships and Municipal Bodies Why the Author begins the examination of the political in- stitution... ...rotected from the encroachments of the supreme power as those of municipal bodies in general: they are unable to struggle, single- handed, against a s... ...n North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Missouri. In V ermont, Indiana, Illinois, South *This passage is extracted and translated from M. ...

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

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...dinance for the government of this country, here in Ohio, our neighbors in Indiana, us who live in Illinois, our neighbors in Wisconsin and Michigan. ... ...one way and some another, and some a third, or fourth, or fifth; different bodies are pulling in different direc- tions, and none of them, having a de... ...y politic as much and closely as the natural wants at- tach to our natural bodies. Now I think it important that this matter should be taken up in ear... ... deal of their war with us nowadays is mere bushwhacking. At the battle of Waterloo, when Napoleon’s cavalry had charged again and again upon the unbr... ...izens of the country lawfully engaged in commerce on the high seas, and in waters of the United States: And Whereas an executive proclamation has been...

...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 4 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 4 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Four is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Four is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...tself when pursued except by throw- ing out a black fluid, which makes the water so dark the en- emy cannot see it, and thus it escapes. Ain’t the Jud... ...call our public meetings as Republican meetings; and he instances Tazewell County as one of the places where the friends of Lincoln have called a publ... ... other than the putting of that most unphilosophical proposition, that two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. The Dred Scott decision ... ...r time a moment with what he said. Mr. Clay was at one time called upon in Indiana, and in a way that I suppose was very insult- ing, to liberate his ... ...n of it is in these words: “What is the foundation of this appeal to me in Indiana to liberate the slaves under my care in Kentucky? It is a general d...

... that as profound silence be preserved as possible. While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps...

...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ...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. The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania S... ...m time to time, sitting disconsolate, their feathers puffed out till their bodies assumed globular shapes. Delivery wagons trundled up and down the st... ...and feel in her every fibre the trepidation of its motion. The black- ened waters of the river, seen an instant between stan- chions as the car trundl... ...from the very ends and cor- ners of the continent. Or, again, it was South Water Street—a jam of delivery wagons and market carts backed to the curbs,... ...lt the mysterious tugging of its undertow engage their feet, embrace their bodies, overwhelm them, and carry them bewildered and unresisting back and ... ...p, it would appear, was promising enough, as was also that of Missouri. In Indiana, however, Jadwin could guess that the hopes of even a mod- erate yi...

Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

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... CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...uggled back toward his dream. He could see only her face now, beyond misty waters. The furnace-man slammed the basement door. A dog barked in the next... ...s done, his round face smooth and streamy and his eyes stinging from soapy water, he reached for a towel. The family towels were wet, wet and clammy a... ...hey went, with ardor and some thoroughness, into the matters of streamline bodies, hill-climbing power, wire wheels, chrome steel, ignition systems, a... ...year before last, and ten thousand last year, were urging on nerve-yelping bodies and parched brains so that they might make twenty thousand this year... ...and communism—Atlanta with Hartford, Rochester with Denver, Milwaukee with Indianapolis, Los Angeles with Scranton, Portland, Maine, with Portland, Or...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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 Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yon... ...e which is strange to look back upon when one hour has drifted from smooth water to turbid currents. There was a sort of awe in seeing the myste- riou... ... day, when only the boys were ill, there sat the girl, dab- bling with her water-colours, and her petticoats reaching half across the room, looking li... ...hen anything is the matter! I know papa says that some of us feel with our bodies, and some with our minds; but then I never knew Tom much affected an... ...must be!’ ‘And now,’ whispered the children, ‘we shall know about going to Indiana.’ ‘He says Mordaunt is as tall as he is, and that the house is quit... ...ervous man!’ ‘Anybody can do what comes to hand.’ ‘I beg your pardon. Some bodies lose their wits, like your friend Aubrey, who tells me, if he had st...

Excerpt: The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge.

...x by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ... Guerande is still encircled with its doughty walls, its moats are full of water, its battlements entire, its loopholes unen- cumbered with vegetation... ...issement road establishes communication by land, and from Saint-Nazaire by water, with Nantes. The land road is used only by government; the more rapi... ...l advance of their disease and the progress that death was making in their bodies. Camille Maupin knew the passion within her as those men of science ... ... like all those who bear the weight of a world of thought. Such long, tall bodies are never remarkable for continuous effort or creative activity. Cha... ... des Touches, who read a book of theological mysticism while Calyste read “Indiana,”—the first work of Camille’ s celebrated rival, in which is the ca...

...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...end, plunking paddles reech- oed by the pines, and a glow on black sliding waters. Carol’s family were self-sufficient in their inventive life, with C... ...orch indistinct in leafy shadows. But she ex- claimed over the lakes: dark water reflecting wooded bluffs, a flight of ducks, a fisherman in shirt sle... ... rubber butt of the gun. The shells, with their brass caps and sleek green bodies and hieroglyphics on the wads, were cool and com- fortably heavy in ... ...infested with curiosity. In France or Tibet quite as much as in Wyoming or Indiana these timidities are inherent in isolation. But a village in a coun... ...t go East to college. Miles, Carol, Kennicott were silent. They washed the bodies together, their eyes veiled. “Go home now and sleep. You’re pretty t...

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

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...l drop by drop the pleasant springs of his liberty creep into his mind and water his heart; and thus, earlier or later in life, according to the natur... ... were led out to fight for a piece of ground not large enough to cover the bodies of those who would be slain in the battle; but I do not remember tha... ... cific: a huge amount of territory, of which the most fer- tile portion is watered by the Mississippi and its vast tribu- taries. That river and those... ... in population as have these Western States. The list is as follows: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min- nesota, Iowa, Kansas to which ... ...e Cavaliers and created English liberty, made them- selves soldiers on the bodies of their countrymen. But England was not ruined by that civil war; n...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...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. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...f the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going forth from... ...he soul, Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows. I will make the poems of materials, for I think the... ...Walla Walla, Leaving such to the States they melt, they depart, charging the water and the land with names. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 35 17 Expa... ... with wet, it ran from their long hair, Little streams pass’d all over their bodies. An unseen hand also pass’d over their bodies, It descended trembl... ...and cover’d with the boy’s blood. At eleven o’clock began the burning of the bodies; That is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve you...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ... there was not a bridge over it from its source to its mouth. There is not water enough in the creek at ordinary stages to run a coffee mill, and at l... ...er enough in the creek at ordinary stages to run a coffee mill, and at low water there is none running whatever. On this occasion it had been raining ... ...tled, but wolves had been driven out long before I left. Benjamin was from Indiana, still less populated, where the wolf yet roamed over the prairies.... ...move from Corpus Christi until the 11th of March. In view of the im- mense bodies of men moved on the same day over narrow roads, through dense forest... ...e of their troops crossed the river above us, and made it unsafe for small bodies of men to go far beyond the limits of camp. They captured two compan...

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...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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 Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One, the Pennsylvan... ...d again to-day; but I’ll be shot if he keeps me awake, I’ll douse him with water if he makes a row. – Ever your affec- tionate son, R. L. STEVENSON. ... ...ut yet the Lord that is on high Is more of might by far Than noise of many waters is Or great sea-billows are.’ The thunder at the wall when it first ... ... Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to keep their monstrous bodies fresh withal. A shrewd country attorney, in a turned white neckcloth... ...use, hurried by child’s games… . Have at you again, being now well through Indiana. In America you eat better than anywhere else: fact. The food is he... ...ul in peace, and continue to possess my body on any terms. CALISTOGA, NAPA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA All which is a fortnight old and not much to the point n...

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...st and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...s the editorial page was being locked up, a gratis quart of strawberry ice water arrived from Hostetter’s Ladies and Gents Ice Cream Parlors, and the ... ... with feeling and admiration, “ And yet, when it comes to judiciousness in watering a stock or putting up a hand to skin Wall Street I don’t give in t... ... $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 50 fectionately wear out their poor old bodies in her dear ser vice if only they might have the privilege. “And we... ...ind it without trouble, in the morning paper; a cablegram from Chicago and Indiana by way of Paris. All the words save one are guessable by a per son... ...— La PATRIE ha da Chicago: Il guardiano del teatro dell’opera di W alace (Indiana), avendo voluto espellare uno spettatore che continuava a fumare ma...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...

.... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ................................................................................................................................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES ............................................................

...ication Publication Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, the Pennsylvania State Un... ... one another, passing one an- other in the streets or the fields, they see bodies and hear voices, but it does not really matter— they are disconnecte... ...e saloon began drinking a drink made of a combination of sloe gin and soda water. Will Henderson was a sensualist and had reached the age of forty-fiv... ...the fields caught on hidden roots, stones lay all about, on the low places water gathered, and the young corn turned yellow, sickened and died. When J... ...en had been somewhat limited. He was the son of a wagon maker from Muncie, Indiana, and had worked his way through college. The daughter of the underw... ...the woman sat looking at each other and they were a good deal alike. Their bodies were different, as were also the color of their eyes, the length of ...

...S ....................................................................................................................................... 14 THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE .................................................................................................................................... 14 HANDS......................................................................

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...s turned off and even primary radar contact with the aircraft was lost.The Indianapolis Air Traffic Control Center repeat- edly tried and failed to co... ...2 AM Page 14 “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 15 BOSTON NEW YORK NEW YORK CLEVELAND INDIANAPOLIS Boston Center Otis Air Force Base Langley Air Force Base Nor... ...pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 74 sional and news media investigations of the Watergate scandals of the Nixon administration expanded into general invest... ...SM EVOLVES 89 Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 89 nent feature of the Watergate era was investigations of the CIA by committees headed by Frank C... ...ists would take advantage of such breakdowns. 3 6.1 THE MILLENNIUM CRISIS “Bodies Will Pile Up in Sacks” On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence ...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...