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Excerpt: Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad.

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...Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad From the 1914 Methuen & Co. edition. A Penn State Electron... ...Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad From the 1914 Methuen & Co. edition. A Penn State Electronic ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. T... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ... as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Serie... ...steps from which he had some six weeks before sur- veyed the cabstand, the buildings, the policemen, the boot- blacks, the paint, gilt, and plateglass... ...ween the walls of the warehouses as if in an uninhabited town of very high buildings dark from basement to roof. Y ou could never have guessed that wi... ...uck was like a mountain gliding by. Men passed by as if in a mist; and the buildings, the sheds, the unexpected open spaces, the ships, had strange, d...

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...A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...ENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Serie... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Joseph Conrad The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad Contents: I. Landfalls... ...is an equal opportunity university. 3 Joseph Conrad The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope ... ... the horse tramcars, appearing and disappearing in the opening between the buildings, like little toy car- riages harnessed with toy horses and played... ... wooden jetty of Port Victoria, with its few 90 The Mirror of the Sea low buildings like the beginning of a hasty settle- ment upon a wild and unexpl... ...cks of London spread out unsuspected, smooth, and placid, lost amongst the buildings like dark la- goons hidden in a thick forest. They lie concealed ...

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Excerpt: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad.

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...Sherlock Holmes ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1891 1892 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on issue... ...e fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occu pied his immense faculties and extraor... ...se clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time to time I heard some vague account of ... ... you closely,” I answered. “I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was... ...made my way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker Street. Two hansoms were stand ing at the door, and as I entered the passage I hea... ...st ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the second.” Sherlock Holmes was no... ...“You must know that my grandfather had two sons — my uncle Elias and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, which he enlarged at... ...ng are on the ground floor, the sitting rooms being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms the first is Dr. Roylott’s, the second my s...

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Excerpt: The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells.

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...of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this ...

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...The Country of the Blind And Other Stories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Cou... ...c Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...onic transmission, in any way. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Serie... ..., George Gissing, Ella d’Arcy, Murray Gilchrist, E. Nesbit, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, Edwin Pugh, Jerome K. Jerome, Kenneth Graham, Arthur Morriso... ...wever, this is a digression. As the green sun rose, a long street of black buildings became perceptible, though only darkly and indistinctly, in the g... ...ng upon the steepness of the hill, others entering some of the small black buildings which lined the way. At the sight of these things drifting up tow... ...ultitude of soaring forms that Mr. Cave regarded as birds. A vast range of buildings spread below him; he seemed to be looking down upon them; and as ... ... and not his mother, and so couldn’t suddenly there, coram publico, in our hansom, kiss him. Af- ter all, I thought, the thing wasn’t so very bad. But... ...ship. I had just one momentary glimpse. I was leaning over the apron of my hansom smoking a cigarette, and no doubt thinking myself no end of a man of...

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...as children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The V... ...UBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...in any way. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ...omatisms, their frequency among religious leaders— Jewish cases— Mohammed— Joseph Smith— Religion and the subconscious region in general. LECTURE XX C... ...Christ’s childhood; Saint Bernard to his human- ity; Saint Teresa to Saint Joseph, etc. The Shi-ite Moham- medans venerate Ali, the Prophet’s son-in-l... ...ng poetry and philoso- phy. We parted at midnight. I had a long drive in a hansom to my lodging. My mind, deeply under the influence of the ideas, ima... ...ties. These speculations must, it seems to me, be classed as over-beliefs, buildings- out performed by the intellect into directions of which feeling ... ...he sight of God.” Apologia, 1897, pp. 48, 50. 443 William James Among the buildings-out of religion which the mind spontaneously indulges in, the aes... ...ed, in some of the Alexandrians, in many minor Catholic saints, in Fox, in Joseph Smith, something like it appears to have been frequent, sometimes ha...