...n 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...bor, and the docks present a very different aspect from the fifty thousand houses of Paris. At the foot of Montmartre an ocean of slate roofs lies in ... ...t, the suburban residence of the merchants of Havre. Here they build their houses on terraces around its ampitheatre of hills, and breathe the sea air... ... off the burden of their counting-rooms and the at- mosphere of their city houses, which are built closely to- gether without open spaces, often witho... ...a former clerk of his master. Dumay was a Breton transplanted by fate into Normandy. Imagine therefore the hatred conceived for the tenants of the Cha... ...r and the Golden Fleece, grandee of Spain, and son of the last governor of Normandy. He saw Mademoiselle Modeste at the time when 141 Balzac he was s... ...days had elapsed the 142 Modeste Mignon rumor of them ran from one end of Normandy to the other like a train of gunpowder touched by fire. “Monsieur ...

...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t of ease, se- cured after long years of toil, is suggested by some larger houses farther on, with their red roofs of flat round tiles, shaped like th... ...le of making any announcement not in proper form to the Grand Army and the House of Austria. So he thought that Medea was some archduchess whose condu... ...without fortifying the inner man. Small as were his chances of finding any housewife in her dwelling at a time when every one was hard at work in the ... ..., and of many other things; and no one should expect to have vines grow in Normandy. So no tasks can be more various than those of government, and its...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

...1843) A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the P... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper, the Pennsylvania State U... ...xistence were thus obtained, while our family was growing in the fields of Normandy. It happened that a distinguished astronomer se- lected a beautifu... ...day of the succeeding month. We went through the formalities of the custom-houses, or barrieres, the same day, and the next morning we were all transf... ...ho survived, in a feeble old age, to descant on the former grandeur of her house, and to sigh, in common with so many others, for le bon vieux temps. ... ...ould not have done, but for the circumstance of there being so much in the house of their early stores, to help eke out the supplies of the moment. Bu...

Excerpt: Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper.

...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a... ...n 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... ...ing two steps, look down upon the rags and tatters of that ignoble nest of houses huddling between the quai de la Tournelle and the Hotel-Dieu,—a foul... ...o the sap of the trees; it preserves it, feeds it, and conceals it. II OLD HOUSE, OLD PEOPLE, OLD CUSTOMS Weary of himself, Godefroid attempted one da... ...o give himself a voca- tion. The manners and customs of bourgeois boarding-houses shocked his delicacy, sanitariums seemed to him unhealthy, and he wa... ..., after a pause, 67 Balzac “comes from one of the first families of Lower Normandy. Her maiden name was Mademoiselle Barbe-Philiberte de Champignelle... ...position which this an- cient lineage properly gave him in the province of Normandy. This gentleman had doubly derogated from his rightful sta- tion; ... ...e’s character was well known in the Bessin,—that beautiful region of Lower Normandy near Bayeux, where the family lived. The old man, whose little est...

...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, an...

...ga Saga trans. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888) 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n these (the British) Western Isles; the settlement of Iceland, or even of Normandy. The knowledge of all these things would now be even smaller than ... ...n Isles” (2) toward the end of the eighth century; soon after they invaded Normandy, and harried the coasts of France; gradually they lengthened their... ...oble and ignoble — of hardship, and of injury, and of oppression, in every house, from these valiant, wrathful, purely pagan people. Even though great... ...th fire, parcelled among the band, and marked out with boundary-signs; the houses were built, the “town” or home-field walled in, a temple put up, and... ... that all the kin of the Hrimthursar were drowned, save Hvergelmir and his household, who got away in a boat. Then Bor’s sons took Ymir and bore him i...

...............................................5 TRANSLATORS? PREFACE.......................................................................23 THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS.............................26 APPENDIX:.................................................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA.............................

...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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 a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... teas? We do not advertise, as some folks do: but sell as low as any other house.” “Y ou’re precious young to have all these good things,” the girl ex... ...urll at St. John’s Gate, pinks Colonel Charteris in a duel behind Montague House, is initiated into the intrigues of the Chevalier St. George, whom he... ...rt of London’s Wit and Fashion. It is the corner of Regent Street. Carlton House has not yet been taken down. A stately gentleman in crimson velvet an... ... putty. Y ou wouldn’t have a man, mon cher, bury himself in his chateau in Normandy, out of the hunting season? The Rugantino Palace stupefies me. Tho... ...hen the lion- hearted Prince began to make war against the French King, in Normandy and Guienne, Sir Wilfrid pined like a true servant to be in compan... ...said, “My love, I was thinking of going over to pay his Majesty a visit in Normandy.” Upon which, laying down her muffin, (which, since the royal Alfr...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ........................ 107 CHAPTER VI – FRANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER .........117 CHAPTER VII – CHARLES OF ORLEANS ................... ...iner in conception than that voice from the people heard sud- denly in the House of Lords, in solemn arraignment of the pleasures and privileges of it... ...k a farm, married, and, like an emigrant in a new country, built himself a house with his own hands. Pov- erty of the most distressing sort, with some... ...d the duke sang, in a truly patriotic vein, the deliverance of Guyenne and Normandy.* They were liberal of rhymes and largesse, and welcomed the prosp... ...ivial side. The duke perhaps cared less for the deliverance of Guyenne and Normandy than for his own verses on the occasion; just as Dr. Russell’s cor... ...ily exampled out of his own mouth. When Alencon stood accused of betraying Normandy into the hands of the English, Charles made a speech in his defenc...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

... Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...is intelligence torn to shreds, David Sechard, at the back of his printing-house, foresaw all the practical con- sequences of the increased activity o... ...the discovery, in fact, in order to apply the proceeds to the needs of the household and of the business. What words can describe the brain that can f... ...and prosaic apprenticeship to his laborious craft. So it came to pass that housekeeping, no less than working expenses, ate up the thousand francs, hi... ...r will shortly see. Surely the lawyers of France and Navarre, nay, even of Normandy herself, will not refuse Petit- Claud his meed of admiration and r... ...ran the article, “Brit- tany of producing a Chateaubriand and a Lammenais, Normandy of Casimir Delavigne, and Touraine of the au- thor of Eloa; Angoum...

...Excerpt: Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Charente, when he sat with Eve by the weir, and she gave him her han...

...n Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ... eyes. Somebody once asked Hyacinthe where the hats were made that set the house in a roar as soon as he appeared. “I don’t have them made,” he said; ... ...ts, he was not above taking the fiddle himself some- times in a relation’s house, and getting up a little impromptu dance. In those days, all the hand... ... Paris was glut- ted with kings and queens and princes, and many a private house emulated royal splendours. People used to play at Royalty then as the... ...estate; a chateau (as fine a relic of the past as you will find to- day in Normandy) standing in a hundred acres of park land, and a fine dependent fa... ...of Popinot; and the immense dowry. At the present price fetched by land in Normandy, at two per cent, the property represented nine hundred thou- sand...

...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he were tracking ...

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...e said to be scarce any manufac- tures of any kind, a few of those coarser household manufactures excepted, without which no country can well subsist.... ... the timber, the burner of the charcoal to be made use of in the smelting- house, the brickmaker, the bricklayer, the workmen who attend the furnace, ... ...mith examine, in the same manner, all the different parts of his dress and household furniture, the coarse linen shirt which he wears next his skin, t... ...ovinces of the five great farms, and under which are comprehended Picardy, Normandy, and the greater part of the interior provinces of the kingdom; se...

Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...