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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...

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... sooner or later, and the world has done me the kindness so often to inquire after my first crude attempt, that after it has lain for many years ?out of print,? I have ventured to launch it once more-- imperfections and all-- though it is guilty of the error of pointing rather to a transient phase of difficulty than to a general principle. The wheels of this world go so qu...

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... E DITH WHARTON A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...t up reading them all night—old Jefferson Gryce certainly didn’t.” She was listening with keen attention. “And yet they fetch fabulous prices, don’t t... ...vely; and, prepared for the look of lassitude which usually crept over his listeners’ faces, he grew eloquent under her receptive gaze. The “points” s... ...down at Tuxedo I asked a lot of people for next week, and I’ve mislaid the list and can’t remember who is coming. And this week is going to be a horri... ... a festal assemblage as one of those airy pleasure-halls which the Italian architects impro- vised to set off the hospitality of princes. The air of i...

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... who ledst this glorious Eremite Into the Desert, his Victorious Field Against the Spiritual Foe, and broughtst him thence By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire, As thou art wont, my prompted Song else mute, And bear through highth or depth of natures bounds With prosperous wing full summ?d to tell of deeds Above Heroic, though in secret done, And unrecorded left thro...

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...Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ... yellow braids carefully dis- posed on each side of her muslin chemisette, listened with downcast eyes to M. Capoul’s impassioned wooing, and af- 6 T... ...young enquirer, a candid Thorley, who was evidently preparing to enter the lists as the lady’s champion. “The very worst; I knew him at Nice,” said La... ...here’ll be no such thing as Society left.” VII. MRS. HENRY VA N DER LUYDEN listened in silence to her cousin Mrs. Archer’s narrative. It was all very ... ...nd the house was built in a ghastly greenish-yellow stone that the younger architects were beginning to employ as a protest against the brownstone of ...

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...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...

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...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... ...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... ...for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached ... ... parting, and we’ll never see some of the bunch again!” “Carol, you got to listen to me! You always duck when I try to talk seriously to you, but you ... ...to me! You always duck when I try to talk seriously to you, but you got to listen to me. I’m going to be a big lawyer, maybe a judge, and I need you, ... ...ows that have been making movies for ten years how to direct ‘em; and tell architects how to build towns; and make the maga- zines publish nothing but... ...mining-settlement like a tumor. A booming semi- city with parks and clever architects, visited by famous pianists and unctuous lecturers, but irritabl...

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...ERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... the year 1225, when the edifice was begun, the site was doubtless, as the architects say, more eligible. At present, indeed, when once you have caugh... ...you feel that the building has something to say, and that you must stop to listen to it. Within, it has a vast and splendid nave, of immense height,—t... ... and some ad- mirable old glass. I spent half an hour there one morn- ing, listening to what the church had to say, in perfect solitude. Not a worship... ... dramatic reign. It has been restored more than enough, as I have said, by architects and decorators; the visitor, as he moves through its empty rooms... ...Azay is a most perfect and beautiful thing; I should place it third in any list of the great houses of this part of France in which these houses shoul... ...ale and in a spirit which really impose themselves on the imagination. Few architects have had such a chance, and M. Viollet-le-Duc must have been the...

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... weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible. Everybody may sometimes be right; ?but that?s no rule,? as the ghost of Giles Scroggins says in the ballad....

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... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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...ssics Series Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. 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 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... ...g downstairs in the drawing-room describing his afternoon’s adventures, or listening to the afternoon’s adventures of other people; the room itself, t... ...ivering an accurately worded speech with perfect composure. William Rodney listened with a curious lifting of his upper lip, although his face was sti... ...r painting, and merely by look- ing at them it could be seen that, as they listened to Mr. Purvis first, and then to Mr. Greenhalgh, they were see- in... ...ccasion William was ready to give such discriminat- ing praise as the dead architects and painters received seldom in the course of the year. They wer...