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Youth

By: Joseph Conrad

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us...

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The Raven

By: Edgar Allan Poe

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Pierre Grassou

By: Honoré de Balzac

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... than painting,” said Bridau. “What?” asked Fougeres. “Fling yourself into literature.” Fougeres lowered his head like a sheep when it rains. Then he ...

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Z. Marcas

By: Honoré de Balzac

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...there are cases. The pleader is thrown back on journalism, on politics, on literature. In fact, the State, besieged for the small- est appointments un... ...uste, seeing that I was speechless, asked Marcas jestingly: “You cultivate literature, monsieur?” “Far from it!” replied Marcas. “I should not be so w...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ous or historical reasons, their prevalent art and the clipped and limited literature that satisfied their souls? That age which bore me was indeed a ... ...ressed our boyhood, by much indulgence in blasphemous wit. We had a secret literature of irreverent rhymes, and a secret art of theological caricature... ...ject modestly as a manuscript magazine of satirical, liberal and brilliant literature by which in some rather inex- plicable way the vague tumult of i... ...ystem with strong faculties in modern philosophy, modern history, European literature and criticism, physical and biological science, education and so... ...ings that vary between disguises and antiquarian charm the inflammation of literature’s purple draught; one hears there a peculiar thin scandal like n... ...ment, despise science. The world is our battleground; and all history, all literature that matters, all science, deals with this conflict of the thing... ...h the con- fusion, to take hold of things? Somewhere between politics and literature my grip must needs be found, but where? Al- ways I seem to have ... ...ual it takes the role that the growth of philosophy, science, and creative literature may play in the development of mankind. 2 2 2 2 2 It is curious ...

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The Recruit

By: Honoré de Balzac

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Nona Vincent

By: Henry James

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ffering. The man of letters, in dealing with it, would have to put off all literature, which was like asking the bearer of a noble name to forego his ...

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Some Reminiscences

By: Joseph Conrad

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...and tears which is declared to be the highest achievement of imagina- tive literature. Only, to be a great magician one must surrender oneself to occu... ... Thackeray, it was otherwise. My first introduction to English imaginative literature was “Nicholas Nickleby.” It is extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickl... ...elieve that I am wrong. That book was not my first introduction to English literature. My first acquaintance was (or were) the “Two Gentlemen of Veron... ... to consideration, I believe, and also my first introduction to the sea in literature. If I do not remember where, how and when I learned to read, I a... ...ng the opportunity to make a fool of yourself—exactly as in the pursuit of literature. But the quarter-deck criticism is somewhat different from liter... ...ut as suggestive bits of writing to me as any inspired page to be found in literature. But then, you see, I have been called romantic. Well, that can’...

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The Chateau of Prince Polignac

By: Anthony Trollope

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The Pension Beaurepas

By: Henry James

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...kably in- dependent of most of the usual feminine aids to idle- ness—light literature, tapestry, the use of the piano. They were, however, much fonder...

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Pandora

By: Henry James

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ch books, in fresh yellow paper; not the lighter forms 14 Pandora of that literature, but a volume of Sainte-Beuve, of Renan or at the most, in the w...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...7 AT THE CLOSE of the nineteenth century as a multitude of passages in the literature of that time witness, it was thought that the fact that man had ... ...ions to the collective future, is trace- able more and more clearly in the literature of those times, and movement after movement fretted itself away ... ... onward to the Slavs. Later ages were to store and neglect the vast insane literature of this obsession, the intricate treaties, the secret agreements... ...lready there had been accumulating for a hundred years before the crisis a literature of foresight; there was a whole mass of ‘Modern State’ scheming ... ...r hand, the men of the new time could still appreci- ate the older English literature…. Certain minor acts of uni- formity accompanied this larger one... ...of the past, and under the blazing sunshine of a transforming world. A new literature, a new interpretation of history were springing into existence, ... ...tives of a new age one can look back upon the great and widening stream of literature with a complete under- standing. Things link up that seemed disc... ...his love story, is just a part of growing up and we grow out of it. So far literature and art and sentiment and all our emotional forms have been almo...

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The Upanishads Translated and Commentated

By: Swami Paramananda

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... is no consensus of opinion regarding the place of this Upanishad in Vedic literature. Some authorities de- clare it to belong to the Yajur-Veda, othe...

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A Personal Record

By: Joseph Conrad

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...r and tears which is declared to be the highest achievement of imaginative literature. Only, to be a great magician one must surrender oneself to occu... ...hackeray, it was otherwise. My first intro- duction to English imaginative literature was “Nicholas Nickleby.” It is extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickl... ... to consideration, I believe, and also my first introduction to the sea in literature. If I do not remember where, how, and when I learned to read, I ... ...g the opportunity to make a fool of yourself, exactly as in the pursuit of literature. But the quarter-deck criticism is somewhat different from liter... ...ut as suggestive bits of writing to me as any inspired page to be found in literature. But then, you see, I have been called romantic. Well, that can’...

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The Silverado Squatters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...cs Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project t... ...rticularly meeting him with open arms; and I must say that traveller had ill requited his reception. His book, in short, was a capital instance of the... ...te to place a bishop, is to rise to new ideas. But, alas! there was no Patterson about the Toll House. Only, alongside of “From Palace to Hovel,” a si...

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Unconscious Comedians

By: Honoré de Balzac

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...e third story, where they beheld a door which painting alone could render; literature would have to spend too many nights in suitably describing it. A...

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Virgin Soil

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ain thing. I am sorry to say that I interest myself very little in Russian literature nowadays. It has grown so horribly vulgar. A cook is now made th... ...fresh air. The conversation was very lively. Kollomietzev condemned modern literature, and on this subject, too, Sipiagin showed himself a liberal. He... ...he responsibility upon my- self. Imagine, it’s an oasis! Neither politics, literature, nor anything modern ever penetrates there. The little house is ... ...nds of words, rolling and tumbling over one another: progress, government, literature, the taxation question, the church question, the woman question;... ... literary man in you, but you have chosen a better and higher calling than literature. It was good to do that kind of work when it was impossible to d... ...our real work does not begin until tomorrow, let us devote this evening to literature. Would you like to? We can read your poems. I will be a severe c... ...Society in a state of absolute stagnation; everyone bored to death! As for literature, it’s been reduced to a complete vacuum swept clean! Take critic...

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The Vicar of Tours

By: Honoré de Balzac

...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...elle Gamard relating to their personal opinions on politics, religion, and literature would delight observing minds. It would be highly enter- taining...

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The Courtship of Susan Bell

By: Anthony Trollope

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Sarrasine

By: Honoré de Balzac

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