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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

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... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ... of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shaw... ...n't know what to make of it: Mother Teresa of Calcutta or Marquis de Sade of Paris. Such a person would assume that she had been dropped on her head a... ...s listening intensely to others. He saw himself as a demure epicure with no published writing and nothing outwardly erudite to show for it. He in hi... ... drawers she discovered a child's book called "Heroes of the Bible." It was published by the Latter Day Saints. She wondered whether these dragon fl... ...ng to Laos. From photographs on the Internet it looked like a little bit of Paris and a lot of dirt. She believed that its simplicity would be to her... ...he pettiness of a personal life. Whenever she got bored with reading Mexican newspapers and memorizing new Spanish vocabulary she would go into San Di... ...ding dry clothes; putting wet ones in their carts, seated and bored; reading newspapers; watching the television that beamed over their heads or falli...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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... S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLAS... ...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. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...HIC SKETCHES BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRACT FR CT FR CT FR CT... ...consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some things have sufficiently accomplished their purpose whe... ...tains of domestic life, close behind us, and before us, and all around us. Newspapers are evanescent, and are too rapidly recurrent, and people see no... ...ce to her person. The circumstantial accounts published at the time by the newspapers were of a nature to conciliate the public sympathy altogether to... ...thing more. T o see persons in “the body” of whom you have been reading in newspapers from the very earliest of your reading days,—those, who have hit...

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...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to ...

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...right c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance... ...2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; ... ...t I Chapter 1 H APPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The ... ...and was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her hus band that she could no... ...stepped out at the wide entrance, and the stout porter, who used to read the newspapers in the mornings behind the glass door, to the edification of th... ...e, then go there and catch him.” Anna looked at the railway timetable in the newspapers. An evening train went at two minutes past eight. “Yes, I shal... ...ific world. After the most conscientious revision the book had last year been published, and had been distributed among the booksellers. Though he aske... ...from motives of self interest and self advertisement. He recognized that the newspapers published a great deal that was superfluous and exaggerated, wi... ...s of self interest and self advertisement. He recognized that the newspapers published a great deal that was superfluous and exaggerated, with the sole...

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........................................................................................................................... 21 Chapter 3.1.IV. September in Paris. ............................................................................................................................... 24 Chapter 3.1.V. A Trilogy. .............................................................

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...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 French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carly... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ealities that he rests. “Legislators!” so speaks the stentor-voice, as the Newspapers yet preserve it for us, “it is not the alarm-cannon that you he... ...the flour-market, and state of Equality and Liberty, proposes, through the Newspapers, two rem- edies, or at least palliatives: First, that all classe... ... it still, should the same great Nether Deep subside?—Nay, as read- ers of Newspapers pretend to recollect, this hatefulness of 82 The French Revolut... ...is- cerned again of late, with his pike and his red nightcap. Deputy Marat published in his journal, this very day, com- plaining of the bitter scarci... ...eller in quality, by a Pere Duchesne of Hebert, brutallest News- paper yet published on Earth; by a Rougiff of Guffroy; by the ‘incendiary leaves of M... ...and too hungry Sons of Adam! Juryman Vilate had striven hard for life, and published, from his Prison, an ingenious Book, not unknown to us; but it wo...

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... PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2.1.II. In the Salle de Manege. ..................................

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you...

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...Excerpt: In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but wh...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself deligh...

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... 483 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as a... ... dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course nev... ...ou partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold ... ...pend on for evidence. Too free a fancy—I suppose that was it. She afterwards published a work of fiction in which she was understood to have given a re... ...y fall in love with her at the end of three days.” “And have my love letters published in the Interviewer? Never!” cried the young man. The train pres... ...the people want, and it’s a lovely place.” “It’s too lovely to be put in the newspapers, and it’s not what my uncle wants.” “Don’t you believe that!” ... ...n window of his room, looking westward over the park and the river, with his newspapers and letters piled up beside him, his toilet freshly and minute... ...as now largely used and was known by his name. You might have seen it in the newspapers in connection with this fruitful contrivance; assurance of whi... ...birth. Her mother, who had bristled with pretensions to elegant learning and published descriptive poems and corresponded on Italian subjects with the...

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...pt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...

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...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. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...“T ravels.” Of mod- 9 Thomas de Quincey ern authors, none as yet had been published with notes, com- mentaries, or critical collations of the text; a... ... the purchase of a little volume like Waller or Donne. Without reviews, or newspapers, or advertisements, to diffuse the knowledge of books, the progr... ...se. Undoubtedly, in times when the func- tions of critical journals and of newspapers were not at hand to diffuse or to strengthen the impressions whi... ... yeoman.” Further than this nothing was known. But in September, 1836, was published a very remarkable document, which gives the assurance of law to t... ...g Shakspeare’s. 60 Biographical Essays The first edition of the Works was published in 1623, in a folio volume, entitled Mr. William Shakspeare’s Com... ...at 187 Thomas de Quincey all; it would have been obscurely noticed in the newspapers of Germany, as the death of a novelist who had produced some eff...

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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 ...

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...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation [Gr.] j...

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...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBL... ...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...tion had nowhere a place in it. Yet see! The old man of Ferney comes up to Paris; an old, tottering, infirm man of eighty- four years. They feel that ... ... orders his Postilion, “Va bon train; thou art driving M. de Voltaire.” At Paris his carriage is “the nucleus of a comet, whose train fills whole stre... ... say, on shoulder-blades of mutton, flung pell-mell into a chest: and they published it, without any discoverable order as to time or otherwise;—merel... ... all speech, even the commonest speech, has something of song in it: not a parish in the world but has its parish- accent;—the rhythm or tune to which... ...h Thrones and Arabian Conquests, so that it “fills all Morning and Evening Newspapers,” and all Histories, which are a kind of distilled Newspapers; o... ...e Primate of England and of All England? I many a time say, the writers of Newspapers, Pamphlets, Poems, Books, these are the real working effec- tive...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

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...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 religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

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...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... .... At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during the hot-metal-type era and in the initial transition to ... ...hnology‖ remained unused until almost the end of the twentieth century. Published in 1984, my Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary still treat... ...d, a book written by marine geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman and published in 1998. Freshwater sands were discovered later on the salt sea‘... ...ype, its inks, and its presses. In August 1457, the Fust-Schoeffer shop published the Mainz Psalter, the first dated text labeled with its printer... ...ciated—what a wondrous Information Technology made their daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, and books so affordable. It was Ottmar Mergentha... ...telephone, and typewriter, expedited the gathering and reporting of news. Newspapers circulated into most homes, but none offered more than eight pa...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, es...

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...e BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publi... ...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. In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Well... ... will find good sense and quaint English in Judge Mejdell’s “Jus Gentium,” published in English by Olsen’s of Christiania. There is an active League o... ...ave the right, for example, to raise the question of the proprietorship of newspapers by armament interests. Disarmament is, in fact, a necessary fac-... ...cceptable to a reasonable man in Berlin as they are to a reasonable man in Paris or London or Petrograd or Constantinople. There are to be no conquest... ...erto counted as a strictly imperialist paper. The article that follows was published in the Daily Mail under the heading, “Are we Sticking to the Poin... ...reek imagination. There were no railways, telegraphs, telephones, books or newspapers, there was no need for the state to main- tain a system of educa... ...en killed; death seems to be feeling always now for those I most love; the newspapers that come in to my house tell mostly of blood and disaster, of d...

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...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 U... ...ained within the docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, a... ... question about a matter which had been much debated by the public and the newspapers; he answered the question without any hesitancy. “General, who p... ... What Is Man and Other Essays 110 that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New Y ork, San Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape T ow... ...or in time their names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and th... ...r sent it to me with the request that I say whether I think it ought to be published or not. I said, Yes; but as I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cau... ...ected way: Republican, a sinner mentioned in the Bible. Also in Democratic newspapers now and then. Here are two where the mistake has resulted from s... ...phical Romance. He made extensive and valuable additions to his Essays. He published the inestimable Treatise de Augmentis Scientiarum. Did these labo...

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...ine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to the public as a narrative or as being connected with myself. But I have thought that in an age in which education and its improvement are the subject of more, if not of profounder, study than at any former period of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was u...

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...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. Autobiography by John Stuart Mill , the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... in the best sense of the term, was my father’s History of India . It was published in the beginning of 1818. During the year previ ous, while it wa... ...itical economy. His loved and intimate friend, Ricardo, had shortly before published the book which formed so great an epoch in political economy; a b... ...so great an epoch in political economy; a book which would never have been published or written, but for the entreaty and strong en couragement of my... ...arried on more vigorously. It was about this time that I began to write in newspapers. The first writings of mine which got into print were two letter... ... proposing of the Reform Bill. For the next few years I wrote copiously in newspapers. It was about this time that Fonblanque, who had for some time w... ...at I wrote during these years, which, independently of my contributions to newspapers, was considerable. In 1830 and 1831 I wrote the five Essays sinc...

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...in part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quotations and allusions, his favourite of the classics was Horace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him ...

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........................................................ 4 INTRODUCTION TO W. M. THACKERAY?S ?THE FOUR GEORGES?............................... 4 A PAUSE IN THE STRIFE?1886 .................................................................................................. 6 LESLIE STEPHEN?1904 ........................................................................................

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...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. Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...here is one circumstance, which, if I am not mistaken, has not as yet been published by the newspapers, and it is this. There was a fight on the 25th ... ...mstance, which, if I am not mistaken, has not as yet been published by the newspapers, and it is this. There was a fight on the 25th on a place at the... ...esent the first official relation of the unhappy fight of the 24th June is published, and is accordingly anxiously scanned and closely studied. It is ... ... they happened to be honest trad- ers with cases of coral and lava for the Paris market, and therefore they merely stood silent and aghast at the fata... ...s possible. I had no sooner got to my hotel than I inquired for the latest Paris journal, when the France was handed me, and I obtained confirmation i...

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...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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...d to revive them. Now what had Mr Pope done before to incense them? He had published those works which are in the hands of every- body, in which not t... ...nly oppose that of MR ADDISON. ‘The Art of Criticism (saith he), which was published some months since, is a master-piece in its kind. The observation... ...he most perfect epic performance. And those parts of Homer which have been published already by Mr Pope, give us reason to think that the Iliad will a... ...ard. Gulliveriana Secunda. Being a Collection of many of the Libels in the Newspapers, like the former V olume, under the same title, by Smedley. Adve... ...ome satires on the translators of Homer, with many other things printed in newspapers. ‘Bond wrote a satire against Mr P——. Capt. Breval was author of... ...atire on our author, called The Mock Aesop, and many anonymous li- bels in newspapers for hire.—P . 361 ‘Ralph:’ James Ralph, a name inserted after t...

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......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................

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...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. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ount of toleration. The only paper of this collection which has never been published before is the Note on the Polish Prob- lem. It was written at the... ... in the spirit of sincerity and knowledge. In one of his critical studies, published some fif- teen years ago, Mr. Henry James claims for the nov- eli... ...reading of the Nigger of the Narcissus, a book of mine which had also been published lately. I was truly pleased to hear this. On my next visit to tow... ... we have seen them only in the cold, silent, colourless print of books and newspapers. In stigmatising the printed word as cold, silent and colourless... ...It has sent out apostles of its own, who at one time went about (mostly in newspapers) preaching the gospel of the mystic sanctity of its sac- rifices... ...ly out of touch with the world’s politics. Never a very diligent reader of newspapers, there were at that time reasons of a pri- vate order which caus...

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...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 gl...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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...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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...his finger to his lip. “C’est la fortune de la guerre: if ever you come to Paris, ask for the Marquis d’ O’Mahony, and I may render you the hospitalit... ... Philip,” said the Colonel; “you are at my house in the Place V endome, at Paris, of which I am the military Governor. Y ou and Lanty were knocked dow... ...assed on the spot. He had been but a week in the house. The next month the newspapers contained a paragraph which may possibly elucidate the above mys... ...re. *The letter-box of Mr. Punch, in whose columns these papers were first published. 79 Burlesques “Last year he visper’d ‘Mary Ann, V en I’ve an un... ...ve dogged me all the way from London, and that my family affairs are to be published for the readers of the Morning Tatler newspaper? The Morning Tatt... ...an illustrated edition of the work. 132 Thackeray thereby created. When I published my volume of poems, for instance, the Morning Post newspaper rema...

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...of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest ...

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...?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII? THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES, 34 -- CHAPTER IX? ADAMITISM, 39 -- CHAPTER X? PURE REASON, 43 -- CHAPTER XI? PROSPECTIVE, 47 -- ...

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...— CHARACTERISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 CHAPTER V — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER VI — APRONS . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . .... ...ne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps mo... ...ognition even that we have no such Philosophy, stands here for the first time published in our language. What English intellect could have chosen such ... ...fe: a man devoted to the higher Philosophies, indeed; yet more likely, if he published at all, to publish a refutation of Hegel and Bardili, both of w... ... not, like all works of genius, like the very Sun, which, though the highest published creation, or work of genius, has nevertheless black spots and t... ...such cases, your resource is to talk little, and that little mostly from the Newspapers. Now when I look back, it was a strange isolation I then lived... ...s us the dung they flourish in! Men speak much of the Printing Press with its Newspapers: du Himmel! what are these to Clothes and the Tailor’s Goose? ... ...n 3 I was preparing,” concludes this won derful Professor, “I read in their Newspapers that the ‘Champion of England,’ he who has to offer battle to ...

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...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 Penn- sylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tr... ...o- ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ade his debut late in 1880, with a novel inserted in a small col- lection, published by Emile Zola and his young friends, under the title: “The Soiree... ...holder, the gentleman of the provinces, the country squire, the clubman of Paris, the journalist of the boulevard, the doctor at the spa, the com- mer... ...nt and even the hasty reader or critic, on reading “Mont Oriol,” which was published two years later and is based on a combination of the motifs which... ...1 893? So much work to be done, so much work demanded of him, the world of Paris, in all its brilliant and attractive phases, at his feet, and yet—ine... ...it, just as it took his fancy. When he had read his letters and the German newspapers, which his baggage-master had brought him, he got up, and after ... ...hereever she went, whether taking a walk, or on the lake or looking at the newspapers in the reading-room. At last she was obliged to confess to herse...

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...ou made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set i...

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...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. Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...dropping like a fascinated bird into the jaws of Mrs MacStinger is by com- parison a true tragic object of pity and terror. I find in my own plays tha... ...adent phase of panem et circenses is being inaugurated under our eyes. Our newspapers and melodramas are blus- tering about our imperial destiny; but ... ... in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Parisian dramaturgy. Nothing is new in these mat- ters except their novelti... ...xclaiming “Send this inconceivable Satanist to the stake,” the respectable newspapers pith me by announcing “another book by this brilliant and though... ...t? The police will search me. They will find Louisa’s portrait. It will be published in the illustrated 146 GB Shaw papers. You blench. It will be yo... ...A chair on the right has also a couple of open books upon it. There are no newspapers, a circumstance which, 150 GB Shaw with the absence of games, m...

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............................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES H...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKE... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself by William Mak... ...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... ... young to understand), how this person, having left her family and fled to Paris, out of jealousy of the Pretender be- trayed his secrets to my Lord S... ...future Bishop’ s lady had quitted Castlewood and joined the Pre- tender at Paris, pursued him, and would have killed him, Prince as he was, had not th... ... the manners of the present age in England, than the Court Gazette and the newspapers which we get thence. There was a German officer of Webb’s, with ... ...her Holt, the director of the family, and Doctor Tusher, the rector of the parish—Mr. Holt moving amongst the very highest as quite their equal, and a... ...aughed at all widows, all wives, all women; and were the banns about to be published, as no doubt they were, that very next Sunday at Walcote Church, ...