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Excerpt: The World Set Free by H. G. Wells.

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...ls A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The World Set Free by H.G. Wells [Herbert George Wells] We are all things that make and pass, ... ...ing softly into the sky. And with an equal speed atomic engines of various types invaded industrialism. The railways paid enormous premi- ums for prio... ...here was excellent reason for every one to be afraid of those clumsy early types—and he never attempted steep descents or very high flying. He also, h... ... multitude, for the most part incapable of any but obsolete and superseded types of labour. They bore a few banners with the time-honoured inscription... ...ure, while in nearly every other aspect of life there had been fundamental revolutions, gi- gantic releases, and an enormous enlargement of scope and ...

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Excerpt: Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad.

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...Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostr... ...E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics ... ...turing on a distant and toilsome journey into a land full of intrigues and revolutions. But it had to be done. It took the best part of the years 1903... ...de of Giorgio Viola the Garibaldino, the Idealist of the old, humanitarian revolutions. For myself I needed there a Man of the People as free as possi... ...y men awaiting impatiently the Dawns of other New Eras, the coming of more Revolutions. But this is the idlest of dreams; for I did under- stand perfe... ...requent changes of government brought about by revolutions of the military type. The political atmosphere of the Republic was gen- erally stormy in th... ...a nut-brown, lean face, and a clean run of a cast-iron jaw, suggesting the type of a cattle-herd horseman from the great Llanos of the South. “If you ... ...shoes, suggested an idea of French elegance; but otherwise he was the very type of a fair Spanish creole. The fluffy moustache and the short, curly, g...

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...inclair Lewis A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Sinclair Lewis Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis To Edith Wharton CHAPTER I T he towers of Zenith aspired ... ...ding. The Reeves Building was as fireproof as a rock and as efficient as a typewriter; fourteen stories of yellow pressed brick, with clean, upright, ... ...—no, that’s enough—you can tie those sentences up a little better when you type ‘em, Miss McGoun—your sincerely, etcetera.” This is the version of his... ...sincerely, etcetera.” This is the version of his letter which he received, typed, from Miss McGoun that afternoon: BABBITT-THOMPSON REALT... ...n- thusiasm of the initiate who perceives that all works to- gether in the revolutions of the Wheel and who answers the strictures of the Soured Souls...

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Excerpt: Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, translated by R. S. Townsend.

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...arriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ate University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac Translator Ellen Marriage To the great and illustrious ... ... cry drawn from her by pain. Eugene de Rastignac was a thoroughly southern type; he had a fair complexion, blue eyes, black hair. In his figure, manne... ... est deviation from the line of rectitude is a crime. To these magnificent types of uncompromising Right we owe two masterpieces—the Alceste of Molier... ... speaker’s discourse; he seemed to be 177 Balzac no longer a man, but the type and mouthpiece of a degener- ate race, a brutal, supple, clear-headed ... ...nothing out of the way in all that, but lodg- ing-houses are not liable to revolutions. You can do without a king, but you must eat all the same; and ...

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Excerpt: A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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...Excerpt: Some envious being may think on seeing this page illustrated by one of the most illustrious of Sarmatian names, that I am striving, as the goldsmiths do, to enhance a modern work with an ancient jewel,--a fancy of the fashions of the day,-- but you and a few others, dear count, will kn...

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...Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...eley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania S... ...igns. All that the common-sense of publicists and the genius of 39 Balzac revolutions has since introduced of change in the character of monarchy, Lo... ... time, the king chanced to observe the miser’s slippers and recognized the type of sole that was printed in flour on the corridors. He said not a word...

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Excerpt: The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Comm... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsyl- van... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity... ...oble or simple, she would still have no soul; she would still be a perfect type of selfishness. T ake my word for it, medical men are accustomed to ju... ...pard was a gentleman, as his wife was a lady, by birth and breeding; noble types, already so rare in France 54 The Commission in Lunacy that the obse... ...hose monu- ments are gigantic, whose administration is perfect, among whom revolutions are impossible, who have regarded ideal beauty as a barren elem...

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