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...ndage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a pub... ...ck Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Por- table ... ...m the land of bondage full of its woes and its evils, and painting them in characters of living light; and, on his part, he found, told out in sound S... ... penalty of telling the simple truth, in answer to a 77 Frederick Douglas series of plain questions. It is partly in consequence of such facts, that ... ...f southern society. But, in this class, as in all other classes, there are characters of marked individuality, even while they bear a general resembla... ...f slavery and social isolation upon her, had wrought disastrously upon the characters of both. Thomas was no longer “little T ommy,” but was a big boy...

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...Excerpt: In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writ ings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the manner of my escape. In substance these reasons were, first, that such publication at any time during the existen...

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...Preface: A preface to the first edition of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an o...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there ma...

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...APTER 5. A BEGGAR?S PALACE. 33 CHAPTER 6. THE MAGIC LOCKET. 39 CHAPTER 7. THE BARON?S EMBASSY. 44 CHAPTER 8. A RIDE ON A LION. 49 CHAPTER 9. A JESTER AND A BEAR. 56 CHAPTER 10. THE OTHER PROFESSOR. 62 CHAPTER 11. PETER AND PAUL. 69 CHAPTER 12. A MUSICAL GARDENER. 75 CHAPTER 13. A VISIT TO DOGLAND. 82 CHAPTER 14. FAIRY-SYLVlE. 91 CHAPTER 15. BRUNO?S REVENGE....

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travelers. In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva....

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...w Travellers 2. Mrs General 3. On the Road 4. A Letter from Little Dorrit 5. Something Wrong Somewhere 6. Something Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden ...

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Excerpt: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad.

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........................................................................................................................................... 71 AUTOCRACY AND WAR?1905 ............................................................................................................................... 71 THE CRIME OF PARTITION?1919.........................................................

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...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work. The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to ...

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...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 received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors; and second, that the proprietors ...

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...ITMAN............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER IV ? HENRY DAVID THOREAU: HIS CHARACTER AND OPINIONS........... 84 CHAPTER V ? YOSHIDA-TORAJIRO..................................................................................... 107 CHAPTER VI ? FRANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER.........117 CHAPTE...

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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 glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young...

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...BARBAZURE. ..................................................................................................................................39 LORDS AND LIVERIES. ..................................................................................................................49 CRINOLINE........................................................................................

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...on. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them dur...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Governmen...

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