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Excerpt: The Uncommercial Traveler by Charles Dickens.

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...Excerpt: PREFACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; a...

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...Table of Contents: Preface, 1 -- I ?First Impression, 4 -- I, 4 -- II, 6 -- III, 8 -- II? Reverence, 10 -- I, 10 -- II, 13 -- III, 15 -- III? Taste, 17 -- I, 17 -- II, 17 -- III, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 2...

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...ight © 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition of 1919. Electronic text created by Sara Triggs. Conten... ...obal Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition of 1919. Electronic text created by Sara Triggs. Contents Preface . . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 VI — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — ... ...EIR MEANING 1 PREFACE T his book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. H... ...it turned out, I found myself as free as air, and as obsequiously treated as royalty, and I might have gone home thinking that the German government w... ... you mean?” “His Majesty the Emperor forbids any lady in the audience of the Royal and Imperial Opera House to keep on her cloak.” “But I’ve a cold, a... ... preparations. One of them seems incredibly childish. It is a rule of French society that host and hostess shall sit exactly opposite each other. If t... ...upheaval, he wished to give stability to the things which humanise and unite society. And he chose “taste”—taste in speech, in culture, in manners,— a... ...f their own long moral experience by their universal comment on the American fellows in arms whose fine qualities they so fully recognise. “Ce sont de...

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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...n Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...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... ...a much sorer point with him than his low origin and unenviable position in society. His father, a member of the lower middle class, had, through all s... ... who he is? He’s quite a celeb- rity, a chamberlain, one of our pillars of society, a future minister!” “I have never heard of him,” Nejdanov remarked... ... As for the factory men, Nejdanov could not get hold of them at all; these fellows were either too sharp or too gloomy. He wrote a long letter to his ... ...f legend must be invented—you remember Dmitrius the pretender—some sort of royal sign must be shown him, branded on the breast.” “Just like Pugatchev,...

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...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of... ...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ...RIES P P P P PUBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA UBLICA TION TION TION TION TION The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...n this atmosphere of silk and jewels, in this show-place of a great city’s society—than in a mystic garden of some ro- mantic dreamland. She felt hers... ..., I hope he didn’t tell you as much,” cried Laura, promising herself to be royally angry if such was the case. But Mrs. Cressler hastened to reassure ... ...ichigan. His people were farmers, nothing more nor less than hardy, honest fellows, who ploughed and sowed for a living. Curtis had only a rudimentary... ...s got. He does his work so well that I’ve been able to discharge two other fellows who sat around and watched the clock for lunch hour, and Bradley do... ... pearls and diamonds. Against one shoulder nodded a bunch of Jacqueminots, royal red, imperial. It was hard upon six o’clock when at last she dismisse...

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Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ... One by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...e by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... or a portion of them at least, were taken prisoners, and just as the poor fellows in the garden were exulting in the thought that in a few moments mo... ...ratefully pelted by the scoundrels his crazy philanthropy had let loose on society; but to others of a more judicial cast it will be a matter of regre... ...ly tree; And such a one thy kindly star In Bejar bath provided thee: A royal tree whose spreading boughs A show of princely fruit display; 38 D... ... to tame Was not thy lot, still thou dost rival me: Love binds us in a fellowship of woe. 43 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. THE KNIGHT OF PHOEBUS ... ... and the others the king of that kingdom will appear at the windows of his royal palace, and as soon as he beholds the knight, recognising him by his ...

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...Reef by Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Reef by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ic Classics Series Publication The Reef by Edith Wharton 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...nctively kept the two groups apart in his mind, avoiding that intermediate society which attempts to conciliate both theo- ries of life. “Bohemianism”... ... the situation of constraint, leaving to it only a pleasant savour of good fellowship. It was the kind of episode that one might, in advance, have cha... ...ver there are friends of mine, at the Beaux Arts; both of them rather good fellows— 36 The Reef and we’d be so glad—” For half a second Darrow read i... ...ion, every note of his agreeably-modulated voice, gave Anna a glimpse of a society at once freer and finer, which observed the traditional forms but h... ...cold wet walk, turning at length into the de- serted arcades of the Palais Royal, and finally drifting into one of its equally deserted restaurants, w...

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