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...lated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend ... .... R. S. Townsend, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...ch longs to gain dramatic free- dom, but cannot achieve it. It is one of a series of portraits, 4 Virgin Soil wonderfully traced psychological studie... ... under his arm, entered the room. It was Nejdanov himself. 12 Virgin Soil II AT THE SIGHT of visitors he stopped in the doorway, took them in at a gl... ...ard, as far down as the barn, there was an or- chard, thickly planted with apples, pears, plums, currants, and raspberries. Beyond the flower garden, ... ...people antique, the air antique … whatever you touch is antique, Catherine II. powder, crino- lines, eighteenth century! And the host and hostess ... ... ...went up to the window and looked out into the garden... One old, very old, apple tree particularly attracted his attention. He shook himself, stretche... ...ked round sharply to see if anyone was about and made straight for the old apple tree that had first attracted his attention when he had looked out of...

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...wick Papers by Charles Dickens Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pickwick Papers, Volume Two by Charles Dickens i... ...harles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Do... ...plied Hopkins. ‘T ook a boy’s leg out of the socket last week—boy ate five apples and a ginger bread cake—exactly two minutes after it was all over, ... ...a flat bottle as holds about a pint and a half, and fills it vith the pine apple rum afore he goes avay.’ ‘And empties it afore he comes back, I s’pos... ...tered, followed by Sam, who, the moment he got behind him, relapsed into a series of the very broadest and most unmitigated grins, and manifested othe... ...me look ing man in the whole establishment, except a little white headed apple faced tipstaff, and even he, like an ill condi tioned cherry preserv... ...And the Bishop says, ‘Sure as eggs is eggs, This here’s the bold T urpin!’ II Says T urpin, ‘Y ou shall eat your words, With a sarse of leaden bul let...

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... ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine ... ... Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ...eyes of human- ity and religion he is sacred. 20 Sons of the Soil CHAPTER II A BUCOLIC OVERLOOKED BY VIRGIL WHEN A PARISIAN drops into the country he... ...mirror, where the stream seems to sleep until it reaches in the distance a series of cascades falling among huge rocks, where little weeping willows w... ...esh the finest fruits grown in the department; so that Rigou ate pears and apples and sometimes grapes, at Easter. No prophet regarded as a God was ev... ...garded as threatening the secret coalition of the valley. 205 Balzac PART II CHAPTER I THE LEADING SOCIETY OF SOULANGES ABOUT SIX KILOMETRES (speakin... ...s a month later than those of Paris; his hot-beds sup- plied him with pine-apples, nectarines, and peas, out of sea- son. He brought bunches of strawb... ... drawn up at the door of the Soudry mansion. 224 Sons of the Soil CHAPTER II THE CONSPIRATORS IN THE QUEEN’S SALON REACHING SOULANGES about half-past... ...l properties surrounded by hedges, filled with fruit of all kinds, nut and apple trees. By way of frame, the heights on which the noble forest-trees w...

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...round the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publica... ...s by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...his turn. Passepartout remained alone in the house in Saville Row. Chapter II IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS CONVINCED THAT HE HAS AT LAST FOUND HIS IDEAL “... ...had been purchasing several dozen man- goes—a fruit as large as good-sized apples, of a dark-brown colour outside and a bright red within, and whose w... ...t on bushes, but on trees, and within bamboo enclosures, cherry, plum, and apple trees, which the Japanese cultivate rather for their blossoms than th... ... flowers; another traced in the air, with the odorous smoke of his pipe, a series of blue words, which composed a compliment to the audience; while a ...

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...Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a publication of t... ...ts by Emily Brontë, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ...how sociable I feel myself compared with him. 8 Wuthering Heights CHAPTER II YESTERDAY AFTERNOON set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it... ...nachieved; for Hareton Earnshaw was performing his orison sotto voce, in a series of curses directed against every object he touched, while he rummage... ...h he was rather se- vere sometimes. He promised to bring me a pocketful of apples and pears, and then he kissed his children, said good- bye, and set ... ...e whom he seemed to hate, even then, as a rival. He seized a tureen of hot apple sauce (the first thing that came under his gripe) and dashed it full ... ... evening in September, I was coming from the garden with a heavy basket of apples which I had been gathering. It had got dusk, and the moon looked ove...

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...The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf is a publication of th... ... by Virginia Woolf, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ...e same, not at his age.” Both gentlemen nodded sagely as they carved their apples. “There was a book, wasn’t there?” Ridley enquired. “There was a boo... ...w with her left; at each lurch she exclaimed emphatically, “Damn!” Chapter II U ncomfortable as the night, with its rocking move ment, and salt smells... ...the river the night before, somehow mixing in. The table was cheerful with apples and bread and eggs. Helen handed Willoughby the butter, and as she d... ...“That’s a very sad story,” said Richard, lowering his voice and peeling an apple. “He followed my wife in the car one day and got run over by a brute ... ...nded it to her husband, or gave him the sense of what she was reading in a series of short quotations linked together by a sound at the back of her th...

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...Night and Day by Virginia Woolf A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the... ... by Virginia Woolf, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ...s one young person is grate- ful for the understanding of another. CHAPTER II The young man shut the door with a sharper slam than any visitor had use... ...ostensible one. Sit- ting with faded papers before her, she took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairi... ...es. So I’ve always found,” and he proceeded to tell them, as he peeled his apple, how he committed him- 84 Night and Day self once, in his youthful d... ...aken. For over a hundred and fifty years hot joints, potatoes, greens, and apple puddings had been served to generations of country gentlemen, and now... ...d only see a look- ing-glass gleaming above a sideboard on which a dish of apples was set, keep the room inside very dark. But she turned her head awa...

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...THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a public... ...haniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series , Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable D... ... any more than a po tato, if it be planted and re planted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn out soil. My children have had othe... ...ck of the street, was a grass plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig weed, apple pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something ... ...rkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow 40 The Scarlet Letter II. II. II. II. II. THE MARKET THE MARKET THE MARKET THE MARKET THE MA... ...th would offer him. There were a few rose bushes, however, and a number of apple trees, probably the descendants of those planted by the Reverend Mr. ... ...awake—with purpose to steal the very treasure which this man guards as the apple of his eye. In spite of his pre meditated carefulness, the floor wou...

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...Shadow Line A Confession by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad is a pub... ...by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...e Chinamen. The last thing I saw they had put a plate with a slice of pine-apple on it before him and stood back to watch what would happen. But the e... ...n reality, it was only his official pen that he had dropped on getting up. II HE SHOOK HANDS WITH ME: “Well, there you are, on your own, appointed off... ...l’s ear had detected from afar and which filled the sails on the main in a series of muffled reports mingled with the low plaint of the spars. I was j...

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... ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presc... ... Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ...n of the Abbe de Rothelin. The Valois-Saint-Remy, who descended from Henri II., also came to an end in the fa- mous Lamothe-Valois implicated in the a... ...y the secret of his royal bearing and of his residence in Alencon. CHAPTER II SUSANNAH AND THE ELDERS ON A W EDNESDAY MORNING, early, toward the middl... ...e was powerful in the world of mind, and he was liable to reach, through a series of emotions imperceptible to common souls, those sudden determinatio... ...t was now the middle of May, the period at which she wished to see how her apple-trees had “snowed,” a saying of that region which expressed the effec... ...What a fine night! It will be a fine day to-morrow.” “Good weather for the apple-blossoms.” “You beat us; but when you play with Monsieur de Valois yo...

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...Prince and the Page By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publ... ...Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ..., that there should be no communication by word, far less by look. CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II THE L THE L THE L THE L THE ... ...t the English court, had said that she seemed to have eaten her namesake’s apple of immortality, without her apple of beauty, for no one could ever re... ...s here than England knows or heeds.” To return to the Electronic Classics Series, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm To return to...

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...A MODERN UTOPIA BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the ... ...pia by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Documen... ...READER THE READER THE READER THIS BOOK is in all probability the last of a series of writings, of which—disregarding certain earlier disconnected essa... ... under his arm— so long as it is not painted that abominable popular Swiss apple green—I would make it no occasion for quarrel! We have tramped and bo... ... only dispense *Cabet, Voyage en Icarie, 1848. **Aristotle’s Politics, Bk. II., Ch. VIII. * The Blythedale Experiment, and see also his Notebook. 66 ... ...a crane on the plain in order to raise the *See Mankind in the Making, Ch. II. 114 A Modern Utopia hill tops. In the initiative of the individual abo...

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...ANITY FAIR BY William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica... ...akepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... before the two young ladies; and so, fare- well to Chiswick Mall. CHAPTER II In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign WHEN MI... ...roposed something like marriage in an intercepted note, which the one-eyed apple- woman was charged to deliver. Mrs. Crisp was summoned from Buxton, a... ...20 V anity Fair own experience in her own person. The meaning of the above series of queries, as translated in the heart of this ingenious young woman... ...ckcloths that rose almost to his nose, with a red striped waistcoat and an apple green coat with steel buttons almost as large as crown pieces (it was... ...Nathan’s; very glad you like ‘em; and eh, Amelia, my dear, I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to 40 V anity Fair Sambo. Let’s have ... ...first Baronet, of the Tape and Seal- ing-Wax Office in the reign of George II., when he was im- peached for peculation, as were a great number of othe... ...t my brother Pitt; look at the Huddlestons, who have been here since Henry II; look at poor Bute at the parsonage—is any one of them equal to you in i...

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...OBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publica... ...by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...al crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors, th... ..., said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated 93 Herman Melville through the ... ...these shall comprehend them all, both small and large. I. The Folio Whale; II. the Octavo Whale; III. the Duodecimo Whale. As the type of the Folio I ... ...s. Among these I here include the following chapters:— I. The Sperm Whale; II. the Right Whale; III. the Fin-back Whale; IV. the Hump-backed Whale; V.... ...le from which this spermaceti was really derived. Book I. (Folio), Chapter II. (Right Whale).—In one respect this is the most venerable of the leviath... ...d with the tail. A divi- sion which, in the whale, is much like halving an apple; there is no intermediate remainder. Now as this law, under a modifie... ...e hook (it was like sitting in the fluke of an anchor, or the crotch of an apple tree), and then giving the word, held himself fast, and at the same t...

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...BY William Makepeace Thackeray Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through Twenty-fi... ...akepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... before the two young ladies; and so, fare- well to Chiswick Mall. CHAPTER II In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign WHEN MI... ...roposed something like marriage in an intercepted note, which the one-eyed apple- woman was charged to deliver. Mrs. Crisp was summoned from Buxton, a... ...r – V olume One own experience in her own person. The meaning of the above series of queries, as translated in the heart of this ingenious young woman... ...ckcloths that rose almost to his nose, with a red striped waistcoat and an apple green coat with steel buttons almost as large as crown pieces (it was... ...Nathan’s; very glad you like ‘em; and eh, Amelia, my dear, I bought a pine-apple at the same time, which I gave to 40 V anity Fair – V olume One Samb... ...first Baronet, of the Tape and Seal- ing-Wax Office in the reign of George II., when he was im- peached for peculation, as were a great number of othe... ...t my brother Pitt; look at the Huddlestons, who have been here since Henry II; look at poor Bute at the parsonage—is any one of them equal to you in i...

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...as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylvania State ... ... boys that will come hanker ing and groveling around you when you’ve got an apple and beg the core off of you; but when they’ve got one, and you beg ... ...ks that shook farming to go crusading had a mighty rocky time of it. CHAPTER II. THE BALLOON ASCENSION WELL, T OM GOT UP ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER... ...yer Abroad Mark Twain To read more Electronic Classics from the Penn State series, go to our web site: http://www2.hn.psu.edu/fac- ulty/jmanis/jimsp...

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...tance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Rudin by Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garnett is a p... ... Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...o, I may say, that artistic taste and understanding is growing everywhere. II IT IS WRITTEN that no man is a prophet in his own country, and from time... ...t on an old dressing- gown and sat down with an anxious face to the piano. II DARYA MIHAILOVNA’S HOUSE was regarded as almost the first in the whole p... .... ‘Look.’ began Rudin, with a gesture towards the window, ‘do you see that apple-tree? It is broken by the weight and abundance of its own fruit. T ru... ...Polonais’ was Dmitri Rudin. THE END To return to the Electronic Clas- sics Series site, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/jimspdf.htm To ret...

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...alifornia by Frank Norris A P A P A P A P A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication enn Sta... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication enn Sta... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is ... ...e, the iron-hearted Power, the monster, the Colossus, the Octopus. CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING, Ha... ... was a dance in Brussels the night before Waterloo.” 222 The Octopus BOOK II CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I IN HIS OFFICE at San F... ... spoke: “Not a city, Presley, not a city, but a Midway Plaisance.” Chapter II Chapter II Chapter II Chapter II Chapter II UNDERNEATH the Long T restle... ...t once more. She succeeded in begging a couple of nickels, bought a bag of apples from a vender, and, returning to the park, sank exhausted upon a ben... ... From Wednesday morning till Friday evening, with the exception of the few apples she had bought, and a quarter of a loaf of hard bread that she found...

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...msby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby ... ... Ormsby (1922 ed.), the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... injunction laid upon the Morisco in Chap. IX not to omit or add anything. II: ABOUT CERVANTES AND DON QUIXOTE Four generations had laughed over “Don ... ...t genealogy by Juan de Mena, the poet laureate and historiographer of John II. The origin of the name Cervantes is curious. Nuno Alfonso was almost as... ...y different hands on the death of Isabel de Valois, second queen of Philip II, published by the professor in 1569, to which Cervantes contributed four... ...t against him on his return to Spain. To checkmate him Cervantes drew up a series of twenty-five questions, covering the whole period of his captivity... ... the balsam I have mentioned, and thou shalt see me become sounder than an apple.” “If that be so,” said Panza, “I renounce henceforth the govern- men... ...s and terrors of death, and he would have rather had the blows fall on the apples of his own eyes than on the least hair of his ass’s tail. In this tr... ... heart, and when any was taken from him he felt as if he was robbed of the apples of his eyes. In fine, without exchanging a word, they mounted and qu...

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...VITTORIA By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vittoria by George Meredith is a publication of the Pen... ...by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...as with the motions of a flight toward the underlying purple land. CHAPTER II HE WA S A MAN of middle stature, thin, and even frail, as he stood defin... ...pon deep seas may have; while, on the other hand, his being subjected to a series of questions seemed at least to leave him with one leg on shore, for... ... an exile; a conspirator since the day when the Austrians had the two fine Apples of Pomona, Lombardy and V enice, given them as fruits of peace. Luig... ...shness. Hence perhaps the name which distinguished her la Lazzeruola (crab apple). It was a freshness that did not invite the bite; sour to Italian ta... ...uld hear Irma’s Hagar! To the desert with Irma. It is the place for a crab-apple. Bravo, Abraham! you were wise.” Pericles added that Montini was hour...