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Excerpt: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton.

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...5 THE DILETTANTE ....................................................................................................................... 73 THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD HAND ......................................................................................... 83...

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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... ...t it 5 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, wh... ... translations of “Don Quixote,” it will be seen that there are a good many people who, provided they get the mere narrative with its full complement o... ...him who makes so. The method by which Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majo... ...one of the most intensely national. “Manon Lescaut” is not more thoroughly French, “Tom Jones” not more English, “Rob Roy” not more Scotch, than “Don ... ...clear up my ancestry and pedigree that I may find myself fifth or sixth in descent from a king; for I would have thee know, Sancho, that there are two... ...o kinds of lineages in the world; some there be tracing and deriving their descent from kings and princes, whom time has reduced little by little unti... ...rpose was to trade at some of the ports of Spain, giving themselves out as Bretons, and if they brought us alive they would be punished as soon as the...

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...Excerpt: Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A....

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...Selected Writings by Guy De Maupassant Short Stories of the T ragedy and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget ... ...T ragedy and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. A Penn State Elect... ... Series Publication Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of... ...e Tragedy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. is a publication o... ...uence of his honesty and partly of mental despair. He never accepted other people’s views on the questions of life. He looked into such prob- lems for... ... officers laughed among themselves at that inoffensive courage, and as the people in the whole country round showed them- selves obliging and complian... ...amily were going to return to Loeche, as winter was approach- ing, and the descent was becoming dangerous. Three mules started first, laden with bagga... ...heir stiff, high helmets their faces had little character—two poor, sallow Breton faces, simple with an almost animal simplicity, and with gentle and ... ...ng, with their white, careening sails, recall- ing perhaps the look of the Breton waters, the harbor of Vanne, near which they lived, and the fishing-...

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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 u...

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.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ..................................................256 THE HISTORY OF THE NEXT FRENCH REVOLUTION. ........................................................... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...etty grocer’s boy you are,” she cried, “with your applepiebomenos and your French and lingo. Am I to be kept waiting for hever?” “Pardon, fair Maiden,... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ... she was not idle. The gallant Bowie and his intrepid crew made re- peated descents upon the enemy’s seaboard. The coasts of Rutland and merry Leicest... ... of Bor- deaux has landed at Nantz, and has summoned the V endeans and the Bretons to mount the white cockade. “Grand Dieu! are we not happy under the... ...me of France, and summon the ban arriereban of my kingdoms. To my faithful Bretons I need not appeal. The country of Duguesclin has loyalty for an hei...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

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...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ..., and adapt ourselves to them. The fundamental political institutions of a people are considered by this school as a sort of organic growth from the n... ...y this school as a sort of organic growth from the nature and life of that people; a product of their habits, instincts, and unconscious wants and des... ...society between the two heads of Order and Progress (in the phraseology of French thinkers); Permanence and Progression, in the words of Coleridge. Th... ... makes them claim to have the control of their own actions. The leaders of French phi losophy in the eighteenth century had been educated by the Jesu... ...ed by various causes. Some times it is the effect of identity of race and descent. Commu nity of language and community of religion greatly contrib ... ...to its ad vantage. Nobody can suppose that it is not more beneficial to a Breton, or a Basque of French Navarre, to be brought into the current of th... ...econciled to its position, and becomes amalgamated with the larger. No Bas Breton, nor even any Alsatian, has the smallest wish at the present day to ...

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...lines into little squares, containing about a hundred heads of illustrious Frenchmen. This sheet was stuck on pasteboard for hanging on the wall, and ... ... of the great ladies of a court more luxuri- ous and more refined than the French court, which revelled in the Cent Nouvelles of good King Louis XI. R... ...lculated to cure any pondering on his own—caused him to trace his unbroken descent from Adam, and to state that his family name was derived from his a... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...ur tail. But, said Gargantua, will not you be content to pay a puncheon of Breton wine, if I do not blank and gravel you in this matter, and put you t... ...ar, for one puncheon, thou shalt have threescore pipes, I mean of the good Breton wine, not that which grows in Britain, but in the good country of Ve...

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...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gam...

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...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...rchestra contributes his share. Y ou would see there plenty of respectable people who have come in search of diversion, for which they pay as they pay... ...here since 1793. There is something great and terrible about suicide. Most people’s downfalls are not dangerous; they are like children who have not f... ...ed unmoved and imperial with an air-pump thrust into one eye. Portraits of French sheriffs and Dutch burgomasters, phlegmatic now as when in life, loo... ...ineteenth century; the time and place made sorcery impossible. The idol of French scepticism had died in the house just opposite, the disciple of Gay-... ...u- lous abysses, suited my humor, and harmonized with my thoughts. “Sudden descents into the world from the divine height of scientific meditation are... ...ld not grasp the sense of a single word. Vague thoughts crossed him of the Breton peasant’s life of mechani- cal labor, without a wish of any kind; he...

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...Excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography. IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas?s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which ...

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...The Magician A NOVEL By SOMERSET MAUGHAM TOGETHER WITH A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1908 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA... ...S S ERIES P UBLICATION The Magician by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... a preface, so that I need not here say more about it. As a rule, the same people came in every night, but now and then oth ers came, perhaps only on... ...s of a book, I have finished with it for good and all. I am impatient when people insist on talking to me about it; I am glad if they like it, but do ... ...ay. I fancy I must have been impressed by the écriture artiste which the French writers of the time had not yet entirely aban doned, and unwisely s... ...he staff of St Luke’s, and had come ostensibly to study the methods of the French operators; but his real object was certainly to see Margaret Dauncey... ...le, in the wall, and there are shut ters to it.” The boy was describing a Breton bed, and the white cap was the coiffe that my mother wore. And if s... ...of his family and never hesitated to tell the curious of his distinguished descent. Unless he has much altered, you will already have heard of his rel... .... Behind her was a priest in the confessional. A little peasant girl, in a Breton coiffe, perhaps a maid servant lately come from her native village ...