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... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dick... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document... ...er, haply turning this page by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragm... ...at the scene of the late disaster to the Royal Char- ter, which have received universal recognition, you have very benevolently employed your valuable... ...shed the counter. Charles Dickens 54 Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haugh- tiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-s... ...hbourhoods perplexes my mind more, than the bad company birds keep. Foreign birds often get Charles Dickens 92 into good society, but British birds a... ...opolis. Firstly, that he have his boots cleaned. Secondly, that he eat a penny ice. Thirdly, that he get himself photographed. Then do I speculate, Wh... ...f-complacency with which it goes to bed. It always goes to bed (when I am going to Calais) with a more brilliant display of lamp and candle than any o...

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...Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ..........................................

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... DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...because the amateurs had so much insisted on his merit as the su- preme of artists for grandeur of design and breadth of style; and because, apart fro... ... of the two great parties. It is suffi- cient for entire sympathy with the royal Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlighte... ...and scenes so remote from our ordinary experience, and through, a state of society so favorable to an adventurous cast of incidents, that they would *... ...uincey time, any relatives at all that remained alive, or were eligible as associates. Strange, indeed, was the contrast between the silent past of th... ...en a snow-storm, and a heavy one, was already gathering in the air, a lazy Birmingham coach, mov- ing at four and a half miles an hour, brought me thr... ...which young academicians are placed in the family of a professor. Here, as members of a private household, and that household under the presiding eye ...

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Excerpt: The Pickwick Papers, Volume Two by Charles Dickens.

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...es Dickens Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pickwick Papers, Volume Two by Charles Dickens is a publication of t... ...on The Pickwick Papers, Volume Two by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...rticular instance; all we wish to inform the reader is, that the different members of the party dispersed to their several homes; that Mr. Pickwick an... ...line or two behind; ‘my friends, a delegate from the Dorking Branch of our society, Brother Stiggins, attends below.’ Out came the pocket handkerchief... ...the esteem and confidence of his sovereign, as one of the guardians of his royal revenues, glided almost imperceptibly from the world, to seek elsewhe... ...ors. Charles Dickens 163 ‘Well, Sam,’ said Mr. Pickwick, ‘then I wish the artists would come. This is rather a public place.’ ‘They von’t be long, Si... ...ed Mr. Pickwick, not very much gratified by this description of his future associates. ‘What is that Simpson, Neddy?’ said Mr. Roker, turning to his c... ...epairing to Bristol to seek Mr. Allen, might, with equal reason, repair to Birmingham to seek Mr. Winkle, senior; lastly, that Mr. Winkle, senior, had...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-...

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...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...use was not large it had, like all houses on Floral Heights, an altogether royal bathroom of porce- lain and glazed tile and metal sleek as silver. Th... ...s hung there to indicate that the Babbitts were in the best Floral Heights society. No one had ever used it. No guest had ever dared to. Guests secret... ...ding from the chain was a large, yellowish elk’s-tooth-proclamation of his membership in the Brotherly and Protective Order of Elks. Most signifi- can... ...lege boys are taking their places. That’s the stuff! And a mass-meeting in Birmingham’s demanded that this Mick agitator, this fellow De Valera, be de... ...to chumminess with the arts. He called on the famous actors and vaudeville artists when they came to town, gave them cigars, addressed them by their f... ... whole plan. To all this was added a nerve-jabbing quarrel with his secret associates in the deal. They did not wish Babbitt and Thompson to have any ...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have ap...

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...assics Series Publication Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ics Series Publication Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...eir gait and manner, there arises, on the whole, a disinclination to their society. The stranger’s address was bold, without being frank, and seemed e... ...ning—gives no more trouble than a very peasant—pays his shot like a prince royal—looks but at the sum total of the reckoning, and does not know what d... ... so far as I know, he has, nevertheless, a just respect and admiration for artists of our class. He will come to in time, as seldom fails; but as yet ... ...Order I had the good hap to receive at the same time with three most noble associates, the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Northampton, and the Earl o... ...y child knows it. But my poor head forgets all it should remember, and re- members only what it would most willingly forget. My brain has been at faul... ...Illustrated, printed at Chiswick, for Meridew of Coventry and Radcliffe of Birmingham. It contains reprints of Laneham’s Letter, Gascoigne’s PrinceIy ...

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...r by Charlotte Brontë A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Professor by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ics Series Publication The Professor by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...and as to Hunsden, you fan- cied there was pleasure to be derived from his society—he! he! how did you like the taste you had of him last night? was i... ...d me; my mind was bent on one thing, finding out “Mr. Brown, Numero —, Rue Royale,” for so my letter was addressed. By dint of inquiry I succeeded; I ... ...egle, une belle brune.” “Exactly.” “Lovely creatures all of them—heads for artists; what a group they would make, taken together! Eulalie (I know thei... ... of these British girls; at once envied and ridiculed by their continental associates, they warded off insult with austere civility , and met hate wit... ...ial; I, poor, despised and powerless; so we stood to the world at large as members of the world’s society; but to each other, as a pair of human being... ...wer in England than in other countries.” “Come to England and see. Come to Birmingham and Manchester; come to St. Giles’ in London, and get a practica...

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Excerpt: Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens.

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...SPEECH: LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 26, 1844. .................................................................................................... 28 SPEECH: BIRMINGHAM, FEBRUARY 28, 1844. ............................................................................................... 33 SPEECH: GARDENERS AND GARDENING. .................................................................

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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 Moth...

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