Description Details
...Reading age 10+ You might not know it but you, everyone you know and the world itself are all but figments in the imagination of a Storyteller on another planet. Each night foolish creatures called Bloons gather around him to listen to the latest crazy antics of Hoomanity. But it seems as ...

Full Text Search Details
... – if you don’t like it just write yourself a better part in the script!” and Gal, who showed me how magic happens. Copyright © Tom Glaister 2008 Al... ...e from the British Library ISBN 978-0-9560192-0-2 Paperback Printed, bound and distributed by Lightning Source Tom Glaister Tom Glaister Firecrest Pu... ... Tom Glaister Firecrest Publishing Acknowledgements Acknowledgements Bozo and the Storyteller f rst popped into my head in the house of Jiska in Ams... ...yes. Behind the elephant’s head sat an Indian dancer dressed in thin silk shawls. There were golden bangles around her ankles and wrists, and she wa... ...that to me!’ But Camilla couldn’t hear him and she continued: ‘That about wraps it up for Theo, everyone’s favourite runaway. His photo has been cir...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. A...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...tion project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... must put on warm cloaks,” said Robert. They trooped indoors for coats and wraps and candles and lanterns. Then, lighted by a bicycle lamp, they troop... ...He was very pale, and seemed- inwardly absorbed. The party threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine turned to Aaron Sisson, who sat with a glas... ...ldly received. The party veered out into the night. The women hugged their wraps about them, and set off sharply, feeling some repugnance for the wet ... ...g up and wan- dering away, young women with neatly dressed black hair, and shawls, but without hats; fine young women in very high heels; young men wi... ...llas erected for the driver to walk beneath. Men tripping along in cloaks, shawls, umbrellas, anything, quite unconcerned. A man load- ing gravel in t...

Excerpt Details
...there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being sma...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ness into the hall, saw her fitted into a miscellaneous heap of overshoes, shawls and tippets, and called from the doorstep: “Mind, the carriage is to... ...e Mrs. Carfry and Miss Harle won’t. They’ll wear caps like my mother’s—and shawls; very soft shawls.” “Y es; but how will the other women be dressed?”... ...ral appearance pe- culiar to well-kept houses suddenly invaded by illness: wraps 189 Edith Wharton and furs lay in heaps on the chairs, a doctor’s ba...

Full Text Search Details
... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pu... ...8201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, t... ...ide in the long parlor under the inspection of a double rank of liveried footmen and waiting-maids who supported the two walls with their backs and he... ... to the first one, after cross- ing them and bringing the loose end back, and then buckles the other thing underneath the horse, and takes another thi... ...e ticket office to buy a ticket; and now, with their tempers gone to the dogs, they must 183 A Tramp Abroad stand penned up and packed together, lade... ...scope stood in the yard, with its huge barrel canted up toward the lustrous evening star. The long porch of the hotel was populous with tourists, who ...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...fter such a dreadful chill; and she and Ellen kept on warming flannels and shawls to restore some heat, and to stop the trembling that shook the bed, ... ... ure, so small and wasted that it was like nothing, curled up in all those wraps. One who could read faces better than young Alfred could, would have ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kans...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...form to ask, “Put on your heavies yet?” There were as many distinctions in wraps as in motor cars. The lesser sort appeared in yellow and black dogski... ...oots. The place was crowded with Scandinavian farmwives, standing aloof in shawls and ancient fawn-colored leg o’ mutton jackets, awaiting the return ... ... a cast-iron stove which was like an en- larged bean-pot. They piled their wraps high on a rocker, and cheered the rocker as it solemnly tipped over b... ... whether it would really bother Carol to sit with her feet up on a roll of shawls. When they were ready to go Mrs. Clark lamented, “Oh, Sam, I forgot ... ...atch-chain, felt the radiator, peered at the thermometer. He shook out her wraps in the hall, hung them up with exactly his usual care. He pushed a ch... ...them. Carol waited for him in the station, among huddled German women with shawls and umbrellas, and ragged-bearded farmers in corduroy coats; peasant...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...t words the woman stood in the doorway. Tall, large-eyed, draped in purple shawls, Mrs. Ambrose was romantic and beautiful; not perhaps sym- pathetic,... ... her mouth, flung open the wings of her wardrobe, and tossed a quantity of shawls, stuffs, cloaks, embroideries, on to the bed. Rachel began to fin- g... ...ss his mind … he found women’s hats dotted about among his papers. Women’s wraps and absurd little feminine shoes and um- brellas were in the hall… . ...

Excerpt Details
...haved to express their annoyance otherwise than by twitchings of their sleek shining skins, but duly grateful to the coachman, who roused himself now and then to whisk off some more pertinacious tormentor with the end of his whip....

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... Well, I am right glad to have you here.” “Won’t you take off some of your wraps, Mary?” proceeded Mrs. Langford, and her daughter-in-law, with a soft... ... and how glad to find her safe out of reach; so she let her cousin heap on shawls, fur cuffs, and boas in a far less leisurely and discriminating man-...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...leaves; sometimes he clothes him- self with the cloth-like substance which wraps round the base of the stalks, whose elastic rods, strung with filbert... ...n entered, un- attended. She wore a loose gown of blue silk, with two rich shawls, one red and the other yellow, tied about her neck. Her royal majest...

Excerpt Details
...zjocelyn of the murmurs which he had provoked, as he guessed the true secret of his victory. In his eyes, it was the triumph of merit over prejudice, and Mrs. Frost espoused the same gratifying view, though ascribing much to her nephew?s activity, and James himself, flushed with hope and success, was not likely to dissent....

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...tacle of hoar frost, and shiveringly profited by Mary’s ample provision of wraps. The hill-sides were beyond conception desolate and bare. Birds were ... ...ed. Thus, he protested against unnecessary fires; Isabel shivered and wore shawls; he was hurt at seeming to misuse her, resigned his 122 Dynevor Ter...

Excerpt Details
...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...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...tion project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... was summoned to give information respecting the resources of the house in shawls, dresses, draperies of any kind; and certain wardrobes of the third ... ...the carpet, by the side of this basin, was seen Mr. Rochester, costumed in shawls, with a turban on his head. His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Payni... ...d in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you, and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses ...

Excerpt Details
...el a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

Full Text Search Details
...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...tion project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...own nose! You’re talking to me, not to a gallery. “Worthy of them!” Caesar wraps his head in his robe: he 26 Beauchamp’s Career gets his dig in the r... ...hopkeepers it rots, goes to decay in vestments— vestments! flakes of mummy-wraps for it! or else they use it for one of their political truncheons—to ... ... their pockets hung near it, some women pointing their shoulders under wet shawls, and boys. The earl was on foot. With no sign of discomposure, he st...

Excerpt Details
...at I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge, carpenter and builder, in the village of Hayslope, as it appeared on the eighteenth of June, in the year of our Lord 1799....

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ho had just given the sleeping Totty into her arms before running to fetch shawls and bonnets from the landing. Mrs. Poyser had taken the two boys awa... ... to weep over—yea, all the anguish of the children of men, which sometimes wraps me round like sudden darkness— I can bear with a willing pain, as if ...

Excerpt Details
...f its splendor. The trumpet-blasts of Wagram were still sounding an echo in the heart of the Austrian monarchy. Peace was being signed between France and the Coalition. Kings and princes came to perform their orbits, like stars, round Napoleon, who gave himself the pleasure of dragging all Europe in his train--a magnificent experiment in the power he afterwards displayed a...

Full Text Search Details
...Domestic Peace by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Domesti... ...ies Publication Domestic Peace by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...nel seized the opportunity to make his way through this palisade hung with shawls and wraps. He began by making himself agreeable to the dowagers, and... ...the opportunity to make his way through this palisade hung with shawls and wraps. He began by making himself agreeable to the dowagers, and so from on...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and Peace: Seven by Leo Tolstoy.

Full Text Search Details
... 0-1 0-11 1 1 1 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Seven by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...ylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...ack, and “Uncle” and Nicholas rode on side by side. Natasha, muffled up in shawls which did not hide her eager face and shining eyes, galloped up to t... ...women’s laughter and whispers. Natasha, Nicholas, and Petya took off their wraps and sat down on the sofa. Petya, leaning on his elbow, fell asleep at...

Full Text Search Details
...nsylvania 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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ..., well-fed dog, with a valuable collar. Behind them stood footmen, holding wraps and umbrellas, and a coachman, who had also come to meet the train. O... ... is incorrect.” Katusha and Mary Pavlovna, both wearing top-boots and with shawls tied round their heads, came out of the build- ing into the courtyar... ...ed cloaks. Their skirts were tucked up high, and their heads wrapped up in shawls. They examined Nekhludoff and his guide curiously by the light of th...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and...

Full Text Search Details
...syl- vania 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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... elderly maid- servant, there came climbing up the stairs a little heap of shawls and cloaks, surmounted by a big brown mushroom hat. “Very proper of ... ...ow, or stay out late, and always to be bothering about one’s stockings and wraps, and making a miserable muff of oneself just to keep in a bit of unco... ...felt as if they had only left it yesterday. Fordham, having thrown off his wraps, waited on his guests, looking exceedingly happy in his quiet way, bu...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Univer- sity. 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 Pennsyl- vania S... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...e, when they had those nice frocks, and those two beautiful eighteen-penny shawls! There are three shillings out of my pound thrown away!” “Perhaps th... ... presently came to the door. Dr. Spencer wrapped her up well in cloaks and shawls, and spoke words of kindly cheer in her ear as she set off. The fres... ...the light, seemed to be looking her all over, while Richard was taking the wraps from her, and Ethel tried to encourage herself to go forward. “Ay!” s...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

Full Text Search Details
...s ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Unive... ...sylva- nia 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... ...abriolet, and a caleche. A sol- dier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. Prince A... ...he newcomer, who, with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the aid of his servant, and not looking at Pierre. With a pair o... ...ack, and “Uncle” and Nicholas rode on side by side. Natasha, muffled up in shawls which did not hide her eager face and shining eyes, galloped up to t... ...women’s laughter and whispers. Natasha, Nicholas, and Petya took off their wraps and sat down on the sofa. Petya, leaning on his elbow, fell asleep at...