...A MODERN UTOPIA BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publicatio... ...odern Utopia by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portabl... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... of a camera shutter. T wo hundred miles an hour! We resort to a dignified Chinese steward and secure our berths. It is perhaps terrestrial of us that... ... free to become samurai. Here, too, it will be manifest there is scope for novels and the drama of life. In practice, it seems that it is only men of ... ...erk’s face—? I turn to mark the straight, blue-black hair. The man must be Chinese…. Then come two short-bearded men in careless indigo blue raiment, ... ...olitically, such as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Spanish, the Moors, the Chinese, the *The T rue-born Englishman. 200 A Modern Utopia Hindoos, the ...

...oo Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman M... ...uth Seas by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...does in some of your “dandy ships,” jamming in the sheaves of blocks, like Chinese slippers, too small to be useful: on the contrary, the ropes ran gl... ...ves; and, one day—joy to us!—Po- Po brought in three volumes of Smollett’s novels, which had been found in the chest of a sailor, who some time previo... ... and chest were exposed, and he sported a Guayaquil hat with a brim like a Chinese umbrella. This was Mr. Bell. He was very civil; showed us the groun...

... Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. K... ...Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...tistic. I have found the oasis that you and I have dreamed of when reading novels,—nature luxuriant and adorned, rolling lines that are not confused, ... ...est men and women and children, and rival the whimsical imagination of the Chinese,—the people who best understand, to my thinking at least, the art o... ... beautiful ideal birds are painted on the ceilings and the shutters, where Chinese monsters laugh with open jaws on the mantle-shelf, and drag- ons, g... ...tess, the illustrious editor of the “Journal des Debats” knew by heart the Chinese kiosk, the bridges, the isles, the hermitage, the dairy, the ruined...

...ONE OF OUR CONQUERORS By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a ... ...nquerors by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of tho... ...herself the wife of the ex-Premier, widow of Prince Le Boo, engaged to the Chinese Ambassador, et caetera. Leave the tussle with that woman to me. No,... ...tand you!’ Colney cast a weariful look backward on the ‘regiments of Anglo-Chinese’ represented to him by the moneyed terraces, and said: ‘The face of... ...rd.’ ‘ And French and good!’ Mrs. Marsett ejaculated. ‘My Ned reads French novels, and he says, their women … . But your mademoiselle is a real one. I... ...carries his infatuation so far, that he has been investing in Japanese and Chinese Loans, because they are less meat-eaters than others, and vegetaria...

...iversity, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to... ...iterature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State University’s Elec... ...y individuals. On a summer afternoon in the Castle gardens, I have seen six students march solemnly into the grounds, in single file, each carrying a ... ...urse. His daughter was the “catch” of 107 A Tramp Abroad the region, and she may be already entering into immortal- ity as the heroine of one of Auer... ...s another evidence that it was low-grade music; for only the few are educated up to a point where high-grade music gives pleasure. I have never heard ... ... enchanting bopple.’ What is ‘bopple’?” “‘Picture. ’ It’s Choctaw.” “What is ‘schnawp’?” “‘Valley.’ That is Choctaw, also.” “What is ‘bolwoggoly’?” “T... ...ese for ‘hill.’” “‘Kahkahponeeka’?” “‘Ascent. ’ Choctaw.” “‘But we were again overtaken by bad hogglebumgullup.’ What does ‘hogglebumgullup’ mean?” “T...

...y John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. Joh... ...ans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.), the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...s” as he afterwards called them, with a view to making a book of them. The novels were published in the summer of 1613, with a dedi- cation to the Con... ...ook completed that time twelvemonth. But more than poems, or pastorals, or novels, it was his dra- matic ambition that engrossed his thoughts. The sam... ...ntes was essentially sanguine. The portrait he draws in the preface to the novels, with the aquiline features, chestnut hair, smooth untroubled forehe... ...ging for him has been the great Emperor of China, who wrote me a letter in Chinese a month ago and sent it by a special courier. He asked me, or to be...

...? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the... ...fter the War by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portabl... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ost completely in Great Britain—that- newspapers were party organs. In the novels of Disraeli the Press appears as an ambigu- ously helpful person who... ...ry has, we will suppose, fallen under the 136 What Is Coming? rule of the Chinese. They administer it, we will further as- sume, with an efficiency a... ... tongue. They control our financial system and our economic development—on Chinese lines of the high- est merit. They take the utmost care of our Goth...

... Wheels of Chance A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wheels of Chance, A Bicycling Idyll by H. ... ...ycling Idyll by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portabl... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...and if he had faced it as realistically as such people do in Mr. Gissing’s novels, he would probably have come by way of drink to suicide in the cours... ...ering from most shop- walkers in the fact that he was lit from within as a Chinese lantern might be. And the customer Mr. Hoopdriver was going to serv... ... and purple masses of Hindhead, where Mr. Grant Allen writes his Hill T op Novels day by day. The sun shone, and the wide blue hill views and pleasant... ...world. Less than you think. But you will learn. Before you write all those novels we have talked about, you will have to learn. And that’s one point—”...

...Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of ... .... Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...shroom Roman Imperial, the lounge Spanish Mission, and the reading-room in Chinese Chippendale, but the gem of the club was the dining-room, the maste... ...ks about working overtime, that wants to spend his evenings reading trashy novels or spooning and exchanging a lot of nonsense and foolishness with so... ... shade of yellow or rose silk.) On the table was a runner of gold-threaded Chinese fab- 82 Babbitt ric, four magazines, a silver box containing cigar... ...Men’s Club of the Chatham Road presbyterian Church with Irish, Jewish, and Chinese dia- lect stories. But in nothing was he more clearly revealed as t... ...pants for the children of the poor while Mrs. Drew read aloud from earnest novels. Though Dr. Drew’s theology was Presbyterian, his church- building w... ...ored with real wine); Orville Jones spent hours in picking out the kind of novels Mrs. Babbitt liked— nice love stories about New York millionaries an...

...fe by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Ba... ...Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...Small, short, and squat, Asie bore a likeness to the grotesque figures the Chinese love to paint on screens, or, more exactly, to the Hindoo idols whi... ...oubtful whether it was that of a living man. Under a rigid brow, a pair of Chinese eyes, like those of an image under a glass shade in a tea-shop—arti... ...se princess’ bodice. The material was silk brought from Can- ton, on which Chinese patience had painted Oriental birds with a perfection only to be se... ...f inimi- cal and warring tribes, of which Cooper made such good use in his novels, was here associated with the petty details of Paris life. The foot-...

...ent File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ...hem, and as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a paint... ...‘Insanity’). In short, she was a walking calculation, Miss Edgeworth’s novels stepping from their covers, Or Mrs. Trimmer’s books on education... ...tion of the species, Was ever suffer’d, lest he should grow vicious. His classic studies made a little puzzle, Because of filthy loves of gods... ...much youth and reading, But was in them their nature or their fate: No novels e’er had set their young hearts bleeding, For Haidee’s knowledge... ...fell in love. Here I must leave him, for I grow pathetic, Moved by the Chinese nymph of tears, green tea! Than whom Cassandra was not more pro... ... thing he views can greatly please. Perhaps we have borrow’d this from the Chinese— Perhaps from Horace: his ‘Nil admirari’ Was what he call’d... ...ys strange; Stranger than fiction; if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men beho...

.... V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Tw... ... Two by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsyl- vania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portabl... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...the man of the 18th century, Greek was to him as much a sealed language as Chinese; and, even with regard to Latin, his own secretary doubts, upon one... ...e evi- dence of their literature, viz. of their poetry, their drama, their novels, it is an interest to which the whole race is deaf and blind. A Fren...

...n By Constance Garnett Introduction by S. Stepniak A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Rudin by Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garne... ...v, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ole of Russia seems to pass in review before the read- ers. In T urgenev’s novels we see only educated Russia, or rather the more advanced thinking pa... ... the moment when it was to become a historic feature of the time. Thus his novels are a sort of artistic epitome of the intellectual history of modern... ...of her intellectual progress. III RUDIN is the first of T urgenev’s social novels, and is a sort of artistic introduction to those that follow, becaus... ... looked around him. Pigasov had once said truly of him, that he was like a Chinese idol, his head was constantly overbalancing him. But with the head ...

... within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania St... ..., Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student pu... ... called by any name, but I will hazard a guess that it is either Washington or Broadway. Here are the blacksmith’s, the chemist’s, the general merchan... ...nished forth the names. But it was strange that all looked unfamiliar. “Chateau X-?” said I. “I never heard of that.” “I dare say not,” said he. “I ha... ...ng pines, with its streamlet and water-tank; its backwoods, toll-bar, and well trodden croquet ground; the ostler standing by the stable door, chewing... ...infamous, a centre of pistol-shots: and an- other who, if not yet known to rumour, will fill a col- umn of the Sunday paper when he comes to hang – a ... ...ppeared again into the miners’ dormitory. T o return to the Robert Louis Stevenson page,go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/ stevenso.htm. T ...

... Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine P... ...tharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ith Madame Dionis, and supposed to be educated because 13 Balzac she read novels. Full of pretensions to wit and elegance, she was awaiting her uncle... ...ck which ex- tended from the salon towards the river, ending in a horrible Chinese pagoda. “Good! by building a roof to that greenhouse and laying a f... ...GODFATHER were sitting at dessert in the pretty dining-room decorated with Chinese designs in black and gold lacquer (the folly of Levrault-Levrault) ... ... and then, if she was in the way, her godfather would let her know it. The Chinese pa- 84 Ursula goda which the doctor made his study had outside bli...

...ITY FAIR BY William Makepeace Thackeray Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through ... ...William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...e was a dear little creature; and a great mercy it is, both in life and in novels, which (and the latter especially) abound in villains of the most so... ... he is a lofty man of genius, and admires the great and heroic in life and novels; and so had better take warning and go elsewhere. Well, then. The fl... ... in private societies, or anywhere except in very high-flown and ingenious novels. As there was music in the next room, the talk was carried on, of co... ... City, sir, and we saw the Temple of Concord, and the fire- works, and the Chinese bridge in St. James’s Park, could any sensible man suppose that pea...

...ev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. ... ...ev, trans. R. S. Townsend, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...tions, we ought to begin with his Sportsman’s Note Book. But so far as his novels go, he is the last writer to be taken chronologically. He was old en... ...translation); The Watch, from the Russian, by J. E. Williams, 1893. WORKS: Novels, translated by Constance Garnett, 15 vols., 1894-99. 1906. Novels an... ... us do?” Nejdanov almost screamed at him. “Would you have us write preachy novels? Paklin folded his arms and put his head on one side. 25 Turgenev “... ... waist to sniff at the flowers with a smile on her lips, or arranging some Chinese vase, or quickly readjusting her glossy hair before the look- ing-g... ... the stroke of five Nejdanov went down to dinner, which was announced by a Chinese gong, not by a bell. The whole company was already assembled in the...

... Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Kat... ...Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...rely with iron-wood, was painted in a style that suggested the beauties of Chinese lac- quer. On black panels edged with gold, birds of every color, f... ...f the eyebrows, faintly indicated by lines like those made with a brush on Chinese faces. This candor of the soul was still further evidenced around t... ...read Lord Byron when I didn’t learn it to teach Exupere. I much prefer the novels of Ducray- Dumenil to all these English romances. I’m too good a Nor... ...cely permissible in any woman, even a Julie d’Etanges. Good God! what harm novels do!” “W e should live them, my dear father, whether people wrote the... ...ys as there were under Louis XIV. and Louis XV., and so they publish fewer novels. Be- sides, if you have read those letters, you must know that I hav...

...The Reef by Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Reef by Edith Wharton is a publication of ... .... The Reef by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ated on the cen- tre table under the “electrolier”, and half a dozen paper novels lay on the mantelpiece among cigar-cases and toilet bottles; but the... ...n moved out from the wall and were standing near the table; and one of the Chinese screens that lie on it had dropped to the floor.” Anna sounded a fa...

...d within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publicati... ...a horse; Thursday I was better, but still out of ability to do aught but read awful trash. This is the time one misses civilisation; I wished to send ... ...but when I remem- ber I had the Treasure of Franchard refused as unfit for a family magazine, I feel despair weigh upon my wrists. As I know you are a... ..., this book is not written for honour and glory, and the few who will read it may not know the difference. Very little time. I go down with the mail s... ...d already) right at Lady Jersey’s shoulder. She started in fine style. —‘There,’ I said, ‘we have been giving you a chap- ter of Scott, but this goes ... ...u flourish—Y ours ever, Tusitala. T o return to the Robert Louis Stevenson page, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/ stevenso.htm. T o retur...