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Excerpt: Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, translated by R. S. Townsend.

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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vir... ...T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend is a publication of the Pennsyl-... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend, the Pennsylvania State Univer- ... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...ed from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first writer who was able, having both Slavic and universal imagination enough fo... ...rful and antipathetic fellow-novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the greatest artist of them all, his individual reve... ...ith his Sportsman’s Note Book. But so far as his novels go, he is the last writer to be taken chronologically. He was old enough in youth to understan... ... to take. E. R. 5 Turgenev The following is the list of T urgenev’s chief works: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF WORKS: Russian Life in the interior: or, the... ...soni’s translation); The Watch, from the Russian, by J. E. Williams, 1893. WORKS: Novels, translated by Constance Garnett, 15 vols., 1894-99. 1906. No...

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...The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...y A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania S... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ... and is already beginning in several of the inert portions of our country. Writers, administrators, the Church from its pulpit, the Press in its colum... ...rennes, mysteriously in a hired cab. At the gate of the ministry of Public Works, he sent the cab away, looked about him to see that he was not watche... ...e attack on her to fall back later on the daughter. How far these advanced works could be pushed, circumstances would show. In either case, Maxime was... ...tional.’ I don’t know if it has yet been chosen.” “General rule,” said the writer for the “Debats.” “To ob- tain your election, even though you may ha... ...he said, had been provided for him by Daniel d’Arthez, one of our greatest writers, 119 Balzac and the payment for that, added to his own small means...

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Excerpt: Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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...s Publication Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...n, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...y is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray V anity Fair Volume Two by William Makepeace Thackeray CHAPTER XXVI Between London and Chatham ON Q... ...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ...period of history they have let other people fight there. When the present writer went to survey with eagle glance the field of Waterloo, we asked the... ...rs which are in the habit of extracting portions of the various periodical works now published not to reprint the following exact narrative and calcul... ...r. With regard to the world of female fashion and its customs, the present writer of course can only speak at second hand. A man can no more penetrate... ...traits, tawdry and beautiful, and, thirty years ago, deemed as precious as works of real genius; the matchless Dancing Nymph of Canova, for which Lady...

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Excerpt: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

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Excerpt: The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: Mrs. Lirriper?s Lodgings by Charles Dickens.

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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sart... ... PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ..., in any way. Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylva- nia State University, Electronic Classics... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...d that this Work on Clothes entirely contents us; that it is not, like all works of genius, like the very Sun, which, though the highest published cre... ...ies it.—On the other hand, let us be free to admit, he is the most unequal writer breathing. Often after some such feat, he will play truant for long ... ...ften intervene! On the whole, Professor Teufelsdrockh, is not a cultivated writer. Of his sentences perhaps not more than nine-tenths stand straight o... ...millions, but a huge scarlet-colored, iron-fastened Apron, wherein Society works (uneasily enough); guarding itself from some soil and stithy-sparks, ... ...t to read char- acter in speculation, and from the Writing to construe the Writer. A certain groundplan of Human Nature and Life began to fashion itse...

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