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Excerpt: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence.

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Excerpt: Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy?s Progress by Charles Dickens.

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...art and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson...

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...The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans By Steven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to... ... most diminutive being, though it was hardly the incarceration experienced by Ang San Suu Kyi or other famous political martyrs in its salience or it... ...y visible and in the superficial sheen of the nigrescent mire illuminated by the still ebullience of stretched refractions of the infrequent light of... ...eaning one concocted for oneself like the dreamer of Kenyon dreams and the writer of this damnable book, was what it was all about. She would have ... ... air. But I can wait on it for a while. I do have a muscle down there that works well enough —the rest, in this inertia and depredation, turning to fa... ... in and out of sleep. But then it is a game. I lie to myself that I am a writer and that I have an audience. It provides me with a degree of purpo... ...th a stretch of the arms, but thanks for offering anyway. Right arm still works, of course. Spine might be retreating into a ball or some odd geome...

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...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which come from an e...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ....................................

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...C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A... ...PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versit... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...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... ...ACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ....................................................................... ...DIT CAN EDITOR OF OR OF OR OF OR OF OR OF THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS W W W W WORKS. ORKS. ORKS. ORKS. ORKS. Lasswade, January 8, 1853 MY DEAR SIR: I am ... ...rnals. Now, that mode of publication is un- avoidably disadvantageous to a writer, except under unusual conditions. By its harsh peremptory punctualit... ... influence which could en- able them rapidly to diffuse the knowledge of a writer. A reader whose social standing is moderate may communicate his view... ...ose social standing is moderate may communicate his views upon a book or a writer to his own circle; but his own circle is a narrow one. Whereas, in a...

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...upations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys....

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...nia State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any w... ... sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication proj... ... Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 The Art of Writ... ... All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the sur- face that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry b... ...hild, pulling the musical cart to pieces. 1. CHOICE OF WORDS. – The art of literature stands apart from among its sisters, because the material in whi... ...phrase, sentence, and para- graph must move in a logical progression, and convey a defi- nite conventional import. Now the first merit which attracts ... ...e, or make of them a drum to rouse the passions. But though this form of merit is without doubt the most sen- sible and seizing, it is far from being ... ... Macaulay, apt enough to convey his meaning, harmonious enough in sound, yet glide from the memory like undistinguished elements in a general effect. ... ...e writer to whom I refer suc- ceeds in persuading a number of young persons to adopt this way of life with an eye set singly on the livelihood, we mus...

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...eciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of ar...

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