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...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ... is an equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne THE BIR THE BIR THE BIR THE BIR THE BIR THMARK THMAR... ...and. 14 Mosses from an Old Manse “It is dangerous to read in a sorcerer’s books,” said he with a smile, though his countenance was uneasy and displea... ... quote from memory) are as follows: “Le Voyage Celeste a Chemin de Fer,” 3 tom., 1838; “Le nouveau Pere Adam et la nouvelle Mere Eve,” 2 tom., 1839; “... ... nouvelle Mere Eve,” 2 tom., 1839; “Roderic; ou le Serpent a l’estomac,” 2 tom., 1840; “Le Culte du Feu,” a folio volume of ponderous research into th... ...d Persian Ghebers, published in 1841; “La Soiree du Chateau en Espagne,” 1 tom., 8vo, 1842; and “L ’Artiste du Beau; ou le Papillon Mecanique,” 5 tom.... ...ufficient foun dation for it by throwing into the slough some editions of books of morality, volumes of French philosophy and Ger man rationalism; t... ...se at wearisome length of marvels of mecha nism that he had read about in books, but which he had learned to consider as absolutely fabulous. Among t...

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...The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...sics Series Publication The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...ransmission, in any way. The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...r Mrs. Kendal, before she had been called upon. Albinia supposed that Mrs. Wolfe might call in the course of the week; but this Miss Meadows did not k... ... setting things to rights, but Albinia was in difficulty how to bestow her books. There was an unaccountable scarcity both of books and book- cases; n... ...ned, and Albinia let it close itself as Lucy said, ‘Those are poor mamma’s books, all the others are in the study. Come in, and I’ll show you.’ She th... ...air in it was close. The round library-table was loaded with desks, pocket-books, and papers, the mantelpiece was covered with letters, and book- shel... ...2 Yo n g e little time—the door-bell rang at a quarter to twelve, and Mrs. Wolfe was in the drawing-room. ‘I told you so,’ whispered Lucy, exultingly.... ...lick. ‘I had no notion you had such an arm. Why, you swung me round like a tom-cat, or—’ and he exemplified the exploit upon Maurice, and was well buf...

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...Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray V anity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray BEFORE THE CURTAIN AS THE MANAGER OF THE PER... ...ces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before he sits down to dinner wit... ... girl blushing whilst her lover talks to her and chooses her fairing; poor Tom Fool, yonder behind the waggon, mumbling his bone with the honest famil... ... contemplative, not uncharitable frame of mind, and apply yourself to your books or your business. I have no other moral than this to tag to the prese... ...ery room of the house, and everything in every one of her drawers; and her books, and her piano, and her dresses, and all her neck- laces, brooches, l... ...of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in many of whic... ...e down, and Bob Martingale, who had been taken up in a gambling-house, and Tom Cinqbars, who was going to ride the steeplechase. When he came home she...

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...OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...f Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...f Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...y becomes very obscure just at this point; and I must search into some old books and manuscripts before proceeding further. Besides, it is now a good ... ...fore our chair came into his possession. But, as he was the author of more books than there are days in the year, we may conclude that he wrote a grea... ... the room you would probably behold it crowded, and piled, and heaped with books. There were huge, ponderous folios, and quar tos, and little duodeci... ...d then go down the river to meet the third army. This last, led by General Wolfe, was to enter the St. Lawrence from the sea and ascend the river to Q... ...r the St. Lawrence from the sea and ascend the river to Que bec. It is to Wolfe and his army that England owes one of the most splendid triumphs ever... ...the sentinels were posted. One of them marched up and down before the Cus tom House, treading a short path through the snow, and longing for the time...

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...American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series Ameri... ... PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...ectronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...k, I received my first impressions of the city in walking down to the Cus tom house on the morning after our arrival, which was Sunday. I am afraid t... ... creature in his creation:’ and straightforward advice of that nature. The books and tasks of these smallest of scholars, were adapted, in the same ju... ... were employed upon the stone for a new cus American Notes – Dickens 57 tom house in course of erection at Boston. They ap peared to shape it skil... ...ngth to my com panion (not to me, of course) the true principles on which books of travel in America should be written by Englishmen, I feigned to fa... ...d a slate and pencil, and, under certain restrictions, has sometimes other books, provided for the purpose, and pen and ink and paper. His razor, plat... ...large scars on his back and hips.’ ‘Detained at the jail, a mulatto, named Tom. Has a scar on the right cheek, and appears to have been burned with po...

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Excerpt: Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through Twenty-five) by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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...es Publication Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through Twenty-five) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...on, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through Twenty-five) by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...y is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray V anity Fair Volume One by William Makepeace Thackeray BEFORE THE CURTAIN AS THE MANAGER OF THE PER... ...ces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before he sits down to dinner wit... ... girl blushing whilst her lover talks to her and chooses her fairing; poor Tom Fool, yonder behind the waggon, mumbling his bone with the honest famil... ... contemplative, not uncharitable frame of mind, and apply yourself to your books or your business. I have no other moral than this to tag to the prese... ...ery room of the house, and everything in every one of her drawers; and her books, and her piano, and her dresses, and all her neck- laces, brooches, l... ...of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in many of whic... ...e down, and Bob Martingale, who had been taken up in a gambling-house, and Tom Cinqbars, who was going to ride the steeplechase. When he came home she...

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... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ... is an equal opportunity university. 3 Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Book I I. ON A JANUARY EVENING of the early seventies, Ch... ...e fire alive and the lamp trimmed; and the room, with its rows and rows of books, its bronze and steel statuettes of “The Fencers” on the mantel- piec... ...te reluctance, and the air of having had her hand forced, quite as, in the books on Primitive Man that people of advanced culture were beginning to re... ...er horsemanship, her grace and quickness at games, and the shy interest in books and ideas that she was beginning to de- velop under his guidance. (Sh... ...ll come!” he said to himself, almost contemptuously. Avoiding the popular “Wolfe collection,” whose anecdotic canvases filled one of the main gallerie...

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...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Juan by George Byron , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty E... ...Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a painting by Thomas Philips, 1814 Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania State Universit... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. 1821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate,... ... Miss Edgeworth’s novels stepping from their covers, Or Mrs. Trimmer’s books on education, Or ‘Coelebs’ Wife’ set out in quest of lovers, ... ...ept a journal, where his faults were noted, And open’d certain trunks of books and letters, All which might, if occasion served, be quoted; ... ... the family Missal) Was ornamented in a sort of way Which ancient mass books often are, and this all Kinds of grotesques illumined; and how ... ...as before him thrown, Nor what the meaning of the man’s farewell. Poor Tom was once a kiddy upon town, A thorough varmint, and a real swell,... ...a great man, Who in his time had made heroic bustle. Who in a row like Tom could lead the van, Booze in the ken, or at the spellken hustle? ... ...yed Sal (his blowing), So prime, so swell, so nutty, and so knowing? But Tom’s no more— and so no more of Tom. Heroes must die; and by God’s b...

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...otte Brontë A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...iversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë PREFACE A PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION of Jane Eyre bei... ...ooked. I mean the timo- rous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as “Jane Eyre:” in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ear... ...ned to the window and fetched it thence. “You have no business to take our books; you are a depen- dent, mama says; you have no money; your father lef... ... and wear clothes at our mama’s expense. Now, I’ll teach you to rummage my bookshelves: for they are mine; all the house belongs to me, or will do in ... ... gave the dis- tinct lie to my hypothesis,—the veil, torn from top to bot- tom in two halves!” I felt Mr. Rochester start and shudder; he hastily flun... ...l like the rest. About two o’clock p.m. I entered the village. At the bot- tom of its one street there was a little shop with some cakes of bread in t... ...u are, sir; he pricked his ears and wagged his tail when I was at the bot- tom of the field, and you have your back towards me now.” It was true. Thou...

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...AMELIA By Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A... ...rge Saintsbury A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Amelia by Henry Fielding, ed. George Saintsbury is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Amelia by Henry Fielding, ed. George Saintsbury, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ay that no one of them has the charm of the best personages of the earlier books. The idolaters of Amelia would of course exclaim at this sentence as ... ...aftsman- ship; the genius which was to find its fullest exemplification in Tom Jones already displaying maturity”? And do we not too often forget that... ...leas- ant satire; the mighty craftsmanship and the vast science of life of Tom Jones; the ineffable irony and logical grasp of Jonathan Wild, might ha... ...this completion of the picture. We should not have known (for in the other books, with the possible exception of Mrs. Fitzpatrick, the characters are ... ...according to law. Again, as these laws are contained in a great variety of books, the statutes which re- late to the office of a justice of peace maki... ...of which was a chin preposterously short, nature having turned up the bot- tom, instead of suffering it to grow to its due length. Her body was well a...

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... The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...y. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot , the Pennsylva- nia State University, Jim Manis, Fac... .... THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, L.L.D., P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909)... ...t volumes in folio, and twenty four in quarto and in octavo. A dealer in old books met with them, and knowing me by my sometimes buying of him, he bro... ...ading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the Pilgrim’s Progress, my first collection was of Jo... ...able me to buy R. Burton’s Historical Collections; they were small chapmen’s books, and cheap, 40 or 50 in all. My father’s little library consisted c... ...not being brought in by people’s feet; the benefit to the shops by more cus tom, etc., etc., as buyers could more easily get at them; and by not havi... ...it as one reason for removing this general, and sending Generals Amherst and Wolfe, that the minister never heard from him, and could not know what he...

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