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... the hot liquid trickle in her pants. She hung her head and forced her way into the toilet, where she stayed, sucking air, hiding in a stall, until th... ...read her book as she ate her food. 6 SUSAN BRACKEN THE LONELY days turned into lonely weeks and years. Her teach- ers praised Lacey for her excellent... ...hat education would be the answer. Everything finally seemed to be falling into place for Lacey Wilson when, at the tender age of seventeen, she was a... ...et intimacy is beyond me!” Oh my! I suppose, if I am going to keep writing novels, I shall have to learn all this dreadful stuff. I am not ready to re... ...e in Toronto. Julian, at fifteen, reluctantly moved to Barrie, but quickly adapted to his first summer when Jake bought him a canoe and fishing boat. ... ... went almost every day, burying herself in the bidding conventions and end plays, trump coups and squeezes of top-notch duplicate bridge. She couldn’t... ... cluding histories, cook books, biographies, fiction, and all her mother’s novels, these neatly aligned by order of publication. A computer on a small... ...ther is an author? What does she write?” “You’d probably call them romance novels, although they don’t fit that mode exactly. They are love stories bu... ...artel] The Debreather: A report on euthanasia and suicide assistance using adapted scuba technology, Death Studies, in press 2010 [R.D. Ogden] Observa...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary ...

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...th such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the production ceased to bear any, even the mos...

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...mpt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simp... ...n an important manner, the future prospects of the child now about to come into this busy and changeful world. I will not conceal from you that I am s... ...passed to a distant branch of the family. He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. “I fear from your looks,” said the father, “that you h... ... was riveted and confirmed. The utmost care, therefore, was taken to carry into effect the severe and almost ascetic plan of education which the sage ... ...nd beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws, and modern instances: And so he plays his part. —As You Like It. WHEN M RS. BERTRAM of Ellangowan was able ... ... of the contents of these volumes. Some, indeed, of belles lettres, poems, plays, or memoirs, he tossed indignantly aside, with the implied censure of... ...n is also applicable to one or two similar passages, in this and the other novels, introduced for the same rea- son.] But the truth is undeniable; the... ...feelings of the audience present, in an exercise of devotion so peculiarly adapted to such an occasion. But according to the Scottish custom, if there... ...on the table she re- tired, and left Bertram to studies which were not ill adapted to his present melancholy situation. 329 Sir Walter Scott CHAPTER ...

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...all countries, so that it is probable that Apuleius availed himself of an early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the Beast and the Black Bull of Norroway are the most familiar forms of the tale, and it seemed to me one of those legends of such universal property that ...

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...arly form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the B... ... those legends of such universal property that it was quite fair to put it into 18th century English costume. Some have seen in it a remnant of the cu... ...ndian ver- sions lend themselves; but Apuleius himself either found it, or adapted it to the idea of the Soul (the Life) awakened by Love, grasping to... ...and a white favour on her breast. The window was a deep one projecting far into the narrow garden below, for in truth the place was one of those old m... ...a flagged path down the cen- tre, between the front door and a wicket-gate into a long lane bordered with hawthorn hedges, the blossoms begin- ning to... ...r an hour with Master Eugene, after which he did me the honour to play two plays at backgammon.” “I hope,” said the eldest sister, coming up, “that th... ...t track, so rough that the four horses came to a walk. Aurelia had read no novels but Telemaque and Le Grand Cyrus, so her imagination was not terrifi... ..., had not pen- etrated into the west. “Mr. Belamour’s blackamoor. He often plays to him half the night.” “Oh!” with another quivering sound of alarm; ... ...I was in their hands.” “Did you receive it?” “I was told in a mild manner, adapted to my intelligence, that if I behaved well, I might eat at the mast...

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...ng Miss Austen’s death. Spelling and punctuation have been largely brought into conformity with modern British usage. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE AUTHORESS, ... ...s before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bring- ing the latter into the world, as anybody might expect, she still lived on—lived to have s... ...t less unpropiteous for heroism seemed her mind. She was fond of all boy’s plays, and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls, but to the more h... ...read them; and though there seemed no chance of her throwing a whole party into raptures by a prelude on the pianoforte, of her own com- position, she... ... in meeting in defi- ance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together. Y es, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and imp... ...wit, and taste to recommend them. “I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels— It is really very well for ... ...ould never have read Udolpho before; but I suppose Mrs. Morland objects to novels.” “No, she does not. She very often reads Sir Charles Grandison hers... ... of female excellence, and the completion of female intimacy, so admirably adapted for secret discourses and un- limited confidence, that she was most... ...y, to most of the frequent- ers of Bath—and the honest relish of balls and plays, and everyday sights, is past with them.” Here their conversation clo...

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............................................................... 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY, whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led her into the commission of Errors which her Heart disapproved. ........................................................................................................ 96 A TOUR THROUGH WALES?in a LETTER from a YOUNG LADY? .........

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...m a YOUNG LADY , whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led her into the commis- sion of Errors which her Heart disapproved. ................. ...u that being left by her Parents in indigent Circumstances she had retired into Wales on eoconomical motives. There it was our freindship first commen... ...said he) did you pick up this unmeaning gibberish? You have been studying Novels I suspect.” I scorned to answer: it would have been beneath my dign... ... speech, by the appearance of a very Handsome young Woman, who was ushured into the Room at the Door of which I had been listening. On hearing her an... ...e fewer to pay and the only inconvenience attending it was the Scarcity of Plays which for want of People to fill the Characters, we could perform. W... ... ceives from me, and never writes anything but her an- swers to them. She plays, sings and Dances, but has no taste for either, and excells in none, ... ...King made a long speech, for which I must refer the Reader to Shakespear’s Plays, and the Prince made a still longer. Things being thus settled betwee... ...she. Then repeating the following line which was an extempore and equally adapted to recommend both Riding and Candour— “Ride where you may, Be Candi...

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...y. It is a matter of many weeks now—diversified indeed by some long drives into the mountains behind us and a memorable sail to Genoa across the blue ... ...very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius are but the highest of a great host of minds th... ... of his animal humour, his queer indecent side, and because of such lapses into utter meanness as that which made him sound the note of the begging-le... ...olubly 6 The New Machiavelli mingled with his tradition. They have passed into the world of the ideal, and every humbug takes his freedoms with their... ...y to all that had hith- erto seemed nonsense about love. I took to reading novels, and if the heroine could not possibly be like her, dusky and warm a... ... pursuing such interests, went so far as to read political memoirs and the novels of Disraeli and Mrs. Humphry Ward. From gossip, example and the illu... ...ot really doing the very best work of their gifts; nearly all are a little adapted, most are shockingly adapted to some second-best use. Now, I take i... ...e falls and falls most among just the most effi- cient and active and best adapted classes in the community. The species is recruited from among its f... ...ether if I had had a warning, if I had understood better, I might not have adapted myself to your restless mind and made this catastrophe impossible… ...

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... 4 The Pit The T rilogy of The Epic of the Wheat includes the fol- lowing novels: The Octopus, a Story of California. The Pit, a Story of Chicago. Th... ...alifornia. The Pit, a Story of Chicago. The Wolf, a Story of Europe. These novels, while forming a series, will be in no way connected with each other... ...our. It was a tint rather than a shade, like ivory; a warm white, blending into an exquisite, delicate brownness towards the throat. Set in the middle... ... in speaking to her, her friends always found that they must look squarely into their pupils. And all this beauty of pallid face and brown eyes was cr... ...ionally through the storm doors, the vestibule was uncomfortably warm, and into this steam-heated atmosphere a multitude of heavy odours exhaled—the s... ...ar- ren pleasures—the library, the festival, the few concerts, the trivial plays. How easy it was to be good and noble when music such as this had bec... ...ry carefully,” he assured her. “Say,” he added, “where are all your modern novels? You’ve got Scott and Dickens and Thackeray, of course, and Eliot—ye... ...alf-past eight, Monsieur Gerardy ar- rived. All through the winter amateur plays had been in 91 Frank Norris great favor, and Gerardy had become, in ... ...n- ing back to the keyboard. “It is the ‘Mephisto Walzer’ of Liszt. He has adapted it himself from his own orchestral score, very ingeniously. It is d...

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...m limits of time and length altogether and have ex- panded these memoranda into a book. It is as it stands now the frank confession of what one man of... ...names and their quota- tions in unfamiliar tongues, and from the easy fall into tech- nicality of men struggling to be explicit where a high degree of... ... a person who says, “Now let us take a thought for a moment before we fall into a discussion of the broad questions of life, lest we rush hastily into... ...red various acts, one such circle, one human mind, lights and enlarges and plays upon another. That is the image under which the interrelation of mind... ...tors and actor managers are accus- tomed to impose upon essentially tragic novels and plays … You see how I stand in this matter, puzzled and confused... ...tor managers are accus- tomed to impose upon essentially tragic novels and plays … You see how I stand in this matter, puzzled and confused by the Chr... ...r- goes, revision and expansion, and every year it becomes a little better adapted to the need of a general rule of life that all men may try to follo... ...e pushed out of exist- ence if the old one has more vitality and is better adapted to the circumstances. This process of variation, competition and se... ...ion and selection, also of intermarriage between equally vital and equally adapted varieties, is after all the process by which not only races exist b...

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...; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the b... ...uth there can be no thor- oughly satisfactory translation of “Don Quixote” into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are s... ...d Ward’s “Life and Notable Adventures of Don Quixote, mer- rily translated into Hudibrastic Verse” (1700), can scarcely be reck- oned a translation, b... ...for a congenial employment. In about three years he wrote twenty or thirty plays, which he tells us were per- formed without any throwing of cucumbers... ...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... ...should do to carry out their object, the curate hit upon an idea very well adapted to humour Don Quixote, and effect their purpose; and his notion, wh... ...ply of the beauteous princess, who, with commanding dignity and in a style adapted to Don Quixote’s own, replied to him in these words, “I give you th...

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