...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...s the moonlit park—the bracken thickets rustling with startled deer—to the railway station at Checkshill and so to our dingy basement in Clayton, and ... ...scent mantles and the high cold glare of the electric arc. The interlacing railways lifted bright signal-boxes over their intersections, and signal st... ...ed together, ill clothed, ill nourished, ill taught, badly and expensively served at every occasion in life, uncertain even of their insuf- ficient li... ...et threw up all the con- tours and skyline to the west, and the comet rose eastward out of the pouring tumult of smoke from Bladden’s forges. The moon... ...hought, among the dump heaps across the road, and there I might load unob- served… A big young man striding forward with his fists clenched, halted fo... ...r vision becomes a vision of dispersal. You see those bundles hurling into stations, catching trains by a hair’s breadth, speeding on their way, break... ... the whole of the superseded steam-railway system to scrap and get rid of, stations, signals, fences, rolling stock; a plant of ill-planned, smoke-dis...

...THE FOOD OF THE GODS AND HOW IT CAME TO EARTH By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. Thi... ...VIII VIII VIII VIII VIII When the unfortunate Skinner got out of the South-Eastern train at Urshot that evening it was already nearly dusk. The train ... ...ng not to know anything or to have any authority, in the way dear to South-Eastern officials when they catch you in a hurry. “Pity they can’t shoot al... ...iffness of his arm. He wished some of those confounded armchair critics of railway management could have seen it. IV IV IV IV IV By five o’clock that ... ...and Mr. Carrington’s efforts to detach the monsters from his face had only served to lacerate the flesh to which it had attached itself, and streak fa... ...e Thursley Hanger he could get a glimpse of the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, but ploughed fields and a suspicious hamlet pre- vented his nearer... ...ing. He delved a huge port for his paper fleets with an old shed door that served him as a spade, and, no one chancing to observe his operations just ... ...larger houses of the petty great, flower-grown railway banks, gar- den-set stations, and all the little things of the vanished nine- teenth century st...

...gham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...ps was engaged. When they reached the vicarage they all felt that they de- served a substantial dinner. When this was over Mrs. Carey went to her room... ...aid, “that’s the place where our blessed Lord was born.” She showed him an Eastern town with flat roofs and cupolas and minarets. In the foreground wa... ...opposite 39 W. Somerset Maugham page. It was a romantic narrative of some East- ern traveller of the thirties, pompous maybe, but fragrant with the e... ... back to T ercanbury in time for call-over. As he sat in the corner of the railway carriage he saw that he had done nothing. He was angry with himself... ...y high spirits; and then, though he limped about demurely , silent and re- served, it seemed to be hallooing in his heart. He seemed to himself to wal... ... Being used to the society of young men (they were full of stories of hill-stations in India, 190 Of Human Bondage and at that time the stories of Ru... ... contemplate the masterpiece and then took him to a picture representing a railway-station. “Look, here’s a Monet,” she said. “It’s the Gare St. Lazar...

...Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Note... ...NN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. T... ...senseless persecution—of cal- umny and misunderstanding—the shame of unde- served success. Of all the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books... ...or the end of personal gratification. The spectacle of this immense talent served by exceptional faculties and triumph- ing over the most thankless su... .... The story of “The Schoo- ner with a Past” may be heard, from the Straits east- ward, with many variations. Out in the Pacific the schooner becomes a... ...ofoundest mysteries of our sinful souls is not the light of the generating stations, which ex- poses the depths of our infatuation where our mere clev... ...ess rather than possessed by you. Moreover, as we sat together in the same railway carriage, they were looking forward to a voyage in space, whereas I... ...er-buckets, pouring in the pas- sengers, and dipping them out of the great railway station under the inexorable pallid face of the clock telling off t... ... crew of one hundred intelligent seamen and mechanics who would know their stations for abandoning ship and would do the work efficiently. The boats c...

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