Chapter 2 Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he repented of his conduct. He could not at this date repent of the fact that he, a handsome, susceptible man of thirty-four, was not in love with his wife, the mother of five living and two dead children, and only a year younger than himself. All he repented of was that he had not succeeded better in hiding it from his wife. But he felt all the difficulty of his position and was sorry for his wife, his children, and himself. Possibly he might have managed to conceal his sins better from his wife if he had anticipated that the knowledge of them would have had such an effect on her. He had never clearly thought out the subject, but he had vaguely conceived that his wife must long ago have suspected him of being unfaithful to her, and shut her eyes to the fact. He had even supposed that she,...
Before The Burial
by Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917)
Translated from the French by Robert Helms
"Avant L'Enterrement" first appeared in the Paris newspaper Gil Blas on April 19, 1887
Mr. Poivret got down from his wagon in front of the shop owned by
his son-in-law Pierre Gasselin, tied the horse to a thick iron ring and, after three times checking the tightness of the tether's knot, he entered the butcher shop cracking his horse-whip.
"Anyone there?" he yelled.
A dog, sleeping with its body stretched across a sunny patch of
floor, got up with a low groan and then laid itself out a little farther out of the way. The store was deserted, and since it was Thursday, the meat rack was pretty close to empty. A quarter of nearly bl... (From : Mid-Atlantic Infoshop.)
A Tale of 1852
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THE COSSACKS
A Tale of 1852
By
Leo Tolstoy (1863)
Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude
Chapter I
All is quiet in Moscow. The squeak of wheels is seldom heard in the
snow-covered street. There are no lights left in the windows and the
street lamps have been extinguished. Only the sound of bells, borne
over the city from the church towers, suggests the approach of morning.
The streets are deserted. At rare intervals a night-cabman's sledge
kneads up the snow and sand in the street as the driver makes his way
to another corner where he falls asleep while waiting for a fare. An
old woman passes by on her way to church, where a f... (From : Gutenberg.org.)
DAMON
AND
DELIA:
A TALE.
--NEQUE SEMPER ARCUM
TENDIT APOLLO. HOR.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR T. HOOKHAM, AT HIS CIRCULATING
LIBRARY, NEW BOND-STEET, CORNER
OF BRUTON-STREET.
M,DCC,LXXXIV.
CONTENTS
PART the FIRST.
CHAPTER I.
Containing introductory Matter.
CHAPTER II.
A Ball
CHAPTER III.
A Ghost.
CHAPTER IV.
A love Scene.
CHAPTER V.
A Man of Humour.
CHAPTER VI.
Containing some Specimens of Heroism.
CHAPTER VII.
Containing that with which the Reader will be acquainted when he has
read it.
CHAPTER VIII.
Two Persons of Fashion.
CHAPTER IX.
A tragical Resolution.
CONTENTS.
PART (From : Gutenberg.org.)
FABLES FOR CHILDREN ⚘
STORIES FOR CHILDREN
⚘ NATURAL SCIENCE
STORIES ⚘ POPULAR EDUCATION ⚘
DECEMBRISTS
⚘ MORAL TALES ⚘ ⚘ ⚘
By COUNT LEV N. T́OLSTÓY
Translated from the Original Russian and Edited by
LEO WIENER
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University
BOSTON ⚘ DANA ESTES &
COMPANY ⚘ PUBLISHERS
EDITION DE LUXE
Limited to One Thousand Copies,
of which this is
No. 411
Copyright, 1904By Dana Estes & Company
Entered at Stationers' Hall
Colonial Press: Electrotyped and Printed by
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
CONTENTS
PAGE
FABLES FOR CHILDREN
Æsop's Fables ... (From : Gutenberg.org.)
I
In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An
officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone
predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I. and have a
brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement to a
beautiful maid of honor, a favorite of the Empress’s, gave his small
estate to his sister, and retired to a monastery to become a monk.
This event appeared extraordinary and inexplicable to those who did not
know his inner motives, but for Prince Stepan Kasatsky himself it all
occurred so naturally that he could not imagine how he could have acted
otherwise... (From : Gutenberg.org.)
INTRODUCTION IN an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the “divine right” of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic systems as a mystic personal emanation in place of a coercive weapon of statecraft. Freed from its ancient shackles of dogma and despotism it eludes analysis. We know not how to gauge its effect on others, nor even upon ourselves. Like the wind, it permeates the atmosphere we breathe, and baffles while it stimulates the mind with its intangible but compelling force. This psychic power, which the dead weight of materialism is impotent to suppress, is revealed in the lives and writings of men of the most d...
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FRUITS OF CULTUREA COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS
(1889)
122
CHARACTERS
LEONÍD FYÓDORITCH ZVEZDÍNTSEF. A retired Lieutenant of the
Horse Guards. Owner of more than 60,000 acres of land in various
provinces. A fresh-looking, bland, agreeable g... (From : Gutenberg.org.)
From: William Godwin (1784). Imogen: A Pastorial Romance From the Ancient British. BOOK THE FIRST CHARACTER OF THE SHEPHERDESS AND HER LOVER. -FEAST OF RUTHYN.-SONGS OF THE BARDS. LISTEN, O man! to the voice of wisdom. The world thou inhabitest was not intended for a theater of fruition, nor destined for a scene of repose. False and treacherous is that happiness, which has been preceded by no trial, and is connected with no desert. It is like the gilded poison that undermines the human frame. It is like the hoarse murmur of the winds that announces the brewing tempest. Virtue, for such is the decree of the Most High, is evermore obliged to pass through the ordeal of temptation, and the thorny paths of adversity. If, in this day of her trial, no foul blot obscure her luster, no irresolution and instability tarnish the clearness of her spirit, then may she rejoice in the view of her approaching reward, and receive with an open heart...
Selected Letters of Nicola Sacco from the Charlestown
State Prison
July 19, 1927
MY DEAR INES**:
I would like that you should understand what I am going to say to you,
and I wish I could write you so plain, for I long so much to have you hear
all the heart-beat, eagemess of your father, for I love you so much as
you are the dearest little beloved one.
It is quite hard indeed to make you understand in your young age, but
I am going to try from the bottom of my heart to make you understand how
dear you are to your father's soul. If I cannot succeed in doing
that, I know that you will save this letter and read it over in future
years to come and you will see and feel the same heart-beat affection as
your father feels in w... (From : umkc.edu.)