Chapter 26 In the morning Konstantin Levin left Moscow, and towards evening he reached home. On the journey in the train he talked to his neighbors about politics and the new railways, and, just as in Moscow, he was overcome by a sense of confusion of ideas, dissatisfaction with himself, shame of something or other. But when he got out at his own station, when he saw his one-eyed coachman, Ignat, with the collar of his coat turned up; when, in the dim light reflected by the station fires, he saw his own sledge, his own horses with their tails tied up, in their harness trimmed with rings and tassels; when the coachman Ignat, as he put in his luggage, told him the village news, that the contractor had arrived, and that Pava had calved,—he felt that little by little the confusion was clearing up, and the shame and self-dissatisfaction were passing away. He felt this at the mere sight of Ignat and the horses; but when he had put on the shee...
The Resurrection CHAPTER XXIII. The justiciary finally finished his speech and handed the list of questions to the foreman. The jury rose from their seats, glad of an opportunity to leave the court-room, and, not knowing what to do with their hands, as if ashamed of something, they filed into the consultation-room. As soon as the door closed behind them a gendarme, with drawn sword resting on his shoulder, placed himself in front of it. The judges rose and went out. The prisoners also were led away. On entering the consultation-room the jury immediately produced cigarettes and began to smoke. The sense of their unnatural and false position, of which they were to a greater or less degree cognizant, while sitting in the court-room, passed away as soon as they entered their room and lighted their cigarettes, and, with a feeling of relief, they seated themselves and immediately started an animated conversation. "The girl is not guilty, she was con...
Why do you clothe me with scarlet of shame?
Why do you point with your finger of scorn?
What is the crime that you hissingly name
When you sneer in my ears, "Thou bastard born?"
Am I not as the rest of you,
With a hope to reach, and a dream to live?
With a soul to suffer, a heart to know
The pangs that the thrusts of the heartless give?"
I am no monster! Look at me --
Straight in my eyes, that they do not shrink!
Is there aught in them you can see
To merit this hemlock you make me drink?
This poison that scorches my soul like fire,
That burns and burns until love is dry,
And I shrivel with hate, as hot as a pyre,
A corpse, while its smoke curls up to the sky?
Will you touch my hand? I... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
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.)
Bill Haywood Remembers the 1913 Paterson
StrikeSource, William D. Haywood,"On the Paterson Picket Line," International
Socialist Review, 13 (June 1913): 850-851.
In this excerpt from an article published during the 1913 Paterson
Silk Strike by "Big" Bill Haywood, he comments on the women’s role in the
strike. Haywood was a founder and national leader of the Industrial Workers of the World
(IWW).
...The women have been an enormous factor in the Paterson strike.
Each meeting for them has been attended by bigger and bigger crowds. They are becoming
deeply interested in the questions of the hour that are confronting women and are rapidly
developing the s... (From : Rutgers University.)
Childhood, by Leo Tolstoy
CHILDHOOD
By Leo Tolstoy
Translated by C.J. Hogarth
CONTENTS
I THE TUTOR, KARL
IVANITCH II MAMMA
III PAPA IV LESSONS V THE IDIOT VI PREPARATIONS FOR THE CHASE
VII THE HUNT
VIII WE PLAY
GAMES IX A FIRST
ESSAY IN LOVE X
THE SORT OF MAN MY FATHER WAS XI
IN THE DRAWING-ROOM AND THE STUDY XII (From : Gutenberg.org.)
THE CHILDREN AND PSYCHOLOGY
Paul Goodman
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WHAT IS most significant, it seems to me, is the earnest attention
paid to the Children and Family as a subject, the desire of parents to
be Informed and thereby do their best, rather than following their
wit and impulse; or to say this another way, what is significant is the
importance assigned in our society to Psychology itself? for Psychology is still by and large the
family-psychology that Freud made it
discussing the problems of jealousy, infantile dependency authority, submissiveness and
rebelliousness, and sibling competition: and
problems of spite, moral prejudice and other reaction-formations
springing from instinctual deprivation. This interest in the Childre... (From : http://www.tao.ca/~freedom/goodman.html.)
A Tale of 1852
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Distributed Proofreading Team.
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.)
FLEETWOOD; or, THE NEW MAN OF FEELING. ____ by WILLIAM GODWIN. ____ IN TWO VOLUMES. Vol. I __________________ __________________ New York: PRINTED FOR I. RILEY & Co. BOOK-SELLERS, NO. I, CITY HOTEL. ____ ____ 1805. CHAPTER I. I WAS the only son of my father. I was very young at the period of the death of my mother, and have retained scarcely any recollection of her. My father was so much affected by the loss of the amiable and affectionate partner of his days, that he resolved to withdraw forever from those scenes, where every object he saw was ssociated with the ideas of her kindness, her accomplishments, and her virtues: and, being habitually a lover of the sublime and romantic features of nature, he fixed upon a spot in Merionethshire, near the foot of Cader Idris, for ...
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FRUITS OF CULTUREA COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS
(1889)
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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.)