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Excerpt from Youth in HarleyThis is Mis' Whitney's, he said. If you find it's all right, I guess Jim '11 help ye take in your trunk. Thus, sitting quiet in his wagon, he let the young man meet his landlady unannounced.Stephen's introduction to the house was easier than he had been led to expect. Mrs. Whitney herself came to the door, a portentously thin figure in a shapeless gray dress, with gray hair drawn tight across her tem ples in a way t...

Excerpt from The Grateful Dead the History of a Folk StoryOne principle has become clear. Since motives are so frequently found in combination, it is essential that the complex types be analyzed and arranged, with an eye kept single nevertheless to the master-theme under discussion. Collectors, both primary and subsidiary, have done such valiant service that the treasures at our command are amply sufficient for such studies, so extensive, inde...

Excerpt from Selected Essays of Henry Fielding Edited With Introduction and NotesThis selection of the essays of Henry Fielding is designed to introduce him as an essay writer rather than as a novelist. It is an attempt to show his mastery of prose style and vigorous thought, quite apart from his yet more extraordinary mastery of narrative. It may serve, I h0pe, to give a practical ac quaintance with the man and his work to some readers who fo...

Excerpt from Saints' LegendsFurthermore, it has required a good deal of patience to disentangle what I can only describe as the snarl of legends from the later Middle Ages. Here, again, other scholars have given me little help, though I must grate fully acknowledge my indebtedness to Dr. Horstmann, who by his indomitable zeal in editing texts has done more than any other one man to make my study possible. His work has never been recognized at ...

Excerpt from Peter Sanders, RetiredSomewhat more heavily than was his wont, Mr. Peter Sanders mounted the steps to his front door. For the first time since he had been living in the house, he noticed that the entrance was perhaps a little sinister, as it was certainly forbidding. He had always been rather proud of the front door, in point of fact. It was his own invention, and nicely calculated in its oiled and massive perfection to fend off i...

Excerpt from The North-English Homily Collection: A Study of the Manuscript Relations and of the Sources of the TalesMs. Ashmole 42 large octavo northern dialect vellum early 1sth century.Ms. Camb. G g V. 31, Univ. Libr. Camb.: quarto northern dialect, vellum date probably nearly same as that of preceding.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book i...

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Excerpt from The Grateful Dead the History of a Folk Story The combination of narrative themes is so frequent a phenomenon in folk and formal literature that one almost forgets to wonder at it. Yet in point of fact the reason for it and the means by which it is accomplished are mysteries past our present comprehension. If we could learn how and where popular tales unite, if we could formulate any general principle of union or severance, we sh...

Excerpt from Saints' Legends In the pages that follow I have tried to write the history of saints' legends as one part of the survey of English literature to be presented by the series of which this volume is a member. My difficulties have been many. Although the lives of saints began to affect the vernacular literatures of Europe as soon as such literatures came into being, and although legends in the vulgar tongues were everywhere exceeding...

Excerpt from Selected Essays of Henry Fielding Edited With Introduction and Notes This selection of the essays of Henry Fielding is designed to introduce him as an essay writer rather than as a novelist. It is an attempt to show his mastery of prose style and vigorous thought, quite apart from his yet more extraordinary mastery of narrative. It may serve, I hope, to give a practical acquaintance with the man and his work to some readers who f...

Excerpt from Peter Sanders, Retired Somewhat more heavily than was his wont, Mr. Peter Sanders mounted the steps to his front door. For the first time since he had been living in the house, he noticed that the entrance was perhaps a little sinister, as it was certainly forbidding. He had always been rather proud of the front door, in point of fact. It was his own invention, and nicely calculated in its oiled and massive perfection to fend off...

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