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A journey accomplished with Care for a traveling companion usually adheres to the wheels of memory until those wheels are still. Grim Care was with these boys in the railway carriage. A great catastrophe had come to them. A FitzHenry had failed to pass into her Majesty's Navy. Back and back through the generations -- back to the days when England had no navy -- she had always been served at sea by a FitzHenry. Moreover, there had always been a...

Why, it's like this 'era, Mrs. Mutimer, ' Daniel began, having seated himself, with hands on widely-parted knees. 'As far as the theory goes, I'm all for Dick, any man must be as knows his two times two. But about the Longwoods, well, I tell Dick they've a perfect right to get rid of him, finding him a dangerous enemy, you see. It was all fair and above board. Young Stephen Longwood ups an' says -- leastways not in these words, but them as mea...

Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means. To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.The framing narrative by "Cherub" Swinburne describes his quest for The Club of Queer Trades with his friend Basil Grant, a retired judge, and Rupert Grant, a private detective who is Basil's youn...

You had him in your power! You could have killed him, and you did not! Now he will kill me!" Madame Claude muttered something tearfully, something about Pavannes and the saints. I looked over Croisette's shoulder, and read the letter. It began abruptly without any term of address, and ran, "I have a mission in Paris, Mademoiselle, which admits of no delay. Your mission, as well as my own -- to see Pavannes. You have won his heart. It is yours,...

Forty-year-old M. de Marsac, a gentleman soldier, is in terrible straights. Money is the problem -- his finances have gone to hell, and soon enough his status will follow. He's a gentleman -- that is, he's gentry -- but being a gentleman isn't like being a beggared baron, there is no title for him to trade on. He grooms his own horse by cover of night, and when he goes before the court of Henry of Navarre seeking a commission, he faces ridicul...

Here is a sampling, the third volume in a reprint of a famous edition of the works of Poe, a driven, passionate, difficult, often desperate man -- "three-fifths of him genius, " as Lowell said, and three fifths is more than most of the rest of us can claim or will ever have claimed for us. Includes "The Marrative of A. Gordon Pym" and others.

. . . . A millionaire from the London Exchange, as he looked round on the magasins, the equipages, the dresses of the women, as he inquired the prices in the shops and the rent of apartments, -- might have asked himself, in envious wonder, How on earth do those gay Parisians live? What is their fortune? Where does it come from? As the day declined, many of the scattered loungers crowded into the Boulevards, the cafes and restaurants began to l...

Since this may be the last book of the kind I shall ever publish, I have written into it as well as I can the heretical metaphysical skepticism upon which all my thinking rests, and I have inserted certain sections reflecting upon the established methods of sociological and economic science. . . . The last four words will not attract the butterfly reader, I know. I have done my best to make the whole of this book as lucid and entertaining as i...

Dreams have a part in most of the longer stories. That is because I believe dreams have a part in real life. Some of them we remember as vividly as any actual experience. These belong to the imperfect sleep. But others we do not remember, because they are given to us in that perfect sleep in which the soul is liberated, and goes visiting. Yet sometimes we get a trace of them, by a happy chance, and often their influence remains with us in that...

VIRGIN SOIL by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) is his last and longest novel. In it he finally says everything yet unsaid on the subject of social change, idealism and yet futility of revolutions, serfs and peasants, and the upper classes. The hero, Nezhdanov -- the disillusioned young son of a nobleman -- and the Populist movement are young idealists working to bridge the gap between the common people and the nobility, and through them T...

The story centers around a young Russian landowner named Dimitry Sanin who falls deliriously in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt. It is widely held as one Turgenev's greatest novels as well as being highly autobiographical in nature."You saved my brother's life, we want to thank you -- come to see us this evening: we are so indebted to you -- mother wants to. You must tell us who you are, you must rejoice wit...

In "the Jew" -- the terrifying title work of THE JEW AND OTHER STORIES by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) -- the lovely innocent young Jewess Sara makes an impression on a regiment officer stationed in 1813, before Danzig. In his obsession he pursues her, and his thoughtless actions result in tragedy for her family.

Classic Russian author Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) is considered one of the best stylists in Russian literature. His lyrical novels, plays, and poetry reflect themes of class suffering and profound humanity at the same time as they portray idealized nostalgic love, innocent young women, and the bittersweet fading of Russia's nobility.

The doctor has just left me. At last I have got at something definite! For all his cunning, he had to speak out at last. Yes, I am soon, very soon, to die. The frozen rivers will break up, and with the last snow I shall, most likely, swim away . . . whither? God knows! To the ocean too. Well, well, since one must die, one may as well die in the spring. But isn't it absurd to begin a diary a fortnight, perhaps, before death?" Thus begins DIARY ...

The tragedy of King Lear is transformed and taken to a different level in the title work of this collection of three shorter works by the great Russian classical writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883). Harlov, the "Lear, " and in particular his daughters are vivid and lifelike, indeed, Turgenev has a penchant for portraying sympathetic profoundly spiritual women.

A HOUSE OF GENTLEFOLK (1858) by Ivan Sergyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) is the quintessential Turgenev novel of fading Russian nobility, idealistic innocence and disillusionment, against the backdrop of a changing era on the brink of the revolution.

The six tales were written between 1847 and 1881. "Pyetushkov" (1847), "The Brigadier" (1867), "A Strange Story" (1869), "Punin and Baburin" (1874), "Old Portraits" (1881), and "A Desperate Character" (1881) are a showcase of the classic Russian stylist's work and a study in Russian lyrical fatalism, idealism and a struggle with issues of will and aspirations.

Two incidents, widely different in character yet bound together by results, marked the night of January the twenty-third. On that night the blackest fog within a four years' memory fell upon certain portions of London, and also on that night came the first announcement of the border risings against the Persian government in the province of Khorasan the announcement that, speculated upon, even smiled at, at the time, assumed such significance i...

William Makepeace Thackeray's VANITY FAIR, "a Novel Without a Hero" is a satiric masterpiece that encapsulates all the layers of British society in a microcosm while conveying the spirit and atmosphere of an epoch, and introduces literature's most charming picaresque anti-heroine, Becky Sharp. The reader cannot help but observe with wicked glee Becky's effervescently amoral exploits as she rises through the ranks of society in an insiduous and...

We like Van Tassel Sutphen's work a lot -- open up and read a bit to see why, jhe'a an enoormourly lucid and engaging writer -- but, try as we might, we've had a hard time finding much out about him. Oh, there are a few lines in the Science Fiction encyclopedia to the effect that he was an American writer who lived from 1861 to 1945, that he wrote a bunch of golf stories, and a terse description of his 1906 postholocaust novel, _The Doomsman._...