| | 182 | Author: | Christie, Agatha | Add | | | Title: | The Mysterious Affair at Styles  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE intense interest aroused in the public by what was
known at the time as "The Styles Case'' has now somewhat
subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety
which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend
Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the
whole story. This, we trust, will effectually silence the
sensational rumours which still persist. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 187 | Author: | Cleland, John, 1709-1789. | Add | | | Title: | Memoirs of Fanny Hill. | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your
desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I
shall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of which I
emerged, at length, to the enjoyment of every blessing in the power of
love, health, and fortune to bestow; whilst yet in the flower of youth,
and not too late to employ the leisure afforded me by great ease and
affluence, to cultivate an understanding, naturally not a despicable
one, and which had, even amidst the whirl of loose pleasures I had been
toss'd in, exerted more observation on the characters and manners
of the world than what is common to those of my unhappy profession, who
looking on all thought or reflection as their capital enemy, keep it at
as great a distance as they can, or destroy it without mercy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 189 | Author: | Cocke, Louisiana Barraud | Add | | | Title: | Diary and Notes | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The history of all ancient nations is much involved in
obscurity, uncertainty, and contradiction. But as these
adventures of barbarous nations even if they were correctly
recorded could afford no entertainment to men born in a more
cultivated age this uncertainty is not to be regretted. All
Ancient writers agreed in representing the first inhabitants
of Britain as a tribe of Gauls or Belta who setteled that
island from the neighboring continent. The south-east parts
of Britain had allready, before the age of Reason made the
requisite step towards a civil settlement by the
introduction of tillage & agriculture. The other inhabitants
of the island still maintained themselves by pasture. They
were cloathed with the skins of beasts. The religion of the
Britons was one of the most considerable parts of their
government. The Druids who were their priests held great
authority among them. They were the most superstitious
nation in the world at that time. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 190 | Author: | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Add | | | Title: | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | An image of a black and white engraving
The illustrator is not identified. The illustration depicts a head
and shoulders portrait of the Ancient Mariner. He is wearing a
brimmed rain hat and rain coat, and his long white hair and beard are
blowing in the wind. His brow furrowed, the Ancient Mariner stares at
something to his left. The words "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
are written in decorative script over the background of the portrait. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 194 | Author: | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 | Add | | | Title: | A Personal Record | | | | Published: | 1919 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | BOOKS may be written in all sorts of
places. Verbal inspiration may enter
the berth of a mariner on board a ship
frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town;
and since saints are supposed to look benignantly on humble believers, I indulge in the
pleasant fancy that the shade of old Flaubert
—who imagined himself to be (among other
things) a descendant of Vikings—might have
hovered with amused interest over the docks
of a 2,000-ton steamer called the Adowa, on
board of which, gripped by the inclement winter
alongside a quay in Rouen, the tenth chapter
of "Almayer's Folly" was begun. With interest, I say, for was not the kind Norman giant
with enormous mustaches and a thundering
voice the last of the Romantics? Was he not,
in his unworldly, almost ascetic, devotion to
his art, a sort of literary, saint-like hermit? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 199 | Author: | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 | Add | | | Title: | Typhoon, and other stories | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | CAPTAIN MACWHIRR, of the steamer Nan-Shan, had a
physiognomy that, in the order of material appearances,
was the exact counterpart of his mind: it presented no
marked characteristics of firmness or stupidity; it had
no pronounced characteristics whatever; it was simply
ordinary, irresponsive, and unruffled. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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