| | 182 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tom Sawyer Abroad / by Mark Twain.  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all
them adventures? I mean the adventures we had
down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free
and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only
just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it
had. You see, when we three came back up the river
in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and
the village received us with a torchlight procession and
speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and shouted, it
made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had
always been hankering to be. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 186 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance by Mark Twain [pseud.] with
illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT WAS IN 1590—winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep;
it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever.
Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the
mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But
they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were
all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember,
too, the pleasure it gave me. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 194 | Author: | Vaerting, Mathilde, 1884 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated
from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul / Vaerting, Mathilde, 1884- | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | TESTIMONY concerning the dominance of women
among various peoples differs greatly in comprehensiveness.
As regards the ancient Egyptians such
abundant evidence is forthcoming that the existence of
feminine dominance as far as this people is concerned
has been placed beyond question for all who have
studied the matter objectively. In the case of the
Spartans the historical traces are perhaps less numerous,
but they are so plain as to leave no doubt as to
the reality of the dominance of women in that nation.
In both instances, therefore, we have proof of the existence
of feminine dominance among civilised peoples.
As far as savages are concerned, the most detailed
reports that have come to hand anent the dominance
of women relate to the Kamchadales, the Chamorros,
the Iroquois, the Basque-Iberian stocks, the Garos, the
Dyaks, and the Balonda. In addition there were, for
example, the Libyans, among whom it is demonstrable
that the dominance of women was once absolute at
a time when they were at least in an intermediate
stage between barbarism and civilisation. We find,
moreover, fairly definite traces of the dominance of
women among numerous races in the most diverse
phases of development; for instance in Tibet and in
Burma, among the Khonds, the Creeks, etc. Bachofen
has shown that matriarchy (the mother-right) existed
in Lycia, Crete, Athens, Lemnos, Egypt, India and
Central Asia, Orchomenos and Minyae, Elis, Locris,
Lesbos, Mantinea, and among the Cantabri. In
Bachofen's terminology, matriarchy (Mutterrecht) is
synonymous with the dominance of women. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 198 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Up From Slavery: An Autobiography / By Booker T. Washington | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am
not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but at
any rate I suspect I must have been born somewhere and at some time.
As nearly as I have been able to learn, I was born near a cross-roads
post-office called Hale's Ford, and the year was 1858 or 1859. I do
not know the month or the day. The earliest impressions I can now
recall are of the plantation and the slave quarters — the latter
being the part of the plantation where the slaves had their cabins. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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