| | 445 | Author: | Irving, Washington | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Tour on the Prairies.  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HAVING, since my return to the United States, made a wide and varied tour,
for the gratification of my curiosity, it has been supposed that I did it
for the purpose of writing a book; and it has more than once been intimated
in the papers, that such a work was actually in the press, containing scenes
and sketches of the Far West. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 448 | Author: | Jacobs, William Wyman. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Monkey's Paw. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WITHOUT, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor
of
Lakesnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned
brightly.
Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas
about
the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such
sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from
the
white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 449 | Author: | Jackson, Helen Hunt | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ramona | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT was sheep-shearing time in Southern California, but sheep-shearing was
late at the Señora Moreno's. The Fates had seemed to combine to put
it off. In the first place, Felipe Moreno had been ill. He was the Señora's
eldest son, and since his father's death had been at the head of his mother's
house. Without him, nothing could be done on the ranch, the Señora
thought. It had been always, "Ask Señor Felipe," "Go to Señor
Felipe," "Señor Felipe will attend to it," ever since Felipe had had
the dawning of a beard on his handsome face. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 450 | Author: | James, Henry | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | In the Cage | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It had occurred to her early that in her position--that of a young person
spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a
magpie--she should know a great many persons without their recognising
the acquaintance. That made it an emotion the more lively--though
singularly rare and always, even then, with opportunity still very much
smothered--to see any one come in whom she knew outside, as she called
it, any one who could add anything to the meanness of her function. Her
function was to sit there with two young men--the other telegraphist and
the counter-clerk;
to mind the "sounder," which was always going, to dole
out stamps and postal-orders, weigh letters, answer stupid questions,
give difficult change and, more than anything else, count words as
numberless as the sands of the sea, the words of the telegrams thrust,
from morning to night, through the gap left in the high lattice, across
the encumbered shelf that her forearm ached with rubbing. This
transparent screen fenced out or fenced in, according to the side of the
narrow counter on which the human lot was cast, the duskiest corner of a
shop pervaded not a little, in winter, by the poison of perpetual gas,
and at all times by the presence of hams, cheese, dried fish, soap,
varnish, paraffin and other solids and fluids that she came to know
perfectly by their smells without consenting to know them by their names. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 451 | Author: | James, Henry | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Glasses | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | YES indeed, I say to myself, pen in hand, I can keep hold of the thread
and let it lead me back to the first impression. The little story is all
there, I can touch it from point to point; for the thread, as I call it,
is a row of coloured beads on a string. None of the beads are missing--at
least I think they're not: that's exactly what I shall amuse myself with
finding out. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 452 | Author: | James, Henry | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Turn of the Screw | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except
the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house,
a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till
somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such
a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of
an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasion—an
appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with
his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her not to dissipate
his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also, herself,
before she had succeeded in doing so, the same sight that had shaken him.
It was this observation that drew from Douglas—not immediately, but later
in the evening—a reply that had the interesting consequence to which I call
attention. Someone else told a story not particularly effective, which I
saw he was not following. This I took for a sign that he had himself something
to produce and that we should only have to wait. We waited in fact till two
nights later, but that same evening, before we scattered, he brought out
what was in his mind. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 453 | Author: | Jewett, Sarah Orne | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | In Dark New England Days | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE last of the neighbors was going home; officious Mrs. Peter
Downs had lingered late and sought for additional housework with
which to prolong her stay. She had talked incessantly, and
buzzed like a busy bee as she helped to put away the best
crockery after the funeral supper, while the sisters Betsey and
Hannah Knowles grew every moment more forbidding and unwilling to
speak. They lighted a solitary small oil lamp at last as if for
Sunday evening idleness, and put it on the side table in the
kitchen. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 456 | Author: | Johnston, Mary, 1870-1936. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | 1492, | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE morning was gray and I sat by the sea near Palos
in a gray mood. I was Jayme de Marchena, and that
was a good, old Christian name. But my grandmother
was Jewess, and in corners they said that she never
truly recanted, and I had been much with her as a child.
She was dead, but still they talked of her. Jayme de Marchena,
looking back from the hillside of forty-six, saw some
service done for the Queen and the folk. This thing and
that thing. Not demanding trumpets, but serviceable. It
would be neither counted nor weighed beside and against
that which Don Pedro and the Dominican found to say.
What they found to say they made, not found. They took
clay of misrepresentation, and in the field of falsehood sat
them down, and consulting the parchment of malice, proceeded
to create. But false as was all they set up, the time
would cry it true. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 457 | Author: | Johnson, Samuel | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE difficulty of the first address on any new
occasion, is felt by every man in his transactions
with the world, and confessed by the settled and
regular forms of salutation which necessity has
introduced into all languages. Judgment was wearied
with the perplexity of being forced upon choice,
where there was no motive to preference; and it was
found convenient that some easy method of introduction
should be established, which, if it wanted
the allurement of novelty, might enjoy the security
of prescription. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 459 | Author: | Johnston, Sir Harry | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The date when this story begins is a Saturday afternoon in June,
1900, about 3 p.m. The scene is the western room of a suite of
offices on the fifth floor of a house in Chancery Lane, the offices
of Fraser and Warren, Consultant Actuaries and Accountants. There
is a long window facing west, the central part of which is open,
affording a passage out on to a parapet. Through this window, and
still better from the parapet outside, may be seen the picturesque
spires and turrets of the Law Courts, a glimpse here and there of
the mellow, red-brick, white-windowed houses of New Square, the
tree-tops of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and the hint beyond a steepled
and chimneyed horizon of the wooded heights of Highgate. All this
outlook is flooded with the brilliant sunshine of June, scarcely
dimmed by the city smoke and fumes. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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