| | 243 | Author: | Chekhov, Anton | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mire  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | GRACEFULLY swaying in the saddle, a young man wearing the snow-white
tunic of an officer rode into the great yard of the vodka distillery
belonging to the heirs of M. E. Rothstein. The sun smiled carelessly on
the lieutenant's little stars, on the white trunks of the birch-trees,
on the heaps of broken glass scattered here and there in the yard. The
radiant, vigorous beauty of a summer day lay over everything, and
nothing hindered the snappy young green leaves from dancing gaily and
winking at the clear blue sky. Even the dirty and soot-begrimed
appearance of the bricksheds and the stifling fumes of the distillery
did not spoil the general good impression. The lieutenant sprang gaily
out of the saddle, handed over his horse to a man who ran up, and
stroking with his finger his delicate black moustaches, went in at the
front door. On the top step of the old but light and softly carpeted
staircase he was met by a maidservant with a haughty, not very youthful
face. The lieutenant gave her his card without speaking. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 246 | Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Living English Poets: A. Conan Doyle | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Dr. A. Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. He went to
school at Stonyhurst in Lancashire, then studied in Germany, and finally
completed his medical education at the University of Edinburgh. He
has been an extensive traveler, visiting Africa, the Arctic seas, and many
parts of Europe. His first story was accepted when he was nineteen
years old, and his first book, A Study in Scarlet, was sold outright for
*25. Then came Micah Clarke, The Sign of the Four, The White
Company—and so his reputation as one of the most popular English
novelists was firmly established. It is said that Dr. Doyle's detective
stories were what first brought him to the attention of Americans. That
they rank with the best ever written is generally recognized. Although
chiefly known as a story-teller, Dr. Doyle has been an occasional
contributor of verse to the leading English and American magazines for
years. A collection of verse was published in England several years ago
and republished in this country, in 1898, by Doubleday, McClure &
Co., under the title Songs of Action. Many of his poems have never
appeared in book form. The vivid imagination, clearness of expression,
and intense interest that distinguish his prose are marked characteristics
of his verse. The selections reprinted here are chiefly from the
American edition of Songs of Action. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 250 | Author: | Duffield, Samuel W. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Writings of George MacDonald | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN something less than three years we have become acquainted
with a new name in literature. It has drifted to us across the
Atlantic, and with it has come a vague hint of a personality
whereof in future we may know more. The works of this hand and
brain are mainly in a poetical prose, with an occasional relapse
into verse. His books sell largely, and he is better known as "the
author of Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood" than as George
MacDonald. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 253 | Author: | Himes, John A. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Milton's Angels | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN an article on the Plan of Paradise Lost, published in
this periodical, March, 1883, the writer had occasion to speak of
certain characteristics of Milton's supernatural beings. A systematic
account of these beings did not come within the scope of that paper,
but the interest of the subject may perhaps make its separate
treatment from a new standpoint not unwelcome. Other writers have
considered Milton's angels mainly as products of literary art; I wish
to examine them as products of thought, giving attention to the inner
meaning rather than to the outward form. Convinced that there has
already been too much unintelligent criticism, I venture upon the far
more difficult and in some respects perilous task of interpretation.
With little to say about the soundness or the propriety of the poet's
methods and opinions, I shall content myself with inquiring what they
are. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 254 | Author: | Himes, John A. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Plan of Paradise Lost | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN all the attempts to trace the origin of Paradise Lost to
the Caedmon, to Andreini, to Grotius, to Du Bartas, and to a score of
others, no claim, so far as I am aware, has been advanced to having
found in any, or in all, of them the entire plan upon which Milton
worked and which he filled out. Caedmon is said to have helped here,
Andreini there, and Du Bartas in a third place, but no one of them and
not all of them together give in any just sense an explanation of the
existence of the great English epic. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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