| | 21 | Author: | Atherton, Gertrude | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Rezánov  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | As the little ship that had three times raced with
death sailed past the gray headlands and into the
straits of San Francisco on that brilliant April
morning of 1806, Rezánov forgot the bitter
humiliations, the mental and physical torments, the
deprivations and dangers of the past three years;
forgot those harrowing months in the harbor of
Nagasaki when the Russian bear had caged his tail
in the presence of eyes aslant; his dismay at
Kamchatka when he had been forced to send home another
to vindicate his failure, and to remain in the
Tsar's incontiguous and barbarous northeastern
possessions as representative of his Imperial
Majesty, and plenipotentiary of the Company his
own genius had created; forgot the year of loneliness
and hardship and peril in whose jaws the
bravest was impotent; forgot even his pitiable crew,
diseased when he left Sitka, that had filled the Juno
with their groans and laments; and the bells of
youth, long still, rang in his soul once more. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 28 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | H.G. Wells
An illustrated portrait of H.G. Wells, flanked on either side
by the titles of his works: The War of the Worlds, In the Days of the
Comet, A Modern Utopia, The Future in America, New Worlds For Old,
First and Last Things, When the Sleeper Wakes, Tales of Space and
Time, Kipps, Tono Bungay, Mr. Polly, The New Machiavelli. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 29 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Woman at Eighteen-Mile | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Ornamental I
I HAD long wished to write a story of Death Valley that should be
its final word. It was to be so chosen from the limited sort of
incidents that could occur there, so charged with the still
ferocity of its moods, that I should at length be quit of its
obsession, free to concern myself about other affairs. And from
the moment of hearing of the finding of Lang's body at Dead Man's
Spring I knew I had struck upon the trail of that story. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 33 | Author: | Bower, B. M. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jean of the Lazy A | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WITHOUT going into a deep, psychological discussion
of the elements in men's souls that breed
events, we may say with truth that the Lazy A ranch
was as other ranches in the smooth tenor of its life
until one day in June, when the finger of fate wrote
bold and black across the face of it the word that blotted
out prosperity, content, warm family ties,—all those
things that go to make life worth while.
Carl Douglas suicided yesterday, leaving letter confessing
murder of Croft. Had just completed transfer of land and
cattle to your name. Am taking steps placing matter
before governor immediately expect him to act at once upon
pardon. Bring your man my office at once deposition may
be required. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 34 | Author: | Brann, William Cowper | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE dispatches state that during the three weeks George
Gould was lazing and luxuriating in a foreign land "the
business revival added at least $15,000,000 to the value of
the Gold securities." Gadzooks! how sweet idleness must
be when sugared with more than $714,000 per day! I'm
willing to loaf for half the lucre. How refreshing it is to
contemplate our plutocrats lying beside their nectar like a
job lot of Olympian gods—"careless of mankind"—while
"—they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands,
Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands,
Clanging fights and flaming towns, and sinking ships and
praying hands." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 36 | Author: | Brown, Charles Brockden | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS the second son of a farmer, whose place of residence was a
western
district of
Pennsylvania. My eldest brother seemed fitted by nature for the
employment to which he was
destined. His wishes never led him astray from the hay-stack and
the
furrow. His ideas never
ranged beyond the sphere of his vision, or suggested the
possibility that
to-morrow could differ
from today. He could read and write, because he had no alternative
between learning the lesson
prescribed to him and punishment. He was diligent, as long as fear
urged
him forward, but his
exertions ceased with the cessation of this motive. The limits of
his
acquirements consisted in
signing his name, and spelling out a chapter in the bible. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 38 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Little Lord Fauntleroy | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | CEDRIC himself knew nothing whatever about it. It had never
been even mentioned to him. He knew that his papa had
been an Englishman, because his mamma had told him so;
but then his papa had died when he was so little a boy that he could
not remember very much about him, except that he was big, and
had blue eyes and a long mustache, and that it was a splendid thing
to be carried around the room on his shoulder. Since his papa's
death, Cedric had found out that it was best not to talk to his
mamma about him. When his father was ill, Cedric had been sent
away, and when he had returned, everything was over; and his
mother, who had been very ill, too, was only just beginning to sit
in her chair by the window. She was pale and thin, and all the
dimples had gone from her pretty face, and her eyes looked large
and mournful, and she was dressed in black. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 40 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The White People | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | PERHAPS the things which happened could
only have happened to me. I do not
know. I never heard of things like them
happening to any one else. But I am not sorry
they did happen. I am in secret deeply and
strangely glad. I have heard other people say
things—and they were not always sad people,
either—which made me feel that if they knew
what I know it would seem to them as though
some awesome, heavy load they had always
dragged about with them had fallen from their
shoulders. To most people everything is so
uncertain that if they could only see or hear and
know something clear they would drop upon
their knees and give thanks. That was what I
felt myself before I found out so strangely, and
I was only a girl. That is why I intend to
write this down as well as I can. It will not be
very well done, because I never was clever at all,
and always found it difficult to talk. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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