| | 67 | Author: | Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN it was determined to extend the
present edition of Fielding, not merely
by the addition of Jonathan Wild to the
three universally popular novels, but by two volumes
of Miscellanies, there could be no doubt about
at least one of the contents of these latter. The
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, if it does not rank
in my estimation anywhere near to Jonathan Wild
as an example of our author's genius, is an invaluable
and delightful document for his character
and memory. It is indeed, as has been pointed
out in the General Introduction to this series, our
main source of indisputable information as to
Fielding dans son naturel, and its value, so far as
it goes, is of the very highest. The gentle and
unaffected stoicism which the author displays
under a disease which he knew well was probably,
if not certainly, mortal, and which, whether mortal
or not, must cause him much actual pain and discomfort
of a kind more intolerable than pain itself;
his affectionate care for his family; even little
personal touches, less admirable, but hardly
less pleasant than these, showing an Englishman's
dislike to be "done'' and an Englishman's
determination to be treated with proper respect, are
scarcely less noticeable and important on the biographical
side than the unimpaired brilliancy of
his satiric and yet kindly observation of life and
character is on the side of literature. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 73 | Author: | Gale, Zona | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Friday | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HEMPEL had watched the hands of the clock make all the motions of
the hour, from the trim segment of eleven to the lazy down-stretch of
twenty minutes past, the slim erectness of the half-hour, the
promising angles of the three quarters, ten, five to twelve, and last
the unanimity and consummation of noon. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 78 | Author: | Gorky, Maxim | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Creatures That Once Were Men | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN front of you is the main street, with two rows of miserable
looking huts with shuttered windows and old walls pressing on each other
and leaning forward. The roofs of these time-worn habitations are full
of holes, and have been patched here and there with laths; from underneath
them project mildewed beams, which are shaded by the dusty-leaved
elder-trees and crooked white willows—pitiable flora of those suburbs
inhabited by the poor. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 80 | Author: | Gordon, Irwin L. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Who Was Who: 5000 B.C. to Date:
Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be. | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ADAM[1] (last name unknown), ancestor, explorer,
gardener, and inaugurator of history. Biographers
differ as to his parentage. Born first
Saturday of year 1. Little is known of his childhood.
Education: Self-educated. Entered the
gardening and orchard business when a young
man. Was a strong anti-polygamist. Married
Eve, a close relative. Children, Cain and Abel
(see them). Was prosperous for some years, but
eventually fell prey to his wife's fruitful ambitions.
Lost favor of the proprietor of the garden, and
failed in business. A. started a number of things
which have not been perfected. Diet: Fond of
apples. Recreation: Chess, agriculture. Address:
Eden, General Delivery. Clubs: Member of all
exclusive clubs. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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