| | 122 | Author: | Morley, Christopher | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Parnassus On Wheels  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WONDER if there isn't a lot of bunkum in higher education?
I never found that people who were learned in logarithms and
other kinds of poetry were any quicker in washing dishes or
darning socks. I've done a good deal of reading when I could,
and I don't want to "admit impediments" to the love of books,
but I've also seen lots of good, practical folk spoiled by too
much fine print. Reading sonnets always gives me hiccups, too. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 124 | Author: | Norris, Kathleen | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mother : A Story | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Image of illuminated capitol.
"WELL, we couldn't have much worse weather than this for the last week of
school, could we?" Margaret Paget said in discouragement. She stood at one
of the school windows, her hands thrust deep in her coat pockets for warmth,
her eyes following the whirling course of the storm that howled outside.
The day had commenced with snow, but now, at twelve o'clock, the rain was
falling in sheets, and the barren schoolhouse yard, and the play-shed roof,
ran muddy streams of water. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 125 | Author: | Norris, Frank | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Pit: A Story of Chicago / By Frank Norris | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At eight o'clock in the inner vestibule of the
Auditorium Theatre by the window of the box office,
Laura Dearborn, her younger sister Page, and their
aunt—Aunt Wess'—were still waiting for the rest of
the theatre-party to appear. A great, slow-moving
press of men and women in evening dress filled the
vestibule from one wall to another. A confused murmur
of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all
sides, while from time to time, when the outside and
inside doors of the entrance chanced to be open
simultaneously, a sudden draught of air gushed in,
damp, glacial, and edged with the penetrating keenness
of a Chicago evening at the end of February. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 128 | Author: | Porter, Eleanor H. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Just David | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Far up on the mountain-side stood alone in the clearing. It was
roughly yet warmly built. Behind it jagged cliffs broke the north
wind, and towered gray-white in the sunshine. Before it a tiny
expanse of green sloped gently away to a point where the mountain
dropped in another sharp descent, wooded with scrubby firs and
pines. At the left a footpath led into the cool depths of the
forest. But at the right the mountain fell away again and
disclosed to view the picture David loved the best of all: the
far-reaching valley; the silver pool of the lake with its ribbon
of a river flung far out; and above it the grays and greens and
purples of the mountains that climbed one upon another's
shoulders until the topmost thrust their heads into the wide dome
of the sky itself. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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