| | 321 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Last Gift  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ROBINSON CARNES pilgrimmed along the country road between Sanderson
and Elmville. He wore a shabby clerical suit, and he carried a
rusty black bag which might have contained sermons. It did
actually hold one sermon, a favorite which he had delivered many
times in many pulpits, and in which he felt a certain covert pride
of authorship. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 322 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Revolt of Sophia Lane | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE level of new snow in Sophia Lane's north yard was broken by
horse's tracks and the marks of sleigh-runners. Sophia's second
cousin, Mrs. Adoniram Cutting, her married daughter Abby Dodd, and
unmarried daughter Eunice had driven over from Addison, and put up
their horse and sleigh in Sophia's clean, unused barn. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 323 | Author: | Friedland, Louis S. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anton Chekhov | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | We are about to come into possession of Chekhov. It will be a
priceless possession, for Chekhov is indispensable to our understanding
of the psychology of the great people that has introduced into the present
world situation an element so complex, so disturbing, so tragic and
beautiful. Chekhov is the faithful reporter, unerring, intuitive, direct. He
never bears false witness. The essence of his art lies in a fine restraint,
an avoidance of the sensational and the spectacular. His reticence reveals
the elusive and lights up the enigmatic. And what a keen, voracious
observer he was! Endless is the procession of types that passes through
his pages — the whole world of Russians of his day: country gentlemen,
chinovniks, waitresses, ladies of fashion, shopgirls, town physicians,
Zemstvo doctors, innkeepers, peasants, herdsmen, soldiers, tradesmen,
every type of the intelligentsia, children, men and women of every class
and occupation. Chekhov describes them all with a pen that knows no
bias. He eschews specialization in types. In a letter written to his friend
Plescheyev, Chekhov draws in one stroke a swift, subtle parallel between
the two authors, Shcheglov and Korolenko, and then he goes on to say,
"But, Allah, Kerim! Why do they both specialize? One refuses to part
with his prisoners, the other feeds his readers on staff officers. I
recognize specialization in art, such as genres, landscape, history; I
understand the 'emploi' of the actor, the school of the musician, but I
cannot accept such specialization as prisoners, officers, priests. This is
no longer specialization; it is bias." Chekhov ignores no phase of the life
of his day. This inclusiveness, this large and noble avidity that refuses to
be circumscribed by class or kind or importance, makes the sum of his
stories both ample and satisfying. His work illuminates the whole of
Russian life, the main thoroughfares, the bypaths, the unfrequented
recesses. Without Chekhov, how are we to embark on the discovery of
Russia? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 327 | Author: | Furman, Lucy S. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Course of True Love: Kentucky Mountain Sketch | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE story of the falling in love of Philip Floyd at the
Settlement School on Perilous Creek soon after his thirteenth birthday,
and of the transforming effects of the tender passion upon his person
and character, has already been related.[1]
Under the exacting requirements of little Dilsey Warrick, his
earwashings, head-combings, tooth-brushings, and clothes-mendings, not
to speak of his violent attacks of manners and generosity, were such as
to make Miss Loring wish that each and every one of her twelve boys
might quickly experience a like metamorphosis. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 328 | Author: | Furman, Lucy S. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Special Providence | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MRS. MELISSA ALLGOOD settled herself in her rocking-chair for a
good talk. "I was telling you," she began, "about Sister Belle
Keen and Brother Singleton and me being a Holiness Band last
summer, and preaching all around in middle Kentucky, and about
Brother Singleton taking down so sick at Smithsboro, and Sister
Belle getting her eyes opened, and marrying him, and taking him
home. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 331 | Author: | Le Gallienne, Richard | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "The Woman Behind the Man" | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Thus is a man created — to do all his work for some woman,
Do it for her and her only, only to lay at her feet;
Yet in his talk to pretend, shyly and fiercely maintain it,
That all is for love of the work — toil just for love of the toil.
Yet was there never a battle, but side by side with the soldiers,
Stern like the serried corn, fluttered the souls of the women,
As in and out through the corn go the blue-eyed shapes of the flowers;
Yet was there never a strength but a woman's softness upheld it,
Never a Thebes of our dreams but it rose to the music of woman —
Iron and stone it might stand, but the women had breathed on the building;
Yea, no man shall make or unmake, ere some woman hath made him a
man. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 332 | Author: | Garland, Hamlin | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Drifting Crane | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE people of Boomtown invariably spoke of Henry Wilson as the
oldest settler in the Jim Valley, as he was of Buster County; but
the Eastern man, with his ideas of an "old settler," was surprised
as he met the short, silent, middle-aged man, who was very loath to
tell anything about himself, and about whom many strange and
thrilling stories were told by good story-tellers. In 1870 he was
the only settler in the upper part of the valley, living alone on
the banks of the Elm, a slow, tortuous stream pulsing lazily down
the valley, too small to be called a river and too long to be
called a creek. For two years, it is said, Wilson had only the
company of his cattle, especially during the winter-time, and now
and then a visit from an Indian, or a trapper after mink and musk-rats. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 333 | Author: | Garshine, Mikhailovich Vsevolod, 1855-1888 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Gipsy's Bear — A Story | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the steppe the town of Bielsk nestles on the river Rokhla. In
September of 1857 the town was in a state of unwonted excitement. The
Government's order for the killing of the bears was to be executed. The
unhappy gipsies had journeyed to Bielsk from four districts with all their
household effects, their horses and their bears. More than a hundred of
these awkward beasts, ranging from tiny cubs to huge "old men" whose
coats had become whitish-gray with age, had collected on the town
common. The gipsies had been given five years' grace from the
publication of the order prohibiting performing bears, and this period
had expired. They were now to appear at specified places and
themselves destroy their supporters. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 334 | Author: | Garland, Hamlin | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Two Stories of Oklahoma | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | NUKO, an Arapahoe warrior, owned a rooster which he kept in his
camp near the agency on the Canadian River of Oklahoma. He guarded
his pet with zealous care. It was his inseparable companion, often
carried under his arm as he galloped across the prairie on his
visits to his friends and relatives. No ridicule could cause him
to neglect his pet. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 336 | Author: | Gill, William Fearing | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Edgar Allan Poe—After Fifty Years | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN Rufus W. Griswold, "the pedagogue vampire," as he was aptly
termed by one of his contemporaries, committed the immortal infamy
of blighting a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's works, which he
found ready at hand, by supplementing his perfunctory labors with
a calumniating memoir of the poet, nearly fifty years ago, there
were many protests uttered by the poet's contemporaries at home and
abroad. Charles Baudelaire, the Poe of French literature, in his
tribute to the dead poet, indignantly wrote: "What is the matter
with America? Are there, then, no regulations there to keep the
curs out of the cemeteries?" In view of the fact that the Griswold
biography of Poe has been incontestably discredited, and proved to
be merely a scaffolding of malevolent falsehoods—the outcome of
malice and mendacity—the deference paid to Griswold and his
baleful work in the memoir accompanying the latest publication of
Poe's writings seems well-nigh incomprehensible. Professor
Woodberry excuses the detractions of Poe's vilifier, "in view of
the contemporary uncertainty of Poe's fame, the difficulty of
obtaining a publisher, and the fact that the editorial work was not
paid for." Most amazing reasons, indeed, in justification of
Griswold's interposition as the poet's biographer—an office that
had been specially bequeathed by the dying genius to his bosom
friend, Nathaniel P. Willis. Had Willis shirked this
responsibility, there might have been some excuse for Griswold and
his horde of gutter-snipes, who wreaked their venom upon the name
of Poe, outraging every tenet of common decency; but Willis
performed his delegated duty reverently, sympathetically, and
adequately. No publisher with any sense of justice would have
presumed to include any other memoir than that of Willis in the
original edition of Poe's works. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 337 | Author: | Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Herland | | | | Published: | 1992 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | This is written from memory, unfortunately. If I could have
brought with me the material I so carefully prepared, this would
be a very different story. Whole books full of notes, carefully
copied records, firsthand descriptions, and the pictures — that's
the worst loss. We had some bird's-eyes of the cities and parks;
a lot of lovely views of streets, of buildings, outside and in, and
some of those gorgeous gardens, and, most important of all, of
the women themselves. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 340 | Author: | Gilman, Arthur | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Women Who Go to College | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It could be truthfully said thirty years ago that there was no
system in woman's education, and one need not go far backward in
the history of the subject to reach the time when, so far as any
advanced instruction whatever is concerned, woman was almost
completely overlooked. In the Middle Ages, when education was an
accomplishment of the very few, and was considered a necessity for
no one except the professional clerics, and not always for them,
women had a chance to get the small measure of learning that was
within the reach of common men. As the world in general grew
wiser, women were left behind and were obliged to satisfy in
private any scholarly longings that they might have, or to sit
illiterate in their towers embroidering shields for graceless
Launcelots and singing the "song of love and death." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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