| | 122 | Author: | Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MAJOR AMBERSON had "made a fortune" in 1878, when other people were losing
fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then. Magnificence,
like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo
may now perceive, if he has happened to haunt New York in 1916; and the Ambersons
were magnificent in their day and place. Their splendour lasted throughout
all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city,
but reached its topmost during the period when every prosperous family with
children kept a Newfoundland dog. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 128 | Author: | Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | democracy in America, volume 1 | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during
my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly
than the general equality of conditions. I readily discovered
the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on the
whole course of society, by giving a certain direction to public
opinion, and a certain tenor to the laws; by imparting new maxims
to the governing powers, and peculiar habits to the governed. I
speedily perceived that the influence of this fact extends far
beyond the political character and the laws of the country, and
that it has no less empire over civil society than over the
Government; it creates opinions, engenders sentiments, suggests
the ordinary practices of life, and modifies whatever it does not
produce. The more I advanced in the study of American society,
the more I perceived that the equality of conditions is the
fundamental fact from which all others seem to be derived, and
the central point at which all my observations constantly
terminated. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 134 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tom Sawyer Abroad / by Mark Twain. | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all
them adventures? I mean the adventures we had
down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free
and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only
just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it
had. You see, when we three came back up the river
in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and
the village received us with a torchlight procession and
speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and shouted, it
made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had
always been hankering to be. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 138 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance by Mark Twain [pseud.] with
illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT WAS IN 1590—winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep;
it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever.
Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the
mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But
they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were
all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember,
too, the pleasure it gave me. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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