| | 86 | Author: | Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-nineties  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by
Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for
Soames, Enoch. It was as I feared: he was not there. But everybody else
was. Many writers whom I had quite forgotten, or remembered but
faintly, lived again for me, they and their work, in Mr. Holbrook
Jackson's pages. The book was as thorough as it was brilliantly written.
And thus the omission found by me was an all the deadlier record of poor
Soames's failure to impress himself on his decade. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 90 | Author: | Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Zuleika Dobson / Max Beerbohm ; Introduction by Francis Hackett | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THAT old bell, presage of a train, had just
sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates
who were waiting there, gay figures
in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the
platform and gazed idly up the line. Young
and careless, in the glow of the afternoon sunshine,
they struck a sharp note of incongruity
with the worn boards they stood on, with the
fading signals and grey eternal walls of that antique
station, which, familiar to them and insignificant,
does yet whisper to the tourist the last
enchantments of the Middle Age. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 96 | 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 |
| 98 | Author: | Boyce, Neith | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "Prigs" and "Cads" in Fiction | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A RECENT review puts the question thus: "Although women make the amenities of life, and
men would soon 'hottentot,' as Miss Edgeworth has it, if left to themselves, why is it that
women's heroes are almost invariably prigs or cads of the first water?" And the reviewer adds:
"We thought we had reached the limit in Daniel Deronda, but even he shows up well beside Mrs.
Wharton's insufferable Selden: and now here is Barry Carleton filling us with a vulgar but lively
desire to 'punch his head for him.'" | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 100 | 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 |
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