| | 101 | Author: | James, Henry | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Turn of the Screw  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except
the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house,
a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till
somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such
a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of
an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasion—an
appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with
his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her not to dissipate
his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also, herself,
before she had succeeded in doing so, the same sight that had shaken him.
It was this observation that drew from Douglas—not immediately, but later
in the evening—a reply that had the interesting consequence to which I call
attention. Someone else told a story not particularly effective, which I
saw he was not following. This I took for a sign that he had himself something
to produce and that we should only have to wait. We waited in fact till two
nights later, but that same evening, before we scattered, he brought out
what was in his mind. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 102 | Author: | Kelly, Myra, 1876-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Christmas Present for a Lady | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It was the week before Christmas, and the First Reader Class, in a lower
East Side school, had, almost to a man, decided on the gifts to be lavished
on "Teacher." She was quite unprepared for any such observance on the part
of her small adherents, for her first study of the roll book had shown her
that its numerous Jacobs, Isidores, and Rachels belonged to a class to which
Christmas Day was much as other days. And so she went serenely on her way,
all unconscious of the swift and strict relation between her manner and her
chances. She was, for instance, the only person in the room who did not know
that her criticism of Isidore Belchatosky's hands and face cost her a tall
"three for ten cents" candlestick and a plump box of candy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 104 | Author: | Lewis, Sinclair | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE ticket-taker of the Nickelorion Moving-Picture Show is a
public personage, who stands out on Fourteenth Street, New York,
wearing a gorgeous light-blue coat of numerous brass buttons.
He nods to all the patrons, and his nod is the most cordial
in town. Mr. Wrenn used to trot down to Fourteenth Street,
passing ever so many other shows, just to get that cordial nod,
because he had a lonely furnished room for evenings, and for
daytime a tedious job that always made his head stuffy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 111 | Author: | Lynch, Frederick | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Personal Recollections of Andrew Carnegie / by Frederick Lynch | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I FIRST met Mr. Carnegie on a special train to Tuskegee. Mr. Robert C. Ogden,
chairman of the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee Institute, had invited about
a hundred men and women to be his guests for a week on a special train from
New York to Tuskegee and back. The train was made up of stateroom cars with
two dining cars, and the guests occupied the train all the week, even while
at Tuskegee. (Principal Washington had built a spur from the main road right
into the Tuskegee campus. He used to say of it: "It is not as long as the
New York Central, but it is just as broad.") It was a very happy party. It
was made up largely of University presidents and professors, well-known editors,
many publicists, and a sprinkling of clergymen and authors. Practically every
man on the train was a man of international reputation, but three or four
stood
out among all the rest not only because of eminence, but because of
the good time they were having. They were in picnic mood and were enjoying
the trip immensely. They were often together. I recall especially Mr. Taft,
Mr. Carnegie, Lyman Abbott, President Eliot and Professor Dutton discussing
international affairs. The Philippine question was then to the front and
there was a wide diversity of opinion in this group on that question, and
when the talk veered around to the Philippines, as it always did, a crowd
of us younger men would gather about this group and listen—sometimes egg
the disputants on. Sometimes the disputants would get quite warm on the subject,
and then we heard some rare talk. All phases of internationalism were discussed,
but on this subject the members of the group were pretty well agreed. But
when it came to the question of armament there came a division of the house
again. There were a good many educators on the train, and most of them were
pretty thoroughly in accord with Mr. Carnegie's views, namely, that the
vocational side of education should be stressed, and that science should
replace the classics. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 112 | Author: | McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Brewster`s Millions / by McCutcheon, George Barr | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "The Little Sons of the Rich" were gathered about the long table in Pettingill's
studio. There were nine of them present, besides Brewster. They were all
young, more or less enterprising, hopeful, and reasonably sure of better
things to come. Most of them bore names that meant something in the story
of New York. Indeed, one of them had remarked, "A man is known by the street
that's named after him," and as he was a new member, they called him "Subway." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 118 | 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 |
| 120 | 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 |
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