| | 21 | Author: | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LIEUTENANT ALBERT WERPER had only the prestige of the
name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape
from being cashiered. At first he had been humbly thankful,
too, that they had sent him to this Godforsaken Congo post
instead of court-martialing him, as he had so justly deserved;
but now six months of the monotony, the frightful
isolation and the loneliness had wrought a change. The
young man brooded continually over his fate. His days were
filled with morbid self-pity, which eventually engendered in
his weak and vacillating mind a hatred for those who had
sent him here—for the very men he had at first inwardly
thanked for saving him from the ignominy of degradation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 22 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Secret Garden | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor
to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most
disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too.
She had a little thin face and a little thin body,
thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow,
and her face was yellow because she had been born in
India and had always been ill in one way or another.
Her father had held a position under the English
Government and had always been busy and ill himself,
and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only
to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people.
She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary
was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah,
who was made to understand that if she wished to please
the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much
as possible. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little
baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became
a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of
the way also. She never remembered seeing familiarly
anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other
native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave
her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib
would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying,
by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical
and selfish a little pig as ever lived. The young English
governess who came to teach her to read and write disliked
her so much that she gave up her place in three months,
and when other governesses came to try to fill it they
always went away in a shorter time than the first one.
So if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how
to read books she would never have learned her letters at all. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 23 | Author: | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tarzan the Untamed | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HAUPTMANN FRITZ SCHNEIDER trudged wearily through
the somber aisles of the dark forest. Sweat rolled down
his bullet head and stood upon his heavy jowls and bull
neck. His lieutenant marched beside him while Underlieutenant
von Goss brought up the rear, following with a handful of
askaris the tired and all but exhausted porters whom the black
soldiers, following the example of their white officer,
encouraged with the sharp points of bayonets and the metal-shod
butts of rifles. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 24 | Author: | Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Erewhon; or, Over the range | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | If the reader will excuse me, I will say nothing of my antecedents, nor of
the circumstances which led me to leave my native country; the narrative
would be tedious to him and painful to myself. Suffice it, that when I left
home it was with the intention of going to some new colony, and either finding,
or even perhaps purchasing, waste crown land suitable for cattle or sheep
farming, by which means I thought that I could better my fortunes more rapidly
than in England. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 28 | Author: | Chopin, Kate | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Beyond the Bayou / by Kate Chopin | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE bayou curved like a crescent around the point of land on
which La Folle's cabin stood. Between the stream and the hut lay
a big abandoned field, where cattle were pastured when the bayou
supplied them with water enough. Through the woods that spread
back into unknown regions the woman had drawn an imaginary line,
and past this circle she never stepped. This was the form of her
only mania. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 31 | Author: | Cleland, John, 1709-1789. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Memoirs of Fanny Hill. | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your
desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I
shall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of which I
emerged, at length, to the enjoyment of every blessing in the power of
love, health, and fortune to bestow; whilst yet in the flower of youth,
and not too late to employ the leisure afforded me by great ease and
affluence, to cultivate an understanding, naturally not a despicable
one, and which had, even amidst the whirl of loose pleasures I had been
toss'd in, exerted more observation on the characters and manners
of the world than what is common to those of my unhappy profession, who
looking on all thought or reflection as their capital enemy, keep it at
as great a distance as they can, or destroy it without mercy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 32 | Author: | Crissey, Forrest | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tattlings of a Retired Politician | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Being the remarks of "Bill" Bradley, former legislator, congressman, Governor
and United States Senator, to his younger friend Ned, who has written that
he has a cinch on a re-election and that he proposes to take it easy in this
campaign, as there is no need of hustling. Incidentally the retired "party
warhorse" expresses himself on the irksomeness of "existence by corporate
courtesy" and the delights of retirement. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 39 | Author: | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Battle of Life | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England,
it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought
upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a
wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand to be a perfumed goblet for
the dew, felt its enamelled cup filled high with blood that day,
and shrinking dropped. Many an insect deriving its delicate colour
from harmless leaves and herbs, was stained anew that day by dying
men, and marked its frightened way with an unnatural track. The
painted butterfly took blood into the air upon the edges of its
wings. The stream ran red. The trodden ground became a quagmire,
whence, from sullen pools collected in the prints of human feet and
horses' hoofs, the one prevailing hue still lowered and glimmered
at the sun. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 40 | Author: | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A child`s history of England / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by Marcus Stone. | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IF you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand
upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the
sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and
Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the
next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small
upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of
Scotland,—broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length
of time, by the power of the restless water. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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