| | 51 | Author: | Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II.  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | PRESENTIMENTS are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are
signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not
yet found the key. I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because
I have had strange ones of my own. Sympathies, I believe, exist (for
instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives
asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to
which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal
comprehension. And signs, for aught we know, may be but the sympathies
of Nature with man. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 52 | Author: | Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I. | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THERE was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been
wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but
since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the
cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so
penetrating, that further outdoor exercise was now out of the question. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 54 | Author: | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | At The Earth`s Core | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN THE FIRST PLACE PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT I
do not expect you to believe this story. Nor could you
wonder had you witnessed a recent experience of mine
when, in the armor of blissful and stupendous
ignorance, I gaily narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of the
Royal Geological Society on the occasion of my last
trip to London. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 56 | 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 |
| 57 | 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 |
| 58 | 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 |
| 59 | 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 |
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