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ár a könyvön:
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ár a könyvön:
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ár a könyvön:
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chapter one
TO SOUTHAMPTON
I WILL BEGIN, I SAID, WHERE A MAN MIGHT WELL FIRST land, at Southampton. There was a motor-coach going to Southampton—there seems to be a m.otor-coach going anywhere in this island—and I caught it. I caught it with the minimum of clothes, a portable typewriter,...
AH KING
I was in Singapore, about to start on a journey through Borneo, Indo-China and Siam, and I wanted a servant who could turn his hand to anything. I asked my friends if they knew a Chinese who was looking for a job, and they all knew the very man who would have suited me, but unfortunately...
PHILIP.
CHAPTER 1.
Doctor Fell.
"Not attend her own son when he is ill!" said my mother. ''She does not deserve to have a son!" And Mrs. Pendennis looked towards her own only darling whilst uttering this indignant exclamation. As she looked, I know what passed through her mind. She nursed me;...
THE SILVER BOX.ACT L SCENE I.The curtain rises on the Barthwicks' dining-room, large, modern, and well furnished; the window curtains drawn. Electric light is burning. On the large round dining-table is set out a tray with whisky, a syphon, and a silver cigarette-box. It is past mid-night.A...
Preface to the 4l8t Edition
The Pocket Dictionary has been subjected to a thorough revision, and care has been taken, in preparing this edition, to bring it up to date, by including, especiidly, terms recently coined. It is to bfe hoped that the book, in its new form, will be as successful as...
PREAMBLE
"But why not?" Mrs. Dodge said, leading the "Discussion" at the Woman's Saturday Club after the reading of Mrs. Cromwell's essay, "Women as Revealed in Some Phases of Modern Literature." "Why shouldn't something of the actual life of such women as ourselves be the subject of a book?"...
WILLIAM PITT.
William Pitt , the second son of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and of Lady Hester Grenville, daughter of Hester, Countess Temple, was born on the 28th of May 1759. The child inherited a name which, at the time of his birth, was the most illustrious in the civilised world, and was...
CHAPTER ONE
when martha awoke it was still dark and bitter cold. The wind, pouring across the North Sea, struck freezingly through the cracks which old subsidences had opened in the two-roomed house. Waves pounded distantly. The rest was silence.
She lay quite still in the kitchen bed, holding...
THREE MEN ON THE BUMMEL.CHAPTER I.Three men need change.Anecdote showing evil result of deception.Moral cowardice of George.Harris has ideas.Yarn of the Ancient Mariner and the Inexperienced Yachtsman.A hearty crew.Danger of sailing when the wind is off the land. Impossibility of sailing when the...
NO CASTLE IN SPAINIThere are so many kinds of girls nowadays, the English languageif we leave out the slangcan hardly cope with their infinite variety. And slang changes too quickly to be of use; it has its own infinite variety. And it rarely describes the things of the spirit. The most modern kind...
AUTHOR'S NOTECertain changes have been made in this novel since its serial publication.As the law stands at present writers of fiction are in a very awkward predicament. Choosing the names of their characters at haphazard, from Bradshaw's Guide, the telephone directory, or, as is the practice of...
HELEN'S BABIES.
The first cause, so far as it can be determined, of the existence of this book may be found in the following letter, written by my only married sister, and received by me, Harry Burton, salesman of white goods, bachelor, aged twenty-eight, and received just as I was trying to...
JUSTICE.
ACT L
The scene is the managing clerk's room, at the offices of James and Walter How, on a July morning. The room is old'fashioned, furnished with well-worn mahogany and leather, and lined with tin boxes and estate plans. It has three doors. Two of them are close together in the centre...
ROMEO AND JULIETDRAMATIS PERSONS.Esc alus, prince of Verona. Balthasar, servant to Romeo. Paris, a young nobleman, kins- Sampson, ) servLmts tq c letman to the pnnce.Gregory, )1M , 1 heads of two houses Peter, servant to Juliet's nurse. Montague, l &t varjance with Abraham, servant to Montague....
THE
TRAGEDY OF THE KOROSKO.
CHAPTER 1.
The public may possibly wonder why it is that they have never heard in the papers of the fate of the passengers of the Korosko. hi these days of universal press agencies, responsive to the shghtest stimuhis, it may well seem incredible that an...
PREFACE Although by nature and choice a novelist above all else, Pearl S. Buck has written a great many shorter pieces. No one has been aware of the number and variety of these. Even the author herself had forgottén two or three which have been brought to light by earnest search, and it is by no...
THE SILVER BOX. ACT I. SCENE I. The curtain rises on the Barthwicks> dining-room, large, modern, and well furnished; the window curtains draivn. Electric light is burning. On the large round dining-table is set out a tray with whisky, a syphon, and a silver cigarette-box. It is past midnight. A...
TO HENRY H 0 P E. It is not because this volume was conceived and partly executed amid the glades and galleries of the Deep de ne, that I have inscribed it with your name. Nor merely because I was desirous to avail myself of the most graceful privilege of an author, and dedicate my work to the...
OUT OF THE EAST.
L
THE DREAM OF A SUMMER DAY.
I.
The hotel seemed to me a paradise, and the maids thereof celestial beings. This was because I had just fled away from one of the Open Ports, where I had ventured to seek comfort in a European hotel, supplied with all "modern improvements." To...
THE LIFE AND OPINIONS
OF
TRISTRAM SHANDY,
GENTLEMAN.
CHAPTER I.
I WISH either my father or my motlier, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me: had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were...
FOLLOWING ANN
CHAPTER I greatness thrust upon him
In accordance witli his admirable daily custom, Mr. Joseph Pargiter Moon, A.R.A., was taking a bath. The iact would have been obvious to any person with a knowledge of Mr. Moon's habits who chanced to be within a hundred-yard radius, for Mr....
DVORWORTAS vorliegende Werk fesselt nicht nur durch seinen ergreifenden Stoff und seinen wirkungsvollen Aufbau, sondern auch durch seine Sprache: hat doch der Dichter hier von den lebendigen Lautformen und Wendungen der Umgangssprache und der Sprache der unteren Volksschichten reichen Gebrauch...
PRELUDE
ON A JUNE EVENING, JUST OVER A YEAR BEFORE THE War, seven of the eight girls in dressing-room No. 45 of the Orient Palace of Varieties were preparing themselves as rapidly as possible for their appearance in the ballet divertissement with which the performance opened. Conversation was by...
JUST LIKE AUNT BERTHA
CHAPTER I
The Great Man had deHvered his speech in the wonderful voice that caused parents to think of certain nights at the theatre in the past when they, too, were younger, and when daughters, now entered for the competition, had —in the mothers' own phrase—not been...
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN.FIRST ACT.Scene:Morning-room of Lord Windermere's hotise in Carlton House Terrace. Doors C. and R. Bureau with books and papers R. Sofa with small tea-table L. Window opening onto terrace L. Table R.(Lady Windermere is at table R., arranging roses in a blue bozvl.){Enter...
TWO LITTLE WOODEN SHOES.
A SKETCH.
CHAPTER I.
Bebee sprang out of bed at daybreak. She was sixteen.
It seemed a very wonderful thing to be as much as that—sixteen—a woman quite.
A cock was crowing under her lattice—he said how old you are!—-how old you are! every time that he sounded...
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. DRAMATIS PERSONA. Duke of Venice.Launcelot Gobbo, a clown, Prince of Morocco, ^ suitors toservant to Shylock. Prínce of Arragon, f Portia.Old Gobbo, father to Launcelot, Antonio, a merchantLeonardo, servant to Bassanio. BASSANlo.hiskinsmanandfriend.BalthazarJ, , o...
LETTER OF DEDICATION.
TO CHARLES JAMES WARD, Esq.
It has long been one of my pleasantest anticipations to look forward to the time when I might offer to you, my old and dear friend, some such acknowledgment of the value I place on your affection for me, and of my grateful sense of the many acts...
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.dramatis person..A Lord.Gremio, ) ^^itors to Bianca. Persons Hortensio,}in the Tranio, { servants to Lu-In- Biondello,} centio.Christopher Sly, a tinker.Hostess, Page, Players,Huntsmen, and Ser- duction.Grumio, 'I servants to Pedants.Curtis, &c.f tmchio.Baptista, a gentleman...
PREFACE.As the present edition of Shakespeare is unaccompanied by any commentary, a brief notice concerning the text may be thought necessary.Though my first edition of the great dramatist was, on the whole, very favourably received, I could not deny that there was reason for the objection made to...
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL.
CHAPTER L paris: september 1792.
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd, of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time...
I WILL REPAY.
PROLOGUE.
I.
paris: 1783.
"Coward! Coward! Coward!"
The words rang out, clear, strident, passionate, in a crescendo of agonised humiliation.
The boy, quivering with rage, had sprung to his feet, and, losing his balance, he fell forward clutching at the table, whilst with a...
Preface
This book was planned in 1930 as a revised edition of the Dictionary of the English and Germán Language by William James, published by Bernhard Tauchnitz A.G. It was being worked on these lines up to 1932, when its production was held up through a change of ownership in the Tauchnitz...
THE WHITE MONKEY
PART I
CHAPTER I promenade
Coming down the steps of Snooks' Club, so well Avorn by the apostles of things as they were, on that momentous mid-October afternoon of 1922, Sir Lawrence Mont, ninth baronet, set his fine nose towards the east wind, and moved his thin legs with...
MEET MR. MULLINERITHE TRUTH ABOUT GEORGETwo men were sitting in the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest as I entered it; and one of them, I gathered from his low, excited voice and wide gestures, was telling the other a story. I could hear nothing but an occasional "Biggest I ever saw in my life!" and...
HAMLET,PRINCE OF DENMARK.dramatis personie.Claudius , king of Denmark. Marcellus , ^ ^fj^^ers Hamlet, son to the former, and Bernardo, |nephew to the present king. Francisco , a soldier. polonius, lord chamberlain. Horatio, friend to Hamlet.> courtiers.Laertes , son to Polonius....
CORIOLANUS.
dramatis personie.
Caius Március, afterwards Tullus Aufidius, general of Caius Március Coriolanus, the Volscians. a noble Roman. Lieutenant to Aufidius.
Titus Lartius, ) generals against Conspirators with Aufidius. CoMiNius, I the Volscians. A Citizen of Antium. Menenius Agrippa,...
JILL
I
The Oliver Galbraiths had to pay super-tax. They were, like all those who are subject to this outrage, badly off. Cathie Galbraith could have either a car, or a maid of her own, but not both.
She chose the car, and did her own hair, and the housemaid did her mending.
Galbraith was a...
THE FIRST PARTofKING HENRY IV.dramatis personne.King Henry the Fourth. Henry, prince ofWales,sons to thePrince John of King.Lancaster, Earl of Westmoreland. Sir Walter Blunt. Thomas Percy, earl of Worcester.Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland.Henry Percy, sumamed Hot-Owen Glen dower. Sir Richard...
PREFACE FOR POLITICIANS John Bull's Other Island was written in 1904 at the request of Mr. William Butler Yeats, as a patriotic contribution to the repertory of the Irish Literary Theatre. Like most people who have asked me to write plays, Mr. Yeats got rather more than he bargained for. The play...
the second jungle book.
HOW FEAR CAME.
The stream is shrunk—the pool is dry,
And. we be comrades, thou and I;
With fevered jowl and dusty flank
Each jostling each along the bank;
And by one drouthy fear made still
Foregoing thought of quest or kill.
Now 'neath his dam the fawn may...
HENRIETTA'S WISH;
OR,
DOMINEERING.
CHAPTER I.
On the afternoon of a warm day in the end of July, an open carriage was waiting in front of the painted toy-looking building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the attacks of hosts of...
MOSES AND JESUS.
In dream I saw two Jews that met by chance, One old, stern-eyed, deep-browed, yet garlanded With living light of love around his head, The other young, with sweet seraphic glance. Around went on the Town's satanic dance, Hunger a-piping while at heart he bled. Shalom Aleichem,...
THE GOLDEN CALF.CHAPTER I.the articled pupil."Where is Miss Palliser?" inquired Miss Pew, in that awful voice of hers, at which the class-room trembled, as at unexpected thunder. A murmur ran along the desks, from girl to girl, and then some one, near that end of the long room which was sacred to...
the happy prince-
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt
He was very much admired indeed. "He is as beautiful as a...
THE INVISIBLE MAN.CHAPTER I.the strange man's arrival.The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst Railway Station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly-gloved...
AN IDEAL HUSBAND.
FIRST ACT. Scene:
The octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house in Grosvenor Square.
*
{The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands Lady Chil-tern, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the...
LILY CHRISTINE
CHAPTER ONE
In the tranquil and sympathetic mingling of their memories, that Saturday night became something unique and very charming.
It was a memory to linger with, and linger they did, for what in the world came easier to them? They had a way of looking back on somebody,...