HENRY JAMES Ultimate Collection: 22 Novels, 112 Short Stories, 12 Plays, 6 Travel Books, 100+ Essays, 3 Autobiographies & 3 Biographies (Illustrated)

... spade (without telling David) or David gives him the logs to saw (without telling Maggie). We have given James a longer time to make his move than our kind friends in front will give him, but in the meantime something has been happening.

... amethyst. Involuntarily they halted. Alison pointed to lights a mile down ... frontier. Let's stop here for supper, and have our last look at Evallonia ... brave man,” he told himself. “The thing about you is that you're too much of a ...

... character is seen in every page, which makes the book interesting — far more interesting than any story could do; but it is what the writer himself says that attracts far more than what he puts into the mouths of his characters. G. H. ...

... effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting. We may continue the reading of a prose ...

... love- match , she keeps on hand a few common mortals . At the worst she would take a duke , an English lord , or even a young American with a proper number of millions . The poor woman must be rather uncomfortable . She is always ...

... R. C. What do you call religion? Old Gent. By religion, I mean the worshipping and paying homage to some supreme being; some God, known or unknown is not to the case, so it be but to something counted supreme. R. C. It is true, madam ...

... prelude to each, a complete artillery preparation, and that, since the ... cataclysm. In the first two months of the Somme battle some forty-four German ... a shattering blow at his moral. For two years the German behind the shelter ...

... brother, polite towards her, secretly uneasy at the state of things between his father and himself. She would never have guessed the concealed romance which lay perdu under that every-day behaviour. She had always wished to come into ...

... law. The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralise about it. He did not even think the ...

... window seat , sufficiently near to each other to nudge the points of their ... chords and runs with which he could not quarrel but which he had heard too ... chords hauntingly reminiscent of its full vigor that seemed still to linger in ...

... play refreshingly through his hair. Dark as were his thoughts his blue eyes were as soft as the periwinkle. Intently he listened for any sound from the nether world, but all was as silent below as above; the house under the ground ...

... full of fruits and flowers, arranged in the most beautiful order, with walks, colonnades, aqueducts, canals, ponds ... crank,” and “taking the finished articles away.” But there is a crank,—O, how hard to be turned! Could there not be a ...

... eleemosynary order — that Toryism takes a genial comfort in. There are ancient charities in these places — hospitals, almshouses, asylums, infant-schools — so quaint and venerable that they almost make the existence of poverty a ...

... brother, polite towards her, secretly uneasy at the state of things between his father and himself. She would never have guessed the concealed romance which lay perdu under that every-day behaviour. She had always wished to come into ...

... love- match , she keeps on hand a few common mortals . At the worst she would take a duke , an English lord , or even a young American with a proper number of millions . The poor woman must be rather uncomfortable . She is always ...

Charles Dickens. Chapter Nine . Town and Todger's Table of Contents Surely there never was , in any other borough ... means of escape might possibly present themselves in their own good time , but that to anticipate them was hopeless .

Including the Autobiography & Collected Letters Rabindranath Tagore. RAGHUPATI. Crime? Yes, my crime was that, in my weakness, I delayed in carrying out Mother's service. The punishment comes from the Goddess. You are merely her ...

... playing," and he would call the governess to take his hand from him and all three of the children would have then to play together a game none of them would have thought of beginning, and they had to keep on going for often he would ...

... comes to be a whole one to me seeing that one . Resisting being is one way ... group then has in a way the same way of handwriting , the same way of ... writing in each one . This is not anything about , good or bad in them , in ...

... irregular verbs , had appeared to Mrs. Robarts to be an especial object of pity . " I don't know how to set about it , " said Mrs. Robarts . Now any allusion to that visit to Hogglestock always drove Lucy's mind back to the ...

... love your brother; I love Frank Gresham; I love him quite as well, quite as ... husband as you wish to have Mr Oriel.” “But, Mary, you cannot marry him ... ways and my ways must be different.” Beatrice was startled, and, for a time ...

... the Short - Time . I first saw them , twelve or fifteen years ago . But since the introduction of the Short - Time system it has been proved here that eighteen hours a week of book - learning are more profitable than thirty- six , and ...

... skip. Dr. Johnson, in one of his violent assertions, declared that “the man who was afraid of anything must be a scoundrel, sir.” By no means binding myself to this opinion— though admitting that the man who is afraid of a newspaper ...

... advice to "live as domestic a life as far as possible," to "have but two hours' intellectual life a day," and "never to touch pen, brush, or pencil again" as long as I lived. This was in 1887. I went home and obeyed those directions for ...

... faction in the Army and already it is in league with the Scots and our own ... guide the ruler of England. Assuredly he had done a citizen's duty and might ... faction was made, half-witted rakes.