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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Almost two months had passed. The hot summer was half over, but Sergey Ivanovitch was only just preparing to leave Moscow. Sergey Ivanovitch?s life had not been uneventful during this time. A year ago he had finished his book, the fruit of six years? labor, ?Sketch of a Survey of the Principles and Forms of Government in Europe and Russia.?...

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Excerpt: A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw.

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Excerpt: She Stoops to Conquer; or, the Mistakes of a Night by Oliver Goldsmith.

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Excerpt: Discourse on the method of rightly conducting the reason, and seeking truth in the sciences by Rene Descartes, is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way, does so at his or her own risk. assumes any responsibility for the material contained within thedocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way....

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Excerpt: Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw.

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Excerpt: On comparing with the original Russian some English translations of Count Tolstoi?s works, published both in this country and in England, I concluded that they were far from being accurate. The majority of them were retranslations from the French, and I found that the respective transitions through which they had passed tended to obliterate many of the beauties of the Russian language and of the peculiar characteristics of Russian life. A satisfactory translation can be made only by one who understands the language and spirit of the Russian people. As Tolstoi?s writings contain so many idioms it is not an easy task to render them into intelligible English, and the one who successfully accomplishes this must be a native of Russia, commanding the English and Russian languages with equal fluency....

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Contents TRANSLATOR?S PREFACE ........................................... 4 THE KREUTZER SONATA............................................. 6 IVAN THE FOOL........................................................... 96 A LOST OPPORTUNITY ............................................ 123 POLIKUSHKA .............................................................. 143 THE CANDLE.............................................................. 160...

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Excerpt: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster.

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Excerpt: The Oedipus Trilogy: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone by Sophocles, translated by F. Storr.

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Contents OEDIPUS the KING.........................3 ARGUMENT .....................................3 OEDIPUS THE KING .......................4 OEDIPUS AT COLONUS .............60 ARGUMENT ...................................60 OEDIPUS AT COLONUS ................62 ANTIGONE ..................................128 ARGUMENT .................................128 ANTIGONE ...................................129...

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Excerpt: War and Peace: Four by Leo Tolstoy.

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Excerpt: I heartily accept the motto, ?That government is best which governs least?; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--?That government is best which governs not at all?; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually....

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Excerpt: The Wife and other stories by Anton Chekhov.

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Contents THE WIFE........................................................................................................................................ 4 DIFFICULT PEOPLE.................................................................................................................... 46 THE GRASSHOPPER................................................................................................................... 53 A DREARY STORY ....................................................................................................................... 78 THE PRIVY COUNCILLOR ...................................................................................................... 134 THE MAN IN A CASE ................................................................................................................ 151 GOOSEBERRIES ........................................................................................................................ 163 ABOUT LOVE .............................................................................................................................. 173 THE LOTTERY TICKET ...........................

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Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent....

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Contents I. HISTORY ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 SELF-RELIANCE..................................................................................................................................................... 26 II. SELF-RELIANCE................................................................................................................................................ 26 COMPENSATION .................................................................................................................................................... 50 III. COMPENSATION.............................................................................................................................................. 51 SPIRITUAL LAWS ................................................................................................................................................... 70 IV SPIRITUAL LAWS...............................................................................................................................

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Excerpt: The Divine Comedy, Volume One, Hell [The Inferno] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton.

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Contents INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................7 AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE DIVINE COMEDY .......................................................... 14 HELL .............................................................................. 16 CANTO I. Dante, astray in a wood, reaches the foot of a hill which he begins to ascend; he is hindered by three beasts; he turns back and is met by Virgil, who proposes to guide him into the eternal world. ....................................... 16 CANTO II. Dante, doubtful of his own powers, is discouraged at the outset.?Virgil cheers him by telling him that he has been sent to his aid by a blessed Spirit from Heaven.?Dante casts off fear, and the poets proceed. ................ 19 CANTO III. The gate of Hell.?Virgil lends Dante in.?The punishment of the neither good nor bad.?Aeheron, and the sinners on its bank.?Charon.?Earthquake.?Dante swoons. ................................................................. 22 CANTO IV. The further side of Acheron.?Virgil leads Dante into Limbo, the First Circle of Hell, cont...

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Excerpt: ACT I. (SCENE.--A large room looking upon a garden door in the left-hand wall, and two in the right. In the middle of the room, a round table with chairs set about it, and books, magazines and newspapers upon it. In the foreground on the left, a window, by which is a small sofa with a work-table in front of it. At the back the room opens into a conservatory rather smaller than the room. From the right-hand side of this, a door leads to the garden. Through the large panes of glass that form the outer wall of the conservatory, a gloomy fjord landscape can be discerned, half-obscured by steady rain....

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Excerpt: A jungle path. A lion?s roar, a melancholy suffering roar, comes from the jungle. It is repeated nearer. The lion limps from the jungle on three legs, holding up his right forepaw, in which a huge thorn sticks. He sits down and contemplates it. He licks it. He shakes it. He tries to extract it by scraping it along the ground, and hurts himself worse. He roars piteously. He licks it again. Tears drop from his eyes. He limps painfully off the path and lies down under the trees, exhausted with pain. Heaving a long sigh, like wind in a trombone, he goes to sleep....

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Excerpt: The Ethics. Part II -- On the Nature and the Origin of the Mind by Benedict de Spinoza, translated by R.H.M. Elwes.

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev wanted a rest from mental work, and instead of going abroad as he usually did, he came towards the end of May to stay in the country with his brother. In his judgment the best sort of life was a country life. He had come now to enjoy such a life at his brother?s. Konstantin Levin was very glad to have him, especially as he did not expect his brother Nikolay that summer. But in spite of his affection and respect for Sergey Ivanovitch, Konstantin Levin was uncomfortable with his brother in the country. It made him uncomfortable, and it positively annoyed him to see his brother?s attitude to the country....

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Excerpt: Welcome to the third volume of the Best of Four. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you. The purpose of Best of Four is to bring the best writing produced in English 004 to the widest possible audience. Our students have important stories to tell and powerful voices to be heard. The students who read these essays will learn that they too have permission to state what is important to them in a public voice....

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Best of Four Table of Contents: The College Experience from Beginning to Beginning.................................................................... 6 Bead Girl ............................................................................................................................................ 8 Setting the Record Straight ............................................................................................................. 10 My Earliest Memory......................................................................................................................... 12 A Modest Proposal ............................................................................................................................ 14 A Stay in Greece ............................................................................................................................... 16 The Absence of Face to Face Communication ............................................................................... 18 Never Stop Believing ..................................................................................................................