A narrow street with dreadful "wynds" and "vennels" running back from it was the High street of Glasgow at the time my story opens. And yet, though dirty, noisy and overcrowded with sin and suffering, a flavor of old time royalty and romance lingered amid its vulgar surroundings; and midway of its squalid length a quaint brown frontage kept behind it noble halls of learning, and pleasant old courts full of the ...
As knowledge increases, the attitude of science towards the things of the invisible world is undergoing considerable modification. Its attention is no longer directed solely to the earth with all its variety of objects, or to the physical worlds around it; but it finds itself compelled to glance further afield, and to construct hypotheses as to the nature of the matter and force which lie in the regions beyond the ken of its instruments. Ether i ...
THE evening service was being celebrated on the eve of Palm Sunday in the Old Petrovsky Convent. When they began distributing the palm it was close upon ten o'clock, the candles were burning dimly, the wicks wanted snuffing; it was all in a sort of mist. In the twilight of the church the crowd seemed heaving like the sea, and to Bishop Pyotr, who had been unwell for the last three days, it seemed that all the faces–old and youn ...
Collected here are the early stories of Kiran Bhat, stories written between his college days and his backpacking experiences around the world. The stories of a young writer in between Western and Asian culture, stretching largely across the United States, Europe, and India, these stories demonstrate Bhat's commitment to stylistic experimentation, artistic growth, and getting into the heads of people quite different from himself, all the ...
In the cubicle building blocks of American industry, April of 2009 brought workers little more than meeting requests to pull them away from barely hidden job searches and online gambling losses on their 401Ks.<br><br>Product Wave, Ltd., a global software company headquartered in Massachusetts, was just as rife with frustration, dotted among endless rows of cubes, as any company withering in the recession. The difference was that the ...
The happiness of all human beings, men and women, depends largely on their rational solution of the sexual problem. Sex and the part it plays in human life cannot be ignored. In the case of animals sex plays a simpler and less complex rôle. It is a purely natural and instinctive function whose underlying purpose is the perpetuation of the species. It is not complicated by the many incidental phenomena which result, in man&am ...
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by E. M. Forster:<br><br>Howards End <br>The Longest Journey <br>A Room With A View <br>Where Angels Fear to Tread ...
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Sir Walter Scott:<br><br>Ivanhoe <br>Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft <br>The Black Dwarf <br>The Surgeon's Daughter <br>Kenilworth <br>Rob Roy ...