Clark Library copy: 4 p.l., 181, [1] p

The adventures of a young boy and a run-away slave as they float down the Mississippi on a raft

Family ; Courtship

The romantic clash of two opinionated people in England; The romantic clash of two opinionated people in England

Excerpt: Chapter 1. HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A MAGNIFICIENT CASTLE AND HOW HE WAS DRIVEN THENCE In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baron of Thunder?ten?tronckh, lived a youth whom Nature had endowed with a most sweet disposition. His face was the true index of his mind. He had a solid judgment joined to the most unaffected simplicity; and hence, I presume, he had his name of Candide. The old servants of the house suspected him to have been...

Published in part in 1906 under title: The cynic's word book

Excerpt: THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the public career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, is derived from the perusal of the following entry in the Transactions of the Pickwick Club, which the editor of these papers feels the highest pleasure in laying before his readers, as a proof of the careful attention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice dis...

Excerpt: It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin?doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and ...

Excerpt: THE AUTHOR?S Preface Idle reader: thou mayest believe me without any oath that I would this book, as it is the child of my brain, were the fairest, gayest, and cleverest that could be imagined. But I could not counteract Nature?s law that everything shall beget its like; and what, then, could this sterile, illtilled wit of mine beget but the story of a dry, shrivelled, whimsical offspring, full of thoughts of all sorts and such as never came into any other imagi...

Translation of: Les trois mousquetaires

Supplemental catalog subcollection information: American Libraries Collection; American University Library Collection

Excerpt: BILL THE BLOODHOUND. There?s a divinity that shapes out ends. Consider the case of Henry Pifield Rice, detective. I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment. If I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader?s interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford?s International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, where he was employed, they did not require hi...

Excerpt: LEAVE IT TO JEEVES Jeeves?my man, you know?is really a most extraordinary chap. So capable. Honestly, I shouldn't know what to do without him. On broader lines he?s like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the marble battlements at the Pennsylvania Station in the place marked ?Inquiries.? You know the Johnnies I mean. You go up to them and say: ?When?s the next train for Melonsquashville, Tennessee?? and they reply, without stopping to think, ?Two?forty?th...