This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat," "The Orphans' New Year," "After the Flood," and "A Season in Hell," considered by many to be his. 'Complete Works' is divided into eight "seasons" - Childhood, The Open Road, War, The Tormented Heart, The Visionary, The Damned Soul, A Few Belated Cowardices, and The Man with the Wind at His Heels - that reflect the facets of Rimbaud's life. Insightful commentary by translator and editor Paul Schmidt reveals the courage, vision, and imagination of Rimbaud's poetry and sheds light on one of the most enigmatic figures in letters.

    Dubbed Voyages Extraordinaries, these unique blends of action, adventure, and science fiction offered prescient glimpses into the future and a level of scientific speculation unprecedented in imaginative fiction. The three novels collected here represent some of Vernes most innovative and entertaining adventures. Around the World in Eighty Days is the chronicle of irrepressible adventurer Phileas Fogg, whose wager to circle the globe involves him in one cliff-hanging escapade after another. Journey to the Center of the Earth tells of intrepid explorers who discover a subterranean world of prehistoric marvels and menaces at the Earths core. In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, scientist hero Captain Nemo investigates the exotic mysteries of the deep in his space-age submarine, the Nautilus. Two of these novels (Journey and 20,000 Leagues) are presented here with new English translations, and all three are newly illustrated with the incomparable fantasy art of Nate Pride.

    This book gives insight to the poet Alfred Tennyson from a biographical sketch to the many examples of his great poetry.

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    Choosing a prostitute as a central female character, Trollope addresses a topical question of histime: how women should maintain due and proper regard for themselves without adopting either the manners of a prostitute or the political excesses of a feminist.

    This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHASTER III. The sorrowful widow was so fond of her little Henry, and the uncertainty of life was so burnt into her now, that she could hardly bear him out of her sight. Yet her love was of the true maternal stamp; not childish and self-indulgent. She kept him from school, for fear he should be brought home dead to her; but she gave her own mind with zeal to educate bin Nor was she unqualified. If she had less learning than schoolmasters, she knew better how to communicate what she did know to a budding mind. She taught him to read fluently, and to write beautifully; and she coaxed him, as only a woman can, over the dry elements of music and arithmetic. She also taught him dancing and deportment, and to sew on a button. He was a quick boy at nearly everything, but, whon he was fourteen, his true genius went a-head of his mere talents: he showed a heaven-born gift for?carving in wood. This pleased Joseph Little hugely, and he fostered it judiciously. The boy worked, and thought, and in time arrived at such delicacies of execution, he became discontented with the humdrum tools then current. .Then learn to make your own, boy, cried Joseph Little, joyfully; and so initiated him into the whole mystery of hardening, forging, grinding, handle- making, and cutlery: and Henry, young and enthusiastic, took his turn at them all in right down earnest. At twenty, he had sold many a piece of delicate carving, and could make graving-tools incomparably superior to any he could buy; and, for his age, was an accomplished mechanic. Joseph Little went the way of all flesh. They mourned and missed him; and, at Henry's earnest request, his mother disposed of the plant, and went with him to London. Then the battle of life began. He was a long time ont 01 employment, and they both lived ...

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    Short stories struck him as a means of bringing together his traveller's tales, while at the same time exploiting the earning opportunities of the new monthly magazines which were springing up in Britain and America during the 1860s. This collection of 'early' short stories covering the years 1860 to 1865, when Trollope was in his prime as a writer, offers some refreshingly un-Trollopian experiments in narrative. The tone varies from rollicking humour to grim, Balzacian realism. There are tender studies of courtship and stories dealing with the current realities of the American Civil War. Some of the stories flout the moral conventions and sexual standards of the mid-Victorian age, and they suffered at the hands of censorious editors, among them Thackeray. The stories are arranged in order of composition, to give a sense of Trollope's rapidly developing skills as a practitioner in the genre. Even those who know Trollope well will find something novel and unusual in this collection.

    Not that I pretend to say that a con nection formed through prudential motives is a real marriage in the sight of Heaven. Only that there is no human law against it. And the odds are as eight to ten that an efficient hired housekeeper would render his home more comfortable, and his children happier than would a stepmother. As for a woman marrying twice - her gentle tone and eyes growing sternlr decisive it is di icult for one to tolerate the idea. That is, if she really loved her first husband. If not, she may plead this as some excuse for making the ven ture poor thing! But whether, even then, she has the moral right to lessen some good girl's chances f getting a husband by two for herself, has ever been and must remain a mooted question in my mind.