The Bet is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison.

    A banker and a young lawyer make a bet with each other about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison.

    and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-terrier Montmorency. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and proved so popular that Jerome reunited his now older - but not necessarily wiser - heroes in Three Men on the Bummel, for a picaresque bicycle tour of Germany. With their benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian 'clerking classes', both novels hilariously capture the spirit of their age.

    What is the good King to do? How will his selfish Prince ever learn to rule the kingdom well? His most trusted friend, Sir Malcolm, has a plan. Prince Hubert is swept away to a land where he is simply known as Hugh, a peasant boy. His silks are replaced with rough work clothes, his castle dwelling with a humble cottage. It is here that Hugh learns valuable life lessons from the widow of the forest.Hugh is a sturdy, likable boy who will undoubtedly take a favorite place in the line of lovable Lamplighter characters.

    Three of these she translated into English for us in The Voice ofthe Silence, which we know as the “Three Fragments.” One cansurmise that she studied these treatises under the tutelage ofher Adept teachers during her stay in Little Tibet and Tibetproper which she makes reference to in her writings.

    Brown, Samuel Holt Monk, Allan Bloom, Nigel Dennis, Edward W. Rosenheim, Jr., A. E. Dyson, William Frost, C. J. Rawson, Kathleen Williams, Martin Price, Robert M. Adams, and Jay Arnold Levine An Annotated Bibliography guides the reader to important works for further study.

    "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1891) is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a splenetic complaint about the way in which society educates young men and women in matters of sex. In "The Death of Ivan Ilych" (1886), a symbolic Everyman discovers the inner light of faith and love only when confronted by death. "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886) is a simple, didactic story of peasant life, written by Tolstoy in the wake of a spiritual crisis. All three tales offer readers a splendid introduction to Tolstoy's work as well as the focused delights of the short story form brought to a pinnacle in the hands of a master.

    Using his own eloquence or masks of mythic figures, Tennyson was the stylist most imitated by poets of his day - praised over all the rest for his vigorous portrayals of the "general conscience" of statesmen and common men alike.

    While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Stories as different as The Snowstorm, Lucerne, The Diary of a Madman and The Devil are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious thought that characterizes Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy. Strider and Father Sergy, as well as reflecting Tolstoy's own experiences, also reveal profound psychological insights. These stories range over much of the nineteenth-century Russian world, from the nobility to the peasantry, the military to the clergy, from merchants and cobblers to a horse and a tree. Together they present a fascinating picture of Tolstoy's skill and artistry.The snowstorm --Lucerne --Three deaths --Polikushka --Strider : the story of a horse --God sees the truth, but waits --The notes of a madman --Where love is, God is --The devil --Father Sergy --After the ball.

    Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in society.In her Introduction, Doris Lessing shows how relevant The Kreutzer Sonata is to our understanding of Tolstoy the artist, as well as to feminism and literature. This Modern Library Paperback Classic also contains Tolstoy’s Sequel to the Kruetzer Sonata.

    Originally published just a year after Louisa May Alcott's death at the age of 55, this unparalleled collection of Alcott's surviving personal letters and journal entries and the additional biographical commentary from family friend Cheney serve to paint a picture of Alcott's "true and frank nature" and "how faithfully and fully she performed whatever duties circumstances laid upon her." This important work gives the reader insight into Alcott's life, and portrays how her experiences informed her timeless and much-loved classics.

    ILIGEIA 22THE MAN OF THE CROWD 39WILLIAM WILSON 49THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH . . . • 71THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO 78ELEONORA 86THE DOMAIN OF ARNHEIM 93LANDOR'S COTTAGE HOMS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE I23A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM . . . . I35THE ASSIGNATION 153SHADOW.— A PARABLE 166THE COLLOQUY OF MONOS AND UNA . . . 169THE GOLD-BUG 179THE PURLOINED LETTER 217ESSAYS, REVIEWS, and MARGINALIA—PAGETHE POETIC PRINCIPLE 239THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION . . .262NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S "TWICE-TOLD TALES'* . 275HAWTHORNE'S ESSAYS 283ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING AND SHELLEY . 284THEORIES OF POETRY: COLERIDGE AND WORDS-WpRTQ 287THEORIES pF PQETRY : LONGFELLOW'S BALLADS . 290TENNYSON . . . . , 297TOM MOORE : FANCY AND IMAGINATION . . .299HOOD'S POEMS 301DICKENS'S "OLD CURIOSITY SHOP" . , . . 302LORD LYTTON 3^4SUE'S "MYSTERIES OF PARIS" Z'^R. H. HORNE 307BOLINGBRQKE . 3o8EUREKA: dedication and conclusion ... 309