CHAPTER I. “Kaspar! Makan!” The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it […]
CHAPTER I. The rays of a December sun shone dimly into a room in the large castle mill, calling forth feeble sparks of light from the strange objects lying on the broad […]
CHAP. I.—OLYMPUS. am going to tell you the history of the most wonderful people who ever lived. But I have to begin with a good deal that is not true; for the […]
CHAPTER I. TOTTY-WAX. Here you sit, Horace, Prudy, Dotty, and Flyaway, all waiting for a story. How shall I begin? I cannot remember the events of my life in right order, so […]
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY The most ancient monuments of Castilian literature can be referred to no time later than the twelfth century, and they have been dated earlier with some plausibility. As with […]
CHAPTER I. THE ANCIENT GERMANS AND THEIR COUNTRY. (330 b. c.—70 b. c.) The Aryan Race and its Migrations. —Earliest Inhabitants of Europe. —Lake Dwellings. —Celtic and Germanic Migrations. —Europe in the Fourth Century b. […]
CHAPTER I NARRATIVE RELIGIOUS POETRY—THE NATIONAL EPIC—THE EPIC OF ANTIQUITY—ROMANCES OF LOVE AND COURTESY The literature of the Middle Ages is an expression of the spirit of feudalism and of the genius […]
CHAPTER I—THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE The story I have to tell is still going on as I write; the characters are alive and active; it is a piece of contemporary history […]
A DOUBLE STORY I. There was a certain country where things used to go rather oddly. For instance, you could never tell whether it was going to rain or hail, or whether […]
PART I “We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.” I The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There has been a wedding, between a […]
