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Roughing It, Part 3Roughing It, Part 3.This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour...
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Roughing It, Part 2Roughing It, Part 2.This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour...
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Roughing It, Part 1Roughing It, Part 1.This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour...
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Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert SoutheyReminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey * * * * * * * * * * It is with a solemnized feeling that I enter on these Reminiscences. Except one, I have survived all the associates of my earlier days. The young,...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielAmiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel It was in the last days of December, 1882, that the first volume of Henri Frdric Amiels Journal Intime was published at Geneva. The book, of which the general literary world knew nothing prior to its...
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The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, With a Memoir by Arthur SymonsThe Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, With a Memoir by Arthur SymonsTo you, who are my verses, as on some very future day, if you ever care to read them, you will understand, would it not be somewhat trivial to dedicate any one...
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Books Fatal to Their AuthorsBooks Fatal to Their Authors To record the woes of authors and to discourse de libris fatalibus seems deliberately to court the displeasure of that fickle mistress who presides over the destinies of writers and their works. Fortune awaits the aspiring scribe with many...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 12Life on the Mississippi, Part 12.CHAPTER LX. The Head of Navigation.From Roses to Snow.Climatic Vaccination. A Long Ride.Bones of Poverty.The Pioneer of Civilization. Jug of Empire.Siamese Twins.The Sugar-bush.He Wins his Bride. The Mystery about the Blanket.A City that is always a Novelty. Home again....
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 11Life on the Mississippi, Part 11.WE left for St. Louis in the 'City of Baton Rouge,' on a delightfully hot day, but with the main purpose of my visit but lamely accomplished. I had hoped to hunt up and talk with a hundred steamboatmen,...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 10Life on the Mississippi, Part 10.THE largest annual event in New Orleans is a something which we arrived too late to samplethe Mardi-Gras festivities. I saw the procession of the Mystic Crew of Comus there, twenty-four years agowith knights and nobles and so on,...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 9Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.THE approaches to New Orleans were familiar; general aspects were unchanged. When one goes flying through London along a railway propped in the air on tall arches, he may inspect miles of upper bedrooms through the open windows, but...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 8Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.CHAPTER XXXVI. The Professor Spins a Yarn.An Enthusiast in Cattle.He makes a Proposition.Loading Beeves at Acapulco.He was n't Raised to it. He is Roped In.His Dull Eyes Lit Up.Four Aces, you Ass! He does n't Care for the Gores....
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 7Life on the Mississippi, Part 7.CHAPTER XXXI. Mutinous Language.The Dead-house.Cast-iron German and Flexible English.A Dying Man's Confession.I am Bound and Gagged. I get Myself Free.I Begin my Search.The Man with one Thumb. Red Paint and White Paper.He Dropped on his Knees.Fright and Gratitude.I Fled...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 6Life on the Mississippi, Part 6.CHAPTER XXVIII. Swinging down the River.Named for Me.Plum Point again. Lights and Snag Boats.Infinite Changes.A Lawless River. Changes and Jetties.Uncle Mumford Testifies.Pegging the River.What the Government does.The Commission.Men and Theories."Had them Bad."Jews and Prices. TALK began to run upon...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 5Life on the Mississippi, Part 5.CHAPTER XXII. I try the Alias Business.Region of GoateesBoots begin to Appear. The River Man is Missing.The Young Man is Discouraged. Specimen Water.A Fine Quality of Smoke.A Supreme Mistake. We Inspect the Town.Desolation Way-traffic.A Wood-yard. IN due course I...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 4Life on the Mississippi, Part 4.IT was always the custom for the boats to leave New Orleans between four and five o'clock in the afternoon. From three o'clock onward they would be burning rosin and pitch pine (the sign of preparation), and so one...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 3Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.DURING this big rise these small-fry craft were an intolerable nuisance. We were running chute after chute,a new world to me,and if there was a particularly cramped place in a chute, we would be pretty sure to meet a...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 2Life on the Mississippi, Part 2.WHAT with lying on the rocks four days at Louisville, and some other delays, the poor old 'Paul Jones' fooled away about two weeks in making the voyage from Cincinnati to New Orleans. This gave me a chance to...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 1Life on the Mississippi, Part 1.CHAPTER I. The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about.It is Remarkable. Instead of Widening towards its Mouth, it grows Narrower.It Empties four hundred and six million Tons of Mud.It was First Seen in 1542. It is Older than some...
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HungerHunger This PG edition is based upon the eighth printing, published in September 1921 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. This edition is a bowdlerised version of the original 1899 translation, also by George Egerton. Since the death of Ibsen and Strindberg, Hamsun is undoubtedly...
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