Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)

Born in Florida, Missouri, USA. He became a printer and then pilot of a Mississippi riverboat. In 1867 he published a book of short stories The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches, he also wrote Innocents Abroad (1869), Tom Sawyer (1876), Tramp Abroad (1880), Huckleberry Finn (1884), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889).
"TOM!"
No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
"What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!"
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service — she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll — "
…His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh.
"Hang the boy, can't I never learn anything? Ain't he played me tricks enough like that for me to be looking out for him by this time? But old fools is the biggest fools there is…Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks. Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it's so. He'll play hookey this evening [Southwestern for "afternoon"], and I'll just be obleeged to make him work, to-morrow, to punish him. It's mighty hard to make him work Saturdays, when all the boys is having holiday, but he hates work more than he hates anything else, and I've got to do some of my duty by him, or I'll be the ruination of the child."…
"Tom, it was middling warm in school, warn't it?" 

"Yes'm."
"Powerful warm, warn't it?"
"Yes'm."
"Didn't you want to go in a-swimming, Tom?"
A bit of a scare shot through Tom — a touch of uncomfortable suspicion. He searched Aunt Polly's face, but it told him nothing. So he said:
"No'm — well, not very much." …
In a safe place Tom examined two large needles which were thrust into the lapels of his jacket, and had thread bound about them — one needle carried white thread and the other black. He said:
"She'd never noticed if it hadn't been for Sid. Confound it! sometimes she sews it with white, and sometimes she sews it with black. I wish to geeminy she'd stick to one or t'other — I can't keep the run of 'em. But I bet you I'll lam Sid for that. I'll learn him!"
He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though — and loathed him.
Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time — just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This new interest was a valued novelty in whistling, which he had just acquired from a negro, and he was suffering to practise it undisturbed. It consisted in a peculiar bird-like turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short intervals in the midst of the music — the reader probably remembers how to do it, if he has ever been a boy.
Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude. He felt much as an astronomer feels who has discovered a new planet — no doubt, as far as strong, deep, unalloyed pleasure is concerned, the advantage was with the boy, not the astronomer.
The summer evenings were long. It was not dark, yet. Presently Tom checked his whistle. A stranger was before him — a boy a shade larger than himself. A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St. Petersburg. This boy was well dressed, too — well dressed on a week-day. This was simply astounding.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

"ТОМ!"
Нет ответа.
  "ТОМ!"
Нет ответа.
"Интересно, что произошло с этим мальчишкой? Том, где ты?"
Никакого ответа.
Старая дама сдвинула очки ниже и осмотрела комнату поверх них, потом она подняла очки выше и посмотрела под ними. Она редко или никогда не смотрела сквозь них, чтобы посмотреть на такой маленький предмет как мальчишка. Очки были ее неотъемлемой частью, гордостью ее сердца, они были созданы для "стиля", а не для использования - она, возможно, могла бы с таким же успехом смотреть через пару печных крышек. С минуту она выглядела озадаченной, а затем сказала беззлобно, но все же достаточно громко, чтобы услышала даже мебель:
  "Хорошо, держись, если я поймаю тебя, то я …"
Тетя Полли на мгновение остановилась в удивлении, а потом мягко рассмеялась.
"Что за мальчишка, разве я не могу научиться чему-нибудь? Разве не он на испытывал на мне свои трюки, чтобы мне искать его? Но старые дураки – самые большие дураки…Каждый раз, когда я отпускаю его, моя совесть укоряет меня, и каждый раз, когда я бью его, мое старое сердце почти разбивается. Хорошо-хорошо, как говорится в Святом писании, человек, рожденный от женщины, имеет мало дней и много забот, и я согласна, что это - так. Он будет бездельничать сегодня вечером [Юго-западный «пополудни»], и я просто обязана заставить его работать завтра, чтобы наказать его. Невероятно трудно заставить его работать по субботам, когда у всех мальчишек выходной. Он ненавидит работать больше всего на свете, а я должна выполнить свой долг в отношении него или я испорчу ребенка. "…
"Том, в школе было достаточно тепло?"
"Да-м."
"Чересчур тепло?"
"Да-м"
"Разве тебе не хотелось пойти покупаться, Том?"
Что - то вроде острой паники пронзило Тома - легкое неприятное подозрение. Он внимательно посмотрел на лицо тети Полли, но оно ничего не подсказало ему. Поэтому он сказал: "Не-а, ну, не очень."
В безопасном месте Том изучал две большие иглы, которые были вколоты в отвороты его жакета, с нитками, которые связывали их – в одну иглу была вдета белая нитка, а в другую черная. Он сказал:
" Она бы никогда не обратила внимания, если бы это был Сид. Черт бы побрал! Иногда она шьет белой ниткой, и иногда черной. Жаль, что она не выбрала одну или другую, я не могу угнаться. Но держу пари, что поколочу Сида за это. Я проучу его! "
Он не был идеалом для деревни. Он очень хорошо знал одного идеального мальчика – и ненавидел его.
Через две минуты или даже меньше он забыл все свои неприятности. Не потому что они были на йоту меньше или не так горьки, как другому человеку, а потому что новый и сильный интерес затмил их и отодвинул на время в сторону - так же, как мужчины забывают о своих несчастьях под впечатлением новых событий. Этот новый интерес заключался в ценном новом свисте, котором он только что научился у негра. Он страдал от того, что не может попрактиковаться тихо. Особенностью нового свиста было то, что он походил на птичий щебет, своего рода переливчатую трель, которая получается, когда отрывисто касаешься языком неба во время свиста - читатель вероятно помнит, как это делается, если он когда-либо был мальчишкой.
Вскоре усердие и сосредоточенность принесли ему этот навык, и он зашагал вниз по улице со ртом, полным гармонии и с душой, полной благодарности. Он чувствовал себя так, как чувствует себя астроном, когда обнаруживает новую планету - без сомнения, что касается глубины и чистоты удовольствия, преимущество было на стороне мальчишки, не астронома.
Летние вечера были длинными. Хотя не темными. Теперь Том проверил свой навык свиста. Перед ним стоял незнакомец - мальчик выше его. Новый человек любого возраста или пола оказывался предметом всеобщего внимания в бедной небольшой захудалой деревушке Санкт-Петербурге. Кроме того, этот мальчик был хорошо одет - хорошо одет в будний день. Просто поразительно. 

 Приключения Тома Сойера

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Joseph Walker - Robin Hood


Joseph Reddeford Walker (1789 - 1876)
Born in Virginia, USA. He engaged in fur trapping and trading, also serves as a guide for exploratory expeditions.

«The last archer smiled scornfully and made ready.  He drew his bow with ease and grace and, without seeming to study the course, released the winged arrow.  Forward it leaped toward the target, and all eyes followed its flight.  A loud uproar broke forth when it alighted, just without the center and grazing the shaft sent by Rob.  The stranger made a gesture of surprise when his own eyes announced the result to him, but saw his error.  He had not allowed for the fickle gust of wind which seized the arrow and carried it to one side.  But for all that he was the first to congratulate the victor.


Richard Davis - The Reporter Who Made Himself King


Richard Harding Davis (1864 – 1916)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He started as a newspaper reporter in Philadelphia and then New York (1886–91). Later being a correspondent at the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, the First World War he became one of the most popular war reporters. He wrote Gallegher (1890), Cinderella and Other Stories (1891), Soldiers of Fortune (1897), With Both Armies (1900), Notes of a War Correspondent (1910), With the Allies (1914), etc.

The Old Time Journalist will tell you that the best reporter is the one who works his way up.  He holds that the only way to start is as a printer’s devil or as an office boy, to learn in time to set type, to graduate from a compositor into a stenographer, and as a stenographer take down speeches at public meetings, and so finally grow into a real reporter, with a fire badge on your left suspender, and a speaking acquaintance with all the greatest men in the city, not even excepting Police Captains.

Agnes Repplier - The Mission of Humour


Agnes Repplier (1858 – 1950)
Born in Philadelphia, USA. She wrote Books and Men (1888), Points of Friction (1920), To Think of Tea! (1932), In Pursuit of Laughter (1936).

American humour is the pride of American hearts. It is held to be our splendid national characteristic, which we flaunt in the faces of other nations, conceiving them to have been less favoured by Providence. Just as the most effective way to disparage an author or an acquaintance--and we have often occasion to disparage both—is to say that he lacks a sense of humour, so the most effective criticism we can pass upon a nation is to deny it this valuable quality. American critics have written the most charming things about the keenness of American speech, the breadth and insight of American drollery, the electric current in American veins; and we, reading these pleasant felicitations, are wont to thank God with greater fervour than the occasion demands that we are more merry and wise than our neighbours. Mr. Brander Matthews, for example, has told us that there are newspaper writers in New York who have cultivated a wit, "not unlike Voltaire's." He mistrusts this wit because he finds it "corroding and disintegrating"; but he makes the comparison with that casual assurance which is a feature of American criticism.

Francis S.Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise


Fransis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940)
Born in St Paul, Minnesota, USA. He studied at Princeton, but left it for the army. He wrote This Side of Paradise (1920), Flappers and Philosophers (1920),Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), The Vegetable (1923), The Great Gatsby (1925), All the Sad Young Men (1926), Tender is the Night (1934), The Crack-Up (1945), and the unfinished  The Last Tycoon (1941).

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under, six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in "taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and couldn't understand her.

William S. Maugham - The Moon and Sixpence


William Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965)
Born in Paris, France. He studied at Canterbury and Heidelberg, qualified as a surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital, London. He wrote Liza of Lambeth (1897), Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), The Circle (1921), The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), East of Suez (1922), Cakes and Ale (1930), The Complete Short Stories (3 vols) in 1951.  

I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary.  Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness.  I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.  The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town. 

Robert Stevenson - Treasure Island (+Movie)


Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894)

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh, dropped the profession of lawyer and began to write travel sketches and short stories. He wrote Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), The Master of Ballantrae (1889), the unfinished Weir of Hermiston (1896), others.


Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17—, and go back to the time when my father kept the "Admiral Benbow" Inn, and the brown old seaman, with the saber cut, first took up his lodging under our roof.

I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pig-tail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the saber cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:


Robert Stevenson - Across the Plains


Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894)
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh, dropped the profession of lawyer and began to write travel sketches and short stories. He wrote Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), The Master of Ballantrae (1889), the unfinished Weir of Hermiston (1896), others.

Monday. — It was, if I remember rightly, five o’clock when we were all signalled to be present at the Ferry Depot of the railroad.  An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on Sunday afternoon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to travel.  There was a babel of bewildered men, women, and children.  The wretched little booking-office, and the baggage-room, which was not much larger, were crowded thick with emigrants, and were heavy and rank with the atmosphere of dripping clothes.  Open carts full of bedding stood by the half-hour in the rain.  The officials loaded each other with recriminations.  A bearded, mildewed little man, whom I take to have been an emigrant agent, was all over the place, his mouth full of brimstone, blustering and interfering.  It was plain that the whole system, if system there was, had utterly broken down under the strain of so many passengers.


Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (+Video)


Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)
Born in Steventon, Hampshire, England. Later she lived in Bath, Southampton, Chawton, and Winchester. She wrote Love and Friendship, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Persuasion and Northanger Abbey (1818).

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

Rafael Sabatini - Captain Blood


Rafael Sabatini (1875 – 1950)
Born in Jesi, Italy. In 1905 he settled in England, wrote in English The Tavern Knight (1904), The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (1922), others.

PETER BLOOD, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the town of Bridgewater. Sternly disapproving eyes considered him from a window opposite, but went disregarded. Mr. Blood's attention was divided between his task and the stream of humanity in the narrow street below; a stream which poured for the second time that day towards Castle Field, where earlier in the afternoon Ferguson, the Duke's chaplain, had preached a sermon containing more treason than divinity.

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Empty House


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930)
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, but later gave it up. He wrote A Study in Scarlet (1887), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891–3), The White Company (1890), The War in South Africa (1902). 

It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.  The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came out in the police investigation; but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts... The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.  Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and incredulity which utterly submerged my mind. Let me say to that public which has shown some interest in those glimpses which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very remarkable man that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge with them, for I should have considered it my first duty to have done so had I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was only withdrawn upon the third of last month.

Kate Chopin - The Awakening (+VideoBook)


Kate Chopin (1850 – 1904)
Born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Educated in St Louis, she wrote At Fault (1890), Bayou Folk (1894), A Night in Acadie (1897), The Awakening (1899).

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!  Allez vous-en!  Sapristi!  That’s all right!

Benjamin Franklin - The Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
Born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1723 he moved to Philadelphia where by 1730 he had become sole owner of a successful business. In 1757-1762/1764-1775 he worked as a diplomat in England, helped negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain to be signed in 1783. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Published Poor Richard's Almanac, The Way to Wealth, The Autobiography.
About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.

Lilyan Stratton - Reno - A Book of Short Stories and Information

Lilyan Stratton (1882-1928)
Born in Crisfield, Maryland, USA. Started as a newspaper agent, later became an actress, an investor. Wrote four novels: Reno, Homing, Feminine Philosophy, The Wife's Lesson.
«Dull in Reno?  Why no; how can one be bored in this delightful “big little city,” when here you will find a concentration of all the most picturesque phases of life—­a conglomeration of gaiety and tragedy, humor and drama, frivolity and learning!  What a fertile field for the psychologist and sociologist.

John Strachey - The Adventure of Living


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John St Loe Strachey (1860 – 1927)
Born in Britain. A British journalist and newspaper proprietor.
But though I was so fully convinced that the doors of The Spectator were shut against me, I was, of course, determined that my two reviews should, if possible, make the editors feel what a huge mistake they had made and what a loss they were incurring.  But, alas! here I encountered a great disappointment.  When I had written my reviews they appeared to me to be total failures!  I was living at the time in an “upper part” in South Molton Street, in which I, my younger brother, Henry Strachey, and two of my greatest friends, the present Sir Bernard Mallet and his younger brother Stephen Mallet, had set up house.  I remember to this day owning to my brother that though I had intended my review of Gulliver’s Travels to be epoch-making, it had turned out a horrible fiasco.  However, I somehow felt I should only flounder deeper into the quagmire of my own creation if I rewrote the two reviews.  Accordingly, they were sent off in the usual way.  Knowing my father’s experience in such matters, I did not expect to get them back in type for many weeks.  As a matter of fact, they came back quite quickly.  I corrected the proofs and returned them.  To my astonishment the review of Swift appeared almost at once.  I supposed, in the luxury of depression, that they wished to cast the rubbish out of the way as quickly as possible.

Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent (+Movie Trailer)


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Joseph Conrad (Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) (1857 – 1924)
Born in Berdichev, the Ukraine. After his service in the British merchant navy he got the British citizenship in 1886. He wrote Almayer's Folly (1895), The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1914)and many short stories.
Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law.  It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening.  Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business.  And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law. The shop was small, and so was the house.  It was one of those grimy brick houses which existed in large quantities before the era of reconstruction dawned upon London.  The shop was a square box of a place, with the front glazed in small panes.  In the daytime the door remained closed; in the evening it stood discreetly but suspiciously ajar.

George Orwell - Animal Farm (+Cartoon)


George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) (1903 - 1950)
Born in Motihari, Bengal, India. He studied at Eton, served in Indian Imperial Police, and soon moved to London, later to Paris. He fought for the Republicans in Spain, worked a war correspondent in the World War II period. He wrote Down  and Out in Paris and London (1933), Burmese Days (1934), A Clergyman’s Daughter (1935), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), The Road to Wigan Pier (1936),  Homage to Catalonia (1938), The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), Animal Farm (1945), 1984 (1949).
All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the back door. When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting attentively, he cleared his throat and began:

Winston Churchill - Richard Carvel



Winston Churchill (1871 – 1947)
Born in Missouri, USA. Served in the navy, became an editor, later a novelist. He wrote The Celebrity (1898), Richard Carvel (1899), The Crisis (1901), The Crossing (1904), Coniston (1906), Mr.Crewe's Career (1908), others.

I take no shame in the pride with which I write of my grandfather, albeit he took the part of his Majesty and Parliament against the Colonies.  He was no palavering turncoat, like my Uncle Grafton, to cry “God save the King!” again when an English fleet sailed up the bay.  Mr. Carvel’s hand was large and his heart was large, and he was respected and even loved by the patriots as a man above paltry subterfuge.

Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (+Movie Clip)


Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 - 1927)
Born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England. He worked a clerk, schoolmaster, reporter, actor, journalist, and editor of a weekly. In 1889 he wrote the well-known novel Three Men in a Boat, in 1900 - Three Men on the Bummel and in 1902 - Paul Kelver.

A picture would have come home from the frame-maker’s, and be standing in the dining-room, waiting to be put up; and Aunt Podger would ask what was to be done with it, and Uncle Podger would say: “Oh, you leave that to me.  Don’t you, any of you, worry yourselves about that.  I’ll do all that.”

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (+Movie Clip)


Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731)
Born in London, England. He trained at a dissenting academy, traveled in Europe. In 1702 he was imprisoned for seditious libel, released in 1704. He wrote The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702), Robinson Crusoe (1719-1720), A Journal of the Plague Year and Moll Flanders (1722), Roxana (1724).

The wave that came upon me again buried me at once twenty or thirty feet deep in its own body, and I could feel myself carried with a mighty force and swiftness towards the shore — a very great way; but I held my breath, and assisted myself to swim still forward with all my might.  I was ready to burst with holding my breath, when, as I felt myself rising up, so, to my immediate relief, I found my head and hands shoot out above the surface of the water; and though it was not two seconds of time that I could keep myself so, yet it relieved me greatly, gave me breath, and new courage.  I was covered again with water a good while, but not so long but I held it out; and finding the water had spent itself, and began to return, I struck forward against the return of the waves, and felt ground again with my feet.  I stood still a few moments to recover breath, and till the waters went from me, and then took to my heels and ran with what strength I had further towards the shore.  But neither would this deliver me from the fury of the sea, which came pouring in after me again; and twice more I was lifted up by the waves and carried forward as before, the shore being very flat.

Eleonor Porter - Pollyanna (+ Movie Clip)


Eleanor Porter (1868 – 1920)
Born in Littleton, New Hampshire, USA. She studied music at the New England Conservatory, wrote Cross Currents (1907), Miss Billy (1911), Pollyanna (1913), Pollyanna Grows Up (1915), The Tangled Threads and Across the Years (1924).

Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning. Miss Polly did not usually make hurried movements; she specially prided herself on her repose of manner. But today she was hurrying—actually hurrying.
Nancy, washing dishes at the sink, looked up in surprise. Nancy had been working in Miss Polly’s kitchen only two months, but already she knew that her mistress did not usually hurry.
“Nancy!”

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels


Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at Dublin, moved to England, wrote A Tale of a Tub (1704) and Gulliver’s Travels (1726), The Drapier’s Letter (1724), A Modest Proposal (1729).

I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes.  I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.  In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back.

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