Victorian Prose: An AnthologyRosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher Columbia University Press, 27.08.1999 г. - 504 страници This engaging, informative collection of Victorian nonfiction prose juxtaposes classic texts and canonical writers with more obscure writings and authors in order to illuminate important debates in nineteenth-century Britain—inviting modern readers to see the age anew. The collection represents the voices of a broad scope of women and men on a range of nineteenth-century cultural issues and in various forms—from periodical essays to travel accounts, letters to lectures, and autobiographies to social surveys. |
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... hand , and call me her little nigger . This was the happiest period of my life ; for I was too young to understand rightly my condition as a slave , and too thoughtless and full of spirits to look forward to the days of toil and sorrow ...
... hands quite tightly across my breast , but I could not keep it still , and it con- tinued to leap as though it would burst out of my body . But who cared for that ? Did one of the many by - standers , who were looking at us so ...
... hand , and led me out into the middle of the street , and , turning me slowly round , exposed me to the view of those who attended the vendue . I was soon surround- ed by strange men , who examined and handled me in the same manner that ...
... hand of that God whom then I knew not , was stretched over me ; and I was mercifully preserved for better things . It was then , howev- er , my heavy lot to weep , weep , weep , and that for years ; to pass from one misery to another ...
... hand , till my body was raw with gashes . Yet there was nothing very remarkable in this ; for it might serve as a sample of the common usage of the slaves on that horrible island .... I am often much vexed , and I feel great sorrow when ...
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LIX | 259 |
LX | 267 |
LXII | 270 |
LXIII | 273 |
LXV | 279 |
LXVII | 283 |
LXVIII | 287 |
LXX | 295 |
XX | 87 |
XXII | 93 |
XXIV | 101 |
XXVI | 107 |
XXVIII | 115 |
XXX | 121 |
XXXII | 131 |
XXXIII | 143 |
XXXV | 157 |
XXXVII | 165 |
XXXVIII | 175 |
XL | 183 |
XLII | 189 |
XLIV | 199 |
XLVI | 207 |
XLVIII | 215 |
L | 221 |
LII | 229 |
LIV | 235 |
LVI | 241 |
LVII | 247 |
LXXIII | 305 |
LXXV | 313 |
LXXVII | 319 |
LXXIX | 325 |
LXXXI | 329 |
LXXXII | 337 |
LXXXIV | 349 |
LXXXV | 359 |
LXXXVIII | 364 |
LXXXIX | 371 |
XC | 377 |
XCI | 385 |
XCIII | 393 |
XCIV | 401 |
XCV | 409 |
XCVIII | 417 |
C | 423 |
CII | 427 |
CIII | 449 |
CV | 455 |