Book IV. Terror.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Carlyle
Keyword(s):  
The Town

Chapter I. Charlotte Corday. In the leafy months of June and July, several French Departments germinate a set of rebellious paper-leaves, named Proclamations, Resolutions, Journals, or Diurnals ‘of the Union for Resistance to Oppression.’ In particular, the Town of Caen, in Calvados,...

Chapter I Effects in the Bank

Hard Times ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dickens
Keyword(s):  
The Town

A Sunny midsummer day. There was such a thing sometimes, even in Coketown. Seen from a distance in such weather, Coketown lay shrouded in a haze of its own, which appeared impervious to the sun’s rays. You only knew the town was there, because you...

Chapter I

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Keyword(s):  
Second Category ◽  
The Town

Siberia. On the banks of a wide, desolate river stands a town, one of the administrative centres of Russia. In the town there is a fortress, and in the fortress a prison.* In that prison, Rodion Raskolnikov, second-category exiled convict,*...

Chapter I

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Gaskell
Keyword(s):  
The Town

The Leeds and Skipton railway runs along a deep valley of the Aire; a slow and sluggish stream, compared to the neighbouring river of Wharfe. Keighley station* is on this line of railway, about a quarter of a mile from the town...

Chapter I

Resurrection ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Tolstoy
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Town

The gang of prisoners to which Maslova belonged had gone about three thousand miles. She and the other prisoners condemned for criminal offences had travelled by rail and steamboat as far as the town of Perm. It was only here that Nekhlyudov succeeded in...

Chapter I

Sybil ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Disraeli
Keyword(s):  
The Military ◽  
The Town

‘Terrible news from Birmingham,’* said Mr. Egerton at Brookes’. ‘They have massacred the police, beat off the military, and sacked the town. News just arrived.’ ‘I have known it these two hours,’ said a grey-headed gentleman, speaking without taking his eyes off the newspaper....

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