item: #1 of 9
id: 12163
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
title: The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes
date: None
words: 77189
flesch: 84
summary: White men must be mastered by white men. I ought not to judge other men by myself, perhaps.
keywords: air; asano; black; blue; city; council; crowd; darkness; day; days; end; eyes; face; feet; felt; flying; graham; half; hall; hand; house; howard; isbister; life; light; like; lincoln; london; machine; man; master; men; mind; moment; new; ostrog; people; place; red; room; rose; shouting; sleeper; space; things; thought; time; tramp; voice; want; way; ways; white; wind; work; world; years; yellow
cache: 12163.txt
plain text: 12163.txt
item: #2 of 9
id: 13944
author: Jefferies, Richard
title: After London; Or, Wild England
date: None
words: 84817
flesch: 77
summary: Oliver was delighted with the appearance of the boat, so much so that now and then he announced his intention of accompanying Felix on his voyage. Without doubt, the Bushman, hearing Felix approach, had hidden in the maple bush, and, as he passed, struck with his nail-like dagger; but, miscalculating the speed at which the horse was going, instead of piercing the thigh of the rider, the blow fell on the horse, and the sharp point was dragged along the side.
keywords: ancients; aurora; baron; black; bow; camp; canoe; castle; chapter; city; course; day; felix; foot; forest; great; ground; half; hand; hills; horses; house; king; lake; land; left; man; men; miles; mind; moment; morning; night; oliver; open; place; prince; river; rose; sail; shore; south; thought; time; trees; wall; war; water; way; white; wild; wind; wood; work
cache: 13944.txt
plain text: 13944.txt
item: #3 of 9
id: 32859
author: Stockham, Richard
title: Perchance to Dream
date: None
words: 6052
flesch: 93
summary: And he certainly couldn't tell about the _other_ dream cards he'd been getting from the little man he'd met on the street. Why_ the factories and machine lines replacing it section after section, generation after generation?
keywords: body; cards; city; dream; machine; man; superfather
cache: 32859.txt
plain text: 32859.txt
item: #4 of 9
id: 32903
author: Walton, Bryce
title: The Victor
date: None
words: 6269
flesch: 88
summary: Marquis sought the protection of personal darkness behind closed eyelids as the monorail car moved faster and faster through the high clean air. He looked at some papers, then up at Marquis.
keywords: bells; food; man; marquis; pain; system; time; work
cache: 32903.txt
plain text: 32903.txt
item: #5 of 9
id: 34522
author: Bramah, Ernest
title: The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War
date: None
words: 95929
flesch: 74
summary: Sir John had confessed to possessing nerves, and to few men the situation would have been an inviting one. Many men of so-called 'good position' enjoy obvious sinecure posts under the League, and all connected with the organisation appear to draw salaries disproportionate to their positions, and in some cases wildly disproportionate.
keywords: air; car; case; class; coal; comrade; country; course; day; door; end; england; eyes; face; fact; general; good; government; half; hampden; hand; head; home; hour; house; john; labour; lay; league; left; life; lisle; little; london; look; man; matter; members; men; minutes; miss; moment; mr salt; mr tubes; new; night; office; oil; paper; party; past; people; place; point; poor; position; power; road; room; round; salt; secretary; sir; street; strummery; tax; things; thought; time; tubes; unity; voice; war; way; week; word; work; working; years
cache: 34522.txt
plain text: 34522.txt
item: #6 of 9
id: 44074
author: Gregory, Owen
title: Meccania, the Super-State
date: None
words: 73299
flesch: 72
summary: In many other countries, I said, people desire to please themselves what they will work at, and indeed whether they will work at all. Can you explain that? Yes, he said; I have heard something of the kind before, and although I have never been abroad to other countries, the books in our libraries describe the police systems so fully that I think I can answer your question.
keywords: books; class; classes; conductor; countries; country; course; culture; day; department; education; fact; foreigners; good; government; great; kwang; life; luniland; man; meccanian; mecco; mechow; national; number; people; place; prince; public; room; sheep; sort; state; study; subject; super; system; things; thought; time; way; work; world; years
cache: 44074.txt
plain text: 44074.txt
item: #7 of 9
id: 5155
author: Donnelly, Ignatius
title: Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
date: None
words: 99236
flesch: 79
summary: Between the trees everywhere I saw the white and gleaming statues of the many hundreds of great men and women who have adorned the history of this country during the last two hundred years--poets, painters, musicians, soldiers, philanthropists, statesmen. The truth is, that, in this vast, over-crowded city, man is a drug,--a superfluity,--and I think many men and women end their lives out of an overwhelming sense of their own insignificance;--in other words, from a mere weariness of feeling that they are nothing, they become nothing.
keywords: air; away; brotherhood; carriage; children; christina; city; civilization; country; cæsar; dark; day; dead; dear; death; door; earth; estella; eyes; face; family; father; feet; friend; general; girl; god; good; government; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; human; left; life; little; look; love; man; mankind; max; maximilian; men; money; mother; nature; new; night; people; place; poor; power; present; prince; room; rudolph; said; society; story; streets; thought; time; voice; women; work; world; years
cache: 5155.txt
plain text: 5155.txt
item: #8 of 9
id: 52169
author: Besant, Walter
title: The inner house
date: None
words: 60340
flesch: 85
summary: Again, formerly, there would have been old men and old women looking with melancholy eyes on the scenes they were about to quit, and lamenting the days of their strength and their youth. Cannot, I ask again--cannot Science prolong the Vital Force, and stay the destroying hand of Decay? At this point a wonderful passion seized upon many of the people present; for some sprang to their feet and lifted hands and shouted, some wept aloud, some clasped each other by the hand; there were lovers among the crowd who fell openly into each other's arms; there were men of learning who hugged imaginary books and looked up with wild eyes; there were girls who smiled, thinking that their beauty might last longer than a day; there were women down whose cheeks rolled the tears of sorrow for their vanished beauty; there were old men who heard and trembled.
keywords: arch; christine; college; day; death; discovery; dress; eyes; girl; grout; hand; house; jack; john; know; life; linister; look; love; man; men; mildred; past; people; physician; place; present; round; science; secret; things; thought; time; women; work; world
cache: 52169.txt
plain text: 52169.txt
item: #9 of 9
id: 61963
author: Zamiatin, Evgenii Ivanovich
title: We
date: None
words: 65082
flesch: 87
summary: For the time being we know that there is no _last_ number. I am ready to.... Small round hands on my sleeves, round dark blue eyes--it was O-90.
keywords: blue; day; dear; doer; door; eyes; face; glass; green; hand; head; i-330; left; life; like; lips; man; moment; number; record; right; room; second; silence; smile; state; sun; table; thought; time; today; tomorrow; united; voice; wall; way; white; world; yellow
cache: 61963.txt
plain text: 61963.txt