item: #1 of 7 id: 11870 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories date: None words: 164041 flesch: 83 summary: You see--in this dream, anyhow--I had been a big man, the sort of man men come to trust in, to group themselves about. Little men in canoes upon sunlit oceans would come floating out of nothingness, incubating the eggs of prehistoric monsters unawares; violent conflicts would break out amidst the flower-beds of suburban gardens; I would discover I was peering into remote and mysterious worlds ruled by an order logical indeed but other than our common sanity. keywords: air; ants; arm; away; bed; bit; black; blind; blue; boat; body; cave; come; coming; coombes; course; crystal; dark; darkness; day; days; dear; death; door; dream; earth; end; eyes; face; fanny; feel; feet; fotheringay; gip; glass; god; good; great; green; grey; half; hand; hapley; head; heart; high; hill; holroyd; horrocks; house; human; jane; kind; left; life; little; looking; lord; man; manner; matter; men; mind; miss; moment; mrs; night; people; place; plattner; raut; red; room; round; saw; second; set; shop; sky; sort; space; star; story; sun; table; things; think; thought; time; valley; voice; wall; water; way; wedderburn; white; winchelsea; window; woman; work; world; years cache: 11870.txt plain text: 11870.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 12750 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents date: None words: 56385 flesch: 86 summary: Said he: I forget myself. By M. KAUFMANN, M.A. _--Crown 8vo. keywords: 8vo; author; azuma; bailey; baring; bird; black; book; college; crown; crown 8vo; davidson; day; door; edition; english; evans; eyes; face; good; green; half; hand; hapley; harringay; head; holroyd; hooker; house; kind; know; left; life; lord; m.a; man; moment; mrs; new; night; pawkins; people; place; red; river; room; round; saw; second; story; thing; thought; time; water; watkins; way; white; work cache: 12750.txt plain text: 12750.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 13931 author: Cobban, J. Maclaren (James Maclaren) title: Master of His Fate date: None words: 33572 flesch: 77 summary: Dr Lefevre got into the first hansom that drew up, and drove off to the hospital. Dr Lefevre raised the man's eyelid to look at his eye: the upturned eye stared out upon him, but the man slept on. keywords: case; courtney; day; doctor; eyes; face; friend; gentleman; good; hand; heart; house; julius; lady; lefevre; life; look; man; mother; nature; night; nora; patient; physician; set; thought; time cache: 13931.txt plain text: 13931.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 13984 author: Lang, Andrew title: In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories date: None words: 58398 flesch: 75 summary: The room was partly illuminated by the fire itself, partly by braziers full of blazing branches of trees; but, what was most remarkable, there were rows of metal images of young men (naked, I am sorry to say), with burning torches in their hands, ranged all along the side walls. I know that, tossing sleepless through the weary hours, I heard the voices of young men and women singing on the hillsides, and among the myrtle groves which are holy to the most disreputable of their deities, a female, named Aphrodighty. keywords: air; bishop; black; bludger; cave; chief; course; day; death; doto; eyes; face; family; fire; ghost; girl; gladstone; good; half; hand; head; home; house; island; kind; lady; lay; life; man; men; moment; moore; mother; natives; night; open; paradise; people; peter; place; priest; red; room; rose; round; sea; secret; story; sun; thought; time; tribe; verva; water; way; white; wild; william; women; words cache: 13984.txt plain text: 13984.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 42221 author: Brooks, Van Wyck title: The World of H.G. Wells date: None words: 34286 flesch: 59 summary: For the personage is one who, in some degree, stands on his achievement, and to Wells man, both in his love and his work, is experimental: he is an experiment toward an impersonal synthesis, the well-being of the species. The pretence that they were the accessories to human life was too transparent. keywords: art; end; experience; fact; future; good; human; ideas; individual; life; love; men; mind; nature; new; novels; order; people; point; purpose; race; science; sense; socialism; society; spirit; state; things; thought; time; view; way; wells; work; world cache: 42221.txt plain text: 42221.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 456 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories date: None words: 43923 flesch: 85 summary: You see--in this dream, anyhow--I had been a big man, the sort of man men come to trust in, to group themselves about. I remember little things. keywords: away; azuma; black; blind; country; day; days; door; dream; eyes; face; garden; half; hand; holroyd; horrocks; life; man; men; moment; night; nunez; people; place; raut; red; round; sky; star; things; think; thought; time; valley; voice; wall; way; white; world cache: 456.txt plain text: 456.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 49713 author: Dixon, Charles title: Fifteen Hundred Miles an Hour date: None words: 81848 flesch: 77 summary: Almost daily we found the ether around us becoming more dense, and the speed of the _Sirius_ sensibly decreased. As the _Sirius_ sped on its journey from day to day, the apparent size of Mars rapidly increased. keywords: air; day; death; doctor; earth; echri; edos; father; fire; gathma; good; graham; hand; harry; hath; heart; hour; kaosp; king; know; left; life; love; man; mars; men; miles; moment; night; people; perodii; place; ramos; rest; round; sandy; sirius; sun; tell; temple; thee; thou; thy; time; volinè; water; way; words; world cache: 49713.txt plain text: 49713.txt