Shorter novels, vol. 3

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Author

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797

Title

Shorter novels, vol. 3 : Eighteenth century

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Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

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English

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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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English fiction -- 18th century

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34766

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34766

Release Date

December 27, 2010

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Transcriber’s Note: — SHORTER NOVELS EIGHTEENTH CENTURY RASSELAS—THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO—VATHEK
3. 3.INTRODUCTION
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA BY DOCTOR JOHNSON — SAMUEL JOHNSON — CHAPTER I DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY — CHAPTER II THE DISCONTENT OF RASSELAS IN THE HAPPY VALLEY — CHAPTER III THE WANTS OF HIM THAT WANTS NOTHING — CHAPTER IV THE PRINCE CONTINUES TO GRIEVE AND MUSE — CHAPTER V THE PRINCE MEDITATES HIS ESCAPE — CHAPTER VI A DISSERTATION ON THE ART OF FLYING — CHAPTER VII THE PRINCE FINDS A MAN OF LEARNING — CHAPTER VIII THE HISTORY OF IMLAC — CHAPTER IX THE HISTORY OF IMLAC CONTINUED — CHAPTER X IMLAC’S HISTORY CONTINUED. A DISSERTATION UPON POETRY — CHAPTER XI IMLAC’S NARRATIVE CONTINUED. A HINT ON PILGRIMAGE — CHAPTER XII THE STORY OF IMLAC CONTINUED — CHAPTER XIII RASSELAS DISCOVERS THE MEANS OF ESCAPE — CHAPTER XIV RASSELAS AND IMLAC RECEIVE AN UNEXPECTED VISIT — CHAPTER XV THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS LEAVE THE VALLEY, AND SEE MANY WONDERS — CHAPTER XVI THEY ENTER CAIRO, AND FIND EVERY MAN HAPPY — CHAPTER XVII THE PRINCE ASSOCIATES WITH YOUNG MEN OF SPIRIT AND GAIETY — CHAPTER XVIII THE PRINCE FINDS A WISE AND HAPPY MAN — CHAPTER XIX A GLIMPSE OF PASTORAL LIFE — CHAPTER XX THE DANGER OF PROSPERITY — CHAPTER XXI THE HAPPINESS OF SOLITUDE. THE HERMIT’S HISTORY — CHAPTER XXII THE HAPPINESS OF A LIFE LED ACCORDING TO NATURE — CHAPTER XXIII THE PRINCE AND HIS SISTER DIVIDE BETWEEN THEM THE WORK OF OBSERVATION — CHAPTER XXIV THE PRINCE EXAMINES THE HAPPINESS OF HIGH STATIONS — CHAPTER XXV THE PRINCESS PURSUES HER INQUIRY WITH MORE DILIGENCE THAN SUCCESS — CHAPTER XXVI THE PRINCESS CONTINUES HER REMARKS UPON PRIVATE LIFE — CHAPTER XXVII DISQUISITION UPON GREATNESS — CHAPTER XXVIII RASSELAS AND NEKAYAH CONTINUE THEIR CONVERSATION — CHAPTER XXIX THE DEBATE OF MARRIAGE CONTINUED — CHAPTER XXX IMLAC ENTERS AND CHANGES THE CONVERSATION — CHAPTER XXXI THEY VISIT THE PYRAMIDS — CHAPTER XXXII THEY ENTER THE PYRAMID — CHAPTER XXXIII THE PRINCESS MEETS WITH AN UNEXPECTED MISFORTUNE — CHAPTER XXXIV THEY RETURN TO CAIRO WITHOUT PEKUAH — CHAPTER XXXV THE PRINCESS LANGUISHES FOR WANT OF PEKUAH — CHAPTER XXXVI PEKUAH IS STILL REMEMBERED. THE PROGRESS OF SORROW — CHAPTER XXXVII THE PRINCESS HEARS NEWS OF PEKUAH — CHAPTER XXXVIII THE ADVENTURES OF THE LADY PEKUAH — CHAPTER XXXIX THE ADVENTURES OF PEKUAH CONTINUED — CHAPTER XL THE HISTORY OF A MAN OF LEARNING — CHAPTER XLI THE ASTRONOMER DISCOVERS THE CAUSE OF HIS UNEASINESS — CHAPTER XLII THE OPINION OF THE ASTRONOMER IS EXPLAINED AND JUSTIFIED — CHAPTER XLIII THE ASTRONOMER LEAVES IMLAC HIS DIRECTIONS — CHAPTER XLIV THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION — CHAPTER XLV THEY DISCOURSE WITH AN OLD MAN — CHAPTER XLVI THE PRINCESS AND PEKUAH VISIT THE ASTRONOMER — CHAPTER XLVII THE PRINCE ENTERS, AND BRINGS A NEW TOPIC — CHAPTER XLVIII IMLAC DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE OF THE SOUL — CHAPTER XLIX THE CONCLUSION, IN WHICH NOTHING IS CONCLUDED
6. 6.THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO: A GOTHIC STORY BY HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD — HORACE WALPOLE — PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION — PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION — SONNET TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY MARY COKE — CHAPTER I — CHAPTER II — CHAPTER III — CHAPTER IV — CHAPTER V
7. 7.VATHEK: AN ARABIAN TALE BY WILLIAM BECKFORD — WILLIAM BECKFORD — VATHEK — NOTES — Page 195. Caliph — Page 195. Omar Ben Abdalaziz — Page 195. Samarah — Page 195. ... in the most delightful succession — Page 196. Mani — Page 196. Houris — Page 196. ... it was not with the orthodox that he usually held — Page 197. Mahomet in the seventh heaven — Page 197. Genii — Page 197. Assist him to complete the tower — Page 198. ... the stranger displayed such rarities as he had never before seen — Page 198. ... characters on the sabres — Page 201. ... beards burnt off — Page 202. The old man put on his green spectacles — Page 204. Accursed Giaour! — Page 206. Bababalouk, the chief of his eunuchs — Page 206. ... the divan — Page 206. The officers arranged themselves in a semicircle — Page 206. ... the prime vizier — Page 207. The muezzins and their minarets — Page 210. Soliman Ben Daoud — Page 210. I require the blood of fifty of the most beautiful sons of the viziers — Page 213. ... bracelet — Page 214. ... mutes — Page 215. Prayer announced at break of day — Page 216. Skulls and skeletons — Page 219. Flagons of wine and vases of sherbet reposing on snow — Page 219. ... a parchment — Page 219. Istakar — Page 219. Gian Ben Gian — Page 219. ... the talismans of Soliman — Page 219. ... pre-Adamite sultans — Page 219. ... beware how thou enterest any dwelling — Page 220. ... the ass of Balaam, the dog of the seven sleepers, and the other animals admitted into the paradise of Mahomet — Page 220. Rocnabad — Page 220. Do you, with the advice of my mother, govern — Page 221. Chintz and muslin — Page 221. Moullahs — Page 221. ... the sacred Caaba — Page 222. ... the supposed oratory — Page 223. ... regale these pious poor souls with my good wine from Schiraz — Page 224. ... the most stately tulips of the East — Page 224. ... certain cages of ladies — Page 224. ... dislodged — Page 225. ... those nocturnal insects which presage evil — Page 225. ... the locusts were heard from the thickets on the plain of Catoul — Page 226. Vathek ... with two little pages — Page 226. ... confectioners and cooks — Page 227. ... hath seen some part of our bodies; and, what is worse, our very faces — Page 228. ... vases of snow, and grapes from the banks of the Tigris — Page 229. ... horrible Kaf — Page 229. ... the Simurgh — Page 229. ... palampores, etc. — Page 229. ... afrits — Page 229. ... tablets fraught with preternatural qualities — Page 230. ... dwarfs — Page 230. ... a small spring supplies us with water for the Abdest, and we daily repeat prayers, etc. — Page 230. ... reading the holy Koran — Page 230. ... the bells of a cafila — Page 230. Deggial — Page 230. ... dictated by the blessed Intelligence — Page 231. ... to kiss the fringe of your consecrated robe — Page 231. ... and implore you to enter his humble habitation — Page 231. ... red characters — Page 231. ... thy body shall be spit upon — Page 231. ... bats will nestle in thy belly — Page 232. ... the Bismillah — Page 232. ... inscription — Page 232. ... a magnificent tecthtrevan — Page 233. ... your ivory limbs — Page 233. ... baths of rose-water — Page 233. ... lamb à la crême — Page 233. ... made the dwarfs dance against their will — Page 233. ... durst not refuse the commander of the faithful — Page 233. ... the nine hundred and ninety-ninth time — Page 234. ... black eunuchs, sabre in hand — Page 234. ... to let down the great swing — Page 235. ... melodious Philomel, I am thy rose — Page 236. ... calenders — Page 236. ... santons — Page 236. ... dervishes — Page 236. ... Brahmins — Page 236. ... fakirs — Page 237. ... Visnow and Ixhora — Page 237. ... talapoins — Page 237. ... small plates of abominations — Page 238. ... fish which they drew from a river — Page 238. Sinai — Page 238. Peris — Page 239. ... butterflies of Cashmere — Page 240. Megnoun and Leilah — Page 240. ... they still detained him in the harem — Page 240. ... dart the lance in the chase — Page 240. Shaddukian and Ambreabad — Page 242. ... a spoon of cocknos — Page 243. Ghouls — Page 244. ... feathers of the heron, all sparkling with carbuncles — Page 244. ... whose eyes pervade the inmost soul of a female — Page 244. ... the carbuncle of Giamschid — Page 244. ... have you false keys? Come to the dark chamber — Page 246. ... their faith is mutually plighted — Page 246. ... violate the rights of hospitality — Page 246. ... narcotic powder — Page 248. Funeral vestments were prepared; their bodies washed, etc. — Page 248. ... all instruments of music were broken — Page 248. ... imans began to recite their prayers — Page 248. The wailful cries of La Ilah illa Alla! — Page 249. ... the angel of death had opened the portal of some other world — Page 250. Monker and Nakir — Page 250. ... the fatal bridge — Page 250. ... a certain series of years — Page 250. ... the sacred camel — Page 251. ... basket-making — Page 251. ... the caliph presented himself to the emir in a new light — Page 255. ... the waving of fans — Page 256. ... wine hoarded up in bottles, prior to the birth of Mahomet — Page 256. ... excavated ovens in the rock — Page 257. ... her great camel Alboufaki — Page 257. ... to set forward, notwithstanding it was noon — Page 258. ... the confines of some cemetery — Page 260. ... a Myrabolan comfit — Page 261. ... blue fishes — Page 262. ... waving streamers on which were inscribed the names of Allah and the Prophet — Page 263. ... astrolabes — Page 264. On the banks of the stream, hives and oratories — Page 265. ... sheiks ... cadis — Page 265. Asses in bridles of riband inscribed from the Koran — Page 266. One of these beneficent genii, assuming the exterior of a shepherd, etc., began to pour from his flute, etc. — Page 266. ... involuntarily drawn towards the declivity of the hill — Page 267. Eblis — Page 267. ... compensate for thy impieties by an exemplary life — Page 268. Balkis — Page 270. The pavement, strewed over with saffron — Page 271. Ouranbad — Page 272. Creatures of clay — Page 272. ... the fortress of Aherman — Page 272. ... the halls of Argenk — Page 272. ... holding his right hand, motionless, on his heart — Page 273. In my lifetime I filled, etc. — Page 274. ... an unrelenting fire preys on my heart — Page 275. Carathis on the back of an afrit — Page 277. ... glanced off in a rapid whirl that rendered her invisible
8. 8.Transcriber’s Note, continued:

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