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The Brahmin immediately presented himself before the council of state,
to remove the impression. He pointed out to them the insurmountable
obstacles to such an invasion, physical and moral. He urged to them that
the nations of the earth felt so much jealousy and ill-will towards one
another, that they never cordially ... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
Some of my lunar curiosities, which I thought would be most new and
interesting to my countrymen, have proved to be very familiar to our men
of science. This has been most remarkably the case with my mineral
specimens. Of the leaves and flowers of above seventy plants, which I
brought, more than forty are found on the... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
Having taken either respectful or affectionate leave of all, and got
every thing in readiness, on the 20th day of August, 1825, about
midnight we again entered our copper balloon, if I may so speak, and
rose from the moon with the same velocity as we had formerly ascended
from the earth. Though I experienced somewhat ... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"I was in my twelfth year when I entered this school, which contained
from thirty to forty boys about my age. The cleverest of these was Balty
Mahu, who, like myself, belonged to the higher order of Brahmins. He
took the lead, not only in the exercises within the school, but in all
the sports and pastimes out of it. N... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"I had now become the general favourite of the boys. The school was,
indeed, divided into parties, but mine was much the strongest; and of
those who adhered to my rival, very few seemed cordially to dislike me.
Though this state of things was very annoying to me, it proved
advantageous in one respect, as it made me mo... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"In my early childhood I had been spared, by the tenderest of mothers,
from many of the ablutions practised by the Hindoos, under the belief
that they would be injurious to my constitution, which, though healthy,
had never been robust. A foundation was thus laid with me for habitual
remissness in these ceremonies; and... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"An important festival in our calendar was now approaching, and
preparations were made to celebrate it in various modes, and, amongst
others, by a fight between a _royal_ tiger and an elephant. For several
days all was bustle and confusion in my uncle's family. Howdahs, newly
gilded and painted, were provided for the ... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"After some hours passed in this intellectual banquet, I waked from my
day dream, and I thought again of the spectacle with a feeling bordering
on indifference. I walked towards the house, where all appeared to be
still and silent as a desert. I entered it, and of the forty or fifty
menials belonging to it, not one wa... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"She had by this time approached a small gate, which communicated with
the apartments on the ground-floor of the Zenana; when, turning to me,
she said, "You can return the way you came, but I must leave you here;"
and, making a slight bow, she sprung like a young fawn through the gate,
and was out of sight in a moment... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
I assured him that he was mistaken; that the emotions he described, were
the same in all countries, and at all times, and begged him to proceed.
"I repeated my visit," he continued, "several times the same day, under
any pretext I could invent--to gather an orange, or other fruit--to
pluck a rose--to frighten away mis... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"To the same sort of management I had recourse every day, and seldom
failed to see and converse with Veenah, sometimes in company with all
her cousins, but oftener with Fatima, the youngest. By dividing my
attentions among them all, I succeeded for a while in concealing from
them the object of my preference; but the s... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"When about to part, we exchanged amaranths I took her hand to bid her
adieu, and, without seeming to intend it, our lips met, and the first
kiss of love was moistened with a tear. Pardon me, Atterley, nature will
have her way."--And here the venerable man wept aloud.
I availed myself of this interruption to the narra... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"My next object was to communicate this to Veenah. I accordingly sat
down, and wrote a full account of all that had occurred, and folding up
the packet, hurried to the opposite quarter of the town where Shunah
Shoo lived. It was then in the dusk of the evening, and I was fearful it
was too late for me to be recognised... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"I know not whether the evident change in my habits induced my old
enemy, Balty Mahu, to observe my motions. But so it was, that one
moonlight night I thought I was watched by some person; and on the
following night an individual of the same figure, and whom I now
suspected to be Balty Mahu, came suddenly from a cross... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"I rose, and immediately set about discovering their course; but all I
could learn was, that they had embarked in one of the passage-boats
which ply on the Ganges, and that Shunah had taken his palanquins and
many of his servants with him: and, as Balty Mahu had suddenly absented
himself from college at the same time,... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"Such was the vindication which she considered it just to make me. But
all the entreaties of Fatima--all my letters, impassioned as they were,
appealing at once to her generosity, humanity, and love,--could not
prevail on her to grant me an interview.
"'Tell him,' said she, 'that heaven has forbid it, and to its decre... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"You must not, however, suppose that I even then entertained the purpose
of taking away my enemy's life. No, I could not bring my mind exactly to
that; but I had a vague, undefined hope, that if we met, some new
provocation on his part would afford me just occasion for avenging
myself on all; so ingenious, my dear fri... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"'What a shame,' said one, 'that he should have sacrificed that
beautiful young creature to the rich old Omrah, when she had so good an
offer as Gurameer, the Brahmin Gafawad's only son.'
"'And is it not strange,' said the other, 'that a woman so young and
beautiful, should be content to follow to the grave one who is... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"Among the relatives who pressed around the funeral pile, I saw Balty
Mahu; and indignation for a moment got the better of grief. The pile was
now lighted, and in a moment all was hidden in smoke. I sickened at the
sight, and was obliged to turn away. Even then I heard, or thought I
heard, the dying shrieks of the vic... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"After my father's death, I indulged a curiosity I had felt in my youth,
of seeing foreign countries; and I visited China, Japan, and England.
During my residence in Asia, I had discovered lunarium ore in the
mountain near Mogaun; and this circumstance, many years afterwards, when
I determined to rest from my labours,... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"Methinks," says the Brahmin, "you are describing a native of Canton or
Pekin. But," added he, after a short pause, "though to a superficial
observer man appears to put on very different characters, to a
philosopher he is every where the same--for he is every where moulded by
the circumstances in which he is placed. T... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
THE END.
* * * * *
APPENDIX
Anonymous Review of _A Voyage to the Moon_
Reprinted from the American Quarterly Review No. 5 (March 1828), 61-88.
ART. III.--_A Voyage to the Moon: with some account of the Manners
and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia and
other Lu... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
The evident aim of the author of the Satirical Romance before us, is
to fulfil for the present age, what _Swift_ so successfully
accomplished for that which has passed by:--to attack, by the weapons
of ridicule, those votaries of knowledge, who may have sought to avail
themselves of the universal love of novelty among... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
The pseudo _Joseph Atterley_, the hero of the narrative, was born
in Huntingdon, Long-Island, on the 11th of May, 1786. He was the son
of a seafaring individual, who, by means of the portion he received by
his wife, together with his own earnings, was enabled to quit that
laborious occupation, and to enter into trade;... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"It was a little after mid-day when we reached the town, which is
perched on a high bluff, overlooking the coasts, and contains about a
thousand houses, built of bamboo, and covered with palm leaves. Our
dress, appearance, language, and the manner of our arrival, excited
great surprise among the natives, and... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"In a deep sequestered nook, formed by two spurs of this mountain,
there lived a venerable Hindoo, whom the people of the village called
the Holy Hermit. The favourable accounts I received of his character,
as well as his odd course of life, made me very desirous of becoming
acquainted with him; and, as he w... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"There was one part of his story to which I could scarcely give
credit. It was said that in the twelve or fifteen years he had resided
in this place, he had been occasionally invisible for months together,
and no one could tell why he disappeared, or whither he had gone. At
these times his cell was closed; a... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
The acquaintance between Atterley and the Brahmin, ripened by degrees,
into that close friendship, which a congeniality of tastes and
sentiments, under proper opportunities, never fails to engender.
Atterley's visits to the hermitage, became more and more frequent, for
upwards of three years, during which period, the ... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
Atterley quitted the cell, and waited with feverish expectation for
the termination of the allotted two hours, when, to his inexpressible
delight, he found, on re-entering the cell, that not only did the
Brahmin breathe, but that he slept soundly; and, in the course of an
hour, he awoke, almost restored to health. Thi... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"This metal, when separated and purified, has as great a tendency to
fly off from the earth, as a piece of gold or lead has to approach it.
After making a number of curious experiments with it, we bethought
ourselves of putting it to some use, and soon contrived, with the aid
of it, to make cars and ascend i... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
Here, by the way, we may remark, that the kind of vehicle best adapted
for conveyance through the aerial void, has been a weighty stumbling
block to authors, from the time of the eagle-mounted Ganymede, to that
of Daniel O'Rourke; or of the wing furnished Daedalus and Icarus, to
that of the flying Turk in Constantinop... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
Again, Swift's flying Island of Laputa is a phenomenon so opposed to
all scientific probability, and so directly at variance with natural
laws, that it loses in interest in a direct ratio with the violence it
does to our feelings. Nor is the mode of conveyance imagined by
Voltaire less incongruous than that of Swift. ... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
Infinitely more ingenuity did the great comic poet of antiquity
display, when he selected the _Scarabaeus;_ as the food which had
already served the purposes of digestion with the Rider, was still
capable of affording nutrition to the animal:--
[Greek:
nun d'att'an autos kataphagoo ta sitia.
toutoisi tois ... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"The machine in which we proposed to embark, was a copper vessel, that
would have been an exact cube of six feet, if the corners and edges
had not been rounded off. It had an opening large enough to receive
our bodies, which was closed by double sliding pannels, with quilted
cloth between them. When these we... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"The moon was then in her third quarter, and near the zenith: it was,
of course, a little after midnight, and when the coppersmith and his
family were in their soundest sleep, that we entered the machine. In
about an hour more we had the doors secured, and every thing arranged
in its place, when, cutting the... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"I was struck too, with the vast disproportion which the extent of the
several countries of the earth bore to the part they had acted in
history, and the influence they had exerted on human affairs. The
British islands had diminished to a speck, and France was little
larger, yet, a few years ago it seemed, a... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"I strained my eye to no purpose, to follow the indentations of the
coast, according to the map before me, the great bays and promontories
could alone be perceived. The Burman Empire, in one of the
insignificant villages of which I had been confined for a few years,
was now reduced to a speck. The agreeable ... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
The whole face of the moon, Atterley now found to be entirely changed,
and on looking through the upper telescope, the earth presented an
appearance not very dissimilar; but the outline of her continents and
oceans was still perceptible in different shades, and capable of being
readily recognised; the bright glare of ... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
After gazing for some time on this magnificent spectacle, with
admiration and delight, one of their balls of _lunarium_ was let
off for the purpose of checking their velocity. At this time the
Brahmin supposed they were not more than four thousand miles from the
nearest point of the moon's surface. In about four hours... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
The Brahmin now pointed out the necessity of looking out for some
cultivated field, in one of the valleys they were approaching, where
they might rely on being not far distant from some human habitation,
and on escaping the perils necessarily attendant on a descent amongst
rocks, trees, and buildings. A gentle breeze ... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
and the gay, voluptuous native of the Sandwich, and other isles within
the tropics--the one passing his life in toil, privation, and care--the
other in ease, abundance, and enjoyment--leads to a similar conclusion
to that expressed by Goldsmith:--
"And yet, perhaps, if countries we compare,
And estimate the bl... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
Other topics of interest are also discussed with the like ingenuity.
After this episode, it is time for us to return to our travellers,
whose feelings, the moment they touched the ground, repayed them for
all they had endured. Atterley looked around with the most intense
curiosity; but nothing he saw, "surprised him s... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
A more minute description follows, of the dress of the male and female
lunarians, especially of that of the latter, to which we can merely
refer the reader. There is one portion, however, of the inhabitants,
with whom the reader must be made acquainted, inasmuch as they form
some of the author's most prominent charact... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"Thus," says the Brahmin, "it is generally believed, throughout all
Asia, that the moon has an influence on the brain: and when a man is
of insane mind, we call him a lunatic. One of the curses of the common
people is, 'May the moon eat up your brains!' and in China, they say
of a man who has done any act of egregious... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
_Avarice_ is satirized by the story of one of these Glonglims, who
is occupied in making nails, and then dropping them into a well--refusing
to exchange them for bread or clothes, notwithstanding his starved,
haggard appearance, and evident desire for the food proffered:--
"Mettant toute sa gloire et son souverain... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
The _absurdities_ of the _physiognomical system_ of Lavater,
and of the _craniological system_ of MM. Gall and Spurzheim, were
not likely to escape animadversion, in a work of general satire,
fruitful as they have already been in such themes. The representative
of the former, is a fortune-telling philosopher, Avarabet... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
The "gentleman farmer and projector," being attacked, during their
visit, with cholera morbus, and considering himself _in extremis_,
a consultation of physicians takes place, in which one portrait
will be obvious--that of Dr. Shuro, who asserts disease to be
a unit; and that it is the extreme of folly, to divide dise... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"Naturam expellas furca tamen usque recurret."
"For nature driven out, with proud disdain,
All powerful goddess, will return again."
The election of a town constable, exhibits the violence of _Lunar
Politics_ to be much the same as the terrestrial, and seems to have
some allusion to an existing and importa... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
After having passed a week amongst the singular and happy Okalbians,
whom our travellers found equally amiable, intelligent, and
hospitable, they returned to Alamatua.
Jeffery's _theory of beauty_, as developed in the article
_beauty_, of the _supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica_,
in which he denies the existen... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
Gurameer, the Brahmin, was born at Benares. He was the only son of a
priest of Vishnu, of rank, and was himself intended for the
priesthood. At school, he meets with a boy of the name of _Balty
Mahu_, between whom and himself a degree of rivalry, and
subsequently the most decided enmity, existed--a circumstance that
d... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
Gurameer now fell into a state of settled melancholy, and consented to
travel, more for the purpose of pleasing his parents, than from any
concern for his own health; but travelling had little effect--"he
carried a barbed arrow in his heart; and the greater the efforts to
extract it, the more they rankled the wound." ... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
When the Brahmin terminated his narrative, the extended map beneath
them was already assuming a distinct and varied appearance:--
"The Brahmin, having applied his eye to the telescope, and made a
brief calculation of our progress, considered that twenty-four hours
more, if no accident interrupted us, would end o... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"'If the English,' said he, interrupting me; 'who are the most
commercial people of modern times, have not acquired the same
character, it is because they are as distinguished for other things as
for traffic: they are not merely a commercial people--they are also
agricultural, warlike, and literary; and thus... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"How easy is it," he observes, "to call rogue and villain, and that
wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a
knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! To spare the
grossness of the names, and to do the thing yet more severely, is to
draw a full face, and to make the nos... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
"After so long a race as I have run
Through Faery Land, which those six books compile,
Give leave to rest me, being half foredonne,
And gather to myself new breath awhile;
"Then, as a steed refreshed after toyle,
Out of my prison will I break anew,
And stoutly will that second work as... | A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians | Tucker, George | 1775 | 1861 | ['en'] | 42 | {'Space flight to the moon -- Fiction', 'Science fiction'} | PG10005 | |
LA FIAMMETTA
BY
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
TRANSLATED BY JAMES C. BROGAN
1907.
INTRODUCTION
Youth, beauty, and love, wit, gayety and laughter, are the component
parts of the delightful picture conjured up by the mere name of Giovanni
Boccaccio, the prince of story-tellers for all generations of men. This
creator of a real ... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
While he had the _Decameron_ still in hand, he paused in that great
work, with heart full of passionate longing for the lady of his love,
far away in Naples, to pour out his very soul in _La Fiammetta_, the
name by which he always called the Lady Maria. Of the real character of
this lady, so famous in literature, and ... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
Mainly through his intimacy with the spiritual mind of Petrarch,
Boccaccio's moral character gradually underwent a change from the
reckless freedom and unbridled love of pleasure into which he had easily
fallen among his associates in the court life at Naples. He admired the
delicacy and high standard of honor of his ... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
No translation into English of _La Fiammetta_ has been made since
Shakespeare's time--when a small edition was published, which is now so
rare as to be practically unattainable--until the appearance of the
present Scholarly and poetic rendering, which places within the reach of
all one of the world's greatest masterpi... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
Chapter I
_Wherein the lady describes who she was, and by what signs her
misfortunes were foreshadowed, and at what time, and where, and in what
manner, and of whom she became enamored, with the description of the
ensuing delight._
In the time when the newly-vestured earth appears more lovely than
during all the res... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
It was, then, while I was living in sweet content, amid every kind of
enjoyment, that Fortune, who quickly changes all things earthly,
becoming envious of the very gifts which she herself had bestowed,
withdrew her protecting hand. At first uncertain in what manner she
could succeed in poisoning my happiness, she at l... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
That day, too, was a day of the utmost solemnity for almost everyone.
Therefore, attiring myself carefully in glittering cloth of gold, and
adorning every part of my person with deft and cunning hand, I made
ready to go to the August festival, appareled like unto the goddesses
seen by Paris in the vale of Ida. And, wh... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
While I, then, in this way looked at a few, and that sparingly, I was
myself looked at by many, and that exceedingly, and while I believed
that my beauty was dazzling others, it came to pass that the beauty of
another dazzled me, to my great tribulation. And now, being already
close on the dolorous moment, which was f... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
"O lady, thou alone art mine only bliss!"
Certainly, if I should say that this idea was not pleasing to me, I
should surely lie, for it drew forth a gentle sigh from my bosom,
accompanied by these words: "And thou art mine!" unless, perchance, the
words were but the echo of his, caught by my mind and remaining withi... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
It was this one alone, therefore, most pitiful ladies, that my heart, in
it mad infatuation, chose, not only among so many high-born, handsome
and valiant youths then present, but even among all of the same degree
having their abode in my own Parthenope, as first and last and sole lord
of my life. It was this one alon... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
For several days I longed exceedingly to learn who was the youth I
loved, toward whom my thoughts were ever clearly leading me; and this I
craftily learned, the which filled me with great content. In like
manner, the ornaments for which I had before this in no way cared, as
having but little need thereof, began to be ... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
He was a most wary and circumspect youth, whereunto my experience was
able to bear witness frequently. Going very rarely, and always in the
most decorous manner, to the places where I happened to be, he used to
observe me, but ever with a cautious eye, so that it seemed as if he had
planned as well as I to hide the te... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
"My dearest daughter, whom I love as my very self, tell me, I pray you,
what are the sorrows that have for some time past been harassing you?
You who were wont to be so gay formerly, you whom I have never seen
before with a mournful countenance, seem to me now to be the prey of
grief and to let no moment pass without ... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
"Alas!" I replied, "how far easier it is to say such things than to
lead them to any good result."
"Albeit they be not easy of fulfilment," she said, "yet are they
possible, and they are things that it beseems you to do. Take thou
thought whether it would be fitting that for such a thing as this thou
shouldst lose the... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
After hearing which, I said:
"Be silent, old woman, and provoke not the wrath of the gods by thy
speech. Now that thou art incapacitated from love by age and rejected by
all the gods, thou railest against this one, blaspheming him in whom
thou didst erstwhile take delight. If other ladies, far more puissant,
famous, a... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
"Prithee, young woman, what art thou, the most fickle of thy sex,
preparing to do in obedience to the late counsels of thy aged nurse?
Knowest thou not that such counsels are far harder to follow than that
very love which thou desirest to flee? Hast thou reflected on the dire
and unendurable torments which compliance ... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
Alas! alas! ye tender and compassionate ladies, if Love has been
propitious to your desires, say what could I, what should I, answer to
such and so great words uttered by so great a goddess, if not: "Be it
done unto me according to thy pleasure"? And so, I affirm that as soon
as she had closed her lips, having already... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
"O damsel," she said, "rivet thy gaze on the youth before thee: we have
not given thee for lover a Lissa, a Geta, or a Birria, or anyone
resembling them, but a person in every way worthy of being loved by
every goddess in the heavens. Thee he loves more than himself, as we
have ordained, and thee will he ever love; th... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
Having, therefore, formed my plans in this wise, I showed the most
long-suffering patience in manifesting my keenest and most covetous
yearnings, and I used my best efforts, but only in secret ways and when
opportunities were afforded me, to light in this young man's soul the
same flames wherewith my own soul glowed, ... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
Nay, not satisfied even with this, he employed other symbols and
metaphors, and labored earnestly to discipline me in such manner of
speech; and, to render me the more assured of his unalterable love, he
named me Fiammetta, and himself Panfilo. Woe is me! How often, when
warmed with love and wine, did we tell tales, i... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
Unless, O ladies, my judgment be greatly at fault, the strength of our
minds was by no means small, if it be but taken in account how hard a
thing it is for youthful persons in love to resist long the rush of
impetuous ardor without crossing the bounds set by reason: nay, it was
so great and of such quality that the m... | La Fiammetta | Boccaccio, Giovanni | 1313 | 1375 | ['en'] | 47 | {'Fiction'} | PG10006 | |
Carmilla
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Copyright 1872
Contents
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I. An Early Fright
CHAPTER II. A Guest
CHAPTER III. We Compare Notes
CHAPTER IV. Her Habits—A Saunter
CHAPTER V. A Wonderful Likeness
CHAPTER VI. A Very Strange Agony
CHAPTER VII. Descending
CHAPTER VIII. Search
CHAPTER IX. The Doc... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
My father was in the Austrian service, and retired upon a pension and
his patrimony, and purchased this feudal residence, and the small
estate on which it stands, a bargain.
Nothing can be more picturesque or solitary. It stands on a slight
eminence in a forest. The road, very old and narrow, passes in front of
its dr... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
I and my father constituted the family at the schloss. My mother, a
Styrian lady, died in my infancy, but I had a good-natured governess,
who had been with me from, I might almost say, my infancy. I could not
remember the time when her fat, benignant face was not a familiar
picture in my memory.
This was Madame Perrod... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
I was now for the first time frightened, and I yelled with all my might
and main. Nurse, nursery maid, housekeeper, all came running in, and
hearing my story, they made light of it, soothing me all they could
meanwhile. But, child as I was, I could perceive that their faces were
pale with an unwonted look of anxiety, ... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
I remembered, in the course of that day, a venerable old man, in a
black cassock, coming into the room with the nurse and housekeeper, and
talking a little to them, and very kindly to me; his face was very
sweet and gentle, and he told me they were going to pray, and joined my
hands together, and desired me to say, so... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
“And how soon does he come?” I asked.
“Not till autumn. Not for two months, I dare say,” he answered. “And I
am very glad now, dear, that you never knew Mademoiselle Rheinfeldt.”
“And why?” I asked, both mortified and curious.
“Because the poor young lady is dead,” he replied. “I quite forgot I
had not told you, but y... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
In these terms ended this strange letter. Though I had never seen
Bertha Rheinfeldt my eyes filled with tears at the sudden intelligence;
I was startled, as well as profoundly disappointed.
The sun had now set, and it was twilight by the time I had returned the
General’s letter to my father.
It was a soft clear evenin... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
“The moon, this night,” she said, “is full of idyllic and magnetic
influence—and see, when you look behind you at the front of the schloss
how all its windows flash and twinkle with that silvery splendor, as if
unseen hands had lighted up the rooms to receive fairy guests.”
There are indolent styles of the spirits in ... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
I knew what was coming. I covered my eyes, unable to see it out, and
turned my head away; at the same moment I heard a cry from my lady
friends, who had gone on a little.
Curiosity opened my eyes, and I saw a scene of utter confusion. Two of
the horses were on the ground, the carriage lay upon its side with two
wheels... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
I plucked my father by the coat, and whispered earnestly in his ear:
“Oh! papa, pray ask her to let her stay with us—it would be so
delightful. Do, pray.”
“If Madame will entrust her child to the care of my daughter, and of
her good gouvernante, Madame Perrodon, and permit her to remain as our
guest, under my charge, ... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
Two or three minutes at most I think she remained thus employed, then
she turned, and a few steps brought her to where her daughter lay,
supported by Madame Perrodon. She kneeled beside her for a moment and
whispered, as Madame supposed, a little benediction in her ear; then
hastily kissing her she stepped into her ca... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
My father in the meantime had sent a servant on horseback for the
physician, who lived about two leagues away; and a bedroom was being
prepared for the young lady’s reception.
The stranger now rose, and leaning on Madame’s arm, walked slowly over
the drawbridge and into the castle gate.
In the hall, servants waited to... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
“Did you remark what an ill-looking pack of men the servants were?”
asked Madame.
“Yes,” said my father, who had just come in, “ugly, hang-dog looking
fellows as ever I beheld in my life. I hope they mayn’t rob the poor
lady in the forest. They are clever rogues, however; they got
everything to rights in a minute.”
“I... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
For my part, I was delighted. I was longing to see and talk to her; and
only waiting till the doctor should give me leave. You, who live in
towns, can have no idea how great an event the introduction of a new
friend is, in such a solitude as surrounded us.
The doctor did not arrive till nearly one o’clock; but I could... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
It was pretty, even beautiful; and when I first beheld it, wore the
same melancholy expression.
But this almost instantly lighted into a strange fixed smile of
recognition.
There was a silence of fully a minute, and then at length she spoke; I
could not.
“How wonderful!” she exclaimed. “Twelve years ago, I saw your fa... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
“Your looks won me; I climbed on the bed and put my arms about you, and
I think we both fell asleep. I was aroused by a scream; you were
sitting up screaming. I was frightened, and slipped down upon the
ground, and, it seemed to me, lost consciousness for a moment; and when
I came to myself, I was again in my nursery ... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
She held me close in her pretty arms for a moment and whispered in my
ear, “Good night, darling, it is very hard to part with you, but good
night; tomorrow, but not early, I shall see you again.”
She sank back on the pillow with a sigh, and her fine eyes followed me
with a fond and melancholy gaze, and she murmured ag... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
I said there were particulars which did not please me. I have told you
that her confidence won me the first night I saw her; but I found that
she exercised with respect to herself, her mother, her history,
everything in fact connected with her life, plans, and people, an ever
wakeful reserve. I dare say I was unreason... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
She used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and
laying her cheek to mine, murmur with her lips near my ear, “Dearest,
your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the
irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is
wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion
would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and
again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning
eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the
tumultuous respiration. It was like the ardor... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
In some respects her habits were odd. Perhaps not so singular in the
opinion of a town lady like you, as they appeared to us rustic people.
She used to come down very late, generally not till one o’clock, she
would then take a cup of chocolate, but eat nothing; we then went out
for a walk, which was a mere saunter, an... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
“My father has gone on with the clergyman to the churchyard. I thought
you knew she was to be buried today.”
“She? I don’t trouble my head about peasants. I don’t know who she is,”
answered Carmilla, with a flash from her fine eyes.
“She is the poor girl who fancied she saw a ghost a fortnight ago, and
has been dying ... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
Both passed away like a summer cloud; and never but once afterwards did
I witness on her part a momentary sign of anger. I will tell you how it
happened.
She and I were looking out of one of the long drawing room windows,
when there entered the courtyard, over the drawbridge, a figure of a
wanderer whom I knew very we... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 | |
“Will your ladyships be pleased to buy an amulet against the oupire,
which is going like the wolf, I hear, through these woods,” he said
dropping his hat on the pavement. “They are dying of it right and left
and here is a charm that never fails; only pinned to the pillow, and
you may laugh in his face.”
These charms c... | Carmilla | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan | 1814 | 1873 | ['en'] | 9985 | {'Vampires -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction'} | PG10007 |
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