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Basket with Potatoes by Van Gogh

Basket with Potatoes is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in September 1885. It is kept in Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (F116).

Robin Hood, by Joseph Ritson

THE LIFE OF ROBIN HOOD. It will scarcely be expected that one should be able to offer an authentic narrative of the life and transactions of this extraordinary personage. The times in which he lived, the mode of life he adopted, and the silence or loss of contemporary writers, are circumstances sufficiently favourable, indeed, to romance, but altogether inimical to historical truth. The reader must, therefore, be contented with such a detail, however scanty or imperfect, as a zealous pursuit of the subject enables one to give;

Still Life with a Basket of Apples by Van Gogh

Still Life with a Basket of Apples is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in September 1885. It is kept in a private collection (F115).

A Thousand Degrees Below Zero, by Murray Leinster

CHAPTER I. From some point far overhead a musical humming became audible. It was not the rasping roar of an aëroplane motor, but a deep, truly melodious note that seemed to grow rapidly in volume. The soft-voiced conversations on the upper deck were hushed. Every one listened to the strange sound from above. It grew and became clear and distinct. The source seemed to come nearer. At last the sound came from a spot directly overhead, then passed over and toward the Narrows.

View of Amsterdam from Central Station by Van Gogh

View of Amsterdam from Central Station is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in October 1885. It is kept in a private collection in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (F113)

The Night Land, by William Hope Hodgson

CHAPTER I THE INTENSITY OF PSYCHIC STATES Quantitative differences applicable to magnitudes but not to intensities, 1-4; Attempt to estimate intensities by objective causes or atomic movements, 4-7; Different kinds of intensities, 7; Deep-seated psychic states: desire, 8, hope, 9, joy and sorrow, 10; Aesthetic feelings, 11-18: grace, 12, beauty, 14-18, music, poetry, art, 15-18; Moral feelings, pity, 19; Conscious states involving physical symptoms, 20: muscular effort, 21-26, attention and muscular tension, 27-28; Violent emotions, 29-31: rage, 29, fear, 30; Affective sensations, 32-39: pleasure and pain, 33-39, disgust, 36; Representative sensations, 39-60: and external causes, 42, sensation of sound, 43, intensity, pitch and muscular effort, 45-6, sensations of heat and cold, 46-7, sensations of pressure and weight, 47-50, sensation of light, 50-60, photometric experiments, 52-60, Delbœuf's experiments, 56-60; Psychophysics, 60-72: Weber and Fechner, 61-65, Delbœuf, 67-70, t...

Still Life with Three Birds' Nests by Van Gogh

Still Life with Three Birds' Nests is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in September/October 1885. It is kept in Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands (F112).

The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane (1871-1900) An Episode of the American Civil War Chapter 1 The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper

Still Life with Birds' Nests by Van Gogh

Still Life with Birds' Nests is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in September/October 1885. It is kept in Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (F111).

The Playboy of the Western World, by J. M. Synge

PERSONS CHRISTOPHER MAHON. OLD MAHON, his father, a squatter. MICHAEL JAMES FLAHERTY (called MICHAEL JAMES), a publican. MARGARET FLAHERTY (called PEGEEN MIKE), his daughter. WIDOW QUIN, a woman of about thirty. SHAWN KEOUGH, her cousin, a young farmer. PHILLY CULLEN AND JIMMY FARRELL, small farmers. SARA TANSEY, SUSAN BRADY, AND HONOR BLAKE, village girls. A BELLMAN. SOME PEASANTS. The action takes place near a village, on a wild coast of Mayo. The first Act passes on an evening of autumn, the other two Acts on the following day. ACT I.

Still Life with Three Birds' Nests by Van Gogh

Still Life with Three Birds' Nests is an oil painting by Van Gogh. It was done in Nuenen in October 1885. It is kept in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands (on loan) (F110).

On War, by Carl von Clausewitz

INTRODUCTION THE Germans interpret their new national colours—black, red, and white—by the saying, "Durch Nacht und Blut zur licht." ("Through night and blood to light"), and no work yet written conveys to the thinker a clearer conception of all that the red streak in their flag stands for than this deep and philosophical analysis of "War" by Clausewitz.