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1898

Showing 17 works across all media from 1898

Fiction · Gothic fiction

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James
1898 · 134 pages

A governess at a country house becomes certain that two dead servants are working on the children in her care. James engineered the ambiguity so precisely that critics have argued for a century.

★ 7.0
Speech · Political speech

To protect the workers in their inalienable rights to a higher and better life; to protect them, not only as equals before the law, but also in their health, their homes, their firesides, their liberties as men, as workers, and as citizens; to overcome and conquer prejudice and antagonism; to secure to them the right to life, and the opportunity to maintain that life; the right to be full sharers in the abundance which is the result of their brain and brawn, and the civilization of which they are the founders and the mainstay... The attainment of these is the glorious mission of the trade unions.

★ 5.1
Short story · Magazine

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more—the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort—to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires—and expires, too soon, too soon—before life itself.

Joseph Conrad
Youth · 1898
★ 3.6