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1) Burlesques
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Short stories by William Makepeace Thackeray:
A Legend of the Rhine
Jeames's Diary
The Adventures of Major Gahagan
Novels by Eminent Hands
History of the Next French Revolution
Author
Publisher
S.B. Gundy
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal both to old and young; to the young because it is the natural world in which their fancy delights to range, and to the old because they are conscious again of the spirit of youth as they read such tales to their children and grandchildren over and over again, and rejoice in the illusion that after all there is not...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon. It traces Western civilization from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium in the fifteenth century. Volume I was published in 1776 and went through six printings. [Wikipedia]
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon. It traces Western civilization from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium in the fifteenth century. Volume I was published in 1776 and went through six printings. [Wikipedia]
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. (Source: Wikipedia)
7) Finished
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The author writes, "This book, although it can be read as a separate story, is the third of the trilogy of which Marie and Child of Storm are the first two parts. It narrates, through the mouth of Allan Quatermain, the consummation of the vengeance of the wizard Zikali, alias The Opener of Roads, or 'The-Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born,' upon the royal Zulu House of which Senzangacona was the founder and Cetewayo, our enemy in the war of 1879,...
8) Jess
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Jess Croft lives with sister Bessie and old Silas, a farmer raising ostriches on the great Transvaal veldt. Jess is a reserved and aloof, with a quietness about her brought on by the misfortunes of her young childhood, when she and Bessie arrived motherless from England to South Africa. Then an Englishman, Captain John Niel, arrives to try his hand at the farming life. To his eyes, Bessie is lively and lovely of face and figure -- yet Jess is mystery,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
While a fictional adventure story about the daughter of Montezuma II and the Spanish conquest of Mexico, Montezuma's Daughter provides an interesting look into the culture of the Aztec Empire and the history of Isabel Montezuma.
Dona Isabel Montezuma was the daughter of Montezuma II. She was regarded as the consort of the two emperors before her father and acted as an advisor while he reigned. After the Spanish conquest, Dona Isabel was recognized...
10) Red Eve
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Red Eve is one of Haggard's few novels of historical fiction, telling the story of the Battle of Crecy during the times of Pope Clement and the Black Death.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion helps eager readers experience and discover Wilder's books like never before. Author Annette Whipple encourages children to engage in pioneer activities while thinking deeper about the stories and real-life circumstances of the Ingalls and Wilder families as portrayed in the nine Little House books. This valuable companion provides brief introductions to each Little House book, chapter-by-chapter story guides, and...
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Language
Français
Description
La Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg fonctionna, dans les années 1920, comme un véritable laboratoire de recherche sur les formes de transmission des images depuis l'Antiquité. Si Aby Warburg (1866-1929), son fondateur, en est la figure centrale, cette bibliothèque pionnière fut imaginée comme une entreprise collective et aurait été impensable sans l'apport d'autres personnalités comme Fritz Saxl ou Gertrud Bing, dont l'importance...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The American Senator is a novel written in 1875 by Anthony Trollope. Although not one of Trollope's better-known works, it is notable for its depictions of rural English life and for its many detailed fox hunting scenes. In its anti-heroine, Arabella Trefoil, it presents a scathing but ultimately sympathetic portrayal of a woman who has abandoned virtually all scruples in her quest for a husband. Through the eponymous Senator, Trollope offers comments...
14) Carta a Orestes
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Language
Español
Description
CARTA A ORESTES reúne cinco obras de lákovos Kambanelis. Carta a Orestes, La cena, El camino pasa por dentro, Stella con guantes rojos y El epicedio constituyen una selección que ofrece buena parte de las preocupaciones estéticas del patriarca del teatro griego contemporáneo.
En estas obras se trasluce la tragedia en los personajes femeninos enfrentados a la imposibilidad del amor, al enorme trecho que vislumbran al frente para conquistar espacios...
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Language
Español
Description
Impregnada de onirismo, pero con una prolija atención a la vida cotidiana de la Francia finisecular, esta noveleta nos enfrenta al terror de todo forastero: en un país extraño, arribar a un hogar desconocido, cuyos habitantes no están. Mediante un monólogo –¿o una confesión?–, el protagonista narrador va registrando los acontecimientos, los personajes y la angustia ante su ajenidad al entorno y la misteriosa ausencia de sus anfitriones....
Author
Publisher
Lightning Source Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In his in-depth analysis of the works of Ann Petry (1908--1997), Keith Clark moves beyond assessments of Petry as a major mid-twentieth-century African American author and the sole female member of the "Wright School of Social Protest." He focuses on her innovative approaches to gender performance, sexuality, and literary technique. Engaging a variety of disciplinary frameworks, including gothic criticism, masculinity and gender studies, queer theory,...
17) The Alchemist
Author
Publisher
Standard Ebooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
First performed in 1610, The Alchemist is one of Ben Jonson’s greatest comedies. Written for the King’s Men—the acting company to which Shakespeare belonged—it was first performed in Oxford because the playhouses in London were closed due to the plague. It was an immediate success and has remained a popular staple ever since.
The play centers around a con man, his female accomplice, and a roguish butler who uses his master’s
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Español
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El siglo XX fue una época de florecimiento de escritores que sobrevivieron al terror de Estado y a las purgas, con todas las ambivalencias morales y políticas que ello conlleva. ¿Fueron tan fuertes como para no capitular ante el poder? ¿Sobrevivieron gracias a su clarividencia o inteligencia, o más bien a sus relaciones? ¿Escaparon de la prisión, del campo de concentración y de la muerte por una suerte rayana en el milagro o ello se debió...
19) A flor de pie
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Language
Español
Description
Las caminatas urbanas, escribe Mauricio Tenorio Trillo, son como la paternidad: el único pecado cuya condena es mejor que la absolución. Un patasuelta empedernido, un pecador, recorre Berlín, Barcelona y Ciudad de México. Todas se le llenan de recuerdos propios y ajenos. Las ciudades le dicen qué era el mundo, quién era él. Berlín era y es una banca frente al lago Lietzensee, un árbol que habla con el viento, pero también un político asesinado...
20) Avenida colonial
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Language
Español
Description
Absorbido por el trabajo, por su teléfono celular y por los conflictos familiares, Mateo se entrega a un largo recorrido nocturno por la Avenida Colonial. En este viaje enfrenta situaciones extremas de la mano de dos seres de la noche, Maribel y Calderón, polos opuestos conectados por la violencia y por la necesidad de sobrevivir en una ciudad que no da tregua. Por otro lado, una mujer aparece en la vida de Mateo de manera singular y coincide con...
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