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The Curse of Yig
The Curse of Yig
H.P. Lovecraft
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"The Curse of Yig" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop in which Yig, "The Father of Serpents", is first introduced.
The Cats of Ulthar
The Cats of Ulthar
H.P. Lovecraft
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The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. As the narrative goes, the city is home to an old couple who enjoy capturing and killing the townspeople's cats. When a caravan of wanderers passes through the city, the kitten of an orphan (Menes) traveling with the band disappears. Upon hearing of the couple's violent acts towards cats, Menes invokes a prayer before leaving town that causes the local felines to swarm the cat-killers' house and devour them. Upon witnessing the result, the local politicians pass a law forbidding the killing of cats.
The Call of Cthulhu
The Call of Cthulhu
H.P. Lovecraft
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"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story's first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
The Beast in the Cave
The Beast in the Cave
H.P. Lovecraft
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A man touring a Mammoth Cave separates from his guide and becomes lost. His torch expires and he is giving up hope of finding a way out in the pitch dark, when he hears strange non-human footsteps approaching him. Thinking it to be a lost mountain lion or other such beast, he picks up a stone and throws it toward the source of the sound. The beast is hit and crumples to the floor. The guide finds the protagonist, and together they examine the fallen creature with the guide's torchlight. The creature mutters in its last breaths and they see its face, discovering that it is in fact a pale, deformed human, who had also become lost in the cave many years ago.
Un viaje de novios
Un viaje de novios
Emilia Pardo Bazán
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Escrita en la ?década prodigiosa? de la narrativa espa?ola del XIX esta novela supuso una primera aproximación a los dominios del realismo-naturalismo. A caballo entre la novela y el cuaderno de viaje, la obra narra las ingratas consecuencias del desatinado matrimonio entre un funcionario oportunista y cuarentón y una joven provinciana e inexperta, Lucía, quien, tras la unión, no tarda en verse sometida al creciente divorcio entre deseo y realidad.
Do?a Milagros
Do?a Milagros
Emilia Pardo Bazán
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Su modelo de “mujer del futuro” viene encarnada en el personaje de Feíta, hija de don Benicio Neira, un hidalgo venido a menos, situado en la clase media, cuya hija alberga unos inmensos deseos de instrucción, de autonomía personal, de trabajo para independizarse… que la alejan de las “se?oritas” de su clase y del resto de sus hermanas.
Persische Briefe
Persische Briefe
Charles Montesquieu
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Die "Lettres persanes" (erste Ausgabe 1721) des franz?sischen Staatsphilosophen der Aufkl?rung Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède de Montesquieu (so sein vollst?ndiger Name) ist eines der wirkm?chtigsten Bücher der Weltliteratur, zugleich eines der erfolgreichsten zu seiner Zeit. Es ist nach der franz?sischen Revolution allerdings zunehmend in den Schatten von Montesquieus Hauptwerk, "De l’esprit des loix" (1748, Vom Geist der Gesetze), getreten, obwohl es im Vergleich zu den politischen Positionen in den Persischen Briefen durchaus als Rückschritt betrachtet werden kann. Im Gegensatz zu dem Hauptwerk gehen die Persischen Briefe unterhaltsam und satirisch an die zentralen Fragestellungen der Zeit heran; wenn man bedenkt, dass es dem Verfasser vor allem darum zu tun gewesen sein soll, mit diesem Text seine Aufnahme in die Academie fran?aise, die er in den Briefen noch dazu geh?rig verspottet, zu erreichen - was ihm auch gelang -, dann dr?ngt sich der Gedanke auf, dass das Selbstinteresse einmal mehr einen Zweck durchgesetzt hat, den es gar nicht vordringlich verfolgte.
Antología: poemas y sonetos
Antología: poemas y sonetos
Miguel De Unamuno
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Antología de poemas, sonetos y Rimas de Miguel de Unamuno. Una breve selección de María del Pilar MARTINEZ. -El Cristo de Velázquez (1920) -Blas, el bobo (Blas, el bobo de la aldea) -Castilla (Tú me levantas, tierra de Castilla,) -El armador aquel (El armador aquel de casas rústicas) -El cuerpo canta -El mar de encinas (En este mar de encinas castellano) -En un cementerio de lugar castellano (Corral de muertos, entre pobres tapias,) -Habla, que lo quiere el ni?o -Incidente doméstico (Traza la ni?a toscos garrapatos) -La luna y la rosa (En el silencio estrellado) -Madre, llévame a la cama -Me destierro (Me destierro a la memoria) -Ofelia de Dinamarca (Rosa de nube de carne) -Oh, Se?or, tú que sufres del mundo (Salmo III) -Qué es tu vida (?Qué es tu vida, alma mía?, ?cuál tu pago?,) -Sombra de humo (?Sombra de humo cruza el prado!) -Vendrá de noche (Vendrá de noche cuando todo duerma,) -Y ?qué es eso? (Y ?qué es eso del Infierno?) -De vuelta a casa (Desde mi cielo a despedirme llegas) -Es una antorcha (Es una antorcha al aire esta palmera,) -Horas serenas (Horas serenas del ocaso breve,) -La estrella polar (Luciérnaga celeste, humilde estrella) -La mar ci?e (La mar ci?e a la noche en su regazo) -La sangre de mi espíritu (La sangre de mi espíritu es mi lengua) -Muerte (Eres sue?o de un dios; cuando despierte) -Noche de luna llena (Noche blanca en que el agua cristalina) -Cuando duerme una madre junto al ni?o -Por qué esos lirios que los hielos matan
Henry V
Henry V
William Shakespeare
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Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. The play is the final part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II, Henry IV, part 1 and Henry IV, part 2. The original audiences would thus have already been familiar with the title character, who was depicted in the Henry IV plays as a wild, undisciplined lad known as "Prince Hal." In Henry V, the young prince has become a mature man and embarks on an attempted conquest of France.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Shakespeare
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare from early in his career. It has the smallest cast of any of Shakespeare's plays, and is the first of his plays in which a heroine dresses as a boy. It deals with the themes of friendship and infidelity. The highlight of the play is considered by some to be Launce, the clownish servant of Proteus, and his dog Crab, to whom "the most scene-stealing non-speaking role in the canon" has been attributed.
Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida
William Shakespeare
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Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. The play (also described as one of Shakespeare's problem plays) is not a conventional tragedy, since its protagonist (Troilus) does not die. The play ends instead on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom, and readers and theatre-goers have frequently found it difficult to understand how one is meant to respond to the characters.
Timon of Athens
Timon of Athens
William Shakespeare
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The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the legendary Athenian misanthrope Timon (and probably influenced by the eponymous philosopher, as well), generally regarded as one of his most obscure and difficult works. Originally grouped with the tragedies, it is generally considered such, but some scholars group it with the problem comedies.
Richard III
Richard III
William Shakespeare
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Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. The play is an unflattering depiction of the short reign of Richard III of England. While generally classified as a history, as grouped in the First Folio, the play is sometimes called a tragedy (as in the first quarto). It picks up the story from Henry VI, Part 3 and concludes the historical series that stretches back to Richard II.
The Fugitive
The Fugitive
Marcel Proust
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In the sixth volume of the series fitting seems that Proust's past actions conclude with a fair resolution. The captive is now the fugitive. Like in previous volumes, envy and distrusts eventually reveals unsuspected and unwanted revelations that leads Proust to reconcile himself with his melancholy. But unfortunately happiness still running away for him, and the marriage of his once good friends face him against his own misery which he tries to cover with indifference.
The Captive
The Captive
Marcel Proust
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In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her.
Anne's House of Dreams
Anne's House of Dreams
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Book 5 in the Anne of Green Gables Series Anne's House of Dreams begins with the wedding between Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe. In this book, they move to a small and begin their life together with love, loss and many interesting escapades.
El spleen de París
El spleen de París
Charles Baudelaire
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Los peque?os poemas en prosa, también conocido como El spleen de París es una colección de 50 peque?os poemas escritos en prosa poética. La melancolía, el horror al paso del tiempo, el deseo de infinito, la crítica corrosiva contra la religión y la moral, así como la burla contra los ideales que mueven a las personas y una aversión enorme contra la sociedad y la hipocresía que la domina son temas recurrentes en estas poesías.
Winnetou 1
Winnetou 1
Karl May
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Der Ich-Erz?hler Charlie (vergleiche Karl May) alias Old Shatterhand arbeitet als Vermesser für die Eisenbahngesellschaft Great Western. Da seine Kollegen sehr tr?ge und trunksüchtig sind, muss er alles alleine machen. Zum Glück stehen ihm die Westm?nner Sam Hawkens, Dick Stone und Will Parker zur Seite. Die Eisenbahngesellschaft plant einen Gleisbau mitten durch das Gebiet der Apachen. Intschu-tschuna (Gute Sonne), der H?uptling aller Apachen, sein Sohn Winnetou (Brennendes Wasser) und der aus Deutschland stammende Klekih-petra (Wei?er Vater) kommen, um die Eisenbahner friedlich darauf hinzuweisen, dass dies ihr Land sei.
Knickerbocker's History of New York
Knickerbocker's History of New York
Washington Irving
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Published to popular acclaim in 1809, this satire, considered the first important contribution to American comic literature, was Washington Irving's first book. It begins by relating the creation and population of the world, including the discovery of what would become New York. It ends by recording the eventual fall of the Dutch dynasty.
The Guermantes Way
The Guermantes Way
Marcel Proust
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After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world. This elegantly packaged new translation will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft’s work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage – Walpole called her ‘a hyena in petticoats’ – yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.