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Ibid
Ibid
H.P. Lovecraft
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"Ibid" is a mock biography of the Roman scholar Ibidus (486-587), whose masterpiece was Op. Cit., "wherein all the significant undercurrents of Graeco-Roman thought were crystallized once and for all." The piece traces the skull of Ibidus, once the possession of Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and other notables, to the United States, where it travels via Salem, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island to a prairie dog hole in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The Hound
The Hound
H.P. Lovecraft
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"The Hound" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the Necronomicon, The story focuses around the narrator and his friend St. John, who have a deranged interest in robbing graves. They constantly defile crypts and often keep souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions. Since they reside in the same house, they have the opportunity to set up a sort of morbid museum in their basement. Using the objects they collect from the various graves they have robbed, they organize the private exhibition. The collection consists of headstones, preserved bodies, skulls, and several heads in different phases of decomposition. It also included statues, frightful paintings, and a locked portfolio bound in tanned human-skin.
The Green Meadow
The Green Meadow
H.P. Lovecraft
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"The Green Meadow" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson written in 1918/1919 and published in the spring 1927 issue of The Vagrant. As in their other collaboration, "The Crawling Chaos", both authors used pseudonyms — the tale was published as by "Elizabeth Neville Berkeley" (Jackson) and "Lewis Theobald, Jun." (Lovecraft). Lovecraft wrote the entire text but Jackson is credited since it was based on a dream she had experienced
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.
The Two Vanrevels
The Two Vanrevels
Newton Booth Tarkington
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One of the most popular novels of the early twentieth century, Booth Tarkington's The Two Vanrevels is a gripping and entertaining romp that effortlessly weaves together many of the elements that define the author's oeuvre, including a passionate love triangle, a case of mistaken identity, and a look at how political and social events can often intrude on the personal sphere.
Insolación
Insolación
Emilia Pardo Bazán
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La autora se aleja de las premisas Naturalismo centrándose en el estudio psicológico de los personajes, empleando para ello una inusitada y compleja técnica narrativa. El feminismo, la crítica de los valores morales y la doble vara de medir de la sociedad de la época son puestas en escena en historia donde una sensual viuda tiene una aventura con un hombre mucho más joven que ella.
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.
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.
The Street
The Street
H.P. Lovecraft
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"The Street" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1919 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the Wolverine amateur journal. The story traces the history of the eponymous street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as a path in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.
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.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding households. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal "young lovers".
Timon d'athènes.
Timon d'athènes.
William Shakespeare
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Timon est un noble de d'Athènes, très (trop) généreux avec ses amis qu'il invite régulièrement à des festins somptueux, auxquels il offre des cadeaux hors de prix, à tel point qu'il se retrouve un jour sur la paille et ne peut plus payer ses créanciers. S?r de la qualité de l'amitié, il se tourne vers ceux à qui il fait moultes cadeaux pour leur demander de l'aide. Ceux-ci trouvent mille excuses pour ne pas aider Timon qui sombre dans la colère envers Athènes et ses nobles, s'exile dans les bois, et maudit la ville et ses habitants hypocrites et avilis par l'app?t de l'or. De son c?té, Alcibiade, général athénien, se voit refuser l'aide du Sénat, quitte la ville avec son armée pour mieux l'assiéger ensuite. Il essaie d'obtenir le soutien de Timon exilé qui le maudit aussi et fait finalement la paix avec les sénateurs. Timon meurt seul dans les bois laissant pour épitaphe une dernière malédiction pour qui la lira.
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus
William Shakespeare
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Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written sometime between 1584 and the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Tamora, the Queen of the Goths. The play is by far Shakespeare's bloodiest work. It lost popularity during the Victorian era because of its gore, and has only recently begun to revive its fortunes.
Midsummer Night's Dream
Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
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.
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.
Der Schut
Der Schut
Karl May
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Nach Abenteuern in der Teufelsschlucht und bei der Juwelenh?hle treffen Kara Ben Nemsi und seine Begleiter auf das Oberhaupt der Verbrecher, den "Schut". Manche gef?hrliche Situation wird heraufbeschworen, ehe die Jagd, die in der tunesischen Wüste begann, in Albanien zu Ende geht.
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.