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Missouri guerrilla, Confederate officer, bank robber, notorious outlaw, Wild West showmanCole Youngers life was the stuff of myth and legend. Known for intelligence and coolness under pressure, he published his autobiography, "The Story of Cole Younger," in 1903, telling his story in his own words after his parole from prison at the age of 59 and reflecting on the colourful and sometimes violent experiences of "the gentleman, the soldier, the outlaw, and the convict."Born in Missouri, Thomas Coleman ("Cole") Younger rode with William Clarke Quantrills Confederate raiders during the Civil War, participating in many daring and bloody exploits, including the infamous Lawrence, Kansas, massacre of 1863. Following the war, Younger continued his celebrated career as a desperado, robbing banks and trains with Jesse James and other members of the James-Younger gang. A fateful attempt in 1876 on the Northfield, Minnesota, bank sent Cole to the state prison in Stillwater, Minnesota for decades. There he became a model resident, helping both to protect women convicts during a fire and found the Prison Mirror, a newspaper intended to shed "a ray of light upon the lives of those behind the bars." Paroled in 1901, Younger successfully sought a pardon, operated a Wild West show with his old comrade Frank James, and lectured on "What My Life Has Taught Me."

First published in 1913, "Behind the Veil at the Russian Court" is a book by Princess Catherine Radziwill, a Polish-Russian aristocrat.Catherine Radziwill was a prominent figure at the Imperial courts in Germany and Russia, but became involved in a series of scandals. She combined her love for the luxury of the courts, social life, gossip and intrigue with her literary talent and she wrote two dozen books on European royalty and the Russian court, including "Behind the Veil at the Russian Court."

First appeared in the 1130s and originally composed in Latin as "Historia regum Britanniae", "The History of the Kings of Britain" by Geoffrey of Monmouth claims to be a history of Britains kings from the islands founding by Trojan descendent Brutus in 1200 BCE, to the Britons abandonment of the island in the seventh century CE."The History of the Kings of Britain" was immediately popular, inspiring retellings and adaptations by writers and artists through the centuries. Because its historical merit is almost non-existent, it has been called an epic in prose and treated as a literary text whose primary purpose is patriotic. It is credited with introducing the figure of Merlin and elevating King Arthur to mythic status.

While imprisoned in Reading Gaol from 1895 to 1897 for homosexual practices, Oscar Wilde wrote "De Profundis", an impassioned letter to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. In the first section of the letter, Wilde records his relationship with Douglas in merciless detail; he rails against his lovers selfishness and extravagance, accuses him of being the agent of Wildes destruction, and turns a cold eye on his own behaviour. The letters tone changes from bitterness to resignation as Wilde acknowledges his own responsibility for his fate and extends a hopeful offer for a renewed, calmer friendship.First published in 1905 by an arrangement between Oscar Wilde and Robert Ross, who visited Wilde at Reading and later became his literary executor, "De Profundis" is a curious document: part apologia, part aesthetic discourse, part religious testimonial, part retort to religion, a letter that addresses a private recipient and was written for public view, but that despite these layers of performance has a strange inward quality; in reality this is a letter from Wilde to himself.

Um estudo alentado sobre a importância dos africanos livres e escravizados no processo que culminou na aprovação da Lei Eusébio de Queirós, em 1850. Uma das medidas legais mais conhecidas no Brasil,

Rudyard Kiplings "The Eyes of Asia" takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul of four soldiers of the Indian Army who fought for King and the British Empire in the First World War.First published in 1918, "The Eyes of Asia" contains four letters purporting to be written to relations or friends at home in India by soldiers of the Indian Army (part of the normal British Forces in that country down to 1947) at the time of World War I, 1914-18. They were on active service in Europe and Africa, 1915-18.The articles forming "The Eyes of Asia" appeared in the American Saturday Evening Post in six parts over the month of May and the beginning of June 1917 and were published in book form in 1918."The Eyes of Asia" consists of four stories that read as letters home from soldiers from India and the North-West Frontier, which take place in 1915 and 1916. A Retired Gentleman and The Fumes of the Heart are both fictionalized letters written from the perspective of wounded Indian soldiers, a Rajput and a Sikh, to their families. The second is cast as a dictated letter from a Sikh soldier to his brother and has dramatic asides and digressions from the injured soldier punctuating the text. As for the remaining two stories, The Private Account is presented as a scene showing an Afghan family reading and responding to a letter from their son on the Western Front, and the final story, A Trooper of Horse, takes the form of a letter from an unwounded Muslim soldier in France to his mother.

First published in November 1854, "Ruth Hall" (AKA "Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time") is an autobiographical novel by Fanny Fern (pen name of Sara Payson Willis), a popular 19th-century newspaper writer.The novel is divided into ninety short chapters and, as the author states in the preface, this work does not follow the conventional rules of novel writing in 1855. The story follows the life of Ruth Hall, a woman who becomes a widow at a very young age and is forced to create a life for herself and her children that defies the conventional rules of society.The autobiographical novel can be divided into three phases: Ruths happy marriage, impoverished widowhood, and rise to fame and financial independence as a newspaper columnist.

In "With the Allies", first published in 1914, Richard Harding Davis says the Great War was not a war against the Germans, but a war against the military aristocracy of Germany. Harding Davis speaks of the lack of knowledge in the United States about the war and he blames censorship and the lack of understanding of the massive scale of the war. The author believes that America had to take part in the action, because the fight in Europe was not a fair fight.In conclusion, "With the Allies" is an early appeal by Richard Harding Davis, American war correspondent, to denounce neutrality and take an active role in the conflict on the side of the Triple Entente, making his case from German crimes of aggression.

Publié à Paris chez Charpentier en 1886, "Linsurgé" est un roman autobiographique de Jules Vallès. Le titre complet de lœuvre est "Linsurgé - 1871"."Linsurgé" est le troisième volet de la trilogie de

Roman autobiographique de Jules Vallès, "LEnfant" fut publié à Paris en feuilleton sous le titre de "Jacques Vingtras" et sous le pseudonyme de La Chaussade, en 1878, dans Le Siècle. Le sous-titre "L

During the Renaissance science was never separated from mysticism and alchemy. Some of the finest minds such as Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton were all heavily involved in what they would of called the mystic arts. In "Mystics of the Renaissance", published in 1911, Rudolf Steiner examines the thought of eleven less well known pioneers of scientific discovery and European mystics (Eckhart, Tauler, Suso, Ruysbroek, Nicholas of Cusa, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Paracelsus, Weigel, Boehme, Giordano Bruno, and Angelus Silesius) through a collection of essays and explains their ideas and how they relate to modern concepts.

First published in 1920, "Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil" is a collection of fiery essays, sketches, and poems the distinguished American civil rights leader, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois first published individually more than 100 years ago in the Atlantic, the Journal of Race Development, and other periodicals.Part essay, part autobiography, "Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil" explicitly addresses significant issues, such as the oppression of women and Eurocentric standards of beauty, the historical rise of the idea of whiteness, and the abridgement of democracy along race, class, and gender lines. Reflecting the authors ideas as a politician, historian, and artist, this volume has long moved and inspired readers with its militant cry for social, political, and economic reforms for black Americans."Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil" is an essential reading for students of African-American history.

Published in 1890, Hunger (Sult in Norwegian) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Knut Hamsun based on his many unhappy experiences in Norways capital city of Christiania. "Hunger" was one of the first modern psychological novels in world literature.Told in the first person, it is the story of a young writer of exceptional sensibility, who, stripped of all of his property and without any reliable means of support, is about to perish from extreme hunger. The book contains little action in the traditional sense. With the exception of the story of a few attempts to secure employment and the account of a brief encounter with a lady of the middle class, the text consists almost exclusively of reports of the narrators mental life during periods of starvation.The unnamed narrator of this plotless episodic work is an introspective young man whose hunger to succeed as a writer matches his intense physical hunger. He lacks human contact and at times seems demented. Although he has occasional hunger-induced hallucinations, he neither feels sorry for himself nor tries to rectify his situation.The books impulsive, lyrical style marked a clear departure from the then-prevalent social realism and had an electrifying effect on European writers.Born in 1859 in Lom, Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, Knut Hamsun believed writers should write about the human mind. He wrote psychological works that included running inner monolog. Hamsun wrote plays, poetry, essays, short stories, over twenty novels, and a travelogue. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 for "Growth of the Soil".

Right before his death in 1900, American essayist Charles Dudley Warner delivered in Washington an essential lecture about African Americans, education and citizenship, "The Education of the Negro". This short lecture begins this way:At the close of the war for the Union about five millions of negroes were added to the citizenship of the United States. By the census of 1890 this number had become over seven and a half millions. I use the word negro because the descriptive term black or colored is not determinative. There are many varieties of negroes among the African tribes, but all of them agree in certain physiological if not psychological characteristics, which separate them from all other races of mankind; whereas there are many races, black or colored, like the Abyssinian, which have no other negro traits.Charles Dudley Warner, author, critic, an editor, is best known today for his collaboration with Mark Twain on "The Gilded Age". His essays in social and literary criticism generally favoured social and literary reform, albeit of a limited kind. In "The Education of the Negro", he encouraged African American suffrage and education, he nonetheless argued that manual training and a designedly slow pace of racial assimilation was necessary.

Originally published in 1912, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man", novel by James Weldon Johnson, is one of the jewels of the Harlem Renaissance.This fictional autobiography, originally issued anonymously in 1912 in order to suggest authenticity, but also because Johnson feared for his diplomatic career, explores the intricacies of racial identity through the eventful life of its mixed-race (and unnamed) narrator. In 1927, it was re-released during the Harlem Renaissance under Johnsons name and to critical praise.The narrator, born in Georgia, tells of his childhood in Connecticut, where his mixed-race mother, aided by monthly checks from the boys white father, is able to provide a secure and cultured environment. Learning of his black heritage only by accident, the narrator experiences the first of several identity shifts that will eventually find him opting for membership in white society. A European interlude under the sponsorship of a wealthy white male companion raises the question of sexual identity as well, but the novel never makes this issue explicit. Throughout the work, Johnson employs characters, locales, incidents, and motifs from his own life, but the narrator is less a conscious self-portrait than a representation of the authors own ambivalence.The work critiques the USs class system and probes the psychological reality and sociological impact of passing for whiteone of the first works in US literature to do so. The narrator is never named and only refers to himself as the ex-colored man, which lends to themes of unfair social mobility, the psychological toll of racism, and guilt.Though in some ways conforming to the conventional novel of passing in suggesting that a mixed racial heritage makes a person incapable of functioning in either the black or the white world, Johnsons novel turns this notion on its head by invoking double consciousness, as his narrator makes clear.

La consegna di Giovanni Sias e un breve omaggio allamico infinito e al suo progetto di una psicanalisi oltre il Novecento, in cerca di terre inesplorate, allinsegna del motto della Lega anseatica caro a Freud: Navigare necesse est, vivere non necesse.Ancora poco conosciuta nella sua integralita lopera di Sias, estranea a ogni epigonismo, merita, per la sua audacia, originalita e risolutezza, unattenta ri-lettura e una discussione critica a cui questo opuscolo che tocca succintamente solo alcuni dei suoi snodi teorici cruciali vuole invitare. E il primo invito e proprio per il suo autore, sollecitato da un sogno fatto la notte di ferragosto (due settimane dopo la morte di Sias), in cui gli e annunciata una consegna che non era pronto a ricevere, ma con cui non puo evitare di confrontarsi.Lopuscolo comprende anche una proposta di lavoro e una bibliografia di tutta lopera di Sias (inclusi due testi postumi ancora inediti), di cui viene arrischiato un primo inventario.

Il presente Diario e stato scritto dal Dott. Guglielmo Muelhon, membro del Comitato direttivo delle officine Krupp, che era in rapporti di intimita con il Dott. Helfferich e con il capo della casa Krupp. I giudizi di questo tedesco sui suoi compatriotti sono interessanti a conoscersi, non solo per la guerra, ma anche e specialmente per il dopoguerra.

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From the creator of Peter Pan and first published in 1890, "My Lady Nicotine" is one of his earlier works, an humorous ode to the power of nicotine.Focusing on his days as a smoker, James Matthew Barrie takes us through his life as a smoker to his last pipe as he begins his non-smoking days. Barries humorous essays about his companions, habits and quitting are sure to delight readers.

First published in 1912, Herbert Allen Giles provides in "China and the Manchus" a very short summary of the history of China under the Manchu rule. He covers the historical period from roughly the 17th Century to the start of the 20th Century and he does so in a very efficient, if brief manner.Giles provides an overview of how the Manchus became an influence and a danger on the borders of China, how they found themselves in a position to take over from the Ming Dynasty and how they maintained themselves in power until the 20th Century.He provides both a broad historical sweep of events as well as various ethnographic details such as differences in hairstyle and footwear habits between the Manchus and the Chinese.