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Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (18191892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it multiple times until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decadesthe first a small book of twelve poems and the last a compilation of over 400.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American author best known for writing The Great Gatsby. Fitzgeralds writings on The Jazz Age are the most famous on the subject. This version of Fitzgeralds This Side of Paradise includes a table of contents.

Your Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll eBook Report:1. Unabridged (100% Original content)2. Illustrated.3. Working Table of Contents, Font adjustments & Navigation.About Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll:Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alices Adventures in Wonderland (1865). It is based on his meeting with another Alice, Alice Raikes. Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. Though not quite as popular as Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KING JAMES BIBLEThe Bible is the best selling book in the world, and the King James Bible is its most famous translation. Translated by 47 scholars and completed in 1611, the King James Bible was the most influential book in the world and is renowned for its beauty and poetry. We are celebrating the 400th anniversary of its completion by offering it for Kindle, now in a format where you can finally find verses faster than the old-fashioned paper version.This version has been meticulously converted to the Kindle format and includes the following features:SEARCH EVERY VERSENo matter where you are in the Bible, quickly jump to a verse by typing the books three-letter abbreviation and chapter and verse. For instance to jump to John 3:16, simply type "joh3.16". Easy as that!NEVER GET LOSTIf youre like us, you use your Bible here and there, in snippets and in long periods of study. You jump around a lot. We understand the nuances of e-book Bibles and the problem of knowing where you are when you turn on your Kindle.Because every verse is labeled in this edition, you always know at a glance where you are. No more paging endlessly to find a chapter heading to get your bearings.CHAPTER JUMP WITH THE 5-WAY CONTROLLERJump quickly to the previous or next chapter by pressing the left or right button on the 5-way controller.FULLY FEATURED TABLE OF CONTENTSThe full TOC appears at the beginning of the book and can be accessed through the MENU button. The beginning of every book also contains links to every chapter of that book.BEAUTIFUL FORMATTINGThis Bible is in single verse format. Proper verse spacing, chapter headings, and margins are all set to be easy on the eyes.

Charles Robert Darwin (Shrewsbury, 12 febbraio 1809 Londra, 19 aprile 1882) e stato un naturalista britannico, celebre per aver formulato la teoria dellevoluzione delle specie animali e vegetali per selezione naturale agente sulla variabilita dei caratteri (origine delle specie), per aver teorizzato la discendenza di tutti i primati (uomo compreso) da un antenato comune (origine delluomo) e per aver teorizzato la possibile esistenza di un antenato comune a tutte le specie viventi.Firma di DarwinPubblico la sua teoria sullevoluzione delle specie nel libro Lorigine delle specie (1859), che e rimasto il suo lavoro piu noto. Raccolse molti dei dati su cui baso la sua teoria durante un viaggio intorno al mondo sulla nave HMS Beagle, e in particolare durante la sua sosta alle Isole Galapagos.

This vivid autobiography by one of the leaders in the fight for woman suffrage is a stirring depiction of the early struggles of American women toward equality. The new introduction and afterword written for the revised edition interpret Elizabeth Cady Stantons positions and strategies for todays readers, detail the significance of the autobiography and situate it within the body of Stantons writings and activities, bring current scholarship to the appraisal of her importance, and reflect on the last part of her life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes about her life from childhood into her eighties. She recalls the discontent that led her to launch the woman suffrage movement at Seneca Falls in 1848 and the frustration of still having no voice in her own government after a half century of hard work. In lively and opinionated prose, Stanton conveys all the passion that made her a guiding force in the womens movement. She provides an affectionate picture of her friend and political partner, Susan B. Anthony, and other leaders in the abolitionist and woman suffrage movements. She describes the immeasurable pleasure of winning converts to her cause and the satisfaction of silencing opponents through the force of her argument. Sometimes humorous, sometimes touching, filled with resolve throughout, Eighty Years and More is a compelling portrait of this remarkable leader.

Questo mini racconto e basato su elementi reali."I profumi Italiani" e un locale di Lissone (MB) che esiste realmente e che ho la fortuna di frequentare da un paio danni.Esiste lo specchio, la ragazza dal rossetto rosso e anche il barista col grembiule. Reale e lo specchio e le persone che ci si specchiano.Mattia? E chi lo sa...

In January of 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense; the book inflamed its readers and ignited the American Revolution. In truth the fires of dissent were already smoldering, but Paines impassioned writing gave focus to the many disparate voices and united a country. One cannot over estimate the importance of this book in shaping the destiny of United States of America, as it was here that our constitutional form of government was first suggested.

Novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas Carlyles history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris, the novel offers more drama than accuracy. The scenes of large-scale mob violence are especially vivid, if superficial in historical understanding. The complex plot involves Sydney Cartons sacrifice of his own life on behalf of his friends Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette. While political events drive the story, Dickens takes a decidedly antipolitical tone, lambasting both aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess--the latter memorably caricatured in Madame Defarge, who knits beside the guillotine. The book is perhaps best known for its opening lines, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," and for Cartons last speech, in which he says of his replacing Darnay in a prison cell, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."

Primo numero della serie monografica "Quaderni di italianistica.online" (www.italianistica.online) ideata e curata da Luigi M. Reale. | Il ritrovamento nellArchivio Diocesano di Gubbio della partecipazione di nascita di Giacomo Leopardi inviata il 5 luglio 1798 dal padre Monaldo a Gubbio ci fa risalire, tramite la nonna paterna di Giacomo, Virginia Mosca, ad una altrimenti dimenticata ascendenza eugubina dellillustre poeta. Grazie alloriginale ricerca gia condotta da Anna Maria Trepaoli e stato possibile un ulteriore approfondimento che ha messo in luce notizie particolari sulla famiglia Leopardi e sul giovane Giacomo.

Although Stendhal considered On Love his best creation, not many critics and readers will ever agree with him. Henry James called the book unreadable; others have called it bizarre; and some disconcerting and exasperating.Heres a warning by means of a question: what is the 21st century reader to make of this book? In my estimation, with some patience one can find not only an abundance of wit, but also much hidden wisdom about the mysterium tremendum that is human love.If Stendhals On Love is considered a failure, then all I can say is that he is in good company, for Aristophanes, Plato, Denis de Rougemont, Ortega y Gasset, Eric Fromm and others also fell shortand no one can say they disgraced themselves.Heres a gem that never fails to give hope to men who search for love: A requirement of love is that a mans face, at first sight, should show both something to be respected and something to be pitied.

Parades End is a tetralogy (four related novels) by Ford Madox Ford. It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welsh Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals.The four novels were originally published under the titles: Some Do Not ..., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and Last Post. They were combined into one volume as Parades End, which has been ranked at number 57 on the Modern Librarys 100 Best Novels list.J. Gray hailed "possibly the greatest 20th-century novel in English". Likewise, Mary Gordon labelled it as "quite simply, the best fictional treatment of war in the history of the novel".The novels chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens, "the last Tory", a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I. His wife Sylvia is a flippant socialite who seems intent on ruining him. Tietjens may or may not be the father of his wifes child.

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 in the UK by Pearsons Magazine and in the US by Cosmopolitan magazine. The novels first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann of London. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.

Edward Prendick finds himself adrift at sea, a lone survivor of a ship wreck. He spends more than a week drifting without food or water. Pendrick consigns himself to death, but fate intervenes and delivers him to an unknown Island. The terrors that await him on Doctor Moreaus island are far worse than what he has just been rescued from or anything that he could have imagined.

The action takes place in Battle Hill, outside London, amidst the townspeoples staging of a new play by Peter Stanhope. The hill seems to reside at the crux of time, as characters from the past appear, and perhaps at a doorway to the beyond, as characters are alternately summoned heavenwards or descend into hell.Pauline Anstruther, the heroine of the novel, lives in fear of meeting her own doppelganger, which has appeared to her throughout her life. But Stanhope, in an action central to the authors own theology, takes the burden of her fears upon himselfWilliams called this The Doctrine of Substituted Loveand enables Pauline, at long last, to face her true self. Williams drew this idea from the biblical verse, "Ye shall bear one anothers burdens"And so Stanhope does take the weight, with no surreptitious motive, in the most affecting scene in the novel. And Pauline, liberated, is able to accept truth.On the other hand, Lawrence Wentworth, a local historian, finding his desire for Adela Hunt to be unrequited, falls in love instead with a spirit form of Adela, which seems to represent a kind of extreme self-love on his part. As he isolates himself more and more with this insubstantial figure, and dreams of descending a silver rope into a dark pit, Wentworth begins the descent into Hell.

The original Tarot is used to unlock enormous metaphysical powers by allowing the possessors to see across space and time, create matter, and raise powerful natural storms.

A humanistic adept has discovered that by focusing his energies inward he can extend his life almost indefinitely. He undertakes an experiment using African lore to die and resurrect his own body thereby assuring his immortality. His followers begin a revolutionary movement to destroy European civilization.

Charles Williams had a genius for choosing strange and exciting themes for his novels and making them believable and profoundly suggestive of spiritual truths. All Hallows Eve is the story of a man and woman whose love was so great it could bridge the gap of death; of evil so terrible as to be unmentionable, of a vision so beautiful it must be true.

An evil antiquarian illegally purchases the fabled Stone of Suleiman (Williams uses this Muslim form rather than the more familiar King Solomon) from its Islamic guardian in Baghdad and returns to England to discover not only that the Stone can multiply itself infinitely without diminishing the original, but that it also allows its possessor to transcend the barriers of space and time.

Williams gives a contemporary setting to the traditional story of the Search for the Holy Grail. Examining the distinction between magic and religion, War in Heaven is an eerily disturbing book, one that graphically portrays a metaphysical journey through the shadowy crevices of the human mind.