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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.

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".

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.

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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.

Written in 1900, "LAiglon" is a play in six acts by Edmond Rostand based on the life of Napoleon II, who was the son of Emperor Napoleon I and his second wife, Empress Marie Louise. The title of the play comes from a nickname for Napoleon II, the French word for "eaglet" (a young eagle).The title role was created by Sarah Bernhardt in the plays premiere on 15 March 1900 at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt.Edmond Rostands sympathetic treatment of sensitive people is as evident in his portrait of Napoleons idealistic but hesitant son as it is in that of his ugly but unselfish "Cyrano de Bergerac"."LAiglon" is an impressive play.

"Plays Pleasant" is a collection of four plays by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1898: Arms and the Man; Candida; The Man of Destiny; and, You Never Can Tell.One of Bernard Shaws most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is revealed. Shaw mocks deluded idealism in Candida, when a young poet becomes infatuated with the wife of a Socialist preacher. The Man of Destiny is a witty war of words between Napoleon and a strange lady, while in the exuberant farce You Never Can Tell a divided family is reunited by chance. Although Shaw intended "Plays Pleasant" to be gentler comedies than those in their companion volume, "Plays Unpleasant", their prophetic satire is sharp and provocative.George Bernard Shaw is one of the worlds greatest literary figures.

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First published in 1917, "Annes House of Dreams" is the fifth book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The novel centres on 25-year-old Anne Shirley, who has just married Gilbert Blythe and settled into a lovely house in Four Winds.SummaryAnnes own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and in the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbour.A new life means fresh problems to solve, fresh surprises. Anne and Gilbert will make new friends and meet their neighbours, Captain Jim, the lighthouse attendant, with his sad stories of the sea, Miss Cornelia Bryant, the lady who speaks from the heart - and speaks her mind - and the tragically beautiful Leslie Moore, into whose dark life Anne shines a brilliant light.

First published in 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomerys novel "Anne of the Island" is the third novel in the Anne of Green Gables series. The story takes place several years after the first book in the series, following the main character, Anne Shirley, as she attends college. As the security of home and childhood comforts fade, each must face the trials of being on their own.In 2005, "Anne of the Island" was adapted into a musical called Anne & Gilbert. It was also the bases for the 1987 television mini-series Anne of Green Gables The Sequel. Both adaptations also drew from other books in the series.

First published in 1909, "Anne of Avonlea" is considered the sequel to Montgomerys most popular book, "Anne of Green Gables". The novel chronicles the life of Anne Shirley from the age of 16-18, when she takes on the post of teaching at the Avonlea School in Nova Scotia. It follows Annes endeavours to become a successful teacher, help raise a pair of rambunctious twins, and improve her beloved hometownwith the help of her former enemy, Gilbert Blythe, whos giving her an awful lot of attention.

First published in 1842, "The Black Sheep" is an outstanding novel by Honoré de Balzac that tells of a remarkable battle for inheritance. At the centre of this story are two brothers, Joseph and Philippe, who could not be more different from each other, the modest and studious Joseph is the complete opposite of the bold and physically-imposing Philippe. They become the protagonists in the fight against their uncles supposed will to leave his fortune to mere strangers that coveted his attention for years. As in other novels, Balzac masterfully concocts a tale that is based on contrasts the provincial life in Issoudun vs. the town life in Paris, the consequences of immense wealth vs. the results of poverty, the life of the upper classes vs. the destitution of the working class, while his moral spins around the fleeting nature of success, the extent of the individual ruthlessness and cunningness, and the consequences of a mothers blind love for her child. More than any other Balzac novel, "The Black Sheep" is all about appearances often deceiving us and the fact that a leopard never changes its spots.

Parades End is a series of four novels depicting the meeting, courtship, and ultimate fulfilment of two modern heroes, Christopher Tietjens and Valentine Wannop, despite social condemnation, personal travails, and World War I."Last Post", the fourth novel and final volume, is set on a single summers day and follows the characters into the unsettling and often disorientating postwar world. With fluency, humour and great skill, this narrative explores their individual memories, hopes, and uncertainties, while also subtly questioning the current and future state of England.Widely acclaimed when first published in the 1920s, Parades End is one of the outstanding works about the Great War and British society before, during, and after that cataclysm. A major work of Modernism, it is an investigation of time, history, and sexuality.

Taking place just before World War I, English novelist Ford Madox Fords 1915 publication "The Good Soldier" recounts the story of Edward Ashburnham and his seemingly idyllic life with his wife and another couple who are their friends. A series of flashbacks that are not presented in chronological order serve as the structure of the novel and serve, too, as an early example of literary impressionism. The narrator is considered unreliable as his telling of the events differs from what is suggested in the introduction. "The Good Soldier" is a novel about the differences between appearance and realityand about human willingness to see events in a light that best suits the viewer, regardless of how accurate that vision may be.Incidents of adultery in Fords life are thought to have inspired the novel. The book was originally titled "The Saddest Story" but as World War I was underway by the time of its release, the publishers requested that Ford change the title. The text is highly respected on both sides of the Atlantic with Modern Library listing it as one of the best English language novels of the twentieth century and the BBC naming it number thirteen on its list of the one hundred greatest British novels.(Source: supersummary.com)

Er boja de Roma ci racconta le vite lussuriose, gli intrecci amorosi, le scappatelle, le storie di corna, ripicche, vendette, ma anche storie di valorosi uomini e incolpevoli vittime.Il libro e suddiviso in tre parti; nella prima viene riportata la biografia di Mastro Titta e dei sei Papi che si sono succeduti durante lesercizio della sua professione nonche un inedito racconto pubblicato in Inghilterra da uno storico del tempo intitolato la Giustizia di Leone XII.La seconda parte e costituita dalla trascrizione in digitale dellopera di autore anonimo dal titolo Mastro Titta, il boia di Roma: Memorie di un carnefice scritte da lui stesso, pubblicato a dispense dallEditore Perini nel 1891.Nella terza parte troviamo lelenco dei giustiziati di Mastro Titta nonche un approfondimento delle Giustizie a Roma.

"Kangaroo" is David Herbert Lawrences eighth novel, set in Australia. He wrote the first draft in just forty-five days while living south of Sydney, in 1922, and revised it three months later in New Mexico. The descriptions of the country are vivid and sympathetic and the book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of political ideas at an immensely personal level.

This early work by Eva March Tappan was originally published in 1903. "In the Days of Queen Victoria" is a biography of Queen Victoria, the woman who became queen at eighteen and for nearly 64 years wore the crown of Great Britain, and details aspects of her school days, her coronation, and her family life. Eva March Tappan was a teacher and American author born in Blackstone, Massachusetts. She graduated from Vassar College in 1875 receiving graduate degrees in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.Tappan began her literary career writing about famous characters from history in works such as "In the Days of William the Conqueror" (1901), and "In the Days of Queen Elizabeth" (1903). She then developed an interest in childrens books, writing her own and publishing collections of classic tales.

William Charles Scully is one of South Africas best-known authors, although little known outside South Africa. In addition to his work as an author, his paid work was principally as a magistrate in Springfontein, South Africa, as well as in Namaqualand and the Transkei.First published in 1913, "Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer" is a brilliant account of his life in that country. An autobiographical book beginning with his childhood in Ireland and his immigration to Cape Town when he was around eleven years old. The author writes about big-game hunting, the town natives, and his subsequent travels around South Africa, as well as being one of the first ones to take advantage of the discovery of gold and diamonds in the country.