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Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with "womanizer". He associated with European royalty, popes and cardinals, along with luminaries such as Voltaire, Goethe and Mozart. He spent his last years in Bohemia as a librarian in Count Waldsteins household, where he also wrote the story of his life.

Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Bose), subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft), is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886.It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction.In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.

Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. He was the last of the Five Good Emperors, and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers.While on campaign between 170 and 180, Aurelius wrote his Meditations in Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. The title of this work was added posthumouslyoriginally he titled his work simply: "To Myself". He had a logical mind and his notes were representative of Stoic philosophy and spirituality.Meditations is still revered as a literary monument to a government of service and duty. The book has been a favourite of Frederick the Great, John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, Goethe, Wen Jiabao, and Bill Clinton.

This is a history of the fairy tales and folklore that originated out of Japan dating back millennia. From the intro:Pierre Loti in Madame Chrysantheme, Gilbert and Sullivan in The Mikado, and Sir Edwin Arnold in Seas and Lands, gave us the impression that Japan was a real fairyland in the Far East. We were delighted with the prettiness and quaintness of that country, and still more with the prettiness and quaintness of the Japanese people. We laughed at their topsy-turvy ways, regarded the Japanese woman, in her rich-coloured kimono, as altogether charming and fascinating, and had a vague notion that the principal features of Nippon were the tea-houses, cherry-blossom, and geisha. Twenty years ago we did not take Japan very seriously. We still listen to the melodious music of The Mikado, but now we no longer regard Japan as a sort of glorified willow-pattern plate. The Land of the Rising Sun has become the Land of the Risen Sun, for we have learnt that her quaintness and prettiness, her fairy-like manners and customs, were but the outer signs of a great and progressive nation. To-day we recognise Japan as a power in the East, and her victory over the Russian has made her army and navy famous throughout the world.The Japanese have always been an imitative nation, quick to absorb and utilise the religion, art, and social life of China, and, having set their own national seal upon what they have borrowed from the Celestial Kingdom, to look elsewhere for material that should strengthen and advance their position. This imitative quality is one of Japans most marked characteristics. She has ever been loath to impart information to others, but ready at all times to gain access to any form of knowledge likely to make for her advancement. In the fourteenth century Kenk? wrote in his Tsure-dzure-gusa:[Pg xii] "Nothing opens ones eyes so much as travel, no matter where," and the twentieth-century Japanese has put this excellent advice into practice. He has travelled far and wide, and has made good use of his varied observations. Japans power of imitation amounts to genius. East and West have contributed to her greatness, and it is a matter of surprise to many of us that a country so long isolated and for so many years bound by feudalism should, within a comparatively short space of time, master our Western system of warfare, as well as many of our ethical and social ideas, and become a great world-power. But Japans success has not been due entirely to clever imitation, neither has her place among the foremost nations been accomplished with such meteor-like rapidity as some would have us suppose.

William Blake (28 November 1757 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He was a 19th-century writer and artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age. His writings have influenced countless writers and artists through the ages, and he has been deemed both a major poet and an original thinker.

This revised kindle edition contains additional illustrations of flowers, captioned to include their meaningsA pretty book matching flowers and plants to their meanings. Listed in both in alphabetical order and in reverse order (matching meanings to plants/flowers) the book also contains many charming 19th Century illustrations.A selection of flower-themed poetry is also included at the end of the book, eg. Daffodils (Wordsworth); The Rose (Waller); The Sensitive Plant (Shelley); Adonis Sleeping (Keats); The Daisy (Chaucer).A useful reference book for exploring symbolism in nature.Cowslip = Pensiveness. Winning grace.Geranium, Lemon = Unexpected meeting.Lily, White = Purity. Sweetness.Primrose = Early youth.Snowdrop = Hope.Sweet Pea = Delicate pleasures.

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". All of the stories had been published earlier, independently, in either Metropolitan Magazine (New York), Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Colliers, Chicago Sunday Tribune, or Vanity Fair

Dallincipit del libro:Quando mi tornano a mente i miei genitori (adesso si stanno accanto nel cimitero del villaggio) e gli anni della mia giovinezza, allora gli occhi si ricolmano di lagrime.Ecco: era lassu! da tutte le strade del piano, anche da lontano, lo si distingueva il palazzo antico e quadrato, su in vetta della collina, con i quattro cipressi alti che dentellavano il cielo e facevano la guardia al portone.

En commençant mes études le premier pas m’a plu si fort,Le simple fait de la conscience, ces formes, la motilité,Le moindre insecte ou animal, les sens, la vue, l’amour,Le premier pas, dis-je, m’a fr

Fitzgeralds second novel, a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy. Published on the heels of This Side of Paradise, the story of the Harvard-educated aesthete Anthony Patch and his willful wife, Gloria, is propelled by Fitzgeralds intense romantic imagination and demonstrates an increased technical and emotional maturity. The Beautiful and Damned is at once a gripping morality tale, a rueful meditation on love, marriage, and money, and an acute social document. As Hortense Calisher observes in her Introduction, Though Fitzgerald can entrance with stories so joyfully youthful they appear to be safewhen he cuts himself, you will bleed.This book has caused an even greater sensation in America than This Side of Paradise. It is a long, searching, and absolutely convincing study of degeneration, that degeneration which ruins so many of the rich, young, idle people. The "smart set" of New York is hurled into the limelight and mercilessly revealed. A witty, pungent, and entirely orginal book. An excellent portrayal of the Eastern elite at the beginning of the Jazz Age.

De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More.The book, written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. The name of the place is derived from the Greek words ? u ("not") and ? topos ("place"), with the topographical suffix -? eia, hence ?? outopeia (Latinized as Utopia), no-place land. It also contains a pun, however, because Utopia could also be the Latinization of ?? eutopeia, good-place land, which uses the Greek prefix eu, good, instead of ?. One interpretation holds that this suggests that while Utopia might be some sort of perfected society, it is ultimately unreachable. Despite modern connotations of the word "utopia," it is widely accepted that the society More describes in this work was not actually his own "perfect society." Rather he wished to use the contrast between the imaginary lands unusual political ideas and the chaotic politics of his own day as a platform from which to discuss social issues in Europe.

Primo titolo della serie "Bibliotheca Umbra" ideata e curata da Luigi M. Reale. - La straziante memoria dellagonia e della morte del figlio Fausto forma, per Alinda Brunamonti, il preambolo di una lunga meditazione che nel corso di venticinque anni non ha soluzioni di continuita. Come anche nel profondo scoramento della malattia che ne minera il fisico non avra cedimenti la fede in Cristo e nella Vergine. Si compone attraverso i numerosi brani di questo diario una collana di grani di spiritualita distillata giorno dopo giorno, nella preghiera e nella confidenza assoluta. La scrittura quotidiana del diario si svolge come una lunga e non interrotta meditazione: riporta il pensiero nel momento stesso in cui si articola e sviluppa in un fluente dettato interiore; il suo pregio e infatti tracciare questo processo di riflessione (confidata alla carta), per cui latto di scrivere equivale al ragionamento immediato e ci restituisce con efficacia quasi viva e presente la pronuncia mentale dellautrice. Dopo quasi un secolo e mezzo, questi pensieri non hanno perduto la loro spontanea energia, il vigore di quando sono stati elaborati e trascritti, e rappresentano ancora oggi per noi un buon viatico nelle sempre alterne vicende del presente. Li consegniamo quindi ai lettori certi che sapranno suscitare anche nuova ammirazione per una delle intelligenze piu originali e autentiche della nostra letteratura.

Like most of Charles Dickens other works, HARD TIMES is a social commentary on mid-19th century England. Set in the fictional English industrial city of Coketown, HARD TIMES examines the lives of workers during Englands industrial revolution who endure horrific working conditions and dangers as they struggle to survive and provide for their families.

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.

Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman (Jane) whose physician husband (John) has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.

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.

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called Englands national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Novel by Jack London, published in 1908, describing the fall of the United States to the cruel fascist dictatorship of the Iron Heel, a group of monopoly capitalists. Fearing the popularity of socialism, the plutocrats of the Iron Heel conspire to eliminate democracy and, with their secret police and military, terrorize the citizenry. They instigate a German attack on Hawaii on Dec. 4, 1912; as socialist revolutions topple capitalist governments around the world, the Iron Heel has 52 socialist members of the U.S. Congress imprisoned for treason. Elements of Londons vision of fascism, civil war, and governmental oppression proved to be prophetic in the first half of the 20th century. --The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

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.

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.