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War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoys two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the worlds greatest novels.War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. Though it is often called a novel today, it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed, Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE THREE MUSKETEERS - Complete Collection: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise da la Valliere & The Man in the Iron Mask" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Set in 1625, "The Three Musketeers" recounts the adventures of a young man named dArtagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although DArtagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis and gets involved in affairs of the state and court. Dumas frequently works into the plot various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the old regime, giving the story an additional political aspect at a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce.The novel Twenty Years After follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV. The musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers.The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere and The Man in the Iron Mask are set between 1660 and 1667 against the background of the transformation of Louis XIV from child monarch to Sun King.Alexandre Dumas, pere (1802-1870) was a French writer whose works have been translated into nearly 100 languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. His most famous works are The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.

En esta obra el autor analiza el quehacer periodístico de José Emilio Pacheco en su columna “Inventario” publicada primero en Excélsior, de 1973 a 1976, y luego en Proceso, de 1976 hasta su muerte. S

Presso il paese di Aci Trezza, nel catanese, vive la laboriosa famiglia Toscano, soprannominata Malavoglia per antifrasi, secondo la tradizione della ngiuria (una particolare forma di appellativo). Il patriarca e Padron Ntoni, vedovo, che vive presso la casa del nespolo insieme al figlio Bastiano, detto Bastianazzo, il quale e sposato con Maruzza (la Longa). Bastiano ha cinque figli: Ntoni, Luca, Filomena (detta Mena o SantAgata), Alessio (detto Alessi) e Rosalia (detta Lia). Il principale mezzo di sostentamento e la "Provvidenza", una piccola imbarcazione utilizzata per la pesca.Ritratto di VergaNel 1863 Ntoni, il maggiore dei figli, parte per la leva militare. È la prima volta che un membro della famiglia dei Malavoglia parte per la leva nellesercito del Regno dItalia, e sara questo evento (che rappresenta lirruzione del mondo moderno in quello rurale della Sicilia contemporanea) a segnare linizio della rovina della famiglia stessa. Ntoni, lavorando, aiutava economicamente la famiglia, come era costume allepoca, ma a causa della sua partenza per la leva questi guadagni vengono a mancare.Per sopperire a questa perdita Padron Ntoni tenta quindi un affare comprando una grossa partita di lupini (peraltro avariati), da un suo compaesano, chiamato Zio Crocifisso per via delle sue continue lamentele e del suo perenne pessimismo. Il carico viene affidato al figlio Bastianazzo perche vada a venderlo a Riposto, ma durante il viaggio la barca subisce naufragio e Bastianazzo muore. A seguito di questa sventura, la famiglia si ritrova con una triplice disgrazia: e morto il padre, principale fonte di sostentamento della famiglia, mentre il debito dei lupini e ancora da pagare e la Provvidenza va riparata. Finito il servizio militare, Ntoni torna di malavoglia alla dura vita di pescatore alla giornata, e non da alcun sostegno alla gia precaria situazione economica del nucleo familiare...

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers tales" literary subgenre. It is Swifts best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgeralds magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

Old Christmas is a tale of the quaint and old English traditions of celebrating Christmas. Irving travels to the English countryside and meets an old schoolmate, who invites him home to spend Christm

Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennets attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of thesethe haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcyirks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austens radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is arts aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actors craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

Italia, 1939. Antonio arriva dalla campagna toscana a Roma per arruolarsi e si invaghisce della bella Mila. La ragazza lavora per una casa di appuntamenti, ma Antonio non si da per vinto, vuole conoscerla e corteggiarla: Mila ha uneleganza che smentisce la sua "professione". La fame, la guerra e la necessita di provevdere alla sua famiglia lhanno costretta ad accettare quel compromesso, Antonio e un gentiluomo e non si fa scoraggiare dalle apparenze. Quegli occhi verdi gli sono entrati nel cuore e non smette di cercarla. Mila sembra scomparsa, ma la sorte li fara rincontrare? Un racconto ricco e prezioso il cui lautore ha la capacita di dipingere con delicatezza un passato in cui le case chiuse erano ancora una realta.

Paru en 1909, "Le Fantôme de lOpéra" de Gaston Leroux fait partie de ces œuvres qui, parce quelles fondent des mythes, se sont rapidement enracinées dans limaginaire collectif et ont suscité de multi

La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española.En este volumen traemos a Rudyard Kipling, un periodista, escritor de cuentos, poeta y novelista ingles. Nacio en la India, lo que inspiro gran parte de su trabajo.Este libro contiene los siguientes cuentos:- El Hombre que pudo reinar- El gato que caminaba solo- El jardineiro- El judio errante- Georgie Porgie- La Casa de los Deseos- Rikki tikki tavi

La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española.En este volumen traemos a Virginia Woolf, una autora, feminista, ensayista, editora y crítica inglesa, considerada como una de las principales modernistas del siglo XX.Este libro contiene los siguientes cuentos:- El vestido nuevo- Un resumen- El cuarteto de cuerdas- El foco- La casa encantada- La duquesa y el joyero- Lunes o martes

Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook.In exploring everyday life and its intersections with death, this enduring collection of stories offers a naturalistic depiction of the working class in early twentieth-century Dublin. Joyce masterfully portrays frustrations and aborted desires to escape the mundane; transformative epiphanies both great and small; and the restraints, loneliness, violence, and contemplations of lives lived.Though Joyces subjects were considered as taboo as his language was unsavory, Dubliners was a milestone work praised for its unflinching realism. It remains a transcendent and relatable portrait of the perilsand acceptanceof the human condition.

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This ebook is a collection of the complete works of James Joyce.It has the seven books published in Joyces lifetime, and three sections of posthumously published writings: the poems, the essays, and additional prose.To make navigation through the collection easier, each book/section has its own table of contents. Links at the end of every text/chapter bring you back to the respective table of contents. At the end of each of these tables a link leads to the main contents table.-----------------------Contents:1. DUBLINERS2. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN3. CHAMBER MUSIC & POMES PENYEACH4. EXILES5. ULYSSES6. FINNEGANS WAKE7. POEMS8. ESSAYS9. OTHER WRITINGS10. LETTERS

Think and Grow Rich is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that this book deals only with how to get rich, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help people succeed in all lines of work and to do or be almost anything they want

This book contains the works below arranged alphabetically by authors last names- Little Women [Louisa May Alcott]- Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen]- Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie]- Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]- The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]- A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]- Alices Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll]- The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]- The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]- The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]- The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]- On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]- Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]- The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland- David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]- Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]- A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]- The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]- The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]- The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]- A Room with a View [E. M. Forster]- Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]- Tess of the dUrbervilles [Thomas Hardy]- Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]- Dubliners [James Joyce]- The Fall of the House of Usher [Edgar Allan Poe]- The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]- The Sea Wolf [Jack London]- The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]- Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]- Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]- The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]- The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]- The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]- Swanns Way [Marcel Proust]- Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]- Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]- The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.]- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [Mark Twain]- The Prince and the Pauper [Mark Twain]- The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]- A Journey into the Center of the Earth [Jules Verne]- The Mysterious Island [Jules Verne]- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [Jules Verne]

Following the lives of four sisters on a journey out of adolescence, Louisa May Alcotts Little Women explores the difficulties associated with gender roles in a Post-Civil War America.