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Doctor Thorne remains indisputably one of Trollope’s greatest achievements. Paradoxically, it was not a favourite with its author, but then, as so often, he was a poor judge of his own work. Interestingly, the plot was devised not by the author but b

Death Comes for the Archbishop is the story, not of death, but of life, for Miss Cather’s Archbishop Latour died of having lived. She is concerned, not with any climactic moment in a career, but with the whole broad view of the career. There is no cl

The village lay under two feet of snow, with drifts at the windy corners. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires. The moon had set, but the night was so transparent that the white house-fronts bet

After the conclusion of a stormy engagement with her reckless and selfish cousin George, Alice Vavasor, a young woman with an independent fortune, engaged herself to a country gentleman, John Grey. The marriage was approved by her father and her high

Come and hear all ye that fearGod, and I will declare what He hathDone for my soul.—Psalm lxvi. 16.The text in this edition is as nearly as possible that of the eighth, which was corrected by Bunyan himself a few weeks before his death. The text of

Le seul véritable voyage, le seul bain de Jouvence, ce ne serait pas d’aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d’avoir d’autres yeux, de voir l’univers avec les yeux d’un autre, de cent autres, de voir les cent univers que chacun d’eux voit, que chacun

Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers, and his German wife Harriet, in the early 1920s. This appears to be semi-autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and

Jane Eyre is the story of a young, orphaned girl (shockingly, she’s named Jane Eyre) who lives with her aunt and cousins, the Reeds, at Gateshead Hall. Like all nineteenth-century orphans, her situation pretty much sucks.Mrs. Reed hates Jane and allo

1 Tuan Mac Cairill2 The Birth of Bran3 The Little Brawl at Allen4 The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran5 Becuma of the White Skin6 Mongan's Frenzy.. And more Irish fairy tales in this book, in one volume.

My Ántonia is a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather, considered one of her best works. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.The novel tells the stories of an orp

Much Ado About Nothing, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written probably in 1598–99 and printed in a quarto edition from the author’s own manuscript in 1600. The play takes an ancient theme—that of a woman falsely accused of unfaithfulnes

Willa Cather’s Lucy Gayheart gropes a wistful way back to the time of the horse and buggy, when some men and some women loved deeply and truly and make themselves miserable and hugged their misery.Small towns, no less than Vienna and the Paris Left B

Lady Anna is a novel by Anthony Trollope, written in 1871 and first published in book form in 1874.The protagonist is a young woman of noble birth who, through an extraordinary set of circumstances, has fallen in love with and become engaged to a tai

North and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004).The late

Obscure Destinies is a collection of three short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1932. Each story deals with the death of a central character .When Doctor Burleigh told neighbour Rosicky he had a bad heart, Rosicky protested."So? No, I guess my

O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It is the first novel of her Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Ántonia (1918).Part I – The Wild LandOn a windy J

Not Under Forty is the last book published in Cather's lifetime (1873-1947). It is a collection of six essays that critique various writers and the craft of writing in general.Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — th

One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather which won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a native of Nebraska around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful mid-western farmer and an intensely pious mo

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story 'Un Capitano Moro' ('A Moorish Captain') by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in

Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940.The story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter but privileged white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. The book balances an atmosp

Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known of her life based on the substan

The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. The prophet, Almustafa, has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will c

The Ego and Its Own is an 1844 work by German philosopher Max Stirner. It presents a radically nominalist and individualist critique of, on the one hand, Christianity, nationalism and traditional morality, and on the other, humanism, utilitarianism,

Although Kate Chopin lived in St. Louis, Missouri, for most of her life, the few years that she spent in Louisiana profoundly influenced her writing career, which lasted from about 1888 to 1902.Her best-known work, The Awakening (1899), created a sen

Pi (π) sayısının içinde her şey var olabilir mi? Doğum tarihiniz, hatta ölüm tarihiniz bile, hatta Kıyametin tarihi. Peki, ya bunu birileri çok önceden biliyor olsaydı ve bir yere kodlamış olsalardı?Ortaçağ'da, Amerika'yı Kolomb'dan önce bir başkası

Musa, bir gün Çöl’de çok ilginç bir şey gördü."Ateş topu gibi bir Çalı sürekli yanıyor, ama yanıp bitmiyordu..(Kutsal Kitap, Mısırdan Çıkış, 3) ÖNSÖZ & BAŞLANGIÇArkeolog John Smith, 2036 yılında İtalya’nın antik Pompei kentinde çok ilginç, Antik R

Elisa, 7 yaşında küçük bir kızdır ve gerçeği aramak için bir gün evden çıktığında, ormanda kaybolur ve takip ettiği siyah bir tavşan, onu çok eski bir su sarnıcına götürür. İçine girdiğinde sihirli bir aynayla karşılaşır ve aynaya dokunduğunda bir an

“..There will always be a missing piece in life. It could be either something that is left undone or someone who you could not be able to come together with. Maybe the last piece has all the meaning of our lives and therefore it is always hidden” sai

Günümüzde, yeni nesiller, daha doğrusu “eşiği atlamış bir kesim”, “Kâinatı” da kapsayacak şekilde artık geniş ufuklu bir perspektife sahipler, teknoloji ve kitaplar sayesinde Öyle ki, bu yeni çağla birlikte dua ve ibadetin de belirli bir yeri ve zama

YARATILIŞI İSBAT EDEN EN BÜYÜK BİYOKİMYA ATLASI!Evrim Teorisi (Evolution Theory), Bilimsel bir teori midir ve Bilimselliğin kriterlerini karşılamakta mıdır? Platon’un, Aristoteles’in, Leibniz’in, Hume’un, Kant’ın, Popper’ın, Kuhn’un felsefeleriyle bu

The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecifi

A major actor in the American Revolution, the English intellectual Thomas Paine (1737-1809) is best remembered for his pamphlet Common Sense (1776), which advocated American independence from Britain. Although accorded honorary French citizenship in

Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915. It is generally considered to be the second novel in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, following O Pioneers! (1913) and preceding My Ántonia (1918).The book tells the story

Robin Hood was the legendary hero of England who stole from the rich to help the poor. The stories about Robin appealed to common folk because he stood up against—and frequently outwitted—people in power. Furthermore, his life in the forest—hunting a

Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim.

The time has been, but happily exists no longer, when it would have been necessary to offer an apology for such a book as this. In those days it was not held that Beauty is its own excuse for being; on the contrary, a spurious utilitarianism reigned