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The Rush for the Spoil
Book Two of Zola's 20-volume Rougon-Macquart Cycle. "The Rush for the Spoil" ("La Curee") concerns Aristide Siccard (on…
The Blacker the Berry
An exploration into the life of young African American, Emma Lou, whose self-image is negatively impacted by the stigmas of colorism and int…
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Рене Жирар - французский философ, создатель оригинальной всеобъемлющей теории происхождения религии и культуры. Его прослав…
A Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland
This poem is part of the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," writen by Wordsworth between 1821 - 22. - Summary by David Lawrence
Any Woman To A Soldier
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Any Woman To A Soldier by Grace Ellery Channing.This was the Weekly Poetry project for Novem…
Bauern ABC
Graf Franz Ludwig Evarist Alexander von Pocci, aufgrund seiner Werke für das Kasperl- und Marionettentheater auch als 'Kasperlgraf' bek…
Nicholas Nickelby
Der junge Nikolas Nickleby muss sich Anfang des 19. Jahrhundert in England durch den Verlust seines Vaters plötzlich in einer gefä…
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and pr…
The Valley of the Squinting Windows
The Valley of the Squinting Shadows was the author's first novel and proved controversial. In it, he tells a realistic tale of life in a sma…
The Forged Note
This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …
The Goodness of St. Rocque
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…
Мост через бездну. В пространстве христианской культуры
МОСТ ЧЕРЕЗ БЕЗДНУ В пространстве христианской культуры
Господство христианства в средневековом мире породило всю современную культуру, в пр…
The Wishing Bridge
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Wishing Bridge by John Greenleaf Whittier.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Jul…
The Literature of Arabia
A collection of many romantic stories: it has no epic unity. It will remind the reader of the "Morte d'Arthur" of Sir Thomas Malor…
Stanton White
In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …
The Story of Gisli the Outlaw
The Story of Gisli the Outlaw is a translation of the medieval Icelandic Gísla saga súrssonar, the tale of a family feud and o…
Porgy
Story about Southern African American man with disabilities and the life he leads in the 1900's. - Summary by Denise Ray
Sowing Seeds in Danny
Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) is a Canadian icon - a feminist, social activist, author, and political leader. When she was a child, she move…
The Conquest of Plassans
The placid Provencal lives of Francois Mouret and his wife Marthe are irreparably impacted by the arrival of a suspicious cleric, Abbe Fauja…
The Man of Feeling
A man of refined taste, who caught the tone of the French sentiment of his time, has, of course, pleased French critics, and has been transl…