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    • 1984

      George Orwell

      Fictie en literatuur Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future in the year 1984, when much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police

    • Crime and Punishment

      Fyodor Dostoyevsky

      Literaire kritiek Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifie

    • Sense and Sensibility

      Jane Austen

      Literaire kritiek Austen biograaf Claire Tomalin stelt dat Sense and Sensibility heeft een "wobble in zijn benadering ', die ontwikkeld omdat Austen, in de loop van het schrijven van de roman, werd geleidelijk aan minder zeker over de vraag of gevoel of gevoeligheid moet zegevieren. [6] Austen kenmerkt Marianne als een lieve dame met aantrekkelijke kwaliteiten: intelligentie, muzikaal talent, openheid, en het vermogen om diep. Zij erkent ook dat Willoughby, met al zijn fouten, blijft liefde en, in zekere mate, waarderen Marianne. Om deze redenen, sommige lezers vinden van Marianne ultieme huwelijk met kolonel Brandon een onbevredigend einde.

    • Machado de Assis

      Machado de Assis

      Fictie en literatuur Esta edição inaugura a sequência de livros digitais que trará a obra completa de Machado de Assis para o formato digital. As crônicas aqui reunidas foram escritas entre 1861 e 1864.

    • THE FREEDOM PRACTICES OF REMEMORY

      Chimira Natanna Obiefule

      Literaire kritiek "Through re-memory Chimira calls home the core of the black being by re-merging the masculine and the feminine as one in the African spirit. She creates presence by making the theoretical practical, for her life personifies the double jeopardy of the black women. Yet she becomes both a witness and a healer to the violence of history. She evokes hope and beauty by claiming space once annihilated. She recreates eroded statuettes of re-memory inherent in black sovereignty. Out of the wreck in the burden of being black, she mounts the beautyful. In these testimonies, a spiritual revolution begins. Re-memory ushers in an era of the beautyful, the opening of our eyes to the glory of what has always been: the very essence of the black and beautyful." - Unoma Azuah.

    • A Christmas Carol

      Charles Dickens

      Literaire kritiek Het verhaal begint op een "koude, gure, snijdende" kerstavond precies zeven jaar na de dood van Scrooge's zakenpartner Jacob Marley. Scrooge, een oude vrek, wordt binnen de eerste notenbalk als gevestigde "een knijpen, hartverscheurende, grijpen, schrapen, geklemd, gierigaards, oude zondaar!" Hij heeft een hekel aan kerst, noemde het "humbug"; hij zijn neef Fred's kerstdiner uitnodiging weigert, grof en zich afwendt twee heren die een donatie willen van hem naar een kerstdiner voor de armen te voorzien. Zijn enige "kerstcadeau" is waardoor hij overwerkte, onderbetaalde klerk Bob Cratchit Kerstdag af met behoud van loon - dat hij niet alleen met de sociale gewoonte houden, Scrooge overweegt het "een slecht excuus voor het kiezen van een iemand ieder 25 december!"

    • Ulysses

      James Joyce

      Literaire kritiek Ulysses is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. It is considered to be one of the most important works of Modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking." However, even proponents of Ulysses such as Anthony Burgess have described the book as "inimitable, and also possibly mad". Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904 (the day of Joyce's first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle). Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (e.g., the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odyss

    • Picture of Dorian Gray

      Oscar Wilde

      Literaire kritiek Het portret van Dorian Gray begint op een mooie zomerse dag in het Victoriaanse tijdperk Engeland, waar Lord Henry Wotton, een eigenwijze man, is het observeren van de gevoelige kunstenaar Basil Hallward schilderen van het portret van Dorian Gray, hun gastheer, en de knappe jonge man die Basil's ultieme muze. Na het horen van hedonistische wereldbeeld Lord Henry's, Dorian begint te denken dat schoonheid is het enige aspect van het leven de moeite waard zijn, en wenst dat Basil's portret van hem zou ouder worden in zijn plaats.Onder de echte levensgenieter invloed van Lord Henry, Dorian verkent zijn sensualiteit volledig. Hij ontdekt de actrice Sybil Vane, die voert van Shakespeare speelt in een groezelige, arbeidersklasse theater. Dorian benadert en rechtbanken haar, en al snel ten huwelijk. De verliefde Sibyl noemt hem "Prince Charming", en swoons met het geluk van te houden, maar haar beschermende broer, James, een zeeman, waarschuwt dat als "Prince Charming" schaadt haar, zal hij D

    • Middlemarch

      George Eliot

      Literaire kritiek Making masterful use of a counter pointed plot, Eliot presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832. The main characters, Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate, each long for exceptional lives but are powerfully constrained by their own unrealistic expectations as well as conservative society. The novel is notable for its deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits.

    • Ergens in een buurt in Nederland...

      E.P. Visscher

      Literaire kritiek Deze verzameling columns neemt je mee naar zomaar een buurt in Nederland. Het leven lijkt heel normaal en alles gaat zo z'n gangetje. Maar waarom doen we de dingen zoals we ze doen?

    • Short Stories

      F. Scott Fitzgerald

      Literaire kritiek The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a compilation of 43 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 'The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald', Matthew J. Bruccoli, the country's premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, assembles a sparkling collection that encompasses the full scope of Fitzgerald's short fiction. The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the author's fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses. Included are classic novellas, such as "The Rich Boy", "May Day", and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", as well as a remarkable body of work he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post and its sister "slicks". These stories can be read as an autobiographical journal of a great writer's career, an experience deepened by the illuminating introductory headnotes that Matthew Bruccoli has written for each story, placing it in its literary and biographical context. Together,

    • Inside Game of Thrones

      Christopher Pruitt, Tyler Hayden & Joshua M. Patton

      Literaire kritiek Don't hide your obsession about HBO's flagship fantasy series, Game of Thrones—own it. You're in good company. If you can't wait until season three for your Westeros fix, check out our unofficial, fan-based Game of Thrones reader, where you'll find critical analyses on everything from incest to the influence of J.R.R. Tolkien and Joseph Campbell. Dive into our book and relive the best moments from seasons one and two.

    • THE GIVER

      Monique Villen

      Literaire kritiek The book is an analysis of Lois Lowry’s work, The Giver, and Phillip Noyce’s movie (2014).  The novel recounts, in third person, the life of a boy named Jonas, who lives in a dystopian society of the near future that reminds us of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. This society has eliminated pain and strife by literally chemical means, a plan that has also removed emotional depth from human life. When children reach adolescence, they are assigned a profession according to their talents and skills. Jonas is selected to be the "Receiver of Memory", the person who stores all the memories of the past, in case the ruling oligarchy needs help in making decisions for which nobody has any more experience. Training with the "Giver" will be vital and traumatic so that Jonas can understand what society really is and how humanity has reached the stage it is in.

    • Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete

      1265-1321 Dante Alighieri

      Literaire kritiek The book examines crucial aspects of British culture in the 19th Century and throws light on the manifold transformations of Dante's imagery into English poetry.

    • Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

      Henry David Thoreau

      Literaire kritiek Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican–American War.

    • Claire de Lune

      Guy de Maupassant

      Literaire kritiek L’abbé Marignan est un grand prêtre maygre et fanatique, il n’y a aucune hésitation dans sa croyance, tout l’univers est ordonné par Dieu dans une logique absolue et admirable. La femme est pour lui une source de haine inconsciente, ce sont des êtres qu’il faut approcher avec des précautions défensives et leur besoin d’amour l’exaspère et l’incommode.

    • Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

      Karl Marx

      Literaire kritiek "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant monographs. It may be considered the best work extant on the philosophy of history, with an eye especially upon the history of the Movement of the Proletariat, together with the bourgeois and other manifestations that accompany the same, and the tactics that such conditions dictate. The recent populist uprising; the more recent "Debs Movement"; the thousand and one utopian and chimerical notions that are flaring up; the capitalist maneuvers; the hopeless, helpless grasping after straws, that characterize the conduct of the bulk of the working class; all of these, together with the empty-headed, ominous figures that are springing into notoriety for a time and have their day, mark the present period of the Labor Movement in the nation a critical one. The best information acquirable, the best mental training obtainable are requisite to steer through the existing chaos that the death-tainted

    • The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete

      Émile Zola

      Literaire kritiek Lourdes' came to be written by mere accident. In 1891 I happened to be travelling for my pleasure, with my wife, in the Basque country and by the Pyrenees, and being in the neighbourhood of Lourdes, included it in my tour. I spent fifteen days there, and was greatly struck by what I saw, and it then occurred to me that there was material here for just the sort of novel that I like to write a novel in which great masses of men can be shown in motion un grand mouvement de foule a novel the subject of which stirred up my philosophical ideas. "It was too late then to study the question, for I had visited Lourdes late in September, and so had missed seeing the best pilgrimage, which takes place in August, under the direction of the Peres de la Misericorde, of the Rue de l'Assomption in Paris the National Pilgrimage, as it is called. These Fathers are very active, enterprising men, and have made a great success of this annual national pilgrimage. Under their direction thirty thousand pilgri

    • Crónicas de Narnia

      Monique Villen

      Literaire kritiek Este cine forum que analiza las tres películas de « Las crónicas de Narnia » nació de una actividad con alumnos de secundaria, por lo tanto está más bien dirigido a un público más joven, pero al igual que los cuentos de C.S. Lewis, se puede sacar provecho de su lectura a cualquier edad.

    • The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

      1048-1122 Omar Khayyám

      Literaire kritiek The Rubáiyát is one of the most popular poems of all time. A collection of quatrains composed in the eleventh century by Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyám.

    • On Liberty

      John Stuart Mill

      Literaire kritiek On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state.

    • Following the Equator

      Mark Twain

      Literaire kritiek Bound on a lecturing trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to far lands in "Following the Equator." The first of two volumes, this vivid record of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain's instinctive eye for the unusual, his wide-ranging curiosity, and his delight in embellishing the facts. The personalities of the ship's crew and passengers, the poetry of Australian place - names and the success of women's suffrage in New Zealand, among other topics, are the focus of his wry humor and redoubtable powers of observation. "Following the Equator" is an evocative and highly unique American portrait of nineteenth-century travel and custom.

    • Orgullo y Prejuicio

      Jane Austen

      Literaire kritiek Es una verdad mundialmente reconocida que un hombre soltero, poseedor de una gran fortuna, necesita una esposa.

    • On Being Ill

      Virginia Woolf

      Literaire kritiek In this poignant and humorous work, Virginia Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being's experience, it has never been the subject of literature like the more acceptable subjects of war and love. We cannot quote Shakespeare to describe a headache. We must, Woolf says, invent language to describe pain. And though illness enhances our perceptions, she observes that it reduces self-consciousness; it is "the great confessional." Woolf discusses the cultural taboos associated with illness and explores how illness changes the way we read. Poems clarify and astonish, Shakespeare exudes new brilliance, and so does melodramatic fiction.

    • Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell

      1265-1321 Dante Alighieri

      Literaire kritiek Dante, astray in a wood, reaches the foot of a hill which he begins to ascend; he is hindered by three beasts; he turns back and is met by Virgil, who proposes to guide him into the eternal world.

    • Doctor Pascal

      Émile Zola

      Literaire kritiek Doctor Pascal (orig. French Le Docteur Pascal) is the twentieth and final novel of the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola, first published in June 1893 by Charpentier. The novel was translated into English by Ernest A. Vizetelly in 1894 (reprinted 1925 and 1995); by Mary J. Serrano in 1898 (reprinted 2005); and by Vladimir Kean in 1957. Zola's plan for the Rougon-Macquart novels was to show how heredity and environment worked on the members of one family over the course of the Second Empire. He wraps up his heredity theories in this novel. Le docteur Pascal is furthermore essentially a story about science versus faith.

    • Aristotle on the art of poetry

      Ingram Bywater

      Literaire kritiek This 1920 volume is an English translation of Poetics, the great treatise on literary theory by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, translated by English classicist Ingram Bywater and with an introduction by British classical scholar Gilbert Murray.

    • The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4

      Cicero

      Literaire kritiek The Fourteen Orations Against Marcus Antonius; To which are appended The Treatise on Rhetorical Invention; The Orator; Topics; On Rhetorical Partitions, etc.

    • In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

      Marcel Proust

      Literaire kritiek In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu)— previously also translated as Remembrance of Things Past, is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust (1871–1922). It is considered to be his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine" which occurs early in the first volume. It gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past, but the title In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, has gained usage since D. J. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material and edited one volume after another fo

    • 中国小说史略

      鲁迅

      Literaire kritiek 回忆讲小说史时,距今已垂十载,即印此梗概,亦已在七年之前矣。尔后研治之风,颇益盛大,显幽烛隐,时亦有闻。如盐谷节山〔1〕教授之发见元刊全相平话残本及“三言”,并加考索,在小说史上,实为大事;即中国尝有论者〔2〕,谓当有以朝代为分之小说史,亦殆非肤泛之论也。此种要略,早成陈言,惟缘别无新书,遂使尚有读者,复将重印,义当更张,而流徙以来,斯业久废,昔之所作,已如云烟,故仅能于第十四十五及二十一篇,稍施改订,余则以别无新意,大率仍为旧文。大器晚成,瓦釜以久,虽延年命,亦悲荒凉,校讫黯然,诚望杰构于来哲也。

    • The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete

      Émile Zola

      Literaire kritiek Then the Chief of the Detective Force told the whole story: how Detective Mondesir, on being warned by a secret agent that the Anarchist Salvat was in a tavern at Montmartre, had reached it just as the bird had flown; then how chance had again set him in presence of Salvat at a hundred paces or so from the tavern, the rascal having foolishly loitered there to watch the establishment; and afterwards how Salvat had been stealthily shadowed in the hope that they might catch him in his hiding-place with his accomplices.

    • El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha

      Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

      Literaire kritiek Yo, Juan Gallo de Andrada, escribano de Cámara del Rey nuestro señor, de los que residen en su Consejo, certifico y doy fe que, habiendo visto por los señores dél un libro intitulado El ingenioso hidalgo de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, tasaron cada pliego del dicho libro a tres maravedís y medio; el cual tiene ochenta y tres pliegos, que al dicho precio monta el dicho libro docientos y noventa maravedís y medio, en que se ha de vender en papel; y dieron licencia para que a este precio se pueda vender, y mandaron que esta tasa se ponga al principio del dicho libro, y no se pueda vender sin ella. Y, para que dello conste, di la presente en Valladolid, a veinte días del mes de deciembre de mil y seiscientos y cuatro años.

    • Cumbres Borrascosas

      Emily Brontë

      Literaire kritiek Regreso en este momento de visitar al dueño de mi casa. Sospecho que ese solitario vecino me dará más de un motivo de preocupación. La comarca en que he venido a residir es un verdadero paraíso, tal como un misántropo no hubiera logrado hallarlo igual en toda Inglaterra. El señor Heathcliff y yo podríamos haber sido una pareja ideal de camaradas en este bello país. Mi casero me pareció un individuo extraordinario. No dio muestra alguna de notar la espontánea simpatía que experimenté hacia él al verle. Antes bien, sus negros ojos se escondieron bajo sus párpados, y sus dedos se hundieron más profundamente en los bolsillos de su chaleco, al anunciarle yo mi nombre.

    • The Divided Self in the Works of Virginia Woolf

      Niall Gray

      Literaire kritiek An investigation into how Virginia Woolf explores the notion of the Divided Self through her fiction.

    • An Essay on Criticism

      Alexander Pope

      Literaire kritiek An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744). It is written in a type of rhyming verse called heroic couplets. The poem first appeared in 1711, but was written in 1709, and it is clear from Pope's correspondence[1] that many of the poem's ideas had existed in prose form since at least 1706. It is a verse essay written in the Horatian mode and is primarily concerned with how writers and critics behave in the new literary commerce of Pope's contemporary age. The poem covers a range of good criticism and advice, and represents many of the chief literary ideals of Pope's age.

    • El universo de Ken Follett

      Ken Follett

      Literaire kritiek eBook gratuito con material inédito sobre la trilogía de Ken Follet «The Century» Este eBook contiene material extra sobre la aclamada trilogía de Ken Follett «The Century»: entrevistas y conversaciones con el autor, vídeos y material inédito sobre las familias protagonistas, etc. La trilogía «The Century» está compuesta por La caída de los gigantes , El invierno del mundo y El umbral de la eternidad , y sigue los destinos entrelazados de tres generaciones de cinco familias: una galesa, una inglesa, una rusa, una alemana y otra estadounidense, de modo que permite contemplar, en primera persona, una de las épocas posiblemente más convulsas, violentas y determinantes de la historia. Una combinación épica de drama humano, sello distintivo en las obras de Ken Follett.

    • The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

      Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

      Literaire kritiek To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those poems written and published by him during his active literary career, and ultimately rejected as unsatisfactory. Of this considerable body of verse, a great part was written, not in youth or old age, but while Tennyson's powers were at their greatest. Whatever reasons may once have existed for suppressing the poems that follow, the student of English literature is entitled to demand that the whole body of Tennyson's work should now be open, without restriction or impediment, to the critical study to which the works of his compeers are subjected. The bibliographical notes prefixed to the various poems give, in every case, the date and medium of first publication.

    • La Main Gauche

      Guy de Maupassant

      Literaire kritiek La Main gauche. Ce titre dit assez que, dans ce livre, l'auteur de Pierre et Jean raconte des liaisons qui n'ont rien de légitime. Avec son observation d'une psychologie si pénétrante, Guy de Maupassant a fixé des types féminins d'une perversité et d'une complexité déroutantes. Le livre est d'une grande variété et, à coté de la note mélancolique, contient des aventures alertes et gaies, toutes empreintes du charme personnel aux héroïnes de l'auteur.

    • Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory

      1265-1321 Dante Alighieri

      Literaire kritiek The "Divine Comedy" was entitled by Dante himself merely "Commedia," meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect it belongs to the two familiar medieval literary types of the Journey and the Vision. It is also an allegory, representing under the symbolism of the stages and experiences of the journey, the history of a human soul, painfully struggling from sin through purification to the Beatific Vision.

    • Poems

      Edward Thomas

      Literaire kritiek This book is a collection of literary criticism poetry by Edward Thomas, this book includes poems written by him in his life span.

    • Dictionnaire Argot Français

      Napoléon Hayard

      Literaire kritiek DICTIONNAIRE Argot-Français par Napoléon HAYARD dit L'Empereur des Camelots

    • The Man

      Bram Stoker

      Literaire kritiek The story begins with Squire Stephen Norman, who was the Lord of the manor who presided over the feudal society of Normanstand. Squire Norman marries Margaret Rowly, the younger sister of his dear friend Squire Rowly, who was the squire of the neighboring town. Wanting to produce an heir to recede him as the Squire of Normanstand, Squire Norman and Margaret decide to have a baby.

    • A Critic in Pall Mall

      Oscar Wilde

      Literaire kritiek Based on the pall mall gazette where Wilde used to write reviews.

    • Bel-Ami

      Guy de Maupassant

      Literaire kritiek Quand la caissière lui eut rendu la monnaie de sa pièce de cent sous, Georges Duroy sortit du restaurant. Comme il portait beau, par nature et par pose d'ancien sous-officier, il cambra sa taille, frisa sa moustache d'un geste militaire et familier, et jeta sur les dîneurs attardés un regard rapide et circulaire, un de ces regards de joli garçon qui s'étendent comme des coups d'épervier.

    • Yerma

      Federico García Lorca

      Literaire kritiek Yerma tiene un único proyecto en el que se entremezclan el deseo personal y el mandato social de ser madre, es la tragedia en la que Lorca desarrolló con mayor amplitud y relieve un tema central en su obra: el de la esterilidad y la fecundidad. Sobre la protagonista proyectó, sin duda, un problema personal íntimo. Pero el alcance de la obra rebasa la significación en dos direcciones: la universal mítica, apoyada en la creencia de que la fecundidad es una forma de salvación, y la específicamente española. Yerma formaba parte de una «trilogía dramática de la tierra española» y en ella se plantea un proceso crítico a la moral sexual del país.

    • El Castillo

      Franz Kafka

      Literaire kritiek Cuando K llegó era noche cerrada. El pueblo estaba cubierto por una espesa capa de nieve. Del castillo2 no se podía ver nada, la niebla y la oscuridad lo rodeaban, ni siquiera el más débil rayo de luz delataba su presencia. K permaneció largo tiempo en el puente de madera que conducía desde la carretera principal al pueblo elevando su mirada hacia un vacío aparente.

    • Manon Lescaut

      Abbé Prévost

      Literaire kritiek L’Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, aujourd’hui plus communément appelée Manon Lescaut, est un roman-mémoires de l’Abbé Prévost faisant partie des Mémoires et Aventures d’un homme de qualité qui s’est retiré du monde. Passant tour à tour, et du jour au lendemain, de la misère à la fortune, du boudoir à la prison, de Paris à la déportation, de l’exil à la mort, Des Grieux et Manon n’ont qu’une excuse : l’amour, ce sentiment qui fait oublier que tous deux mentent et volent, que le premier triche et tue ou que la seconde se prostitue. De même, dans cette narration où le fourmillement d’incidents romanesques révèle un souci de la réalité dans ses plus petits détails, le réalisme ne le dispute pourtant jamais à l’idéalisme. La structure psychologique des héros obéit à cette règle : Des Grieux réunit en lui une incroyable naïveté et un cynisme grossier tandis que Manon est un esprit

    • L'Avare

      Molière

      Literaire kritiek Hé quoi! charmante Élise, vous devenez mélancolique, après les obligeantes assurances que vous avez eu la bonté de me donner de votre foi? Je vous vois soupirer, hélas! au milieu de ma joie! Est-ce du regret, dites-moi, de m'avoir fait heureux? et vous repentez-vous de cet engagement où mes feux ont pu vous contraindre?.

    • La petite Fadette

      George Sand

      Literaire kritiek C'est à la suite des néfastes journées de juin 1848, que troublé et navré, jusqu'au fond de l'âme, par les orages extérieurs, je m'efforçai de retrouver dans la solitude, sinon le calme, au moins la foi. Si je faisais profession d'être philosophe, je pourrais croire ou prétendre que la foi aux idées entraîne le calme de l'esprit en présence des faits désastreux de l'histoire contemporaine ; mais il n'en est point ainsi pour moi, et j'avoue humblement que la certitude d'un avenir providentiel ne saurait fermer l'accès, dans une âme d'artiste, à la douleur de traverser un présent obscurci et déchiré par la guerre civile.

    • El Conde de Montecristo

      Alejandro Dumas

      Literaire kritiek El 24 de febrero de 1815, el vigía de Nuestra Señora de la Guarda dio la señal de que se hallaba a la vista el bergantín El Faraón procedente de Esmirna, Trieste y Nápoles. Como suele hacerse en tales casos, salió inmediatamente en su busca un práctico, que pasó por delante del castillo de If y subió a bordo del buque entre la isla de Rión y el cabo Mongión. En un instante, y también como de costumbre, se llenó de curiosos la plataforma del castillo de San Juan, porque en Marsella se daba gran importancia a la llegada de un buque y sobre todo si le sucedía lo que al Faraón, cuyo casco había salido de los astilleros de la antigua Focia y pertenecía a un naviero de la ciudad.

    • Tao Te King

      Lao Tsé

      Literaire kritiek El Tao Te Ching es una obra espiritual, inspirado, que nos guía a través de la vida, que nos ayuda a vivir en cada momento y encontrar la belleza que está por todas partes cada uno de nosotros. Simple, bonito, y un cambio de vida. El Tao Te Ching es fundamental para la escuela taoísta de la filosofía china (Daojia) e influyó fuertemente otras escuelas, como el legalismo y el neo-confucionismo. Este antiguo libro es también central en el budismo chino, que cuando se introdujo por primera vez en China, fue interpretado en gran medida mediante el uso de palabras y conceptos taoístas. Muchos artistas chinos, entre ellos poetas, pintores, calígrafos, e incluso los jardineros han utilizado el Tao Te Ching como una fuente de inspiración.

    • Sentido y Sensibilidad

      Jane Austen

      Literaire kritiek La familia Dashwood llevaba largo tiempo afincada en Sussex. Su propiedad era de buen tamaño, y en el centro de ella se encontraba la residencia, Norland Park, donde la manera tan digna en que habían vivido por muchas generaciones llegó a granjearles el respeto de todos los conocidos del lugar. El último dueño de esta propiedad había sido un hombre soltero, que alcanzó una muy avanzada edad, y que durante gran parte de su existencia tuvo en su hermana una fiel compañera y ama de casa. Pero la muerte de ella, ocurrida diez años antes que la suya, produjo grandes alteraciones en su hogar. Para compensar tal pérdida, invitó y recibió en su casa a la familia de su sobrino, el señor Henry Dashwood, el legítimo heredero de la finca Norland y la persona a quien se proponía dejarla en su testamento. En compañía de su sobrino y sobrina, y de los hijos de ambos, la vida transcurrió confortablemente para el anciano caballero. Su apego a todos ellos fue creciendo con el “tiemp

    • Mood - Numero 0

      AA.VV.

      Literaire kritiek “Mood” è un progetto letterario e culturale che si propone di offrire una vetrina sui diversi fermenti dell’editoria nell’epoca dei contenuti digitali: nuove idee, nuovi progetti, nuove voci e la possibilità per scrittori emergenti o già affermati di far sentire la propria voce. “Mood” è infatti un e-book magazine che potrà essere scaricato gratuitamente dalle principali piattaforme e librerie online. Oltre ad autori esordienti ed emergenti, “Mood” accoglierà anche contributi vari, che spaziano dall’attualità, al costume, alla politica e all’economia, tutti caratterizzati da un approccio innovativo e attento ai linguaggi dei nuovi media di distribuzione dei contenuti. La lettura non esaurisce la proposta di “Mood”. Ogni numero presenterà degli inserti visuali o sonori che accompagneranno gli articoli con intermezzi gradevoli e interessanti. “Mood” è un progetto congiunto tra Thèsis Contents, agenzia letteraria, e goWare, una start-up specializzata

    • The World of Wolf Hall

      Fourth Estate

      Literaire kritiek ‘Your whole life depends on the next beat of Henry’s heart’ Ahead of the release of The Mirror & the Light, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy, revisit two of the most celebrated novels of our time. Bringing the opulent, brutal Tudor world of Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII to glittering life, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies have thrilled and delighted readers, critics and prize judges alike. Both novels won the Man Booker Prize and have sold over five million copies across the globe. This reading guide takes you through the story so far, introduces you to the main players, explores the key themes and offers reading group questions to discuss. The stage is set for The Mirror & the Light. After Henry’s marriage to his third queen, Cromwell attains riches, status and unprecedented power. But how long can his luck last – a blacksmith’s son who has risen to be an earl? Reviews Praise for Wolf Hall: ‘Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good . .

    • 中國小說史略

      魯迅

      Literaire kritiek 回憶講小說史時,距今已垂十載,即印此梗概,亦已在七年之前矣。爾後研治之風,頗益盛大,顯幽燭隱,時亦有聞。如鹽谷節山〔1〕教授之發見元刊全相平話殘本及「三言」,並加考索,在小說史上,實為大事;即中國嘗有論者〔2〕,謂當有以朝代為分之小說史,亦殆非膚泛之論也。此種要略,早成陳言,惟緣別無新書,遂使尚有讀者,復將重印,義當更張,而流徙以來,斯業久廢,昔之所作,已如雲煙,故僅能於第十四十五及二十一篇,稍施改訂,餘則以別無新意,大率仍為舊文。大器晚成,瓦釜以久,雖延年命,亦悲荒涼,校訖黯然,誠望傑構於來哲也。

    • Del sentimiento trágico de la vida

      Miguel De Unamuno

      Literaire kritiek Homo sum: nihil humani a me alienum puto, dijo el cómico latino. Y yo diría más bien, nullum hominem a me alienum puto; soy hombre, a ningún otro hombre estimo extraño. Porque el adjetivo humanus me es tan sospe choso como su sustantivo abstracto humanitas, la humanidad. Ni lo humano ni la humanidad, ni el adjetivo simple, ni el sustantivado, sino el sustantivo concreto: el hombre. El hombre de carne y hueso, el que nace, sufre y muere -sobre todo muere-, el que come y bebe y juega y duerme y piensa y quiere, el hombre que se ve y a quien se oye, el hermano, el verdadero hermano.

    • Blimunda # 1

      Fundação José Saramago

      Literaire kritiek Primer número de la revista literária digital de la Fundación José Saramago. Contenidos: Carlos Fuentes, In Memoriam Textos de Federico Reyes Heroles, Nélida Piñon y José Saramago Libro infantil y promoción de la lectura Utopía y distopía urbana Saramaguiana Juan Jose Tamayo, Dios, silencio del universo

    • 人间词话

      王国维

      Literaire kritiek (公元1877～1927)字静安,号观堂,清末浙江海宁人。自治经史 、古文学、古器物,兼及文学史、文学批评,有极深创获。任清 华大学教授,愤世嫉俗,后投昆明湖自尽。著述甚多,合刊为海 宁王忠公遗书,另有静庵文集,辑其早年论哲理、评文艺之作。

    • Carmen

      Prosper Mérimée

      Literaire kritiek J'avais toujours soupçonné les géographes de ne savoir ce qu'ils disent lorsqu'ils placent le champ de bataille de Munda dans le pays des Bastuli-Poeni, près de la moderne Monda, à quelque deux lieues au nord de Marbella. D'après mes propres conjectures sur le texte de l'anonyme, auteur du Bellum Hispaniense, et quelques renseignements recueillis dans l'excellente bibliothèque du duc d'ossuna, je pensais qu'il fallait chercher aux environs de Montilla le lieu mémorable où, pour la dernière fois, César joua quitte ou double contre les champions de la république.

    • Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology

      James A. Hampton & Yoad Winter

      Literaire kritiek By highlighting relations between experimental and theoretical work, this volume explores new ways of addressing one of the central challenges in the study of language and cognition. The articles bring together work by leading scholars and younger researchers in psychology, linguistics and philosophy. An introductory chapter lays out the background on concept composition, a problem that is stimulating much new research in cognitive science. Researchers in this interdisciplinary domain aim to explain how meanings of complex expressions are derived from simple lexical concepts and to show how these meanings connect to concept representations. Traditionally, much of the work on concept composition has been carried out within separate disciplines, where cognitive psychologists have concentrated on concept representations, and linguists and philosophers have focused on the meaning and use of logical operators. This volume demonstrates an important change in this situation, where conve

    • Oeuvres Completes de Francois Villon: Suivies D'un Choix des Poesies de Ses Disciples

      François Villon

      Literaire kritiek On ne sait guere de la vie de Francois Villon que ce qu'il en dit lui-meme, et l'on en sait trop. J'aurais voulu me dispenser de decrire, apres tant d'autres[1], cette existence peu edifiante, mais je n'ai pas cru pouvoir le faire. Le sujet des poesies de Villon, c'est Villon lui-meme, et sa biographie est la clef de ses oeuvres.

    • Un Marido Ideal

      Oscar Wilde

      Literaire kritiek Escena: habitación de forma octogonal en la casa de sir Robert Chiltern, en Grosvenor Square, Londres. Tiempo: el actual [del autor]. La habitación está brillantemente iluminada y llena de in vitados. En lo alto de la escalera está lady Chiltern, una mujer de una belleza de tipo griego, de unos veintisiete años. Recibe a los invitados según van llegando. Al pie de la escalera cuelga una gran araña que ilumina un enorme tapiz francés del siglo XVIII, situado en la pared de la escalera, el cual representa el triunfo del amor, según un grabado de Boucher*. A la derecha hay una puerta que da al salón de baile. Se oye suavemente la música de recepción. Mistress Marchmont y lady Basildon, dos damas muy bellas, están sentadas en un sofa de estilo Luis XVI. Tienen figuras de exquisita fragilidad. Lo afectado de sus adema nes posee un delicado encanto. A Watteau le hubiese gustado pintarlas.

    • Comx Dome 2

      Scuola Internazionale di Comics

      Literaire kritiek Fumetto, Animazione, Computer Grafica, Videogiochi, Musica, Cinema, sono questi gli argomenti di cui si occupa Comx Dome, e-magazine bimestrale gratuito edito dalla Scuola Internazionale di Comics in collaborazione con la Kawama Editoriale. In questo numero VIDEOINTERVISTA CON DAVID MESSINA THE WEIRD COMICS QUIZ n.2 SPECIALE GERRY ANDERSON SPECIALE DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA TRASH 10 PERLE NERE DEL FUMETTO SPECIALE GIANNI DE LUCA TALKING HEADS SPECIALE L'INCREDIBILE HULK GLI IMPRESCINDIBILI - WATCHMEN LA VIGNETTA PERFETTA FATTI E MISFATTI DI QUARANT'ANNI E PIU' DI COMICS E ALTRO ANCORA SIAMO TUTTI BANKSY HUGO PRATT: LE LEZIONI PERDUTE QUELLI CHE… FANNO GLI EDITORI DIGITALI HYPNAGOTHIC SAPORI DI CARTA UNA VITA COME UN ROMANZO A FUMETTI FUMETTI IN 3D - GANTZ EPUB 3.0 - TECNICHE DI ANIMAZIONE E INTERATTIVITA' SECONDO STANDARD  I NUMERI DEL FUMETTO SCANDALOSAMENTE DI CARTA - POISON IVY SBAM! COMICS COMICS' DIARY - I LIBRI DI GIANCARLO BERARDI E IL BUON SOLDATO SC'VEIK COMICS MADE IN IT

    • Mood - Numero 1

      AA.VV.

      Fictie en literatuur Mood è un magazine bimestrale in ebook nato dalla collaborazione tra l’agenzia letteraria Thèsis Contents e l’editore digitale goWare. Il suo scopo è quello di offrire ai lettori digitali narrazioni dal, e del, mondo contemporaneo, approfondimenti critico-letterari con un occhio attento all’attualità, al costume, alla politica e all’economia al tempo dell’andata al digitale. In questo numero: "Il figlio di Achille", racconto di Pippo Bonami;  "The Museums", progetto fotografico di Adriano Filippi;  "Il suonatore cieco", racconto di Francesco Formaggi;  "Tempo di volare", poesia di Ruth Padel letta da Donatella Valente;  "Ratafià", racconto di Antonella Ossorio;  "Così finto che sembra vero", divertissement di Antonella Ossorio letto da Alessandro Paci;  "Vento sulla mia brace", racconto e musica di Matteo De Simone;  "Come ho imparato a farmi felicemente i cazzi miei", racconto di Fabrizio Patriarca;  "Un uomo fortunato", raccont

    • Comx Dome

      Scuola Internazionale di Comics

      Literaire kritiek Fumetto, Animazione, Computer Grafica, Videogiochi, Musica, Cinema, sono questi gli argomenti di cui si occupa Comx Dome, e-magazine bimestrale gratuito edito dalla Scuola Internazionale di Comics in collaborazione con la Kawama Editoriale.

    • De Waarde van Betrokkenheid

      M.L. van der Grijn

      Literaire kritiek Dit essay onderzoekt de figuur van het monster in de literatuur en verhalen van de renaissance en de huidige laat-postmoderne tijd, waarbij de relaties met het (post)humanisme het meest belangrijk zijn.

    • Français - Classe de seconde - Objet d'étude 1

      Joséphine Malara

      Literaire kritiek Livre de français destiné aux élèves de seconde du Lycée International de Londres Winston Churchill pour l’année 2016/2017.

    • De l'esprit des lois

      Montesquieu

      Literaire kritiek Extrait : "le moyen qu'il n'y ait bien des gens qui manquent d'aliments ? 1. Si dix hommes mangent ce revenu des terres comme fonctionnaires ou rentiers, sans doute le laboureur sera écrasé par l'impôt ; mais si ces dix hommes travaillent de leur côté et produisent des valeurs de commerce et d'échange, le prix du bled montera, et au besoin on en fera venir du dehors."

    • Le Tour Du Monde en 80 Jours

      Jules Verne

      Literaire kritiek I dans lequel Phileas Fogg et Passepartout<br/>s' acceptent réciproquement, l' un comme maître, <br/>l' autre comme domestique. <br/>en l' année 1872, la maison portant le numéro 7 de<br/>Saville-Row, Burlington Gardens, -maison dans<br/>laquelle Shéridan mourut en 1814, -était habitée<br/>par Phileas Fogg, esq. , l' un des membres les plus<br/>singuliers et les plus remarqués du reform-club<br/>de Londres, bien qu' il semblât prendre à tâche de ne<br/>rien faire qui pût attirer l' attention. <br/>à l' un des plus grands orateurs qui honorent<br/>l' Angleterre, succédait donc ce Phileas Fogg, <br/>personnage énigmatique, dont on ne savait rien, sinon<br/>que.

    • Der zerbrochene Krug

      Heinrich von Kleist

      Literaire kritiek Adam sitzt und verbindet sich ein Bein. Licht tritt auf. Licht Ei, was zum Henker, sagt, Gevatter Adam! Was ist mit Euch geschehn? Wie seht Ihr aus?

    • Mémoires d'un Fou

      Gustave Flaubert

      Literaire kritiek Pourquoi écrire ces pages ? - À quoi sont-elles bonnes ? - Qu'en sais-je moi-même ? Cela est assez sot à mon gré d'aller demander aux hommes le motif de leurs actions et de leurs écrits. - Savez-vous vous-même pourquoi vous avez ouvert les misérables feuilles que la main d'un fou va tracer ?

    • Encuentro con el General Rosas

      Charles Darwin

      Literaire kritiek A la mañana siguiente, al acercarnos al Río Colorado, vimos cambiar el aspecto de la región, y pronto llegamos a una pradera cubierta de césped que, con sus flores, su trébol crecido, y sus pequeños búhos, se parecía mucho a las pampas. También dejamos a nuestro paso un fangoso pantano bastante extenso, que en verano se seca y queda cubierto de incrustaciones de diferentes sales, de donde deriva su. denominación de salitral. Estaba recubierto de plantas bajas y carnosas, de la misma clase que las que crecen a orillas del mar. El Colorado, en el paso por donde lo atravesamos, tiene solamente unas sesenta yardas de ancho, aunque por lo general su anchura debe ser el doble. Su curso es muy sinuoso y está jalonado de sauces y macizos de juncos.

    • e.Magazine 07 2012

      AA.VV.

      Literaire kritiek Il primo Magazine dedicato al panorama della nuova editoria digitale.  Notizie e retroscena del mondo degli eBook.  Un modo diretto per aumentare il grado di “informazione” dei lettori sulle tematiche editoriali che li interessano e riguardano direttamente. In questo numero: • Mai più senza, Espresso Book Machine • Restart, Italia! Decreto crescita 2.0 • Social Bookstore, Anobii si rifà il look • Un Festival da fine del mondo: Lucca Comics and Games 2012  • La recensione de "La Fiamma rossa" di Gianni Mura • Percorsi di lettura mirati, tematica del mese "il lettore anti-politico" • Le classifiche di IBS, BookRepublic, Net-Ebook e Kindle store, aggiornate con i 5 eBook più venduti nel mese di luglio • In regalo un estratto dal primo capitolo di "Monzon", il nono titolo della collana Sport.doc di Absolutely Free Editore • Roba da reader, la sfida dei mini tablet • Into the net, tutte le ultime notizie dalla rete in fatto di editoria digitale ria

    • Venus et Adonis

      William Shakespeare

      Literaire kritiek Vénus et Adonis est une pièce poétique de William Shakespeare écrite en 1592-1593, dont l'intrigue s'inspire de différents passages des Métamorphoses d'Ovide. Il s'agit d'une œuvre complexe, multiforme, qui emploie des décalages constants dans le ton et la perspective afin de présenter des points de vue variés sur la nature de l'amour.

    • The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes

      à Kempis Thomas

      Literaire kritiek The place used to be called in the vulgar tongue Mount Nemel and lieth not far from Zwolle, but one may traverse the distance in the space of an hour. Now there were in the State of Zwolle certain faithful men who had been turned wholly to God by Master Gerard Groote. These men had builded them an house, in a suburb belonging to the city, near an ancient Convent of Béguines, and here they served God humbly and with devotion.

    • Blimunda # 2

      Fundação José Saramago

      Literaire kritiek Segundo número da revista literária digital da Fundação José Saramago. Conteúdos: Futebol, Política, cultura, imprensa, literatura Livro infantil e promoção da leitura Irmãos grimm em lisboa e Ilustratour em Valladolid Saramaguiana Vamos lá falar de futebol e C aderno de viagem a Lanzarote

    • Etudes sur la Littérature Française au XIXe siècle

      Alexandre Vinet

      Literaire kritiek Elle contient en trois ou quatre lignes une profession de foi de Vinet critique. Pour ce qui est des quatre ou cinq mots et des deux ou trois membres de phrase du cours sur Madame de Staël, ils ont une histoire, et une histoire intéressante. Nous la conterons tout à l'heure. Avant d'y arriver il convient de rappeler brièvement dans quelles circonstances Vinet fut amené à professer le cours sur Madame de Staël et Chateaubriand, et à publier ses articles sur divers ouvrages de Chateaubriand.

    • The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4

      Émile Zola

      Literaire kritiek Abbe Pierre Froment has joined his brother in his home. He was wounded after the attack. Pierre is doing the service for Guillaume and his friends. He had contact to the socialist sects and he is touched by the idea of humanitarian communism but he dislikes the cruelty of the attack. The idea of justice is his aim, like the anarchist will do it with force and the rich with money. He finds that charity is worthless and beliefs in nothing.

    • The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2

      Émile Zola

      Literaire kritiek Abbe Pierre Froment has joined his brother in his home. He was wounded after the attack. Pierre is doing the service for Guillaume and his friends. He had contact to the socialist sects and he is touched by the idea of humanitarian communism but he dislikes the cruelty of the attack. The idea of justice is his aim, like the anarchist will do it with force and the rich with money. He finds that charity is worthless and beliefs in nothing.

    • Derniers Contes

      Edgar Allan Poe & F. Rabbe

      Literaire kritiek Émile Faguet, critique littéraire de la fin du 19ème siècle, analyse les idées des principaux écrivains du 18ème siècle, dont Pierre Bayle, Voltaire et Marivaux. Cet ouvrage, publié en 1890, est destiné à des étudiants en littérature et comprend un avant-propos de l’auteur.

    • Tarass Boulba

      Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

      Literaire kritiek Nous ne voulons pas, toutefois, rechercher si le savant géographe Mannert a eu raison de voir en eux les descendants des anciens Scythes (Niebuhr a prouvé que les Scythes d’Hérotode étaient les ancêtres des Mongols), ni s’il faut absolument retrouver les Cosaques (en russe Kasak ) dans les [mot en grec] de Constantin Porphyrogénète, les Kassagues de Nestor, les cavaliers et corsaires russes que les géographes arabes, antérieurs au XIIIe siècle, plaçaient dans les parages de la mer Noire. Obscure comme l’origine de presque toutes les nations, celle des Cosaques a servi de thème aux hypothèses les plus contradictoires.

    • Hung Lou Meng, Book II

      Xueqin Cao

      Literaire kritiek Hung Lou Meng, Dream of the Red Chamber, composed by Cao Xueqin, is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was composed in the middle of the 18th century during the Qing Dynasty. It is considered to be a masterpiece of Chinese vernacular literature and is generally acknowledged to be a pinnacle of Chinese fiction.

    • The Wandering Jew — Complete

      Eugène Sue

      Literaire kritiek The story is entitled The Wandering Jew, but this is misleading; the figure of the Wandering Jew himself plays a minimal role. The prologue of the text describes two figures who cry out to each other across the Bering Straits. One is the Wandering Jew, the other his sister, Hérodiade. The Wandering Jew also represents the cholera epidemic— wherever he goes, cholera follows in his wake.

    • Rocket Fuel

      Bridget McGovern & Chris Lough

      Literaire kritiek A collection of some of the best feature articles from Tor.com’s 10 year history as an online sci-fi/fantasy literature magazine. Read: - An intimate moment under the covers that bloomed into a lifetime lived through sci-fi/fantasy. - A fierce defense of fan fiction. - The history of Wheel of Time author Robert Jordan, and the story of the reader who had her future rewritten in turn. - A deeply unwise thought experiment that explains how centaurs eat. - The story of one writer’s amazing day, starting out on her last dime and ending with her somehow hugging her idol, Terry Pratchett. - And much more! Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best From Tor.com Non-Fiction features essays from Seanan McGuire, Ursula Vernon, Jo Walton, Nisi Shawl, Kate Elliott, Becky Chambers, Kai Ashante Wilson, Sarah Gailey, Grady Hendrix, Judith Tarr, Lish McBride, Emily Asher-Perrin, Ryan Britt, Leah Schnelbach, Natalie Zutter, Molly Templeton, and more! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without

    • Así que Pasen Cinco Años

      Federico García Lorca

      Literaire kritiek Destaca en esta obra la contemplacion erotico-filosofica del destino humano expresada en el eterno juego del tiempo, el amor y la muerte. En su peculiar calidad de poema dramatizado consigue la mas completa simbiosis de los conceptos de poesia y teatro.

    • The Conjure Woman

      Charles Waddell Chesnutt

      Literaire kritiek Chesnutt was an early pioneer is writing about African American folklore and racial identity. The stories in The Conjure Woman are written in a frame narrative. The outer frame is told by John a white northerner who bought a vineyard in North Carolina after the Civil War. John and his wife listen to stories told by Julius a former slave who works for them. The stories told by Julius are filled with hauntings, transfiguration, and conjurings.

    • Robotic Adventures in English - Teaching Empathy with Sphero

      Richard Perry

      Literaire kritiek The Sphero and Ollie are small, classroom friendly robots. They are simple to operate and extremely durable. These robots can be incorporated into the English classroom as a way of illustrating complex concepts through tangible classroom experiences. Using iPad and iPhone the Sphero and Ollie can be driven like remote controlled vehicles or programmed via apps using block programing, or traditional programing language. This book outlines how to use these device to enhance an English class through experiential learning with robotics. These lessons can be adapted to the needs of a variety of classroom environments.

    • Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes

      Jean-Jacques Rousseau

      Literaire kritiek Extrait : "(...) car comment connaître la source de l'inégalité parmi les hommes, si l'on ne commence par les connaître eux-mêmes ? et comment l'homme viendra-t-il à bout de se voir tel que l'a formé la nature, à travers tous les changements que la succession des temps et des choses a dû produire dans sa constitution originelle, et de démêler ce qu'il tient de son propre fonds d'avec ce que les circonstances et ses progrès ont ajouté ou changé à son état primitif ?"

    • Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome III

      Alexandre Dumas

      Literaire kritiek Le comte de Monte-Cristo entra dans le salon voisin que Baptistin avait désigné sous le nom de salon bleu, et où venait de le précéder un jeune homme de tournure dégagée, assez élégamment vêtu, et qu'un cabriolet de place avait, une demi-heure auparavant, jeté à la porte de l'hôtel. Baptistin n'avait pas eu de peine à le reconnaître ; c'était bien ce grand jeune homme aux cheveux blonds, à la barbe rousse, aux yeux noirs, dont le teint vermeil et la peau éblouissante de blancheur lui avaient été signalés par son maître.

    • Delphine

      Madame de Stael

      Literaire kritiek Je serai trop heureuse, ma chère cousine, si je puis contribuer à votre mariage avec M. de Mondoville; les liens du sang qui nous unissent me donnent le droit de vous servir, et je le réclame avec instance. Si je mourois, vous succéderiez naturellement à la moitié de ma fortune: me seroit-il refusé de disposer d'une portion de mes biens pendant ma vie, comme les lois en disposeraient après ma mort? A vingt et un ans, convenez qu'il seroit ridicule d'offrir mon héritage à vous qui en avez dix-huit! Je vous parle donc des droits de succession, seulement pour vous faire sentir que vous ne pouvez considérer le don de la terre d'Andelys comme un service embarrassant à recevoir, et dont votre délicatesse doive s'alarmer.

    • Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome IV

      Alexandre Dumas

      Literaire kritiek Monte-Cristo poussa un cri de joie en voyant les deux jeunes gens ensemble. «Ah ! ah ! dit-il. Eh bien, j'espère que tout est fini, éclairci, arrangé ? —Oui, dit Beauchamp, des bruits absurdes qui sont tombés d'eux-mêmes, et, qui maintenant, s'ils se renouvelaient, m'auraient pour premier antagoniste. Ainsi donc, ne parlons plus de cela.

    • Caliste ou Lettres Écrites de Lausanne

      Isabelle de Charrière

      Literaire kritiek Toutes deux cessèrent à sa mort. Mon père fut capitaine au service de Hollande. Il vivait de sa paye et de la dot de ma mère, qui fut de six mille francs. Ma mère, pour le dire en passant, était d' une famille bourgeoise de cette ville, mais si jolie et si aimable, que mon père ne se trouva jamais pauvre ni mal assorti avec elle ; et elle en fut si tendrement aimée, qu' elle mourut de chagrin de sa mort. C' est à elle, non à moi ni à son père, que Cécile ressemble. Puisse-t-elle avoir une vie aussi heureuse, mais plus longue !

    • e.Magazine

      AA.VV.

      Literaire kritiek Il primo Magazine dedicato al panorama della nuova editoria digitale. Notizie e retroscena del mondo degli eBook e dell'editoria digitale. Un modo diretto per aumentare il grado di “informazione” dei lettori sulle tematiche editoriali che li interessano e riguardano direttamente. In questo numero: La (ri)nascita digitale del sol levante, editoriale dedicato alle trasformazioni digitali in Giappone che, paradossalmente, sembrano non attecchire; • Crescita digitale, come internet crea lavoro e come potrebbe crearne di più; • Intervista a mEEtale, fautore del mecenatismo 2.0; • Art of life, il nuovo marchio editoriale di Casini Editore, completamente digitale; • Lo Strega è una terra straniera, recensione dell’ultimo libro di Gianrico Carofiglio, “Il silenzio dell’onda”; • Percorsi di lettura mirati, tematica del mese i ciclisti • Le classifiche di IBS, BookRepublic, Net-Ebook e Kindle store, aggiornate con i 5 eBook più venduti nel mese di luglio; • In regal

    • Lucerna #0

      Fundação José Saramago

      Literaire kritiek Revista literária digital da Fundação José Saramago

    • La plainte d'une amante

      William Shakespeare

      Literaire kritiek Extrait: Et notre vie, à l'abri des lieux fréquentés, peut trouver des langues dans les arbres, des livres dans les ruisseaux, des sermons dans les pierres et le bien en chaque chose.

    • Les compagnons de Jéhu

      Alexandre Dumas

      Literaire kritiek Les désordres de la Révolution française ne sont pas encore calmés qu'une mystérieuse confrérie « la Compagnie de Jéhu » conspire, à l'époque du Directoire, pour rétablir le roi Louis XVIII sur le trône et chasser l'usurpateur Bonaparte. Ce dernier confie à Roland de Montrevel la mission de le débarrasser de cette menace. Le chef des Compagnons de Jéhu, Morgan, y laissera la vie après des attaques de diligences, des poursuites et des duels dans le plus pur style des films d'action romanesque.

    • Oeuvres Complètes de Alfred de Musset — Tome 7.

      Alfred de Musset

      Literaire kritiek Les Contes et les Nouvelles sont de charmants récits d’amour, sans prétention, élégamment écrits dont Le Merle blanc (1842) peut donner une idée achevée.

    • Vergil

      Tenney Frank

      Literaire kritiek The Ciris with all its flaws is one of our best examples of the romantic verse tales made popular by the Alexandrian poets of Callimachus' school. The old legends had of course been told in epic or dramatic form, but changing society now cared less for the stirring action and bloodshed that had entertained the early Greeks. The times were ripe for a retelling from a different point of view, with a more patient analysis of the emotions, of the inner impulses of the moment before the blow, the battle of passions that preceded the final act.

    • Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

      William Hazlitt

      Literaire kritiek Book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays, written by early nineteenth century English essayist and literary critic William Hazlitt. Composed in reaction to the neoclassical approach to Shakespeare's plays typified by Dr. Johnson, it was among the first English-language studies of Shakespeare's plays to follow the manner of German critic A. W. Schlegel and with the work of Coleridge, paved the way for the increased appreciation of Shakespeare's genius that was characteristic of later nineteenth century criticism.

    • La Peau de Chagrin

      Honoré de Balzac

      Literaire kritiek Vers la fin du mois d'octobre dernier, un jeune homme entra dans le Palais-Royal au moment où les maisons de jeu s'ouvraient, conformément à la loi qui protège une passion essentiellement imposable. Sans trop hésiter, il monta l'escalier du tripot désigné sous le nom de numéro 36.

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