Editorial: Charles River Editors
W. E. B. Du Bois was a historian and a leading civil rights activist. Du Bois formed the Niagara Movement which was a group of African-American activists that demanded full civil rights. Du Bois was also an influential writer in African-American literature. This edition of The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel includes a table of contents.
Genuinely chilling narratives of paranormal phenomena, the returning dead, uncanny apparitions, sinister happenings and inexplicable events which make your blood run cold. Listen in the dark... if you dare! "What Was It?" - Fitz-James O'Brien "Laura" - Hector Hugh Munro "A Terribly Strange Bed" - Wilkie Collins "The Three Drugs" - Edith Nesbit "The Philosopher's Joke" - Jerome K. Jerome "Sredni Vashtar" - Hector Hugh Munro "The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot" - Ambrose Bierce "The Open Window" - Hector Hugh Munro "Number Thirteen" - M.R. James "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" - Ambrose BierceVer libro
"Под знаком незаконнорожденных» ("Bend Sinister», 1947) — второй
англоязычный роман Владимира Набокова и первый роман, написанный им в
Америке.
Действие романа разворачивается в некоем полицейском государстве, где
правит партия "эквилистов» ("уравнителей») во главе с диктатором
Падуком. В центре повествования всемирно известный философ Адам Круг,
бывший одноклассник Падука, издевавшийся над ним в детстве. Пытаясь
добиться от Круга публичной поддержки своей власти, Падук одного за
другим арестовывает всех его друзей и знакомых, однако сломить философа
удается, лишь разлучив его с маленьким сыном Давидом.
По словам Набокова, "рассказ... ведется не о жизни и смерти в гротескном
полицейском государстве. Главной темой... является...
биение любящего сердца Круга, мука напряженной нежности, терзающая его, —
и именно ради страниц, посвященных Давиду и его отцу, была написана эта
книга, ради них и стоит ее прочитать».
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Boule de Suif (1880) is a famous novella by Guy de Maupassant. The story is set in the Franco-Prussian War and follows a group of French residents of Rouen, recently occupied by the Prussian army. The ten travelers decide, for various reasons, to leave Rouen and flee to Le Havre in a stagecoach. Sharing the carriage are Boule de Suif or "Butterball", a prostitute; a strict Democrat; a shop-owning couple from the petty bourgeoisie; a wealthy upper-bourgeoisie factory-owner and his wife; the Comte and Comtesse of Bréville; and two nuns. Thus, the carriage constitutes a microcosm of French society, representing different parts of the French population during the late 19th century. The story focuses on how the "representatives of Virtue" handle Boule de Suif before, during and after blundering into Prussian-held territory, where the only way out is that she sleeps with a Prussian officer…Ver libro
"Kashtanka" — Anton Chekov's short story about a dog with two masters — is a fable about the conundrum of the creative life. The dog Kashtanka belongs to a drunken carpenter who takes her out one day, but on the way home loses her in the confusion of a military parade. The story is told by an omniscient narrator who privileges Kashtanka's point of view, so we follow the dog's subsequent adventures largely from her eyes.Ver libro
A fantastic story in Prose or simply being a Ghost Story of Christmas. This timeless classic was written by Charles Dickens in 1843 and recounts the imaginative, heartwarming tale about the eerie encounters of Ebenezer Scrooge, an arrogant and insensitive miser, whose ghostly journeys through the past, the present and the future ultimately transform him into a kind and caring individual. The ultimate Christmas story for every age. From the youngest to the oldest.Ver libro
"The Hunter Gracchus" is a short story by Franz Kafka. The story presents a boat carrying the long-dead Hunter Gracchus as it arrives at a port. The mayor of Riva meets Gracchus, who gives him an account of his death while hunting, and explains that he is destined to wander aimlessly and eternally over the seas. An additional fragment presents an extended dialogue between Gracchus and an unnamed interviewer, presumably the same mayor.Written in the first half of 1917, the story was published posthumously in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Berlin, 1931). The first English translation, by Willa and Edwin Muir, was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933.Ver libro
