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The Line of Love

Автор:

James Branch Cabell

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2026-07-22

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English

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James Branch Cabell’s Biography of the Life of Manuel, is a short story collection that satirizes love and marriage, combining Cabell’s affinity for genealogical works with his signature comedic wit. Originally published in 1905, it was revised in 1921 to better fit within the Life of Manuel series, and follows the romantic escapades of the “monstrous clever fellow” Jurgen’s..." data-title="Книга The Line of Love">

Description The Line of Love, the seventh installment in James Branch Cabell’s Biography of the Life of Manuel, is a short story collection that satirizes love and marriage, combining Cabell’s affinity for genealogical works with his signature comedic wit. Originally published in 1905, it was revised in 1921 to better fit within the Life of Manuel series, and follows the romantic escapades of the “monstrous clever fellow” Jurgen’s...

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The Fire in the Flint

Автор:

Walter White

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2026-07-22

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English

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Walter White’s debut novel. Written during the height of the..." data-title="Книга The Fire in the Flint">

Description Set in the Jim Crow South following World War I, The Fire in the Flint follows Dr. Kenneth Harper, a young, sometimes naive Black physician and war veteran. After graduating from a Northern medical school, he returns to his hometown of Central City, Georgia to start a practice. He arrives believing he can avoid discrimination by simply not getting involved with the town’s racial affairs—but he quickly finds out otherwise, and must confront the reality of living in a place where systemic racism and the Ku Klux Klan run rampant. The Fire in the Flint, published in 1924, is American civil rights activist Walter White’s debut novel. Written during the height of the...

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Poetry

Автор:

Maria Lowell

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2026-07-18

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English

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Maria White Lowell was a steady partner to her husband, poet James Russell Lowell, and a dedicated advocate for abolition. But their happy marriage was shadowed by profound grief: of their four children, only one survived infancy. When Maria died of tuberculosis aged just thirty-two, her devastated husband privately published this collection of her poetry to preserve her memory.

Rooted in both her firm moral convictions and deep personal sorrows, the resulting volume captures a passionate, distinct voice. Faced with the loss of her infant daughter, Lowell pours her grief into “The Morning-Glory.” Drawing a delicate parallel between her child and..." data-title="Книга Poetry">

Description Throughout her brief life, Maria White Lowell was a steady partner to her husband, poet James Russell Lowell, and a dedicated advocate for abolition. But their happy marriage was shadowed by profound grief: of their four children, only one survived infancy. When Maria died of tuberculosis aged just thirty-two, her devastated husband privately published this collection of her poetry to preserve her memory. Rooted in both her firm moral convictions and deep personal sorrows, the resulting volume captures a passionate, distinct voice. Faced with the loss of her infant daughter, Lowell pours her grief into “The Morning-Glory.” Drawing a delicate parallel between her child and...

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Craig Kennedy Stories

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Arthur B. Reeve

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2026-07-17

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English

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Craig Kennedy is not just a highly intelligent chemist and scientist—he’s also a detective for hire who uses his training and laboratory full of advanced gadgets to solve crimes.

Much like his predecessor, Sherlock Holmes, Kennedy’s stories are narrated by his faithful sidekick: newspaper reporter Walter Jameson. Together they travel New York and the world to use the power of science and technology to close cases that stump the local police.

Kennedy was a very popular character who made appearances in over 150 short stories published between 1910 and 1935, many of which were later repurposed as..." data-title="Книга Craig Kennedy Stories">

Description Craig Kennedy is not just a highly intelligent chemist and scientist—he’s also a detective for hire who uses his training and laboratory full of advanced gadgets to solve crimes. Much like his predecessor, Sherlock Holmes, Kennedy’s stories are narrated by his faithful sidekick: newspaper reporter Walter Jameson. Together they travel New York and the world to use the power of science and technology to close cases that stump the local police. Kennedy was a very popular character who made appearances in over 150 short stories published between 1910 and 1935, many of which were later repurposed as...

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Pirates of Venus

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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2026-07-16

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English

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Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Venus series and the first book to feature the protagonist Carson Napier. While it’s a typical Burroughs-style space adventure, it also contains elements of political satire, with Soviet-style Communism satirized via the villainous..." data-title="Книга Pirates of Venus">

Description Carson Napier, a very wealthy man, builds a rocket ship to visit Mars, only to find himself thrown wildly off course when he fails to account for the moon’s gravity while plotting his course. Finding himself on Venus instead of Mars, he must learn the local customs and take part in local conflicts in order to survive. Pirates of Venus is the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Venus series and the first book to feature the protagonist Carson Napier. While it’s a typical Burroughs-style space adventure, it also contains elements of political satire, with Soviet-style Communism satirized via the villainous...

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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Charles Dickens

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2026-07-13

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English

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Dickens died with this, his final novel, only half finished, and he left no notes outlining how the story would end. Dickens scholars have pored over his papers and correspondence for more than a century, hoping to find the answer.

Despite its conspicuous lack of conclusion, The..." data-title="Книга The Mystery of Edwin Drood">

Description Choirmaster John Jasper has two secrets: an addiction to opium, and a burning love for Rosa, the fiancée of his nephew, Edwin Drood. When Edwin vanishes without a trace one night, his uncle becomes just one of the suspects in Edwin’s disappearance, as it turns out that several other residents of the town of Cloisterham also seek Rosa’s affections. Who’s the real murderer? We’ll never know—Dickens died with this, his final novel, only half finished, and he left no notes outlining how the story would end. Dickens scholars have pored over his papers and correspondence for more than a century, hoping to find the answer. Despite its conspicuous lack of conclusion, The...

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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

Автор:
Siegfried Sassoon

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2026-07-10

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English

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Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man we meet George Sherston, a young man coming of age in the idyllic English countryside just before the Great War tears through Europe. The book ends with his enlistment in the Yeomanry, and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer begins with him deployed deep in the trenches of France.

We follow Sherston as he’s transferred to Army School, then back to the trenches, then to the Battle of the Somme. At the Somme he’s wounded, and as he convalesces the psychological weight of the war that has been piling up on him finally causes a break..." data-title="Книга Memoirs of an Infantry Officer">

Description In Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man we meet George Sherston, a young man coming of age in the idyllic English countryside just before the Great War tears through Europe. The book ends with his enlistment in the Yeomanry, and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer begins with him deployed deep in the trenches of France. We follow Sherston as he’s transferred to Army School, then back to the trenches, then to the Battle of the Somme. At the Somme he’s wounded, and as he convalesces the psychological weight of the war that has been piling up on him finally causes a break...

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Flight

Автор:
Walter White

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2026-07-09

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English

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91

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Description After the death of his wife Margot, Jean Daquin, the patriarch of a proud Louisiana Creole family, finds himself crushed by despair. As a widower, Jean is barely able to take care of his daughter Mimi, but he marries Mary Robertson, the industrious daughter of a Chicago businessman. Mary takes charge of the family’s affairs and convinces Jean to move the family to Atlanta in order to pursue more lucrative business opportunities. As Mimi comes of age in Atlanta, she becomes increasingly conscious of her racial identity as a woman of color, and of the stifling cultural conformity that is demanded of Atlanta’s African-American bourgeoisie. Flight follows Mimi’s struggle to assert her independence and live according to her principles in the...

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The Perfume of Eros

Автор:
Edgar Saltus

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2026-07-09

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English

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41

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Description Fanny Price has long hoped that Royal Loftus, the heir to the wealthy Loftus family, would court her, but he refuses to commit himself. Fanny is ideal, he thinks, but too ambitious, “with a perfect mania for matrimony.” Instead, he turns his attention to the far less affluent Marie Durand, sweeping her off her feet and proposing to her without ever making good on his promise. Fanny, rather disappointed by this turn of events, marries Arthur Annandale on a whim; his engagement to her friend Sylvia Waldron has just been broken off, and the events that led to it are hazy in his mind. These two intertwined love triangles are thrown into turmoil when, one morning, a body is found on a bench in Gramercy Park. The Perfume of Eros...

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Deadlock

Автор:
Dorothy M. Richardson

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2026-07-08

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English

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78

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Dorothy M. Richardson’s pioneering semi-autobiographical series, Pilgrimage.

Michael Shatov, a young Russian intellectual exploring England, arrives at the boarding house that has long hosted series protagonist Miriam Henderson. He engages Miriam as a tutor of English, and the two quickly recognize each other as kindred spirits, talking late into the night about philosophy and literature. Michael pushes Miriam to translate French works, a major step on her journey to becoming a..." data-title="Книга Deadlock">

Description Deadlock is the sixth “chapter volume” of Dorothy M. Richardson’s pioneering semi-autobiographical series, Pilgrimage. Michael Shatov, a young Russian intellectual exploring England, arrives at the boarding house that has long hosted series protagonist Miriam Henderson. He engages Miriam as a tutor of English, and the two quickly recognize each other as kindred spirits, talking late into the night about philosophy and literature. Michael pushes Miriam to translate French works, a major step on her journey to becoming a...

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Basil

Автор:
Wilkie Collins

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2026-07-07

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English

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115

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Wilkie Collins’ second novel. In writing it, Collins took a very different approach from his first novel, a historical romance: Basil is his first venture into “sensation fiction.” It features themes of adultery, fraud, betrayal, and vengeance; themes certainly sensational by the standards of the early Victorian era in which it was written.

The novel begins with Basil, an aristocratic young man who sees a beautiful young woman on an omnibus, and instantly falls in love with her. Unfortunately for Basil, she’s the daughter of a mere linen-draper, and thus far beneath him in class. Nevertheless Basil pursues her and enters into an..." data-title="Книга Basil">

Description Basil, published in 1852, is Wilkie Collins’ second novel. In writing it, Collins took a very different approach from his first novel, a historical romance: Basil is his first venture into “sensation fiction.” It features themes of adultery, fraud, betrayal, and vengeance; themes certainly sensational by the standards of the early Victorian era in which it was written. The novel begins with Basil, an aristocratic young man who sees a beautiful young woman on an omnibus, and instantly falls in love with her. Unfortunately for Basil, she’s the daughter of a mere linen-draper, and thus far beneath him in class. Nevertheless Basil pursues her and enters into an...

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Short Science Fiction

Автор:
Noel Loomis

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2026-07-07

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English

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46

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Noel Loomis was a prolific writer of short fiction for popular pulp magazines from the 1930s into the 1970s. While he wrote many western novels and some western short fiction, the majority of his short-form work was science fiction.

Loomis’s science fiction is distinct from many of his contemporaries in that while he certainly wrote stories about space travel and futuristic military action, his stories more often imagined the future evolution of blue-collar professions, including (and especially) his own professional background in as a Linotype machine operator.

In Loomis’s science fiction readers will find the typical kinds of tales of futuristic war, time travel, and..." data-title="Книга Short Science Fiction">

Description Noel Loomis was a prolific writer of short fiction for popular pulp magazines from the 1930s into the 1970s. While he wrote many western novels and some western short fiction, the majority of his short-form work was science fiction. Loomis’s science fiction is distinct from many of his contemporaries in that while he certainly wrote stories about space travel and futuristic military action, his stories more often imagined the future evolution of blue-collar professions, including (and especially) his own professional background in as a Linotype machine operator. In Loomis’s science fiction readers will find the typical kinds of tales of futuristic war, time travel, and...

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Jesus the Son of Man

Автор:
Kahlil Gibran

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2026-07-02

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English

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40

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Kahlil Gibran wrote the short story collection Jesus the Son of Man in order to “bring out the portrait of Jesus” as Gibran saw him. Each story is told from the perspective of one of Jesus’s contemporaries, including not only his followers but also his enemies and indifferent observers. By emphasizing Jesus’s humanity and vigor, Gibran challenges theological and devotional depictions of Jesus that center his divinity or portray him as lowly and..." data-title="Книга Jesus the Son of Man">

Description Frustrated by depictions of Jesus in Western literature, Kahlil Gibran wrote the short story collection Jesus the Son of Man in order to “bring out the portrait of Jesus” as Gibran saw him. Each story is told from the perspective of one of Jesus’s contemporaries, including not only his followers but also his enemies and indifferent observers. By emphasizing Jesus’s humanity and vigor, Gibran challenges theological and devotional depictions of Jesus that center his divinity or portray him as lowly and...

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The Quest of the Silver Fleece

Автор:
W. E. B. Du Bois

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2026-07-02

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English

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106

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Description In post-Reconstruction Alabama, amidst the “silver fleece” of the cotton fields, a school for Black children attracts pupils eager to learn (but often unable to pay tuition)—and the hostility of plantation owners intent on maintaining their status and power. Among the pupils are Bles Alwyn, an ambitious and intelligent boy from Georgia, and Zora, an independent and mysterious Black girl from the nearby swamp. The story follows the efforts of Bless and Zora to help others in the working class by providing educational and economic opportunities that trap them in poverty: Bles by working within the political system, and Zora by building a collective that attempts to bypass the system. The Quest of the Silver Fleece, ...

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The Book of Khalid

Автор:
Ameen Rihani

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2026-06-27

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English

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91

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Description After being turned out by his parents for his disobedience, a Maronite teenager named Khalid scrapes up the funds to emigrate to the United States of America by working as a muleteer. Crossing the Atlantic with his friend Shakib, Khalid sets himself up in New York city as a peddler of counterfeit trinkets “made in the Holy Land.” He quickly loses interest in peddling and develops eccentric philosophical views as he immerses himself in various turn-of-the-century subcultures, including the freethought movement, Bohemianism, and Tammany Hall. Spurred on by his love for his cousin Najma, Khalid returns to his Lebanese hometown, Baalbek, where his iconoclastic philosophy earns him the enmity of the religious and secular authorities. Becoming an exile in...

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Short Fiction

Автор:
Harry Harrison

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Дата добавления:
2026-06-25

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English

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47

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Harry Harrison was a science fiction author with a long career from the 1950s through to the beginning of the twenty-first century. His novels and short stories blend science fiction and adventure, always with a focus on the characters over the technology. Harrison’s love for the genre led him to write more than a hundred short stories and fifty novels, with stints as an anthology editor and writer of sci-fi history.

Often, the themes Harrison explores are familiar ones: stories of robots bound by internal laws (“The Velvet Glove,” ”Arm of the Law”), societal changes as a science (“The K-Factor”), and parallel universes (“Down to Earth”). But it’s his..." data-title="Книга Short Fiction">

Description Harry Harrison was a science fiction author with a long career from the 1950s through to the beginning of the twenty-first century. His novels and short stories blend science fiction and adventure, always with a focus on the characters over the technology. Harrison’s love for the genre led him to write more than a hundred short stories and fifty novels, with stints as an anthology editor and writer of sci-fi history. Often, the themes Harrison explores are familiar ones: stories of robots bound by internal laws (“The Velvet Glove,” ”Arm of the Law”), societal changes as a science (“The K-Factor”), and parallel universes (“Down to Earth”). But it’s his...

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Analects

Автор:
Confucius

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Дата добавления:
2026-06-25

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English

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31

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Confucius is one of the most influential figures in Chinese philosophy. His teachings are laid out most fully in the Analects, a compilation of sayings, aphorisms, and ideas organized by his followers after his death.

Modern scholarship suggests that the Analects were composed over a period of two hundred years, between around 476–221 BC, with the earliest physical evidence dating to around 300 BC. Over time, it became recognized as one of the “Four Books,” alongside the “Five Classics,” which together form the core of the Confucian canon; this canon was the foundation for the Imperial Examinations, the Chinese system for training and selecting bureaucrats that..." data-title="Книга Analects">

Description Confucius is one of the most influential figures in Chinese philosophy. His teachings are laid out most fully in the Analects, a compilation of sayings, aphorisms, and ideas organized by his followers after his death. Modern scholarship suggests that the Analects were composed over a period of two hundred years, between around 476–221 BC, with the earliest physical evidence dating to around 300 BC. Over time, it became recognized as one of the “Four Books,” alongside the “Five Classics,” which together form the core of the Confucian canon; this canon was the foundation for the Imperial Examinations, the Chinese system for training and selecting bureaucrats that...

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June Moon

Автор:
Ring Lardner

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Дата добавления:
2026-06-23

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English

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24

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Ring Lardner’s 1921 short story “Some Like Them Cold,” June Moon satirizes Tin Pan Alley music publishers of the early 20th century and the..." data-title="Книга June Moon">

Description Fred Stevens, an aspiring lyricist, has quit his job at General Electric and moved from Schenectady to New York City to collaborate with Paul Sears, a one-hit-wonder composer chasing his next big break. Life in New York City proves to be quite a culture shock for Fred as he unwittingly squanders his savings in the New York social scene, egged on by Paul’s wife and sister-in-law, only to ultimately find himself forced to choose between two women. Based on Ring Lardner’s 1921 short story “Some Like Them Cold,” June Moon satirizes Tin Pan Alley music publishers of the early 20th century and the...

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The Condition of the Working Class in England

Автор:
Friedrich Engels

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2026-06-23

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English

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119

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Friedrich Engels traveled to England to see the state of the working class in the nation’s rapidly expanding industrial cities. His observations over the course of the next twenty-one months lead to the 1845 publication of The Condition of the Working Class in England. The book reports on the dire state of the proletariat, contextualizes their struggle within the politics of the time, and makes predictions for how the fragile tension between workers and capitalists must evolve. It remains to this day a highly detailed account of the abuses the industrial revolution brought upon the English working class.

First written for German audiences, the book..." data-title="Книга The Condition of the Working Class in England">

Description In 1842, a young Friedrich Engels traveled to England to see the state of the working class in the nation’s rapidly expanding industrial cities. His observations over the course of the next twenty-one months lead to the 1845 publication of The Condition of the Working Class in England. The book reports on the dire state of the proletariat, contextualizes their struggle within the politics of the time, and makes predictions for how the fragile tension between workers and capitalists must evolve. It remains to this day a highly detailed account of the abuses the industrial revolution brought upon the English working class. First written for German audiences, the book...

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The Professor’s House

Автор:
Willa Cather

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Дата добавления:
2026-06-20

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English

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61

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Willa Cather’s most understated works. While initially received poorly, it has since risen in..." data-title="Книга The Professor’s House">

Description A prestigious award gives the middle-aged professor Godfrey St. Peter the funds to buy a new house, but he’s reluctant to let go of his old one. His wife and two daughters welcome the change, seeing it as a well-deserved step up in the world. St. Peter instead focuses his attention on editing the journals of Tom Outland, his former student and would-be son-in-law—before his life was taken in the Great War. As Outland’s own story unfolds, St. Peter finds himself too consumed by what could have been to move forward. Published in 1925, The Professor’s House remains one of Willa Cather’s most understated works. While initially received poorly, it has since risen in...

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