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An Outcast of the Islands was only Conrad’s second novel, but in its theme, in its impressionistic use of scenery, and, and over all, in the enormous richness and power of the writing, it predicts Conrad’s position as a literary figure of the highest rank. Peter Willems, a clerk in Macassar, granted a “second chance” at a remote river trading post, falls ever more hopelessly into traps set by himself and others. A parable of human frailty, with love and death the major players, this is a story...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад |
This eBook edition of «An Unpleasant Predicament» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. An Unpleasant Predicament, also translated as «A Nasty Story» is a satirical story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky concerning the escapades of a Russian civil servant. After drinking a bit too much with two fellow civil servants, the protagonist, Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky, expounds on his desire to embrace a philosophy based on kindness to those in lower status...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
This eBook edition of «An Unpleasant Predicament» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. An Unpleasant Predicament, also translated as «A Nasty Story» is a satirical story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky concerning the escapades of a Russian civil servant. After drinking a bit too much with two fellow civil servants, the protagonist, Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky, expounds on his desire to embrace a philosophy based on kindness to those in lower status...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
This eBook edition of «An Unpleasant Predicament» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. An Unpleasant Predicament, also translated as «A Nasty Story» is a satirical story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky concerning the escapades of a Russian civil servant. After drinking a bit too much with two fellow civil servants, the protagonist, Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky, expounds on his desire to embrace a philosophy based on kindness to those in lower status...
| Автор | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman emmigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the Haymarket affair of 1886, a massacre in which seven police officers and an unknown number of civilians were killed during a march of striking Chicago workers. Eight anarchists were subsequently tried for murder. «Anarchism and Other Essays» is a collection of essays first published in 1911. The volume includes the following essays: Anarchism: What It...
| Автор | Emma Goldman |
Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman emmigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the Haymarket affair of 1886, a massacre in which seven police officers and an unknown number of civilians were killed during a march of striking Chicago workers. Eight anarchists were subsequently tried for murder. «Anarchism and Other Essays» is a collection of essays first published in 1911. The volume includes the following essays: Anarchism: What It...
| Автор | Emma Goldman |
Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman emmigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the Haymarket affair of 1886, a massacre in which seven police officers and an unknown number of civilians were killed during a march of striking Chicago workers. Eight anarchists were subsequently tried for murder. «Anarchism and Other Essays» is a collection of essays first published in 1911. The volume includes the following essays: Anarchism: What It...
| Автор | Emma Goldman |
A Christmas fantasy in which Jesus becomes again a determining influence in the crises of human lives. In the form of a child he appears to those who need aid or solace, in scenes ranging from the ballroom to the slums. It might be said of the little stories gathered together between the covers of «And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy,» by Cyrus Townsend Brady, that they fall across the brain of the reader like spiritual mirages in the midst of a world of overgrown materialism. Each is poignant...
| Автор | Cyrus Townsend Brady |
A Christmas fantasy in which Jesus becomes again a determining influence in the crises of human lives. In the form of a child he appears to those who need aid or solace, in scenes ranging from the ballroom to the slums. It might be said of the little stories gathered together between the covers of «And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy,» by Cyrus Townsend Brady, that they fall across the brain of the reader like spiritual mirages in the midst of a world of overgrown materialism. Each is poignant...
| Автор | Cyrus Townsend Brady |
