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This short story was first published in the "Chicago Tribune," and first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "Of this story I can say that it came to me in an irresistible form, crying to be written. It will be accused perhaps of being a mere piece of sentimentality,...

Originally published in the "Saturday Evening Post" in 1920, this story was first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "I suppose that of all the stories I have ever written this one cost me the least travail and perhaps gave me the most amusement. As to the labor...

Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who made important contributions to mechanics, optics, and algebra. As a teenager, he mastered parts of Newton's Principia and studied Laplace's celestial mechanics treatise. When barely 22, Hamilton became...

William Parsons, the 3rd Earl of Rosse, (1800–1867) was an Anglo-Irish astronomer who made several large telescopes. His 72-inch telescope, the "Leviathan", built in 1845, was the world's largest telescope until the early 20th century. The 72-inch (1.8 m) telescope replaced a 36-inch...

Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (1749-1827), was a French mathematician and astronomer, sometimes referred to as the French Newton. His work was pivotal to the mathematical development of astronomy, physics, and statistics. He possessed a phenomenal mathematical ability, superior to that of any of...

John Flamsteed (1646-1719) was an English astronomer, a contemporary of Isaac Newton, and the first Astronomer Royal in charge of the newly built observatory at Greenwich, England (1676). Although he made no great discoveries nor new astronomical theories, Flamsteed distinguished himself by his meticulous...

Sir Frederick William Herschel, (Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel) (1738–1822) was a German-born British astronomer, telescope maker, and composer. He became famous for the first discovery of a planet not visible to the naked eye, the planet Uranus, and two of its major moons (Titania and Oberon), and...

James Bradley (1693–1762) was the English astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal from 1742, succeeding Edmund Halley. He is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light (1725–1728), and the nutation of the Earth's axis (1728–1748). These discoveries were...

La Bhagavad-Gita est la partie centrale du poeme épique Mahabharata. Ce texte est un des écrits fondamentaux de l'Hindouisme souvent considéré comme un « abrégé de toute la doctrine védique ».

Paolo Valera, nella sua carriera di giornalista, ebbe numerosi processi per diffamazione, e in seguito a uno di questi (con al centro la vicenda di Emma Allis, ex amante di Vittorio Emanuele II), venne condannato a tre anni di reclusione, e fu costretto a vivere in esilio a Londra per quasi un decennio (1888-1898). Queste sono le sue memorie.

E il seguito del romanzo Il Corsaro Nero. Il Corsaro Nero, accompagnato dai fidati Carmaux, Wan Stiller e Moko, nonché dal luogotenente Morgan e dall'equipaggio della Folgore, intraprende un lungo viaggio al fine di uccidere il carnefice dei suoi fratelli: il duca di Wan Guld. Oltre che dai suoi...

Crimen y castigo gira en torno a Rodion Raskolnikov. El protagonista es un estudiante que apenas tiene para sobrevivir, ni siquiera a través de los esfuerzos de su madre (Pulqueria) y su hermana Dunia. Rodión se indigna con Dunia porque quiere casarse con un comerciante, y él sabe que el matrimonio...

Narra la historia un abogado de nombre desconocido que tiene su oficina en Wall Street, Nueva York, quien, según sus propias palabras, "en la tranquilidad de un cómodo retiro, trabaja cómodamente con los títulos de propiedad de los hombres ricos, con hipotecas y obligaciones". Tiene...

Esta pequeña historia humorística, que oyó Mark Twain en un campamento minero, fue parte de sus primeras conferencias, y más tarde se convertiría en su primera publicación en un diario.