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Mr. Roundabout, says a lady sitting by me, "how comes it that in your books there is a certain class (it may be of men, or it may be of women, but that is not the question in point)--how comes it, dear sir, there is a certain class of persons whom you always attack in your writings, and savagely rush at, goad, poke, toss up in the air, kick, and trample on?"

Counsels and Maxims represents the second part of Schopenhauer's work originally titled Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (first published in 1851) and translated by T. B. Saunders. The first part of the original has been translated under the name The Wisdom of Life. Both parts, however, deal with a single treatise with there being no division in the original.

La Vie de Tolstoï est une biographie critique de Léon Tolstoï écrite par Romain Rolland, prix Nobel de littérature 1915, publiée pour la première fois chez Hachette en 1911, en une version revue et augmentée en 1928 à l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Tolstoï puis rééditée en 1978 et en 2010 aux Éditions Albin Michel.

Die Kinder des Kapitän Grant ist ein Roman des französischen Autors Jules Verne. Der Roman erschien erstmals 1867/1868 in drei Bänden unter dem französischen Titel Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant von dem Verleger Pierre-Jules Hetzel veröffentlicht. Die erste deutschsprachige Ausgabe...

Seven out of Time is a science fiction novel by American writer Arthur Leo Zagat. It was originally serialized in the magazine Argosy beginning in 1939. It was first published in book form in 1949 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,612 copies.

George Sand (1804-1876), se proclamait volontiers « fille d’un patricien et d’une bohémienne », une double appartenance qui a fortement façonné sa vie. Côté vie amoureuse, elle a eu les amants les plus célèbres (Aurélien de Sèze, Stéphane Ajasson de Gransagne, Jules Sandeau, Alfred...

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is dedicated to "Ianthe". The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and...

Os Irmãos Karamazov (em russo Братья Карамазовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy, AFI ['bratʲjə karə'mazəvɨ]) é um romance de Fiódor Dostoiévski, escrito em 1879, uma das mais importantes obras das literaturas russas e mundiais, ou, conforme afirmou Freud: "a maior obra...

Humilhados e ofendidos (Униженные и оскорбленные) é um romance do escritor russo Fiódor Dostoiévski publicado em 1861. Retrata personagens perseguidos por conta de sua condição econômica e social, no entanto, resistentes à hipocrisia e falta de humanidade de seus...

"The Damned Thing" is written in four parts, each with a comical subtitle. The story begins in Hugh Morgan's cabin, where local men have gathered around the battered corpse of Hugh Morgan to hold an inquest concerning his death. William Harker, a witness to the death, enters and is sworn...

Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends (which includes Mr. Pickwick), and their...

Zur Genealogie der Moral. Eine Streitschrift ist ein philosophisches Werk von Friedrich Nietzsche aus dem Jahr 1887. Das Werk, das aus einer Vorrede und drei „Abhandlungen“ besteht, gehört zu den einflussreichsten Schriften Nietzsches. Er legte hier keine Aphorismen vor wie in den...

Mansfield Park è un romanzo della celebre scrittrice britannica Jane Austen. Scritto fra il 1812 e il 1814, venne pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1814. Il libro venne tradotto in lingua francese nel 1816, segno di un successo di pubblico importante anche per l'epoca. Fanny...

O Capital (em alemão: Das Kapital) é um conjunto de livros (sendo o primeiro de 1867) de Karl Marx que constituem uma análise do capitalismo (crítica da economia política). Muitos consideram esta obra o marco do pensamento socialista marxista. Nela existem muitos conceitos econômicos...