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Mansfield Park ist ein Roman der englischen Schriftstellerin Jane Austen, der zwischen Februar 1811 und Sommer 1813 geschrieben und im Mai 1814 veröffentlicht wurde. Dieser Roman ist möglicherweise die satirischste von Austens Arbeiten. Ebenso wie ihre anderen Werke wurde auch dieser Roman...

Lady Windermeres Fächer (Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman) ist eine Gesellschaftskomödie in vier Akten des irischen Schriftstellers Oscar Wilde. Die Uraufführung des Bühnenstücks fand am 20. Februar 1892 im St. James's Theatre in London statt. Knapp ein Jahr später,...

Die etwa 50 Seiten lange Schrift entstand für einen Vortrag, den Marx während der Sitzungen des Generalrats der Internationalen Arbeiterassoziation am 20. und 27. Juni 1865 hielt. Geschrieben wurde der Text zwischen Ende Mai und dem 27. Juni 1865. Erstmals veröffentlicht wurde er 1898 von Eleanor...

Humiliés et offensés (en russe: Униженные и оскорбленные) est un roman de l'écrivain russe Fiodor Dostoïevski (publié en 1861 dans Le Temps) dont c'est la première œuvre d'importance. Comportant une part autobiographique certaine, ce livre relate l'histoire d'Ivan...

Amleto (The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, "La tragedia di Amleto, principe di Danimarca") è una delle tragedieshakespeariane più conosciute e citate. Fu scritta probabilmente tra il 1600 e l'estate del 1602. È tra le opere più frequentemente rappresentate in quasi ogni...

The Deserted Village is a poem by Oliver Goldsmith published in 1770. It is a work of social commentary, and condemns rural depopulation and the pursuit of excessive wealth. The location of the poem's deserted village is unknown, but the description may have been influenced by Goldsmith's...

Mrs. Dalloway é um romance de Virginia Woolf publicado em 14 de maio de 1925 que narra um dia na vida de Clarissa Dalloway, uma socialite ficcional que vive na Inglaterra pós-Primeira Guerra Mundial. É um dos romances mais famosos de Woolf. Criado a partir de dois contos, Mrs....

Principles of Political Economy (1848) by John Stuart Mill was one of the most important economics or political economy textbooks of the mid-nineteenth century. It was revised until its seventh edition in 1871, shortly before Mill's death in 1873, and republished in numerous other editions. Beside...

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irishmiddle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak,...

Memorie dalla casa dei morti (in russo: Записки из Мёртвого дома, Zapiski iz Mërtvogo doma) è un romanzo semi-autobiografico scritto dall'autore russo Fëdor Dostoevskij pubblicato sulla rivista Vremja tra il 1860 e il 1862, nel quale ritrae la vita dei condannati...

Turandot (1762) is a commedia dell'arte play by Count Carlo Gozzi after a supposedly Persian story from the collection Les Mille et un jours (1710–1712) by François Pétis de la Croix (not to be confused with One Thousand and One Nights). Gozzi's Turandot was first performed at the Teatro San Samuele,...

A king, who only had one son, anxiously waited for him to marry. One day, the prince cut his finger; his blood fell on white cheese. The prince declared that he would only marry a woman as white as the cheese and as red as the blood, so he set out to find her. The prince wandered the lands...

Through the lens of historical fiction, the novella examines the Corsican vendetta. In the story, Orso is forced to consider whether he should avenge the death of his father, apparently perpetrated by the Barricini family. An Englishwoman, Lydia Nevil, attempts to dissuade him from murder, while his sister, Colomba, uses all her cunning to ensure the opposite result.

"Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourangoutangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical...