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The story is a recasting of the resurrection of Christ narrated in the New Testament. The man who survives his crucifixion comes to celebrate his bodily existence and sensuality. Lawrence himself summarized The Escaped Cock in a letter to Brewster: I wrote a story of the Resurrection, where...

Wallace Delois Wattles's collection containing: The Science of Getting Rich The Science of Being Great The Science of Being Well The text is "divided into short, straight-to-the-point chapters that explain how to overcome mental barriers, and how creation, not competition, is the hidden...

The tale relates the story of two sisters, daughters of an Anglican vicar, who return from overseas to a drab, lifeless vicarage in the post-First World War East Midlands. Their mother has run off, a scandal that is not talked about by the family. Their new home is dominated by a blind and selfish...

In questo romanzo si narra la vicenda di Serafino, un cineoperatore della casa cinematografica Kosmograph con il nomignolo di "Si gira", che quotidianamente annota in un diario tutti gli avvenimenti che riguardano quelli che lavorano nel suo ambiente e soprattutto la storia di un'attrice...

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature...

The first narrative in the collection is "The Prussian Officer", which tells of a Captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has been left with only his military career, and though he has taken on mistresses throughout his life, he remains single. His young orderly...

Los pescadores de Trépang cuenta las aventuras de un Capitán holandés pescador de Trepang (cohombros o pepinos de mar) que junto a sus sobrinos naufraga y es perseguido por los indígenas antropófagos de las islas, hasta que logran dar con una tribu en Nueva Guinea que les ayuda a volver a su país.

Emilio Brentani conduce una modesta esistenza in un appartamento condiviso con la sorella Amalia, la quale, non avendo molti rapporti con il mondo esterno, si limita principalmente ad accudirlo. Accade un giorno che Emilio conosce Angiolina, di cui si innamora, e ciò lo porta a trascurare...

It was night at Tahiti, in the Society Islands. The trade-wind had died away, and a bright flood of shimmering moonlight poured down upon the slumbering waters of a little harbour a few miles distant from Matavai Bay, and the white curve or beach that fringed the darkened line of palms shone and glistened...

The novel has a contemporary setting during the period of the Mexican Revolution. It opens with a group of tourists visiting a bullfight in Mexico City. One of them, Kate Leslie, departs in disgust and encounters Don Cipriano, a Mexican general. Later she meets his friend, an intellectual landowner...

"Once, there was a man who went crazy from too much reading. He only read books about knighthood; that was the problem." So begins this charming retelling of Don Quixote de la Mancha, one of the most entertaining books ever written. Young people will delight in the hilarious adventures of...

There was once a South Sea Island supercargo named Denison who had a Kanaka father and mother. This was when Denison was a young man. His father's name was Kusis; his mother's Tulpé. Also, he had several brown-skinned, lithe-limbed, and big-eyed brothers and sisters, who made much of their new white...

Il marchese convive da anni con una serva-amante di origini contadine, Agrippina Solmo; per scongiurare definitivamente una possibile unione matrimoniale, il Roccaverdina comanda al suo fidato sottoposto - Rocco Criscione - di sposarla a patto di non avere rapporti sessuali con lei. In seguito, accecato...

Il romanzo è strutturato come il diario di un ragazzo di famiglia borghese, Enrico Bottini, che riporta sulla pagina episodi e personaggi della sua classe scolastica durante un anno in terza elementare, presso una scuola della città di Torino. Lo sviluppo dell'anno scolastico è seguito in...