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"Rosso Malpelo" è una novella di Giovanni Verga, che comparve per la prima volta su Il Fanfulla nel 1878 e che venne in seguito raccolta e pubblicata nel 1880 insieme ad altre novelle uscite nel 1879-1880 in "Vita dei campi". La novella narra di un ragazzo abituato a lavorare...

Nathaniel Hawthorne  (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. Hattie Tyng Griswold (1842 - 1909) was a 19th-century American author and poet from Massachusetts.  

L"Inferno" è la prima delle tre cantiche della "Divina Commedia" di Dante Alighieri, corrispondente al primo dei Tre Regni dell'Oltretomba e il primo visitato da Dante nel suo pellegrinaggio ultraterreno, viaggio destinato a portarlo alla Salvezza. Il mondo dei dannati, suddiviso...

"L'Asino" è un poema satirico scritto da Niccolò Machiavelli nel 1517 e rimasto incompiuto. Il poema consta di otto capitoli, scritti in terzine dantesche, e può essere considerato una versione moderna del famoso Asino d'oro di Apuleio, di cui riprende il tema della metamorfosi. L'opera...

I "Canti" raccolgono la produzione in versi di Giacomo Leopardi, poesie di straordinaria bellezza, come Il passero solitario, Infinito, A Silvia, La ginestra.  Giacomo Leopardi (Recanati, 29 giugno 1798 – Napoli, 14 giugno 1837) è stato un poeta, filosofo, scrittore, filologo e glottologo italiano.  

The Poem of Hashish (1821) was first published in 1850. “By graduations, external objects assume unique appearances in the endless combining and transfiguring of forms. Ideas are distorted; perceptions are confused. Sounds are clothed in colors and colors in music.” Charles Pierre Baudelaire...

"Aesop's Fables" is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to...

The Wasps is the fourth in chronological order of the eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes. Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.  

The Birds is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes.  Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.  

Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC. Plato (424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.  Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1817 – 1893)

"Seven Against Thebes" is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. Aeschylus (525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. Translator: E.D.A. Morshead  

The Persians is an ancient Greek tragedy written during the Classical period of Ancient Greece by the Greek tragedian Aeschylus. Aeschylus (525/524 – 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. Translator: E.D.A. Morshead  

"Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting" is the title of a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift. It also has appeared under the title Thoughts on Various Subjects. It consists of a series of short epigrams or apothegms with no particular connections between them. Jonathan...

"Psicopatología de la vida cotidiana" es una obra de Sigmund Freud de 1901, en la que se analiza lo que desde entonces se conoce como acto fallido (lapsus linguae o lapsus freudiano).   Sigmund Freud (Príbor, 6 de mayo de 1856-Londres, 23 de septiembre de 1939) fue un médico neurólogo...