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The Sevastopol Sketches, called in English translations the Sebastopol Sketches, also published in English as Sevastopol, are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855). The name originates from Sevastopol,...

Family Happiness is an 1859 novella written by Leo Tolstoy, first published in The Russian Messenger. The story concerns the love and marriage of a young girl, Mashechka (17 years old), and the much older Sergey Mikhaylych (36), an old family friend. The story is narrated by Masha. After a courtship...

"Father Sergius" is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911. The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the...

Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida (1836 - 1870), más conocido como Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, fue un poeta y narrador español, perteneciente al movimiento del Romanticismo. Por ser un romántico tardío, ha sido asociado igualmente con el movimiento posromántico. Aunque en vida ya alcanzó...

A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was the third book in the series, and the final collection of short stories. In it, Raffles, a gentleman thief, commits a number of burglaries in late Victorian England.

Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881 — 1922), mais conhecido como Lima Barreto, foi um jornalistae escritor que publicou romances, sátiras, contos, crônicas e uma vasta obra em periódicos, principalmente em revistas populares ilustradas e periódicos anarquistas do início do século XX. A...

As Aventuras do Dr. Bogoloff é um romance escrito por Lima Barreto e publicado em 1912 como folhetim no Rio de Janeiro. O personagem principal, o anarquista russo Grégory Petróvitch Bogóloff, reaparece no romance Numa e a Ninfa, de 1915. Embora as Aventuras tenham sido escritas anteriormente,...

Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto ( 1881 — 1922), mais conhecido como Lima Barreto, foi um jornalistae escritor que publicou romances, sátiras, contos, crônicas e uma vasta obra em periódicos, principalmente em revistas populares ilustradas e periódicos anarquistas do início do século XX. A...

Le Petit Prince est une œuvre de langue française, la plus connue d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Publié en 1943 à New York simultanément à sa traduction anglaise, c'est une œuvre poétique et philosophique sous l'apparence d'un conte pour enfants. Traduit en trois cent soixante et une langues, Le Petit Prince est le deuxième ouvrage le plus traduit au monde après la Bible.

Magic is a play by G. K. Chesterton presented by Kenelm Foss at The Little Theatre, London, on November 7, 1913. The play went on to influence Ingmar Bergman's film The Face. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (1874 – 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator,...

La Poética​ o Sobre la poética es una obra de Aristóteles escrita en el siglo IV a. C., entre la fundación de su escuela en Atenas, en el 335 a. C., y su partida definitiva de la ciudad, en el 323 a. C. Su tema principal es la reflexión estética a través de la caracterización y descripción...

The Case of Wagner is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1888. Subtitled "A Musician's Problem", it has also been known as The Wagner Case in English. The book is a critique of Richard Wagner and the announcement of Nietzsche's rupture with the German...

The Essays here presented form a further selection from Schopenhauer's Parerga, brought together under a title which is not to be found in the original, and does not claim to apply to every chapter in the volume. The first essay is, in the main, a rendering of the philosopher's remarks under the heading...

The Voice of the Silence is a book by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. It was written in Fontainebleau and first published in 1889. According to Blavatsky, it is a translation of fragments from a sacred book she encountered during her studies in the East, called "The Book of the Golden Precepts". Helena...