Maison d'édition: Delhi Open Book
The Pensées is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work.
Indeed, the world of Oceania in George Orwell's famous novel is routinely described as oppressive, and hopeless, and variously deemed a horror story, an elegy, a threnody, a shriek of terror, a wail of despair, a death cry. Isaac Deutscher, the biographer of both Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, referred to it in 1955—in the wake of the controversial BBC broadcasts and their "fatal" consequences—as the "Black Millennium," when George Orwell turned a segment of time forever into charcoal dust. Literary and cultural critics have described 1984—or rather Nineteen Eighty-Four, to use the British title that Orwell himself preferred—as the vengeful death wish of a cynic, the tubercular projection of a dying man, the paranoid fantasy of a writer in despair, the Schadenfreude of a neurotic adult schoolboy who sent the entire world to room 101, and a totalitarian tract devised as a desperate invalid's futile protest against the specter of totalitarianism, whether in the form of Hitler's on the right or Stalin's on the left.Nineteen Eighty-Four is none of these.Rather, it is instead an affirming flame, even an optimistic vision of a hope-filled time just over the horizon.Voir livre
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is a powerful Victorian tragedy about innocence, social injustice, gender inequality, fate, and the harsh moral judgments of society. The novel follows Tess Durbeyfield, a young woman from a poor rural family who is sent to claim kinship with the wealthy d'Urbervilles after her father learns of their supposed noble ancestry. What begins as a hopeful attempt to improve her family's fortunes becomes a devastating turning point in Tess's life, exposing her to exploitation, shame, and suffering in a world that punishes women far more severely than men. Set against the richly described landscapes of Hardy's Wessex, the novel combines rural realism with emotional intensity, portraying farms, fields, villages, seasonal labor, and the fragile beauty of nature alongside the cruelty of social convention. Tess is presented as deeply human, morally sincere, hardworking, and emotionally complex, yet she is repeatedly trapped by poverty, family duty, male power, religious hypocrisy, and rigid ideas of purity. Her relationships with Alec d'Urberville and Angel Clare reveal the destructive effects of desire, idealization, betrayal, and social double standards. Through Tess's story, Hardy challenges Victorian assumptions about morality, class, sexuality, and respectability. The novel asks whether a person should be judged by society's rules or by the truth of their character, and it exposes how institutions and traditions can destroy those they claim to protect. Blending romance, tragedy, social criticism, and poetic natural description, this classic remains one of Hardy's most moving and controversial works, admired for its unforgettable heroine, tragic power, and enduring critique of injustice.Voir livre
Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: My name is Leicester; my father. Major General Wyn Leicester, a distinguished officer of artillery, succumbed five years ago to a complicated liver complaint acquired in the deadly climate of India. A year later my only brother, Francis, came home after an exceptionally brilliant career at the Unive This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.Voir livre
Sir Roger de Coverley, the coffee-house, the club, the ladies' fan drill, and the essays that taught English prose how to be conversational. Addison and Steele put out The Spectator daily in 1711 — a page or two, a penny, no politics, addressed to a nation that had just discovered it liked reading over breakfast. Johnson told anyone who wanted a good style to give his days and nights to Addison. Fifty-nine plates, from Hogarth's Shrimp Girl to Gainsborough's Watering Place, carry the same coffee-house world of actors, wits, and ordinary faces into the book.Voir livre
It being rent day, and Saturday, the staff of the "Irish Legation," with the exception of Westguard, began to migrate uptown for the monthly conference, returning one by one from that mysteriousfinancial jungle popularly known as "Downtown." As for Westguard, he had been in his apartmentall day as usual.Voir livre
Tarzan's son Jack, brought up in London and kept away from anything to do with Africa, finds his father's old ally, the great ape Akut, on show in a music hall and slips away with him to the jungle. After his father's enemy tries to murder him he stays there, grows up as Korak the Killer, too proud to go home, and takes under his protection Meriem, a small girl held captive by a slave-dealing sheik. Burroughs makes the boy repeat his father's education, and the repetition is the point; the Arab camp, the ape band and the English drawing room are all drawn with the same flat certainty. Fifty-four plates of ships, harbours, horses and animals by painters including Edvard Munch and Edwin Landseer, from 1832 to 1912, give the jungle and the drawing room their matching weather.Voir livre
