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Dr. Sloper’s cold intellectualism meets his daughter’s quiet yearning for love in this biting critique of New York high society. When a charming fortune hunter pursues Catherine, a psychological chess match begins that threatens to shatter her innocence forever. It is a devastatingly precise look at how emotional cruelty can be disguised as parental protection.
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny, and bitterness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence, and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.Mostra libro
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is Jules Verne's most iconic science fiction masterpiece—a thrilling voyage into the depths of the oceans that combines adventure, imagination, and visionary science. The novel follows Professor Pierre Aronnax, his loyal servant Conseil, and the skilled harpooner Ned Land as they set out to investigate a mysterious sea creature rumored to be attacking ships across the world's oceans. Their pursuit leads them aboard the Nautilus, an advanced submarine far beyond its time, commanded by the enigmatic and brilliant Captain Nemo. Taken on an extraordinary underwater journey, the travelers explore sunken civilizations, coral forests, and the wonders of marine life, while also confronting the dangers of the deep, including giant sea creatures and hostile human forces. As the voyage unfolds, Captain Nemo emerges as a complex and haunted figure—both a scientific genius and a man driven by profound personal loss. Through him, Verne explores themes of freedom, isolation, revenge, and the ethical use of technology. Rich in scientific detail and poetic description, the novel brings the underwater world vividly to life. A cornerstone of modern science fiction, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea remains a timeless classic, inspiring generations of readers with its sense of wonder, innovation, and the boundless mystery of the oceans.Mostra libro
"What’s done cannot be undone." The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, Macbeth most clearly reflects his relationship with King James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death. Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth. The events of the tragedy are usually associated with the execution of Henry Garnet for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In the backstage world of theatre, some believe that the play is cursed, and will not mention its title aloud, referring to it instead as "The Scottish Play". The play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.Mostra libro
To F––: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Beloved! amid the earnest woes That crowd around my earthly path— (Drear path, alas! where grows Not even one lonely rose)— My soul at least a solace hath In dreams of thee, and therein knows An Eden of bland repose.Mostra libro
Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The Promissory Note: Ernest Duncan swung himself off the platform of David White's store and walked whistling up the street. Life seemed good to Ernest just then. Mr. White had given him a rise in salary that day, and had told him that he was satisfied with him.Mostra libro
Enoch Arnold Bennett was born on the 27th May 1867 in Hanley, one of the six towns that formed the Potteries and that later joined together to become Stoke-On-Trent. After passing entrance examinations for Cambridge University his solicitor father instead decided that he should work for him, unpaid, in his thriving office. In the evenings the young Bennett wrote or studied and one skill he developed was Pitman’s shorthand which gave him entrance to a position as a clerk at a solicitor’s office in London. From there followed various jobs but none seemed to be able to ignite his career as a full-time author. By 1903 he had moved to live in Paris; he was 35, unmarried and keen to settle into his new life. In 1908 he published his first remarkable novel; ‘Clayhanger’, that drew on his earlier life in the Potteries. A prolific writer he was able to deliver very fine works but also write many that were described as ‘potboilers’. Despite this disclaimer many were lapped up by an audience eager for his prose and helped turn him into the most financially successful author of the times. As the First World War drew to a close, he was appointed to run the Ministry of Information. During the 1920s he was reputedly the highest paid literary journalist in the land and continued to write novels, plays and short stories. Arnold Bennett died in his flat at Chiltern Court on the 27th March 1931, from typhoid after drinking water in France on his last holiday. He was 63.Mostra libro
