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  In a German Pension (Unabridged)

  Katherine Mansfield

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  In a German Pension is a 1911 collection of short stories by the writer Katherine Mansfield; her first published collection. All but three of the stories were originally published in The New Age edited by A. R. Orage; the first to appear was "The Child-Who-Was-Tired". The last three were first published in this collection.The stories were written after her stay in Bad Wörishofen, a German spa town in 1909, where she was taken by her mother after her disastrous marriage, pregnancy and miscarriage. Some reflect the coarse habits and arrogance of Germans, and some refer to the exploitation and repression of women by men.

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  Leaves of Grass

  Walt Whitman

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. 
  In 1855, an answer came with Leaves of Grass. 
  Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America’s greatest poets—an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done. Walt Whitman was a singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordinaire. Thoreau called Whitman “probably the greatest democrat that ever lived,” and Emerson judged Leaves of Grass as “the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.” 
  The text presented here is that of the “Deathbed” or ninth edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1892. The content and grouping of poems is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final and complete edition of his masterpiece. 
  With a foreword by Billy Collins, an afterword by Peter Davison, and a new introduction by Elisabeth Panttaja Brink.

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  Wisdom of Father Brown The...

  G.K. Chesterton

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  The Wisdom of Father Brown is the second book in the series of cases involving the eccentric yet competent detective. Invented by renowned author, essayist and journalist G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown is an amateur sleuth whose day job involves preaching to his congregation at church. Chesterton himself was a committed Christian who wrote volumes of essays and fiction surrounding faith and spirituality, and would base his Father Brown stories upon a priest - Father John O'Connor - he himself knew. Despite its intention as a parody, the Father Brown books became a popular hit in early 20th century Britain as well as the USA. Today they remain a well-considered and much-liked classic series which fans of detective fiction return to more than a century after their original publication. Characterised by his easily digestible style, ready use and exposure of paradox, and his use of wit and humour to advance argument, Chesterton's fiction and non-fiction writings on the topics of human behaviour and wider society remain relevant and poignant to this day.

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  In the Fourth Year:...

  H. G. Wells

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  H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946) In the Fourth Year is a collection H.G. Wells assembled in the spring of 1918 from essays he had recently published discussing the problem of establishing lasting peace when World War I ended. It is mostly devoted to plans for the League of Nations and the discussion of post-war politics.

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  Истинная жизнь Севастьяна Найта

  Владимир Набоков

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  Вниманию читателя предлагается первый англо-язычный роман Владимира Набокова, написанный в 1938—1939 годах во Франции и опубликованный в 1941 году в США. Связанная с "Даром", последним русским романом писателя, темой литературного творчества, эта книга одновременно предсказывает изощренные набоковские романы-лабиринты американского периода — "Лолиту", "Бледный огонь", "Аду". На страницах книги, повествователь которой поименован лишь инициалом В., развертывается история жизни его сводного брата, покойного писателя Севастьяна Найта, представленная в воспоминаниях, устных рассказах и отрывках из Найтовых книг. Постепенно грань, отделяющая рассказчика от объекта его повествования-расследования, размывается, заставляя читателей усомниться и в личности биографа, и в смерти главного героя книги. Ускользающая от настойчивых поисков В., истинная жизнь Севастьяна Найта оказывается непосредственно связанной с тайной его имени, с его сочинениями, с законами многоязычного словесного искусства и метафизикой Владимира Набокова. Роман публикуется в новом переводе Геннадия Барабтарло и сопровождается предисловием, примечаниями и обстоятельным заключительным очерком переводчика.

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  Drum-Taps

  Walt Whitman

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  Drum Taps is the next collection of poems published by Walt Whitman after his famous Leaves of Grass. This collection is a direct response to Whitman's personal observations of the Civil War, many of which come from his volunteer efforts in wartime hospitals. Despite the miseries of war described, Whitman's poems in Drum Taps assert a steady patriotism in favor of Lincoln's war effort. Interestingly, the 1915 edition used for this reading includes an introduction from the Times Literary Supplement which draws analogies between the Civil War and the current throes of World War I, enlisting Whitman posthumously as a supporter of the Allied campaign against Germany.

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