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The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee and The Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts is a diary by John Dee. Dee was an astronomer, mathematician, teacher, occultist, and alchemist and served as the court astronomer for Queen Elizabeth I.
This is a collection of a few stories by Hans Christian Andersen includedThe Emperor's New Clothes The Ugly DucklingThumbellinaThe Brave Little Tin SoldierThere is No Doubt About ItShow book
This swashbuckling epic of intrigue, romance, and swordplay has earned a reputation as one of the most thrilling adventure novels ever written. A young Gascon nobleman, D'Artagnan, makes his way to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers, a legion of heroes held in high esteem by the king. D'Artagnan quickly proves he has the heart of a Musketeer and earns himself a place beside Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Relying on their wits and skills with the sword, the Musketeers set out to preserve the honor of the king and foil the nefarious schemes of the wicked Cardinal Richelieu.Show book
Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, and letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.BOOK 1: WATERLOO: Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his course towards La Hulpe.Show book
A stormy evening of olive and silver was closing in, as Father Brown, wrapped in a grey Scotch plaid, came to the end of a grey Scotch valley and beheld the strange castle of Glengyle. It stopped one end of the glen or hollow like a blind alley; and it looked like the end of the world. Rising in steep roofs and spires of seagreen slate in the manner of the old French-Scotch chateaux, it reminded an Englishman of the sinister steeple-hats of witches in fairy tales; and the pine woods that rocked round the green turrets looked, by comparison, as black as numberless flocks of ravens.Show book
The Complete Tales & Novels of Edgar Allan Poe includes the 66 tales and 2 full-length novels of Edgar Allan Poe.Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.Included in this collection:1. Metzengerstein (1832)2. The Duc de L'Omelette (1832)3. A Tale of Jerusalem (1832)4. Loss of Breath (1832)5. Bon-Bon (1832)6. MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)7. The Assignation (1834)8. Berenice (1835)9. Morella (1835)10. Lionizing (1835)11. The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)12. King Pest (1835)13. Shadow (1835)14. Four Beasts in One (1836)15. Mystification (1837)16. Silence (1838)17. Ligeia (1838)18. How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)19. A Predicament (1838)20. The Devil in the Belfry (1839)21. The Man That Was Used Up (1839)22. The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)23. William Wilson (1839)24. The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)25. Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1840)26. The Business Man (1840)27. The Man of the Crowd (1840)28. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)29. A Descent into the Maelström (1841)30. The Island of the Fay (1841)31. The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)32. Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)33. Eleonora (1841)34. Three Sundays in a Week (1841)35. The Oval Portrait (1842)36. The Masque of the Red Death (1842)37. The Landscape Garden (1842)38. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842/43)39. The Pit and the Pendulum (1842/43)40. The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)41. The Gold-Bug (1843)42. The Black Cat (1843)43. Diddling (1843)44. The Spectacles (1844)45. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)46. The Premature Burial (1844)47. Mesmeric Revelation (1844)48. The Oblong Box (1844)49. The Angel of the Odd (1844)50. Thou Art the Man (1844)51. The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)52. The Purloined Letter (1844/45)53. The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845)54. Some Words with a Mummy (1845)55. The Power of Words (1845)56. The Imp of the Perverse (1845)57. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)58. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845)59. The Sphinx (1846)60. The Cask of Amontillado (1846)61. The Domain of Arnheim (1847)62. Mellonta Tauta (1849)63. Hop-Frog (1849)64. Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)65. X-ing a Paragrab (1849)66. Landor's Cottage (1849)67. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837)68. The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)Show book
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered to be the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.The narrative takes as its literal subject the state of souls after death and presents an image of divine justice meted out as due punishment or reward, and describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven, while allegorically the poem represents the soul's journey towards God, beginning with the recognition and rejection of sin (Inferno), followed by the penitent Christian life (Purgatorio), which is then followed by the soul's ascent to God (Paradiso). Dante draws on medieval Roman Catholic theology and philosophy, especially Thomistic philosophy derived from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas. Consequently, the Divine Comedy has been called "the Summa in verse". In Dante's work, the pilgrim Dante is accompanied by three guides: Virgil (who represents human reason), Beatrice (who represents divine revelation, theology, faith, and grace), and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (who represents contemplative mysticism and devotion to Mary). Erich Auerbach said Dante was the first writer to depict human beings as the products of a specific time, place and circumstance as opposed to mythic archetypes or a collection of vices and virtues; this along with the fully imagined world of The Divine Comedy, different from our own but fully visualized, suggests that the Divine Comedy could be said to have inaugurated modern fiction.Show book
