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Two on a Tower: A Romance is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, classified by him as a romance and fantasy and now regarded as one of his minor works. The book is one of Hardys Wessex novels, set in a parallel version of late Victorian Dorset.
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism by T. S. Eliot is a landmark collection of literary essays that reshaped the way modern readers and critics understand poetry. In this influential volume, Eliot delves into the works of literary giants like Shakespeare, Dante, and the Metaphysical poets, offering profound critiques and introducing his revolutionary ideas on poetic tradition, impersonality, and the function of criticism. With clarity and intellectual rigor, he lays out a compelling case for literary excellence grounded in historical awareness and aesthetic discipline. Among the book's most famous essays is "Tradition and the Individual Talent," which remains a foundational text in literary theory today.Mostra libro
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother. Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and is considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others".It was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his most performed, topping the performance list of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessors in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1879. It has inspired many other writers—from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Charles Dickens to James Joyce and Iris Murdoch—and has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella". Among the most significant works William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest, Venus and Adonis, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and many more.Mostra libro
Two men from an Indiana town: one goes to Wall Street and gets everything, the other stays and does not — and the woman between them pays the bill. Phillips was the muckraker whose Treason of the Senate so enraged Roosevelt that the President coined the word to insult him, and he was shot dead in the street at forty-three. The finance in this 1904 novel is technically exact, which is why it still bites. Forty-six plates of Bingham, Luks and their peers, from Missouri boatmen to Houston Street crowds, picture the American striving this novel measures in dollars and ruin.Mostra libro
Two aunts in a seaside town take charge of three nieces and a nephew while their mother goes out to India, and the three of them proceed to test every arrangement the household has. Yonge lived her whole life in one Hampshire village, taught Sunday school there for seventy-one years and gave away the profits of her books. She wrote for families to read together and assumed the children would be the sharper half of the audience. Fifty-eight plates from Frith and Tissot, spanning 1812 to 1929, picture the social comedy of courtship, family and class that Yonge's sharp-eyed household drama plays out.Mostra libro
"Lenore" is a poem by the American author Edgar Allan Poe. It began as a different poem, "A Paean", and was not published as "Lenore" until 1843. The poem discusses proper decorum in the wake of the death of a young woman, described as "the queenliest dead that ever died so young". The poem concludes: "No dirge shall I upraise,/ But waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days!" Lenore's fiancé, Guy de Vere, finds it inappropriate to "mourn" the dead; rather, one should celebrate their ascension to a new world. Unlike most of Poe's poems relating to dying women, "Lenore" implies the possibility of meeting in paradise.Mostra libro
A French naval officer takes a temporary wife in Nagasaki for the length of his ship's stay, furnishes a paper house on a hill, and is faintly bored by all of it — including her. Loti was Julien Viaud, a career officer who rose to captain and wrote from every port the navy sent him to; this 1887 book gave Puccini's Butterfly its situation, and it is far colder than anything the opera does with it. The narrator's condescension is on the page for the reader to judge. Fifty-nine plates, from Hiroshige's Shinano views to stormy seas and shipping in harbour, keep the salt water and the Japanese light of the story before the eye throughout.Mostra libro
