The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe. By: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. Poe referred to it as a “tale of ratiocination” featuring the brilliant deductions of C. Auguste Dupin; it is today regarded as one of the first detective stories and is almost certainly the first locked room mystery. First Page: The Raven Edition Contents: Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell Death of Poe, by N. Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of "never never more!
" THIS stanza from "The Raven" was recommended by James Russell Lowell as an inscription upon the Baltimore monument which marks the resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. Feminism 101: Read Books, Become a Better Womyn. In response to our first in a series of three Autostraddle Roundtables about feminism, several of you requested a “reading list” to introduce you to some of the basic literature grounding the feminist movement. Simple enough, right? Well, we knocked our heads together and came up with about 5 billion books, which is probs the difference between bloggers and people with PhDs? : they know how to write concise, clear, focused syllabi? So here’s your list ladies. Get in your hammock, lie on your porch, hide in your emo cave and READ SOME MOTHERFUCKING BOOKS, IDIOTS! This list focuses primarily on the American feminist movement.
Feel free to suggest some books outside of that scope in the comments! We’ve also included some “Team Picks” from our friends and from us! Everything is listed in order of publication date. Purple: Women of ColorPink: LGBTBlue: SexGreen: Body Image & Women’s HealthOrange: Pop Culture Big Books Covering Expansive Periods of Time: Dawn of Time to 1959 1960 to 1969. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan, by Daisy Ashford.
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home by Emily Post. Paradise Lost by John Milton. By: John Milton (1608-1674) Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully represented the most basic tenets of the Protestant faith. His work, which was dictated from memory and transcribed by his daughter, remains as one of the most powerful English poems. (Summary by Caeristhiona) This is a recording of the text of Milton’s first edition of 1667, which had ten books, unlike the second edition (1674) which was redivided into twelve books in the manner of Virgil’s Aeneid. First Page: by John Milton Disclaimer: All persons concerned disclaim any and all reponsbility that this etext is perfectly accurate. This book was TYPED in by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Internet eng003@unoma1 on Bitnet (Judy now has a scanner)
The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. By: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?) , satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil’s Dictionary, he let his sense of humour and his cynical outlook on life colour a collection of dictionary-like definitions.
(Summary by Peter) First Page: by Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. "This more reverent title had previously been forced upon him by the religious scruples of the last newspaper in which a part of the work had appeared, with the natural consequence that when it came out in covers the country already had been flooded by its imitators with a score of 'cynic' books The Cynic's This , The Cynic's That , and The Cynic's t'Other .
The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche. By: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, Ecce Homo, The Antichrist is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their final form. Of all Nietzsche’s books, The Antichrist comes nearest to conventionality in form.
It presents a connected argument with very few interludes, and has a beginning, a middle and an end. (Summary from the translator’s Introduction). First Page: A complete list to date of this series of popular reprints, bound uniformly with a design and endpapers by Claude Bragdon, may be found at the back of this volume. By Translated from the German with an introduction by H. New York ALFRED A. Pocket Book Edition, Published September, 1923 Second Printing, November, 1924 Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail Ballou Press, Binghamton, N. Paper manufactured by W. Ten Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly. The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics by Laozi. By: Laozi Lao-Tze’s Tao Teh King illuminates The Tao: a guiding principle of the universe and all within it. By exploring the nature of dualities and complements, Lao-Tze dissects strength and weakness; presence and absence; life and death.
The Tao Teh King has served as a foundation for centuries of philosophy and wisdom. (Summary by Eric S. First Page: by Lao Tse Translated by James Legge Ch. 1. 1. 2. Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see. 4. 2. 1. Carlo Collodi - opera omnia - the adventures of pinocchio - letteratura italiana. Tarzan of the Apes, Summarized.
Copyright 1998 by David Bruce Bozarth, Editor. Illustration Copyright 1998 by Lou Malcangi. Individual author contributions Copyright 1998. All Rights Reserved. Tarzan Dreams by David A. I recently learned that the works of Twain have been summarized by chapters. At the end, the creation of this little artifact provided its own reward because it brought all of us back to the original texts. Chapter 1: Out to Sea David Bruce Bozarth An extended introduction explains how the author obtained the tale. The tale continues with the events following the Fuwalda's departure at Freetown. Chapter 2: The Savage Home David A. Black Michael leads a mutiny aboard the Fuwalda. Chapter 3: Life and Death Thomas Stock The marooned Claytons have a meager breakfast their first day ashore. One day an ape attacks unarmed Clayton; Alice puts a bullet in the brute.
During the long year of his wife's illness, Clayton improves the cabin. Chapter 4: The Apes Steve Wadding Kerchak examined inside of the cabin. Hans Christian Andersen : The Little Mermaid :: www.andersen.sdu.dk :: The Hans Christian Andersen Center. Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass. But it is very deep too. It goes down deeper than any anchor rope will go, and many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live. Now don't suppose that there are only bare white sands at the bottom of the sea.
No indeed! The most marvelous trees and flowers grow down there, with such pliant stalks and leaves that the least stir in the water makes them move about as though they were alive. All sorts of fish, large and small, dart among the branches, just as birds flit through the trees up here. The sea king down there had been a widower for years, and his old mother kept house for him. The whole day long they used to play in the palace, down in the great halls where live flowers grew on the walls. Oh, how intently the youngest sister listened. "But that hurts! " The Online Literature Library. The Top 10 Banned books of all time - ShortLists.
Print - The 75 Books Every Man Should Read. Free Classic AudioBooks. Digital narration for the 21st Century. Book recommendations from readers like you. Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein. [Note: This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet in e-mail, so I decided to put it on my web page. I'm afraid I can't vouch for its authenticity, tell you where it came from, who compiled the list, who Kevin Harris is, or anything like that. Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening.] "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
" "Imagination is more important than knowledge. " "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. " Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement) 30DrSeuss_quotes.jpg (JPEG Image, 620x1900 pixels) - Scaled (33%) BookMooch: trade your books with other people. Megara. Megara, Hercules' First Wife Acropolis of Minyan Orchomenos from the south Photograph courtesy of the Department of Archaeology, Boston University, Saul S. Weinberg Collection After defeating the Minyans at Orchomenos, King Creon offered his eldest daughter, Megara, to Hercules as a bride in reward for his prowess in battle. Together, Hercules and Megara had anywhere between three and eight children. Although many different versions of Hercules' doomed marriage to Megara survive, Euripides' Heracles is the most popular account.
Louvre E 701 Main panel: Hercules and Kerberos Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Musée du Louvre According to Euripides, when Hercules returned home from his trip to the underworld to fetch Cerberus, he found Greece in chaos. (caw/acs) This exhibit is a subset of materials from the Perseus Project and is copyrighted. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo: Preface. A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall:-- ANArKH. These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.
He questioned himself; he sought to divine who could have been that soul in torment which had not been willing to quit this world without leaving this stigma of crime or unhappiness upon the brow of the ancient church. Afterwards, the wall was whitewashed or scraped down, I know not which, and the inscription disappeared. It is upon this word that this book is founded. March, 1831. Explore the Summer Reading Flowchart.