The Red and the Black, Stendhal's masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic.
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"Ivan the Fool" (also known as "Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers") is an 1886 short story (in fact, a literary fairy tale) by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1886.
Joseph Conrad (born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist, writing in English, while living in England.
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Part Five: "e;Now is the time for Helter Skelter"e; - Charles MansonManson family member Linda Kasabian becomes a key witness for the case, recalling the night the murders were committed in detail.
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Set in late November 1827, the tale is begun by an unidentified narrator whose story is the loose outer frame for the central tale of Augustus Bedloe, a wealthy young invalid whom the narrator has known "casually" for eighteen years yet who still remains an enigma.
In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world's most adapted and imitated stories.
Posdnyschew, Morder seiner Frau, fruhzeitig ergraut, mit blitzenden Augen und nervosem Gebaren, hort auf einer langeren Zugfahrt, wie die Reisenden uber Liebe als Grundbedingung fur eine gluckliche Ehe diskutieren - eine Ansicht, die vor allem von einer nicht mehr jungen, halichen, rauchenden Dame vertreten wird.
The Duel by Joseph Conrad is Conrad's brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleonic Wars.
La vita dell'autore fu lunga e tragica, nell'accezione piu vera del termine, ossia nel senso che essa fu dominata da una profonda, segreta tensione: una vera tragedia dell'anima.
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, in which he writes of his theories of evolution by natural selection, is one of the most important works of scientific study ever published.
La morte di Ivan Il'ič, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1886, è una delle opere più celebrate di Tolstoj, influenzata dalla crisi spirituale dell'autore, che lo porterà a convertirsi al Cristianesimo.
The story follows an unnamed narrator who visits a mental institution in southern France (more accurately, a "Maison de Sante") known for a revolutionary new method of treating mental illnesses called the "system of soothing".
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In Allan Pinkerton's True Crime & Murder Mysteries Collection, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through a series of gripping and suspenseful tales filled with deceit, mystery, and twist endings.
The tale depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story.
A remarkable book, the story of Flora De Barral, daughter of the Great De Barral, a monumental swindler, and her love for the sea captain who married her.
The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his comfort.
