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White Peacock, The

DHLawrence

The White Peacock was D. H. Lawrences first novel. "It was begun in 1906, rewritten three times, and published in 1911. AIt has every fault that the English novel can have," Ford Madox Ford told him, but recognized it immediately as a work of genius. A compelling exploration of the estrangements o...

Anatol

Arthur Schnitzler

Schnitzler was an Austrian dramatist and novelist. The son of a prominent Jewish Viennese physician, he studied and practiced medicine until he attracted critical notice with his drama Anatol (1893), a cycle of one-act plays concerning a philanderer. He followed a similar format in La Ronde (1900),...

Madman Divine, The

José Echegaray

Jose Echegaray was a Spanish scholar and dramatist, born in Madrid about 1835. In 1858 he became professor of mathematics and physics in the School of Engineers in his native city, in which capacity he published many valuable works on science and mathematics. In 1868 he was made minister of commer...

Fisher Maiden, The

Björnstjerne Björnson

Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson (1832-1910) was a poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, editor, public speaker, theatre director, and one of the most prominent public figures in the Norway of his day. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903 and is generally known, together with Henrik Ibsen, A...

Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

Sergiei Nilus

The Protocols was supposedly written in 1897 from the minutes of 24 secret meetings between Jews and Freemasons in which they conspired to bring down Western civilization and jointly rule the world. In reality, it is nothing of the sort. In 1921, Philip Graves of the London Times revealed The Protoc...

Lovely Lady, The

DHLawrence

This volume of seven stories includes the last fiction that D. H. Lawrence wrote. It is in his most mellow vein, and several of the stories at least should rank among his shorter masterpieces. The Rocking-Horse Winner is an amazing and uncanny study of childhood, with a feverish psychological twis...

The Vanished Diamond

Jules Verne

Victor Cyprien, a French engineer currently living in the "Diamond Fields" of Griqualand, South Africa desires to marry the beautiful daughter of Mr. Watkins, a man who holds claims to the land that are the "Diamond Fields." Watkins has other plans for his daughter which include her staying in Sout...

Thinking as a Science

HENRY HAZLITT

ContentsThe Neglect of ThinkingThinking with MethodA Few CautionsConcentrationPrejudice and UncertaintyDebate and ConversationThinking and ReadingWriting Ones ThoughtsThings Worth Thinking AboutThinking as an ArtBooks on Thinking

Marius the Epicurean

Walter Pater

An elaborately written philosophical novel of ancient Rome which incorporates a retelling of Apuleius story of Cupid and Psyche. It was as a critic and a humanist that Walter Pater (1839-1894), professor at Oxford, led the revival of interest in Renaissance art and humanism, becoming a powerful inf...

Pornography and So on

DHLawrence

Spanish Dancer, The

Victor Hugo

A gypsy girl who fascinated a king (old Philip IV) and swayed a crown - such is Maritana, the street singer of old Spain. But of course she was only a gypsy dancer, and his Queen thought it wise to study the vivacious young person that she might learn from her what so charmed her royal spouse. The k...

Soul of Man Under Socialism, The

Oscar Wilde