Father Sergius
Category: Author:Leo Tolstoy
Father Sergius is a story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898, and first published (posthumously) in 1911.
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Category: Author:Leo Tolstoy
Father Sergius is a story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898, and first published (posthumously) in 1911.
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Category: Author:novel
THIS is a new sort of book, and unique. That is why I look upon the permission to write a brief preface for it as a rare privilege. Writings on children are frequent. When, in 1875, I contributed, for Karl Gerhardt’s immense Handbuch, my Hygiene of the Child, I quoted seven hundred treatises or pamphlets on that subject. There are now...
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This classic of scientific reporting by English chemist Robert Boyle, first published in 1661, is the best known of his many works. In this volume, Boyle defines the term "element," asserting that all natural phenomena can be explained by the motion and organization of primary particles. 1911 edition.
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Category: Author:D. H. Lawrence劳伦斯
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, Lawrence's firstcollection of short stories, was published in England in 1914 andin the USA in 1916. It contains some of the greatest stories heever wrote: 'Odour of Chrysanthemums', 'Daughters of the Vicar','The Prussian Officer', and 'The White Stocking', with settingsranging from the mining co...
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Category: Author:Theodore Dreiser西奥多·德莱塞
Jennie Gerhardt is a 1911 novel by Theodore Dreiser. ennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets Senator George Brander, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her. Jennie, grateful for his benevolence, agrees to sleep with him, but ...
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Category: Author:Leo Tolstoy
It is not well-known that "The Devil" is a semi-autobiographical work, based on an episode of sexual temptation Tolstoy experienced towards a young woman named Domna in 1880. Fully aware of the consequences awaiting him should he act on his impulses, Tolstoy resisted, finding emotional solace in the confidences of friends. Years after,...
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Category: Author:Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his The Devil's Dictionary (1911). He wrote some of his books under the pseudonyms Dod Grile and J. Milton Sloluck. Bierce's lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries ...
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Category: Author:Owen Wister
Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer of western novels. He studied at the Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt and graduated in 1888. At first he aspired to a career in music, and spent two years studying at a Paris conservatory. Thereafter, he worked briefly in a bank in New York before studying...
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Category: Author:Harold Bell Wright
While this story is not in any way a history of this part of the Colorado Desert now known as the Imperial Valley, nor a biography of anyone connected with this splendid achievement, I must in honesty admit that this work which in the past ten years has transformed a vast, desolate waste into a beautiful land of homes, cities, and farm...
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Category: Author:P. G. Wodehouse
A Gentleman of Leisure is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The basic plot first appeared in a novella, The Gem Collector, in the December 1909 issue of Ainslee's Magazine. It was substantially revised and expanded for publication as a book, under the title The Intrusion of Jimmy, by W.J. Watt and Co., New York, on 11 May 1910.[1] It was ser...
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