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The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief by turning to the study of the Middle Ages and begins to research the life of the notorious 15th-century child-murderer Gilles de Rais. Through his contacts in Paris (notably Dr. Johannes, modeled after Joseph-Antoine Boullan), Durtal finds out that Satanism is not simply a thing of the past but alive in turn of the century France. He embarks on an investigation of the occult underworld with the help of his lover Madame Chantelouve. The novel culminates with a ...

H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. This collection contains 24 Lovecraft works that are in the public domain. You'll find more versions of these stories throughout LibriVox's short story collections and short horror story collections. (adapted from Wikipedia)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa or total nonviolence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi and in India also as Bapu. He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as ...

Un podcast para los que fueron ignorados, subestimados o descartados — y aún así no se rindieron. Celso Varas Flores, autor del libro La Muerte que me dio Vida, comparte historias reales, reflexiones profundas y herramientas concretas para convertir el dolor en propósito y el rechazo en combustible. Si alguna vez sentiste que el mundo no apostó por ti, este es tu lugar. 📖 El libro en Amazon: busca "La Muerte que me dio Vida" en eBook, tapa blanda y tapa dura.

Mother Earth, an American anarchist journal, was self styled as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Mother Earth was initiated in 1906. Its first editor was Emma Goldman, an activist in the United States. Contemporary activists and writers in Europe as well as the US contributed to its pages. In addition, it contained essays by historic figures. This is Volume 1 of the series. - Summary by Christine Rottger

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This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair puts it at the outset of his book, ". . . the chief efforts of Southern leadership have been to curtail the freedom of the colored people, to minimize their liberty and reduce them as nearly as possible to the condition of chattel slaves." - Summary by Jim Locke

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Brave Men and Women is a collection of stories about historical figures who, through success and failure, made an impact on their world. As noted in the Preface, the author's aim "has simply been to form a sort of mosaic or variegated picture of the Brave Life - the life which recognizes the Divine Goodness in all things, striving through good report and evil report, and in manifold ways, which one is often unqualified to judge, to attain to the life of Him who is 'the light of the world'." - Summary by Kristin Hand

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Part memoir, part diplomatic and political treatise, and part love letter to a society he grew up in as a bicultural and bilingual American, Dr. Walker provides the tools needed to fully understand and appreciate what Japan represents to the United States and to the world today.

What if Shakespeare understood you better than you understand yourself? In Shakespeare’s Heartbeat, actor Sofia Barclay examines 40 of Shakespeare’s most powerful sonnets as emotional guideposts for modern life. Blending personal insight with timeless poetry, she transforms these works into everyday tools for navigating love, heartbreak, desire and uncertainty.

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities. The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country, complaining of an illness and asking for his help.

Winner of a 2009 Locus Award "The monstrous homogenization of our world has now almost destroyed the map, any map, by making every place on it exactly like every other place, and leaving no blanks. … As in the Mandelbrot fractal set, the enormously large and the infinitesimally small are...

Shakespeare's most powerful female character, her historical inspiration, and her reinventions in performance through the centuries. She is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than King Lear’s daughters. She is the only Shakespearean character, male or...

将棋指し坂田三吉の生涯を枕に、日本近代小説のあり方を論じた随筆文。無学文盲で棋譜も読めず、師匠もなく我流で「坂田将棋」を編み出した坂田は、一世を風靡し大阪名人を自称したが晩年は不遇であった。貧苦の中、細君が「あんまり阿呆な将棋さしなはんなや」と遺言し、娘は駆け落ちし、昭和十二年には六十八歳で木村・花田両八段との十六年ぶりの一生一代の対局に臨むが、第一手に端の歩を突くという定跡破りの手で二局とも惨敗した。

1918年夏に全国的に発生した米騒動について、その原因と対応、慈善行為のあり方を論じた随筆文。三府一道三十余県にわたって爆発したこの食糧騒動は、天明・天保の飢饉時代以上に劇烈を極め、大正の歴史に意外の汚点を残した。直接の原因は物価、特に米価の法外な暴騰であり、間接の原因は成金階級の横暴と、彼らの利益を偏重して物価調節の応急手段を早く取らなかった軍閥内閣の秕政にあるとする。

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