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Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City – times are hard, even for a talented actor like Mr. DeVere. Just as he successfully auditions for a new play, an old voice affliction renders him terribly hoarse and he loses the role. Despite voice rest and medical treatment, Mr. DeVere’s voice fails to improve, and it is impossible to find theatre work.

A friend and neighbour in their apartment building suggests that Mr. DeVere tries acting in the moving pictures (which being silent, would not need him to speak at all) but Mr. DeVere considers that business to be common and cheap. However, when they receive an eviction notice, and loca...

Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his famous short horror stories; however, horror is not the only genre in which he wrote. How To Write a Blackwood Article and its companion piece A Predicament are satirical works exploring the pieces of the formula generally seen in short horror stories (”articles”) found in the Scottish periodical “Blackwood’s Magazine” and the successful misapplication of said formula by – horrors! – a woman author! – respectively.

This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pursuit of justice through exposure. It draws a scathingly shameful portrait of how Chinese immigrants were treated in 19th century San Francisco. (Introduction by John Greenman)

Nachlaß des Diogenes von Sinope. Aus einer alten Handschrift.

Von Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813), veröffentlicht 1770.

Wieland benutzt die Figur des berühmten Kynikers Diogenes von Sinope zu einer humorvollen Kritik der menschlichen Gesellschaft.

(Zusammenfassung von redaer)

Brother Jacob is a short story by George Eliot, in which she explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centered and ambitious David Faux and his idiot brother, Jacob.

Colección de cuentos de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.

Author Elizabeth Latimer synthesizes notes from a variety of sources to produce this summary of the nation of France in the 19th century. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Lin McLean is an unaffected, attractive young cowboy in the Wyoming territory before statehood. This book is various stories in his life.

This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attributes Clemens' increasing sense of pessimism to the repression of his creative spirit due largely to his mother and his wife.

Psyche is een poëtische vertelling, symboliseerend een opvatting van Mensch en Wereld. Drie factoren beheerschen het menschenbestaan, drie de wereldhistorie. Men kan ze noemen Stof, Geest en Ziel. Men kan ze noemen Empirie, Philosophie en Poëzie. Men kan ze noemen Waan, Critiek en Geloof. Men kan ze noemen Lijf, Hoofd en Hart. Men kan ze noemen Zinnen, Gedachte en Droom. Men kan ze noemen Bezitten, Werken en Hopen. Couperus noemt ze Emeralda, Astra en Psyche. (Uit: Hollandsche Belletrie van den Dag 1901, p.43-51.)