«There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly...» Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.
They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing selfunderstanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.
«You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly...» Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.
Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.
«Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light...» White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876-1916) - and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and details White Fang's journey to domestication.
It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.
Much of White Fang is written from the viewpoint of the titular canine character, enabling London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans. White Fang examines the violent world of wild animals and the equally violent world of humans.
La traduction en prose, par Jean de Meun , du de re militari de Végèce n'est imprimée ici que comme accessoire du poème de Jean Priorat, Li Abrejance de l'ordre de Chevalerie, qui en est la mise en vers et dont la société des anciens textes français a bien voulu agréer la publication.
Cette version, dans presque tous les manuscrits, porte le titre de l'Art de chevalerie, qui est le bon, et que nous avons inscrit sur la première page ; le manuscrit dont nous avons suivi le texte y substitue celui des Etablissements de chevalerie, que nous avons peut-être à tort, conservé comme titre courant.
«No había nada muy extraordinario en esto, ni tampoco le pareció a Alicia muy extraño oír que el conejo se decía a sí mismo: «¡Dios mío! ¡Dios mío! ¡Voy a llegar tarde!» (...). Pero cuando el conejo se sacó un reloj de bolsillo del chaleco, lo miró y echó a correr, Alicia se levantó de un salto, porque comprendió de golpe que ella nunca había visto un conejo con chaleco, ni con reloj que sacarse de él, y, ardiendo de curiosidad, se puso a correr tras el conejo por la pradera, y llegó justo a tiempo para ver cómo se precipitaba en una madriguera que se abría al pie del seto.» Alicia en el país de las maravillas es una sátira sobre la política y la educación inglesas de la época.
Su autor nos presenta a unos personajes que se han instalado, de forma permanente, en el imaginario colectivo, tanto de niños como de adultos.
La Comte de Gabalis ou Entretiens sur les Sciences secrètes est de l'abbé Montfaucon de Villars (vers 1638-1673) qui le publia pour la première fois à Paris en 1670.
Est une satire. Composé de cinq discours donnés par un maître spirituel à son disciple, il sera considéré comme un texte de nature kabbalistique et fut sujet à de multiples interprétations.
Ce livre fut le premier dans la littérature française à mentionner le sylphe, créature élémentaire fictive de l'air, eut une influence notable sur la culture populaire.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau nació en Ginebra, Suiza, en 1712.
El contrato social, la obra cumbre de Rousseau, fue publicada en 1762. En ella promulga que el hombre solo puede vivir en libertad en una sociedad verdaderamente igualitaria. Y para que así sea propone un contrato social que estipule la entrega total de cada asociado a la comunidad, a través de la enajenación de todas las voluntades, de forma que cada uno recupere finalmente todo lo que ha cedido a la comunidad. Así, este contrato será, pues, expresión de la voluntad general, y de esa voluntad general emana la única y legítima autoridad del Estado.
Las teorías contenidas en esta obra influyeron sobre numerosos pensadores (como Kant y Fichte) y sobre la propia Revolución francesa de 1789, que adoptó el lema de inspiración rousseauniana: «Igualdad, Libertad, Fraternidad».
