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sala numero 6

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La sala número 6 es un pequeño manicomio en el que viven encerradas cinco personas. Está dentro de un hospital decadente en una “pequeña y sucia ciudad a 200 verstas del ferrocarril”. Ante el estado calamitoso que presentan las instalaciones y el trato deplorable que reciben sus enfermos, el nuevo doctor y jefe del hospital (el señor Ragin) decide no hacer nada. ¿Para qué curarlos si se van a morir de todas formas? ¿Para qué terminar con la corrupción, el hedor y el frío si lo verdaderamente importante es concentrarse en la vida interior de la persona? Durante años protege su conciencia a base de filosofía estoica intentando adoctrinar cariñosamente a enfermos y conocidos. Al mismo tiempo abandona totalmente sus obligaciones y se regocija en una vida apacible de lectura, vodka y buena comida. Tras varios acontecimientos, el doctor Ragin recibe una bata y unas pantuflas, e ingresa como el paciente número 6 de la sala número 6. Toda cambiará a partir de este momento. La sala número 6 (publicado en 1892) es uno de los relatos de madurez más importantes de Antón Pavlovich Chejov. Según Nemirovsky, en él se desprende radicalmente de la influencia literaria de su amigo y maestro Lev Tolstoi. Se aleja de la mirada idealista y moralizante que sirva de guía a su pueblo, y retrata de una manera ácida y descarnada a la gente con la que le ha tocado vivir. Una gente a la que conoce muy bien tanto por sus avatares familiares como […]

16/08/2024

Alarm Clocks

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Joyce Kilmer (born as Alfred Joyce Kilmer) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled “Trees” (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. While most of his works are largely unknown, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953). He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment (the famous “Fighting 69th”) in 1917. He was killed by a sniper’s bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. [chương_files]

Quentin Durward

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Quentin Durward is a historical novel set in the mid-1400’s. The main character is a Scottish archer serving French King Louis XI, another main character. – Summary by Deon Gines [chương_files]

Crime and Punishment (Version 3)

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Crime and Punishment is the second of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s full-length novels following his return from 5 years of exile in Siberia, and is considered the first great novel of his “mature” period of writing. The novel focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov, in an attempt to defend his actions, argues that with the pawnbroker’s money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime while ridding the world of a vermin, and to test a theory of his that some people are naturally superior and have the right to commit crimes if it is in pursuit of a higher purpose. ( Mark Nelson) [chương_files]

16/08/2024

Andersen’s Fairy Tales (Version 2)

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A small collection of some of H.C. Andersen’s fairy tales — including The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Red Shoes, The Naughty Boy and fifteen others. [chương_files]

mer

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Un ouvrage très intéressant (en notre siècle de réflexion pour l’avenir de notre planète et de ses océans), où déjà, y est traitée la protection animale, et proposé le Droit de la mer, grande et belle idée de 1860, de Michelet. Cet ouvrage est une magnifique présentation de nos océans, de la vie maritime, dans un style limpide et clair, sciences, société, et réflexion très profonde et enrichissante. – Summary by Christiane Jehanne [chương_files]

16/08/2024

Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James

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Biographies of Frank and Jesse James, detailed accounts of all their significant escapades, and the final outcomes. [chương_files]

Spieler

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Alexej Iwanowitsch begleitet als Hauslehrer einen pensionierten russischen General und dessen Kinder zusammen mit weiteren Angestellten in einen Badeort. Da sich der General in einem finanziellem Engpass befindet, versuchen die Protagonisten immer wieder auf verschiedenen Wegen zu Geld zu kommen – meistens über das Glücksspiel. In der Nebenhandlung gibt es immer wieder Affären und Skandale, deren Folgen das Leben der Akteure beeinflussen. – Summary by Welfenelfe [chương_files]

Story of a New Zealand River

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“This is the land of the lost, one of those happy spots where no questions are asked. Of course, the fact of a person’s being here is usually all the explanation necessary.” The Story of a New Zealand River is a romance set in the Northland region of New Zealand, in the time when the forests of New Zealand’s grandest tree, the kauri, were being logged for their exquisite timber. The novel begins as Alice Roland and her free-spirited daughter Asia are being rowed in a black punt by handsome and cultured David Bruce up the Kaipara harbour to their new home at a raw kauri logging settlement in a bend of the Kaiwaka river. Tom Roland, a rough colonial and the boss of the settlement, is Alice’s husband of a few years. Alice is a beautiful but tight-laced, proud, puritanical Englishwoman whose mismatch with Tom Roland is not a happy one. They arrive with Alice’s piano among their belongings to find a half-built cottage, a strange collection of inhabitants, from gentry to scoundrels, and a place that is beautiful and challenging. Jane Mander was a New Zealand novelist and journalist. As well as New Zealand, she also lived in Sydney, New York and London. There is a superficial resemblance between The Story of a New Zealand River and the Jane Campion film The Piano, which is principally the setting and the piano. (summary by Gail Timmerman-Vaughan) [chương_files]

A to Zed Collection Vol. 002

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This is a collection of 26 selections, both fiction and nonfiction, in which each topic begins with a different letter of the alphabet. [chương_files]