A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The fourth volume, published in 1919, contains several notable poems by the recently deceased Wilfred Owen. The other poets represented are Francisco Quevedo, Aldous Huxley, Arnold James, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. – Summary by Algy Pug [chương_files]
The art of table setting is one of the lost arts in the modern household. Do we just not bother anymore or did we collectively forget how to do it? Maybe this little book will get some of us to start observing etiquette properly again. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
Ever want to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, only to have the whole world fight to keep you down? Ever been upstanding and righteous, only to have those around you take advantage of you? In the most unique of circumstances, watch a woman flee from a lavish world of slavery in a brothel, to live in the muck and mire of squalor. With the law chasing after her, The Girl from Farris’ must find a way to merely survive. And in other parts of town, watch an upstanding citizen go from Riches to Rags as his fiance’ and business partners slowly tear down the soul of the man. Watch as these two paths collide at different points in their lives. Will it be happily ever after, or a bitter end? Summary by Joe DeNoia She gets a job and although she can barely afford to care for herself, she stays on the straight and narrow, but her past is bound to catch up to her. [chương_files]
Barry Pain is today best known for his ghost and horror stories, but he could also write some excellent social satire. This series of three dialogues follows a life cycle: the subject of the first little play is the birth of a girl, in the second dialogue, two people discuss the marriage of mutual friends, and a death of a distant relative stands in the center of the third dialogue. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
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 […]
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 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 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]
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]
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]
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