Marion Fay (1882) offers a pair of romances, each involving a match between one titled personage and one commoner. The misalliances lead to the typical strains between parental desires and romantic wishes of the young. The novel’s primary characters have such noble dispositions that Trollope was impelled to create several far more interesting minor characters who either threaten mayhem or provide amusing diversions. (summary by Arnold Banner) [chương_files]
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 012: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
In order to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution in the late 1780s, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Hay wrote a series of 85 articles and essays explaining their reasons to support the constitution. Most of these articles were published in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet and they later became known as “The Federalist Papers.” In reading the articles, one will encounter very interesting issues like Hamilton’s opposition to including the Bill of Rights in the Constitution and why he thinks a Union is better than a Confederation. He opposed the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution because he thought that people would later interpret it as the only rights guaranteed to the people. He also supported the formation of the Union largely because of the economic benefit it would have to the states. “The Federalist Papers” aren’t just a series of articles that history students read. Their contents have been used as a reference in many US Supreme Court decisions which make this book still very influential today. [chương_files]
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 003: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 008: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 016: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]
In this DIRECTORY you’ll see just what you never ought to be; and so, it should direct your way to Good Behavior, every day. The children of whose faults I tell are known by other names, as well, so see that you aren’t in this group of Naughty Ones. Don’t be a Goop! (The author’s introduction) [chương_files]
A posthumous collection of Bourne’s writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long introduction by his friend and colleague Van Wyck Brooks. Includes the influential and perennially relevant essay “Trans-National America” as well as a fragment from the autobiographical novel on which Bourne was working at the time of his death. – Summary by Ben Adams [chương_files]
Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). – Summary by Joseph Tabler [chương_files]
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