According to the author of the Preface, “Mr. Lester is also zealous to bring about a better relation and a better understanding between the white and black races. His denunciation against mob violence is bitter, but pleads for just treatment and a fair deal in court and equal protection from the authorities of the law.” [chương_files]
This volume continues Miss Mitford’s reflections on the changes to village life and characters when she returns two years after the end of Volume 1. It follows the same keen and witty observations of villagers and their continuing stories as well as the seasonal and localised general changes over this time. This selection also includes many memories of Miss Mitford’s own school years and her introduction into “society”. (Summary by Anne Fletcher) The text source is missing pages 198, 199, 236 and 237, which can be found in the following links: The Old House at Aberleigh My Godfathers manoeuvering [chương_files]
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. “Not one of us actually thinks for himself, or in any orderly and scientific manner. The pressure of environment, of mass ideas, of the socialized intelligence… is too enormous to be withstood.” (H. L. Mencken, 1919) The individual and society were central to several vol. 080 reads: The Genealogy of Etiquette; A Lounge on the Lawn; Alexander Pushkin; Princess Zizianoff; The Hanseatic League; and The Limits of Atheism. Science and the inventive mind were covered in “On the Science of Experiments; Coffey’s Science of Logic; Medicine and It’s Subjects; How a Fast Train is Run; and The Telephone. Travel and customs were explored in Rupert Brooke & Skyros; Lundy Island; and An Unfamiliar Naples. Nature studies included Wildflowers of the Farm; Birds in the Calendar; Trees in Landscape Painting, and A Tame Rook. Finally, a dog’s life received favorable comparison with our own in The Superior Animal. Summary by Sue Anderson The authorship of Lundy Island, originally ascribed to Anonymous has been determined through genealogical research to be Amelia Ann Heaven, a member of the family which owned the island from 1834 to 1918. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundy Roger Bacon’s On the Science of Experiments was translated by Andrew George Little (1863-1945) [chương_files]
The book follows the career of Hugh Paret from youth to manhood, and how his profession as a corporation lawyer gradually changes his values. The book received positive reviews, and was the second best-selling novel in the United States in 1915. – Summary by Wikipedia [chương_files]
The Small House at Allington concerns the widowed Mrs.Dale, her daughters Isabella (“Bell”) and Lilian (“Lily”), who live in the “Small House”, and their suitors. The bachelor Squire of Allington (Christopher Dale), who lives in the Great House, has allocated the Small House, rent free, to his widowed sister-in-law and her daughters. This is the fifth of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. As with all of Trollope’s novels, this one also contains many sub-plots and numerous minor characters. Plantagenet Palliiser, of Trollope’s Palliiser series of novels makes his first appearance, as he contemplates a dalliance with Griselda Grantly, the now-married Lady Dumbello, daughter of the Archdeacon introduced earlier in the Chronicles of Barsetshire. Another key sub-plot involves the goings-on at protagonist John Eames’ London boarding house where the landlady’s worldly and attractive daughter (Miss Amelia Roper) attempts to ensnare Eames into a socially downwardly-mobile marriage, and where Eames’ fellow boarder and co-worker gets drawn into a love triangle with the wife of an unhappily married theatrical couple. In these London scenes at the clerks’ office and the Roper boarding house, we see Dickensian echoes. As with so many of Trollope’s novels, here Trollope explores issues of emotional and generational power struggles, adultery, temptation, jilting lovers, marriage proposal refusals, and the consequences of indecision. Trollope’s scene of the bull attack placed mid-way through the novel is a tour-de-force moment not to be missed by any reader interested in the art of the Victorian novel. (Edited by N K Whitley from the […]
Marcelo, un joven abogado de Madrid de ambiente cosmopolita, tiene que viajar a un remoto pueblo en la montaña cántabra (Tablanca) para arreglar unos asuntos familiares. La majestuosidad del paisaje y las costumbres del lugar al principio le chocan negativamente pero… finalmente la montaña y la forma de vida en ella acabará por seducirle y transformará radicalmente su forma de vida y de pensar. Novela de referencia en español del mito de “lo rural”, da testimonio de una forma de vida hoy dia casi desaparecida protagonizada por los picos y valles de Cantabria. Inolvidables los retratos de Don Celso, Chisco, el cura Don Sabas y el médico Neluco, entre otros. Junto con “Sotileza”, la obra más destacada del gran costumbrista Pereda. (Introducción por Epachuko) [chương_files]
First published as a booklet in 1883, “The Dominion in 1983” describes the author’s ideas of what life in Canada is like one hundred years into the future. The author’s name, Ralph Centennius, is a pseudonym. – Summary by Kristin Hand [chương_files]
Hebbel schildert in seiner Kurzgeschichte die Umstände einer zufällig gemachten Reisebekanntschaft. – Summary by Claus Misfeldt [chương_files]
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang is a book mainly focused on the stories of ghosts and other mystical phenomenon. With frequent editorializing and discussion by the author, the work is less a series of supernatural tales and more of an anthropological book centred around bewitching stories of the otherworldly -given the name Psychical Research when Lang was alive. Over the course of fourteen chapters, 79 stories, and two prefaces, Lang manages to keep the reader enchanted with his thoughtful retellings, literary charisma, and exemplary choice in narratives. – Summary by Aiden Javurek Humig [chương_files]
A series of letters written by Scott on the history of witchcraft and other supernatural events in England and other locations. He documents stories and discredits them with natural causes. (Summary by Deon Gines) [chương_files]
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