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Sun Also Rises

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Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 19 | Listen: 5

The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway’s first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was published earlier in the same year. The novel describes, expressed through the voice of Jake Barnes, a short period of social life that ranges from Paris to locations in Spain. One might say that the action occurs in Pamplona, Spain with the annual festival of San Fermin and its running of bulls and subsequent days of bullfights, but one can easily argue that the real interest of the novel is in its portrayal of the group to which Barnes is a part and how he details their anxieties, frailties, hopes, and frustrations. (Summary by KevinS) [chương_files]

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness. Volume 1

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Early Modern, Political Science
Chapter: 41 | Listen: 6

It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conceptions of anarchism, even though he did not give that name to the ideas developed in his remarkable work. Laws, he wrote, are not a product of the wisdom of our ancestors: they are the product of their passions, their timidity, their jealousies and their ambition. The remedy they offer is worse than the evils they pretend to cure. – Summary by Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) [chương_files]

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 023

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Essays & Short Works, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Short Stories
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 1

Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. [chương_files]

Colored People of Chicago

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Political Science, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Chapter: 3 | Listen: 3

This book presents a summary of the findings conducted by the the Juvenile Protective Association in Chicago before the changes brought on by the war-time economy. The study’s researchers were A. P. Drucker, Sophia Boaz, A. L. Harris, and Miriam Schaffner. Its author, Louise DeKoven Bowen was a well-known philanthropist and suffragist in Chicago. The summary makes no strong argument on its own, but presents simple facts and observations that would alert the reader to the need for social and economic reform in the city. – Summary by KevinS [chương_files]

Il Principe

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Political Science
Chapter: 11 | Listen: 2

Il Principe (titolo originale in lingua latina: De Principatibus, “Riguardo i Principati”) è un trattato di dottrina politica scritto da Niccolò Machiavelli nel 1513, nel quale espone le caratteristiche dei principati e dei metodi per mantenerli e conquistarli. Si tratta senza dubbio della sua opera più nota e celebrata, quella dalle cui massime (spesso superficialmente interpretate) sono nati il sostantivo “machiavellismo” e l’aggettivo “machiavellico”. – Summary from http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Principe Proof-listeners: mrnmrz72 and Sonia [chương_files]

Karlo

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Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 21 | Listen: 3

La “Librairie de l’ Esperanto” en Parizo petis min, ke mi verku facilan legolibron por la lernantoj de kursoj aŭ la komencantoj, kiuj ĵus finis sian lernadon en lernolibro. Mi intencis prezenti dudek tekstojn aranĝitajn tiamaniere, ke en ĉiu estos multaj vortoj pri sama temo de l’ ĉiutaga vivo. Por pli bone konservi la intereson de la lernanto en dudek ĉapitroj, mi verkis unu rakonton pri la vivo de junulo, de lia infaneco, ĝis lia edziĝo. Kompreneble nek romano, nek eĉ sprita novelo estas la rakonto, sed nur aro de dudek ĉapitroj pri ĉiutaga vivo, ligitaj inter si per ĝenerala senco kaj unueco de persono. Tamen ion pli ol lernoĉapitrojn eble trovos en tiu ĉi libro tiuj plenaĝaj personoj, por kiuj ekzistas ia poezia ĉarmo en rememoroj pri infaneco kaj juneco eĉ el plej simplaj okazintaĵoj de l’ ĉiutaga vivo. (Summary by Edmond Privat) [chương_files]

何處へ (Doko e)

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Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 14 | Listen: 3

文学部を卒業して一年たつ菅原健次は雑誌記者として働いていて、妹二人と両親の五人で上野の近くに暮らしている。雑誌の仕事への興味を失い、自分でもどこに行くか分からなくなっている。そんな状態の彼の、同級生、織田、箕浦、久保田、そして桂田博士とその夫人などとの交遊が描かれている。 Suganuma Kenji, who graduated from the Faculty of Literature a year ago, works as a magzine reporter. He lives near Ueno with his 2 sisters and his parents. He lost interests in his job and he doesn’t know where to go. He meets his former classmates and his professor. (Summary by ekzemplaro) [chương_files]

Poor White: a Novel

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Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 23 | Listen: 3

This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead character is Hugh McVey—a shy, lazy, fairly ignorant, dreamy young man. Most of the story takes place in the little town of Bidwell, Ohio, where Hugh gets a job as a telegraph operator. He does discover he has a talent with calculations and drawings that enable him to become an inventor. In time he will become a millionaire. The story has many characters, and shows the negative effects on each of them, as the factories come to their town. The pioneering, agrarian spirit of each is slowly transformed; greed is the primary driver. Hugh sees this transformation but does not understand it. Several of the townspeople take advantage of him; his inventions of farm machinery are stolen. Only Clara Butterworth seems to bring some sanity; she marries Hugh, and they are happy for a time. As the novel approaches an end, however, there seem to be no bright spots. Labor fights, terrible graft, terrible crime, even murder come to Bidwell. The author paints a negative picture of a loss of innocence, as the nation becomes industrialized. Written in 1920, Sherwood Anderson could have seen only a small fraction of the changes to come. The magnitude, good and bad, would no doubt astound him. (Note: The novel is divided into “books”; however, there is no Book 5 between Book 4 and 6; hence I have so […]

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 021

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Essays & Short Works, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Short Stories
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 4

Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. “Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache” übersetzt von Gregor Blazewski [chương_files]

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 026

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Essays & Short Works, Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Short Stories
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 4

Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. “Aase, das kleine Gänsemädchen” und “Aschenbrödel, der mit dem Trollen um die Wette aß” von Peter Christen Asbjørnsen und Jørgen Engebretsen Moe Die Übersetzung von “Ischtars Höllenfahrt” beruht auf unvollständig erhaltenen Keilschrifttafen. Fehlende Stellen sind in der Aufnahme durch das Wort “Lücke” angezeigt. [chương_files]