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Leutnant Gustl

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Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 3 | Listen: 5

Am Ende eines gelangweilt verfolgten Konzerts drängt Leutnant Gustl erleichtert zum Ausgang und gerät an der Garderobe mit einem ihm flüchtig bekannten Bäckermeister in Streit. Außer sich vor Wut, als “dummer Bub” beschimpft worden zu sein und darob keine Satisfaktion fordern zu können, läuft er durch Wien und beschließt schließlich, sich am nächsten Morgen zu erschießen. Leutnant Gustl geht ziellos vor sich hin sinnierend weiter durch Wien und landet schließlich im Prater, wo er auf einer Parkbank einschläft. Als er nach ein paar Stunden wieder aufwacht, möchte er sein Vorhaben in die Tat umsetzen, kehrt aber auf dem Nachhauseweg noch in seinem Stammcafé ein, wo er Neuigkeiten über den Bäckermeister erfährt… Leutnant Gustl ist wohl die bekannteste Novelle des Wiener Autors Arthur Schnitzler. Der fast durchgehende innere Monolog Gustls stellte eine Neuerung in der deutschsprachigen Literatur dieser Zeit dar. Bei ihrer Erstveröffentlichung in 1900 verursachte die Novelle in ihrer offenen Anklage des Militarismus und des öffentlichen Bildes eines k.u.k. Offiziers einen Skandal, der Schnitzler seinen Rang als Reserveoffizier kostete. This is probably the best known short story by Arthur Schnitzler; known in English as “None but the Brave”. (Zusammenfassung von Availle) [chương_files]

Promise of American Life

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Political Science
Chapter: 54 | Listen:

The book is said to “offer a manifesto of Progressive beliefs” that “anticipated the transition from competitive to corporate capitalism and from limited government to the welfare state.” By Croly’s death in 1930, only 7,500 copies of The Promise of American Life had been sold. Despite this, the book was immensely influential, even influencing Theodore Roosevelt to adopt the platform of The New Nationalism. [chương_files]

Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate Report), Volume 1

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Political Science
Chapter: 28 | Listen: 3

This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities based on its investigation of the Watergate break-in and coverup, illegal and improper campaign practices and financing, and other wrongdoing during the Presidential campaign of 1972. The committee’s mandate from the Senate, which was passed by a unanimous vote, was to make a “complete” investigation and study “of the extent … to which illegal, improper, or unethical activities” occurred in the 1972 Presidential campaign and election and to determine whether new legislation was needed “to safeguard the electoral process by which the President of the United States is chosen.” This project contains the introductory material and chapters 1-3 of 11.- Summary modified from the introduction [chương_files]

Prison & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences

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Political Science
Chapter: 17 | Listen:

Constance Lytton worked along Emmeline Pankhurst for the cause of women’s suffrage in England. Upset that she was getting preferential treatment by the authorities, she assumed a pseudonym (Jane Wharton) so that her titled status wouldn’t be obvious. This book chronicles her involvement in the suffrage movement, including her arrest and subsequent incarceration at Holloway Prison, a place notorious for the poor treatment of the women in their charge. – Summary by KHand [chương_files]

T. Tembarom (Version 2)

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Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 40 | Listen: 2

T. Tembarom is a young man who grew up in New York City, scraping his way by blacking shoes and selling newspapers. On day, he gets notified that he has become heir to a large estate in England with a healthy income. Though this would the the ultimate blessing to most, it sets him too high in class in English society for the simple Little Anne, the love of his life. His main goal is to prove to her that he would give High Society a good chance, then she would agree to marry him, knowing that she was his real choice. (Summary by Keith Salis) [chương_files]

Ensimmäiset novellit

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Published 1900 onward, Single Author, Single Author Collections
Chapter: 7 | Listen: 4

Tunnetun suomalaisen kirjailijan Juhani Ahon uransa alkupäässä kirjoittamia novelleja ja runoja, jotka on julkaistu yksissä kansissa vuonna 1915. – Summary by Harri Tapani Ylilammi. [chương_files]

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 016

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Essays & Short Works, Short Stories
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 3

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

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 015

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Essays & Short Works, Short Stories
Chapter: 15 | Listen: 2

Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. “Vision” übersetzt von Georg von Ompteda (1863-1931) “Die Theekanne” übersetzt von Paul Arndt [chương_files]

Six Months In Mexico

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Political Science, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology), Travel & Geography
Chapter: 37 | Listen: 4

This is an account of Nellie Bly’s travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitted to the Pittsburgh Dispatch newspaper for publication. In them she described the conditions of the people and the political system she found in Mexico. Her narratives focused mostly on the impoverished and disadvantaged in a country whose government was extremely corrupt. Bly was perhaps what we now term a feminist, striving for the empowerment and independence of women. She certainly pioneered the field of investigative reporting. Nevertheless, Bly’s journalistic objectivity is often tainted by an uninformed, 19th-century, “gringo” world view. Bly’s travels in Mexico ended abruptly after the Dispatch published an article she wrote exposing that government’s ill treatment of another journalist who criticized the regime of President Porfirio Diaz. Bly’s Mexico articles were later published in book form in 1888. (Summary by James K. White) [chương_files]

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)

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Political Science
Chapter: 2 | Listen: 3

“That government is best which governs least” is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England in the 1840s and 1850s. The environment became especially tense after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. A lifelong abolitionist, Thoreau delivered an impassioned speech which would later become Civil Disobedience in 1848, just months after leaving Walden Pond. The speech dealt with slavery, but at the same time excoriated American imperialism, particularly the Mexican–American War. Thoreau asserts that because governments are typically more harmful than helpful, they therefore cannot be justified. Democracy is no cure for this, as majorities simply by virtue of being majorities do not also gain the virtues of wisdom and justice. The judgment of an individual’s conscience is not necessarily inferior to the decisions of a political body or majority, and so “[i]t is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right…. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.” He adds, “I cannot for an instant recognize as my government [that] which is the slave’s government also.” from Wikipedia [chương_files]