09/07/2024
Orpheus in de dessa
Een romantische ingenieur raakt betoverd door het spel van een Indische fluitspeler, zoals het zakelijke Nederland door het geheimzinnige Indië. ( Marcel Coenders) [chương_files]
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09/07/2024
Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society
De Cive (“On the citizen”) is one of Thomas Hobbes’s major works. “The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1642, followed by two further Latin editions in 1647 from Amsterdam. The English translation of the work made its first appearance four years later (London 1651) under the title ‘Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society’.” It anticipates themes of the better-known Leviathan. The famous phrase bellum omnium contra omnes (“war of all against all”) appeared first in De Cive. – Summary by Wikipedia DPLs for this project were phaedo and craigdav1 [chương_files]
08/07/2024
Lettre à un magistrat sur le commerce de la librairie… et Lettre sur les aveugles…
Deux Lettres écrites avec tout le talent de Denis Diderot. 1/ Sur les lois régissant le commerce de librairie, les droits, les contrefacteurs déjà à l’époque … 2/ Sur les capacités des aveugles à percevoir et comprendre le monde. D’importantes et très précieuses réflexions et pensées de Diderot nous apportent une mine de méditations sur la nature humaine, intemporelle. – Summary by Christiane Jehanne [chương_files]
08/07/2024
If I May (Version 2)
A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a number of years editing for Punch Magazine. He even wrote a good detective story — The Red House Mystery ! In this collection he addresses a vast range of issues, including: the essence of melodrama; the lingering effects of World War I; knowing geography versus owning an atlas; a new kind of haunted house; the inexplicable nature of high finance; the trouble with “experts;” how the life of bees suggests the social importance of artists; the bad influence of theatre critics on good theatre. All of these short pieces are humorous. Many are informative. Taken together, they will inspire many to navigate over to Milne’s five other book-length humorous collections: Happy Days, The Holiday Round, Not That It Matters, Once a Week, and The Sunny Side — or, perhaps, to The Red House Mystery. – Summary by Kirsten Wever [chương_files]
08/07/2024
Revelations of a Spirit Medium
Written anonymously by “a working ‘medium’ for the past twenty years”, this little book was an inspiration for a young Harry Houdini, and also rather hard to find until a facsimile edition was published in 1922, due to all the copies being bought and destroyed by spiritualists. According to the preface, “the most wonderful of the ‘medium’s’ phenomena will be so thoroughly explained and so completely dissected that, after reading this book, you can perform the feats yourself”. – Summary by Jordan [chương_files]
08/07/2024
Mother’s Recompense
Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy marriage for a brief affair. When Anne asks her to return because she is getting engaged, Kate risks the scorn and scandal of New York elite society to be reconciled. When she finds out the identity of her daughter’s fiancé, Kate is caught in the dilemma of how to prevent the marriage without revealing her past. Either way she will risk losing her daughter once more. [chương_files]
08/07/2024
Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories
Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular with the public. After contributions to the WWI war effort, he declined the Order of the British Empire (OBE). – Summary by David Wales. [chương_files]
08/07/2024
Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Addresses
Lincoln’s first inaugural address was delivered on March 4th, 1861, as the North and South were sliding towards separation and Civil War. His second inaugural, given just weeks before his assassination, was also delivered on March 4th but four years later, in 1865. Just over a month later, April 18th, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. This was four days after Lincoln was shot on April 14th. He died the next day. – Summary by John Greenman [chương_files]
08/07/2024
End Of The Tether
At an age when he should, by rights, be embarking on a well-deserved and comfortable retirement, Captain Whalley, a sailor of the old school — and even, in a small way, a pioneer of the eastern maritime trade — finds himself forced by circumstance and his own sense of honour to bind himself to a three year contract of employment as captain of a tramp steamer whose owner is the steamer’s own engineer, and a mean and surly gambling addict to boot. Even this challenging situation, however, soon proves to be the least of Captain Whalley’s difficulties. (Summary by Peter Dann) [chương_files]
08/07/2024
Mrs. Dalloway (Version 2)
Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Join her and a web of connections in exploring London, their memories and their innermost thoughts and feelings. This novel explores relationships, mental health, nostalgia, regret, and the multitude of reasons for which people make decisions which change the course of their life. (Summary by Hannah Dormor) [chương_files]