03/07/2024
Rain (Version 2)
Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction by an excerpt from Wikipedia) [chương_files]
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03/07/2024
Judith Trachtenberg
Der Roman ist ein Sittengemälde, in dem die komplizierten, von Vorurteilen geprägten Verhältnisse der jüdischen und christlichen Bevölkerungsgruppen im österreichischen Osteuropa des 19. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel der Liebe der hübschen Jüdin Judith zu dem christlichen Grafen Agenor dargestellt werden. Durch seinen Standesdünkel gezwungen, kann der Graf Judith nicht heiraten und baut sein Verhältnis zu ihr auf ein Fundament aus Lügen und Täuschungen. Auch Judith muss ihrer auf verknöcherte Traditionen gestellten Umgebung entfliehen, um nicht verstoßen zu werden. Letztendlich wird deutlich, dass es eine gemeinsame, für beide glückliche Zukunft nicht geben kann. Neben der eigentlichen Handlung – der Entwicklung der Beziehung zwischen Judith und Agenor – werden die gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse der damaligen Zeit durch das Einbeziehen weiterer, klar gezeichneter Charaktere in den Handlungsverlauf treffend beleuchtet. Der Roman endet tragisch. (Zusammenfassung von Friedrich) [chương_files]
03/07/2024
Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2)
The Mysterious Stranger-A Romance- is the final novel attempted by Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the “damned human race”. (Wikipedia and John Greenman) [chương_files]
02/07/2024
Two On the Trail
A young family’s story of pioneer life consisting of a teenage daughter (Nell) and her younger brother David, aka “Da”, along with their dog (Robin), have unique adventures in the heart of the frontier wilderness, where they are thrust into mysterious and dangerous situations of survival amongst Canada’s snows. The Story starts off as the children have been left alone in a log cabin presuming that their widowed father will return in 4 days. Eight days have now gone by with no sign of him. What has happened to their father and can these children survive on their own in their quest to find him, unscathed by the hardships they must endure in the Canadian wilderness? – Summary by Laurie Banza [chương_files]
02/07/2024
Red Planet
Set during WWI in England, The Red Planet is a rich tale about the life in a little English town from the point of view of Major Duncan Meredyth, a disabled veteran of the Boer Wars. As he struggles to keep his life and the lives of those he cares for in harmony, he must also shelter a dark secret regarding one of the village’s favorite sons. The Red Planet was the third bestselling novel in the United States for 1917. (Summary by Miss Stav) [chương_files]
02/07/2024
Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?
Twenty-year-old Gertrude Foster has had the sheltered upbringing typical of women of her class. Yet, she questions the restrictive norms with which she has been raised and does not wish to marry a man who will not see her as an equal. Gertrude receives a rude awakening to the state of society when she is brought face to face with poverty in her community, and she is further disturbed when she learns of shocking age of consent legislation being discussed in the state assembly. Her concerns hit close to home after she befriends two working-class girls. – Summary by Scarbo [chương_files]
02/07/2024
Mauprat
Bernard Mauprat was raised by lawless brigands and knows no other way of life until age 17. Then everything changes for him when his cousin Edmee is taken hostage in the castle where he lives. After helping her escape, he goes to live with his uncle and is offered the opportunity of an education. He has fallen hopelessly in love with Edmee, but his brutishness makes her hold him out at arm’s length. Can the positive influence of Bernard’s new home environment overcome the moral turpitude of his upbringing? How will he respond when his past comes back to haunt him? And can he clear his name after being accused of a heinous crime? (Summary by Scarbo) [chương_files]
02/07/2024
Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax
This is the coming of age story of Bessie Fairfax. A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a vivid and charming story by Harriet Parr, who wrote under the pseudonym of Holm Lee. She was a best selling author in her days, admired even by Charles Dickens. Her descriptions of the English town, which was fast disappearing due to the industrial revolution, reminds one of novels by Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. – Summary by Stav Nisser. [chương_files]
02/07/2024
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3
This is volume 3 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next 10 years. It was not always held in high esteem by other writers (Samuel Johnson responded that, “Nothing odd can last”), but its bawdy humour was popular with London society, and it has come to be seen as one of the greatest comic novels in English, as well as a forerunner for many modern narrative devices. (Summary from Wikipedia) [chương_files]
02/07/2024
Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 6: Building a Railroad
Don and Gil Winthrop inherited their father’s business to construct a railroad in a developing location in upstate New York. Engineers themselves, though young, they decided to carry on his work despite their inexperience. They have to fight their way through troubles instigated by a competing contractor, and a vindictive foreman of his who holds a dark secret of his own. (Summary by Keith Salis) [chương_files]