Washington Square (Diversion Classics)
Washington Square (Diversion Classics)

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Diversion Books

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1682305872

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Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. In this fascinating exploration of courtship, marriage, and the tragedy of expectation, Henry James crafts some of his richest characters. Catherine Sloper, the only child of a wealthy widower, has been largely considered a disappointment for much of her life. Though good-natured, her father considers her plain and dull. When the charming Morris Townsend begins to court her, Catherine is overjoyed. In him, she sees a happy future, and perhaps her own worth. But her father sees a man desperate to inherit her fortune. Whether in utter disbelief of Catherine's ability to attract a man like Townsend, or a desperate need to protect his child, Dr. Sloper forbids the two from being wed. Catherine’s rebellion against her father will shape her life, and define what she hopes is the love that will see her through it. Beautiful, lasting, and note-perfect, this touchstone novel would go on to shape Henry James's most acclaimed works.

The Age of Innocence (Diversion Classics)
The Age of Innocence (Diversion Classics)

Author: Edith Wharton

Publisher: Diversion Books

Published: 2015-12-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1682302296

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Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. Thrilled by his engagement to the beautiful May Welland, Newland Archer is ready to take his place among New York City's elite society. But when May's cousin Ellen arrives, fleeing a scandal in Europe, Newland's happiness, status, and marriage are threatened. With this rich exploration of life in New York during the Gilded Age, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The Arthur Train Mystery MEGAPACK ®: 38 Classic Crimes
The Arthur Train Mystery MEGAPACK ®: 38 Classic Crimes

Author: Arthur Train

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2015-10-28

Total Pages: 1649

ISBN-13: 1479407682

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Arthur Cheney Train (1875-1945) was an American lawyer and legal thriller writer, particularly known for his novels of courtroom intrigue and the creation of the fictional lawyer Mr. Ephraim Tutt. This volume collects 38 novels, books, and short stories. A note for the culturally sensitive: these stories are not all "politically correct" and are a product of their time, with dialect and racial stereotyping. Please keep this in mind as you read. Included are: THE SHYSTER THE KID AND THE CAMEL CONTEMPT OF COURT BY ADVICE OF COUNSEL 'THAT SORT OF WOMAN' YOU’RE ANOTHER! BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THE HUMAN ELEMENT MOCK HEN AND MOCK TURTLE SAMUEL AND DELILAH THE DOG ANDREW WILE VERSUS GUILE THE HEPPLEWHITE TRAMP LALLAPALOOSA LIMITED McALLISTER’S CHRISTMAS THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF THE BARON DE VILLE THE ESCAPE OF WILKINS THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S TRUNK THE GOLDEN TOUCH McALLISTER'S DATA OF ETHICS McALLISTER'S MARRIAGE THE JAILBIRD IN THE COURSE OF JUSTICE THE MAXIMILIAN DIAMOND EXTRADITION MORTMAIN THE RESCUE OF THEOPHILUS NEWBEGIN THE VAGABOND THE MAN HUNT NOT AT HOME A STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY THE LITTLE FELLER RANDOLPH, '64 THE CONFESSIONS OF ARTEMAS QUIBBLE TRUE STORIES OF CRIME FROM THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE COURTS AND CRIMINALS THE "GOLDFISH" THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 260+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

90 World Classics You Should Read Before You Die (Vol.2)
90 World Classics You Should Read Before You Die (Vol.2)

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-11-13

Total Pages: 20105

ISBN-13:

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Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the greatest works by the masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) Dubliners (James Joyce) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford) Howards End (E. M. Forster) Le Père Goriot (Honoré de Balzac) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Anne of Green Gables Series (L. M. Montgomery) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) Diary of a Nobody (George and Weedon Grossmith) The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper) Phantastes (George MacDonald) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) Kama Sutra The Divine Comedy (Dante) The Rise of Silas Lapham (William Dean Howells) The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura) Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) Red and the Black (Stendhal) Rob Roy (Sir Walter Scott) Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope) Germinal (Emile Zola) The Rider on the White Horse (Theodor Storm) Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding) Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome) Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) My Antonia (Willa Cather) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis) Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy) The Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) Autobiography (Benjamin Franklin) The Poison Tree (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) Shakuntala (Kalidasa) Rámáyan of Válmíki (Válmíki) The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) The Woman in White (Willkie Collins) The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Ward Radcliffe) Dracula (Bram Stoker) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) Nostromo (Joseph Conrad) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Lewis Wallace) Rip Van Winkle (Washington Irving) The Prince (Machiavelli) The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Analects of Confucius (Confucius) Tao Te Ching (Laozi) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Ode to the West Wind (P. B. Shelley) The Second Coming (W. B. Yeats) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence) Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Hung Lou Meng or, The Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin) The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan) The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Nikolai Leskov) 2BR02B (Kurt Vonnegut) The Power Of Concentration (William Walker Atkinson) Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion (Émile Coué)

The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature
The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature

Author: Mary Esteve

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-02-27

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1139436201

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Mary Esteve provides a study of crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Esteve examines a range of writing by Poe, Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Du Bois, James, and Stephen Crane among others. These writers, she argues, distinguish between the aesthetics of immersion in a crowd and the mode of collectivity demanded of political-liberal subjects. In their representations of everyday crowds, ranging from streams of urban pedestrians to swarms of train travellers, from upper-class parties to lower-class revivalist meetings, such authors seize on the political problems facing a mass liberal democracy - problems such as the stipulations of citizenship, nation formation, mass immigration and the emergence of mass media. Esteve examines both the aesthetic and political meanings of such urban crowd scenes.

Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence
Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence

Author: Peter Higbie Van Ness

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780791412053

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This book presents a philosophical rethinking of the meaning and nature of spiritual discipline. It offers a new way of describing and justifying practices like praying, meditating, fasting, and yoga, and it provides an innovative case for their contemporary importance. Spiritual discipline is especially effective at combatting Pascalian diversion, the pursuit of activities that occupy the mind just enough to avoid thinking about important things; and Nietzschean decadence, the proclivity for extirpating instinctive drives instead of satisfying or sublimating them. In addition to overcoming diversion and decadence in contemporary consumerist culture, VanNess recommends spiritual discipline as a means of political resistance to powerful institutions which seek to exercise social control in democratic societies by promulgating addictive patterns of consumption. Finally, he argues that regimens of spiritual discipline can serve healthful and liberating purposes, and generally promote fullness of life, only insofar as they are shaped by an ethos of intellectual criticism and aesthetic experimentation.

WILD WEST Boxed Set: 150+ Western Classics in One Volume
WILD WEST Boxed Set: 150+ Western Classics in One Volume

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2024-01-17

Total Pages: 12836

ISBN-13:

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The 'WILD WEST Boxed Set: 150+ Western Classics in One Volume' is an expansive anthology that brings together a diverse array of literature encapsulating the essence and mythos of the American West. This collection spans a broad range of literary styles, from the gritty realism of frontier life to romanticized tales of adventure and conflict, offering readers an unparalleled exploration of the genre. Within its pages, iconic narratives coalesce with lesser-known gems, providing a rich tapestry of the cultural, moral, and existential themes that have shaped the American identity. The inclusion of seminal works by this esteemed cohort highlights the anthology's significance as an encompassing repository of Western literary tradition. The contributing authors and editors of this anthology are titans of American literature and art, each bringing their unique perspective and voice to the theme of the Western frontier. From Twain's keen wit to London's raw depiction of nature and human endurance, the collection is a cross-section of American literary greatness. These authors collectively represent a wide array of historical, cultural, and literary movements, from the romanticism of the early 19th century to the realism and naturalism that followed. Their contributions illuminate the complexities of frontier life, reflecting both the brutality and the beauty of the Wild West, thereby enriching readers understanding of this pivotal era in American history. This anthology is a must-read for anyone with an interest in American literature, history, or culture. It offers readers a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the variegated narratives that have shaped the mythos of the American West. Through its comprehensive scope and the multitude of voices it encompasses, the collection succeeds in fostering a dialogue between different epochs, perspectives, and literary styles. For scholars, enthusiasts, and casual readers alike, this boxed set is an invaluable resource for understanding the evolution of Western literature and its enduring influence on the American imagination.