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William Henry Hudson Books (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-06-03
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This book contain collection of 3 books

1. El Ombú, and other stories ; illustrated by Roger Duvoisin [1902]
2. Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest [1904]
3. Idle Days in Patagonia [1893]

About the Author
William Henry Hudson, 1841-1922

Hudson was born in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, son of settlers of U.S. origin. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms.

Hudson settled in England during 1869. He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology [1888-1899] and British Birds [1895], and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Day [1903], Afoot in England [1909] and A Shepherd's Life [1910], which helped foster the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

Persuasion - Jane Austen (v. 1.0)

al-khawarizimisoft опубликовал приложение 2011-06-03
(обновлено 2011-06-03)

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel.
More than seven years prior to the events in the novel, Anne Elliot falls in love with a handsome young naval officer named Frederick Wentworth, who is intelligent and ambitious, but poor. Sir Walter, Anne's father and lord of the family estate of Kellynch, and her older sister Elizabeth are dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he is not distinguished enough for their family. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's deceased mother, persuades her to break off the match.

Now, aged 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former fiancé when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth, now a captain, is wealthy from wartime victories in the Royal Navy and from prize-money for capturing enemy ships. However, he has not forgiven Anne for her rejection of him.

The self-interested machinations of Anne's father, her older sister Elizabeth, Elizabeth's friend Mrs. Clay, and William Elliot (Anne's cousin and her father's heir) constitute important subplots.

William Dean Howells Books (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-06-03
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This book contain collection of 6 books

1. The Rise of Silas Lapham [1885]
2. A Traveler from Altruria: Romance [1894]
3. Through the Eye of the Needle : A Romance [1907]
4. Familiar Spanish Travels [1913]
5. Henry James, Jr.
6. Emile Zola

About the Author
William Dean Howells, 1837-1920

American realist author and literary critic.

He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1872, but his literary reputation took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which described the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn [1888] and A Hazard of New Fortunes [1890].

Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Henrik Ibsen, Émile Zola, Giovanni V***a, Benito Pérez Galdós, and Leo Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of American writers Hamlin Garland, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles W. Chesnutt, Abraham Cahan, and Frank Norris. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence. In his "Editor's Study" column at the Atlantic Monthly and, later, at Harper's, he formulated and disseminated his theories of "realism" in literature.

The Seven Rays... (本 ebook 书) (v. 1.0)

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ISBN:E978189741462#
「The Seven Rays: A Universal Guide to the Archangels」
This practical and informative inspirational guide teaches the reader how to develop a relationship with the Archangels (known as the Seven Rays) using prayer, affirmations, candle burning, color therapy, vibrational medicines and meditation."

A Shropshire By A. E. Housman (v. 0.2)

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About the Book
A Shropshire Lad / with an introduction by William Stanley Braithwaite

The method of the poems in A Shropshire Lad illustrates better than any theory how poetry may assume the attire of reality, and yet in speech of the simplest, become in spirit the sheer quality of loveliness. For, in these unobtrusive pages, there is nothing shunned which makes the spectacle of life parade its dark and painful, its ironic and cynical burdens, as well as those images with happy and exquisite aspects. With a broader and deeper background of experience and environment, which by some divine special privilege belongs to the poetic imagination, it is easier to set apart and contrast these opposing words and sympathies in a poet; but here we find them evoked in a restricted locale — an English county — where the rich, cool tranquil landscape gives a solid texture to the human show. What, I think, impresses one, thrills, like ecstatic, half-smothered strains of music, floating from unperceived instruments, in Mr. Housman’s poems, is the encounter his spirit constantly endures with life. It is, this encounter, what you feel in the Greeks, and as in the Greeks, it is a spiritual waging of miraculous forces. There is, too, in Mr. Housman’s poems, the singularly Grecian Quality of a clean and fragrant mental and emotional temper, vibrating equally whether the theme dealt with is ruin or defeat, or some great tragic crisis of spirit, or with moods and ardours of pure enjoyment and simplicities of feeling. Scarcely has any modern book of poems shown so sure a touch of genius in this respect: the magic, in a continuous glow saturating the substance of every picture and motive with its own peculiar essence.

About the Author
A.E.Housman, 1859-1936

Alfred Edward Housman was an English poet and classical scholar best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. The poems are pervaded by deep pessimism and preoccupation with death, without religious consolation. Housman wrote most of them while living in Highgate, London, before ever visiting that part of Shropshire which he presented in an idealised pastoral light, as his 'land of lost content'

Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age, and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time.

The Works Of Horace Translated (v. 0.2)

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About the Book
The Works of Horace / translated literally into English prose by C. Smart

Many critics have focused on the role of David as planner of Solomon's Temple and his possible role with the Freemasons.[140] Although it is not known for sure whether Christopher was a Freemason or not, there is evidence suggesting that he was either part of the organization or had a strong knowledge of its belief system.[187] Based on personal admittance to contributing to A Defence of Freemasonry, contemporary verification of his participation in the volume and with Masonic meetings, there is enough to confirm "his participation in Masonic affairs."[188] Furthermore, there are accounts of Smart attending meetings at the Bell Tavern in Westminster.[188][189] The information available has led Marie Roberts to declare in her 1986 book British Poets and Secret Societies, "It has been universally accepted by scholars that Christopher Smart [...] was a Freemason yet no record of his membership has been traced."[190] However, in the notes to Chris Mounsey's 2001 book Christopher Smart: Clown of God, Marie Roberts' 1986 book is referred to as "an account of Smart's work which accepts his association with the Freemasons," but in Mounsey's view, "Since neither Smart's name nor his pseudonyms appear in the records of the Freemasons, it is highly unlikely he was ever one of their number."[191]

Smart's involvement with Masonry can be traced through his poems, including Jubilate Agno and A Song to David, with his constant references to Masonic ideas and his praise of Free Masonry in general.[192] In Jubilate Agno, Smart declares "I am the Lord's builder and free and accepted MASON in CHRIST JESUS" (B 109). This declaration of being a "free and accepted MASON" has been interpreted to define his connection to speculative Masonry. The "in Christ Jesus" declaration places Smart within a Christian version of Masonry. He also declares himself as "the Lord's builder" and this connects his life with the building of King Solomon's Temple, an important Masonic idea. In A Song to David, Smart returns to the building of Solomon's Temple and incorporates many of the Masonic images that he uses in Jubilate Agno

About the Author
Horace, 65-8 BCE

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.

Horace is generally considered by classicists to be one of the greatest Latin poets. His works (like those of all but the earliest Latin poets) are written in Greek metres, from the hexameter, which was relatively easy to adapt to Latin, to the more complex measures used in the Odes, like alcaics and sapphics, which were sometimes a difficult fit for Latin structure and syntax.

One of the Epistles is often referred to as a separate work in itself, the Ars Poetica. In this work, Horace forwards a theory of poetry. His most important tenets are that poetry must be carefully and skillfully worked out on the semantic and formal levels, and that poetry should be wholesome as well as pleasant. This latter issue is often referred to as the dulce et utile, which is Latin for the sweet and useful.

Grade Power: Th... (本 ebook 书) (v. 1.0)

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ISBN：E978189741495#
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「Grade Power: The Complete Guide to Improving Your Grades Through Self-Hypnosis」
Grade Power is unlike any other student success book. Based on thorough research about the best practices in educational psychology, it is the first self-help / how-to book to look at how self-hypnosis can help students succeed in school and in life.

No One Can Stop... (本 ebook 书) (v. 1.0)

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ISBN：E978189741490#
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「No One Can Stop the Rain: A Chronicle of Two Foreign Aid Workers during the Angolan Civil War」
Set in central Angola during the final stages of the country's thirty-year civil war, No One Can Stop the Rain is the true story of two ordinary Medecins Sans Frontieres volunteers ?

Anthony Hope Collection Books (v. 0.2)

Publish This, LLC опубликовал приложение 2011-06-03
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This book contain collection of 2 books

1. The Prisoner of Zenda [1894]
2. Rupert of Hentzau [1898]

About the Author
Anthony Hope, 1863-1933

English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name.

Reforming the P... (本 ebook 书) (v. 1.0)

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ISBN：E978189741492#
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「Reforming the Prophet: The Quest for the Islamic Reformation」
Many people in the West have difficulty gaining a deeper understanding of what is going in the Middle East. The conflicts in Israel and the West Bank, for example, appear to be random when viewed solely through the lens of current media reports.