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Omens and Superstitions of Southern India
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Edgar Thurston was a researcher who studied the zoology, ethnology and botany of India. According to the results of these studies, he has published many books and articles. In an effort to improve as a scientist, Thurston received a medical education, and also became interested in anthropology and ethnography. All this knowledge allowed him to study India more deeply and discover interesting features of this country for himself and for the whole world. Some of this information is contained in this book....
Number of pages: ~ 335 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.5/5

by Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband
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  • Humor
  • 1895
  • Autor: Oscar Wilde
The Chiltern family seems perfect. He is a successful politician, she is a virtuous wife. But even ideal people have their secrets in the closet, and with the advent of the mysterious lady, this secret can become known to everyone. Oscar Wilde reflects on the possibility of an absolutely honest politician....
Number of pages: ~ 119 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.5/5

by Eugene O'Neill
The Hairy Ape
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One of the earliest works of the American classic Eugene O’Neill, relating to his expressionist period. The focus of the plot is the clash of classes in capitalist America at the beginning of the 20th century. The play is about the humiliating difference between work and wealth, and people who become victims of this gap....
Number of pages: ~ 74 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.2/5

by Euripides
The Trojan women
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The action of the tragedy occurs immediately after the fall of Troy. Captured by Hekub, her daughter Cassandra and daughter-in-law Andromache learn that they are distributed among the leaders of the Achaeans - Odysseus, Agamemnon and Neoptolem, respectively. Her son Astianax, who is being thrown off the city wall, is taken from Andromache. Kassandra predicts misfortunes to the Achaeans on the way back and upon returning home. Tragedy shows the meaninglessness of a war that brings only unhappiness - not only to the vanquished, but also to the victors....
Number of pages: ~ 115 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.9/5

by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Woman's Bible
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  • Science
  • 1895
  • Autor: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Women's Bible is a two-part, non-fiction book written by female activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of twenty-six women, published in 1895 and 1898 to undermine the traditional position of religious orthodoxy that women are subordinate to men. By publishing this book, Elizabeth Stanton wanted to help advance radical theology aimed at freeing women from oppression....
Number of pages: ~ 504 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.4/5

The Ape, the Idiot & Other People
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From the very beginning, the author was striving to study the human soul, phenomena and conditions that arise in moments of deep nervous tension and frustration. He was very interested (including, apparently, for personal reasons) the phenomenon of deviant behavior, its forms, origins and hidden causes. This is probably why his stories are so densely populated by “deviant” heroes. From the position of a “normal” person, their actions, thoughts and deeds are difficult to explain, but in their own way they are consistent and logical. The author constantly asks himself questions: what is the...
Number of pages: ~ 194 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.8/5

by Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People
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Dr. Thomas Stockman is a respected resident of a coastal town in southern Norway where healing waters have just opened. His brother Peter is the head of the city, the police chief and chairman of the resort. The resort is extremely important for residents, as the influx of tourists promises to be a source of prosperity for the entire city. However, some time after the start of its work, Stockman discovers that wastewater from the sewage gets into the healing waters, as a result of which tourists who come for treatment get serious illnesses....
Number of pages: ~ 135 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.3/5

by Molière
The Imaginary Invalid
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  • Humor
  • 1673
  • Autor: Molière
The last play of the French comedian Jean-Baptiste Moliere, in which he played his last role. The hero of the ballet comedy, Argan, is either a home tyrant who purposely invented the disease, or a lonely eccentric trying to hide from the indifference of the world around him. Lists of medicines and procedures become the backdrop for various battles - for whom to marry a daughter, how can a young lover find a common language with a stubborn old man and how to evaluate medicine......
Number of pages: ~ 108 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.9/5

The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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The collection "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" by Oscar Wilde, a famous English writer of the 19th century, is a classic example of English prose. The fabulous motives and the “decorative” style of narration conceal the most important moral problems. The fairy tales reflected the aesthetic views of Oscar Wilde on art, the task of which the writer saw the creation of beauty, inaccessible to real life....
Number of pages: ~ 76 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.5/5

The Playboy of the Western World
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One night, a young man enters an Irish tavern and informs local residents from the threshold that he killed his despot dad - he broke his skull with a spade. Instead of being horrified and sending the young man to the police, he is declared a daredevil and a hero. Here the local princess Pegin Mike is in charge - the daughter of the owner of the establishment: as befits a real princess, she is reasonable and domineering. And, as soon as the murderer Christy Mehawn appears in the village, she declares him her employee. John Millington Singh claimed that he wrote primarily a play about the life...
Number of pages: ~ 89 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.1/5