Guy de Maupassant is often called the master of erotic prose. But the novel “Bel Ami” (1885) goes beyond the scope of this genre. The history of the career of the ordinary seducer and playboy Georges Durois, developing in the spirit of an adventure novel, becomes a symbolic reflection of the spiritual impoverishment of the hero and society. Time passes, but readers are still interested in the image of a cynical adventurer and womanizer, a seducer of secular beauties who do not disdain anything to break out of poverty and obscurity in high society. Not possessing special talents, except the...
Readers are invited to read a book by the famous German orientalist and Bible scholar, Julius Wellhausen, which examines the history of religion - especially the history of Christianity and the Israeli-Jewish religion. At one time in the West, this work became a reference book for everyone who wanted to get acquainted with the Old Testament. The author, with his unusual extraordinary clarity and wit, casts a glance back at the whole path taken by biblical criticism and confidently and calmly raises the question with an edge: should it not be finally recognized that the so-called legislation...
In Venice, in a dilapidated, dusty palazzo, lives old Miss Bordero and her niece, zealously guarding her treasure, a bundle of letters written to her in her youth by the famous poet Jeffrey Aspern, who fell in love with her. The narrator, a literary critic, enters the palace under a fictitious name, renting rooms in it. He is determined to seize Asperno's legacy at any cost ... The novella "Asperno's Letters" constantly keeps the reader in suspense, this work is considered one of the best in the work of Henry James....
Keane's racial theories were first published in 1879-81. He studied racial typologies in his works, which were more systematic than other scholars of his time. "Man, Past and Present" was called "openly racist," and later the publication was revised by Alison Hingston Quiggin, who removed some of the extreme allegations....
The play that justice is not always fair. The son of rich parents gets drunk, does not remember who he is and what he is, does all sorts of miracles, but in the end ... But in the end, the one who is the last is to blame. But if justice had not been so biased, and if money had not ruled the world, then there could have been more than one guilty....
The book `The Problems of Philosophy` was written by B. Russell as a popular introduction to philosophy in 1910 and is still one of the best works of this kind (if not the best). The volume of the book is small, but, despite this, Russell was able to consider here the most basic issues of philosophy. `The Problems of Philosophy' can be used to teach philosophy at almost all levels of education - from secondary school to university and postgraduate study, as well as a textbook for special courses at philosophical faculties....
The book includes short stories and tales of the famous American writer Herman Melville, who became famous for the great novel Moby Dick, or White Whale. Small prose, which became a field of bold experiments for the author, prompted critics to compare Melville with Gogol and Dostoevsky, as well as call the harbinger of creativity....
Nowadays, vegetarian and vegan lifestyles are becoming more and more popular, which means that vegetarian cookbooks have become one of the main products in many bookstores. This edition features many traditional lean dishes and side dishes that will surely appeal to even the most fastidious gourmets....
“Sonnets from the Crimea” by Adam Mickiewicz with his picturesqueness match the majestic beauty of the Crimean nature. Polish poet made a trip to the Crimea in 1825. The result of this trip was a cycle of eighteen sonnets. And although the Crimean theme was already sovereign in Russian poetry, yet “Sonnets from the Crimea" became the first vivid cycle of poems about Crimea....
The trials of a patent lawyer are usually highly technical tribulations--and among the greatest is the fact that Inventors are only slightly less predictable than their Inventions!...
Intelligence is a great help in the evolution-by-survival--but intelligence without muscle is even less useful than muscle without brains. But it's so easy to forget that muscle--plain physical force--is important, too!...
This is NOT a story about sinister aliens from outer space. This is simply the story of what happened to poor Junius when she found herself much too close to a Flying Saucer, long enough so she could be analyzed and long enough to cause some strange happenings on that farm....
The author is ready to substantiate the marvelous cures performed by Dr. Jones, for they are cases from practice. One of the objects of this work is to stimulate scientific investigation of the law of cure which guided the worthy Doctor in his selection of the remedy in a given case....
