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by Mark Twain
A Dog's Tale
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The Dog's Story is one of the most sentimental works in world literature. You have to have a really callous heart so that your eyes do not get wet when reading this small piece. Told on behalf of the dog, this story is about the love and devotion of a defenseless animal, which the human race does not justify and does not deserve....
Number of pages: ~ 55 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 2.5/5

by Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi
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The childhood of Mark Twain passed in the town of Hannibal on the banks of the famous Mississippi, the love of which the great writer kept for life. After the death of his father in 1847, a teenager was forced to enter the typography as a typesetter, and at the age of twenty he sailed as a pilot on a steamboat. In 1883  Twain writes "Life on the Mississippi", in which one can already feel the loss of the inherent cheerfulness of the author. The free element of the river corresponds to the internal state of the hero, and it seems that man exists in unity with nature and civilization. But the...
Number of pages: ~ 167 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.5/5

by Archibald Henderson
Mark Twain
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The literary heritage of Mark Twain entered the treasury of world culture, becoming the property of working mankind. Over the fifty-year period of his literary work, Mark Twain, a satirist and humorist, created an amazing picture of the people's life in depth, breadth and dynamism. Despite the obstacles that the ruling class of the United States repaired for him, fighting and suffering, overcoming his own mistakes, Mark Twain courageously performed the duty of a citizen writer and defended the truth in works published after his death. All the best that was created by Mark Twain, reflects the...
Number of pages: ~ 230 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.4/5

by William Henry Fox Talbot
The Pencil of Nature
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  • Arts
  • 1846
  • Autor: William Henry Fox Talbot
Talbot, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 - 1877) - English chemist and physicist, inventor of the negative-positive process in photography, that is, a way to obtain a negative image on photosensitive material from which you can get an unlimited number of positive copies: (calotypes from the Greek words kalos - beautiful and typos - imprint), later it was given the name tolotype, born on February 11, 1800 in Melbury Abbas (Dorset county), studied first with private teachers, then at Harrow, graduated from Trinity College of Cambridge University He studied mathematics, botany, crystallography,...
Number of pages: ~ 150 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 2.5/5

by M. G. Lewis
The Monk: A Romance
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In this essay, Lewis primarily seeks a sensational heap of supernatural horrors, repulsive crimes (from incest to slaughter), manifestations of pathological, sadistic, perverted erotica. The Lewis world is a confused, chaotic world where people are obsessed with fatal, unbridled passions; satanic obsession is the main engine of the sinister story of the monk Ambrosio, who, having succumbed to the devilish temptation, will fall away from the church, worship Satan, and commit heinous crimes with his help....
Number of pages: ~ 350 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.5/5

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
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  • Science
  • 1871
  • Autor: Charles Darwin
The importance of the work of Charles Darwin for the development of anthropology is difficult to overestimate. They do not come down to the well-known formula: "Man descended from a monkey." The undoubted significance of Darwin's work is that he generalized the neontological evidence of animal origin of man. Darwin is the author of the simial concept of anthropogenesis, which provides numerous evidence of the biological and behavioral similarities of modern humans and other primates. The scientist has advanced far in the analysis of the mechanisms of anthropogenesis, rightly believing that...
Number of pages: ~ 528 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.9/5

by Thomas Okey
Paris and Its Story
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Thomas Okey was an expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France.[1][2] In 1919, he became the first professor in Cambridge University under the Serena Professor of Italian title....
Number of pages: ~ 536 pages
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Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet
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"Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet" is a fairy tale by an Italian writer born in Florence. Pinocchio in translation from the Tuscan dialect means "pine nut". The wooden little man is known for his nose, which is enlarged every time Pinocchio tries to lie. “The Adventures of Pinocchio. The Story of a Wooden Doll ”introduces you to Fox and the Cat, the dad of the wooden boy - Jeppetto, a talking cricket, a beautiful girl with azure hair and many other characters of this unique fairy tale, full of adventure and magic....
Number of pages: ~ 166 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.8/5

Secret Chambers and Hiding Places
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Many tourist attractions still have secrets: such buildings often have hidden rooms and unknown passages that most visitors are not even aware of. At first glance, they are completely invisible. For example, under the ventilation grille of a private mansion, you can suddenly find an old Catholic refuge with historical artifacts, and behind a bookcase - a room with a terrible message from past owners of the house....
Number of pages: ~ 320 pages
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by Frank Lewis Dyer
Edison: His Life and Inventions
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Thomas Edison is one of those great minds who, appearing in known periods of time among mankind, mark a whole new era in the development of a particular branch of science and technology. It is impossible to apply to him the standard that is usually used in evaluating many outstanding personalities; in their special mental strength and almost superhuman talents, people like him stand apart, representing amazing phenomena that have not yet been sufficiently studied by science....
Number of pages: ~ 202 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 3.9/5