Oliver Goldsmith is an English prose writer, poet and playwright of Irish descent, a prominent representative of sentimentalism. "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" is a comic poem about how a man was bitten by a mad dog and everyone predicted an imminent death, but a miracle happened....
The author was inclined to abstract theorizing. Frank Harris, whose book “The Shakespeare Man and the Tragic Story of His Life” was published in 1909 and enthusiastically received by Arnold Bennett, believed that it contrasted sharply with the orthodox biographies of high academic authorities whom Harris dismissed as “Mr. Cracker and company. ”...
It is the story of a young woman who impulsively marries an idealistic but impractical writer and becomes a novelist and playwright herself. Its humor and witty dialogue quickly made it a readers' favorite and commercial success, with the first edition selling out two weeks before publication....
A book about the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British hackers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The first chapter talks about the reaction of the computer security community to a worm that attacked DEC VMS computers in DECnet in December 1989 and was allegedly managed by a hacker from Melbourne....
Sherlock Holmes gets down to business again. One after another, the Great Detective reveals the most difficult things ... And he understands that someone is behind their organization. Someone with tremendous power and influence in the underworld. Someone wishing for Sherlock to die. Someone with whom Detective will meet in faraway Switzerland, at the Reichenbach Falls... It is there that the fate of Holmes will be decided......
“The Analysis of Mind” is the best work of Lord Bertrand Arthur William Russell, who left a bright trace in English and world philosophy, logic, sociology, and political life. Following G. Frege, he, together with A. Whitehead, attempted a logical justification of mathematics, creating a school of logicism. B. Russell is one of the most paradoxical philosophers who believed that the essence of philosophy is a logical analysis, and it combines science, religion and everyday consciousness. He is the founder of English neorealism, “logical atomism” as a form of neopositivism. B. Russell did not...
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....
