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Fear and Trembling Author: Kierkegaard Code: Frike dhe te Date added: Saturday 28 May, 2016 Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety[2] that must have been present in Abraham when "God tested [him] and said to him, take Isaac, your only son, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him as a burnt offering on the mountain that I shall show you."[3] Abraham had a choice to complete the task or to refuse to comply to God's orders. He resigned himself to the three and a half day journey and to the loss of his son. "He said ... |
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cosette Author: Hugo Victor Code: Kozeta Date added: Wednesday 25 May, 2016 Euphrasie, nicknamed Cosette (from "chosette", or "little thing") by her mother, is the illegitimatedaughter of Fantine and Félix Tholomyès, a rich student. She is born in Paris in circa 1815. After Tholomyès abandons Fantine, she leaves Cosette with the Thénardiers at their inn inMontfermeil, paying them to care for her child while she goes to work in the city of Montreuil-sur-Mer when Cosette is three years old. Unbeknownst to Fantine, the ... |
| The Prince and the Pauper Author: Twain Mark Code: Princi dhe Date added: Tuesday 24 May, 2016 Tom Canty, youngest son of a poor family living in Offal Court, London, has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest (who has taught him to read and write). Loitering around the palace gates one day, he sees a prince (the Prince of Wales – Edward VI). Coming too close in his intense excitement, Tom is nearly caught and beaten by the Royal Guards; however, Edward stops them and invites Tom into his palace chamber. There th... |
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Tales of terror Author: Poe Edgar Allan Code: Poe Date added: Thursday 21 April, 2016 The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black cat and the subsequent deterioration of a man. The story is often linked with "The Tell-Tale Heart" because of the profound psychological elements these two works share.... |
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Letter to His Father Author: Kafka Franz Code: Leterbabait Date added: Wednesday 06 April, 2016 Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father Hermann in 1919, when he was about thirty-six years old. His father's opposition to his planned marriage to Julie Wohryzeck (this was Franz’s second attempt at marriage; previously he had approached Felice Bauer) may have prompted Kafka to write such an epistle. The letter is about one hundred pages long, was partly typed and partly handwritten. His mother intercepted the letter and never gave it to h... |
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Stories and short stories Author: Guy_de_Maupassant Code: Mopasan Date added: Tuesday 29 March, 2016 Diamonds may not be a girl's best friend. I first read "The Necklace" in a college English short story course, more years ago than I want to say. The professor was rather odd and had (I thought) an undue hang-up with making us distill the meaning and theme of each story into a sentence that we would offer up to the rest of the class for dissection. But it was one of my more memorable college courses, and this is one of the more memorable stories... |
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Albanian fairy tales Author: Sako Zihni Code: Perralla shq Date added: Wednesday 23 March, 2016 Pralla popullore shqiptare (1954).JPG Pralla popullore shqiptare libër nga Instituti i Shkencave. Redaktuar nga Komisjoni i folklorit nën drejtimin e Zihni Sakos. Botuar në N.SH.B. Stabilimenti "Mihal Duri" - Tiranë, 1954. Faqet e librit 223. Lënda: 1) Peshkatari dhe e bukura e dheut 2) Pralla e të shtatë vëllezërve 3) Tre vëllezërit me të bukurën e dheut 4) Çangallozi 5) Musa i vogël e Divi 6) Bilmeni 7) G... |
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Kafka Author: Kafka Franz Code: Kafka Date added: Tuesday 09 February, 2016 he plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom in a pig shed. It begins with the doctor having to urgently attend a sick patient, but his sole horse died the night before, so his maid Rosa goes off to ask for another. She returns empty-handed — "Of course, who is now going to lend her his h... |
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The little Prince Author: Exupery Antoine de Saint Code: Princi Date added: Sunday 24 January, 2016 ... |
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Swedish match Author: Cechov Anton Code: Shkrepsja Date added: Wednesday 13 January, 2016 “Chekhov Shorts”: Oh! The Public A superbly comical tale from Chekhov. One I’d definitely recommend to those looking for a taste of typical Chekovian humour A classic. The main event that takes place in this story is that the narrator and Nadya ride down a snow hill on a sled. Every time that they would ride down together the narrator would say "I love you" to Nadya, but at first either Nadya did not hear it of she did not know what was b... |
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The garnet bracelet Author: Kuprin Alexander Code: Byzylyku Date added: Tuesday 12 January, 2016 Reportedly, "even today, Alexander Kuprin remains one of the widest read classics in Russian literature", with many films based on his works, "which are also read over the radio", partly due to "his vivid stories of the lives of ordinary people and unhappy love, his descriptions of the military and brothers, making him a writer for all times and places."... |
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Heart Author: De Amicis Edmondo Code: Zemra Date added: Friday 08 January, 2016 Heart was issued by Treves on 17 October 1886, the first day of school in Italy. Its success was immense: in a few months it was printed in 40 Italian editions and translated into dozens of languages. Its praise for the creation of the united Italian state in the previous decade contributed to its reception, but also led to criticism from some Roman Catholic politicians for failing to depict the nature of the Holy See's opposition to the annexati... |
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The lake Author: Lamartine Alphons de Code: Liqeni Date added: Tuesday 05 January, 2016 In 1816, at Aix-les Bains near Lake Bourget, Lamartine made the acquaintance of one Julie Charles. The following year, he came back to the lake, expecting to meet her there again. But he waited in vain, and initially thought she had stood him up. A month later he learned that she had taken ill and died. The "she" in this semi-autobiographical poem refers to Julie. The "voice dear to me" which speaks the lines of stanzas 6-9 is also meant to be un... |
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Letter from an unknown woman Author: Zweig Stefan Code: Letra Date added: Tuesday 29 December, 2015 A rich and well-known writer, returning home to Vienna from one of many holidays, finds a long letter from an unknown woman. As a teenager she had lived with her poor widowed mother in the same building and had fallen totally in love with both the opulent cultured lifestyle of her neighbour and the handsome charming man himself. This passion was not lessened by the flow of attractive women spending the night with him or by her being removed to In... |
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Mumu Author: Turgeniev Ivan Code: Mumu Date added: Thursday 24 December, 2015 Turgenev wrote Mumu with such vivid images and reflections of the state of the tsarist Russia that this piece together with his other stories was credited with having influenced public opinion in favour of the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Turgenev was the first of the great Russian novelists to win fame abroad. One of his great admirers was Henry James, who wrote that "Turgenev's merit of form is of the first order" The story featured in this re... |
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The boy that collected feathers Author: Mehmeti Kim Code: Djaloshi Date added: Tuesday 22 December, 2015 Kim Mehmeti (b. 1955) is a leading and innovative prose writer from the Albanian community in Macedonia. He was born in Gërçec near Skopje, where he now lives and works. He is the author of eleven volumes of prose, including Lulehëna (Moon Flower), Peja 1997, Fshati i fëmijve të mallkuar (The Village of the Damned Children), Peja 1998, and Ritet e Nishanes (Nishane's Rites), Peja 2004. One of his novels has appeared in German, Das Dorf der v... |
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Fairy tales Author: Perrault Charles Code: Tregimet e z Date added: Friday 18 December, 2015 This book is one of my favorite book from my childhood : Charles Perrault's stories are some of the most famous fairy tales known, and especially in France, where it's a must-read for children. I own the french version of this book, which contains eight fairy tales : Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Diamonds and Toads, Cinderella, Riquet with the Tuft and Hop o' My Thumb. Like in most fairy tales, the chara... |
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The Highland Lute Author: Fishta Gjergj Code: Lahuta Date added: Monday 07 December, 2015 Lahuta e Malcís (The Highland Lute) is the Albanian national epic poem, complete and published by the Albanian friar and poet Gjergj Fishta in 1937. It is written in the Gheg Albanian language, with 30 songs and over 17,000 verses, and is called by many scholars the Iliad of Albania.[1] An English translation The Highland Lute was produced in 2005, by the Canadian scholars of Albanian literature Robert Elsie and Janice Mathie-Heck, ISBN 978-1... |
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The invisible man Author: Wells Herbert Code: Njeriu Date added: Thursday 03 December, 2015 Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college fro... |
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The invisible collection Author: Zweig Stefan Code: Koleksioni Date added: Monday 30 November, 2015 The Invisible Collection, subtitled An Episode of the Inflation Period in Germany is the story of Herr Kronfeld ("Forest Ranger and Economic Councillor, Retired; Holder of the Iron Cross First Class ... His signature was always followed by his style and title in full"), a unrivalled collector of woodcuts and etchings, who is remembered one day by the art-dealer Herr Rackner ("from Berlin ... the famous dealer in antiquities"). Rackner thinks that... |
