Download E-books Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions) PDF

By Thomas Mann

One of the main well-known literary works of the twentieth century, the novella "Death in Venice" embodies topics that preoccupied Thomas Mann (1875–1955) in a lot of his paintings; the duality of artwork and existence, the presence of demise and disintegration in the middle of life, the relationship among love and pain, and the clash among the artist and his internal self. Mann's dealing with of those issues during this tale of a middle-aged German author, torn through his ardour for a Polish adolescence met on vacation in Venice, led to a piece of significant mental depth and tragic energy. it truly is offered right here in an outstanding new translation with huge statement on many features of the story.

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Download E-books Bertolt Brecht's Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches: A German Exile Drama in the Struggle against Fascism (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) PDF

By John J. White

Brecht's Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches (Fear and distress of the 3rd Reich) offers a compelling documentary photo of existence in Nazi Germany. shut readings of person scenes are followed through a close research in their position in the play's total constitution. opposite to the belief that it's a paintings of Aristotelian realism, Brecht is proven to hire covert alienation units which are an essential component of his literary crusade opposed to 3rd Reich Germany. this primary research in English with regards to Brecht and fascism deals a corrective to the overconcentration at the play's creative points. It considers Brecht's dating to the preferred Front's crusade opposed to the nationwide Socialist regime. cognizance is paid to the play's genesis, and, in terms of the personal lifetime of the grasp Race, to the partial shift from the 3rd Reich of 1933-38 to the conflict interval estimated within the unique Furcht und Elend cycle. The play's principal subject of resistance, its propaganda price, and its political and creative reception are addressed inside their historic and ideological framework. the result's a hard review of the play's strengths and barriers as a reaction to German totalitarianism. John J. White is Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Literature at King's collage London, and Ann White is Senior Lecturer in German at Royal Holloway, college of London.

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Download E-books Save the Last Dance for Me (Maitland Maidens Book 1) PDF

By Cora Lee

Mr. Benedict gray is the one inheritor to a long-standing name, and he is familiar with his responsibility: discover a appropriate lady, get married, safe the succession past himself. but when a gentleman can be referred to as a wallflower, Benedict could healthy the outline completely. And for the previous six years, he’s been out of Society greater than he’s been in it. How will he discover a lady to wed and mattress whilst he can slightly speak with the women of the ton?

Lady Honoria Maitland has promised her loss of life father that, sooner than he breathes his final, she might discover a husband to maintain her. yet she wishes a gentleman that loves her, no longer her dowry or her identify. while she reunites along with her previous good friend Benedict, she proposes a plan that may aid them either: a fake courtship and betrothal. she will train him the way to woo a girl and at the same time ease her father’s final days. yet Honoria’s smart plan didn't account for Benedict’s heart...or her personal. Is she robust sufficient to undergo the lack of her father and her good friend?

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Download E-books American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology PDF

This impressive quantity introduces to the big English-speaking viewers what's essentially the most coherent section of twentieth-century American literature no longer written in English. the diversity of American Yiddish Poetry runs the gamut from individualistic verse of alienation within the smooth city, responses to Western tradition and ideologies, and experiments with poetic shape and the assets of the Yiddish language, to the vitriolic associative chains of a politically engaged anarchist existentialist; from hymns to city structure and landscapes and the plight of African americans to confrontations with the stories of Jewish historical past and the lack of the Yiddish language. The bilingual facing-page structure, the notes and the biographies of poets, the choices from Yiddish thought and feedback, and a accomplished advent to the cultural heritage and matters of the poetry increase the poems themselves.

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Download E-books CliffsNotes on Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (Cliffsnotes Literature Guides) PDF

By Susan Van Kirk

The unique CliffsNotes examine publications provide specialist remark on significant issues, plots, characters, literary units, and historic heritage. the newest iteration of titles during this sequence additionally positive factors glossaries and visible parts that supplement the vintage, ordinary format.

In CliffsNotes on All Quiet at the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque takes you contained in the grotesque realities of global warfare I during the eyes of Paul Baumer, a delicate youngster and average infantryman within the German army.

This research consultant can assist you start to think about how Remarque's perspectives on battle may perhaps relate to modern day conflicts. you will additionally achieve perception into the lifestyles and cultural history of the writer. different beneficial properties that assist you research include

  • Character analyses of significant players
  • A personality map that graphically illustrates the relationships one of the characters
  • Critical essays
  • A evaluate part that checks your knowledge
  • A source heart filled with books, articles, motion pictures, and net sites

Classic literature or glossy modern day treasure — you are going to are aware of it all with specialist details and perception from CliffsNotes learn guides.

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Download E-books Norwegian Women's Writing 1850-1990 (Women in Context) PDF

By Janet Garton

Quantity One in a brand new sequence, this publication covers Norwegian women's writing over the past one hundred fifty years, atmosphere literary advancements opposed to the heritage of the emergence and progress of the women's circulation in Norway. The paintings is split chronologically into 3 sections: the interval as much as 1913, whilst the common suffrage was once granted; the interval from 1913 to 1960, a time of stagnation within the women's circulation, with little involvement in modern political, social and fiscal debates; and the interval from 1960 to the current day, which has obvious an expanding participation of ladies in public lifestyles. Chapters on person authors be aware of the photographs of the ladies portrayed and examine the conflicts at the back of the textual content - the tensions among the authors and their paintings, and the ambivalent emotions of ladies authors in the direction of the act of writing. The publication might be of curiosity to all these excited by women's writing and with Scandanavian literature and tradition. The sequence offers a survey, state by means of nation of women's writing from the beginnings of the foremost fight for emancipation as much as the current day. whereas the most emphasis is on literature, the social, political and cultural improvement of every nation presents a context for knowing the placement and preoccupations of ladies writers. smooth severe currents also are taken under consideration in pertaining to feminist feedback to fresh serious concept. impending volumes during this sequence comprise "Women's Writing in Italy 1870-1990" and "Swedish Women's Writing 1850-1990"

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Download E-books The Work of Mourning PDF

By Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida is, within the phrases of the big apple Times, "perhaps the world's most famed philosopher—if no longer the single well-known philosopher." He frequently provokes controversy once his identify is pointed out. yet he additionally conjures up the honour that comes from an illustrious profession, and, between many that have been his colleagues and friends, he encouraged friendship. The paintings of Mourning is a set that honors these friendships within the wake of passing.

Gathered listed here are texts—letters of condolence, memorial essays, eulogies, funeral orations—written after the deaths of famous figures: Roland Barthes, Paul de guy, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Edmond Jabès, Louis Marin, Sarah Kofman, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-François Lyotard, Max Loreau, Jean-Marie Benoist, Joseph Riddel, and Michel Servière.

With his phrases, Derrida bears witness to the singularity of a friendship and to absolutely the area of expertise of every dating. In every one case, he's aware of the questions of tact, flavor, and moral accountability enthusiastic about conversing of the dead—the dangers of utilizing the get together for one's personal reasons, political calculation, own vendetta, and the expiation of guilt. greater than a set of memorial addresses, this quantity sheds gentle not just on Derrida's relation to a couple of the main in demand French thinkers of the earlier zone century but additionally on one of the most vital issues of Derrida's complete oeuvre-mourning, the "gift of death," time, reminiscence, and friendship itself.

"In his rapt realization to his topics' paintings and their impression upon him, the booklet additionally deals a hesitant and tangential retelling of Derrida's personal lifestyles in French philosophical historical past. There are illuminating and playful anecdotes—how Lyotard led Derrida to start utilizing a word-processor; how Paul de guy talked knowledgeably of jazz with Derrida's son. someone who nonetheless thinks that Derrida is a facetious punster will locate such envious prejudice not able to outlive a examining of this pretty work."—Steven Poole, Guardian

"Strikingly simpa meditations on friendship, on shared vocations and avocations and on philosophy and history."—Publishers Weekly

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Download E-books El fruto de la nada y otros escritos (El Libro De Bolsillo - Humanidades) PDF

By Maestro Eckhart

Teólogo dominico alemán que predicaba los angeles posibilidad de que el hombre alcance en los angeles tierra una vida bienaventurada asumiendo su origen y filiación divinos, el Maestro Eckhart (1260-1328) sufrió l. a. persecución inquisitorial por sus heterodoxas rules, entre ellas las de los angeles experiencia nihilista de Dios, el vacío inside que el espíritu comprende como una muerte necesaria o el exilio del alma noble. “El fruto de los angeles nada” recoge algunos de sus más destacados sermones y tratados en lengua alemana, así como un conjunto de textos que se le atribuyen y que proporcionan una inspiration completa de este gran místico alemán cuyo pensamiento, de prolongada vigencia en Europa, ha llamado también l. a. atención de los filósofos de l. a. Escuela de Kioto, Nishitani y Tanabe, quienes han considerado su figura como un interlocutor privilegiado con las tradiciones asiáticas y muy especialmente con el Budismo Zen.

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Download E-books The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics) PDF

Shiny, strong and soaking up, it is a first-person account of 1 of the main startling army episodes in background: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by way of the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier below Cortes, provides a fascinatingly distinct description of the Spanish touchdown in Mexico in 1520 and their amazement on the urban, the exploitation of the natives for gold and different treasures, the expulsion and flight of the Spaniards, their regrouping and eventual trap of the Aztec capital.

For greater than seventy years, Penguin has been the best writer of vintage literature within the English-speaking international. With greater than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a world bookshelf of the easiest works all through historical past and throughout genres and disciplines. Readers belief the series to supply authoritative texts superior through introductions and notes by way of extraordinary students and modern authors, in addition to up-to-date translations via award-winning translators.

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