Este ebook presenta "Las Confesiones de San Agustín" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
Confesiones es un libro en el que san Agustín escribió acerca de su juventud pecadora y de cómo se convirtió al cristianismo. Es ampliamente aceptada como la primera autobiografía occidental jamás escrita, y se convirtió en un modelo para otros autores cristianos de los siguientes siglos. No es una autobiografía completa pues fue escrita tras sus primeros 40 años de vida y vivió hasta los 76, tiempo durante el cual produjo otros importantes trabajos, entre ellos La ciudad de Dios. De todos modos, proporciona gran información sobre la evolución de su pensamiento en sus primeros años. El libro es un acabado trabajo de filosofía y también un importante aporte a la teología.
La obra está dividida en 13 libros. En ellos se narra la niñez de Agustín, su adolescencia y juventud, su carrera académica, su estancia en el maniqueísmo, su proceso personal de acercamiento al cristianismo (ya conocido en la niñez), su conversión, y sus primeras experiencias como católico.
Agustín de Hipona o san Agustín o Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (354 - 430) es un santo, padre y doctor de la Iglesia católica. El "Doctor de la Gracia" fue el máximo pensador del cristianismo del primer milenio y según Antonio Livi uno de los más grandes genios de la humanidad. Autor prolífico, dedicó gran parte de su vida a escribir sobre filosofía y teología siendo Confesiones y La Ciudad de Dios sus obras más destacadas.
Ce livre numérique présente Tous les Contes et Nouvelles de Maupassant (plus de 320 Contes) avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée.
Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) a marqué la littérature française par ses six romans, dont Une vie en 1883, Bel-Ami en 1885, Pierre et Jean en 1887-1888, mais surtout par ses nouvelles, (parfois intitulées contes), comme Boule de suif en 1880, les Contes de la bécasse (1883) ou Le Horla (1887). Ces oeuvres retiennent l'attention par leur force réaliste, la présence importante du fantastique et par le pessimisme qui s'en dégage le plus souvent mais aussi par la maîtrise stylistique. La carrière littéraire de Guy de Maupassant se limite à une décennie - de 1880 à 1890 - avant qu'il ne sombre peu à peu dans la folie et ne meure à quarante-trois ans. Reconnu de son vivant, Guy de Maupassant conserve un renom de premier plan, renouvelé encore par les nombreuses adaptations filmées de ses oeuvres.
Contenu:
CONTES DIVERS DE 1875 A 1880
LA MAISON TELLIER (recueil de nouvelles)
NOUVELLES PARUES EN 1881
MADEMOISELLE FIFI (recueil de nouvelles)
NOUVELLES PARUES EN 1882
CONTES DE LA BECASSE (recueil de nouvelles)
CLAIR DE LUNE (recueil de nouvelles)
NOUVELLES PARUES EN 1883
MISS HARRIET (recueil de nouvelles)
LE PERE MILON (recueil de nouvelles)
LES SOEURS RONDOLI (recueil de nouvelles)
YVECONTES DIVERS DE 1884
CONTES DU JOUR ET DE LA NUIT (recueil de nouvelles)
CONTES DIVERS DE 1885
TOINE (recueil de nouvelles)
MONSIEUR PARENT (recueil de nouvelles)
LA PETITE ROQUE (recueil de nouvelles)
CONTES DIVERS DE 1886
LE HORLA (recueil de nouvelles)
CONTES DIVERS DE 1887
LE ROSIER DE MADAME HUSSON (recueil de nouvelles)
LA MAIN GAUCHE (recueil de nouvelles)
CONTES DIVERS DE 1889
L'INUTILE BEAUTE (recueil de nouvelles)
Ce livre numérique présente "Tolstoï: L'homme derrière les mots (Toutes les OEuvres Autobiographiques de Léon Tolstoï)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
Léon Tolstoï (1828 -1910) est un des écrivains majeurs de la littérature russe. Ses premières publications sont des récits autobiographiques Enfance, Adolescence, Jeunesse (1852-1856). Ils rapportent comment un enfant, fils de riches propriétaires terriens, réalise lentement ce qui le sépare de ses camarades de jeu paysans. Il est frappé dès son enfance par le sentiment de l'absurdité de la vie (à la suite de la mort de son père) et il refuse l'hypocrisie des relations sociales. Tolstoï rejette l'État et l'Église. Sa critique radicale de l'État, ses préoccupations envers les masses opprimées, l'importance de ses réalisations pédagogiques, sa recherche de cohérence sur le plan personnel, en ont fait un penseur proche de l'anarchisme. Marqué par des conflits comme la Guerre de Crimée durant laquelle il a été mobilisé et qu'il a relatée dans Récits de Sébastopol, ou les conflits passés telles les Guerres napoléoniennes, qui constituent la trame de son oeuvre majeure, Guerre et Paix. Tolstoï entame à partir des années 1870 une sorte d'introspection, en forme de quête spirituelle. En 1879, Tolstoï se retourne vers le christianisme qu'il évoque dans Ma confession. Sa critique des institutions oppressives et sources de violence inspirera le Mahatma Gandhi, ainsi que Romain Rolland. Leur message sera ensuite repris par Martin Luther King, Steve Biko, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela et bien d'autres.
Table des matières:
Enfance (1852)
Adolescence (1854)
Jeunesse (1855)
Récits de Sébastopol (1855)
Ma confession (1879-1882)
Une lettre inédite (1902)
Tolstoï et les Doukhobors (1902)
Correspondance
Dernières Paroles (1905)
Ce livre numérique présente "Ma confession: La recherche de réponses aux questions profondes" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
"Ma confession" est une courte oeuvre de confession du célèbre romancier russe Léon Tolstoï sur le thème de la mélancolie, de la philosophie et de la religion. Elle a été écrite en 1879 et 1880. Le livre est un récit autobiographique de l'auteur à un moment de sa vie où il traverse une crise de mélancolie existentielle. Il décrit sa recherche de réponses aux questions profondes: «Qu'est-ce qui sortira de ce que je fais aujourd'hui? de ce que je ferai demain? Qu'est-ce qui sortira de toute ma vie?» et «Quel est le sens de la vie?», sans réponses pour lui et qui rendent la vie «impossible». Tolstoï parle de son enfance, de son abandon de sa foi orthodoxe russe, sa maîtrise de la force, sa volonté de pouvoir, et comment, après avoir atteint un succès financier et un statut social considérable, sa vie n'avait plus aucun sens. Après avoir désespéré de ses tentatives pour trouver des réponses dans la science, la philosophie, la sagesse orientale, et ses semblables de lettres, il «avoue» qu'il a trouvé la réponse à sa peine dans les profondes convictions religieuses orthodoxes des citoyens ordinaires. Il décrit comment il a soumis son scepticisme rationnel et l'horreur de la «superstition des vérités chrétiennes» afin d'obtenir la tranquillité d'esprit dont il avait besoin pour permettre sa «survie».
Léon Tolstoï (1828-1910) est un des écrivains majeurs de la littérature russe, surtout connu pour ses romans et ses nouvelles, riches d'analyse psychologique et de réflexion morale et philosophique (Guerre et Paix, Anna Karénine).
Ce livre numérique présente "Souvenirs et Mémoires: Enfance, Adolescence, Jeunesse (Collection intégrale)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
Léon Tolstoï (1828 -1910), est un des écrivains majeurs de la littérature russe, surtout connu pour ses romans et ses nouvelles, riches d'analyse psychologique et de réflexion morale et philosophique (Guerre et Paix, Anna Karénine). Ses premières publications sont des récits autobiographiques Enfance, Adolescence, Jeunesse (1852-1856). Ils rapportent comment un enfant, fils de riches propriétaires terriens, réalise lentement ce qui le sépare de ses camarades de jeu paysans. Il est frappé dès son enfance par le sentiment de l'absurdité de la vie (à la suite de la mort de son père) et il refuse l'hypocrisie des relations sociales. Sa beauté même venait à le chagriner, alors qu'il se désolait d'un physique ingrat. Il écrivit à ce propos: "Je suis laid, gauche, malpropre et sans vernis mondain. Je suis irritable, désagréable pour les autres, prétentieux, intolérant et timide comme un enfant. Je suis ignorant. Ce que je sais, je l'ai appris par-ci, par-là, sans suite et encore si peu!...Mais il y a une chose que j'aime plus que le bien: c'est la gloire. Je suis si ambitieux que s'il me fallait choisir entre la gloire et la vertu, je crois bien que je choisirais la première." Cette ambition ne s'exprima pas immédiatement, et lorsqu'il quitta l'université en 1847, à dix-neuf ans, il pensait trouver sa raison d'être dans les travaux des champs et la bienfaisance: propriétaire terrien boyard, il raconte qu'il lui arrive de fouetter ses serfs, ce qu'il regrette. Pourtant, il se détourna vite de ceux-ci, préférant une vie décousue de Toula à Moscou, rythmée par le jeu (de cartes surtout) et l'alcool...
Ce livre numérique présente "Récits de Sébastopol: La guerre de Crimée (Écrits autobiographique de Tolstoï)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
Léon Tolstoï (1828 -1910) est un des écrivains majeurs de la littérature russe, surtout connu pour ses romans et ses nouvelles, riches d'analyse psychologique et de réflexion morale et philosophique.
Les Récits de Sébastopol (1855-1856) est un recueil de trois nouvelles écrites par Léon Tolstoï pour raconter ses expériences lors du siège de Sébastopol (1854) pendant la guerre de Crimée. La Russie venant de déclarer la guerre à la Turquie, Léon Tolstoï rejoint le régiment en Bessarabie. Il y est dirigé en Crimée, où il connaît le danger, qui l'exalte et le scandalise à la fois. La mort révolte l'homme pressé. Cette impatience est soulagée par la chute de Sébastopol, qui le dégoûte définitivement du métier militaire. Tolstoï en composa trois récits, Sébastopol en décembre 1854, Sébastopol en mai 1855, Sébastopol en août 1855, qui émeuvent l'impératrice, et sont traduits en français à la demande d'Alexandre II.
Table des matières:
Sébastopol en décembre
Sébastopol en mai
Sébastopol en août 1855.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (The Complete Unabridged Edition in 6 Volumes)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell's personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson's life by means of additional research. The biography takes many critical liberties with Johnson's life, as Boswell makes various changes to Johnson's quotations and even censors many comments. Regardless of these actions, modern biographers have found Boswell's biography as an important source of information. The work was popular among early audiences and with modern critics, but some of the modern critics believe that the work cannot be considered a proper biography.
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 - 19 May 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom has claimed is the greatest biography written in the English language.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Life, Labours and Doctrines of Confucius (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The original work was published in 1897.
The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin Dynasty. Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism.
Edward Harper Parker (1849 - 1926) was an English Chinese scholar. He was educated at the Royal Institution School, Liverpool, and became a barrister of the Middle Temple. He intended to engage in the tea trade, studied Chinese, and as an interpreter traveled in Mongolia 1869-71. He was then in the consular service in various parts of the world, and since 1901 has been professor of Chinese in Victoria University, Manchester, and reader in Chinese, University College, Liverpool, since 1896. Edward Harper Parker Is famous for his unique style of narration.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Famous Imposters (Pretenders & Hoaxes including Queen Elizabeth and many more revealed by Bram Stoker)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Famous Impostors is the fourth and final book of nonfiction by Bram Stoker, published in 1910. It is a book that deals with exposing various impostors and hoaxes.
Table of Contents :
Preface
Pretenders
Perkin Warbeck
The Hidden King
"Stefan Mali" The False Czar
The False Dauphins
Princess Olive
Practitioners of Magic:
Paracelsus
Cagliostro
Mesmer
The Wandering Jew
John Law
Witchcraft and Clairvoyance:
The Period
Doctor Dee
La Voisin
Sir Edward Kelley
Mother Damnable
Matthew Hopkins
Arthur Orton
Women as men:
The Motive for Disguise
Hannah Snell.
La Maupin.
Mary East
Hoaxes, Etc.:
Two London Hoaxes
The Cat Hoax
The Military Review
The Toll-Gate
The Marriage Hoax
Buried Treasure
Dean Swift's Hoax
Hoaxed Burglars
Bogus Sausages
The Moon Hoax
The Chevalier D'eon
The Bisley Boy
Prolegomenon
The Queen's Secret
Bisley
The Tradition
The Difficulty of Proof
The Time and the Opportunity
The Identity of Elizabeth
The Solution
Index
Abraham "Bram" Stoker ( 1847 - 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (The life of William Henry Davies)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography first published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies. A large part of the book's subject matter describes the way of life of the tramp in United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in the final decade of the 19th century.
Table of Contents:
Childhood
Youth
Manhood
Brum
A Tramp's Summer Vacation
A Night's Ride
Law in America
A Prisoner His Own Judge
Berry Picking
The Cattleman's Office
A Strange Cattleman
Thieves
The Canal
The House-boat
A Lynching
The Camp
Home
Off Again
A Voice in the Dark
Hospitality
London
The Ark
Gridling
On the Downright
The Farmhouse
Rain and Poverty
False Hopes
On Tramp Again
A Day's Companion
The Fortune
Some Ways of Making a Living
At Last
Success
A House to Let
W. H. Davies (1871-1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or hobo, in the United Kingdom and United States, but became one of the most popular poets of his time. The principal themes in his work are the marvels of nature, observations about life's hardships, his own tramping adventures and the various characters he met.
Ce livre numérique présente "Voyages de Victor Hugo: (L'édition intégrale)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), est un poète, dramaturge et prosateur romantique considéré comme l'un des plus importants écrivains de langue française. Il est aussi une personnalité politique et un intellectuel engagé qui a joué un rôle majeur dans l'Histoire du xixe siècle.
Table des matières:
Fragments d'un voyage aux Alpes
Bretagne et Normandie 1
Bretagne et Normandie 2
Belgique
L'Archipel de la Manche (posthume, 1883)
Le Rhin - Lettres à un ami (1842)
Extrait:
«C'est en méditant sur les dangers dont cette nature sauvage assiège les pas du simple curieux, qu'on est tenté d'admirer, comme des récits fabuleux, les histoires qui nous montrent, dans l'antiquité, les machines de guerre carthaginoises, et, de nos jours, les canons français, traversant les Alpes. On se demande avec effroi, et presque avec incrédulité, comment le lourd attirail d'une armée a pu voyager par des routes qui semblent souvent refuser de l'espace et de la solidité aux pieds aériens du chamois, et comment il a réussi à doubler deux fois ces hauts promontoires qui baignent dans les nuages et plongent si profondément dans le ciel. L'explication de ceci est dans la puissance que Dieu a donnée à l'intelligence de l'homme. Ces choses merveilleuses se sont faites pour montrer en quelque sorte combien l'homme est roi de la nature physique...»
This carefully crafted ebook: "Walden + Civil Disobedience + Slavery in Massachusetts" contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Walden is a book written by Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.
Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.
Slavery in Massachusetts" is an 1854 essay based on a speech he gave at an anti-slavery rally at Framingham, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1854, after the re-enslavement in Boston, Massachusetts of fugitive slave Anthony Burns.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, historian and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Taming of the Shrew (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. It was inspired by classical Roman comedy and the Italian commedia dell'arte. Baptista Minola, a rich gentleman of Padua, has two daughters: Katherina, renowned for her sharp tongue, and Bianca, who is sought after by multiple suitors. Baptista decides that Bianca cannot marry until her elder sister finds a husband. Enter Petruchio, who has come to "wive it wealthily in Padua," and who is convinced by Bianca's suitors to woo Katherina. The play ultimately poses the question of who is the bigger shrew: Kate or Petruchio. The subplot involves the subterfuge employed by Lucentio to woo the lovely Bianca.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.
This carefully crafted ebook: "A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Hamlet (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, written by William Shakespeare between 1599 and 1601, is set in Denmark and recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who murdered the King, takes the throne and marries Hamlet's mother.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Julius Caesar (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Written around 1599, Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play is based on historical events surrounding the conspiracy against the ancient Roman leader Julius Caesar (c.100-44B.C.) and the civil war that followed his death. Shakespeare portrays Caesar's assassination on the Ides of March (March 15) by a group of conspirators who feared the ambitious leader would turn the Roman Republic into a tyrannical monarchy. Shakespeare' s main source for the play is Plutarch's famous biography The Life of Julius Caesar, written in Greek in the 1st century and translated into English in 1579 by Sir Thomas North.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.
This carefully crafted ebook: "As You Like It (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in 1623. Daughter of a banished duke and forced to flee the court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden disguised as a man. When her true love Orlando also shows up in the forest, she courts him without revealing her identity. Meanwhile, Phebe mistakenly falls in love with her disguise, Silvius pines for Phebe, Jacques philosophizes, and Touchstone makes fun of it all, and love and happiness triumph as Rosalind orchestrates a happy ending amid the confusion.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Twelfth Night (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This play is named after the Twelfth Night holiday of the Christmas season. It was written around 1601 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. Like many of Shakespeare's comedies, this one centers on mistaken identity. The leading character, Viola, is shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria during the opening scenes. She loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believes dead. Posing as a man and masquerading as a young page under the name Cesario, she enters the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino is in love with the bereaved Lady Olivia, whose brother has recently died and decides to use "Cesario" as an intermediary. Olivia, believing Viola to be a man, falls in love with this handsome and eloquent messenger. Viola, in turn, has fallen in love with the Duke, who also believes Viola is a man and who regards her as his confidant.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Merchant of Venice (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his friend, the merchant Antonio, to borrow money from a wealthy Jew, Shylock. Antonio pledges to pay Shylock a pound of flesh if he defaults on the loan, which Bassanio will use to woo a rich heiress, Portia. A subplot concerns the elopement of Shylock's daughter Jessica with a Christian, Bassanio's friend Lorenzo.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Comedy of Errors (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, believed to have been written between 1592 and 1594. It tells the story of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated at birth. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near-seduction, the arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus, and false accusations of infidelity, theft, madness, and demonic possession.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Life Of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book, first published in 1898, was an immediate popular success and was regarded for much of the twentieth century as the most reliable account of Shakespeare's life then available.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.
This carefully crafted ebook: "King Richard III (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1592. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play chronicles Richard's dramatic rise and fall. Shakespeare famously portrays him as a "deformed hunchback" who ruthlessly lies, murders, and manipulates his way to throne before being taken down by the guy who becomes King Henry VII (whose reign ends the Wars of the Roses and ushers in the Tudor dynasty). Despite his wickedness, Richard is the kind of villain that audiences just love to hate.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Winter's Tale (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, written around the middle of his career (1598 and 1599) and originally published in the First Folio of 1623. The play is a story of loss and redemption. In a fit of wild and unfounded jealousy, Leontes, the King of Sicily, convinces himself that his pregnant wife is carrying his best friend's love child. Leontes's jealousy turns to tyranny as the king proceeds to destroy his entire family and a lifelong friendship.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Othello (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story Un Capitano Moro. The story, set in 16th-century Venice and Cyprus, tells about a black general in the Italian army, Othello, and what happened between him and his wife, Desdemona. The main villain in this play is Iago; who is a soldier under Othello's command. Iago tells Othello numerous lies about Desdemona and Othello's friend, and former right-hand man, Cassio.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.
