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After a brief romance, the 17 year old Marya falls in love with the much older Sergyei Mikhailitch, an old family friend, and the two are married. They share an initially blissful life but after moving to St. Petersburg, Marya becomes enchanted with society and a rift opens between the two. (Summary by EvanJ)

Vols. 3 and 4 of Remembrance of Things Past. The hero, Marcel, meets the duchess of Guermantes in the role of his parent's landlady. The hero's grandmother is ill and dies. A night at the Princess de Parme's. The hero meets the extraordinary M. de Charlus and enters into a wary relationship with him. - Summary by Michael O'Kelly

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place within a single day. "Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely judged by their past." (Summary from Wikipedia) Characters:Narrator – Read by Alex FosterThe Earl Of Caversham, K.G. – Read by LintonViscount Goring, his son – Read by John GonzalezSir Robert Chiltern, Bart., Under-Secretary ...

A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy. It looks in particular at English upper class society and has been reproduced on stages in Europe and North America since his death in 1900. (Summary by Wikipedia) Cast:Lord Illingworth: Peter BishopSir John Pontefract: Ernst PattynamaLord Alfred Rufford: Bob GonzalezMr. Kelvil, M.P.: Nigel BoydellThe Ven. Archdeacon Daubeny, D.D. : Martin GeesonGerald Arbuthnot: mbFarquhar, Butler: Delmar H ...

The Divine Comedy (in Italian, Divina Commedia, or just La commedia or Comedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri in the first decades of the 14th Century, during his exile from his native Florence. Considered the most important work of Italian literature, the poem has also has enormous historical influence on western literature and culture more generally. Dante represents the three realms of the afterlife in his three canticles (Inferno--Hell; Purgatorio--Purgatory; Paradiso--Paradise) in a way that reflects and, at the same time, goes beyond Christian tradition of the 14th Century. ...

Complied by Thomas B. Mosher and released in 1906, this collection contains nearly every poem published by Oscar Wilde during his lifetime. From his Oxford undergrad days, through his rise to fame and scandal, all the way to his death, we witness an iconic author's evolution. This work is derived from Wilde's first published piece, the 1878 Newdigate Prize-winning Ravenna, his 1881 poetry collection, and verses found in literary magazines and other publications. - Summary by Mary Kay

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature. Childhood is an exploration of the inner life of a young boy, Nikolenka, and one of the books in ...

A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The fourth volume, published in 1919, contains several notable poems by the recently deceased Wilfred Owen. The other poets represented are Francisco Quevedo, Aldous Huxley, Arnold James, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. - Summary by Algy Pug

”The Fisherman and his Soul” is a fairy tale first published in November of 1891 in Wilde’s “A House of Pomegranates”. It tells of a fisherman who nets and falls in love with a mermaid. But to be with her he must shed his soul, which goes off to have adventures of its own. Will forbidden love endure? -- This reader has also recorded the three other tales in “A House of Pomegranates” which can be found in the LibriVox Short Story Collections, volumes 37, 38, and 39. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)

“... an alemaunde tre schal floure, a locuste schal be maad fat, and capparis schal be distried; for a man schal go in to the hous of his euerlastyngnesse...” - Eccl. xii, 5 (see Note below). Traditionally composed by Solomon sometime around 950-970 BCE but dated on linguistic evidence somewhere in the third century, this meditation on the futility of mankind’s striving can bring comfort to those of firm or fragile faith, or of no faith at all. The text used here is a revision of Wycliffe's original translation, made by his follower John Purvey in the mid-1390s. Wycliffe's chapter ...

The Gospel of Luke is the most literary of the four gospels which recount the life and work of Jesus Christ. Although anonymous, the book is generally attributed to Luke, a physician and a missionary companion of the Apostle Paul. His account contains events which are unique in the four gospels including the visits of Gabriel to Mary and Zacharias, the visit of the shepherds to the birth of Jesus, and the story of the young Jesus at the temple. This gospel contains the most references to women and is favorable to the Gentiles for whom it was written. Perhaps the most well-known of all New ...

Attraverso l'analisi dettagliata e capillare delle recenti polemiche che hanno riguardato l'attività divulgativa dell'insegnante-influencer Vincenzo Schettini, dalla ricezione del pubblico a quella della stampa, l'Autore smonta pezzo per pezzo l'immagine di una scuola che non esiste, per ricondurre gli elementi di fatto e le supposizioni in un contesto più aderente alla realtà. Da "La fisica che ci piace" alla partecipazione al Festival di Sanremo, l'ascesa e il declino di un insegnante.

This is a generalist Podcast of American and English Literature Audiobooks.All episodes are taken from librivox.org.All librivox.org Recordings are in the Public Domain.

Il Senato ha approvato il DDL sull'antisemitismo. Questa non è una notizia, perché il governo viene sostenuto da una maggioranza parlamentare e, a meno di sorprese che, quelle sì, farebbero notizia, il fatto che in una legislatura vengano approvate le bozze normative di questa o di quella parte politica, non dovrebbe destare meraviglia. La notizia effettiva, se fosse proprio necessario cercarne una, consiste nel fatto che sei senatori del Partito Democratico hanno votato a favore di quel provvedimento. Il Partito Democratico è sicuramente il primo alleato del governo-Meloni e il suo ...

Questo è il primo di una serie di cinque piccoli volumetti sulla mia esperienza con gli audiolibri.Non si tratta di manualistica o del solito metodo miracoloso per far soldi, bensì di vita vissuta, di quello che si tocca con mano davvero e non in ipotesi in questo particolarissimo settore dell'editoria. Una sorta di "case history" a puntate o a episodi su audiolibri e podcast, ma da leggere. Possibilmente con un sorriso.

Una giovane donna siciliana entra a far parte dell’Arma dei Carabinieri e viene assegnata in servizio a una caserma di una grande città del Nord. Attraverso il suo vissuto umano e lavorativo quotidiano e il ripercorrere alcuni gravi eventi di cronaca giudiziaria, ricostruirà la sua identità di persona, raccontandola in prima persona a uno sconosciuto e fittizio “Signor Tenente”, nella piena consapevolezza della conoscenza dei fatti e accompagnando il lettore verso un finale scontato e inevitabile, ma, proprio per questo, estremamente coinvolgente sotto il profilo emotivo.

Youssef è morto. Era stato accoltellato poche ore prima nell’Istituto di Istruzione Superiore che frequentava, da un compagno di classe. Motivi sentimentali, si dice, ma si dice ben poco. Certo, il cordoglio. Certo, il dolore, la pena, lo stupore e lo sbigottimento. Certo l’insegnante ha fermato e disarmato l’assassino con encomiabile coraggio. Ma poi?

Il Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali (comunemente e di seguito anche “Garante per la Privacy”) risulta indagato al completo. Le accuse sono di corruzione e peculato.

No, Chiara Ferragni non è stata assolta. Nonostante la notizia sia stata diramata con grandissima enfasi dagli organi di informazione, la circostanza della presunta assoluzione nel merito della accuse imputate alla influencer italiana, non corrisponde alla realtà effettiva dei fatti.

Con il nuovo anno, le opere letterarie, filosofiche, artistiche, musicali, scientifiche, filmiche e figurative di autori deceduti una volta che sia trascorso un determinato periodo, fissato dalle leggi nazionali di ogni Stato, possono essere lecitamente e liberamente riprodotte, riadattate, rielaborate, pubblicate e diffuse in ogni forma, senza commettere reato e senza dover corrispondere i diritti d’auto agli eredi dello scomparso o, comunque, a chi ne ha diritto, sia a scopo gratuito che a fini di lucro.