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"Pe câmpul vast al publicisticii române, pe care crește atâta spanac des și abundent, a apărut în sfârșit zilele acestea și un copac și e așa de mândru și așa de puternic, că mii și mii de recolte de buruieni se vor perinda și el va sta tot mereu în picioare, tot mai sănătos și mai trainic, înfruntând gustul actual și vremea cu schimbările ei capricioase și făcând din ce în ce mai mult fala limbii noastre românești - un volum de Balade și idile de George Coșbuc." - Summary by Ion Luca Caragiale

The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superior education, as she is to induce them to discard all irrational and artificial wants and mere useless pursuits. She would willingly direct their attention to the natural history and botany of this new country, in which they will find a never-failing source of amusement and instruction, at once enlightening and elevating the mind, and serving to fill up the void left by the absence of those lighter feminine accomplishments, the practice of which are ...

The first of 14 volumes, this book discusses ancient civilization looking primarily at religion and philosophy. Summary by KHand

When Diana Henders' father dies and leaves her responsible for running a cattle ranch in Arizona, along with a gold mine on the property, she is left on her own to sort things out between two love interests, Hal Colby and Bull, both of whom are eligible foremen for the ranch. Then, trouble arrives in the form of her cousin Lillian and her lawyer, Corson, from New York. Lillian claims to own half the ranch, and wants to sell out to the Wainrights; a bullying father and son who own land nearby. Meanwhile, the shipments from the gold mine keep being robbed by the notorious "Black Coyote". The ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Be Kind When You Can by Eliza Cook. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 30, 2011.Eliza Cook was an English author, Chartist poet and writer born in London Road, Southwark.She was the daughter of a local tradesman. She attended the local Sunday Schools and was encouraged by the son of the music master to produce her first volume of poetry. From this she took confidence and in 1837 began to offer verse to the radical Weekly Dispatch, then edited by William Johnson Fox. She was a staple of its pages for the next ten years. She also offered...

The Battle of Marathon is a rhymed, dramatic, narrative-poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Written in 1820, it retells powerfully The Battle of Marathon: during which the Athenian state defeated the much larger invading force during the first Persian invasion of Greece. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Sir Richard wants his daughter Valeria to marry a Navy Captain, but she is more interested in young Ensign Lovely. Meanwhile.... - Summary by ToddHWCast list:Lord Worthy, in love with Lady Reveller, a Hater of Gaming: Greg GiordanoSir James Courtly, an airy Gentleman, given to Gaming: ToddHWLovely, an Ensign, in love with Valeria: HelloCentralSir Richard Plainman, formerly a Citizen, but now lives in Covent-Garden, a great Lover of a Soldier, and an inveterate Enemy to the French: Larry WilsonCaptain Firebrand, a Sea Officer, designed by Sir Richard to marry Valeria: Adrian StephensSago, a ...

Grantland Rice, was a sports journalist with several newspapers, although his Sportlights column, in the New York Tribune was what brought him fame, and through it he helped popularize golf in the US, and to help the cause of American Professional Football. This book of poetry, is a tribute to baseball, the sport he played at Vanderbilt. - Summary by cavaet

Breckinridge Elkins is the roughest, toughest, fastest-shootin', hardest-fightin' feller in the Bear Creek settlement, and probably in the entire Humbolt Mountains. As he travels further from home, he single-handedly takes on outlaws, settles (and starts) feuds and tries his hand at romancing the girls. He also discovers a lot of strange customs among other folks, such as building houses out of boards and wearing clothes that ain't buckskins. Set in Arizona during the late 1800's, this collection of stories is a great rollicking romp through the American frontier as seen through the eyes of ...

"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's essay, "The Transcendentalist." The story has been adapted twice: once in 1970, starring Paul Scofield, and again in 2001,...

Bealby is the comical story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the great house of an estate named Shonts (his stepfather, Mr. Darling, is a gardener there) and flees—not, however, before thoroughly upsetting a weekend party where the nouveau riche couple renting Shonts is entertaining the Lord Chancellor. - Summary by Wikipedia

Charles Bovary è un medico rimasto vedovo. Un giorno incontra Emma Rouault della quale si innamora. I due hanno caratteri diversi: onesto e serio lui, sognatrice e più attenta ai lussi della vita lei. Decidono di sposarsi e di lì a poco Emma partorisce il suo primogenito. Da qui inizia una crisi profonda per la donna che si sente inutile e che, ispirata dalle innumerevoli novelle romantiche che legge, inizia a cercare conforto tra le braccia di altri uomini, meno noiosi di suo marito. Quest'ultimo, intuendo la situazione, trasferisce la famiglia in un altro villaggio, ma le cose non ...

Being an Account of the Strange Wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol; Marquis of Bardelys, and of the things that in the course of it befell him in Languedoc, in the year of the Rebellion. - Summary from original Gutenberg text

Through personal experience and extensive travel in Mexico in the late 1900s, the author of “Barbarous Mexico” depicts the circumstances that will trigger the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The rampant, government sanctioned, widespread abuse of human rights in the tobacco and corn plantations of Central and Southeastern Mexico created an atmosphere where peasants, and the working class at large, had to choose between their lives and the revolution. Turner presents a gruesome picture of political and ethnic slavery; how President Diaz policies promoted, encouraged and maintained the system; ...

This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barchester Towers' is very much a sequel to the first book ‘The Warden’, which is also available from Librivox.The old bishop dies, the archdeacon, Dr. Grantly fails to succeed him and a new bishop, Dr. Proudie is appointed. Dr. Grantly gains a worthy foe, not the new bishop but his wife, Mrs. Proudie, strict Sabbatarian and power behind the Episcopal throne together with the bishop’s chaplain, Mr. Slope.John Bold is also dead and Eleanor, now a ...

A baby squirrel is adopted by a farm cat after his mother is killed, but when he is half-grown the barn which is his home catches fire. He flees into the woods, where he learns to survive and make a new life. - Summary by Wikipedia

Als Grundlage dieses Stückes diente Pedro Calderón das Gastmahl des Belsazar aus Daniel 5, im Alten Testament.Balthasar feiert ein rauschendes Fest – die Vermählung mit einer weiteren Frau – und entweiht dabei die aus Jerusalem erbeuteten Tempelgefäße. Hierauf erscheint eine geisterhafte Schrift auf der Wand seines Palastes, welche von Daniel als Untergangs-Prophezeiung gedeutet wird. (Zusammenfassung von lorda)MitwirkendeBalthasar: MargotDaniel: Leona Der Gedanke: Richard EndersDie Welteitelkeit: SoniaDie Götzenliebe: Jeannette MellecDer Tod: lordaEine Bildsäule: Sandra ...

A catechism is a summary of the principles of Christian religion and articles of the faith. The Baltimore Catechism specifically was the de facto standard Catholic school text in the United States from 1885 to the late 1960s. It was the first such catechism written for Catholics in North America, replacing a translation of Bellarmine's Small Catechism. The Baltimore Catechism remained in use in nearly all Catholic schools until many moved away from catechism-based education, though it is still used up to this day in some. (Summary by Wikipedia [annotated by mknightretke])

Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco, was an English writer and socialite. The daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian aristocrat, she drew on her experience in British high society in her work. Her talent is the compression into a few phrases of all the details of a situation, into a few pages the hopes and failures of a lifetime. These (very) short stories explore in a few precise phrases the hopes of newlyweds, the emotions of a widow, and all aspects of life between! (Summary by Wikipedia and Beth Thomas)

Bambi – die Geschichte eines jungen Rehbocks der in einem schützenden Dickicht das Licht der Welt erblickt. Von seiner Mutter wird Bambi in die Geheimnisse und Gefahren des Waldes eingewiesen, vor allem die Gefahr durch Menschen lernt Bambi kennen.Zusammenfassung von lorda