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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Venus y Adonis es un poema de William Shakespeare, escrito en 1592-93. El argumento está basado en pasajes de las metamorfosis de Ovidio. Es un trabajo complejo y caleidoscópico que utiliza un tono y una perspectiva constantemente cambiantes, para presentar puntos de vista contrastantes sobre la naturaleza del amor.

Genre(s): Fantastic Fiction, Poetry

Language: Spanish

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)

Doyle's final novel featuring the beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, brings the detective and his friend to a country manor where they are preceded by either a murder or a suicide. A secretive organization lies culprit and an infiltration of it is in order. (Summary by Katie Riley)

Genre(s): Detective Fiction

Language: English

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Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)

Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and native Americans. He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feeling of dignity to students. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography

Language: English

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Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Translated by José García de Villalta (1801 - 1846)

Víctor Hugo escribió esta obra a raíz de ver a un verdugo ensayando con la guillotina para la ejecución del día siguiente- Quedó de tal manera impresionado que decidió escribir este alegato en contra de la pena de muerte, de la que era detractor absoluto. Hugo nos deja un relato en el que detalla todo lo que puede pasar por la mente de una persona en momentos tan infinitamente duros. Palabras, sentimiento y desolación de un hombre, sin nombre. Podría ser cualquiera...cualquiera.
“Dicen que no es nada, que no se padece apenas, que es un fin muy dulce, y que la muerte está de este modo bastante simplificada. ¿Y qué es, pues, esta agonía de seis semanas y este ahoguío de todo un día? ¿Qué son las angustias de estas irreparables veinte y cuatro horas que pasan tan despacio y tan deprisa? ¿Qué, esta escala de tormentos que va a salir al patíbulo? “ (Summary by Montse González)

Genre(s): Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

Language: Spanish

W. Stewart Wallace (1884 - 1970)

Volume 13 of The Chronicles of Canada Series. This volume sheds light on the often misunderstood Americans who chose to remain loyal to the Crown of England during and after the American Revolution. While the vast majority of American writings which detail the Revolution paint the Loyalists (sometimes called Tories) in the most negative fashion, this volume explains the reasons behind their election to flee to Canada (and other countries) rather than remain on American soil. While no exact numbers exist of Loyalists who fled to Canada in 1783-1784, the estimates of John Adams and others of the time period range in the vicinity of one third of the population, which places that number at about a million. These were not people who fled in fear, rather they were generally people who felt the benefit of support from the British Crown outweighed the support they would receive from the unproven social, financial, and political structures which had yet to be formed. Some were opportunists in search of free land. But all were a brave people who chose to leave the comfort of their homeland to help settle uncharted territories of what we now know as Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia; a people who held their heads high as they settled a largely untamed land. (Introduction by Roger Melin)

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, History, Early Modern

Language: English

Group: Chronicles of Canada Series

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Edgar Wallace (1875 - 1932)

Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scotland Yard, tries to prove his innocence. (Summary by Gesine)

Genre(s): Detective Fiction

Language: English

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Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931)

"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Bennett knew a "rat race" when he saw one. Every day, his fellow white-collar Londoners followed the same old routine. And they routinely decried the sameness in their lives.-- So Bennett set out to explain how to inject new enthusiasm into living. In this delightful little work, he taught his fellow sufferers how to set time apart for improving their lives. Yes, he assured them, it could be done. Yes, if you want to feel connected with the world, instead of endlessly pacing the treadmill (or, "exceeding your programme", as he called it), you must do so.-- For time, as he gleefully notes, is the ultimate democracy. Each of us starts our day with 24 hours to spend. Even a saint gets not a minute more; even the most inveterate time-waster is docked not a second for his wastrel ways. And he can choose today to turn over a new leaf! -- Bennett believed that learning to discern cause and effect in the world would give his readers an endless source of enjoyment and satisfaction. Instead of only being able to discuss what they had heard, they could graduate to what they thought... and lift themselves completely from the deadening influence of a day at the office. (Summary by Mark F Smith)

Genre(s): Self-Help

Language: English

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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Hidden and mistaken identities, requited and unrequited loves, pranks and jokes abound in this romantic comedy. (Summary by Karen Savage)
Cast:
Orsino, Duke of Illyria - Joshua B. Christensen
Sebastian - Madame Tusk
Antonio, a Sea Captain, friend to Sebastian - Alan Davis Drake
A Sea Captain - Kara Shallenberg
Valentine, a gentleman attending on the Duke - Zachary Brewster-Geisz
Curio, a gentleman attending on the Duke - Heather Barnett
Sir Toby Belch, uncle to Olivia - Alan Davis Drake
Sir Andrew Aguecheek - Andy Minter
Malvolio, steward to Olivia - John Gonzalez
Fabian, servant to Olivia - James Rye
Feste the Clown - Larysa Jaworski
Olivia, a rich Countess - Kristin Hughes
Viola - Karen Savage
Maria, Olivia’s waiting woman - Rosalind Wills
Servant - Larysa Jaworski
Priest - J.C.
First Officer - Christie Nowak
Second Officer - Rosalind Wills
Narrator - Gesine

Genre(s): Comedy

Language: English

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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but realized, once he’d passed his 70th year, that a lot of the material might be OK to publish before his departure. These chapters were published in serial form in the North American Review during 1906-1907. While much of the material consists of stories about the people, places and incidents of his long life, there are also several sections from his daughter, which he calls “Susy’s biography of me”. (Summary by John Greenman)

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Humor

Language: English

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Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917)

It is under a deep impression that the place and power of prayer in the Christian life is too little understood, that this book has been written. I feel sure that as long as we look on prayer chiefly as the means of maintaining our own Christian life, we shall not know fully what it is meant to be. But when we learn to regard it as the highest part of the work entrusted to us, the root and strength of all other work, we shall see that there is nothing that we so need to study and practise as the art of praying aright. ... the Father waits to hear every prayer of faith, to give us whatsoever we will, and whatsoever we ask in Jesus’ name. (Andrew Murray, quoted from the Preface of this book)

Genre(s): Self-Help, Christianity - Other

Language: English