La lettera scarlatta.
La celebre opera di Nathaniel Hawthorne, ambientata nella Nuova Inghilterra puritana del XVII secolo, si può scaricare gratis, in formato pdf o epub, e come audiolibro. La traduzione è stata concessa dagli eredi di Marcella Bonfanti. Acquistandola invece per 2 euro, finanzierete le spese dei server; il link è
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La lettera scarlatta
Traduzione di Marcella Bonsanti. Si ringrazia la famiglia Bonsanti per averci concesso i diritti per la pubblicazione della traduzione.Liber Liber
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20 Maps That Changed the World
How we illustrate the world affects how we experience it.
By Lorna Wallace
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"What remains?" cried Ivanhoe; "Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name."
#OTD in 1819.
Walter Scott's popular Waverley Novel Ivanhoe is published anonymously in 3 volumes by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh, dated 1820. A chivalric romance set in 12th-century England, it represents a move away from Scott setting his fiction in Scotland.
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#OTD in 1893.
The first story featuring the private detective character Sexton Blake, "The Missing Millionaire", appears in Alfred Harmsworth's new boys' story paper The Halfpenny Marvel, written by Harry Blyth under the pen-name Hal Meredeth.
Sexton Blake adventures were featured in a wide variety of British and international publications from 1893 to 1978, comprising more than 4,000 stories by some 200 different authors.
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#OTD in 1922.
Jean Cocteau's Antigone appears at the reopened Théâtre de l'Atelier in the Montmartre district of Paris, with sets by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Génica Athanasiou plays the title rôle, with Charles Dullin as Créon and Antonin Artaud as Tiresias. There are Dadaist protests.
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49 Chiavi: video-libro-gioco
49 Chiavi, librogioco di Michele Bonanno con le illustrazioni di Fabio Porfidia, è già da un po’ che riposava nella mia libreria: è stato pubblicato (da Aristea, nella collana Per Speculum) due ann…ossessioni e contaminazioni by francesco mazzetta
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None of These Books Exist. An Inventive New Exhibition Asks: What If They Did?
“Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books” spotlights more than 100 texts written (or invented) by the likes of Shakespeare, Byron and Hemingway
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None of These Books Exist. An Inventive New Exhibition Asks: What If They Did?
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I tessitori.
Dramma politico-sociale di Gerhart Hauptmann, che si ispira alla rivolta dei tessitori della Slesia del 1844. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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I tessitori
Dramma dal contenuto politico-sociale che ha per tema centrale la rivolta slesiana dei tessitori di fustagno a Kaschbach, Langenbielau e Peterswaldau del 1844, che già ispirò una nota poesia di Heine.Liber Liber
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Images de Port-Royal. Tome IV. Antoine Arnauld
Le présent ouvrage est consacré au docteur en théologie Antoine Arnauld. Il propose au lecteur des extraits de son Journal, des lettres choisies et des indications sur sa disparition.Classiques Garnier
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"THE times that tried men's souls," are over- and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished."
#OTD in 1776.
Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis". Paine signed the pamphlets with the pseudonym, "Common Sense".
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"Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction ... for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it."
#OTD in 1903.
The first of G. K. Chesterton's short stories in the series The Club of Queer Trades, "The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown", appears in Harper's Weekly.
Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means.
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"Thus, after pursuing those images, I overtook them. Now I know that I invented them. But inventing is a creation, not a lie."
La coscienza di Zeno (1923)
#OTD in 1928.
Italo Svevo (Aron Schmitz), returning from an Alpine resort to Trieste, suffers a car accident. He dies next day leaving his novel Il Vegliardo (The Old Man) unfinished in mid-word.
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People who are good at reading have different brains
What kind of brain structure do good readers actually have?
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Una donna pura.
Più noto con il sottotitolo Tess dei D'Urberville, questo capolavoro di Thomas Hardy è uno dei romanzi inglesi più celebri del XIX secolo. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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Una donna pura
L’opera, inizialmente rifiutata dagli editori, fu infine pubblicata con il titolo Tess of the Urbervilles : A Pure Woman la prima volta a puntate, in una versione censurata, sul quotidiano illustrato “The Graphic” (XLIV, luglio-dicembre 1891); nello …Liber Liber
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Jean Sammet: An Accidental Computer Programmer
The IBM programming language specialist helped develop Cobol in 1959
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J. J. Thomson, who was born #OTD in 1856, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.
Thomson was also a teacher, and seven of his students went on to win Nobel Prizes: Ernest Rutherford, Lawrence Bragg, Charles Barkla, Francis Aston, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Richardson and Edward Victor Appleton.
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"An active line on a walk, moving freely without a goal. A walk for walk's sake. The agent is a point that shifts position."
Pedagogical Sketchbook (1925)
~Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940)
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#OTD in 1870.
The Russian literary weekly Niva is first published by Adolf Marks in Saint Petersburg.
It featured serialized works by major Russian authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, & Anton Chekhov, making literature accessible to the masses. Later science and literature supplements were added, as well as a children's section; by the end of the century, the most important premium was the collected works of Russian classical authors.
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#OTD in 1873.
Louisa May Alcott's family satire "Transcendental Wild Oats" is published in the newspaper The Independent.
The work was first published in a New York newspaper in 1873, and reprinted in 1874, 1876, and 1915 and after. Alcott's view of male arrogance and female exploitation in this piece is paralleled in her novel Work, published in the same year as Transcendental Wild Oats.
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Silver Pitchers: and Independence, a Centennial Love Story by Louisa May Alcott
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#OTD in 1902.
Maxim Gorky's drama The Lower Depths – Scenes from Russian Life is first performed, at the Moscow Art Theatre, as a first major success for Konstantin Stanislavsky as director and star. It became his first major success, and a hallmark of Russian social realism.
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"Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want respect for every man — who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?"
The Lower Depths (1902)
~Maxim Gorky (28 March 1868 - 14 June 1936)
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The Tempest: Shakespeare’s Tale of Magic, Power, and Forgiveness
The Tempest is one of William Shakespeare's most mature plays. Read on to find out more about its magical plotline and various themes.
By Agnes Theresa Oberauer
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Il cerchio si chiude.
Romanzo di Knut Hamsun, norvegese e premio Nobel per la letteratura, descrive diverse relazioni complesse e destinate all'incomprensione e fallimento. Si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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Il cerchio si chiude
Aveva 77 anni Hamsun quando fu pubblicato, nel 1936, Ringen Sluttet (Il cerchio si chiude). Forse non la sua opera migliore ma pur sempre testimonianza di una solida e persistente capacità di interpretare l’arte della narrazione che aveva animato i s…Liber Liber
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Mary Cartwright, English mathematician & academic, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos, was born #OTD in 1900.
Along with J. E. Littlewood, Cartwright saw many solutions to a problem which would later be seen as an example of the butterfly effect. In 1947, she was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society; although she was not the first woman to be elected to that Society, she was the first female mathematician.
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" I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."
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English author, poet, and playwright Dorothy L. Sayers died #OTD in 1957. Sayers is most famous for her detective novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, an aristocratic amateur sleuth. She wrote several plays, including The Zeal of Thy House and The Man Born to Be King. Sayers also translated major works, notably Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humor."
Annotations: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.
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Replicating Shakespearean-era printing brings its own dramas and comedy
This video from the London Review of Books (LRB) celebrates the Folio’s 400th anniversary by documenting an audacious attempt to replicate the methods used to print the book at the time of its original release.
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Imprudente Scandalo
Claudio Imprudente parla di sé stesso come “scandalo” e invita i suoi lettori e le sue lettrici ad essere nella società odierna “scandalo” al pari di lui. Ma cos’è lo “scandalo”? Wikipedia definisc…ossessioni e contaminazioni by francesco mazzetta
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Gli ammutinati del Bounty.
Il noto romanzo, che si basa su un episodio vero e descritto in numerosi film, è stato scritto da Hall e Nordhoff, e si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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Gli ammutinati del Bounty
Vedi: Gli ammutinati del Bounty di Charles Nordhoff e James Norman Hall. In questo romanzo del 1932 è un giovane aspirante ufficiale a nome Roger Byam a raccontare in prima persona il famosissimo ammutinamento del Bounty, nave mercantile inglese arma…Liber Liber
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Surreptitious Scents
A new catalog invites us into the artist’s interest in smell and the role of perfumes during the Renaissance, with bonus recipes for those with a nose for fragrance.
By Maya Pontone
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English novelist Jane Austen was born #OTD in 1775.
Austen is known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century: Sense and Sensibility (1811); Pride and Prejudice (1813); Mansfield Park (1814); Emma (1815); Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (published posthumously, 1818).
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I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life ... No, I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
Letter to Mr. Clarke (1816-04-01)
~Jane Austen (December 16 1775 – July 18 1817)
Harvard and Google to release 1 million public-domain books as AI training dataset
By Paul Sawers
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#OTD in 1893.
Establishment, in Yorkshire (England), of the Brontë Society, possibly the oldest literary society of this nature, dedicated to establishing what will become the Brontë Parsonage Museum. The museum is in the former Brontë family home, the parsonage in Haworth, West Yorkshire, England, where the sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their famous novels.
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#OTD in 1911.
The U.K. Copyright Act consolidates copyright law in the British Empire and confirms the six libraries to which a copy of every book published in the U.K. must be deposited by the publisher: the British Museum Library (London); the Bodleian Library (Oxford); the Advocates Library (Edinburgh); the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College Dublin; and Cambridge University Library.
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Il monismo quale vincolo tra religione e scienza.
Opera filosofica dello scienziato-filosofo Ernest Heinrich Haeckel, si può scaricare gratis, in pdf, da:
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Il Monismo, quale vincolo fra religione e scienza
Filosoficamente si intende per monismo il genere di pensiero che ammette un unico genere di sostanza. I materialisti hanno di fatto monopolizzato il termine soprattutto in seguito alla popolarità acquisita dallo scritto di Haeckel – Der Monismus als …Liber Liber
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