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Paula Shene Is Today's Generation Worse

Family & Relationships
English
1587 Words
No Age Recommendation
319
4

originally appeared in angiesdiary.com

Keywords: angisdiary.com, opinion, generations, wars, mores, genocide

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Paula Louise Shene Daddy ~

The Missing King

Family & Relationships
English
415 Words
Ages 8 and up
447
2

Reflective of mores and the heartache that ensues when a parent is only in the picture part [more]

Keywords: Daddy, fatherhood, Father's Day, heartache

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Various Sporting Society, Vol. II (Of 2) Or, Sporting Chat And Sporting Memories

Short Story
English
77327 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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"O tempora! O mores!" how our grandsires would stare if they could only see how differently sporting in all [more]

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Bruce Alan Humphrey Winds of Time

Science Fiction
English
5293 Words
No Age Recommendation
1315
22

Author Bruce Alan Humphrey creates a fascinating world where medieval mores and cutting-edge technology converge. Winds of Time tells the gripping tale of Tarl Cray who is on a mission to reunite his homeland. Two hundred years in the future, the nation is divided into intensely territorial sovereignties with intermittent violence and chaos. Barter trade for survival is the only civil exchange between factions. Now, an outside force is threatening to take over the one time great but now battle-weary country. Can Tarl, imbued with the ability to metamorphose into anyone, convince the warlords to reunite and face the impending larger threat? Immerse yourself in Winds of Time. [more]

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John Bell Bouton Round The Block (fiscle Part-IV)

Fiction
English
155625 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

In Round the Block (1864), John Bell Bouton, a newspaper editor who later became a travel writer, stirs together comedy and pathos to explore the schemes and dreams of the average and extraordinary people inhabiting and intermingling on a single New York City block. In the path of the novel's circumambulation lie mystery, romance, and a murder trial, as love-matches and fortunes are made and lost through invention, speculation, and flimflam - plenty of flimflam. This richly-charactered novel, told with Dickensian brio, offers a fascinating slice of life, vivid in detail, of the bustling big-city habits and mores of America shortly before the Civil War. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock) [more]

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Willy Rencin Unser Herr Jehova auf Reisen

Humor
German
3191 Words
Ages 12 and up
187
1

Unser Herr Jehova wandelte wieder einmal unerkannt auf Erden. Abseits der Großstadt war er in ein sehr nobles Wohnviertel gekommen. Überall gepflegte Gärten und darin Villen, die darauf schließen ließen, dass die Bewohner nicht der ärmeren Bevölkerungsschicht angehörten. Oft hatte man dem Herrn Jehova beigebracht, dass die Besitzenden wenig gastfreundlich seien, im Gegensatz zu den Armen, die den letzten Bissen Brot zu teilen bereit wären. Eigentlich war das unserem Herrn Jehova s.....egal, was die Menschen auf Erden anstellten, das "Jüngste Gericht" würde sie schon Mores lehren; diesen Schlawinern. Aufzeigen, wo der Bartel seinen Most holt! Trotzdem beschloss er, die Probe aufs Exempel zu machen. Bonus; Himmliches Vesper Zeigt uns den Alltag der "Heiligen Familie, die das sind; Gott-Vater, Frau Maria, Sohn Jesus, Maria Magdalene, den treuen und bibelfesten Petrus, den Freigänger Luzifer und Erzengel Gabriel. [more]

Keywords: Gott, Jehova, Maria, Satan, Maria Magdalene, Petrus, Gabriel, Humor, Satire, Sketsch, Kurzgeschichte, Jehovas Reise

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Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Fiction
English
148448 Words
Ages 14 and up
318
2

Tess of the d'Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy. Though now considered an important work of English literature, the book received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual mores of Hardy's day. Hardy's writing often illustrates the "ache of modernism", and this theme is notable in Tess, which, as one critic noted, portrays "the energy of traditional ways and the strength of the forces that are destroying them". Hardy describes modern farm machinery with infernal imagery; also, at the dairy, he notes that the milk sent to the city must be watered down because the townspeople cannot stomach whole milk. Angel's middle-class fastidiousness makes him reject Tess, a woman whom Hardy often portrays as a sort of Wessex Eve, in harmony with the natural world. When he parts from her and goes to Brazil, the handsome young man gets so ill that he is reduced to a "mere yellow skeleton". All these instances are typically interpreted as indications of the negative consequences of man's separation from nature, both in the creation of destructive machinery and in the inability to rejoice in pure nature. Another important theme of the novel is the sexual double standard to which Tess falls victim; despite being, in Hardy's view, a truly good woman, she is despised by society after losing her virginity before marriage. Hardy plays the role of Tess's only true friend and advocate, pointedly subtitling the book "a pure woman faithfully presented" and prefacing it with Shakespeare's words from The Two Gentlemen of Verona: "Poor wounded name! My bosom as a bed/ Shall lodge thee." However, although Hardy clearly means to criticise Victorian notions of female purity, the double standard also makes the heroine's tragedy possible, and thus serves as a mechanism of Tess's broader fate. Hardy variously hints that Tess must suffer either to atone for the misdeeds of her ancestors, or to provide temporary amusement for the gods, or because she possesses some small but lethal character flaw inherited from the ancient clan. [more]

Keywords: tess of the d ubervilles, thomas hardy, historical fiction, classic literature, english history, paganism, satire

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