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Arthur Anderson Enigma on Rails: Disappearance in Springmonth

Mystery & Crime
English
4521 Words
Ages 6 and up
19
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"Enigma on Rails: Disappearance in Springmonth" is an exciting journey that will immerse you in a mysterious and intriguing enigma. In the peaceful town of Springmonth, a high-speed train journey to Viersament becomes the backdrop for an unprecedented mystery. When Bram, a shady business dealer, disappears in the middle of the journey, a series of events is set in motion that will challenge the lead detective and the passengers to solve the enigma. As the train moves forward and the intrigue unfolds, secrets are revealed, and tensions escalate. How is it possible for someone to vanish on a moving train? What secrets does Bram hide? What roles do the other characters play in this suspenseful story? Get ready to delve into a plot filled with unexpected twists as you immerse yourself in the dark secrets surrounding these passengers. Will the detective manage to unravel the enigma before the train reaches its destination? Immerse yourself in this thrilling tale and accompany the characters on their quest for answers as they face tension, suspicion, and suspense on every page. "Enigma on Rails" will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final chapter, where the mystery will finally be solved, closing a chapter filled with mystery and excitement. ¿Are you ready to discover the enigma hidden on the train rails? [more]

Keywords: Psychological, Fiction Suspense, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective, Private Investigators

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William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Fiction
English
301277 Words
Ages 8 and up
237
3

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray. The subtitle, A Novel without a Hero, is apt because the characters are all flawed to a greater or lesser degree; even the most sympathetic have weaknesses, for example Captain Dobbin, who is prone to vanity and melancholy. The human weaknesses Thackeray illustrates are mostly to do with greed, idleness, and snobbery, and the scheming, deceit and hypocrisy which mask them. None of the characters are wholly evil, although Becky's psychopathic tendencies make her come pretty close. However, even Becky, who is amoral and cunning, is thrown on her own resources by poverty and its stigma. (She is the orphaned daughter of a poor artist and an opera dancer.) Thackeray's tendency to highlight faults in all of his characters displays his desire for a greater level of realism in his fiction compared to the rather unlikely or idealized people in many contemporary novels. The novel is a satire of society as a whole, characterized by hypocrisy and opportunism, but it is not a reforming novel; there is no suggestion that social or political changes, or greater piety and moral reformism could improve the nature of society. It thus paints a fairly bleak view of the human condition. This bleak portrait is continued with Thackeray's own role as an omniscient narrator, one of the writers best known for using the technique. He continually offers asides about his characters and compares them to actors and puppets, but his scorn goes even as far as his readers; accusing all who may be interested in such "Vanity Fairs" as being either "of a lazy, or a benevolent, or a sarcastic mood". [more]

Keywords: vanity fair, thackeray, historical romance, social satire, psychological fiction, character studies, drama, tragedy

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Guy De Maupassant Pierre and Jean

Fiction
English
45691 Words
Ages 8 and up
217
2

Pierre and Jean is a naturalist or psycho-realist work written by Guy de Maupassant. Pierre and Jean are the sons of Gérôme Roland, a jeweller who has retired to Le Havre, and his wife Louise. Pierre works as a doctor, and Jean is a lawyer. It recounts the story of a middle-class French family whose lives are changed when Léon Maréchal, a deceased family friend, leaves his inheritance to Jean. This provokes Pierre to doubt the fidelity of his mother and the legitimacy of his brother. Pierre discovers that his theories about his brother's illegitimacy are correct when he finds and reads old letters that his mother and Léon Marechal had been sending to each other. This investigation sparks violent reactions in Pierre, whose external appearance vis a vis his mother visibly changes. In his anguish, most notably shown during family meals, he tortures her with allusions to the past that he has now uncovered. Meanwhile, Jean's career and love life improve over the course of the novel while Pierre's life gets significantly worse. Provoked by his brother's accusations of jealousy, Pierre reveals to Jean what he has learned. However, unlike Pierre, Jean offers his mother love and protection. The novel closes with Pierre’s departure on an oceanliner. Thus the novel is organised around the unwelcome appearance of a truth (Jean’s illegitimacy), its suppression for the sake of family continuity and the acquisition of wealth, and the expulsion from the family of the legitimate son. [more]

Keywords: pierre and jean, maupassant, modern literature, family, naturalism, realism, psychological fiction, coming of age

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Guy De Maupassant Yvette

Fiction
English
24630 Words
Ages 8 and up
202
2

Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She seems to be oblivious of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when she goes away to a holiday at the river, she realizes that the Baron Saval is engaging her mother in such activities and she suddenly feels dirty. She wants to get away from her fate and so tries to inveigle her mother into the idea of living as honest women. However, the Marquise refuses, and explains that they would never be able to survive as working women. That their life of luxury would be so horrifically reduced. Yvette seems to suddenly have no choice. She must kill herself. Through chloroform. So, she goes from pharmacist to pharmacist and collects small vials of it and eventually has a sufficient amount. Before she commits the act, she runs around the town with her mother's guests, making them silly things such as pretending to go to war, riding children's horses, making army noises. Instead of killing herself through chloroform, she accidentally induces a psychedelic trip, and she decides not to kill herself, but keeps on inducing trips instead. It was greatly described, the way she was so resolute on dying, and how quickly she changed her mind to just get high. [more]

Keywords: yvette, maupassant, modern literature, psychological fiction, coming of age, romantic thriller, historical novel

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Edith Wharton House of Mirth

Fiction
English
129126 Words
Ages 8 and up
188
2

House of Mirth is written in the style of a novel of manners, set against the backdrop of the 1890s New York aristocracy, it is considered American literary naturalism. Wharton places her tragic heroine, Lily Bart, in a society that she describes as a "hot-house of traditions and conventions." House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mutual respect and love. She sabotages all her possible opportunities for a wealthy marriage, loses the esteem of her social circle, and dies young, poor, and alone. [more]

Keywords: the house of mirth, edith wharton, historical romance, social satire, drama and tragedy, psychological fiction

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Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh

Fiction
English
162010 Words
Ages 12 and up
308
2

The Way of All Flesh is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Way of All Flesh twelfth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The story is narrated by Overton, godfather to the central character. The novel takes its beginnings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to trace Ernest's emergence from previous generations of the Pontifex family. John Pontifex was a carpenter; his son George rises in the world to become a publisher; George's son Theobald, pressed by his father to become a minister, is manipulated into marrying Christina, the daughter of a clergyman; the main character Ernest Pontifex is the eldest son of Theobald and Christina. The author depicts an antagonistic relationship between Ernest and his hypocritical and domineering parents. His aunt Alethea is aware of this relationship, but dies before she can fulfill her aim of counteracting the parents' malign influence on the boy. However, shortly before her death she secretly passes a small fortune into Overton's keeping, with the agreement that once Ernest is twenty-eight, he can receive it. As Ernest develops into a young man, he travels a bumpy theological road, reflecting the divisions and controversies in the Church of England in the Victorian era. Easily influenced by others at university, he starts out as an Evangelical Christian, and soon becomes a clergyman. He then falls for the lures of the High Church (and is duped out of much of his own money by a fellow clergyman). He decides that the way to regenerate the Church of England is to live among the poor, but the results are, first, that his faith in the integrity of the Bible is severely damaged by a conversation with one of the poor he was hoping to redeem, and, second, that under the pressures of poverty and theological doubt, he attempts a sexual assault on a woman he had incorrectly believed to be of loose morals. This assault leads to a prison term. His parents disown him. His health deteriorates. As he recovers he learns how to tailor and decides to make this his profession once out of prison. He loses his Christian faith. He marries Ellen, a former housemaid of his parents, and they have two children and set up shop together in the second-hand clothing industry. However, in due course he discovers that Ellen is both a bigamist and an alcoholic. Overton at this point intervenes and pays Ellen a stipend, and she happily leaves with another for America. He gives Ernest a job, and takes him on a trip to Continental Europe. In due course Ernest becomes 28, and receives his aunt Alethea's gift. He returns to the family home until his parents die: his father's influence over him wanes as Theobald's own position as a clergyman is reduced in stature, though to the end Theobald finds small ways purposefully to annoy him. Ernest becomes an author of controversial literature. [more]

Keywords: the way of all flesh, samuel butler, classic english literature, satire, psychological fiction, epic drama, biographical

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Nataliya Lang One Heart Is All I Have. Part 1

Drama
English
95584 Words
Ages 16 and up
561
0

The GDR no longer exists, but people continue to live ruined lives. The same is true for Eduard, a former political prisoner who, more than thirty years after the reunification of Germany, cannot free himself from the horrors of life in the GDR. His journey has included failed love, being stalked by the Stasi, imprisonment, and a dysfunctional family life. When he meets a novice writer at an airport, he suggests to her that his life could be a good subject for her new book. Anna is interested in working with him, but she also has plenty of doubts, since this man clearly has an aversion to women. What is more, Eduard imposes his own terms… [more]

Keywords: english books, english ebooks, romance english, historical romance, Germany, GDR, Stasi, affection, lovesickness, mystical drama, psychological fiction, hell, dramatic, historical, biografical

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Romit Deb Fiction

Fiction
English
10349 Words
No Age Recommendation
388
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Fiction is an incredibly beautiful collection of short stories with significant social messages. Fiction will take you through [more]

Keywords: fiction, love, romance, drama, emotion, family, bengali, kolkata, relationship, friendship

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Mehdi A, Mehdi A Fiction

Fiction
English
2320 Words
Ages 6 and up
273
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Hugo Muensterberg Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1

Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory

Philosophy
English
229450 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

Hugo Münsterberg (June 1, 1863 – December 16, 1916) was a German-American psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in applied psychology, extending his research and theories to Industrial/Organizational (I/O), legal, medical, clinical, educational and business settings. Münsterberg encountered immense turmoil with the outbreak of the First World War. Torn between his loyalty to America and his homeland, he often defended Germany's actions, attracting highly contrasting reactions. [more]

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