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A Miscellany of Men
by G. K. ChestertonA Miscellany of Men is a collection of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. It discusses everyday and contemporary topics of 20th century Europe.Covering topics ranging from literature to philosophy, history to social criticism, this is a snapshot of thought on 20th-century Europe (and the world) by one of Europe's sharpest wits and ablest pens. Wit..
Childhood
by Graf Leo TolstoyChildhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, ear..
Boyhood
by Graf Leo TolstoyBoyhood is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, following Childhood and followed by Youth. The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal Sovremennik in 1854. Begun in 1851, when Tolstoy was twenty-three and serving as a cadet in the Russian army, Childhood, the first part of Tolstoy’s first novel, won imm..
What I Believe
by Graf Leo TolstoyWhat I Believe is Leo Tolstoy’s follow-up to A Confession in which he describes his profound existential crisis. In A Confession Tolstoy describes how, at age 50, when he was at the height of his worldly success, he became so depressed that he wanted to commit suicide. In desperation he turned to the Orthodox church of his childhood and discovered ..
Youth
by Isaac AsimovYouth is a science fiction short story written by Isaac Asimov. Two kids while playing found small & unique animals like creatures and take it to their custody for fun play. Meanwhile their father an Astronomer has been contacted by aliens to seek support to find their space ship which has lost communication from them. The Astronomer on his way to..
Gospel In Brief
by Graf Leo TolstoyThe Gospel in Brief is a 1902 synthesis of the four gospels of the New Testament into one narrative of the life of Jesus by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The account presented in Tolstoy's gospel is also notable in its sharp contrast with the contemporaneous views of the Russian Orthodox Church. Tolstoy was a fierce critic of the Russian O..
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
by Edith WhartonFighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort is composed, in part, from magazine articles by the American writer Edith Wharton on her time in France during the First World War, including her visits to the French sectors of the Western Front. "Four of the articles originally appeared in Scribner's Magazine" in 1915...
France At War: On the Frontier of Civilization
by Rudyard KiplingThere was a specimen tree—a tree worthy of such a park—the sort of tree visitors are always taken to admire. A ladder ran up it to a platform. What little wind there was swayed the tall top, and the ladder creaked like a ship's gangway. A telephone bell tinkled 50 foot overhead. Two invisible guns spoke fervently for half a minute, and broke off li..