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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
- Belletristik
- Englisch
- 111080 Wörter
- Ab 6 Jahren
- 619
- 1
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Tender Is the Night is a novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was his fourth and final completed novel, and was first published in Scribner's Magazine between January–April, 1934 in four issues. The title is taken from the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats.
In 1932, Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was hospitalized for schizophrenia in Baltimore, Maryland. The author rented the "la Paix" estate in the suburb of Towson to work on this book, the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. It was Fitzgerald's first novel in nine years, and the last that he would complete. While working on the book he several times ran out of cash and had to borrow from his editor and agent, and write short stories for commercial magazines. The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald was conceiving and working on the book, were certainly the darkest years of his life, and accordingly, the novel has its bleak elements.
In the novel, Dick is eventually ruined--professionally, emotionally, and spiritually--by his union with Nicole. Of all his novels, Tender Is the Night is arguably the one closest to his heart.
As he himself wrote, "Gatsby was a tour de force, but this is a confession of faith." [mehr]
Stichwörter: Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Literature, Fiction, United States of America, America, Autobiographical novel, Nicole, Dick, Novel
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C. N. WILLIAMSON , A. M. WILLIAMSON
IT HAPPENED IN EGYPT
- Abenteuer
- Englisch
- 142764 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
This one centers around a group of English and American tourists traveling through Egypt. The narrator is Lord Ernest Borrow, an slightly impoverished Irish nobleman whose older brother is the marquis of something or other. He and his pal Anthony Fenton, an army captain stationed in Egypt, think they know where to find a buried treasure, and Lord Ernest has just taken four months’ leave from his job in the diplomatic corps to join Anthony in Egypt. Ernest was born there, but this is the first time he’s been back since he was four.
On the boat over, he runs into Brigit O’Brien, a childhood friend he used to be in love with. Her husband, now dead, was some kind of radical political figure, and Brigit is convinced that his enemies are still after her and her stepdaughter Esme. Brigit’s traveling with Rosamond Gilder, a famous American heiress. She makes up for having such a heroine-y name by going by “Monny”. Brigit thinks that Ernest should marry Monny. Monny’s other traveling companions are a schoolteacher from Salem called Rachel Guest and Monny’s aunt, Mrs. East, who believes herself to be a reincarnation of Cleopatra.
All kinds of stuff happens. There’s a creepy Armenian guy who follows them around, a Turk who married an American girl under false pretenses and is keeping her under lock and key, a possible conspiracy to kidnap Monny — the kidnappers are under the impression that she’s Brigit’s stepdaughter–and various people trying to excavate the spot where Ernest and Anthony hope to find treasure. [mehr]
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Henry James
Italian Hours
- Sammelband
- Englisch
- 127662 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
James alternated between America and Europe for the first 20 years of his life; eventually he settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allows him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.
James contributed significantly to literary criticism, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. James claimed that a text must first and foremost be realistic and contain a representation of life that is recognisable to its readers. Good novels, to James, show life in action and are, most importantly, interesting. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction. An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime, though with limited success. His theatrical work is thought to have profoundly influenced his later novels and tales. [mehr]
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Ernst Haeckel, T. H. Huxley
Freedom in Science and Teaching
- Wissenschaft
- Englisch
- 25945 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (German: [ˈhɛkəl]; February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919[1]) was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.
The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures (see: Kunstformen der Natur, "Art Forms of Nature"). As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote Die Welträtsel (1895–1899, in English, The Riddle of the Universe, 1901), the genesis for the term "world riddle" (Welträtsel); and Freedom in Science and Teaching[2] to support teaching evolution
Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS FLS (/ˈhʌksli/; 4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist (comparative anatomist), known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.[1]
Huxley's famous debate in 1860 with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution and in his own career. Huxley had been planning to leave Oxford on the previous day, but, after an encounter with Robert Chambers, the author of Vestiges, he changed his mind and decided to join the debate. Wilberforce was coached by Richard Owen, against whom Huxley also debated about whether humans were closely related to apes.
Huxley was slow to accept some of Darwin's ideas, such as gradualism, and was undecided about natural selection, but despite this he was wholehearted in his public support of Darwin. Instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain, he fought against the more extreme versions of religious tradition. [mehr]
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Gerald Allan Sohl
THE HAND
- Ratgeber
- Englisch
- 4237 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Gerald Allan Sohl Sr. (December 2, 1913 - November 4, 2002) was an American scriptwriter for The Twilight Zone (as a ghostwriter for Charles Beaumont), Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: The Original Series (using pseudonym "Nathan Butler"), and other shows. He also wrote novels, feature film scripts, and the nonfiction works Underhanded Chess and Underhanded Bridge in 1973.
New York Times reviewer Villiers Gerson described his 1953 novel The Transcendent Man as "contain[ing] enough twists to afford the reader a few hours' entertainment" despite being "oversimplified in motivation."[1] P. Schuyler Miller found the plot unconvincing.[2] Gerson later panned Sohl's The Altered Ego, saying "This wordy book lacks characterization, emotion, suspense, and interest."[3]
His 1955 Point Ultimate is a piece of Cold War invasion literature: in 1999, a faraway future history at the time of writing, the US lies under a cruel Soviet occupation, reinforced by a deadly artificial disease which makes conquered Americans dependent on the conquerors for the injections which keep them alive. But a dashing Illinois farm boy breaks out in revolt, killing a degenerate soviet governor and his "Commie" American collaborators. Eventually, he becomes a leading member of a very formidable resistance organization which is capable of breaking at will into the occupiers' security headquarters and springing prisoners out, and which had already established a clandestine space program under the Soviets' noses and established a sizable colony on Mars.
In the far more low-key The Time Dissolver (1957), Sohl tells the story of a man and a woman who wake up one morning to find that they had inexplicably lost all memory of the past eleven years including any memory of how they ever came to meet and become married to each other, and who embark on a quest to find what happened and to trace back these eleven lost years. Aside from the science fiction aspects, the book captures the atmosphere of late 1950s America. [mehr]
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Noah Daniels
Internet Marketing Survival Guide
Surviving your first year in the IM business
- Ratgeber
- Englisch
- 8892 Wörter
- Ab 6 Jahren
- 240
Wouldn't you like to turn your ideas about making money on the Internet into a successful business that provides you with a reliable source of perpetual cash?
Well, we would love to show you exactly how you can do this with our valuable eBook Internet Marketing Survival Guide. There is a wrong way to market on the Internet that can quickly cause you to go broke and result in failure. Yet, there is also a correct way to market on the Web that will result in a steady increase of cash flow through effective marketing strategy. Let us provide you with the info you will need to understand the difference and make the right informed decisions so that your venture is a success rather than a failure.
Did you know that Forrester Research has predicted that by 2016, more than half of the dollars spent on retail sales in the United States will have been influenced by the Internet? Wouldn't you like to get a high percentage of that cash for your products or services? We are going to show you exactly what you need to do in order to accomplish that objective through strategic Internet marketing techniques.
But Internet Marketing Survival Guide is much more than just a book of basic information ... it's not only packed full of valuable knowledge that will be the key to your success, but will provide you with insight and how-to info that you will need to effectively develop your business and rock the Web with your brand!
Here is Some of the Valuable Information You Will Discover by Reading
Internet Marketing Survival Guide:
- Avoiding the Error of Staring the Wrong Way
- Correctly Perceiving Your Venture as a Business
- Clearly Identifying Your Goals and Objectives
- Establishing an Effective Plan for Success
- Ramping Up Your Operations for Profitability
- Getting the Appropriate Help You Need
- Retaining Much of Your Cash with Free Tools and Resources
And much, much more ... [mehr]
Stichwörter: business, successful business, marketing strategy, marketing techniques, Internet Marketing
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Noah Daniels
SEO Basics
Learn the Secrets to the Search Engines
- Ratgeber
- Englisch
- 3246 Wörter
- Ab 6 Jahren
- 253
Wouldn't you like to rank at the top of search results on websites like Google, Yahoo and Bing in order to receive quality traffic for free?
Well, now we want to show you how with our valuable eBook SEO Basics. Search Engine Optimization isn't just another business strategy that you can ignore, but the key to your success within the highly completive Internet marketplace. Let us guide you and advise you with the SEO info you will need to increase your profitability and turn your Web business into an Internet success story. We want to help you learn the basics and beyond so that you can implement what you will discover into your own website.
Did you know that billions of dollars are now being spent every year on paid search, much of what you can get for free it you correctly transform your Web operations utilizing SEO strategy? For those who don't have thousands of dollars to waste, making your website search engine friendly is the way to help your business thrive and prosper. We have all the tips and techniques that will show you the way so you can compete with those who have all the bucks to spend.
But SEO Basics is not just a general book of basic info ... it's much more than that. It also provides valuable insight on exactly how you can achieve greater results than others who only have a limited knowledge of SEO!
Below is the Valuable Information You Will Discover in SEO Basics:
- SEO Basics and What to Avoid
- Determining Your Search Ranking Potential
- Keyword Research and Placement
- Proper Strategy for Keyword Links
- Creating an Effective Site Map
- Utilizing Search Friendly URLs
- Tactical Fresh Content and Image Descriptions
And much, much more ... [mehr]
Stichwörter: SEO Basics, Keyword Research, Site Map, Search Friendly URLs, Fresh Content, Search Ranking Potential, Search Engine
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Noah Daniels
DASH Diet Dynamite
Lower Cholesterol And Blood Pressure Naturally
- Ratgeber
- Englisch
- 5284 Wörter
- Ab 6 Jahren
- 200
Obesity is on the rise! The state of obesity in the world today is a concern for all governments especially those in developed countries and with this comes the rise of hypertension and high cholesterol levels. Despite the efforts these governments have taken, the epidemic seems to become more serious. It affects both children as well as adults. The main reason for the growth of this epidemic is lack of proper diet among the people. Most of the people have limited physical exercises as children spend a lot of time playing video and internet games or watching television.
Although this is a big epidemic, there is a solution...
A Beginners Guide To The DASH Diet
This is not a fad diet, or short term weight loss program that sometimes makes you worse off than before you started. This is a proven system to regain your health, drop cholesterol levels and kill off hypertension
Unlike normal diets, the DASH is not a deprivation diet.
The DASH diet is among the most established diets used for the management of hypertension. It has been formulated based on scientific evidences conducted by experts in the field of medicine. Many individuals are currently using the diet as recommended by their physicians to achieve regulated blood pressure levels.
- Learn Exactly What The DASH Diet Is
- Discover The Key To Properly Planning Your DASH Diet
- Practical Advice On The Best Foods To Eat On The DASH Diet
- How To Shop Smart And Buy Foods That Are Nutritionally Sound
And Much, Much More..
This powerful guide will provide you with all the neccessary information to easily transition you into living a healthy lifestyle and finally achieve your dream of dropping cholesterol and stopping hypertension in it's tracks. [mehr]
Stichwörter: Diet Plan, Obesity, high cholesterol, weight loss, blood pressure, healthy lifestyle, dropping cholesterol
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YHOMAS CARLYLE, RALPH WALDO EMERSON
THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON, VOLUME I
1834-1872
- Fantasy
- Englisch
- 90568 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher.[1]Considered one of the most important social commentators of his time, he presented many lectures during his lifetime with certain acclaim in the Victorian era. One of those conferences resulted in his famous work On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History where he explains that the key role in history lies in the actions of the "Great Man", claiming that "History is nothing but the biography of the Great Man".
He was a very respected historian and his book The French Revolution: A History remains popular nowadays and it was the inspiration for Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is considered one of the finest works of the 19th century.
A great polemicist, he called economics "the dismal science",[2] wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia[3] and his Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question remains controversial.[4] Once a Christian, he lost his faith while attending the University of Edinburgh, embracing later a form of Deism.[5] His philosophy, combined with his appreciation of the German culture, the Norse mythology and his anti-democratic views, is considered by some a prelude for fascism.
In mathematics, he is known for the Carlyle circle,[6] a method used in quadratic equations and for developing ruler-and-compass constructions of regular polygons. [mehr]
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Henry James
The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)
- Belletristik
- Englisch
- 69923 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-English writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
James alternated between America and Europe for the first 20 years of his life; eventually he settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allows him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.
James contributed significantly to literary criticism, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. James claimed that a text must first and foremost be realistic and contain a representation of life that is recognisable to its readers. Good novels, to James, show life in action and are, most importantly, interesting. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction. An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime, though with limited success when compared to the success of his novels. James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912 and 1916.[1] [mehr]
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