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"The Great Jazz Age Novel
The 1925 Original Version, with Classroom History
The Great Gatsby is considered F. Scott Fitzgerald's magnum opus, exploring themes of decadence, idealism, social stigmas, patriarchal norms, and the deleterious effects of unencumbered wealth in capitalistic society, set against the backdrop of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. At its heart, it's a cautionary tale, a revealing look into the darker side to the American Dream.
'When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the 'creative temperament'—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men...'"
"Nearly three thousand years after they were composed, The Iliad and The Odyssey remain two of the most celebrated and widely read stories ever told, yet next to nothing is known about their author. He was certainly an accomplished Greek bard, and he probably lived in the late eighth and early seventh centuries BCE Authorship is traditionally ascribed to a blind poet named Homer, and it is under this name that the works are still published. Greeks of the third and second centuries BCE, however, already questioned whether Homer existed and whether the two epics were even written by a single individual.
Most modern scholars believe that even if a single person wrote the epics, his work owed a tremendous debt to a long tradition of unwritten, oral poetry. Stories of a glorious expedition to the East and of its leaders' fateful journeys home had been circulating in Greece for hundreds of years before The Iliad and The Odyssey were composed. Casual storytellers and semiprofessional minstrels passed these stories down through generations, with each artist developing and polishing the story as he told it. According to this theory, one poet, multiple poets working in collaboration, or perhaps even a series of poets handing down their work in succession finally turned these stories into written works, again with each adding his own touch and expanding or contracting certain episodes in the overall narrative to fit his taste."
"The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. After the war, which lasted ten years, his journey lasted for ten additional years, during which time he encountered many perils and all his crew mates were killed. In his absence, Odysseus was assumed dead, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus had to contend with a group of unruly suitors who were competing for Penelope's hand in marriage.
The Odyssey was originally composed in Homeric Greek in around the 8th or 7th century BCE and, by the mid-6th century BCE, had become part of the Greek literary canon. In antiquity, Homer's authorship of the poem was not questioned, but contemporary scholarship predominantly assumes that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed independently and that the stories formed as part of a long oral tradition. Given widespread illiteracy, the poem was performed by an aoidos or rhapsode and was more likely to be heard than read."
"The Iliad is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. It contains 15,693 lines in its most widely accepted version. Set towards the end of the Trojan War, a ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek states, the poem depicts significant events in the siege's final weeks. In particular, it depicts a fierce quarrel between King Agamemnon and a celebrated warrior, Achilles. It is a central part of the Epic Cycle. The Iliad is often regarded as the first substantial piece of European literature.
The Iliad and the Odyssey were likely written down in Homeric Greek, a literary amalgam of Ionic Greek and other dialects, probably around the late 8th or early 7th century BC. Homer's authorship was infrequently questioned in antiquity, but contemporary scholarship predominantly assumes that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed independently and that the stories formed as part of a long oral tradition. Given widespread illiteracy,audiences were more likely to have heard the poem than read it; it was performed by professional reciters of Homer known as rhapsodes.America."
"CONTENTS:
01. The Nameless City
02. The Festival
03-04. The Colour Out of Space
05-07. The Call of Cthulhu
08-17. The Dunwich Horror
18-25. The Whisperer in Darkness
26 . A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
27-28.The Haunter of the Dark
29-33. The Shadow Over Innsmouth
34. Discarded Draft of 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth'
35-42. The Shadow Out of Time
43-54. At the Mountains of Madness
55-79.The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
80. Azathoth
81. Beyond the Wall of Sleep
82. Celephaïs
83. Cool Air
84. Dagon
85. Ex Oblivione
86-87. Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
88. From Beyond
89. He
90-95. Herbert West-Reanimator
96. Hypnos
97. In the Vault
98. Memory
99. Nyarlathotep
100. Pickman's Model
101. The Book
102. The Cats of Ulthar
103. The Descendant
104. The Doom That Came to Sarnath
105-110. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
101. The Evil Clergyman
112. The Picture In the House .
113. The Outsider
114.The Music of Erich Zann
115-121. The Horror at Red Hook
122.-123 The Hound
124. The History of the Necronomicon
125-128 The Lurking Fear.
129. The Moon-Bog
130. The Music of Erich Zann
131. The Other Gods
132. The Outsider
133. The Picture in the House
134. The Quest of Iranon
135. The Rats in the Walls
136-140. The Shunned House
141. The Silver Key
142. The Statement of Randolph Carter
143. The Strange High House in the Mist
144. The Street
145. The Temple
146. The Terrible Old Man
147-153. The Thing on the Doorstep
154. The Tomb
155. The Transition of Juan Romero
156. The Tree
157. The Unnamable
158. The White Ship
159. What the Moon Brings
160. Polaris
161. The Very Old Folk
162. Ibid
163. Old Bugs
164-162. Sweet Ermengarde, or, The Heart of a Country Girl
171-172. The Dreams in the witch House"
"Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe.
While the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation and encouragement, Marcus Aurelius also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a timeless collection that has been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and readers throughout the centuries."
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