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In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure and...
A gloomy New England mansion provides the setting for this classic exploration of ancestral guilt and its expiation through the love and goodwill of succeeding generations. Nathaniel Hawthorne drew inspiration for this story of an immorally obtained property from the...
The Origin of Species is the magnum opus of natural scientist Charles Darwin. In the book Darwin presents the theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through the process of natural selection.The book goes on to present a body of evidence for the...
First published in 1895, this small masterpiece set the pattern for the treatment of war in modern fiction. The novel is told through the eyes of Henry Fleming, a young soldier caught up in an unnamed Civil War battle who is motivated not by the unselfish heroism of...
Dostoyevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded...
Searching for his life’s purpose, young Daniel Deronda is immediately attracted to the beautiful but shallow Gwendolen Harleth during a chance meeting at a casino. As they pursue separate journeys of self-discovery, culminating in Daniel’s discovery of his Jewish...
Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d’Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a...
First published in 1850, “The Scarlet Letter” is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece and one of the greatest American novels. Its themes of sin, guilt, and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are revealed with...
“My Ántonia” evokes the Nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather’s childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. One of Cather’s earliest novels, written in 1918, it is the story of Ántonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska...
Here you will find the complete 'Tom Sawyer' novels in the chronological order of their original publication. - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer Abroad - Tom Sawyer, Detective
Here you will find the complete novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe in the chronological order of their original publication. - Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - The Minister’s Wooing - The Pearl of Orr’s Island - My Wife and I - Agnes of...
Mark Twain’s tale of a boy’s picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work has done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the ‘sivilizing’ Widow Douglas with the runaway...
Emily Mitchell, 35, lebt und arbeitet in New York City und kämpfte sich durch einige misslungene Beziehungen. Als sie von ihrem Freund, mit dem sie schon seit sieben Jahren zusammen ist, an ihrem Jahrestag zum Essen ausgeführt wird, ist sichEmily sicher, dass es dieses...
“THE SORCERER’S RING has all the ingredients for an instant success: plots, counterplots, mystery, valiant knights, and blossoming relationships replete with broken hearts, deception and betrayal. It will keep you entertained for hours, and will satisfy all ages....
Every rare disease begins with a patient and a question: why isn’t there a treatment? Too often, the answer isn’t scientific, it is financial. The science exists. The will does exist. But the funding pathways don’t. For decades, rare disease research has been caught...
How can we support adolescent mental health? Anxiety, sadness, social pressure, identity struggles ... adolescence can be overwhelming. In this illustrated book, epidemiologist Maria Melchior and artist Chaz Hutton cut through the myths to explain what shapes young...
Living with a rare disease is not only a medical experience—it is a human one. It reaches into every part of life: the body that struggles, the mind that questions, the family that hopes, and the community that rallies. This book began with that truth and has followed...
Rare diseases are so much more than a collection of complex names and difficult diagnoses. They tell unique human stories and patient journeys, marked by diagnostic wandering, but also by resilience and solidarity. They affect millions of individuals in France and tens...
The journal Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) in collaboration with Fondation Ipsen delivers international science webinars for the general public. In 2024, these webinars focused on challenges in rare diseases.The Rare Disease Gazette is a...
The journal Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) in collaboration with Fondation Ipsen delivers international science webinars for the general public. In 2023, these webinars focused on advocacy in rare diseases.The Rare Disease Gazette is a...
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