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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists. The Manifesto also predicted the ultimate downfall of the capitalist system.(Summary written by Gesine) A recording in the original German language is available here

The Douay Rheims New Testament, published in 1582, is a translation of St Jerome's Latin Vulgate which dates from the fourth century. It influenced production of the King James version of the Bible to come some years afterward, while being the only Roman Catholic authorized vernacular scriptures up until the middle twentieth century. Although updated linguistically in the 18th and 19th centuries to provide easier understanding by the laity and reduce its use of Latinized words, it strove to be faithful to the original translation. The work's importance is that it remains the scriptural texts ...

Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by Oscar Wilde, published in 1893. As in some of his other comedies, Wilde satirizes the morals of Victorian society, and attitudes between the sexes.The action centres around a fan given to Lady Windermere as a present by her husband, and the ball held that evening to celebrate her 21st birthday. (Summary by Ruth Golding) Cast: Lady Windermere - Kristin Hughes Lord Windermere - Joe Earley Mrs. Erlynne - Elizabeth Klett Lord Darlington - Simon Taylor The Duchess of Berwick - Ruth Golding Mr. Cecil Graham - Chugosh Lord ...

The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville - blood-stains, clanking chains and all. But these modern Americans will have no truck with ghostly goings-on, and set out to beat the spectre at his own game. (Summary by David Barnes)

A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The fourth volume, published in 1919, contains several notable poems by the recently deceased Wilfred Owen. The other poets represented are Francisco Quevedo, Aldous Huxley, Arnold James, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. - Summary by Algy Pug

Attraverso l'analisi dettagliata e capillare delle recenti polemiche che hanno riguardato l'attività divulgativa dell'insegnante-influencer Vincenzo Schettini, dalla ricezione del pubblico a quella della stampa, l'Autore smonta pezzo per pezzo l'immagine di una scuola che non esiste, per ricondurre gli elementi di fatto e le supposizioni in un contesto più aderente alla realtà. Da "La fisica che ci piace" alla partecipazione al Festival di Sanremo, l'ascesa e il declino di un insegnante.

Collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and selfishness. These stories are generally sad, with a moralistic message. The collection includes: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket. (Summary written by Joy Chan)

Durante una sfilata in costume dell'inizio del novecento, rievocativa del celebre episodio dell'imperatore Enrico IV di Franconia a Canossa, un nobile, interprete del ruolo di Enrico, cade da cavallo e batte la testa. In seguito all'incidente crede di essere veramente Enrico IV e per assecondarlo il nipote, figlio della sorella, mette al suo servizio dei servitori mettendo in atto una apposita scenografia. Sono trascorsi 12 anni dall'incidente...ma l'uomo è ancora veramente impazzito o ora finge solo di esserlo....? (Riassunto di Pier) Personaggi e interpreti: Narratrice: Marzia Marianera ...

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place within a single day. "Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely judged by their past." (Summary from Wikipedia) Characters:Narrator – Read by Alex FosterThe Earl Of Caversham, K.G. – Read by LintonViscount Goring, his son – Read by John GonzalezSir Robert Chiltern, Bart., Under-Secretary ...

A witty collection of 12 short stories based on the Verga idea of "Humankind perennial moving state". They have been published in 1887. (Summary by Daniele)

This work is a scathing criticism of the economic and philosophical arguments of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's The Philosophy of Poverty. (Summary by TriciaG)

Callimaco è innamorato di donna Lucrezia che però è una donna onesta sposata a Messer Nicia. Come fare per conquistarla?.... - Summary by Pier Dramatis Personae: Prima Ninfa: FrancescaRoma Seconda Ninfa: Emanuela Primo Pastore: Pier Secondo Pastore: Kazbek Lettore del Prologo: Thiago Callimaco: Giovanni Siro: Francesco Carzedda Messer Nicia: Lorenzo Ligurio: Pier Frate Timoteo: Renzo Clerico Una donna: Emanuela Sostrata: Raffaella Liuzzo Lucrezia: Marrzia Marianera Indicazioni di scena: Claudia Graziano Montaggio di Pier col contributo di Francesco per le parti corali

It is a sign of the speed at which events are moving that Hurst and Blackett’s unexpurgated edition of Mein Kampf, published only a year ago, is edited from a pro-Hitler angle. The obvious intention of the translator’s preface and notes is to tone down the book’s ferocity and present Hitler in as kindly a light as possible. For at that date Hitler was still respectable. He had crushed the German labour movement, and for that the property-owning classes were willing to forgive him almost anything. Both Left and Right concurred in the very shallow notion that National Socialism was merely ...

Questo audiolibro contiene le audioletture integrali di Valerio Di Stefano e di Chiara Surico di:

- Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

- Edmondo De Amicis, Cuore

- Matilde Serao, Novella d'amore

- Giovanni Verga, Cavalleria rusticana

- Giovanni Verga, Storia di una capinera

- Giovanni Verga, Eros

- Vamba, Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca

- Honoré de Balzac, Eugenia Grandet (traduzione di Grazia Deledda)

- Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio

- Valerio Di Stefano, Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae

- Valerio Di Stefano, Il libro di Ester Pasqualoni

- Valerio Di Stefano, Scuolamara

Il sostantivo “mostro” è di genere maschile. Si dice “il mostro”, non “la mostro”. Che può avere, questo è certo, un significato compiuto in italiano, ma per puro caso, e comunque come espressione verbale e non sostantivale. La figura del “mostro” evoca orchi, giganti, figure mitologiche orribili. La letteratura ne è piena. Naturalmente al maschile….

”The Fisherman and his Soul” is a fairy tale first published in November of 1891 in Wilde’s “A House of Pomegranates”. It tells of a fisherman who nets and falls in love with a mermaid. But to be with her he must shed his soul, which goes off to have adventures of its own. Will forbidden love endure? -- This reader has also recorded the three other tales in “A House of Pomegranates” which can be found in the LibriVox Short Story Collections, volumes 37, 38, and 39. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)

La ricezione delle Novelas ejemplares di Miguel de Cervantes, in Italia e fuori di Spagna, non fu delle più semplici e lineari. Di certo è possibile stabilire che furono pubblicate per la prima volta, e con regolare Privilegio Reale, per i tipi di Juan de la Cuesta, nel 1613, e che l'inizio della loro redazione risalirebbe, con ogni probabilità e prudenza, al 1590. Ma al di là di questi scarni ed essenziali riferimenti temporali, per il lettore italiano la corretta interpretazione dell'opera cervantina non risulta priva di ostacoli, fraintendimenti e questioni terminologiche fin dal titolo.

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems.

After a brief romance, the 17 year old Marya falls in love with the much older Sergyei Mikhailitch, an old family friend, and the two are married. They share an initially blissful life but after moving to St. Petersburg, Marya becomes enchanted with society and a rift opens between the two. (Summary by EvanJ)

A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy. It looks in particular at English upper class society and has been reproduced on stages in Europe and North America since his death in 1900. (Summary by Wikipedia) Cast:Lord Illingworth: Peter BishopSir John Pontefract: Ernst PattynamaLord Alfred Rufford: Bob GonzalezMr. Kelvil, M.P.: Nigel BoydellThe Ven. Archdeacon Daubeny, D.D. : Martin GeesonGerald Arbuthnot: mbFarquhar, Butler: Delmar H ...