A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Play)

 

A Doll's House 

 

by Henrik Ibsen 

 

(Play)

A Doll's House (Danish and Bokmål: Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879. Wikipedia 

About the Author 

Henrik Johan Ibsen (/ˈɪbsən/; Norwegian: [ˈhɛ̀nrɪk ˈɪ̀psn̩]; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.   Wikipedia  

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Moby Dick, or the Whale by Herman Melville (eBook)

 

Moby Dick, or the Whale 

 

by Herman Melville 

 

(eBook) - (Audio Book)

Read by Stewart Wills

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique -- but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book's eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first "modern" novel. (Summary by Stewart Wills)

 

About the Author 

 

Herman Melville (born Melvill;[a] August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival, and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels. Wikipedia

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence

 

Lady Chatterley’s Lover 

 

by D. H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a novel by English writer D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The book was the subject of an obscenity trial in the 1960's when Penguin Books were taken to court over it's publication - a case which they won and which led to the book finally being released to the British public. Prior to this, it had only been published in France and Italy. It was considered obscene due to it's explicit descriptions of sex, and liberal use of swear words - it was also notorious for it's depiction of a love affair between an upper-class woman and a working-class man.

It is the story of Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), her husband Sir Clifford Chatterley, and her lover, the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. Married to Sir Clifford, Constance finds herself feeling trapped. Her husband is paralysed from the waist down, and his limitations lead him to emotionally neglect his wife. Luckily for her the young gamekeeper of the estate, Mellors, is there to help release this frustration.

During the obscenity trial, the prosecution were ridiculed for being out of touch. At the start of what was to become the swinging sixties, the chief prosecutor asked the jury to decide if Lady Chatterley’s Lover was the kind of book 'you would wish your wife or servants to read'.

 

About the Author

 David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Lawrence's writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. His novels include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Wikipedia

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Moby Dick, or the Whale by Herman Melville (Audio Book)

 

Moby Dick, or the Whale 

 

by Herman Melville 

 

(Audio Book) - (eBook)

Read by Stewart Wills

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique -- but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book's eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first "modern" novel. (Summary by Stewart Wills)

 

About the Author 

 

Herman Melville (born Melvill;[a] August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival, and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels. Wikipedia

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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) by John Cleland (Online Book)

 

 

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 

 

by John Cleland

(Online Book)

 

 Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) was the first widely-read English novel in the genre "Erotica." It was written by John Cleland as he was serving hard time at a debtor's prison in London. Over the centuries, the novel has been repeatedly banned by authorities, assuring its preeminent role in the history of the ongoing struggle against censorship of free expression.

Until Fanny Hill, previous heroines had conducted their amorous liaisons "off-stage." Any erotic misadventures were described euphemistically. As women who had gone astray, they always repented, which made even their most outrageous dalliances somehow suitable for a moralistic readership. The protagonist of Fanny Hill, however, never repented a single moment of her sexual exploits ... quite the contrary! And with Fanny, the devil is in the details, realistically described. (Summary by Denny Mike)

 

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About the Author 

John Cleland (c. 1709, baptised – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, whose eroticism led to his arrest. James Boswell called him "a sly, old malcontent" Wikipedia

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland (Audio Book)

 

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 

 

by John Cleland

(Audio Book)

 

 Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) was the first widely-read English novel in the genre "Erotica." It was written by John Cleland as he was serving hard time at a debtor's prison in London. Over the centuries, the novel has been repeatedly banned by authorities, assuring its preeminent role in the history of the ongoing struggle against censorship of free expression.

Until Fanny Hill, previous heroines had conducted their amorous liaisons "off-stage." Any erotic misadventures were described euphemistically. As women who had gone astray, they always repented, which made even their most outrageous dalliances somehow suitable for a moralistic readership. The protagonist of Fanny Hill, however, never repented a single moment of her sexual exploits ... quite the contrary! And with Fanny, the devil is in the details, realistically described. (Summary by Denny Mike)

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Also see:

• Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure  by John Cleland (Online Book)
   
   

 About the Author 

John Cleland (c. 1709, baptised – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, whose eroticism led to his arrest. James Boswell called him "a sly, old malcontent" Wikipedia 

 

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Version 3 eBook)

 

 

Heart of Darkness 

by Joseph Conrad

(Version 2 eBook)

 

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad. It tells the story of Charles Marlow, a sailor who takes on an assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in the African interior. The novel is widely regarded as a critique of European colonial rule in Africa, whilst also examining the themes of power dynamics and morality. Although Conrad does not name the river where the narrative takes place, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and economically important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. Marlow is given a text by Kurtz, an ivory trader working on a trading station far up the river, who has "gone native" and is the object of Marlow's expedition. Wikipedia 

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