Humanities and Arts eBooks
A History of Art in Ancient Egypt
Humanities and Arts, by Perrot and ChipiezEarly Egyptian art reviewed and discussed comprehensively
A History of Sanskrit Literature
Humanities and Arts, by Arthur A MacDonnellHistory of Sanskrit literature
A Hunger Artist
Humanities and Arts, by Franz KafkaA Hunger Artist explores many of the themes that were close to him: spiritual poverty, asceticism, futility, and the alienation of the modern artist.
A King and no King
Humanities and Arts, by John Fletcher and Francis BeaumontThe play's prominence has earned it abundant attention from generations of critics. Its "distinctiveness" has been described as "a firestorm of theatrical tricks meant to indulge the erotic fantasies and jaded tastes of Jacobean audiences..," combined with a "philosophical drama...of substantive political and ideological concerns.The play constitutes a study of the consequences of royal...
A room with a view
Humanities and Arts, by E.M. FosterA Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. Merchant-Ivory produced an award-winning film adaptation in 1985. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked A Room with a View 79th on its list...
A Simple Heart
Humanities and Arts, by Gustave Flaubert.A Simple Heart" ("Un Coeur Simple"), by French writer Gustave Flaubert, is one of the stories in his Three Tales (Trois Contes), published in 1877. It received admiring reviews at the time and has continued to be second only to his novel Madame Bovary (1857) in recognition and acclaim. Originally entitled "Le Perroquet" ("The Parrot"), "A Simple Heart" is the story of one woman's apparently...
A Song of a Single Note
Humanities and Arts, by Amelia Edith Barr"Love, its flutes will still be stringing, Lovers still will sigh and kneel; Freedom sets her trumpets ringing To the clash of smiting steel." So I weave of love and glory, Homely toil, and martial show, Fair romance from the grand story Lived a century ago.
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