Humanities and Arts eBooks
Eve and David
Humanities and Arts, by Honoré de Balzac..The novel has four main themes. (1) The lifestyle of the provinces is juxtaposed with that of the metropolis, as Balzac contrasts the varying tempos of life at Angoulême and in Paris, the different standards obtaining in those cities, and their different perceptions. (2) Balzac explores the artistic life of Paris in 1821-22, and furthermore the nature of the artistic life generally. Lucien...
Extinct Monsters
Humanities and Arts, by Rev HN. HutchinsonDescribes and Shows Large Extinct Animals
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Humanities and Arts, by John ClelandMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.
Father Goriot
Humanities and Arts, by Honoré de BalzacThe novel takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought about profound changes in French society; the struggle of individuals to secure upper-class status is ubiquitous in the book. The city of Paris also impresses itself on the characters – especially young Rastignac, who grew up in the provinces of southern France. Balzac analyzes, through Goriot and others, the nature of family...
Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art
Humanities and Arts, by John VinycombFictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art with Special Emphasis on their use in British Heraldry
Fifth Chords
Humanities and Arts, by Joses GosperFor Guitar Players only! Power Chords: behind the myth The Guitarists Friend: Some people also call Fifth Chords, Power Chords, but this is an inaccurate description. Fifth Chords are neither Minor nor Major, as there is no Third. Truth: There are two types of Fifth Chords Open Fifth Chords and Barre Fifth Chords Taking Fifth Chords to the Extreme: A Fifth Chord could also be called...
Five Plays by Lord Dunsany
Humanities and Arts, by Lord DunsanyFive Plays Gods of the Mountain The Golden Doom King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior The Glittering Gate THE Lost Silk Hat
Frankestein
Humanities and Arts, by Mary Shelley.Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a monster produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823 Shelley...
Hacking Matter
Humanities and Arts, by Wil McCarthyA fiction closely based in scientific nonfiction
How Lisa Loved the King
Humanities and Arts, by George ElliotPoetry by the famed author who had to disguise her name as male in order to publish
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