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  • av Jack London
    191

    Jerry of the Islands: A True Dog Story is a novel by American author Jack London. Jerry of the Islands was at first distributed in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a piece of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which in 1893 turned into a British protectorate. The legend of the novel is Irish terrier Jerry, who was a sibling of canine named Michael, about whom London composed another novel - Michael, Brother of Jerry. In the introduction, Jack London tells about the boat Minota on which he voyaged and which destroyed in the Solomon Islands. Skipper Kellar of Eugenie transport protected Jack London after the wreck yet later passed on by the hands of the man-eaters. London makes reference to a letter that he got from C. M. Woodford, the Resident Commissioner of the British Solomons. In this letter, Woodford expounded on a correctional undertaking on the adjoining island. The second point of the activity was looking for the remaining parts of Jack London's companions. During the journey on Minota, Jack London and his significant other observed a canine on board the boat, an Irish terrier named Peggy. The couple connected to Peggy such a lot of that London's better half took the canine after the disaster area of t

  • av Leo Tolstoy
    191

    'The Forged Coupon and Other Stories is a novella in two sections by Leo Tolstoy. However, the genesis of the story took place in the last part of the 1890s, but he didn't start writing it until 1902. After battling for quite a long time, he finished the story in 1904. But, it was not published until some of Tolstoy's other works were gathered and anthologized after his passing in 1910. The story is separated into two sections. In Part, I, student Mitya, requires money to reimburse a debt, yet his dad indignantly denies supporting him. Disheartened, under the affectation of a friend Makhin, Mitya just changes a $2.50 note to read $12.50, however, this one detestable deed sets off a chain of occasions that influences the existence of many others, when his one misrepresentation in a roundabout way makes a man murder a lady toward the finish of Part I, and afterward look for recovery through religion in Part II. Having composed the novella in his withering years, after his suspension, Tolstoy savors the opportunity to reveal the "pseudo-pity and hypocrisy and false reverence of organized religion." Yet, he keeps immovable confidence in man's ability to track down the truth, so the story stays confident, particularly in Part II, which demonstrates the way that acts of kindness can influence one more in a cascading type of influence, similarly as in Part I. The novella has additionally been interpreted with the title "The Counterfeit Note" and "The Forged Banknote."

  • av Jack London
    191

    First distributed in 1913, John Barleycorn is the principal keen abstract composition on liquor in American writing. London offers intense speculations on Barleycorn along with his very own nearby story drinking vocation, which was chivalrous in scale. It is, notwithstanding, as a practice in life account that his book chiefly draws in the advanced peruser. London's life was unfortunately short however loaded with episode and experience. In John Barleycorn he keeps his initial difficulties in Oakland, his encounters as clam privateer, remote ocean sealer, homeless person, Yukon goldminer, understudy, nonconformist, and - eventually - top of the line creator. Long ignored by London hardliners (who wish he had never composed it) and utilized against him by pundits who might see him as a self-admitted inebriated, John Barleycorn should be commended for what it is: an exemplary of American life account.

  • av Oscar Wilde
    157

    De Profundis' is a 50,000-word letter composed by Oscar Wilde during his detainment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas, his sweetheart. Wilde composed the letter between January and March in the year 1897; he was not permitted to send it yet took it with him upon discharge. In it he renounces Lord Alfred for what Wilde, at last, sees as his haughtiness and vanity; he had not forgotten Douglas' comment, when he was sick, "When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting." He felt reclamation and satisfaction in his difficult times, understanding that his difficulty had filled the spirit with the product of involvement, but unpleasant it tasted at that point.

  • av Jack London
    181

    Brown Wolf is a story written by Jack London. While living in radiant California, the dog wolf, is feeling the call of the wild nature, stark, ruined and bone chilling North. Neither the warmth that encompasses him, nor the great everyday environments can cause him to defeat his deepest craving to return to his underlying inception. In the story, Jack London, gives a wide outlook to understand mother nature and human nature. He also boosts emotional, curious and adventurous spirit of readers.

  • av Jack London
    171

    A collection of seven short stories, 'The Strength of the Strong' is London's marvellous composition. In these stories London highlighted the problems of the working classes and given a vivid picture of socialistic society. With various symbolic characters for government, industry, labour, religion etc., these stories set in diverse settings. He starts to look back with prehistoric stories, but also includes the stories of Chinese invasion of the world later in twentieth century.

  • av Jack London
    307

    'The Valley of the Moon' is an autobiographical portrait of Jack and his wife Chairman leaving working on the Oakland docks to live in Sonoma Valley. The story of Saxon and Billy is a love story that starts off with a boom and then go through difficulties and hard times. Saxon and Billy end up following a wonderful dream. This book is notable for the scenes in which the hero enjoys fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and he settles in the Moon. It is Saxon, London's most fully realised heroine, who embraces these concerns.

  • av Leo Tolstoy
    161

    The book 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy depends on story of novel archives of French assault on Russia in 1812 and the impact of Napoleonic period on Tsarist society through the accounts of pedigreed families in Russia.Tremendous portions of this writing are philosophical discussions instead of account. This exploration paper splendidly follows the characters, from different foundations, as military assaults from grouped establishments laborers and aristocrats, customary people and heroes. As they fight with issues novel to their period and their lifestyle, it portrays speculations and characters transcend their identity. This investigates scholarly gadgets used in the book that are styles of novel that arose in mid-nineteenth century that look like panning, wide shots and close-ups and furthermore explores striking similitudes in 'War and Peace'. This study perceives the reason why novel is everything except an undeniable novel, yet a clever that analyzes events of the new past with the characters of certified people living in the public eye. The contemporary significance of this book in cognizance in feeling, mental strength, and enthusiastic greatness being developed of mankind .

  • av Jack London
    171

    The Road, first published in 1907, is an autobiography by Jack London. London explains about his experiences and adventures as one of the hoboes. He spent his years as a hobo in America and Canada in the years 1894-1895. London starts with a story showing what excellent liars hoboes could be. He presents his illustration as an apology to a woman in Salt Lake City that he convinced to provide him support. The next chapter explains some other skills of the hobo, the most important of which is the 'holding down' of the train. The rest of the book details different aspects of hobo life, including their diverse backgrounds. The last chapter is about the "bulls", the cops. London says throughout the book about how the American system is unfair to the hoboes.

  • av Rudyard Kipling
    181

    Puck of Pook's Hill is a short stories composition written by Rudyard Kipling. The composition of these fantasy stories, was first published, in 1906. In these short stories Puck, a magical Faun narrates British history, covering different periods to two children Dan and his sister Una. Pucks magic is amazing, he brings fantasy and history into the children's everyday world. He introduces characters from English history, Roman cavalier, old Christian pagan Gods and various other stories about Vikings, pirates, killer apes, smugglers fairies etc. Through his breadth of imagination author narrates beauty, comedy and tragedy of life. He also gives a vivid picture of war, politics, adventure, clash of conquerors and settlers of the region. Kipling depicts in these stories that honour is more important than pride and loyalty more important than gain. He says good craftsmanship, valour and daring spirit are valued. These stories are interspersed with beautiful poems composed by Kipling. By these stories Kipling inspires the youths to think for their motherland and show their love and respect.

  • av William Shakespeare
    171

    Twelfth Night is believed to be the most entertaining play by Shakespeare. Numerous premier Shakespearean critics consent to it including Harold Bloom. The entire tone of the play is set by how it starts. The play starts with the pride of Orsino which he keeps up as far as possible. The arrogance is the obsession of Orsino. He is addicted to himself yet it is him who Shakespeare decides to say, "if music is the food of love, play on" and start the play. The starting scene is set in Duke Orsino's royal residence wherein his court Curio and different Lords are sitting with musicians. Orsino's first discourse is unexpected because he is, maybe intentionally, expressing out loud whatever he is in a real sense going to do in Olivia's case. He requests that his performers play specific music that he heard before. He is mulling over the idea of love which before all else stays exceptionally sweet however in overabundance, it begins sickening. Shakespeare compares love with the feeling of cadenced music and violets blooming. The sluggish music which Orsino requests to be played again will before long sickening to him. The aroma which emerges from a bank of violets is so new yet before long becomes scent. The soul of adoration is moreover "fast and new" at the outset however it can't endure its ability lastly, its intensity begins to decrease slowly, and the quality begins to degrade. Orsino talks about the dream which lies in the human creative mind and how inconsistently it develops and passes on. Eventually, we see that Orsino wasn't in any event, cherishing Olivia in the manner in which he continues to guarantee all through the play. It takes him a second to take the hands of Viola. At this absolute starting point of the play, Shakespeare provides us with the possibility of human love and its deceptions.

  • av William Shakespeare
    171

    [ THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH] The play is set in England in the mid-fifteenth century. The political circumstances in England are tense: King Henry IV has died, and his son, the youthful King Henry V, has been crowned king. A few unpleasant nationwide conflicts have left individuals in England fretful and disappointed. Besides, to acquire the admiration of the English public and the court, Henry should live down his wild youth in the past, when he used to hang with robbers and drinkards at the Boar's Head Tavern on the dingy side of London.Henry makes a case for specific pieces of France in view of his far-off establishment in the French reputed family and on an extremely specialised understanding of old land regulations. At the point when the youthful sovereign, or Dauphin, of France sends Henry an offending message because of these cases, Henry chooses to attack France. Upheld by the English aristocrats and the ministry, Henry gathers his soldiers for war.Henry's choice to attack France streams down to influence the commoners. He runs the show. In the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap, a portion of the ruler's previous companions whom he dismissed when he rose to the privileged position plan to leave their homes and families. Bardolph, Pistol, and Nim are normal losers and part-time crooks, on the far edge of the social range from their regal previous buddies. As they plan for the conflict, they comment on the demise of Falstaff, an old knight who was once King Henry's dearest companion.Not long before his armada heads out, King Henry learns of a connivance against his life. The three swindlers working for the French ask for benevolence, but Henry denies their solicitation. He arranges for the threesome, which incorporates a previous companion named Scrope, to be executed. The English sail for France, where they battle for the direction of the nation. Against unbelievable chances, they keep on winning in the wake of vanquishing the town of Harfleur, where Henry gives an enthusiastic discourse to inspire his troopers to triumph. Among the officials in King Henry's military are men from all parts of Britain, like Fluellen, a Welsh skipper. In the English development, Nim and Bardolph are found plundering and are hanged by King Henry's order.The peak of the conflict comes at the renowned Battle of Agincourt, at which the English are dwarfed by the French five to one. The night prior to the fight, King Henry camouflages himself as a typical fighter and converses with a significant number of the officers in his camp, realising what their identity is and their thought process of the incredible fight has been cleared up. Whenever he is without anyone else, he regrets his always present liabilities as a lord. In the first part of the day, he appeals to God and gives a strong, moving discourse to his warriors. Phenomenally, the English won the fight, and the French should be glad to give up finally. Some time later, harmony dealings are at last worked out: Henry will wed Catherine, the daughter of the French lord. Henry's child will be the ruler of France, and the marriage will unite the two realms.

  • av William Shakespeare
    171

    The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare initially distributed in the First Folio of 1623. Despite the fact that it was assembled among the comedies, numerous advanced editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late sentiments. A few pundits believe it to be one of Shakespeare's "issue plays" on the grounds that the initial three demonstrations are loaded up with extraordinary mental show, while the last two demonstrations are comic and supply a blissful completion. The play has been discontinuously well known, resuscitated in creations in different structures and transformations by a portion of the main theater professionals in Shakespearean execution history, starting after a long span with David Garrick in his variation Florizel and Perdita (first acted in 1753 and distributed in 1756). The Winter's Tale was restored again in the nineteenth hundred years, when the fourth "peaceful" act was broadly well known. In the final part of the twentieth hundred years, The Winter's Tale completely, and drawn generally from the First Folio text, was frequently performed, with differing levels of progress.

  • av Jack London
    201

    A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's most remarkable book, published in 1902. Frona Welse is a strong female character of the book. It narrates the tale of Frona Welse's life in Yukon, originally she is a Stanford graduate and actual Valkyrie (supernatural woman) who takes to the path subsequent to disturbing her affluent dad's local area by her direct way and become friends with the town's whore. She is additionally conflicted between affection for two admirers: Gregory St Vincent, a neighbourhood man who ends up being weak and misleading; and Vance Corliss, a Yale prepared mining engineer. The novel is imperative for its solid and confident champion, one of numerous who might individuals his fiction.

  • av Jack London
    247

    The Little Lady of the Big House is a novel by American essayist Jack London. The story concerns a circle of drama. The hero, Dick Forrest, is a farmer with a graceful streak (his "oak seed tune" reviews London's play, "The Acorn Planters."). His better half, Paula, is a fiery, athletic, and physically mindful lady (in one scene, she rides a steed into a "swimming tank," arising in "a white smooth slip of a swimsuit that shaped to her structure like a marble-carven veiling of curtain.") Paula, as Charmian, is dependent upon sleep deprivation; and Paula, as Charmian, can't bear youngsters. In light of a perusing of Charmian's journal, Stasz recognizes the third vertex of the triangle, Evan Graham, with two genuine men named Laurie Smith and Allan Dunn. Indeed, even minor characters can be distinguished; Forrest's worker Oh My looks like London's valet Nakata. The long-unshaven vagrant rationalist Aaron Hancock looks like the genuine deep rooted whiskery vagabond logician Frank Strawn-Hamilton, who was a drawn out visitor at the London farm. Artist Haakan Frolich shows up as "the stone carver Froelig" - and painter Xavier Martinez shows up as the person "Xavier Martinez!"

  • av Jack London
    157

    In 1912, Jack London written a book 'The Scarlet Plague'. It is a futuristic story, depicting mystery of a horrible disease spreaded rapidly. The Scarlet Plague is very devastating, it has almost depopulated the planet. James Smith is only survivor, telling about the disease. Victims face turned scarlet and their lower side become numb. Within 30 minutes, of first seeing symptoms, victims usually died. There was no cure, doctors and scientists, who were trying to do so were also get infected. The Scarlet Plague is an amazing story, showing us the same scenario as pandemic Covid-19 shown us.

  • av William Shakespeare
    171

    The tragedy of Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that is speculated to have been written somewhere in the period of 1605 and 1608. The play revolves around the life of the brave Roman leader, Caius Marcius Coriolanus. Shakespeare worked on it during the similar years he wrote 'Antony and Cleopatra', making them the last two tragedies composed by him. Coriolanus is the name given to a Roman general after his military triumphs against the Volscians at Corioli. Following his win he looks out to be a diplomat, however, his scorn for the plebeians and the shared antagonism of the tribunes lead to his exile from Rome. He introduces himself to the Volscians, then leads them against Rome.

  • av Leo Tolstoy
    161

    'Boyhood' is the second part of Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy. First time, it was published in a Russian journal in 1854. Narrative of this book is largely based on Tolstoy's own early struggling life. Here, Tolstoy depicts that transition from childhood to boyhood is sudden and stormy. By the character of Nicholai, author tells that it is very difficult for a boy to face the challenges of life, without his mother. It covers the Nicholai's span of life from the age of 14 to 18 years. In his narratives author describes various features of a boy's development, his attraction towards female, his struggle of life and ideas regarding friendship, humanity, freedom and respect. He also shows the hardship of service class and master and workers relations, in the Russian society, during that period. By the time Nicholai not only gains his understanding and individuality, he also gives recognition to the individuality of villagers and servants, leaving behind their identity as serfs. Although, his writing depicts about particular time, place and culture. But Tolstoy highlights the universal vision of youngsters that 'they are lonely and no one cares for them. Everyone shows disagreement with them.'

  • av William Shakespeare
    171

    The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, usually called Richard II, is a set of experiences in a play by William Shakespeare that is considered to have been written in roughly 1595. It depends on the existence of King Richard II of England (governed 1377-1399) and is the initial segment of a quadruplicate, alluded to by certain researchers as the Henriad, trailed by three plays concerning Richard's replacements: Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V. Although the First Folio (1623) version of Shakespeare's works records the play as a set of experiences, the prior Quarto release of 1597 considers it The Tragidie of King Richard the Second. The play traverses just the most recent two years of Richard's life, from 1398 to 1400. The first act starts with King Richard sitting magnificently on his high position in full state, having been mentioned to mediate a debate between Thomas Mowbray and Richard's cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, later Henry IV, who has blamed Mowbray for wasting cash given to him by Richard for the lord's warriors and for killing Bolingbroke's uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. In the meantime, John of Gaunt, the first Duke of Lancaster, accepts that it was Richard himself who was answerable for his sibling's homicide. Despite Gaunt's protests, Richard submits after a few attempts to calm the two men. It is decided that the matter be settled in the laid out strategy for a preliminary fight between Bolingbroke and Mowbray. The competition scene is exceptionally formal, with a long, stately presentation. However, as the warriors are going to battle, Richard hinders and sentences both to expulsion from England. Bolingbroke is initially condemned to a decade's expulsion, yet Richard decreases this to six years after seeing John of Gaunt's lamenting face, while Mowbray is exiled for all time. The lord's choice should be visible as the principal botch in a series driving ultimately to his defeat and demise, since it is a blunder which features a significant number of his personality blemishes, showing as it does hesitation (as far as whether to permit the duel to go on), suddenness (Richard holds on as late as possible to drop the duel), and mediation (there is not an obvious explanation for why Bolingbroke ought to be permitted to return and Mowbray not). Also, the choice neglects to dissipate the doubts encompassing Richard's contribution to the demise of the Duke of Gloucester; truth be told, by dealing with the circumstances so oppressively and offering not a glaringly obvious reason for his thinking, Richard just figures out how to show up more blameworthy. Mowbray predicts that the lordship will eventually fall because of Bolingbroke. John of Gaunt bites the dust, and Richard II holds onto the entirety of his property and cash. This incenses the honourable, who blame Richard for squandering England's cash, for taking Gaunt's cash (having a place by freedom with his child, Bolingbroke) to subsidise battle in Ireland, for burdening the everyday people, and for fining the aristocrats for wrongdoings perpetrated by their predecessors. They then assist Bolingbroke in returning furtively to England with an arrangement to oust Richard II. There remain, notwithstanding, subjects who are devoted to the lord, among them Bushy, Bagot, Green, and the Duke of Aumerle (child of the Duke of York), cousin of both Richard and Bolingbroke. When King Richard passes on England to take care of the conflict in Ireland, Bolingbroke quickly jumps all over the chance to collect a military force and attacks the north shoreline of England.

  • av William Shakespeare
    161

    William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is comprised of a few interlocking plotlines, especially the tangled romantic tale of Hermia, Helena, Lysander, and Demetrius, and the conflict between the pixie lord Oberon and his sovereign Titania. Associating these two storylines is Puck Oberon's naughty pixie entertainer, who drives a significant part of the activity of the play. The casing story of Theseus' union with Hippolyta in Athens is significant, as its precision gives a differentiation to the turbulent woodland where enchantment rules and the normal is continually undermined.

  • av Robert Louis Stevenson
    181

    The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne first printed in 1889. It is a comical tale of misunderstandings, attempt of fraud, drunkenness, false identity and other misfortunes. This book is about the last remaining survivors of a tontine_a group life-insurance policy in which the last surviving member supports to receive a future. It is a amusing, unconventional and brilliantly written piece of work. The story includes the last two such survivors and their relations, a train crash, missing uncles, excess dead bodies, innocent spectators. This story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. Joseph and Masterman Finsbury are brothers. As a child, both started a tontine with 37 other boys: all of the children put in a sum of money, and the last alive person would receive it. Their two nephews have to do to inherit everything is make sure Joseph continues Masterman. This story was begun in 1887 by Lloyd Osbourne, was briefly titled 'The Finsbury Tontine', then 'A Game of Bluff', before finally becoming 'The Wrong Box' prior to first publication.

  • av H. Rider Haggard
    257

    'When the World Shook' is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, printed in 1919. This is a model text which notifies the terror of a ghost town. There are three friends_ Arbuthnot, the leader, is a man of millions looking for meaning in the world. Bastin is a priest who believes in the progressive explanation of the Bible. Bickley is a doctor, a man of science and who only believes what can be proved. It is an uncommon defective piece of early science fiction, secured with colonial anthropology, religion, philosophy, humour and romance. This novel is about rebirth love.

  • av Wilkie Collins
    257

    Jezebel's Daughter, printed in 1880, is a Victorian thriller from Wilkie Collins. Based in the 1858 play 'The Red Vial', it is a story of fraud, betrayal and mystery based around Mrs. Fontaine, a disturbing widow who employs various poisons and remedies to control her family and friends. A talented chemist and a shrewd businessman die on the same day. Mrs. Fontaine, widow of the chemist, is leave with the poisons he was researching, while Mrs. Wagner is leave with her husband's reforms and plans for hiring women staff along with men in his firm. Mrs. Wagner trusts in dealing madman gently and appeals for the funny little man Jack Straw to be released from the madhouse. At that time, her nephew David Glenny is appointed to the Frankfurt office, where he works with Mr. Keller and Mr. Engelmann. Keller son, Fritz has enamoured with Minna Fontaine, but the marriage is not being approved of by his father because Mrs. Fontaine is in debt after her husband's death. The story is narrated by Mrs. Wagner's nephew David Glenny, and enriched with extracts from the letters and diaries of different characters. Supposed to have been responsible for her husband's downfall, Madame Fontaine becomes known as Jezebel, and her charming daughter is known as Jezebel's daughter.

  • av Robert Louis Stevenson
    267

    'The Wrecker' is an adventurous and detective mysterious novel co-written by R. L. Stevenson with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne in 1892. It is knitted around the left wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway island. It covers wide locations in Paris, Scotland, Honolulu, San Francisco, the Marshall Islands, Midway Island and Sydney in Australia. The story also depicts change of an artist in to a businessman. This story tells of the adventures of Loudon Dodd. Dodd is an American whose wish to be an artist dissatisfies his business-minded father. It is a extending, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery. It turns around the deserted wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Island. Thus this novel tells the life of Dodd, from his days as a failed art student in Paris, to his business ventures with Jim Pinkerton in San Francisco, to the long complex case of the shipwrecked Flying Scud whose mystery dominates the second half of the book and reveals a horrible and bloody tragedy at sea.

  • av William Shakespeare
    171

    The Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare is a drama based in Venice. The story begins with Bassanio's longing to wed Portia, one of the most beautiful and rich women of Belmont. In order to marry her, he needs 3000 ducats. He looks for Antonio's assistance who is a merchant of Venice and furthermore his best friend. Antonio tells him that he is devoid of the desired money as his ships have not arrived yet. Notwithstanding his circumstances, he guarantees Bassanio that he can become a guarantee for him to borrow money. Having been guaranteed by Antonio's assurance, Bassanio takes credit from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. He names Antonio as the underwriter for the credit. Shylock is now annoyed with Antonio as Antonio rents money without interest. Furthermore, is biased towards Jews. Yet, he consents to give an advance to Bassanio without interest but puts a condition that, if Antonio can't pay the credit on the predetermined due date, he will take a pound of Antonio's flesh. Antonio signs the agreement on seeing that the advance conveys no interest, despite the fact that Bassanio isn't supportive of such an agreement. In any case, Bassanio alongside Gratiano, his companion leaves for Belmont to wed Portia. The author depicts Gratiano as a youthful, over-garrulous, uncouth, and silly man. In Belmont, Portia is meeting numerous wooers. Be that as it may, she can't get the right match. According to her father's will, whoever gets the right casket will get married to Portia. The suitors get three caskets, gold, silver, and bronze to look over. The Prince of Morocco, the primary suitor chooses a gold casket while the Prince of Aragon, the next suitor, chooses the silver casket. However, the two of them are dismissed as their choices are wrong. When it was Bassanio's turn to choose the casket, Nerissa, Portia's maid hints at Bassanio by singing a song as Portia had met him previously and wanted him to win. Bassanio chooses the bronze casket and gets married to Portia. Bassanio weds Portia and Gratiano weds Nerissa. In the meantime, Shylock's daughter, Jessica fled with Lorenzo, a Christian, and she converted into a Christian as well. Jessica took with her money and jewellery along with the turquoise ring which was a gift to her mother from her father. Due to this, Shylock turned out to be firm about avenging the Christians. Antonio's boats were adrift somewhere in the middle of the ocean and subsequently, he couldn't return the borrowed money to Shylock. Henceforth, Shylock hauled him to the court. On getting this news, Bassanio and Gratiano leave for Venice taking the money that needs to be returned from Portia. In the court, Bassanio offers double the sum to Shylock. However, he denies the proposition and demands that he wants a pound of flesh from Antonio. The Duke alludes to the case to Balthazar, a youthful attorney. However, as a matter of fact, that was Portia in disguise. Nerissa additionally camouflages as a man and goes with Portia as an assistant. Portia demands Shylock to be benevolent and forgiving. ...

  • av Wilkie Collins
    161

    Wilkie Collins wrote 'The Frozen Deep' as a play in 1856, it was modified by Charles Dickens as a novel. It's story line is based on a failed Arctic expedition of Franklin. Explorers mission was to find the Northwest passage in the Arctic. The two members of the expedition, Richard and Frank love the same woman Clara. Due to his friendly relations with Clara, Richard wishes to marry Clara but Clara loves Frank. When Richard realizes Clara's feelings about Frank, he becomes crazy and wants to harm Frank. Clara believes that she possesses the power of super vision and foresees the same tragedy. Clara has guilt and sickness about all these circumstances. Two sailors Richard Wardour and Frank Aldersely set of on the Arctic voyage on different ships. Two years of turbulent sea voyage Richard and Frank paired together in life threatening circumstances. Richard and Frank came in close contact and struggle hard for their survival. In the background of expedition, the story of the novel revolves around love, revenge and sacrifice and it ends in a melodramatic way.

  • av Wilkie Collins
    191

    The Haunted Hotel is a less popular work - a gothic story with fascinating characters, tormented rooms, and outrageous relationships.Without ruining the plot, there is a great deal to making it an exciting read. A secretive marriage, a hated darling, contention between siblings, missing workers, and apparition dreams - a lot of Victorian goodness!Collins makes a considerable lot of compassion toward practically every person in the book. Disdaining any character is difficult. A homicide is committed in the main portion of the book. Our criminal investigator for this situation is the despised sweetheart, accidentally maneuvered into the standard story. As a peruse, you might have proactively arranged your cast into malicious and heavenly, however, one can never be excessively certain.

  • av Jack London
    181

    The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about existence in the East End of London in 1902. He composed this direct record by living in the East End (counting the Whitechapel District) for a very long time, some of the time remaining in workhouses or dozing in the city. The circumstances he encountered and expounded on were equivalent to those persevered by an expected 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.

  • av William Shakespeare
    181

    The Life and Death of King Richard III is an authentic play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in around 1592. It portrays the Machiavellian ascent to influence and the ensuing short rule of Richard III of England. The play is gathered among the accounts in the First Folio and is most frequently delegated as such. Incidentally, in any case, as in the quartoedition, it is called a misfortune. Shakespeare's most memorable quadruplicate (additionally containing Henry VI parts 1-3). The play starts with Richard (called "Gloucester" in the text) remaining on "a street", portraying the re-growth to the lofty position of his sibling, King Edward IV of England, the oldest child of the late Richard, Duke of York. It is 1471 to infer the year. Currently, it is the colder time of year of our discontent. This sun of York made this a splendid summer, and every mist that lour'd upon our home in the deep chest of the sea covered it. "Son of York" is a play on the identification of the "blazing sun," which Edward IV embraced, and "son of York" refers to, for example, the child of the Duke of York. Richard is a revolting hunchback who is "rudely stamped," "deformed, unfinished," and can't "strut before a wanton ambling nymph." He answers the misery of his condition with an outsider's: "I am determined to prove a villain/and hate the idle pleasures of these days." Richard plots to have his sibling Clarence, who remains before him in the line of progression, led to the Tower of London over a prediction he paid off a diviner to finagle the dubious King with; that "G of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be", which the ruler deciphers as alluding to George of Clarence (without acknowledging it really alludes to Gloucester). Richard currently plans to charm "the Lady Anne"-Anne Neville, widow of the Lancastrian Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. He says to the crowd: "I'll wed Warwick's most youthful girl." Did I kill her better half and her dad? Unlike Titus Andronicus, the play avoids realistic depictions of actual brutality; only Richard and Clarence are shown being executed in front of an audience, while the rest (the two sovereigns, Hastings and Brackenbury, Gray, Vaughan, Rivers, Anne, Buckingham, and King Edward) are executed off-stage. Notwithstanding the awful idea of the title character and the terrible storyline, Shakespeare implants the activity with comic material, as he does with the vast majority of his misfortunes. A large part of the humour comes from the polarity between how Richard's personality is known and the way he tries to show up. A scene from Richard III, coordinated by Keith Fowler for the Virginia Shakespeare Festival in Williamsburg, is one of the primary Shakespearean exhibitions in America. (Here Richard is wounded with a hog stick by the Earl of Richmond.) Richard himself additionally gives a few dry comments experiencing the same thing, as when he intends to wed Queen Elizabeth's girl: "Murder her siblings, then wed her; uncertain method of gain." Other instances of humour in this play incorporate Clarence's hesitant killers and the Duke of Buckingham's report on his endeavour to convince the Londoners to acknowledge Richard ("... I bid them that did love their country's good cry, God save Richard, England's royal king!" Richard says, "And did they so?" Buckingham: "No, so God help me, they didn't say anything...") Puns, a Shakespearean staple, are particularly well addressed in the scene where Richard attempts to convince Queen Elizabeth to charm her daughter on his behalf.

  • av Edgar Rice Burroughs
    161

    The concluding part of the Caspak trilogy, 'Out of Times Abyss' written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is most adventurous and mysterious creation. It is most enjoyable science fantasy novel, out of the three books, the sequence was first published in 1918. Mostly, it is a story of expedition of Bradley and his team in the land of dinosaurs. Bradley's encounters with the predator flying Weiroo people and escape, is the most terrific part of the story. Here, Bradley emerges as action hero and rescues a native woman. They fall in love and they defeat the villains. The strength of this story is the society he evolves with the weiroos. Their society, customs and cruelty are fully analysed as Bradley is arrested and must make his escape.

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