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Travels In England During (v. 0.2)

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Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth [1612, 1797]

Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton.

Paul Hentzner was a German lawyer, born at Crossen, in Brandenburg, on the 29th of January, 1558. He died on the 1st January, 1623. In 1596, when his age was thirty-eight, he became tutor to a young Silesian nobleman, with whom he set out in 1597 on a three years’ tour through Switzerland, France, England, and Italy. After his return to Germany in 1600, he published, at Nuremberg, in 1612, a description of what he had seen and thought worth record, written in Latin, as “Itinerarium Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Italiae, cum Indice Locorum, Rerum atque Verborum.”

Horace Walpole caused that part of Hentzner’s Itinerary which tells what he saw in England to be translated by Richard Bentley, son of the famous scholar, and he printed at Strawberry Hill two hundred and twenty copies. In 1797 “Hentzner’s Travels in England” were edited, together with Sir Robert Naunton’s “Fragmenta Regalia,” in the volume from which they are here reprinted, with notes by the translator and the editor.

About the Author
Paul Hentzner, 1558-1623

Paul Hentzner was a German lawyer, born at Crossen, in Brandenburg, on the 29th of January, 1558. He died on the 1st January, 1623. In 1596, when his age was thirty-eight, he became tutor to a young Silesian nobleman, with whom he set out in 1597 on a three years’ tour through Switzerland, France, England, and Italy. After his return to Germany in 1600, he published, at Nuremberg, in 1612, a description of what he had seen and thought worth record, written in Latin, as “Itinerarium Germaniae, Galliae, Angliae, Italiae, cum Indice Locorum, Rerum atque Verborum.”

Horace Walpole caused that part of Hentzner’s Itinerary which tells what he saw in England to be translated by Richard Bentley, son of the famous scholar, and he printed at Strawberry Hill two hundred and twenty copies. In 1797 “Hentzner’s Travels in England” were edited, together with Sir Robert Naunton’s “Fragmenta Regalia,” in one volume, with notes by the translator and the editor.

Loving This Man (本 ebook 书) (v. 1.0)

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Like Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy, Althea Prince's new novel beautifully traces a woman's struggle to negotiate the transition from life in the Caribbean to life in the concrete utopia of urban North America.

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Bajan Lingo (v. 1.3)

GCT Labs опубликовал приложение 2011-06-01
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Our Bajan Lingo app is a dictionary based application loaded full of sayings, proverbs and slang from the Caribbean island of Barbados. Whether you are a visitor to Barbados or Bajan native wanting to brush up on ole time sayings and new lingo, this is the app for you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 19 books

1. A Study of Hawthorne, by G. P. Lathrop [1876]
2. Hawthorne, by Henry James [1879]
3. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Frank Preston Stearns [1906]
4. Fanshawe [published anonymously, 1826]
5. The Scarlet Letter [1850]
6. The House of the Seven Gables [1851]
7. The Blithedale Romance [1852]
8. The Marble Faun; or, The Romance of Monte Beni [1860] [published in England under the title of “Transformation”]
9. Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret : a Romance ; with preface and notes by Julian Hawthorne [1882]
10. Twice–Told Tales [1st Series, 1837, 2nd Series, 1842]
11. Mosses from an Old Manse, and other stories [1846]
12. The Snow Image and other stories [1851]
13. Tales of the White Hills, Legends of New England, Legends of the Province House [1877, contain tales which had already been printed in book form in “Twice–Told Tales” and the “Mosses”]
14. Alice Doane’s Appeal [1835]
15. The Ancestral Footstep
16. The Dolliver Romance [1st Part in “Atlantic Monthly”, 1864; in 3 Parts, 1876]
17. Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life [1872]
18. Life of Franklin Pierce [1852]
19. Chiefly about War Matters [This article appeared in the “Atlantic Monthly” for July, 1862]

About the Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864

Nathaniel Hawthorne was already a man of forty–six, and a tale writer of some twenty–four years’ standing, when “The Scarlet Letter” appeared. He was born at Salem, Mass., on July 4th, 1804, son of a sea–captain. He led there a shy and rather sombre life; of few artistic encouragements, yet not wholly uncongenial, his moody, intensely meditative temperament being considered. Its colours and shadows are marvelously reflected in his “Twice–Told Tales” and other short stories, the product of his first literary period. Even his college days at Bowdoin did not quite break through his acquired and inherited reserve; but beneath it all, his faculty of divining men and women was exercised with almost uncanny prescience and subtlety. “The Scarlet Letter,” which explains as much of this unique imaginative art, as is to be gathered from reading his highest single achievement, yet needs to be ranged with his other writings, early and late, to have its last effect. In the year that saw it published, he began “The House of the Seven Gables,” a later romance or prose–tragedy of the Puritan–American community as he had himself known it—defrauded of art and the joy of life, “starving for symbols” as Emerson has it. Nathaniel Hawthorne died at Plymouth, New Hampshire, on May 18th, 1864.

Thomas Hardy Collection Books (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 16 books

1. Under the Greenwood Tree, or The Mellstock Quire [1872]
2. A Pair of Blue Eyes (1872–73)
3. Far From the Madding Crowd [1874]
4. Hand of Ethelberta [1876]
5. Return of the Native [1878]
6. Two on a Tower [1882]
7. The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid [1883]
8. The Mayor of Casterbridge (1884–85)
9. The Woodlanders (1886–87)
10. Tess of the D’Urberville’s [1891]
11. Jude the Obscure [1895]
12. Wessex Tales [1888]
13. A Few Crusted Characters [1891]
14. The Fiddler of the Reels [1893]
15. Life’s Little Ironies [1894]
16. A Changed Man and Other Tales [1913]

About the Author
Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928

British novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement. He captured the epoch just before the railways and the industrial revolution changed the English countryside. His works are pessimistic and bitterly ironic, and his writing is rough but capable of immense power.

His first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, finished by 1867, failed to find a publisher and Hardy destroyed the manuscript. Only parts of the novel remain. He was encouraged to try again by his mentor and friend, Victorian poet and novelist George Meredith. Desperate Remedies [1871] and Under the Greenwood Tree [1872] were published anonymously. In 1873 A Pair of Blue Eyes, a story drawing on Hardy's courtship of his first wife, was published under his own name.

Swimming in the... (本 ebook 书) (v. 1.0)

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「Swimming in the Ocean」
Swimming In The Ocean is about tossing secrets into the water to become free from the bonds of silence and unnamed tensions that often hold us back from embracing our sometimes uncomfortable and cumbersome selves. "

On The Motion Of The Heart (v. 0.2)

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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

William Harvey (1578-1657) was a rebel in medical science: Contrary to contemporary practice, he began his epoch-making investigation into the action of the heart and the blood's circulation by minutely observing their action in live animals and by a lengthy series of dissections, rather than by mere reliance on the anatomical lessons of ancient medicine and philosophy. "On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals", including explanations of heart valves and arterial pulse, stands as a triumph of true scientific inquiry, and is still regarded as one of the greatest discoveries in physiology.

About the Author
William Harvey, 1578-1657

Harvey's initial education was carried out in Folkestone, where he learned Latin. He then entered the King's School (Canterbury). Harvey remained at the King's School for five years, after which he joined Caius College in Cambridge.

Harvey graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from Caius College in 1597.[2] He then traveled through France and Germany to Italy, where he entered the University of Padua, apparently in 1598.

During Harvey's years of study there, he developed a relationship with Fabricius and read Fabricius' De Venarum Ostiolis.

Harvey graduated as a Doctor of Medicine at the age of 24 from the University of Padua on 25 April 1602. It reports that Harvey had

"conducted himself so wonderfully well in the examination and had shown such skill, memory and learning that he had far surpassed even the great hopes which his examiners had formed of him."[3]

Elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians on 5 June 1607, Harvey accepted a position at St. Bartholomew's Hospital that he was to occupy for almost all the rest of his life. Succeeding a Dr Wilkinson on 14 October 1609, he became the Physician in charge at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which enjoined him, "in God's most holy name" to "endeavor yourself to do the best of your knowledge in the profession of physic to the poor then present, or any other of the poor at any time of the week which shall be sent home unto you by the Hospitaller... You shall not, for favor, lucre or gain, appoint or write anything for the poor but such good and wholesome things as you shall think with your best advice will do the poor good, without any affection or respect to be had to the apothecary. And you shall take no gift or reward... for your counsel... This you will promise to do as you shall answer before God... "[5]

Harvey earned around thirty-three pounds a year and lived in a small house in Ludgate, although two houses in West Smithfield were attached as fringe benefits to the post of Physician. At this point, the physician's function consisted of a simple but thorough analysis of patients who were brought to the hospital once a week and the consequent writing of prescriptions.

Knut Hamsun Collection Books (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 9 books

1. Knut Hamsun: From Hunger to Harvest, by Edwin Björkman
2. Hunger (Sult) [1890]
3. Shallow Soil (Ny jord) [1893]
4. Pan [1894]
5. Under the Autumn Star (Under høststæjrnen) [1907]
6. A Wanderer plays on muted strings (En vandrer spiller med sordin) [1909]
7. Look Back on Happiness (Den Siste Glæde) / translated by Paula Wiking [1912]
8. The Growth of the Soil (Markens grøde) [1917]
9. The Road Leads On (Men livet lever) [1933]

About the Author
Knut Hamsun, 1859-1952

Knut Hamsun was a leading Norwegian author, born in Lom under the name of Knut Pedersen.

He first received acclaim for his 1890 novel Sult, translated as Hunger. The work, which is semi-autobiographical, described a young writer's descent into near madness as a result of hunger and poverty. In many ways, the novel presages the writings of Franz Kafka and other twentieth-century novelists, who explored the madness of the contemporary human condition.

Other important works by Hamsun include Pan [1894] and The Growth of the Soil [1917], for which he received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1920.

Richard Hakluyt Collection (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 22 books

1. Voyages in Search of The North-West Passage
2. Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
3. Northern Europe
4. North-Eastern Europe and Adjacent Countries: Tartary
5. North-Eastern Europe and Adjacent Countries: The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage, Section I
6. North-Eastern Europe and Adjacent Countries: The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage, Section II
7. Central and Southern Europe
8. Madeira and the Canaries: Ancient Asia, Africa, &c.
9. England's Naval Exploits Against Spain
10. Asia, Part I
11. Asia, Part II
12. Asia, Part III
13. Africa
14. America, Part I
15. America, Part II
16. The Fardle of Facions conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie / by Johannes Boemus ; translated by William Waterman
17. Mandeville's Voyages
18. The iournall of Frier Odoricus, one of the order of the Minorites, concerning strange things which hee sawe among the Tarters of the East
19. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253
20. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
21. A briefe commentarie of Island by Arngrimus Ionas
22. A Discourse of Western Planting

About the Author
Richard Hakluyt (c.1552-1616)

Collector of voyages, belonged to a good Herefordshire family of Dutch descent, was born either at Eyton in that county or in London, and educated at Westminster School and Oxford The sight of a map of the world fired his imagination and implanted in his mind the interest in geography and the lives and adventures of our great navigators and discoverers, which became the ruling passion of his life; and in order to increase his knowledge of these matters he studied various foreign languages and the art of navigation. He took orders, and was chaplain of the English Embassy in Paris, Rector of Witheringsett, Suffolk, 1590, Archdeacon of Westminster, 1602, and Rector of Gedney, Lincolnshire, 1612. After a first collection of voyages to America and the West Indies he compiled, while at Paris, his great work, The Principal Navigations, Voyages ... and Discoveries of the English Nation made by Sea or over Land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth ... within the Compass of these 1500 Years. It appeared in its final form (three folio vols.) in 1599. Besides it he published A Discourse of Western Planting, and he left a vast mass of MS. afterwards used (in far inferior style) by S. Purchas. In all his work H. was actuated not only by the love of knowledge, but by a noble patriotism: he wished to see England the great sea-power of the world, and he lived to see it so. His work, as has been said, is “our English epic.” In addition to his original writings he translated various works, among them being The Discoveries of the World, from the Portuguese of Antonio Galvano.

Henry Rider Haggard Collection (v. 0.2)

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This book contain collection of 9 books

1. The Days of my Life: An autobiography of Sir H. Rider Haggard [1926]
2. King Solomon's Mines [1885]
3. Allan Quatermain [1887]
4. She[1887]
5. Ayesha: The Return of She [1905]
6. Eric Brighteyes [1891]
7. The People of the Mist [1894]
8. Dawn [1884]
9. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours; Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal [1882]

About the Author
Henry Rider Haggard, 1856-1925

Haggard is most famous as the author of the novels King Solomon's Mines and its sequel Allan Quatermain, and She and its sequel Ayesha, swashbuckling adventure novels set in the context of the Scramble for Africa (the action of Ayesha however happens in Tibet). He is also remembered for Nada the Lily (a tale of adventure among the Zulus) and the epic Viking romance, Eric Brighteyes.

While his novels portray many of the stereotypes associated with colonialism, they are unusual for the degree of sympathy with which the native populations are portrayed. Africans often play heroic roles in the novels, although the protagonists are typically, though not invariably, European.

Three of his novels were written in collaboration with his friend Andrew Lang who shared his interest in the spiritual realm and paranormal phenomena.