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Nick Ensign The Man in the Dream

With Romantic Poetry

Romance
English
2001 Words
Ages 12 and up
61
0

A man. A woman. A man bare in the desert, beauty in every way. A woman, dazed and standed. Two stangers [more]

Keywords: The Man of Your Dreams, The Man, Dream, Dreams, Dreamy, Nick Ensign, Ensign, Nick

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G. K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday

Fiction
English
58215 Words
No Age Recommendation
177
1

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller.In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme demurs, insisting the essence of poetry is not revolution, but rather law. He antagonizes Gregory by asserting the most poetical of human creations is the timetable for the London Underground. He suggests Gregory isn't really serious about his anarchism. This so irritates Gregory that he takes Syme to an underground anarchist meeting place, revealing his public endorsement of anarchy is a ruse to make him seem harmless, when in fact he is an influential member of the local chapter of the European anarchist council. [more]

Keywords: The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton

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Bram Stoker The Man

Thriller
English
105230 Words
Ages 18 and up
10
2

'I Would Rather Be An Angel Than God!' The Voice Of The Speaker Sounded Clearly Through The Hawthorn Tree. The Young Man And The Young Girl Who Sat Together On The Low Tombstone Looked At Each Other. They Had Heard The Voices Of The Two Children Talking, But Had Not Noticed What They Said; It Was The Sentiment, Not The Sound, Which Roused Their Attention. The Girl Put Her Finger To Her Lips To Impress Silence, And The Man Nodded; They Sat As Still As Mice Whilst The Two Children Went On Talking. [more]

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Bram Stoker The Man

Biography & Autobiography
English
104192 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

'I Would Rather Be An Angel Than God!' The Voice Of The Speaker Sounded clearly Through The Hawthorn Tree. The Young Man And The Young Girl Who Sat Together On The Low Tombstone Looked at Each Other. They Had Heard The Voices Of The Two Children Talking, But Had Not Noticed what They Said; It Was The Sentiment, Not The Sound, Which Roused their Attention. The Girl Put Her Finger To Her Lips To Impress Silence, And The Man Nodded; They Sat As Still As Mice Whilst The Two Children Went On Talking. The Scene Would Have Gladdened a Painter'S Heart. An Old Churchyard. The Church Low And Square-Towered, With Long Mullioned windows, The Yellow-Grey Stone Roughened by Age And Tender-Hued with Lichens. Round It Clustered many Tombstones Tilted in all Directions. Behind The Church A Line Of Gnarled and Twisted yews. The Churchyard Was Full Of Fine Trees. On One Side A Magnificent Cedar; On The Other A Great Copper Beech. Here And There Among The Tombs And Headstones Many Beautiful Blossoming trees Rose From The Long Green Grass. The Laburnum Glowed in the June Afternoon Sunlight; The Lilac, The Hawthorn And The Clustering meadowsweet Which Fringed the Edge Of The Lazy Stream Mingled their Heavy Sweetness In sleepy Fragrance. The Yellow-Grey Crum [more]

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Alexandre Dumas The Man in the Iron Mask (Unabriged)

Adventure
English
170289 Words
Ages 8 and up
172
2

The Man in the Iron Mask continues the tale of our four heroes from The Three Musketeers, Dumas's wildly popular introduction to the mischievous Musketeers – D'Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos, and Athos. In this dark sequel, we track their lives many years after the prodigious moment when D'Artagnan receives a commission to be a lieutenant in the Musketeers. We find in The Man in the Iron Mask that things have changed quite a bit from the seeming happy days of swashbuckling adventures. The story opens at the famous French prison known as the Bastille. A priest named Aramis – a former Musketeer – is sitting in a cell with a prisoner. It seems that Aramis is at the prison to hear the man's confession. The prisoner, however, doesn't have anything to confess, because his only crime is being the King of France's twin brother. Aramis happens to be one of the few people in France who knows this secret. Aramis wastes no time in putting together a plan to free this prisoner and swap him for the legitimate king. Once the former prisoner becomes king, Aramis hopes to be rewarded by being appointed adviser to the King, prime minister, or even pope. Meanwhile, let's get up to speed on the situation with the real King. We have a colorful cast of characters at court. There's King Louis's mother, Anne of Austria, his younger brother (known as Monsieur, with a capital 'M'), his wife Maria Theresa, and his mistress, a woman named La Valliere. Then there's the Superintendent of Finances, a man by the name of Fouquet, who's throwing a party at Vaux in an attempt to ingratiate himself with the King. Among those who would like to see Fouquet swimming with the fishes is a man named Colbert, the Minister of Finances. To round off courtly life, we have D'Artagnan, captain of the King's Musketeers. [more]

Keywords: the man in the iron mask, alexandre dumas, musketeers, action and adventure, historical fiction, classic literature

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G.K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday (New Edition)

Satire
English
57881 Words
Ages 8 and up
148
2

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme demurs, insisting the essence of poetry is not revolution, but rather law. He antagonizes Gregory by asserting the most poetical of human creations is the timetable for the London Underground. He suggests Gregory isn't really serious about his anarchism. This so irritates Gregory that he takes Syme to an underground anarchist meeting place, revealing his public endorsement of anarchy is a ruse to make him seem harmless, when in fact he is an influential member of the local chapter of the European anarchist council. The central council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name, and the position of Thursday is about to be elected by Gregory's local chapter. Gregory expects to win the election, but just before the election Syme reveals to Gregory after an oath of secrecy that he is a secret policeman. Fearful Syme may use his speech in evidence of a prosecution, Gregory's weakened words fail to convince the local chapter he is sufficiently dangerous for the job. Syme makes a rousing anarchist speech and wins the vote. He is sent immediately as the chapter's delegate to the central council. In his efforts to thwart the council's intentions, however, Syme discovers five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; each was employed just as mysteriously and assigned to defeat the Council. They all soon find out they were fighting each other and not real anarchists; such was the mastermind plan of their president Sunday. In a surreal conclusion, Sunday himself is unmasked as only seeming to be terrible; in fact, he is a force of good like the detectives. However, he is unable to give an answer to the question of why he caused so much trouble and pain for the detectives. Gregory, the only real anarchist, seems to challenge the good council. His accusation is they, as rulers, have never suffered like Gregory and their other subjects, and so their power is illegitimate. However, Syme is able to refute this accusation immediately because of the terrors inflicted by Sunday on the rest of the council. [more]

Keywords: the man who was thursday, gk chesterton, english literature, philosophical fiction, metaphysical thriller, satirical novel

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Eugene Samolin Jesus the Man

Satire
English
835 Words
No Age Recommendation
21
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Join Jesus, the Man, on this fable that takes place some time after the crucifixion, but before he settles [more]

Keywords: speculative, descendants of Jesus, Holy Grail

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George Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man

Fiction
English
24575 Words
Ages 18 and up
1
1

Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Arms and the man I sing"). The play was first produced on April 21, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre, and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also included Candida, You Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny. The play was one of Shaw's first commercial successes. He was called onto stage after the curtain, where he received enthusiastic applause. However, amidst the cheers, one audience member booed. Shaw replied, in characteristic fashion, "My dear fellow, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?"[5] Arms and the Man is a humorous play which shows the futility of war and deals with the hypocrisies of human nature in a comedic fashion. [more]

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George Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man

Fiction
English
24575 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Arms and the man I sing"). The play was first produced on April 21, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre, and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also included Candida, You Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny. The play was one of Shaw's first commercial successes. He was called onto stage after the curtain, where he received enthusiastic applause. However, amidst the cheers, one audience member booed. Shaw replied, in characteristic fashion, "My dear fellow, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?"[5] [more]

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BR Raksun The Man With Bananas

How he could not eat a banana to say how it tastes?

Humor
English
1227 Words
Ages 10 and up
378
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You know the Bnanas are everywhere! How do you think that it is so sure?? I know people who do [more]

Keywords: Banana Daily labor Poor

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