Modern Classics Literature

Cerca de la ratonera una gran roca ha surgido de la nada. «¿Cómo ha podido llegar hasta allí?», se pregunta el ratón curioso. Pero las cosas no son lo que parecen y nuestro pequeño amigo podrá conocer al animal que más admira. En esta fábula en verso moderno, los niños revisitarán el clásico relato de El león y el ratón y aprenderán a no subestimar a nadie por su tamaño, pues más vale maña que fuerza.

Una nueva y veloz visitante ha llegado a un bosque desconocido. Nadie se atreve a competir con la liebre. ¿Nadie? No exactamente. La más inesperada corredora intentará ganarle una carrera. En esta fábula en verso moderno, los niños revisitarán el clásico relato de La liebre y la tortuga y aprenderán valores como la constancia, la superación y la confianza en sí mismos.

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection.

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales II: Modern Verse Translation collection.

A Modern Lover was written by D H Lawrence in 1909. A young man returns home to his first love to declare his feelings for her but the moment is lost when the girl will not give herself sexually. This theme was to be explored fully in Lawrence’s novel, Sons and Lovers.

Mit "Also sprach Zarathustra" hat Nietzsche ein faszinierendes Hauptwerk geschaffen, einen Meilenstein der Weltliteratur. In drei zentralen Formeln fasst er seine Philosophie zusammen: der Wille zur Macht, die ewige Wiederkehr des Gleichen und der Übermensch. "Gott ist tot."

Nietzsches einziger sprachphilosophischer Essay, geschrieben 1873, veröffentlich 1896, vorgetragen von Benjamin Lucas.

Do you ever wonder if there is a gnome living in the hole at the bottom of the old tree in the park? Have you ever felt like you weren't alone while in the woods? Did you know that elves are responsible for many of our day-to-day occurrences? If your mind ever fills with these kinds of questions, then these modern fairy tales are for you!

We are not promised more than today. Thus we need to live our legacy now, with focus and integrity. Ryan Westcott is ready to step into the family business, armed with a fresh MBA degree from a prestigious business school. Yet his father has other ideas. He feels Ryan needs more education - but not the kind one gets from a school. Ryan is sent to his uncle’s Montana ranch to learn, in short, how to be a man. While Ryan helps his uncle build a barn, he learns life lessons about health, work, finances, education, selfessness, humility, and most important of all, love.

Rainer Maria Rilke und Joachim Ringelnatz sind wohl zwei der bekanntesten Vertreter ihrer Stilepochen. Sie schreiben von der Liebe zur und Unterdrückung der Natur durch die fortschreitende Modernisierung und Urbanisierung. Kaum ein anderer Lyriker als diese zwei stellt den Epochenumschwung von Naturalismus zur Moderne derart meisterlich dar.

Il mito eterno del mostro, della creatura che viene strappata alla morte dalla scienza torna a vivere...

Jane Addams was an American activist, philosopher, sociologist, and Nobel Prize winner. Addams’ speech The Modern Lear was delivered in 1894 at the Chicago Women’s Club and the 20th Century Club of Boston before appearing in print in 1912. In the address, Addams discusses the Pullman Railroad Strike in the Summer of 1894 in addition to other labor, union, and ethics issues of the day, using the titular character from William Shakespeare’s King Lear, who was betrayed by his two daughters, as a potent analogy.

This is a story from the "Great Ghost Stories" collection.

Realistische Wiedergabe unserer Umwelt - dafür stand der Realismus, der mit Humor und Ironie in Gedichten Ausdruck fand. Die Moderne hingegen war geprägt von Metaphern und Symbolen und war nur sich selbst verpflichtet. Diese Ansammlung der bekanntesten Gedichte des Epochenumschwungs, versetzt Sie mit dem Humor des Realismus und der Ernsthaftigkeit der Moderne ins 18. und 19. Jahrhundert zurück.

Ernest Belfort Bax (1854-1926) was an English barrister, journalist, philosopher, rights advocate, and historian. In this essay, after dismissing St. Simonism, Fourierism, Owenism, and “Continental Nihilists”, Bax attempts to explain what modern socialism, taken broadly, really means. He outlines the three bases of modern socialism as the direction of industry by a democratic state instead of by private capitalists; as a universal Federal Republic to take the place of the present nationalist system; and in religion, a human ideal to take the place of theological cults.

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales I: Modern Verse Translation collection. Chaucer's greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society and values. The stories range from the romantic, courtly idealism of "The Knight's Tale" to the joyous bawdy of the Miller's; all are told with a freshness and vigor in this modern verse translation that make them a delight to hear.

Ever miss a prime opportunity for a snappy comeback or a perfect putdown? We all have, kicking ourselves later when we think of what we could have said. The well-aimed insult was never in better shape than when Shakespeare mastered the art of defining dramatic conflict with rapier wit rather than swordplay.

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection.

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales III: Modern Verse Translation collection.

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales I: Modern Verse Translation collection. Chaucer's greatest work, written towards the end of the fourteenth century, paints a brilliant picture of medieval life, society and values. The stories range from the romantic, courtly idealism of "The Knight's Tale" to the joyous bawdy of the Miller's; all are told with a freshness and vigor in this modern verse translation that make them a delight to hear.