Modern Classics

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.

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!

"Fu in una lugubre notte di novembre che vidi la realizzazione delle mie fatiche. Preso da grande angoscia, raccolsi i miei speciali strumenti così da poter infondere una scintilla di vita nella cosa inanimata che giaceva ai miei piedi. Era già l'una di notte; la pioggia picchiettava ossessiva contro i vetri, e la mia candela era quasi consumata, quando, alla debole luce semi-estinta, scorsi l’occhio giallo, fermo, della creatura aprirsi; respirava a fatica e un moto convulso agitava le sue membra. [...]"

Wie man verschieden Geräusche erzeugt, so umschreibt Eisendle eine Diskussion zwischen fünf Kunstfreunden...

Baudelaire gilt heute als einer der größten französischen Lyriker überhaupt und als einer der wichtigsten Wegbereiter der europäischen literarischen Moderne...

Three grownup Tales from the Dreamtime in one novella…Open the door and enter the Dreamtime, the world of fairytales, the flower of all that is delightful and mysterious, frightening and amazing.

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.

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 "Great Ghost Stories" collection.

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.

The author, a prolific writer and a member of the Theosophical Society, describes his personal journey through the Masonic fraternity, as a co-mason. He explains his shock with the familiarity of the lodge room, as he recalled it exactly from a past life in ancient Egypt. He proceeds to compares the modern masonic ritual with ancient Egyptian mysteries, which he clearly remembers. He explains that the fraternity purposely pretended to be operative masons, to avoid persecution from the Church.

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

Rêveries oniriques lugubres, propos désabusés et pessimistes, bestiaires fantastiques : tout l'univers kafkaïen sur les thèmes de l'aliénation et de la persécution se retrouvent dans ces courts récits, scénarisant l'homme déraciné face au monde moderne ainsi que le combat de l'individu pour la propre responsabilité de ses choix.

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.

Vier humoristische Erzählungen beschreiben das Kommunikationsverhalten von Reisenden gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, in welchem kein Mensch mehr Zeit zu haben scheint und alles sich ständig beschleunigt, die Verhaltensweisen von Gelegenheitsarbeitern und die sportlichen Ambitionen eines älteren Ehemannes, der trotz Warnhinweisen seiner Ehefrau zum leistungssporttechnischen Spaziergänger mutiert und erkrankt.

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.

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