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Romance, Tragedy, Poetry

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...Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranchers and agents of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The central issue was over the ownership of the ranches, which the farmers had leased from the railroad nearly ten years earlier...

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...s her into a marriage of convenience. Can she save him from the treacherous political legacy of his late wife? Set in 1871, the story sweeps from the tragedy of the Chicago Fire to the streets of New York and finally to the wild, dangerous coast of Ireland. Is Daniel merely using Morgan for his own deceptions? Or is she right to listen with her heart? www.DesertBreezePubli...

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...nt, and nobody gets hurt. I think we agree that Daniel has suffered enough tragedy in his life. Now he has a pretty new wife and a fine little boy,...

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...ical and religious actions were taken to establish the world we see today and it has caused many good and bad things for the humans of our world. The tragedy of 9/11 might not have happened if some of the words of the Torah were not been taken into actions by politicians and religious groups. This book will give a different view about the reality of our world with the fact...

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...t confess that a lazy rogue is very much to my taste, provided there is no tragedy of children to smear the joke with misery. And if he or she neither...

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...llowed a few short months after the roiling, acrid clouds of gun smoke dissipated, leaving a little crossroads town in Pennsylvania heir to the human tragedy of over 7,000 corpses and 21,000 men suffering wounds. It was a most unnatural disaster. On November 19, the chief executive made the trip to the still-dazed, shot-torn community to deliver, almost as an afterthought ...

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...et the coal Britain's industry depended upon. This book based on his unpublished diaries tells the story of his life in his own words, the drama, the tragedy, the lives of rich and poor in a way that makes history come alive....

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...0, a time of vicious Muslim attacks and greed-driven British conquest. In response, Hindus embraced heart-transforming bhakti. Talk about reacting to tragedy in the highest possible way. Most historians gloss over the massive slaughters, the brutal reign of outsiders who had no love of Hinduism. Our lesson does the impossible: tells the true story fairly, without demeaning...

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...s that stood be- tween her and her need for tears. It was a genuine little tragedy. The mother, in a heavy, passionless voice, rebuked her impatience,... ...- mented with fear lest her lord should miss his footing, and so bring the tragedy of this world to an end ere the curtain 49 Rudyard Kipling had fai... ... to his orchestra. The other sight of the evening was a horror. The little tragedy played itself out at a neighboring table where two very young men a...

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...n pretty much the same: a fight for a just cause, a love story, or even a tragedy. But behind each plot should be a subtext that conveys a message ...

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...and the New Russian Economy The Janus Look The False Maps of Maskirovka The Tragedy of Errors (Book Review) The Betrayal of History (Book Review) Rus...

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...tes is explaining to the two others, who are half asleep, that the genius of tragedy is the same as that of comedy , and that the writer of tragedy ou... ...al of Socrates. It is the speech of the tragic poet and a sort of poem, like tragedy, moving among the gods of Olympus, and not among the elder or Orp... ...curred. In our boyhood, I replied, when Agathon won the prize with his first tragedy , on the day after that on which he and his chorus offered the sa... ...other two to acknowledge that the genius of comedy was the same with that of tragedy , and that the true artist in tragedy was an artist in comedy als...

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... kind of speech, and in teaching this fancies that he is teaching the art of tragedy—? PHAEDRUS: They too would surely laugh at him if he fancies that... ...not Sophocles say to the display of the would be tragedian, that this is not tragedy but the preliminaries of tragedy? and will not Acumenus say the s...

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...spondents, Glaucon and Adeimantus, appear on the scene: here, as in Greek tragedy, three actors are introduced. At first sight the two sons of Aristo... ...ouse. And if a poet writes of the sufferings of Niobe — the subject of the tragedy in which these iambic verses occur— or of the house of Pelops, or o... ... and let no one slander Proteus and Thetis, neither let any one, either in tragedy or in any other kind of poetry, intro duce Hera disguised in the l... ... only left. That also, he said, I understand; you mean, for example, as in tragedy. You have conceived my meaning perfectly; and if I mis take not, w... ...y are, in some cases, wholly imitative — instances of this are supplied by tragedy and comedy; there is likewise the opposite style, in which 80 Plato... ...or should all imitation be prohibited? You mean, I suspect, to ask whether tragedy and comedy shall be admitted into our State? Yes, I said; but there... ...the same persons cannot suc ceed in both, as, for example, the writers of tragedy and comedy—did you not just now call them imitations? Yes, I did; a... ...the sure. Plato’s The Republic 199 Then Palamedes, whenever he appears in tragedy, proves Agamemnon ridiculously unfit to be a general. Did you never... ... compan ions, while the good hate and avoid him. Of course. Verily, then, tragedy is a wise thing and Euripides a great tragedian. Why so? Why, becau...

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...also full of pain? Is there not a mixture of feelings in the spectator of tragedy? and of comedy also? ‘I do not understand that last.’ Well, 28 P... ...t we envy him, which is a pain? These mixed feelings are the rationale of tragedy and comedy, and equally the rationale of the greater drama of human... ...on in this passage. There is no difficulty in seeing that in comedy, as in tragedy, the spec- tator may view the performance with mixed feelings of pa... ...that there are com- binations of pleasure and pain in lamentations, and in tragedy and comedy, not only on the stage, but on the greater stage of huma...

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..., I won’t! From this field of corruption fouled by flies, let’s pass to my tragedy, also befouled by flies, that is, by every sort of vileness. Althou... ...f. That half is a drama, and it was played out there. The second half is a tragedy, and it is being acted here.” “And I understand nothing of that... ... lofty sentiments of hers are as sincere as a heavenly angel’s. That’s the tragedy of it—that I know that for certain. What if anyone does show off a ... ...innocent boy, that this is all delirium, senseless delirium, for there’s a tragedy here. Let me tell you, Alexey, that I may be a low man, with low an... ...elf. Alyosha realised at the first glance, at the first word, that all the tragedy of her position in relation to the man she loved so dearly was no s...

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...er Papers – V olume One greatly in simple ages. But he attempted neither a tragedy nor an epic poem. Even in what he did attempt, it is worth while to... ... what may be viewed as the offi- cial report of the one memorable domestic tragedy in the infant stage of the Christian history. Official I call it, a... ...t of St. Matthew pleaded no authority but his own. And domestic I call the tragedy, in prosecution of that beautiful image under which a father of our... ...o particu- lar attention. Again, amidst the supposed refinements of French tragedy, and not observe the coarser tragedy of Corneille, but amidst the m...

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... awakening, in 1819? The drama of ‘The Brothers at enmity’ is a rose-water tragedy beside that of a mother and daughter placed as we then were. But I ...

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...palace of Cronos is found by those who ‘have thrice departed from evil.’ The tragedy of the Greeks is not ‘rounded’ by this life, but is deeply set in... ...he Greek drama may be noted in all the Dialogues of Plato. The Phaedo is the tragedy of which Socrates is the protagonist and Simmias and Cebes the se...

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..., I won’t! From this field of corruption fouled by flies, let’s pass to my tragedy, also befouled by flies, that is, by every sort of vileness. Althou... ...f. That half is a drama, and it was played out there. The second half is a tragedy, and it is being acted here.” “And I understand nothing of that... ... lofty sentiments of hers are as sincere as a heavenly angel’s. That’s the tragedy of it—that I know that for certain. What if anyone does show off a ... ...innocent boy, that this is all delirium, senseless delirium, for there’s a tragedy here. Let me tell you, Alexey, that I may be a low man, with low an... ...elf. Alyosha realised at the first glance, at the first word, that all the tragedy of her position in relation to the man she loved so dearly was no s... ... how it has shattered me, that miracle, dear Alexey Fyodorovitch! And that tragedy in the drawing-room, it’ s more than I can bear, I warn you. I can’... ...ore than I can bear, I warn you. I can’t bear it. A comedy, perhaps, not a tragedy. T ell me, will Father Zossima live till to-morrow, will he? Oh, my... ... in this business, for it’s fate—that’s a fearful thing, Kuzma Kuzmitch! A tragedy , Kuzma Kuzmitch, a tragedy! And as you’ve dropped out long ago, it... ... opening and Grushenka running in. He leapt up from the bench. “It’s a tragedy!” he said, grinding his teeth. Mechanically he went up to the sleep...

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... how it has shattered me, that miracle, dear Alexey Fyodorovitch! And that tragedy in the drawing-room, it’ s more than I can bear, I warn you. I can’... ...re than I can bear, I warn you. I can’ t bear it. A comedy, perhaps, not a tragedy. T ell me, will Father Zossima live till to-morrow, will he? Oh, my...

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...acation pensive satisfaction in feeling and depicting the full pathos of a tragedy, and on the other hand they delight in their own mirth, and fully s... ... TERFL TERFL TERFL TERFLY Y Y Y Y The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, his- tory, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral...

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...That’s what I am going for. The blockheads will be forced at last to see the tragedy of it all! When they drag me to the door I shall call out to them...

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...ch suffering befalls be alive or dead makes much more difference than in a tragedy the presupposing or actual perpetration of the various crimes and h...

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Adventure, Historical Fiction, History, Nature, Politics, Romance, Tragedy, War stories, Poetry

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... cap off of a bottle of Jamaican Red Stripe beer between his fingers. "Your tragedy is great," Cardona said, aware of Brand's loss. "You feel it, d... ... safer than any of us," thinking about any more terrorist bombings. "Such a tragedy," Brand said. "I expect we will be attacking the Cartels soon."...

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... Inflation as a Cure for Political Bungling Private Windfall and Public Largesse Noxious Impact of Misguided Schemes German Resolution to a Greek Tragedy Hale Approach to the Banking Industry Right and Wrong Ways to Boost the Economy Forward Gaze References ...

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...he Muslim mind finds itself doubly squeezed by a wronged feeling on one side and the change of value system on the other in the modern era. It is the tragedy of the Musalmans that they would be trained to treat the contextual content of the Quran as the unalienable code of Islam. And that hampers the fluidity of their thought that is needed to cope up with the realities of...

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...dex of misery it becomes, and its “undoing,” as the sign of the end of the tragedy, and the letting forth of the great injured soul, has melted many t... ...orned the Dunciad than those of Mr Theobald, for he had neither genius for tragedy nor comedy;’ which, whether true or not, is not easy to judge, inas... ...iv., does further set forth, that as the Iliad and Odyssey gave example to tragedy, so did this poem to comedy its first idea. From these authors also... ...eir tetralogy, or set of four pieces, were wont to make the last a satiric tragedy. Happily one of these ancient Dunciads (as we may well term it) is ... ...ace, and the mixture 277 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 of tragedy and comedy, farce and epic, see Pluto and Proserpine, Penelope, &c.... ...ublic occasions, such as shows, birth-days, &c.; 2. Banks was his rival in tragedy (though more successful) in one of his tragedies, the Earl of Essex... ...or of that improvement, I know not; but it is certain that being once at a tragedy of a new author, he fell into a great passion at hearing some, and ... ...376 ‘Another Æschylus appears:’ it is reported of Æschylus, that when his tragedy of the Furies was acted, the audience were so terrified that the ch...

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...l. The two halves would relieve one another, like the semichori in a Greek tragedy; or rather the half which was in employment would be a fluctuating ...