Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg 700 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices Download 800 free eBooks to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smart phone or ereader. Collection includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including works by Asimov, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, F. Learn how to load ebook (.mobi) files to your Kindle with this video Religious Texts Assorted Texts This list of Free eBooks has received mentions in the The Daily Beast, Computer World, Gizmodo and Lifehacker.
10 Of Our Favorite Literary TED Talks From 2015 We adore a good literary TED Talk around here on the Riot. 2015 gave us fascinating talks about poetry in prisons, book cover design, the StoryCorps project, the making of a bad feminist, and many more. Here are our 10 favorites. Harry Baker: A love poem for lonely prime numbers Math and poetry. Laura Boushnak: For these women, reading is a daring act Through the women’s original words and her own stunning photography, Boushnak created the “I Read I Write” project about the power of education for Arabic women. Brian Dettmer: Old books reborn as art Dettmer is one of my favorite book artists. Cristina Domenech: Poetry that frees the soul Domenech gives an incredibly moving TED talk about the power of poetry and the transformative effects reading and writing it had on a group of Argentinian prisoners. Roxane Gay: Confessions of a bad feminist Roxane Gay is a Riot favorite, for good reason. Dave Isay: Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear Pico Iyer: The art of stillness
Sites We Like: The Lisa Simpson Book Club One of the many many things I like about The Simpsons is that there isn’t any single character that the writers want you to sympathize with. Certainly not Homer, the dopish but lovable star of the show. Certainly not the put-upon Marge, or the delinquent Bart. If anyone comes close to being the character that you see yourself in, it has to be the bookish Lisa. Being a reader in a television nation, I’m sure you can identify with Lisa’s outsider nerdiness. And not only does she read a lot, she has great taste in literature! Lucky for us, someone has starting doing that already! This is the list so far: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath Ghost World, Daniel Clowes The Adventures of Tin Tin, Hergé Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren The Master of the Senate, Robert Caro The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen The Babysitter’s Club, Ann M. The Harry Potter series, J.K. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan The poems of Emily Dickinson The works of Jane Austen
The 26 books to read before going to university Aliens: why they are here by Bryan Appleyard “Aliens is a great book because it deftly deconstructs popular culture (from conspiracy theories to Star Trek) in order to interrogate the desires, fears and ideologies that are coded into such representations and discourses. Sharif Mowlabocus, senior lecturer in media studies at the University of Sussex A Rage to Live: a biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S Lovell “It’s for those who self-identify as misfits and mavericks, iconoclasts even. James Tooley, professor of education policy at Newcastle University A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf “This essay is a provocative insight into the reasons why students may not encounter that many female philosophers, scientists and artists as they begin their studies at university. Lucy Bolton, senior lecturer in film studies at Queen Mary University of London A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor Duncan Wu, professor of English at Georgetown University by Alice Dreger by Carolyn Steedman Old Goriot
100 Must-Read Strange and Unusual Novels I love strange and unusual novels, mostly because I, myself, am strange and unusual. (Okay, you got me – I wrote this list just so I could quote Beetlejuice.) Seriously, though, I love weird books. So whether there’s something just a little different about the story, or the book is full-on bizarre, here are 100 wonderful books I have read and highly recommend. Some of them are funny. These were just the first 100 that popped into my head. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood: In the future, for starters, people will have blue butts. Bear vs. Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis: Like Edward Scissorhands. The Vaults by Toby Ball: Intrigue surrounding an archive, set in the dystopian 1930s. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks: *insert emoji for “OH GOD MY EYES” here* The Incarnations by Susan Barker: The many variations of lives of two people in Beijing. Beatlebone by Kevin Barry: So, John Lennon is on an Irish island in 1978… The Weirdness by Jeremy Bushnell: What if Satan wasn’t a bad guy? Mr.
Thomas Hardy Society • Short Stories Hardy was prolific not only as a Novelist and as a Poet but also as a writer of Short-Stories. He began publishing Short Stories in periodicals in 1874 and continued to do for over thirty years – in total over 50 Short Stories ranging from the brief narratives of his ‘A Few Crusted Characters’ group – stories told by the occupants of a carrier’s van as they were driven from Casterbridge to Weatherbury to the long novella ‘The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid’. He published the main body of his Short Stories in three volumes Wessex Tales (1888), A Group of Noble Dames (1891) and Life’s Little Ironies (1894), collecting the remaining stories under the title A Changed Man in 1913. This section of the website contains the full text of all Hardy’s four books of Short Stories, with the tales of ‘A Few Crusted Characters’ presented as a single continuous narrative. Hardy wrote in 1893: A story must be exceptional enough to justify the telling. Read on and judge for yourselves!
Around the World in 80 Books: A Global Reading List Ready for some serious armchair travel? Take a trip around the globe with these books from the eighty most populated countries in the world. Afghanistan – The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini: An unlikely friendship forms between a well-to-do boy and the son of his father’s servant in the years leading up to the Soviet-Afghan War. Algeria – Algerian White by Assia Djebar: The author remembers three friends–a psychologist, a sociologist, and a dramatist–who were killed during the Algerian struggle for independence. Angola – Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki: A twelve-year-old boy and his friends grow up during the confusing time of the Angolan Civil War. Argentina – He Who Searches by Luisa Valenzuela: A professor of semiotics disguises himself and visits a prostitute two days a week in order to psychologically analyze her without her knowledge. Australia – The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough: A family saga spanning fifty-four years set in the Australian Outback.
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A Vida Amorosa de Moll Flanders - Prefácio página 1 Prefácio Ultimamente o mundo tem andado tão interessado em novelas e romances que será difícil aceitar como autêntica uma história pessoal, onde os nomes e outras particularidades da pessoa não são revelados, e por isso nos devemos contentar com deixar o leitor formar a sua própria opinião acerca das páginas que se seguem e considerá-las como lhe aprouver. Neste livro supõe-se que a protagonista escreve a sua própria história, e logo no princípio da narrativa explica as razões pelas quais lhe parece conveniente ocultar o seu verdadeiro nome, não voltando a aludir a esse pormenor. É verdade que o original desta história foi refundido noutras palavras e o estilo da famosa dama de que neste livro falamos um pouco modificado. Contamos, sobretudo, a sua vida em palavras mais modestas, pois o manuscrito original estava redigido numa linguagem mais própria de quem se encontrava ainda em Newgate do que de quem se tornara humilde e arrependida, como ela pretendia ter-lhe acontecido.
The 15 Best Places On The Internet For Book Lovers The internet is great for many things: The OC GIFs, Harambe memes, and literature. Does it seem like one of those things is not like the other? If it feels at all strange to you that the medium which has been credited (along with television, of course) with a national decline in attention spans and an accompanying rise in people wanting to get their news via 15-second video clips rather than 1500-word articles, well, yeah, when put that way, maybe it does seem weird. But the truth is that the internet has long been home to people who love books and all things literary, and has served as a virtual meeting place for book lovers from all over the world to get together and discuss and praise and debate the written word. Here, then, are the places we go when we want to feel like the internet is not just a wasteland of frogs on unicycles. Gallery Swipe to page through gallery. Click arrows or click & drag to page through gallery. Lenny Letter Electric Literature The Millions Literary Hub The Rumpus