Durante el otoño de 1912, en Praga, escribió Franz Kafka (1883-1924) La metamorfosis, la peripecia subterránea y literal de Gregor Samsa, un viajante de comercio que al despertarse una mañana "de un sueño lleno de pesadillas se encontró en su cama convertido en un bicho enorme". En pocos libros de Kafka queda tan explícito y tan nítido su mundo como en La metamorfosis, en la que el protagonista, convertido en bestia, sumido en la más absoluta...

Deputy Tom Jennings, a patrol officer for the Cottonwood County Sheriff's Office, is a caring cop. He doesn't understand the Old Order Amish. After being assigned to investigate the theft of soil from a county ditch, he meets Mrs. Rebecca Borntrager Yoder. Rebecca, and Adam, her husband, help Jennings begin to learn how the Amish and the English are different, and alike.

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a mesmerizing and unsettling exploration of the female psyche and the stifling constraints of 19th-century society. The story is narrated by a woman suffering from what her husband and physicians diagnose as "nervous depression." She is confined to a room in her home and prescribed a treatment of complete rest. As the protagonist spends her days in isolation, she becomes increasingly obsessed...

Regarded as one of the foremost playwrights of the nineteenth century, Ibsen tells the story of the idealist Doctor Thomas Stockmann, the medical officer of a recently opened spa in a small town in southern Norway, who finds that the water is seriously contaminated. He notifies members of the community and initially receives support and thanks for the discovery. Threatened by the possible impact of such a revelation, his brother, the town mayor, conspires...

The tragedy of Irene's death, is a bloody play by Reza Taheri Bashar. This sad story tells step by step the events after General Bahram's love failure. The great spiteful general can not marriage with beautiful Irene, So, He cooperates with Ila, Irene's beautiful sister, in revenge against Irene and General Bahman. they conspire and kill treacherously. and this play, finally it shows the old mother's hard grudge and the deadly murders and the...

Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is thought of as one of the most important figures from classical antiquity. Aristotle was probably the most famous member of Plato's Academy in Athens, whose writings would ultimately form the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. His writings were not constrained to simply one field of inquiry but covered such various subjects as physics, biology, metaphysics,...

Año 1856, durante las labores de mantenimiento del tejado de un monasterio romano se encuentra un pergamino que contiene un mensaje escrito por un hijo a su madre que se remonta a 1646 y que se refiere a un anillo de Pedro robado y escondido en un pueblo toscano. El teniente Luigi De Santis, de la Gendarmería Pontificia, viene encargado de redactar un informe sobre el hallazgo e, inmediatamente, despierta el interés de las altas jerarquías de...

Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice is an anthology of five engaging and eclectic South African plays by award-winning playwright Ashwin Singh. The plays selected, namely To House, Duped, Spice 'n Stuff, Reoca Light and Beyond the Big Bangs represent the complete array of Singh's storytelling skills in drama as well as satire. Each play reflects, in different ways, on the complexities and contradictions of life in post-Apartheid South Africa, and focuses...

This collection of poetry is inspired by the author's testament to his past. Andrew Zaragoza expresses his insight into the human spirit through the written word. Messages lived at one point in time, the poet hopes to inspire others through his debut book.