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Life and career Early life Coat of arms of the Gensfleisch family, from the Register of Fiefs of Frederick I (1461) Johannes Gutenberg was born in Mainz (in modern-day Germany), a wealthy city along the Rhine, between the 14th and 15th centuries. His exact year of birth is unknown; on the basis of a later document indicating that he came of age by 1420, scholarly estimates have ranged from ...
Background. Conrad began writing the four short stories that would comprise T yphoon and Other Stories while he was attempting to complete the third and final story for the proposed collection Youth, A Narrative; and Two Other Stories (1902) for William Blackwood and Sons. Setting aside “The End of the Tether”- and after finishing his novel ...
Project Gutenberg ( PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in ...
The Project Gutenberg text of the story has a note by Stevenson which says "...the tale has been designed and written for a Polynesian audience..." which also suggests initial publication in Polynesia, not in the United States. Bottle Imp paradox. The premise of the story creates a logical paradox similar to the unexpected hanging paradox ...
The bibliography of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 – 1881) comprises novels, novellas, short stories, essays and other literary works. Raised by a literate family, Dostoyevsky discovered literature at an early age, beginning when his mother introduced the Bible to him. Nannies near the hospitals—in the grounds of which he was raised—introduced ...
Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia ], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit". [2]
The Stories of Katherine Mansfield. Auckland: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-558113-X. External links. Bliss and other stories at the New Zealand Text Centre; Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield available at Project Gutenberg; Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield available at Project Gutenberg Australia
Translating any text without permission, if there is no copyright trouble. Commercial use of texts is also allowed. Projekt-Gutenberg-DE: Free literature in German language Texts (usually one chapter per HTML page) are free for private use but the site claims the rights for commercial distribution. Questia Online Library: General