Книги, похожие на  «We are not given to understand»

One is an underestimated citizen who is constantly struggling with oneself and trying to find one's way to freedom.

The book about a man who wanted a long and beautiful life. But never forgot all and at once. He was sick but he lived and struggled against the prejudices.

America. A historyTHE UNITED STATESBook FirstCHAPTER I. DISCOVERY CHAPTER II. COLONIZATION CHAPTER III. VIRGINIA CHAPTER IV. NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER V. THE NEW ENGLAND PERSECUTIONS CHAPTER VI. WITCHCRAFT IN NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER VII. THE INDIANS CHAPTER VIII. NEW YORK CHAPTER IX. PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER X...

The Heroes; Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My ChildrenCharles Kingsley The Heroes; Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children STORY I.—PERSEUS PART I HOW PERSEUS AND HIS MOTHER CAME TO SERIPHOS Once upon a time there were two princes who were twins. Their names were Acrisius and Prœtus, and they lived in t...

English Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical CharactersMax O'Rell English Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters To JonathanYou have been kind enough to receive favorably two volumes of unpretentious impressions of your great and most hospita...

Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860George Saintsbury Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 PREFACE Of the essays in this volume, the introductory paper on "The Kinds of Criticism" has not before appeared in print. All the rest, with one exception (the Essay on Lockhart which appeared in the...

Some details escape the notice of protagonists and heroes of the stories, as the circumstances and the life itself want some attention, too…

An English SquireColeridge Christabel R. Christabel Rose An English Squire Preface In bringing this tale in a complete form before the public, I should wish it to be understood that it arose out of a series of conversations with a friend who suggested the character of Alvar Lester, to the origina...

Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, TolstoyIvan Panin Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy PREFACE The translations given in this volume, with the exception of the storm-scene from Tolstoy in the First Lecture, are my own.The reader will please b...

When Love CallsWeyman Stanley John When Love Calls I HER STORY "Clare," I said, "I wish that we had brought some better clothes, if it were only one frock. You look the oddest figure."And she did. She was lying head to head with me on the thick moss that clothed one part of the river-bank above B...