Short novel by the German romantic author Heinrich von Kleist, published in his first volume of Narrations (Erzählungen) in 1810.
Michael Kohlhaas is an honest and respectable horse trader who, in the middle of the 16th century, travels from Brandenburg to Saxony to do business. Passing by the castle of the nobleman Wenzel von Tronka,...
Short story of great literary quality. It tells the story of Félicité, an affable, seemingly insignificant person, who was employed for years as a domestic servant in a rural region of northwestern France demanding very little in return. Despite her unhappy childhood and unrequited love, she bears no resentment and spreads compassion wherever...
In the fishing village of Sea Harbor, some friends like Izzy, Nell, Birdie and Cass get together on Thursdays to knit and crochet. One day the deceased body of Angie, the neighbor, turns up and they decide to investigate what happened. The authorities think she drowned but they doubt it because she was a very good swimmer. Will they manage to...
Published in parts, between 1876 and 1877, the text was revised in 1883. It is one of Henry James' best and most famous novels. Its protagonist, Christopher Newman, is the prototype of the citizen of the new continent: self-made, able to rise in the social body. He is also fascinated by the old continent, where he seeks brilliance and prestige...
Georges Bernanos' first novel is divided into three episodes: the introduction, Histoire de Mouchette, presents a proud and impulsive girl who suspects the presence of Satan within her. She kills the man who seduced her and faces the cowardice of another seducer, the deputy Gallet. The second part presents Abbot Donissan who, doubting his...
The life of Martin, a ten-year-old boy with divorced parents, is about to be turned upside down. That day he goes to the production company where his father works; the day he goes, they are auditioning candidates to play the role of Harry Potter. When he is about to do it, Martin is discarded and falls into a depression that feeds every time a...
The wisdom of fatherhood explains the main obstacles that undercut a father's teaching role and tell men what they have to overcome themselves. In this framework, he spells our successful deal with their children in the crucial area: family rules, schooling, discipline, sport, the media and going teamwork with one's wife.
How they did it, and why they did are the focus of this book: forming character, counter the consumer culture, understanding discipline and dealing with the influence of mass media. In Compass, he shares his insights about leadership in family life.
Brother François was born at the end of the 12th century, in an Italy divided by wars, within the walls of a small medieval city: Assisi. He grew up a few years before the Third Crusade, in an era that, as Julien Green wrote, hesitated “between happiness and misfortune”, as if “waiting for someone to come along”. François experienced the...
Serious needs of today's parents are not met effectively. Upbringing adresses the most important of the needs.
Where are we heading? What sort men and women do we hope to be? Are we making progress? How do we know we are? What we have do now to help reach our children to reach responible adulthood?
