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By the early eighteenth century, the rapid expansion of the British empire had created a technological problem: communication and networking became increasingly vital yet harder to maintain. As colonial possessions and populations grew and more individuals moved around the globe, Britons both at home and abroad required a constant and reliable means of communication to conduct business, plumb intellectual concerns, discuss family matters, run distant estates, and exchange news. As face-to-face communication became more intermittent, men and women across the early modern British world relied on letters. In The Opened Letter , historian Lindsay O'Neill explores the importance and impact of networking via letter-writing among the members of the elite from England, Ireland, and the colonies. Combining extensive archival research with social network digital technology, The Opened Letter captures the dynamic associations that created a vibrant, expansive, and elaborate web of communication. The author examined more than 10,000 letters produced by such figures as Virginia planters William Byrd I and his son William Byrd II; the Anglo-Irish nobleman John Perceval; the newly minted Duke of Chandos, James Brydges, and his wife Cassandra Brydges; and Sir Hans Sloane, the president of the Royal Society, and his colleague Peter Collinson. She also mined letters from the likes of Nicholas Blundell, a Catholic member of the Lancashire gentry, and James Eliot, a London merchant and ardent Quaker. The Opened Letter reassembles and presents the vital individual and interlocking epistolary webs constructed by disparate groups of letter writers. These early social networks illuminate the structural, social, and geographic workings of the British world as the nation was becoming a dominant global power.


Antologia della Letteratura Italiana: XII – XIX ss Antologia della Letteratura Italiana: XII – XIX ss

Автор: Коллектив авторов

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Этот диск – для тех, кто любит Италию и хотел бы узнать больше о ее литературе, истории и культуре. При составлении антологии предпочтение отдавалось произведениям, вошедшим в сокровищницу не только итальянской, но и всемирной литературы. Практически все тексты в ней хрестоматийны. Данте Алигьери, Петрарка, Боккаччо, Тассо, Гольдони, Мандзони, Леопарди не нуждаются в особом представлении. Имена многих литературных героев давно уже стали нарицательными, а их высказывания – крылатыми выражениями. Составители надеются, что, познакомившись с багажом среднестатистического итальянца, слушатель не остановится на достигнутом и пожелает углубить свои познания в итальянской литературе. Аудиокнига на итальянском языке. 1. San Francesco d'Assisi (1182-1226) «Il Cantico delle Creature» 2. Cecco Angiolieri (с.1260-1312) «S'i' fosse…» 3. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) «Tanto gentile e tanto onesta…» 4. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Dalla «Commedia»: Paolo e Francesca 5. Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) «Il Canzoniere»: «Chiare, fresche e dolci acque…» 6. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) «Il Decamerone»: «La novella di Chichibio» 7. Lorenzo de' Medici (1449-1492) «Quant'e bella giovinezza» 8. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) «La Gioconda» 9. Gabriello Chiabrera (1552-1638) «Come la violetta» 10. Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) «La locandiera», atto I scene I-IX 11. Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827) «Il sacrificio della patria» 12. Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) «Il cinque maggio» 13. Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) «I promessi sposi»: "Don Abbondio rende vano 14. Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) «I promessi sposi»: «Una madre nella peste di Milano» 15. Giuseppe Giusti (1809-1850) «Il brindisi di Girella» 16. Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) «L'infinito» 17. Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) «A Silvia» 18. Ippolito Nievo (1831-1861) «Il signor Conte di Fratta» 19. Carlo Collodi (1826-1890) «Storie allegre» 20. Giosue Carducci (1835-1907) «San Martino» 21. Giosue Carducci (1835-1907) «Pianto antico»


Antologia della letteratura Italiana: XIX – XX ss. Antologia della letteratura Italiana: XIX – XX ss.

Автор: Коллективные сборники

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Содержание: Antonio Fogazzaro. Dal «Piccolo Mondo Antico» Salvatore Di Giacomo. «Pianefforte'e notte» Grazia Deledda. «I due» Giovanni Pascoli. «L'aquilone» Edmondo De Amicis. «Cuore» Gabriele D'Annunzio. «La pioggia nel pineto» Gabriele D'Annunzio. Dal «Piacere» Luigi Pirandello. «La giara»


The Purloined Letter The Purloined Letter

Автор: Эдгар Аллан По

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"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story.


Complete Letters of Mark Twain Complete Letters of Mark Twain

Автор: Марк Твен

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The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untrammeled by literary conventions.


Letter to the queen on the state of the monarchy Letter to the queen on the state of the monarchy

Автор: Henry Brougham

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Примечание: Письмо королеве о состоянии дел в монархии. Полный вариант заголовка: «Letter to the queen on the state of the monarchy / By a friend of the people».