APHTHONIVS a famous man, wrote in Greke of soche declamacions, to en- structe the studentes thereof, with all fa- cilitee to grounde in them, a moste plenti- ous and riche vein of eloquence. No man is able to inuente a more profitable waie and order, to instructe any one in the ex- quisite and absolute perfeccion, of wisedome and eloquence, then Aphthonius Quintilianus and Hermogenes. Tullie al- so as a moste excellente Orator, in the like sorte trauailed, whose Eloquence and vertue all tymes extolled, and the of- spryng of all ages worthilie aduaunceth. And because as yet the verie grounde...

Madame Bovary es una novela escrita por Gustave Flaubert. Se publico por entregas en La Revue de Paris desde el 1 de octubre de 1856 hasta el 15 de diciembre del mismo ano; en forma de libro, en 1857. Gustave Flaubert (Ruan, Alta Normandia, 12 de diciembre de 1821-Croisset, Baja Normandia, 8 de mayo de 1880) fue un escritor frances. Es considerado uno de los mejores novelistas occidentales y es conocido principalmente por su novela Madame Bovary, y por su escrupulosa devocion a su arte y su estilo, cuyo mejor ejemplo fue su interminable busqueda de le mot juste ('la palabra exacta').

Hipocrates de Cos (Cos, c. 460 a. C. - Tesalia c. 370 a. C.) fue un medico de la Antigua Grecia que ejercio durante el llamado siglo de Pericles. Esta clasificado como una de las figuras mas destacadas de la historia de la medicina y muchos autores se refieren a el como el padre de la medicina1 2 3 en reconocimiento a sus importantes y duraderas contribuciones a esta ciencia como fundador de la escuela que lleva su nombre. Esta escuela intelectual revoluciono la medicina de la Antigua Grecia, estableciendola como una disciplina separada de otros campos con los cuales se la habia asociado...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both...

Par un chaud dimanche d'ete, pres du canal Saint-Martin, sur le boulevard Bourdon, a Paris, deux promeneurs, Bouvard et Pecuchet, se rencontrent par hasard sur un banc public et font connaissance. Ils s'apercoivent qu'ils ont eu tous deux l'idee d'ecrire leur nom dans leur chapeau: Alors ils se considererent. . Tombes sous le charme l'un de l'autre, Bouvard et Pecuchet decouvrent que non seulement ils exercent le meme metier de copiste, mais qu'en plus ils ont les memes centres d'interets. S'ils le pouvaient, ils aimeraient vivre a la campagne."

Le Dictionnaire des idees recues ou Catalogue des opinions chics est un ouvrage litteraire inacheve de Gustave Flaubert qui regroupe sous forme de dictionnaire des definitions et aphorismes de son imagination. Gustave Flaubert est un ecrivain francais ne a Rouen le 12 decembre 1821 et mort a Croisset, lieu-dit de la commune de Canteleu, le 8 mai 1880. Prosateur de premier plan de la seconde moitie du xix siecle, Gustave Flaubert a marque la litterature universelle par la profondeur de ses analyses psychologiques, son souci de realisme, son regard lucide sur les comportements des individus et...

The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy") is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century (ca. 1517) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, best known as the author of The Prince. The Discourses were published posthumously with papal privilege in 1531. The title identifies the work's subject as the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, which relate the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BCE, although...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The magazine's editor feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted roughly five hundred words before publication. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the...

Dracula es una novela publicada en 1897 por el irlandes Bram Stoker, quien ha convertido a su antagonista en el vampiro mas famoso. Se dice que el escritor se baso en las conversaciones que mantuvo con un erudito hungaro llamado Arminius Vambery, quien le hablo de Vlad Draculea. La novela, escrita de manera epistolar, presenta otros temas, como el papel de la mujer en la epoca victoriana, la sexualidad, la inmigracion, el colonialismo o el folclore. Como curiosidad, cabe destacar que Bram Stoker no invento la leyenda vampirica, pero la influencia de la novela ha logrado llegar al cine, el...

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel, and invasion literature. Stoker did not invent the vampire but he defined its modern form, and the...