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Young Julien Sorel, the son of a country timber merchant, carries a portrait of his hero Napoleon Bonaparte and dreams of military glory. A brilliant career in the Church leads him into Parisian high society, where, 'mounted upon the finest horse in Alsace', he gains high military office and wins the heart of the aristocratic Mlle Mathilde de la Mole. Julien's cunning and ambition lead him into all sorts of scrapes.

It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin....

Hail Reaper is a podcast dedicated to the Red Rising universe, where we explore the book series through conversation, creative world-building content, and music.

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new—and unforgettable.

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Exploring Carl Jung's magnum opus, The Red Book, chapter-by-chapter. In each episode, Salome Institute director, Satya Doyle Byock, and Astrologer Carol Ferris discuss C.G. Jung's vast work while reflecting on Jungian psychology and history, the astrology of Jung's time and ours, and the political, social, feminist, and anti-racist relevance of this work today. C.G. Jung's journey into the unconscious began in 1913, just months before the sudden beginning of WWI. It was this descent, laboriously documented in a large red leather book that has come to be known as "The Red Book" that underlies ...

The Red and the Black by Stendhal. It is a brave author indeed who gives his hero as many flaws as Stendhal bestows upon young Julien Sorel, an ambitious young carpenter's son turned priest who secretly models his behaviour after the heroics of Napoleon, in an era when the great man had only recently died at St Helena, and French society has grown stultified (for all its still vivid memories of the Jacobins' excesses and fear these may be revived). With remarkable skill, Stendhal manages as once to hold Julian's character up to excoriating examination while leaving us with some measure of ...

"The Adventure of the Red-Headed League" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in The Strand Magazine in August 1891. Conan Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. In this story, Holmes is presented with a perplexing mystery involving a league set up to aid and benefit men with especially vivid red hair who live in London. Is this a crime? Of course not, but even the brilliant Holmes needs 'three pipefulls' of meditation time to penetrate the nefarious plots hidden beneath this ...

New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst pens evocative and urbane novels of World War II espionage. Focusing on the European theater, Furst writes about ordinary people struggling to cope with the chaos of the world around them.

The Dream of the Red Chamber, also known as The Story of the Stone, stands as one of Chinas Four Great Classical Novels and is often hailed as the most remarkable among them. With nearly 40 principal characters and around 500 supporting figures, the narrative intricately weaves the fortunes of the Chia family. At the heart of the tale is Chia Pao-yü, the intelligent yet carefree heir apparent. The familys wealth escalates when Pao-yüs older sister becomes an imperial consort, leading to the creation of a magnificent garden that serves as the backdrop for much of the story. The intricate ...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. “One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." —Glennon...

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Author A. A. Milne is best known to the world as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Yet Milne was versatile, having written dozens of plays, humorous articles, books and – The Red House Mystery. In which… Mark Ablett is the massively narcissistic owner of The Red House, a beautiful English country mansion. The estate is managed mostly by Mark’s side-kick and younger cousin, Cayley. As a wealthy artiste, Mark has chosen his handful of guests both to pander to his self-image and to allow him near-total control of virtually all aspects of his luxurious country house “show,” as it were. In ...

The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the greatest of them all. Almost 40 main characters and some 500 minor characters tell the fortunes of the Chia family; the book details mainly the life of Chia Pao-yü, the heir apparent, who is described as very intelligent, but also as carefree and self-indulging. The already wealthy Chia family rises to new heights when Pao-yü's elder sister becomes an imperial consort. On her first visit home, a lush garden is built, where much of the rest of the story ...

March 1917 tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events. The absorbing narrative tells the stories of more than fifty characters during the days when the Russian Empire begins to crumble. The anti-Tsarist bourgeois opposition, horrified by the violence, scrambles to declare that it is provisionally taking power, while socialists immediately create a Soviet alternative to undermine it.

ज्या दुनियेपासून समाज चार हात अंतर राखून असतो, ज्या स्त्रियांचं अस्तित्व समाज बेदखल करतो, झिडकारतो, तिरस्कार...

欢迎来到《听见红楼梦：连环画有声精读》！🌸Welcome to Dream of the Red Chamber: An Audio-Visual Journey!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E7%BA%A2%E6%A5%BC%E6%A2%A6-dream-of-the-red-chamber/id1890570064YouTube 全集播放列表 (Full Playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcMlk0LuaAc_2H9ZWDpmsWJMN_it5Uzfm在这里，我们以全新的视听方式打开中国古典文学巅峰之作。本播客不仅是一部沉浸式的有声读物，更是一场视觉盛宴。我们结合了精美的传统工笔画风，带您重温“连环画”（...

Louise Erdrich ( The Plague of Doves) talks about her latest collection of stories with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! The book features skillfully woven, multigenerational stories of family entanglements, desperate passions, and dangerous choices. Sonia Manzano performs an excerpt.

The Continental Detective Agency’s Op is sent on a case to Personville. The locals call their town “Poisonville,” and the Op would soon find out why as the bodies start piling up. Dirty cops, gang wars, and hit men are all at play in Dashiell Hammett’s first full-length novel featuring the Continental Op, the original hard-boiled private detective. - Summary by Mark Nelson

In 'The Red Circle,' Sherlock Holmes faces a puzzling case that keeps him on his toes. A secretive lodger in his building has everyone on edge, especially his worried landlady. She's anxious about the strange happenings and turns to Holmes for help. Initially, he thinks it’s a minor issue. But as he digs deeper, he uncovers a web of intrigue that stretches across the Atlantic. This isn't just a simple case; it involves a shadowy Italian group with dark motives—murder and blackmail. With his sharp wit and keen observation, Holmes is determined to crack the case. Can he piece together the ...