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La Gitanilla by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. La Gitanilla relata la historia de una gitana joven que fue conocida por todos los lugares donde anduvo a causa de su extrema belleza y a la par honestidad. De nombre Preciosa, nieta de una vieja gitana, vivía con total libertad, hasta que a la edad de 15 años se enamoró de ella un galante caballero que cambió su vida y sus costumbres para volverse gitano con el fin de hacerse esposo suyo. En el trayecto de estas vivencias los sucesos acontecidos revelan los antepasados del caballero y de la misma Preciosa, que por ser tales y tan ...

When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due to its treatment of drug abuse, mercy killing, divorce and second marriages. (Summary by Margaret)

David Copperfield, like all of Dickens' novels, is filled with many memorable characters (because they are hyperbolic representations of character types) from all members of society. Here we have, for example, the virtuous, but relatively poor, Mr. Peggotty beside the grasping and greedy and vengeful and more middle-class Heep, but also beside Julia Mills whose only desire is also for money, which she possesses to excess (alluding to the capitalistic aggrandizement of European exploitation of foreign nations). And David Copperfield, like other of Dickens' works, emphasizes thematically that ...

These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new school of thought can do. A text like this is the most opportune and will naturally more or less supersede all other introductions to the general subject of psychoanalysis. It presents the author in a new light, as an effective and successful popularizer, and is certain to be welcomed not only by the large and growing number ...

Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still Freud's argument—that our contemporary civilisation favours this sort of hypocrisy and that there are more civilised hypocrites than truly cultured persons, and it is even a question whether a certain amount of hypocrisy is not indispensable to maintain civilisation. When this travesty of civilisation, this infallible state that has regimented and dragooned its citizens into ...

6 ghost stories - Summary by Adr6090

This book is an engaging compilation of experiences that Mr. Le Queux has had in his life, and states in the preface that his goal was "to take my reader behind the scenes of some particular phases of life with which he may be unfamiliar." - Summary by swmom17

Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria and compulsion neurosis. By discarding the old methods of treatment and strictly applying himself to a study of the patient's life he discovered that the hitherto puzzling symptoms had a definite meaning, and that there was nothing arbitrary in any morbid manifestation. Psychoanalysis always showed that they referred to some definite problem or conflict of the person concerned. It was while tracing back the abnormal to the normal state that Professor Freud ...

A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in the dreaming state. Covering lots of topics, the Austrian psychoanalyst's work on dreams is worth reading for anyone who would get up with a question mark face, trying to remember the dream they had just moments before and trying to understand what message their dream was conveying, if at all it was. (Summary by sidhu177)

A Commentary Upon the Book of Ruth Delivered In Several Sermons; The Brief Sum Whereof is Now Published for the Benefit of the Church of God. - Summary from the Subtitle

Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he originally offered to the world his interpretation of dreams was as circumstantial as a legal record to be pondered over by scientists at their leisure, not to be assimilated in a few hours by the average alert reader. In those days, Freud could not leave out any detail likely to make his extremely novel thesis evidentially acceptable to those willing to sift data. - Freud himself, however, realized the magnitude of the task which the reading of his magnum ...

The young Dr. Bancroft has unsuccessfully been trying to establish his practice. Thus, a scheme to make him seem like a very busy doctor is devised in order to impress his bride who is coming for a visit. With a fake doctor, robbers, and a cast of colorful characters, plenty of entertaining shenanigans occur. But the real question is will the bride and groom get married despite it all? - Summary by Jenn BrodaCast List:Dr. Ray Bancroft- The groom, a young M.D.: BeeswaxcandleJudge Andy Dusenberry- A jolly old bachelor: Greg GiordanoJerry Cronin- A young Irish butler: Tomas PeterSad-eyed Wallace-...

Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under the title Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal Imago (1912–13) employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. The four essays are entitled: The Horror of Incest; Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence; Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts; and The Return of Totemism in ...

The aim of this book is to assist towards the removal of nervous irritants, which are not only the cause of much physical disease, but materially interfere with the best possibilities of usefulness and pleasure in everyday life. (from Preface)

A series of lectures given in the USA by Freud in German, later translated into English - Summary by Peter Tucker

In this little book Freud discusses three areas of human sexuality: 1. Sexual perversions or aberrations. In this essay, Freud concludes that "a disposition to perversions is an original and universal disposition of the human sexual instinct and that...this postulated constitution, containing the germs of all the perversions, will only be demonstrable in children“. 2. His second essay on "The Infantile Sexuality", argues that children have sexual urges, from which adult sexuality only gradually emerges via psychosexual development. Looking at children, Freud identified many forms of ...

La Vida es Sueño by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. La vida es sueño, publicada en 1635, es posiblemente la obra de teatro más relevante del barroco español. Pedro Calderón de la Barca aborda en este drama filosófico asuntos tan decisivos para el ser humano como el libre albedrío, el fundamento de la ética o la naturaleza de la realidad. Con un dinamismo y una precisión en el verso difíciles de igualar, utiliza una estructura de enredo para contar la historia de Segismundo, un hombre que desde su nacimiento ha sido encerrado y aislado del mundo, por su propio padre. Basilio, rey de ...

Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional Midwestern Apex City to New York to Paris. Undine is determined to acquire money and position through marriage, even if it means multiple divorces. - Summary by Elizabeth Klett

This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is written as a short play. The role of Hilda is read by Arielle Lipshaw, and the role of Ventnor by Mark F. Smith. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character's fraught relationships with his "sickly, cantankerous" wife Zeena and his young, beautiful cousin Mattie Silver. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)