Such Happy Manners: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Clarissa Joy ThomasRequirements: .MOBI reader, 413 KBOverview: How would the story of Pride and Prejudice be altered if Mr. Wickham had been a good man? Instead of becoming a scoundrel who regularly attempts to elope with teenage girls, Mr. Wickham studies the law as he originally […]
The Saved and the Damned: A History of the Reformation by Thomas KaufmannRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6 MBOverview: Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself. The Reformation began far from Europe’s traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and yet it threw […]
English Comparative Correlatives: Diachronic and Synchronic Variation at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface by Thomas HoffmannRequirements: .PDF reader, 7.5 MBOverview: One of the most intriguing features of languages is that speakers can produce novel grammatical utterances that they have never heard before. Consequently, most linguists agree that the mental grammars of speakers are complex systems that must […]
Death in Venice, and Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann / Narrated by Peter HartRequirements: .MP3 player, 383 mbOverview: Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, "Death in Venice" tells the story of Gustave Aschenbach, an aging writer who visits Venice. In […]
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (New York Review Books Classics) by Thomas Mann, Mark Lilla, Walter D. MorrisRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.3 MBOverview: A classic, controversial book exploring German culture and identity by the author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, now back in print. When the Great War broke out in August 1914, […]