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Naciones Y Nacionalismo Desde 1780 Few of the nations we recognize today date from before the 19th century. “Getting one’s history wrong,” it has been observed, “is part of being a nation.” The author offers an analysis and enquiry into the question of whether nationalism, despite appearances to the contrary, has passed its peak. Naciones Y Nacionalismo Desde 1780 Summary...

The Trial of Susan B. Anthony Pdf On January 24, 1873, Susan B Anthony was indicted by a grand jury for voting knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully…the said Susan B Anthony being then and there a person of the female sex. The Trial of Susan B. Anthony Summary The judge, Ward Hunt, was a recently appointed U.S. Supreme Court Justice who...

The Time Machine Book The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backward in time. The Time Machine...

The Island of Doctor Moreau Pdf The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is. The Island Of Doctor Moreau Summary The Island of Doctor Moreau is the account of Edward...

The First Men in the Moon The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance by the English author H. G. Wells, originally serialized in The Strand Magazine from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901, who called it one of his “fantastic stories”. The First Men in The  Moon Summary On the way to...

Mason And Dixon Pdf Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by U.S. author Thomas Pynchon published in 1997. It presents a fictionalized account of the collaboration between Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in their astronomical and surveying exploits in Cape Colony, Saint Helena, Great Britain and along the Mason-Dixon line in British North America on the eve of the...

Against The Day Pdf Against the Day is a 2006 historical novel by Thomas Pynchon. The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and the time immediately following World War I and features more than a hundred characters spread across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central Asia, and “one or two places not strictly speaking on the map...

Inherent Vice Pdf Inherent Vice is a novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, originally published in August 2009. A darkly comic detective novel set in 1970s California, the plot follows sleuth Larry “Doc” Sportello whose ex-girlfriend asks him to investigate a scheme involving a prominent land developer. Themes of drug culture and counterculture are prominently featured. Critical reception was largely...

The Crying Of Lot 49 Pdf The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by Thomas Pynchon, first published in 1966. The shortest of Pynchon’s novels, it is about a woman, Oedipa Maas, possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail distribution companies, Thurn und Taxis and the Trystero (or Tristero). The former actually existed and was the first firm...

Gravity’s Rainbow Pdf Lengthy, complex, and featuring a large cast of characters, the narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production, and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military. In particular, it features the quest undertaken by several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device named...