Found 2,766 results for "Melancholie"
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate o...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
The anatomy of melancholy
by Robert Burton
VADE liber, qualis, non ausim dicere, felix, Te nisi felicem fecerit Alma dies.
Bonjour tristesse
by Françoise Sagan
A STRANGE MELANCHOLY pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow.
Rashomon and other stories
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
YES, SIR. Certainly, it was I who found the body.
Love's Labour's Lost
by William Shakespeare
IN 1598, the year in which the earliest extant text we have of Love's Labour's Lost appeared in print, an emphatically m...
On Photography
by Susan Sontag
Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth.
Moriæ Encomium
by Desiderius Erasmus
HOW SLIGHTLY SOEVER I am esteemed in the common vogue of the world (for I well know how disingenuously Folly is decried,...
Elric of Melniboné
by Michael Moorcock
It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white.
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
THE NOTICE INFORMED THEM that it was a temporary matter: for five days their electricity would be cut off for one hour, ...
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
IN certain provincial towns there are houses whose appearance arouses a melancholy as great as that of the gloomiest clo...
Enten-eller
by Søren Kierkegaard
PERHAPS it has sometimes occurred to you, dear reader, to doubt the correctness of the familiar philosophical propositio...
Lieutenant Hornblower
by C. S. Forester, C.S.Forester
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BUSH came on board H.M.S. Renown as she lay at anchor in the Hamoaze and reported himself to the offi...