24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture, 580 Mb total Modern science, representative democracy, and a wave of wars were caused by a revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800. Shaking the minds of the continent like few things before or since, this revolution challenged previous ways of understanding reality and sparked what Professor Alan Charles Kors calls "perhaps the most profound transformation of European, if not human, life."
Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit [Unabridged audiobook with text]
Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period.
Charles Dickens / Чарлз Диккенс - A Christmas Carol / Рождественская песнь
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Charles Dickens / Чарлз Диккенс - A Christmas Carol / Рождественская песнь
"Рождественская песнь в прозе" (1843) Чарльза Диккенса - это не только классическое произведение английской литературы XIX века, но и апология Рождества как квинтэссенции британской народной жизни, "английскости".
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The fairytale wedding of Lady Diana Spencer to Prince Charles in 1981 was considered the social event of the century. Called the 'People's Princess', Diana embodied style, grace, and beauty. Bearing the royal family two heirs to the throne, William and Harry, the princess lived in a world besieged by flashbulbs and rumormongering press. But the fairytale marriage was short lived. She struggled privately with her weight and publicly with the separation and eventual divorce from Charles...
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S ir Rowland de Bois has recently died, and, according to the custom of primogeniture, the vast majority of his estate has passed into the possession of his eldest son, Oliver. Although Sir Rowland has instructed Oliver to take good care of his brother, Orlando, Oliver refuses to do so. Out of pure spite, he denies Orlando the education, training, and property befitting a gentleman. Charles, a wrestler from the court of Duke Frederick, arrives to warn Oliver of a rumor that Orlando will challenge