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The Harvest Field: 1958 Edition, Howard L. Schug, J.W. Treat, Robert L. Johnston Jr.

Stone-Campbell Books

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The Czechs Of Butler County, 1870–1940, Clarence John Kubicek

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The Czechs and their descendents make up one of the large groups that settled and developed the State of Nebraska. While every county of Nebraska may have a few Czechs within its confines, the largest numbers are found in Douglas, Saline, Colfax, Saunders, and Butler Counties.

It is the purpose of this thesis to deal with the Czechs of Butler County. A racial group, Slavic in origination and since the first World War, properly called the "Czechs." The term "Czech" is to be applied, not only to those whose ancestry goes back to Bohemia, but also to those who originally …

We, Eugnen Zamiatin

OER Main

A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand.

In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, "We" is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George …

Moussorgsky And The Melodic Style Of Sunless, Donald Mcrae

Music ETDs

The specific intention in this thesis is threefold: (1) to review some of the evidence and information concerning Moussorgsky as a man and an artist; (2) to consider contemporaneous and present-day evaluations of him and his work; (3) to make a detailed melodic analysis of one of his greatest lyric contributions to the vocal literature.

The Americanization Of Czech Surnames, J. B. Dudek

Nebraskiana Publications: Resources and Materials on the 37th State

An essay on issues surrounding the alteration of Czech surnames in the United States of America in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

J. B. Dudek was born in Nebraska and was the rector at St. John's Nepomuk Roman Catholic Church in Yukon, Oklahoma, United States. He was educated at Benedictine Abbey at Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, and at Kendrick Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

The Nose, Nikolai Gogol

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“The Nose” is a satirical short story of an official in St. Petersburg Russia whose nose leaves his face. This edition of “The Nose” was translated by Claud Field and originally published in 1916.

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murder, Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur, and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.

Translated from the Russian …

The Lower Depths, Maxim Gorky

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"The Lower Depths" is considered one of Maxim Gorky's most masterful plays, and an exemplar of Russian social realism. The play first premiered in 1902 at the Moscow Arts Theatre, and focuses on a set of impoverished Russians living in a shelter and struggling to handle the harsh realities of their lives.