1843
Showing 33 works across all media from 1843

A Christmas Carol
Scrooge hates Christmas until his dead business partner turns up wrapped in chains and three spirits walk him through his own life. The modern Christmas takes its shape from this book.

Fear and Trembling
Abraham climbs the mountain to sacrifice Isaac, and Kierkegaard asks how obedience to God can require a murder. Faith suspends ethics altogether, and the believer cannot explain himself to anyone.

Lost Illusions
Lucien leaves Angouleme certain his poems will make him famous in Paris, and finds literature there is a trade in favors and paid reviews. Balzac invented the modern story of selling out.

Either/Or
Two ways of living stand side by side, unreconciled: the aesthete who lives for the interesting moment and whose papers include a seducer's diary, and the judge who defends marriage and duty.

History of the Conquest of Mexico
Cortés lands with six hundred men and topples an empire of millions. Prescott, half-blind and never in Mexico or Spain, told it so vividly historians still pry the conquest from his version.

The Seducer's Diary
Johannes engineers every meeting and letter to make Cordelia love him, and wants nothing once she does. Kierkegaard hands you the notebook of a man who turned another person into an experiment.
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunities misused!