True stories: general

CONTENTS:1.

"The Lagoon" is a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897.

Posdnyschew, Morder seiner Frau, fruhzeitig ergraut, mit blitzenden Augen und nervosem Gebaren, hort auf einer langeren Zugfahrt, wie die Reisenden uber Liebe als Grundbedingung fur eine gluckliche Ehe diskutieren - eine Ansicht, die vor allem von einer nicht mehr jungen, halichen, rauchenden Dame vertreten wird.

CONTENIDO:- Lady Susan- Sentido y Sensibilidad- Orgullo y Prejuicio- Mansfield Park- Emma- Persuasión- La Abadía de Northanger- Los Watson- El Castillo de Lesley- Obras Juveniles

Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad.

"The Business Man" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a businessman boasting of his accomplishments.

Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli.

A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Joseph Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman.

An enthralling novel of Gaspar's inspirational rise from obscurity to light.

Dieses eBook: "Haarmann" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

The story opens with the delivery to a crowd gathered in Rotterdam of a manuscript detailing the journey of a man named Hans Pfaall.

In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with things such as "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance.

The Duel by Joseph Conrad is Conrad's brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleonic Wars.

Part 1: Logic (Organon)Categories, translated by E.

Questo libro contiene ora diversi sommari HTML che renderanno la lettura un vero piacere!

The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling.

The narrator, presented as the author himself, is dismayed by literary critics saying that he has never written a moral tale.

In Allan Pinkerton's True Crime & Murder Mysteries Collection, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through a series of gripping and suspenseful tales filled with deceit, mystery, and twist endings.

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his comfort.

En la Antiguedad, mientras los hombres se lanzaban a empresas de exploracion y conquista, las mujeres permanecian inmoviles en su hogar.

"The Planter of Malata" is a novella written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924).

"Shadow" is a short parable by Edgar Allan Poe.

Set in late November 1827, the tale is begun by an unidentified narrator whose story is the loose outer frame for the central tale of Augustus Bedloe, a wealthy young invalid whom the narrator has known "casually" for eighteen years yet who still remains an enigma.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich was first published in 1886.

Napoleon, on quitting Spain in January, left behind him as a legacy to his brother a comprehensive plan for the conquest of the whole Peninsula.

Set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the plot follows William Legrand, who was recently bitten by a gold-colored bug.

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie.

A Tale of Jerusalem was written in the year 1832 by Edgar Allan Poe.

Typhoon is a novella by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in Pall Mall Magazine in January-March 1902.

The narrator, Egaeus, is a studious young man who grows up in a large gloomy mansion with his cousin Berenice.

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others.

A young sea captain tests his mettle off the coast of Siam in this nineteenth-century psychological tale from the author of Heart of Darkness.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887.

Un affresco storico appassionante sullo sfondo della guerra napoleonica nelle Langhe Piemontesi.

Book description *Joseph Conrad wrote many stories and novellas about his sea voyages and adventures.

"An Anarchist: A Desperate Tale" is one of the best-known short stories written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924).

An un-named narrator describes the Count he meets at his hotel in Naples.

"The Mystery of Marie Roget", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842.

The story follows an unnamed narrator who visits a mental institution in southern France (more accurately, a "Maison de Sante") known for a revolutionary new method of treating mental illnesses called the "system of soothing".

"e;Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"e; is s generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period.

Selección de su célebre y extensa obra "Memorias de mis tiempos", crónica detallada del abigarrado y enrevesado siglo XIX mexicano, escrita por uno de los protagonistas y testigos más lúcidos de aquella época.

"e;Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom"e; is a written account by Ellen Craft and William Craft first published in 1860.

"Ivan the Fool" (also known as "Ivan the Fool and his Two Brothers") is an 1886 short story (in fact, a literary fairy tale) by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1886.

"The Imp of the Perverse" is a short story by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe.

The bizarre story follows a female narrator, Signora Psyche Zenobia.

Twelve Years a Slave is a memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup.

"The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau.

"A Smile of Fortune: Harbour Story" is one of the best-known novellas written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924).

"The book is absorbingly interesting: dramatic, subtle, fascinating with allurement.