Olenin was a youth who had never completed his university course, never served anywhere (having only a nominal post in some government office or other), who had squandered half his fortune and had reached the age of twenty-four without having done anything or even chosen a career.
Joseph Conrad (born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist, writing in English, while living in England.
Prince Roman is a Pole who gives up his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as a (virtually) unknown soldier resisting Russian oppression.
Im vorliegenden Buch soll eine praxisorientierte Einführung und ein aktueller Überblick darüber gegeben werden, was Data-Science und der Beruf Data-Scientist umfassen.
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.
An epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.
CONTENTS:HarriganRiders of the SilencesThe UntamedThe Night HorsemanGunman's ReckoningRonicky DooneThe Seventh ManAlcatrazBlack JackThe Rangeland Avenger
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.
The Red and the Black, Stendhal's masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic.
La vita dell'autore fu lunga e tragica, nell'accezione piu vera del termine, ossia nel senso che essa fu dominata da una profonda, segreta tensione: una vera tragedia dell'anima.
La morte di Ivan Il'ič, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1886, è una delle opere più celebrate di Tolstoj, influenzata dalla crisi spirituale dell'autore, che lo porterà a convertirsi al Cristianesimo.
This little-known novella from one of the masters of the form is so unusual for Joseph Conrad's work in several respects, although not in its exotic maritime setting or its even more exotic prose-it is unusual in that it is one of his very few works to feature a woman as a leading character, and to take the form of a romance.