Heinrich Mann: Der Untertan Entwicklungsroman eines Obrigkeitshörigen | Neu editierte 2021er Ausgabe, mit zahlreichen erläuternden Fußnoten | Ende des 19.
The US Civil War (18611865) still serves as one of the milestones in American literary history, commonly representing the dividing line in survey courses and reference works on 19th-century American literature.
Contemporaneously described as "e;the war to end all wars"e;, World War I was one of the largest wars in history and also one of the deadliest conflicts in history.
Die Besatzungen von Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax und William Riker schließen sich zusammen, um eine kosmische Apokalypse zu verhindern – nur um festzustellen, dass manche Schicksale wirklich unvermeidlich sind.
Excerpt: "e;As we arrived a steady down-pour of rain was falling from an inky sky; the white men who met us on the wharf appeared ghostly and wraith-like, and the very negroes seemed pale and wan.
Excerpt: "e;If the intelligent foreigner, who is supposed to make so many interesting and novel observations on the aspect of the countries he visits, and on the manners of the people among whom he travels, were to visit the United States at this juncture, he would fail to detect any marked indication of the extraordinary crisis which agitates the members of the Great Republic, either at the principal emporium of its commerce, or at the city which claims to be the sole seat of its Government.
Foreword: "e;For 11 years, I was closely associated with the Cairo project, and I know how difficult it is to place the undertaking in its proper perspective and to dispassionately evaluate its historical significance.
Excerpt: "e;To those who made friends with Lucy Gordon on Governor's Island it will seem a great change to find her, in this second story, so far away from home.
Excerpt: "e;If the young people who read this last story of Lucy Gordon's army life are disappointed that the end of the war does not bring her home to America they cannot possibly be as disappointed as she herself.
Excerpt from Captain Lucy and Lieutenant Bob: The war is as yet only beginning for Lucy Gor don, and the old, pleasant times are just ending, but, like every other girl in America, she is trying hard to find the courage and cheerfulness which have never yet been wanting in our Service and which are going to help America to win.
Excerpt: "e;The interest of the War of 1812, to Americans, has commonly been felt to lie in the brilliant evidence of high professional tone and efficiency reached by their navy, as shown by the single-ship actions, and by the two decisive victories achieved by little squadrons upon the lakes.
Hans Fallada: Die großen Romane || Für die eBook-Ausgabe völlig neu überarbeitet und in aktualisierter Rechtschreibung | 4600 Seiten, mit rund 100 verlinkten Fußnoten und Anmerkungen || Dieses eBook enthält Hans Falladas Hauptwerk mit folgenden großen Romanen: Kleiner Mann - was nun?
Für die eBook-Ausgabe völlig neu überarbeitet und in aktualisierter Rechtschreibung ||Nach dem Börsencrash in den USA im Oktober 1929 befindet sich die gesamte Weltwirtschaft im Niedergang, besonders in Deutschland, das es - noch immer hoch verschuldet aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg - am zweithärtesten trifft.
Excerpt: "e;We had endeavoured to ward off typhoid by initiating a sort of sanitary vigilance committee, having first sacked the chief of police: we had laid drains, which the chief Serbian engineer said he would pull up as soon as we had gone away.
"e;The Light That Failed"e; is Kipling's first novel, written when he was 26 years old, and is semi-autobiographical; being based upon his own unrequited love for Florence Garrard.
