Timon est un noble de d'Athenes, tres (trop) genereux avec ses amis qu'il invite regulierement a des festins somptueux, auxquels il offre des cadeaux hors de prix, a tel point qu'il se retrouve un jour sur la paille et ne peut plus payer ses creanciers.
Marilla Cuthbert and Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia as a helper on their farm.
Neue Deutsche RechtschreibungKellers bekannteste, humorige Geschichte über einen "Hochstapler wieder Willen"Der arme Schneidergeselle Wenzel Strapinski kleidet sich immer gut.
Spanning the tumultuous landscapes of the Yorkshire moors and the intricate social webs of Victorian England, 'The Complete Novels' presents an unparalleled collection of the Bronte sisters' literary works.
Die Anthologie 'Die bekanntesten Geschichten von Anton Tschechow' präsentiert eine sorgfältig kuratierte Auswahl der eindrucksvollsten Kurzgeschichten Tschechows, ergänzt durch die einfühlsame Übersetzung und Kommentare von Wladimir Czumikow.
This book contains all the novels of Jack London in the chronological order of their original publicationThe Son of the WolfThe God of his Fathers & Other StoriesA Daughter of the SnowsThe Call of the WildThe Sea WolfThe Faith of Men & Other StoriesThe GameTales of the Fish PatrolMoon-Face & Other StoriesWhite FangBefore AdamLove of Life & Other StoriesThe RoadThe Iron HeelMartin EdenBurning DaylightLost FaceAdventureThe Abysmal BruteSouth Sea TalesWhen God Laughs & Other StoriesThe Scarlet PlagueThe House of PrideA Son of the SunThe Valley of the MoonThe Night-BornThe Mutiny of the ElsinoreThe Strength of the StrongThe Star RoverThe Little Lady of the Big HouseThe Turtles of TasmanJerry of the IslandsMichael, Brother of JerryHearts of ThreeThe Red OneOn the Makaloa MatChildren of the FrostDutch Courage and Other Stories
Valeria Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name in the marriage register incorrectly, and this slip is followed by the gradual disclosure of a series of secrets about her husband's earlier life, each of which leads on to another set of questions and enigmas.
Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War.
The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world's great writers, and his "War and Peace" has been called the greatest novel ever written.
Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra.
Mark Twain's "The Jumping Frog : In English, then in French, then clawed back into the civilized language once more by patient unremunerated toil" (1865), also known as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog.
Il racconto è pieno di allusioni a personaggi, poemetti, proverbi e avvenimenti propri dell'epoca in cui Dodgson opera e il "Paese delle Meraviglie" descritto nel racconto gioca con regole logiche, linguistiche, fisiche e matematiche che gli hanno fatto ben guadagnare la fama che ha.
Thirteen tales of crime and intrigue, including the remarkable story of Sherlock Holmes's return from the deadIt has been three years since Sherlock Holmes, locked in a fierce struggle with his arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty, disappeared over the edge of the Reichenbach Falls.
Im ersten Buch dieser Historie verließen wir den tapferen Biscayer und den berühmten Don Quixote mit aufgehobenen blanken Schwertern, beabsichtigend, zwei mörderische Hiebe zu geben, die, wenn sie vollwichtig fielen, sie gewiss bis auf den Sattelknopf teilen und zerspalten und sie wie Granatäpfel entzweischneiden mussten.
mit Übersetzung aller französischen Passagen und Personenregister"Die Dämonen" ist eine soziale und politische Satire, ein psychologisches Drama und eine große Tragödie.
THE NOVELS Watch and Ward, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Europeans, Confidence, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Reverberator, The Tragic Muse, The Other House, The Spoils of Poynton, What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age, The Sacred Fount, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Outcry, The Whole Family, The Ivory Tower, The Sense of the Past THE TALES A Tragedy of Error, The Story of a Year, A Landscape-Painter, A Day of Days, My Friend Bingham, Poor Richard, The Story of a Masterpiece, The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, A Most Extraordinary Case, A Problem, etc.
A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground.
In einem Dorfe von la Mancha, dessen Namen ich mich nicht entsinnen mag, lebte unlängst ein Edler, einer von denen, die eine Lanze auf dem Vorplatz haben, einen alten Schild, einen dürren Klepper und einen Jagdhund.
Mit wundervollen Illustrationen von Heinz KiwitzVon einfachen Landarbeitern, die er ursprünglich literarisch verewig wollte, inspiriert, schrieb Fallada dieses längere Märchen für Erwachsene, genauer handelt es sich um ein Kunstmärchen mit wundervollen Illustrationen des jung verstorbenen Holzschneiders und Karikaturisten Heinz Kiwitz.
CONTENTS:A Christmas Folk SongA Little Christmas BasketChrismus Is A-Comin'Chrismus On The PlantationChristmas CarolChristmas in the HeartChristmasOne Christmas At ShilohSpeakin' O' Christmas
Plus de deux décennies après la disparition de Nathalie Sarraute, l’ambition de ce volume est d’ouvrir des perspectives nouvelles d’interprétation de son écriture.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding households.
