"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death", is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842.
Diese Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Jens Peter Jacobsen, zu dessen Kennenlernen ich gerne die kleine einfühlsame Biographie von Hans Bethge empfehle, enthält das vollständige erzählerische Werk des Dichters sowie die lyrischen Werke (einschließlich der später von Arnold Schönberg vertonten "Gurre-Lieder") und Entwürfe.
Born into slavery in New York around 1797, then sold from master to master, Sojourner Truth spent her formative years witnessing the cruelty inherent in the institution of slavery.
" He was waiting for her, he had been waiting an hour and a half in a dusty suburban lane, with a row of big elms on one side and some eligible building sites on the other-and far away to the south-west the twinkling yellow lights of the Crystal Palace.
There was once an old, old castle, it was so old that its I walls and towers and turrets and gateways and arches had crumbled to ruins, and of all its old splendour there were only two little rooms left; and it was here that John the blacksmith had set up his forge.
His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection.
A peca, passada na Dinamarca, reconta a historia de como o Principe Hamlet tenta vingar a morte de seu pai Hamlet, o rei, executando seu tio Claudio, que o envenenou e em seguida tomou o trono casando-se com a mae de Hamlet.
This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last namesThe Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation [Louisa May Alcott]The Ghost [Arnold Bennett]The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain [Charles Dickens]The Haunted House [Charles Dickens]The Lost Stradivarius [John Meade Falkner]Curious, If True: Strange Tales [Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]The Ghost Kings [Henry Rider Haggard]Carnacki, The Ghost Finder [William Hope Hodgson]The Ghost Pirates [William Hope Hodgson]The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [Washington Irving]The Turn of the Screw [Henry James]Ghost Stories of an Antiquary [Montague Rhodes James]A Thin Ghost and Others [Montague Rhodes James]The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories [Rudyard Kipling]Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]Schalken the Painter [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]The Haunted Baronet [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]Laura Silver Bell [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]The Child That Went With The Fairies [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]The Mystery of the Semi-Detached [Edith Nesbit]The Ebony Frame [Edith Nesbit]Man-Size in Marble [Edith Nesbit]On Ghosts [Mary Shelley]The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost [H.
L'action se passe dans un pays que l'auteur nomme Austrasie par pure convenance, car sa capitale est Vienne, on y parle allemand et la famille impériale est décimée par des deuils, dont une double mort à Mayerling.
At this unexpected announcement Talleyrand and Berthier looked at each other in silence, and for once the trained features of the great diplomatist, who lived behind a mask, betrayed the fact that he was still capable of emotion.
Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote more than 200 other short stories.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget.
The Great Shadow, also known as The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales, is an action and adventure novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1892 in J.
The Human Comedy (French: La Comedie Humaine) is the title of Honore de Balzac's multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830-1848).
North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens.
"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.
Ce roman, parmi les plus célèbres et des plus traduits de notre littérature, apparaît sans conteste comme une des oeuvres les plus puissantes, les plus originales et les plus représentatives de Jules Verne.
Obras Contenidas:Un viaje de noviosLa tribunaEl cisne de VilamortaLos pazos de UlloaLa madre naturalezaInsolaciónLa pruebaUna cristianaLa piedra angularDoña MilagrosMemorias de un solterón: Adán y EvaEl tesoro de GastónEl saludo de las brujasEl Niño de GuzmánMisterioLa sirena negraDulce sueñoLa última fadaCuentos de amor
Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.
A high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the gods of earth attempts to scale the mountain of Hatheg-Kla in order to look upon their faces, accompanied by his young disciple.
