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.
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".
Die Geschichte thematisiert die Rivalitäten in England zwischen Angelsachsen und Normannen nach dem Sieg Wilhelms des Eroberers sowie die Spätfolgen der Kreuzzüge mit der Geiselnahme des englischen Königs Richard Löwenherz in Österreich.
Un marin francais, Jean Peyrol, ayant quitte le service de la marine nationale pendant les guerres napoleoniennes, se retire dans une ferme de la presqu'ile de Giens.
This volume contains the three trilogies of the amazing FORSYTE SAGA, by John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, mostly for these series of books that we now present in one volume.
This ebook contains all of Oscar Wilde's plays (including the fragments), his only novel, his fairy tales and short stories, the poems, all of his essays, lectures, reviews, and other newspaper articles, based on the 1909 edition of his works.
Contents:Pyramus And ThisbeStill WatersA Change of HeartDaisy MillerTenantsDisengagedThe AlbumThe ReprobateGuy DomvilleSummersoftThe High BidThe Outcry
When their mother dies and their father's business partner runs off with most of their money, the six intrepid Bastable children are determined to restore their family's fallen fortunes.
Este volume reune 33 contos de Poe publicados por ordem cronologica:[1831] Metzengerstein[1832] Silêncio[1833] Um Manuscrito Encontrado numa Garrafa[1834] A Entrevista[1835] Berenice[1835] Morella[1835] O Rei Peste[1835] Um Homem na Lua[1835] A Sombra[1837] Aventuras de Arthur Gordon Pym[1838] Ligeia[1839] Colóquio entre Eiros e Charmion[1840] O Homem das Multidões[1841] Colóquio entre Monos e Una[1841] Leonor[1841] Os Crimes da Rua Morgue[1841] Uma Descida ao Maelstrom[1841] A Ilha da Fada[1842] A Máscara da Morte Vermelha[1842] A Quinta de Arnheim[1842] O Coração Delator[1842] O Escaravelho de Ouro[1842] O Mistério de Marie Roget[1842] O Retrato Oval[1843] O Gato Preto[1844] A Carta Roubada[1844] As Recordações de Bedloe[1844] Revelação Magnética[1845] O Caso do Senhor Valdemar[1845] O Poder da Palavra[1845] O Sistema do Doutor Breu e do Professor Pena[1845] Pequena Discussão com uma Múmia[1845] O Demónio da Perversidade
A tale with the glamor of medieval romance, which centers about the mystery that five hundred years before Marco's day, the young prince of the kingdom of Samavia had walked away over the mountains, singing, and had never been heard from.
"William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London.
Histoires extraordinaires (1856): Edgar Poe sa vie et ses œuvres, Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue, La Lettre volee, Le Scarabee d'or, Le Canard au ballon, Aventure sans pareille d'un certain Hans Pfaall, Manuscrit trouve dans une bouteille, Une descente dans le maelstrom, La Verite sur le cas de M.
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.
Henry the Sixth, Part 3, is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed written in approximately 1590, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England.
