A Liverpool, un brick le Forward (en francais : "En avant") attire la curiosite de tous : il est visiblement concu pour les mers polaires, mais de nombreux details dans sa constructions intriguent.
In The Captive, Proust's narrator describes living in his mother's Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her.
The Seventh Man by Max Brand, tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as "Whistling Dan," and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart, the wolf-dog, and Satan, the indomitable black stallion.
Noch hatte Syriens sengende Sonne nicht ihren hochsten Punkt am Horizont erreicht, als ein Ritter des Roten Kreuzes, der seine ferne Heimat im Norden verlassen und sich dem Kreuzfahrerheere in Palastina angeschlossen hatte, langsam uber die Sandsteppen hin ritt, die in der Nachbarschaft des Toten Meeres oder, wie es auch heit, des Asphaltsees liegen, worein sich die Gewasser des Jordans ergieen, ohne wieder Abfluss zu finden.
Die Erzahlung handelt von Ebenezer Scrooge, einem alten, grantigen Geizhals, der in einer einzigen Nacht zunachst Besuch von seinem verstorbenen Teilhaber Jacob Marley und dann von drei weiteren Geistern erhalt, die ihm schlielich dazu verhelfen, sein Leben zu andern.
CONTENTS:The Satires and NovelsA POLITICAL ROMANCETHE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDYA SENTIMENTAL JOURNEYThe SermonsTHE SERMONS OF LAURENCE STERNEThe LettersLETTERS FROM YORICK TO ELIZAORIGINAL LETTERS OF THE LATE REVEREND MR.
Je voulus discerner les traits de la femme mysterieuse, mais un tremblement involontaire me parcourut tout entier et une bouffee d'air glace me frappa au visage.
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.
One of the world's transcendent literary masterpieces, the Inferno tells the timeless story of Dante's journey through the nine circles of hell, guided by the poet Virgil, when in midlife he strays from his path in a dark wood.
L'inventeur Samuel Fergusson, accompagné de son domestique Joe et de son ami Dick Kennedy, entreprend de traverser le continent africain — alors partiellement inexploré — au moyen d'un ballon gonflé à l'hydrogène.
Two On A Tower is a tale of star-crossed love in which Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stellar universe.
'In Homespun' is a collection that was originally published in 1896, and the stories are set in the villages of South Kent and East Sussex that Nesbit knew well.
Diese Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Jens Peter Jacobsen, zu dessen Kennenlernen ich gerne die kleine einfuhlsame Biographie von Hans Bethge empfehle, enthalt das vollstandige erzahlerische Werk des Dichters sowie die lyrischen Werke (einschlielich der spater von Arnold Schonberg vertonten "Gurre-Lieder") und Entwurfe.
In this collection you will find : 19 classics Novels -From the Earth to the Moon -Five Weeks in a Balloon -20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -Around the World in Eighty Days -Michael Strogoff, or The Courier of the Czar -The Mysterious Island -The Survivors of the Chancellor -A Journey into the Center of the Earth -The Underground City -Dick Sands the Boy Captain -Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon -Godfrey Morgan -Robur the Conqueror -Ticket No.
An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring, and is mysteriously injured when he escapes.
Het portret van Dorian Gray (Engelstalige titel The Picture of Dorian Gray) is de enige gepubliceerde roman van Oscar Wilde, en voor het eerst uitgebracht in Engeland in 1890.
Contents:Watch and WardRoderick HudsonThe AmericanThe EuropeansConfidenceWashington SquareThe Portrait of a LadyThe BostoniansThe Princess Casamassima The ReverberatorThe Tragic MuseThe Other HouseThe Spoils of PoyntonWhat Maisie Knew The Awkward AgeThe Sacred FountThe Wings of the DoveThe AmbassadorsThe Golden BowlThe OutcryThe Whole FamilyThe Ivory TowerThe Sense of the Past
