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
Nach Abenteuern in der Teufelsschlucht und bei der Juwelenhohle treffen Kara Ben Nemsi und seine Begleiter auf das Oberhaupt der Verbrecher, den "Schut".
The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair.
Suffice to say we all want to get rich or make some wealth, become great in our own right and remain well or healthy in life to enjoy all that the years of our lives has to offer.
The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the legendary Athenian misanthrope Timon (and probably influenced by the eponymous philosopher, as well), generally regarded as one of his most obscure and difficult works.
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.
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.
Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898.
Die fiktionale Welt, in der Alice im Wunderland angesiedelt ist, spielt in solch einer Weise mit Logik, dass sich die Erzahlung unter Mathematikern und Kindern gleichermaen groer Beliebtheit erfreut.
Viaje del Parnaso es una obra narrativa en verso de Miguel de Cervantes publicada el ano 1614 escrita en tercetos que cuenta el viaje al monte Parnaso de Cervantes y los mejores poetas espanoles para librar una batalla alegorica contra los malos poetas.
One of the earliest science fantasy stories ever written, From the Earth to the Moon follows three wealthy members of a post-Civil War gun club who design and build an enormous columbiad -- and ride a spaceship fired from it all the way to the moon!
This collection contains the following classic Russian novels:- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol- Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina by LeoTolstoy- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Mother by Maxim Gorky
In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world's most adapted and imitated stories.
Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations.
400 ans après sa parution, ce livre mythique a été élu meilleur livre de l'histoire de la littérature par un jury composé de cent auteurs de renom, de 54 nationalités différentes.
The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries-Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world.
