Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre).
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.
Die zentrale Thematik dieses 1866 erstmals erschienenen Romans kreist um zwei Pole: die zerstörerische Leidenschaft zum Spiel und die Qual einer komplizierten Liebesbeziehung.
La figura dello iettatore appare figlia dell'Illuminismo napoletano ed emerge per la prima volta nel 1787 in un libello del giurista Nicola Valletta, intitolato Cicalata sul fascino volgarmente detto jettatura, che rappresenta il primo saggio sull'argomento.
Rudin, by Ivan Turgenev, is a Russian fiction classic and a nostalgic story of a man in his late twenties, torn between his much loved but barbaric homeland and a comfortable but unsatisfactory life in Europe.
"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.
Contenu de la collection:À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDUDu côté de chez Swann (1913)À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1919)Le côté de Guermantes (1920–21)Sodome et Gomorrhe (1921–22)La prisonnière (1923)Albertine disparue (La fugitive) (1925)Le temps retrouvé (1927)Les plaisirs et les jours (1896)John Ruskin: La bible d'Amiens, translated by Proust (1904)John Ruskin: Sésame et les lys, translated by Proust (1906)Pastiches et mélanges (1919)Chroniques (1927)Jean Santeuil (1952, 1971) (see update v.
Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre).
A quelques pas devant moi, sur une pelouse bordee de framboisiers verts, se tenait une jeune fille, grande et elancee, vetue d'une robe rose a raies et coiffee d'un petit fichu blanc ; quatre jeunes gens faisaient cercle autour d'elle, et elle les frappait au front, a tour de role, avec une de ces fleurs grises dont le nom m'echappe, mais que les enfants connaissent bien : elles forment de petits sachets qui eclatent avec bruit quand on leur fait heurter quelque chose de dur.
Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives.
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado") is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book.
Eight madcap tales of unpredictable dragons - including one made of ice, another that takes refuge in the General Post Office, and a fire-breathing monster that flies out of an enchanted book and eats an entire soccer team!
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.
Las Novelas ejemplares son una serie de novelas cortas que Miguel de Cervantes escribio entre 1590 y 1612, y que despues acabaria publicando en 1613 en una coleccion editada en Madrid por Juan de la Cuesta, dada la gran acogida que obtuvo con la primera parte del Quijote.
"The Story of Doctor Dolittle" introduces us to this respected English physician and naturalist, whose love of animals and growing household menagerie leads to him learning the secret of speaking to animals from his parrot Polynesia, and then taking up veterinary practice.
Der reiche englische Gentleman Phileas Fogg, geradezu Exzentriker in Sachen Punktlichkeit und taglichen Gewohnheiten und zudem ein leidenschaftlicher Whist-Spieler, wettet mit anderen Mitgliedern des Reform Club in London, dass es ihm gelingen werde, in 80 Tagen um die Welt zu reisen.
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.
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.
