Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia.
"When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays.
This carefully crafted ebook: "THE THREE MUSKETEERS - Complete Collection: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise da la Valliere & The Man in the Iron Mask" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Der franzosische Ich-Erzahler wartet auf dem damaligen Theaterplatz (heutiger Rathenauplatz) von Frankfurt am Main vergeblich auf drei Stadtverordnete, die an seiner Ballonfahrt teilnehmen wollten.
Su modelo de "mujer del futuro" viene encarnada en el personaje de Feita, hija de don Benicio Neira, un hidalgo venido a menos, situado en la clase media, cuya hija alberga unos inmensos deseos de instruccion, de autonomia personal, de trabajo para independizarse.
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism.
The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the world's great writers, and his "War and Peace" has been called the greatest novel ever written.
ChildhoodBoyhoodYouthThe CossacksWar and PeaceFather SergiusAnna KareninaIvan the FoolEvil allures, but good enduresWhere Love is, There God is AlsoThe Death of Ivan IlychThe Imp and the CrustAn Old AcquaintanceThe Young TsarMaster and ManEsarhaddon, King of AssyriaWork, Death, and SicknessThere are No Guilty PeopleLittle Girls Wiser Than Men
This ebook compiles Conan Doyle's greatest writings, including novels and short stories such as "A Study in Scarlet", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Lost World", "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", "The Sign of Four" and "The White Company".
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"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.
