This book was intended as a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book, but is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour, as the given English translations are generally completely incoherent.
Published in two volumes a decade apart, 'Don Quixote of La Mancha' is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.
Francois-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished man who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, ridding the world of an evil parasite.
Published in two volumes, but complete here, a decade apart, 'Don Quixote of La Mancha' is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.
Francois-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.
Francois-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.
Francois-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.
The Coming Conquest of England is a classic utopian novel that displayed the German lust for world domination long before either of the two World Wars.
Francois-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.
„Der grüne Bogenschütze“ ist einer der bekanntesten Kriminalromane des britischen Ausnahmeschrifttellers Edgar Wallace und gehört zum Kanon der Weltliteratur.
Wahres Glück lässt sich nicht verstecken: Eine herzerwärmende Kurzgeschichte von Paige Toon, exklusiv im E-BookLily ist im vierten Monat schwanger und ihr Leben könnte nicht besser sein.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint, der berühmte belgische Schriftsteller, ist als ausgewiesener Fußballkenner durch seine Fußballkommentare bekannt, die in französischen und internationalen Zeitungen erscheinen.
Spence Olham ist ein ganz normaler Angestellter, bis eines Tages ein Raumschiff außerhalb der Stadt abstürzt und er von einem Kollegen beschuldigt wird, ein Androiden-Hochstapler zu sein, dessen Mission es ist, die Erde zu zerstören.
Das hier ist Wasser - David Foster Wallaces bewegende Abschlussrede über den Sinn des LebensIn seiner berühmt gewordenen Rede vor den Absolventen des Kenyon College im Jahr 2005 zeigt David Foster Wallace mit einfachen Worten, was es heißt, Denken zu lernen und erwachsen zu sein.
Eva, a 1927 novel by Dutch writer Carry van Bruggen, is an experiment in depicting a woman's life from girlhood to marriage, and beyond, to sexual freedom and independence.
Die Geschichte, aus der Sicht des achtjährigen Charles erzählt, dreht sich um einen Klassiker in der Science-Fiction-Literatur: Sein Vater wurde durch ein Replikat ersetzt.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint, der berühmte belgische Schriftsteller, ist als ausgewiesener Fußballkenner durch seine Fußballkommentare bekannt, die in französischen und internationalen Zeitungen erscheinen.
Robert Blake wird tot und mit angstverzerrtem Gesicht an seinem Schreibtisch vorgefunden, zusammengesunken über einem letzten Tagebucheintrag: »Ich sehe es – es kommt hierher – Höllenwind – riesiger Schatten – schwarze Schwingen – Yog-Sothoth errette mich – das dreilappige brennende Auge .
Swanns Way, by Marcel Proust, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
Martin Vopenka's novel, The Back of Beyond-Travels with Benjamin, is the story of a middle-aged man, who-despite his professional success and affluence-lacks fulfillment.
Nana, by Emile Zola, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
'One of the most remarkable and, in the English-speaking world at least, one of the most inexplicably underappreciated French writers of the twentieth century' John Banville, New York Review of BooksEnter the world of Pascal Garnier, where life's misfits take centre stage, there is drama in the everyday and the unexpected is always just around the corner.
The Possessed, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
