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.
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.
„Der grüne Bogenschütze“ ist einer der bekanntesten Kriminalromane des britischen Ausnahmeschrifttellers Edgar Wallace und gehört zum Kanon der Weltliteratur.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint, der berühmte belgische Schriftsteller, ist als ausgewiesener Fußballkenner durch seine Fußballkommentare bekannt, die in französischen und internationalen Zeitungen erscheinen.
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.
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 .
Jean-Philippe Toussaint, der berühmte belgische Schriftsteller, ist als ausgewiesener Fußballkenner durch seine Fußballkommentare bekannt, die in französischen und internationalen Zeitungen erscheinen.
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.
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.
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.
Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses,by Peirre Choderlos de Laclos, 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.
Hermann Hesse's moving and inspirational chronicle of spiritual enlightenment, with an introduction by Paulo Coehlo Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced.
Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev, 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.
so having weighed the pros and cons you've decided to approach your boss to ask for that well-earned raise in salary but before you schedule the all-important meeting you decide to dip into this handy volume in the hope of finding some valuable tips but instead find a hilarious, mind-bending farcical account of all the many different things that may or may not happen on the journey to see your boss which uses no punctuation or capitalisation and certainly no full stops.
This devastating dossier of savage stories takes us to the crimes that never reach the newspapers: small-town atrocities where the mundane lurches into the macabre and ordinary people find themselves at the heart of horrific crimes, all the more compelling on account of their truth.
Pere Goriot, by Honore de Balzac, 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.
A new translation of the Italian novelist’s cautionary comedy of excess and despair in 1920s Paris—“this little romp is always a pleasurable one” (Publishers Weekly).
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.
