Der historische Roman Konstantin von Ivan Ivanji belebt glaubwürdig und überzeugend die Zeit und die Umstände, unter denen sich im Römischen Reich die neue Religion der Anhänger Christi verbreitet und alle anderen in den Hintergrund gedrängt hat.
Auszug: "An einem schönen Maimorgen des Jahres 1751 fuhr eine festliche Gesellschaft in einem Dutzend alter Staatskutschen aus dem Falkentor der Reichsstadt Frankenthal auf das Appental los.
Excerpt: "e;The position of a light-house keeper, in a sea infested by submarines, is a peculiar one; but Peter Ramsay, keeper of the Hatchets' Light, had reasons for feeling that his lonely tower, six miles from the mainland, was the happiest habitation in the world.
Within this book are timeless stories from Ancient Greece such as Icarus, the young man whose infamous flight became a cautionary tale on folly and the heeding of advice, and Orpheus, the fabled musician whose wife Euridice encounters great peril.
Al-ay-ek-sa, where once the Red Men bold Roamed the forests and fished in the streams, And around their campfires told and retold Strange legends a thousand years old.
Excerpt: "e;If the mission of the little school-house in Holly Cove was to impress upon the youthful mind a comprehension and appreciation of the eternal verities of nature, its site could hardly have been better chosen.
The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published in July 1904, is the second of L.
The content is awesome as long as you're looking for a book of antique British nursery rhymes that are (naturally) not modernised, since the text came out quite a long time ago.
Land of Terror Edgar Rice Burroughs - Land of Terror is a 1944 fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the sixth in his series about the fictional "e;hollow earth"e; land of Pellucidar.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz - Lyman Frank Baum - A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground.
A House of Pomegranates - Oscar Wilde - A House of Pomegranates is a collection of four fairy tales by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1891; The Young King (about the illegitimate son of a king's daughter); The Birthday Of The Infanta (about a hunchbacked dwarf found in the woods by courtiers of the King of Spain); The Fisherman And His Soul (about a young Fisherman who finds a Mermaid and wants nothing more than to marry her, but he cannot); and, The Star-Child (an infant boy found abandoned in the woods by a poor woodcutter).
The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius - This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Golden Ass (The Metamorphoses of Apuleius)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
English Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs - Joseph Jacobs He published his English fairy tale collections: English Fairy Tales in 1890 and More English Fairy Tales in 1893.
Legends of Charlemagne Thomas Bulfinch - This is the third and last part of Bulfinch's Mythology, the previous two being The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, and The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur.
Excerpt: "e;King Arthur was at Caerlleon-upon-Usk; and one day he sat in his chamber, and with him were Owain the son of Urien, and Kynon the son of Clydno, and Kai the son of Kyner, and Gwenhwyvar and her handmaidens at needle-work by the window.
Compiled by an American missionary, West African Folk Tales by William H Barker is a delightful collection of folk tales from Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania and other countries along the west coast of Africa.
Excerpt: "e;Reveille was over at the military school, and the three boys on the end of the line nearest the mess hall walked slowly toward the broad steps of the big brick building ahead.
It is rare indeed when a writer's original stories are regarded as masterpieces on a par with the great folkloristic fairy tales that have been handed down through the ages.
