Auf dem Mississippi; Nach dem fernen Westen Mark Twain - Mark Twain (bürgerlich Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835- 1910) ist einer der wichtigsten Schriftsteller der USA.
Der Mann des Schicksals: Komödie in einem Akt Bernard Shaw - Die Erkenntnis irgendeines schrecklichen, gänzlich unerwarteten Irrtums hat sie jäh erschreckt, inmitten ihrer ruhigen Sicherheit und Siegesgewißheit.
The Beautiful and the Damned - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - Fitzgeralds second novel, a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their spectacular spiral into tragedy.
The Best American Humorous Short Stories Alexander Jessup - A Different Kind of HumorThe Best American Humorous Short Stories is a collection of 19th-century and early 20th-century stories written by the likes of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, George William Curtis, Bret Harte or O.
As Other Men Are is a 1925 collection of short stories by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), first published in The Windsor Magazine.
Sedgwick's most popular work continues her characteristic documentation of national differences in the contrast between the French and the English as the daughter of a worldly Frenchwoman goes to England to make a good match.
The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597.
Just before the end of World War II, the Nazis managed to reach the moon aboard huge flying disks, the so-called Reichsflugscheiben, and settled on the dark side of the moon.
George Ade's greatest recognition came with Fables in Slang (1899), a national best-seller that was followed by a weekly syndicated fable and by 11 other books of fables.
The Balkans, also known as the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographic area in Southeast Europe with various definitions and meanings, including geopolitical and historical.
The journalist and writer Don Marquis obtained recognition in life, one of the works of this collection (The Old Soak) being transformed into a play and later, a movie still in the silent movie era.
Ellis Parker Butler was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "e;Pigs Is Pigs"e;, in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially.
The Satyricon, Satyricon liber (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), or Satyrica, is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius.
Mit der Besprechung von Kurt TucholskyDiederich Hessling ist ein katzbuckelnder obrigkeitshöriger Opportunist, ganz so, wie es ihn zur wilhelminischen Zeit massenweise gab.
Mit der Besprechung von Kurt TucholskyDiederich Hessling ist ein katzbuckelnder obrigkeitshöriger Opportunist, ganz so, wie es ihn zur wilhelminischen Zeit massenweise gab.
