Stevenson's second longer work of fiction is the greatest imaginable jump from the buccaneering story of Treasure Island with which he first came before a large public.
Der Nachfolger zum Erfolgsroman "Godwie Castle", ein historischer Roman, der ganz besonders den Kampf zwischen dem rein menschlichen Leben und seiner Korruption in den höheren Kreisen zum Gegenstande hat.
When Hawthorne died in 1864, he left in manuscript three unfinished romances which, when afterward published by his heirs, were given the arbitrary titles of Doctor Grimshawe's Secret, Septimius Felton, and The Dolliver Romance.
Like all of Hawthorne's novels, "e;The Scarlet Letter"e; has but a slender plot and but few characters with an influence on the development of the story.
Like "e; Tess of the D'Urbervilles,"e; the story of "e;Jude the Obscure"e; is a manifestation of the author's later manner-a manner which is a natural and almost inevitable development in a writer who possesses Mr.
In "Irmela" erzählt Steinhausen die Geschichte des Zisterzienser-Mönchs Diether, der als Klosterschüler eigentlich nach Speyer entsandt wurde um dort ein Marienbild zu kopieren, dabei aber in die Hände von Wegelagerern gerät und schließlich an den Hof des Reichsgrafen Eberhard und dessen Nichte Irmela kommt .
This book is annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer.
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