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Following the lives of four sisters on a journey out of adolescence, Louisa May Alcotts Little Women explores the difficulties associated with gender roles in a Post-Civil War America.

War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoys two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the worlds greatest novels.War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. Though it is often called a novel today, it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed, Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense.

The air cools down and the days begin to shorten; the leaves changing color put us in contact with the passing of time in a visible way. The autumn has served as inspiration for several writers that you confer in this volume, through great seven short stories.This book contains:- One Autumn Night by Maxim Gorky.- The purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe.- Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac.- A Painful Case by James Joyce.- An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoevsky.- An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott.- The Elementary Spirit by E. T. A. Hoffman.

Dont Miss a Moment with Anne Shirley in this Anne of Green Gables Bundle This bundle includes: Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of the Island Annes House of Dreams Rainbow Valley Rilla of Ingleside Chronicles of Avonlea Further Chronicles of Avonlea This Anne of Green Gables Collection has been professionally formatted for e-readers and contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope youll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and cant wait to hear what you have to say about it.

In this collection you will find :Novels-The Time Machine-The War of the Worlds-The Invisible Man-The Island of Doctor Moreau-The Sleeper Awakes-A Modern Utopia-The Wheels of Chance-The First Men in the Moon -The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth-In the Days of the Comet-Ann VeronicaShort Stories-Tales of Space and Time-The Red Room-The Diamond Maker-pyornis Island-The Chronic Argonauts-The Flowering of the Strange Orchid-The Remarkable Case of Davidsons Eyes-The History of Mr PollyThe World Set Free+++ H. G. Wells - Biography

This version includes a detailed introductory annotation on how the book and the plot were created.To say nothing of the supreme excellence of the dialogue, there is scarcely a page but has its little gem of exact and polished phrasing; scarcely a chapter which is not neatly opened or artistically ended ; while the whole book abounds in sentences over which the writer, it is plain, must have lingered with patient and loving craftsmanship. . . . Criticism has found little to condemn in the details of this capital novel.- Austin DobsonNever was there a book written which has given more harmless pleasure to those who have come under its spell. As we open its pages, we bid adieu to a world of sordid cares and troublesome interests, and though we do not wander into fairy-land, for Miss Austens world is always matter-of-fact, we do catch a breath of an air less severe than that which we habitually draw, and find, if not fairy-land, at least a touch of the lightness of fairy-land brought down to us. - Adolphus Alfred Jack."Pride and Prejudice is realistic in its narrowness of scope, in its lack of complicated plot, and in that it sets forth clearly and fully a limited section of life. It attempts to hold up no ideals ; it deals for the most part with middle-class people ; it has in it no literary atmosphere suggested either by the characters or by the apthors allusions. And yet one forgets that he is reading a book ; he feels as if he were making a visit among people in whom he had a human interest. He finds himself scheming with the fond mother in her matchmaking interests for her daughters five.- Charity Dye.

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Cet ebook regroupe les oeuvres complètes de Charles Baudelaire. Des tables des matières rendent la navigation intuitive et agréable. ---- Contenu: Le Jeune Enchanteur (1846) La Fanfarlo (1847) Les Fl

Eine exhumierte Leiche, ein Giftmord und ein geschiedener Arzt bilden das Gerust fur Ricarda Huchs 1917 erschienenen und spater verfilmten Kriminalroman.Der Arzt Deruga steht vor Gericht. Er soll seine von ihm geschiedene Frau mit Curare ermordet haben. Als Alleinerbe des Opfers ist er naturlich verdachtig. Aber der Fall ist langst nicht so klar, wie er sich zunachst darstellen mag. Vor Gericht wird die Wahrheit Schicht fur Schicht freigelegt. Und es scheint, als sei das Urteil der Gesellschaft gegen den Arzt vorschnell getroffen.Marcel Reich-Ranicki schrieb, dass "Der Fall Deruga" zu den literarisch beachtlichen Buchern gehorte, die ihn in seiner Jugend beeindruckt hatten. [Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 3. Februar 2008]1938 veroffentlichte die UFA eine Verfilmung des Romans. Franz Peter Wirth verfilmte den Roman unter dem Titel " und nichts als die Wahrheit" im Jahr 1958 mit O. W. Fischer und Marianne Koch."Der Roman ist bis heute lesenswert. ... Die Autorin gestaltet den Prozess als eine Folge von literarischen Kabinettstucken, mit glanzenden Personenbeschreibungen, sehr unterhaltsam." [Jurg Scheuzger, Neue Zurcher Zeitung am Sonntag 07.12.2014]Null Papier Verlag

Fontanes Novelle "Die Poggenpuhls" spielt im Dreikaiserjahr 1888, als in einem Jahr drei Kaiser regieren. Eine verarmte Offiziersfamilie, deren Familienoberhaupt lang schon gefallen ist, muss nun in einer Mietskaserne hausen.Die Familie, immer darauf bedacht, auch mit den kargsten Mitteln den Stand zu wahren, schlittert von einer hochnotpeinlichen Situation in die nachste. Hoffnung keimt noch einmal auf, als der reiche Erb-Onkel zu Besuch erscheint. Kann er die prekare Lage der Poggenpuhls lindern?Null Papier Verlag

"Alle glucklichen Familien sind einander ahnlich; aber jede ungluckliche Familie ist auf ihre besondere Art unglucklich." - Schon der erste Satz lasst einen nicht mehr los.Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstois Mammutwerk uber Ehe und Moral in der adligen russischen Gesellschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts.Erstmalig erhalten Sie hier die vollstandige Ausgabe fur elektronische Lesegerate mit interaktivem Inhaltsverzeichnis, Funoten und PersonenverzeichnisDas achtteilige Romanepos verwebt die Geschichten dreier adliger Familien: des Fursten Oblonski und seiner Frau Dolly, Dollys junger Schwester Kitty Schtscherbazkaja und des Gutsbesitzers Lewin, sowie schlielich Anna Karenina, der Schwester des Fursten, die mit dem Staatsbeamten Karenin verheiratet ist. Annas Liebesaffare mit dem Grafen Wronskij fuhrt schlielich zum Bruch der Ehe und ihrer Selbsttotung.Null Papier Verlag

Dont Miss a Moment with Anne Shirley in this Anne of Green Gables Bundle This bundle includes: Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of the Island Annes House of Dreams Rainbow Valley Rilla of Ingleside Chronicles of Avonlea Further Chronicles of Avonlea

Set in medieval Paris, Victor Hugos powerful historical romance The Hunchback of Notre-Dame has resonated with succeeding generations ever since its publication in 1837. It tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts after her. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, having fallen in love with the kindhearted Esmeralda, tries to save her by hiding her in the cathedrals tower. When a crowd of Parisian peasants, misunderstanding Quasimodos motives, attacks the church in an attempt to liberate her, the story ends in tragedy.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare from early in his career. It has the smallest cast of any of Shakespeares plays, and is the first of his plays in which a heroine dresses as a boy. It deals with the themes of friendship and infidelity. The highlight of the play is considered by some to be Launce, the clownish servant of Proteus, and his dog Crab, to whom "the most scene-stealing non-speaking role in the canon" has been attributed.

This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poes greatest writings, including novels, short stories and poems such as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado".This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where youll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecrafts best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance.It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the storys first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 161011, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to believe they are shipwrecked and marooned on the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonios lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonsos son, Ferdinand. The story draws heavily on the tradition of the romance, and it was influenced by tragicomedy, the courtly masque and perhaps the commedia dellarte. It differs from Shakespeares other plays in its observation of a stricter, more organised neoclassical style. Critics see The Tempest as explicitly concerned with its own nature as a play, frequently drawing links between Prosperos "art" and theatrical illusion, and early critics saw Prospero as a representation of Shakespeare, and his renunciation of magic as signalling Shakespeares farewell to the stage. The play portrays Prospero as a rational, and not an occultist, magician by providing a contrast to him in Sycorax: her magic is frequently described as destructive and terrible, where Prosperos is said to be wondrous and beautiful. Beginning in about 1950, with the publication of Psychology of Colonization by Octave Mannoni, The Tempest was viewed more and more through the lens of postcolonial theoryexemplified in adaptations like Aime Cesaires Une Tempete set in Haitiand there is even a scholarly journal on post-colonial criticism named after Caliban.

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where youll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This book contains the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication.- The Pickwick Papers- Oliver Twist- Nicholas Nickleby - The Old Curiosity Shop .- Barnaby Rudge - Martin Chuzzlewit - Dombey and Son - David Copperfield - Bleak House - Hard Times - Little Dorrit - A Tale of Two Cities - Great Expectations - Our Mutual Friend - The Mystery of Edwin Drood

This compilation contains four major works written by Charles Dickens:CONTENTS:1. A TALE OF TWO CITIES2. DAVID COPPERFIELD3. GREAT EXPECTATIONS4. OLIVER TWIST

This ebook compiles Edgar Allan Poes greatest writings, including novels, short stories and poems such as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" and "The Cask of Amontillado".This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where youll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.