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Originally published in 1823, "The Pioneers" (in full "The Pioneers; or, The Sources of the Susquehanna") is the first of five novels, but the fourth chronological story, in the series The Leatherstocking Tales by American writer James Fenimore Cooper."The Pioneers" began the saga of frontiersman Natty Bumppo, also called Leather-Stocking, and tells the interlocking story of three characters in the fictional frontier town of Templeton, New York (based on the real Cooperstown, New York) between Christmas Eve 1793 and October 1794.The protagonist is Nathaniel Natty Bumpo (or Leatherstocking), an elderly but extremely skilled woodsman who resents the encroachment of civilization on his home in nature. Judge Marmaduke Temple is the wealthy landowner, founder of Templeton, and its de facto leader, who attempts to grow civilization while respecting the environment. Oliver Edwards, who lives with Leatherstocking, is a brooding young man with a mysterious past and a grudge against Judge Temple. Much of the plot is devoted to the conflict between Leatherstocking and Templeton over law, as well as unravelling Olivers mysterious past.In this narrative Bumppo is an old man, as is his Indian friend Chingachgook; together they have seen the frontier change from wilderness to settlement, and they know that their way of life is about to vanish.

First published in 1841, "The Deerslayer" (AKA "The Deerslayer: The First War Path"), a novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, is the first instalment in his famous Leatherstocking Tales chronologically, though the last to be written. The series follows the adventures of Natty Bumppo, an American frontiersman partly raised by Mohican natives, as he navigates the tensions between the natives and the European settlers against the backdrop of the American wilderness.In terms of the storys continuity, "The Deerslayer" is followed by what is probably the most famous of the Leatherstocking Tales books, "The Last of the Mohicans". While the latter tells the story of Natty by then known as Hawkeye in 1757, during the French and Indian War, "The Deerslayer" takes place around 1740, introducing a Natty who has not yet had to kill or fight for his life thus the subtitle, The First War Path.A restless white youth raised by Indians, Natty Bumppo is called Deerslayer for the daring that sets him apart from his peers. But he has yet to meet the test of human conflict. In a tale of violent action and superbly sustained suspense, the harsh realities of tribal warfare force him to kill his first foe, then face torture at the stake. Still yet another kind of initiation awaits him when he discovers not only the ruthlessness of "civilized" men, but also the special danger of a womans will. His reckless spirit transformed into mature courage and moral certainty, the Deerslayer emerges to face life with nobility as pure and proud as the wilderness whose fierce beauty and freedom have claimed his heart.

Written at speed after "The Last of the Mohicans" established Coopers reputation, and published just a year later in 1827, "The Prairie", the third published novel of the Leatherstocking Tales but the last in Deerslayers chronology, depicts Leatherstocking, now known as the trapper or the old man, in his final days. The setting is the edge of the Great Plains, the time is 1805, and the hero is in his eightieshis maturation and movement have paralleled that of the United States. Although Cooper himself never travelled to this locale, he researched his subject well. Unfortunately, with the familiar good against bad Indians dichotomy (this time the Pawnee and Sioux, respectively), wise sayings that sound more like platitudes, and the stock romance pursuit, capture, and escape plot, Natty Bumppos exit is not as memorable as his entrance."The Prairie" extols the vanishing American wilderness, disappearing because of the westward expansion of the American frontier. It concerns Natty Bumppos travels with a party of settlers across the unsettled prairie of the Great Plains. Bumppo ultimately rejects life with the settlers and goes to live out his days in a Pawnee village, away from the encroaching civilization he distrusts.

"The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" is a novella by Howard Phillips Lovecraft published by Arkham House posthumously in 1943 in the collection Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, it was completed on January 22, 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime. "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" is both the longest of the stories that make up his Dream Cycle and the longest Lovecraft work to feature protagonist Randolph Carter. Along with his 1927 novel "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", it can be considered one of the significant achievements of that period of Lovecrafts writing. "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" combines elements of horror and fantasy into an epic tale that illustrates the scope and wonder of humankinds ability to dream.Randolph Carter keeps dreaming of a beautiful unknown city which he is aching to visit. After begging the gods to show him the way and receiving no answer, he sets out on a dream-quest to find it. The priests tell him that nobody knows where the city is and that the journey will kill him, but Randolph Carter is not deterred. His quest takes him through fantastic and mostly dangerous places where he meets strange friends and enemies. All the while he can tell that the gods who dont belong to Earth are trying to stop him from discovering Unknown Kadath.

Originally published in Weird Tales in 1933 as part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle, "The Dreams in the Witch House" by American horror master Howard Phillips Lovecraft is described as "a story of mathematics, witchcraft and Walpurgis Night, in which the horror creeps and grows." This work may have been inspired by Nathaniel Hawthornes unfinished novel, "Septimius Felton".The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Arkham, Lovecrafts fictional New England town. The house once harboured Keziah Mason, a witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.

Fighting, robbery, rape: The Knights of the Cross takes place in the late 14th and early 15th century in the wild East of Europe. Polish and Lithuanian warriors find themselves in conflict with the Knights of the Teutonic Order, who increasingly expand their claims to power. The missionary preaching of the cross serves them as a welcome pretext to satisfy their lust for plunder and murder. The conflicts escalate. The hatred and enmity between the camps are unbridgeable. In the Battle of Grunwald, everything is finally decided In the midst of the chaos of war, a young Polish knight, supported by his uncle, an experienced warrior, tries to free the love of his life from the hands of the hated crusaders. But they are cruel and merciless.It is a great, heroic story of noble, virtuous knights fighting against unscrupulous and dishonourable enemies and last but not least a story of bravery for love, dramatic blows of fate and momentous decisions.Henryk Sienkiewicz is one of the great storytellers of fiction. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature for his Quo Vadis. With The Knights of the Cross he has created another monumental masterpiece. The historical novel comprises over 1000 pages and is here available in a revised new edition as a tetralogy.This is the first of four volumes. The size of the first volume corresponds to about 120 book pages.

First published in London in 1857, Frank J. Webbs "The Garies and Their Friends" is among the earliest novels written by an African American. Although it is not strictly a historical novel, "The Garies and Their Friends" reflects the deteriorating conditions of the free black community in Philadelphia during Webbs childhood and early adulthood, in particular, the 1838 disenfranchisement of black men by the Pennsylvania legislature and the anti-abolitionist and anti-black violence of the 1830s and 1840s.Born to free blacks in Philadelphia, Webb was the youngest of his parents five children, one of whom died in infancy. His father, Francis Webb, was educated and active in various church and civic organizations, and his mother, Louisa Burr Webb, was the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr. Francis and Louisa participated in an unsuccessful colonization project in Haiti, returning to Philadelphia in 1826, sixteen months before Franks birth."The Garies and Their Friends" narrates the fortunes of two families over several decades. Clarence Garie is a slaveholder living in Georgia with Emily, his slave and common-law wife, and their two children, also named Clarence and Emily. Because their marriage is not legally recognized in Georgia, and their children therefore considered illegitimate, they decide to move north to Philadelphia, where they are met and welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Ellis and their three children, Esther, Caddie, and Charlie. We follow the Garies and the Ellises as they raise their children in an atmosphere of often vicious racial discrimination...(Source: philadelphiaencyclopedia.org)

Alcune esperienze della vita ti seguono negli anni, lasciandoti anche il desiderio di ripeterle, anche quando leta, forse, non lo permetterebbe.Apprendere a salire in sella, ti trasporta in un universo differente. Rinunciarvi e difficile.

Dana Bedwen never wanted to be a dark mage. Its in her blood. Its her destiny. But what is that, compared to a young womans desire to be an Alchemist?So she is looking for a job as an Alchemist, despite the suspicion and discrimination she faces as a dark arall. She wants to build steam trains and make money, not spend time on silly, antiquated rituals. But the Universe is conspiring against her. In order to save her own life, shell have to accept the fate she fought so hard to avoid. On the path to her destiny, shell regain longlost family, a boyfriend, and uncover some secrets about herself.Book one of the Alchemist series, which will take you through Danas personal growth story, as she accepts her destiny and matures to become the great woman she will become. Without forgetting alchemy, of course.

Una mattina, durante le vacanze estive, un gruppo di amici decide di andare in una casa vacanze abbandonata in cui si dice viva un particolare animale.Non sanno però che un evento cambierà per sempre

Alla fine dellultima era glaciale una spedizione scientifica proveniente dal pianeta Thuban con lo scopo di classificare il pianeta Terra arrivo in unarea del Golfo Persico oggi sommersa dal mare. Come supervisore dellAlto Commissariato per i Pianeti Eden cera una giovane Kabyria, Aalia Elkal. Non tutto ando come previsto ed invece di studiare gli ecosistemi si fecero esperimenti genetici su larga scala. Niente era come sembrava. La creazione di una razza potente e immortale da parte dei Padri Creatori potrebbe portare allestinzione il genere umano. Oltre 20.000 Lettori

Cinque racconti nati sul web attraverso il portale di racconti interattivi THe iNCIPIT, cinque generi diversi raccolti in un unico ebook per incontrare i gusti di tutti, cinque storie coinvolgenti che vi sorprenderanno ad ogni nuova pagina.10 regole per essere felice piu una: scarica questo ebook!Quando avrai cominciato a leggere non saprai piu come smettere...

The main character of the book, the young nobleman Jan Skrzetuski, or Pan Jan for short, is caught in the middle of the beginning Cossack uprising under the legendary Bogdan Chmelnitzky. Along the way he also falls in love with the beautiful princess Helena, who is also desired by a Cossack officer.In the course of the book the conflict begins to take serious forms, Pan Jan meets most of the main characters on his travels and missions through Eastern Europe. Personal rivalries, chases on horseback, duels, drinking bouts, epic dialogues and great battles (which no normal European has ever heard of before) are also part of the book. As a reader, you live the tragic story of the kingdom, which in the end is destroyed by internal conflicts. This civil war, by the way, caused several million deaths - when reading the book it becomes clear why.Maybe it is necessary to warn potential readers that 17th century warfare in this region was extremely brutal and unless you can tolerate occasional descriptions of horrifying activities, perhaps you should not choose this novel. In the course of prosecuting this revolution or attempting to put it down local villages and Manor homes will be torched. There will be stories of widespread use of violence including the use of stakes, fire and torture to murder populations. Both sides will overindulge in the spilling of innocent blood. But if you can stand that you will be benefitted with excellent characterizations, an exceptionally tense and well-plotted love story intertwined with the basic plot."The Uprising" is the first book of the epic trilogy WITH FIRE AND SWORD by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz. It deals with the uprising of the Cossacks against the Poles in 1648. It is a world forgotten in Central Europe, which was ruled by a kingdom in personal union (Poland-Lithuania). The size of this first part of the first trilogy of The EASTERN KINGDOM Series is about 300 pages.

A trip into the western Liguria, dictated by Cardinal Rafaels need to bring comfort to a Monsignor friend of his, will lead Aitana to a small community of nuns grappling with a possible case of violence against a young girl. The Toledan nun will strive to end that story and will not do that with prayers or reasoning, but employing much more effective and convincing tools.

Crée en 1782 par l´écrivain français Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, "Les Liaisons dangereuses" est un livre principalement basé sur le pouvoir, lintrigue et la séduction. Cest un roman épistolaire de 17

Dans le décor sauvage des Highlands, au début du XVIIIe siècle, le plus shakespearien des romans de Walter Scott, "La fiancée de Lammermoor", mêle la tragédie romantique aux croyances populaires de l

Un regalo per te: edizione gratuita di Omicidio alla Saksess Press 1.Serie completa Omicidio alla Saksess Press 1-2-3.Una bella ragazza cade dalla finestra della casa editrice a pagamento Saksess Press.Un uomo maturo, un semplice impiegato del centro smistamento reati, sente il desiderio di indagare sul caso.Perche?È ossessionato dalla vittima, la vede perfino nei suoi sogni. Sente di doverle qualcosa, ma cosa? Non conosce lorigine di questa sua fissazione ma la sua vita, grazie alla ricerca della verita, sara destinata a svolte radicali. "Una pistola e una penna Mi chiamo Pedro e sono un investigatore privato. A differenza di molti miei colleghi, non sono un ex poliziotto che cerca di arrotondare la magra pensione spiando mogli e mariti infedeli. E, a differenza alcuni di loro, non faccio questo mestiere solo per soldi. E non mi occupo di corna, ma di omicidi, al posto di uno stato che sembra aver dimenticato il valore della vita. Nel mio piccolo, come un atomo disobbediente ad ogni legge della fisica voglio, piu di ogni altra cosa, riportare un minimo di giustizia in una societa smarrita e asservita allinteresse di pochi. Morti senza verita, violenze ovunque. Solo le proprieta dei ricchi, protette nei loro quartieri fortezza, sembrano ancora rispettate alle soglie del ventiduesimo secolo. Anchio, prima di scoprire la mia missione, servivo solo i potenti ed ero un uomo perduto, proprio come il mio mondo. Dietro la mia vita apparentemente ordinata, monotona e ripetitiva nascondevo la piu grande delle confusioni. Un computer, una tastiera, incarichi ben definiti.A fine mese uno stipendio, magro ma sufficiente per tirare avanti. Tirare avanti si, ma verso dove? Adesso, davanti ai miei occhi, ho una pistola e una penna. La pistola e appoggiata sulla scrivania, mi servira piu avanti, forse. La penna, invece, la stringo nella mia mano sinistra per raccontare come sono arrivato fino a questo punto. Quella che segue e la mia storia. "

"Oroonoko" (or, the Royal Slave) is an early example of the novel genre, written by Aphra Behn and published in 1688.It is a seventeenth-century novella that tells the story of the eponymous hero, the prince and heir to the throne of the African country of Cormantien. Oroonokos story is related to us by a nameless female narrator (possibly Aphra Behn herself), the daughter of the Lord Governor of Surinam, an English colony where Oroonoko will find himself a slave.Oroonokos tale is one of an exemplary man who falls in love with an exceptional woman, Imoinda. However, their love is thwarted by Oroonokos grandfather, the king, who desires Imoinda for himself. Despite the fact that Oroonoko and Imoinda are married, the King forces her to become part of his Otan, or harem, separating them. Imoinda refuses to submit to his desires, and Oroonoko manages to break into the Otan and consummate his marriage. As punishment, the King pretends to put Imoinda to death, when he has actually sold her into slavery.Oroonoko is overcome by grief and distracts himself with the friendship of an English sea captain, who ultimately tricks the prince into slavery..."Oroonoko" is considered Behns most significant novel and a masterpiece of British literature.

First published in 1894, "The Wood Beyond the World" is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. His use of archaic language has been seen by some modern readers as making his fiction difficult to read, but brings a wonderful atmosphere to the telling.William Morris is often considered one of the authors who aided in the growth of fantasy, utopian literature, and science fiction. C.S. Lewis cites William Morris as one of his favourite authors and J.R.R. Tolkein admits to being influenced greatly by Morris fantasies.The hero of this romance is named Golden Walter, son of Bartholomew Golden, a great merchant in the town of Langton on Holm. Tired of his mundane life, Walter sets out on a sea voyage, anxious to see and learn more of the outside world, eventually winning for himself the kingdom of Stark-Wall and the love of a beautiful maiden.

First published in 1916, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is James Joyces first novel and a milestone of modern literary history. It is the origin of many of the post-modern techniques he refined in later works such as "Finnegans Wake" and "Ulysses".The novel describes the emotional and mental development of the main protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, from childhood to independent artist. Stephen grows up in the deeply nationalistic and religious culture of Ireland. During his time at Jesuit schools and university, he struggles to find his own identity and break free of the culture of his childhood. He eventually leaves the church, university, his parents and his country in order to find his true self.The novel is strongly autobiographical, Stephens development and experiences are, to a large extent, similar to Joyces own. On the other hand, the style develops in line with the character. While, initially, the language is childish and naive, it changes to increasingly academic and intellectual the older Stephen gets.