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This eBook edition of «The Wonderful Life» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Hesba Stretton was the pen name of Sarah Smith (1832-1911), an English writer of children's books. Content: THE CARPENTER: THE HOLY LAND JERUSALEM AND BETHLEHEM IN THE TEMPLE THE WISE MEN NAZARETH THE FIRST PASSOVER THE PROPHET: JOHN THE BAPTIST CANA OF GALILEE THE FIRST SUMMER SAMARIA THE FIRST...
| Автор | Stretton Hesba |
"The Sea-Wolf" is a 1904 psychological adventure about a literary critic and survivor of an ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. A deranged and abusive sea captain perpetrates a shipboard atmosphere of increasing violence that ultimately boils into mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation… Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world...
| Автор | Jack London |
Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Inhalt: Am Altar Glück auf! Gesprengte Fesseln Vineta Um hohen Preis Frühlingsboten Ein Gottesurteil Die Alpenfee Fata Morgana Adlerflug Hexengold Der höhere Standpunkt Der Lebensquell Edelwild Elisabeth Bürstenbinder (1838-1918) war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin. Zeitgenossen...
| Автор | Elisabeth Bürstenbinder |
Cada any, la vigília de Nadal, a casa dels Stahlbaum se celebrava una gran festa. En Fritz i la Marie, els fills dels senyors Stahlbaum, esperaven impacients que sobrís la porta del saló, on hi havia un arbre de Nadal majestuós i els paquets plens de regals.
| Автор | Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann |
Around the World in 80 Days is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days set by his friends at the Reform Club. Any delay, any breakdown, any missed connection, and Fogg would lose – everything. Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 – 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the...
| Автор | Jules Verne |
Malaeska – Story of what happened when a Native Indian woman tried to break conventions and married a white man… Excerpt: "At the time of our story, the beautiful expanse of country which stretches from the foot of the Catskill mountains to the Hudson was one dense wilderness. The noble stream glided on in the solemn stillness of nature, shadowed with trees that had battled with storms for centuries, its surface as yet unbroken, save by the light prow of the Indian's canoe. The lofty...
| Автор | Ann S. Stephens |
"Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy" (1868), is a semi-autobiographical account of the author's childhood with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives (1869), follows the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. Little Men (1871) details Jo's life at the Plumfield School that she founded with her husband Professor Bhaer at the conclusion of Part Two of Little Women. And Jo's Boys (1886) completes the...
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
The D'Artagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas telling the story of the musketeer d'Artagnan from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death as a marshal of France in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673. Dumas based the life and character of d'Artagnan on the 17th-century captain of musketeers Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, and Dumas's portrayal was indebted to the semi-fictionalized memoirs of d'Artagnan written 27 years after...
| Автор | Alexandre Dumas |
En un temps molt llunyà, un pagès que es deia Tonducco i la seva dona Pignotta vivien en una caseta al vessant d'un turó, conreant un petit terreny. No tenien fills, perquè els fills sempre tenen gana i cal alimentar-los, i els dos camperols tenien menjar només per a ells dos.
| Автор | Esopo |
Al fons dun mar daigua blava com els lliris, en un castell amb parets de corall, vidrieres d àmbar i teulades de petxines de colors, vivia el Rei del mar. Havia perdut la seva esposa feia anys, i vivia amb la mare, una sirena velleta…
| Автор | Hans Christian Andersen |
Una velleta que vivia al camp en una casa molt bonica va fer una galeta de gingebre amb forma de ninot. El ulls els va fer amb panses i els botons amb nabius. La velleta va coure la galeta uns minuts i quan li va semblar que ja estava cuita, va obrir el forn i la va treure.
| Автор | Anonimo |
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Introduction: SIR WALTER SCOTT AND LADY MORGAN by Victor Hugo MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS by Robert Louis Stevenson SCOTT AND HIS PUBLISHERS by Charles Dickens POETRY: Notable Poems MARMION THE LADY OF THE LAKE THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL ROKEBY THE VISION OF DON RODERICK THE BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN THE FIELD OF WATERLOO THE LORD OF THE...
| Автор | Walter Scott |
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «Jack London's Stories of the North – Complete Edition». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: – The Son of the Wolf (1900): The White Silence, The Son of the Wolf, The Men of Forty Mile, In a Far Country, To the Man on the Trail, The Priestly Prerogative, The Wisdom of the Trail, The Wife of a King, An Odyssey of the North. – The...
| Автор | Jack London |
Pollyanna is a best-selling novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook. Pollyanna has been adapted for film several times. Some of the best known are Disney's 1960 version starring child actress Hayley Mills, who won a special Oscar for the role, and the 1920 version starring Mary Pickford. The book was such a success that Porter soon...
| Автор | Eleanor H. Porter |
En una nación postapocalíptica en la que la reproducción sexual es obligatoria y la homosexualidad es una enfermedad prohibida, dos jóvenes arriesgarán sus vidas con tal de ser libres. Alicia Robles está resignada a pasar el resto de sus días junto a su prometido, Carlos Scott. No obstante, los planes de ambos se verán amenazados cuando ella conozca a un rebelde perseguido por el gobierno, quien le mostrará que en la vida hay mucho más que las órdenes y las reglas bajo las que viven los...
| Автор | Matías García |
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Greatest Works of J. S. Fletcher (64+ Titles in One Illustrated Edition)» This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Novels Perris of the Cherry Trees The Middle Temple Murder Dead Men's Money The Talleyrand Maxim The Paradise Mystery The Borough Treasurer The Chestermarke Instinct The Herapath Property The Orange-Yellow...
| Автор | J. S. Fletcher |
This unique collection of «LULU'S LIBRARY: Complete Collection (Illustrated Edition)» has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Henry James called her «The novelist of children… the Thackeray, the Trollope, of the nursery and the schoolroom.» Content: A Christmas Dream The Candy Country Naughty...
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. James Oliver Curwood (1878-1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His adventure writing followed in the tradition of Jack London. Like London, Curwood set many of his works in the wilds of the Great White North. He often took trips to the Canadian northwest which provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure stories....
| Автор | Джеймс Кервуд |
This eBook edition of «CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY & OTHER STORIES (Illustrated Edition)» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Extract: "The little girl came into her papa's study, as she always did Saturday morning before breakfast, and asked for a story. He tried to beg off that morning, for he was very busy, but she would not let him. So he began: "Well, once there was a little pig… "She put her hand over his mouth and...
| Автор | William Dean Howells |
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. David Blaize Trilogy is a series of novels by English author Edward Frederic Benson about the life of a young boy from his early childhood to college years. The first novel in the series is named David Blaize. Set in England before the First World War, the novel describes David's years at prep school and public school, his studies, sports and...
| Автор | E. F. Benson |