This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Edgar Wallace enjoyed writing science fiction. «Planetoid 127», first published in 1929 but reprinted as late 1962, is a short story about an Earth scientist who communicates via wireless with his counterpart on a duplicate Earth orbiting unseen because it is on the opposite side of the Sun. The idea of a mirror Earth or mirror Universe later became a...
"Illuminated Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times" by J. H. Middleton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that...
Es ist die Geschichte eines ungebildeten, ungehobelten, jedoch weltklugen jungen Mannes, der sich heroisch um die Zuneigung eines Mädchens aus der gehobenen Schicht bemüht. Martin Eden glaubt, einzig durch das Erlangen von Bildung und Respekt würdig für die Liebe der jungen Ruth Morse zu sein. Er kann sich aber keine Schule und keinen Lehrer leisten und beschließt somit, sich selbst autodidaktisch zu unterrichten. Auf diesem Weg offenbaren sich ihm Geschichten, die es wert sind, erzählt zu...