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Musaicum Press presents to you a collection of the greatest wrorks written by renowned author Saki, H. H. Munro: Table of Contents: Novels: The Unbearable Bassington When William Came Short Stories: Reginald Reginald on Christmas Presents Reginald on the Academy Reginald at the Theatre Reginald's Peace Poem Reginald's Choir Treat Reginald on Worries Reginald on House-Parties Reginald at the Carlton Reginald on Besetting Sins Reginald's Drama Reginald on Tariffs ...
| Автор | Saki |
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work,...
| Автор | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Im Leipzig der späten 90er Jahre geschehen seltsame Dinge. Auf brutale Art und Weise werden gutsituierte Herren, Stützen der Gesellschaft, ermordet. Sarah Weber, eine junge Frau aus besten Verhältnissen, scheint die knallharte Mörderin zu sein. Ein «tödlicher Engel», wie es in der Presse heißt. Sie hatte mit jedem der Männer kurz vor deren Ableben Sex. Gegen Cash. Sarahs Vater beauftragt den Anwalt Martin Hall, die Unschuld seiner Tochter zu beweisen. Für Hall eine zwar lukrative aber fast...
| Автор | Wolfram Christ |
Sie spinnen, sie weben, sie zerschneiden den Faden der Menschenleben. Doch beeinflussen dürfen die Nornen das Schicksal nicht. Selbst dann nicht, wenn sich schwere Schäden im Gewebe des Schicksals zeigen. Ein Glück, dass ihnen mit Ljósfari ein Helfer zur Verfügung steht, der solchen Einschränkungen nicht unterliegt. Aber kann ein Kater wirklich das Schicksal beeinflussen?
| Автор | Claudia Mayer |
Nach dem gewaltsamen Tod seines Pferdes und einzigen Freundes Ventus trauert das Waisenkind Lena Walker. Unerwartet begegnet Lena im Wald einem blauen Einhorn mit Flügeln. Das Mädchen wird von dem Zauberwesen nach Candelia gebracht, dem Land der Einhörner. Dort trifft es unverhofft Ventus wieder, der am Leben ist und sich auch in ein Einhorn mit Flügeln verwandeln kann. Für beide ist es der Beginn eines neuen, verantwortungsvollen und glücklichen Lebens.
| Автор | Fatum Lev |
Terminando la década de los años veinte del siglo pasado, la historia transcurre en Buenos Aires. Porfirio regentea dos prostíbulos; un día decide hacer un cambio en su vida. Un cambio copernicano. ¿Lo logrará? En el telón de fondo del drama de Porfirio está, avasallante, el primer peronismo.Las sombras cardinales de Porfirio es uno de esos textos que producen un intenso placer estético. Al río narrativo de Hugo Barcia confluyen estimables afluentes, pero su obra es tan propia y original como la...
| Автор | Hugo Barcia |
Esta es la primera novela que publicó el autor en 2012 y, tras una buena acogida de la crítica y los lectores, ahora se reedita bajo los auspicios de un nuevo sello editorial. Martín, el personaje principal de la obra, a pesar del éxito social no encuentra sentido a su vida, porque en el fondo se ha traicionado a sí mismo y a sus ideales. Buscando el reencuentro con las esencias cerca de la tierra, marcha a la Sierra de la Albera en el Alt Empordà, aunque los recuerdos y su pasado le persiguen....
| Автор | Félix Rueda |
Uno, nessuno e centomila segna l'altissimo epilogo della tensione narrativa di Pirandello e costituisce uno degli esiti più nuovi della letteratura del Novecento. All'interno dell'accidentata geografia di naufragi esistenziali di cui è percorsa l'opera pirandelliana, il lucidissimo Vitangelo Moscarda approda alla conquista di quella sofferta accettazione dell'incompletezza di se stessi che passa attraverso la via della rinuncia e della solitudine. La stessa che vuole...
| Автор | Reading Time |
The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the days of the 19th century Klondike Gold Rushes. Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is one of London's most-read books, and it is generally considered one of his best. Because the protagonist is a dog, it...
| Автор | Knowledge house |
Was würdest du machen, wenn dein Leben sich plötzlich auf den Kopf stellt? Luca hat ein schönes Leben, bis sich plötzlich alles ändert. Wie ist es, wenn man alles verliert? Was macht man, wenn man keinen Ausweg mehr sieht? Auch Luca stellt sich solche Fragen, nur ob er die Antworten dazu gefunden hat? Wer weiß, wer weiß …
| Автор | Zemira Tursunovic |
A current of longing runs through twenty-two short stories by Oregon writers. As the characters strive for connection, they make mistakes, reach out to the wrong people, and recalibrate their lives based on what they desire, whether or not it’s attainable—or even a good idea. Editor Liz Prato has curated a powerful collection of smart, funny, sad, and exquisite stories about the losses that shape our lives.
| Автор | Scott Sparling |
Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. It tells the tragic story of the romantic but empty-headed Emma Rouault. When Emma marries Charles Bovary, she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is an ordinary country...
| Автор | Reading Time |
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. In 1848, two young men published what would become one of the defining documents of modern history, The Communist Manifesto. It rapidly realigned political faultlines all over the world and its aftershock resonates to this day. In the many years since its publication, no other social program has inspired such divisive and violent debate. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the...
| Автор | RMB |
This ebook contains all of Oscar Wilde's plays (including the fragments), his only novel, his fairy tales and short stories, the poems, all of his essays, lectures, reviews, and other newspaper articles, based on the 1909 edition of his works. For easier navigation, there are tables of contents for each section and one for the whole volume. At the end of each text there are links bringing you back to the respective contents tables. I have also added an alphabetical index for the poems...
| Автор | Knowledge house |
The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the days of the 19th century Klondike Gold Rushes. Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is one of London's most-read books, and it is generally considered one of his best. Because the protagonist is a dog, it...
| Автор | Knowledge house |
Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as he passes through the spheres of Heaven, he struggles with his faith, striving to understand the scales of good and evil that determine the fate of a human soul. The final book from Alasdair Gray, Paradise is a fitting conclusion to his own irreplaceable body of work, as well as to his masterful retelling of Dante's trilogy.
| Автор | Alasdair Gray |
This was an unexpected debut of the poetry collection of the newcomer Karsten Colbert. In this collection, Karsten finds himself asking the important question of why. Why do we live? Why do we die? Why do we love? Why do we experience hate? In his journey of questioning why, Karsten has come to realize that life, love, and everything in between is unexpected and that you never know what tomorrow truly brings.
| Автор | Karsten Colbert |
Little Women o, Meg, Jo, Beth y Amy es una novela de la autora estadounidense Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888). Escrita y publicada en dos partes en 1868 y 1869, la novela sigue la vida de cuatro hermanas, Meg, Jo, Beth y Amy March, y se basa libremente en las experiencias infantiles de la autora con sus tres hermanas. La primera parte del libro fue un éxito comercial y crítico inmediato y provocó la composición de la segunda parte del libro, también un gran éxito. Ambas partes se publicaron por...
| Автор | Knowledge house |
"What's Mine's Mine" is a novel set in the wilds of Scottish Highlands in the middle of the 19th century that captures one of the most important periods of Scottish history – the crumbling of the clans and the migrations of the impoverished clansmen and farmers as their homeland is bought out from under them by the rich and mercenary landowners from the south. Among those ambitious and gain-seeking men is the protagonist of this novel Peregrine Palmer, who has just moved with his...
| Автор | George MacDonald |
El amor es el sentimiento más universal. Nos acompaña desde el nacimiento hasta la muerte y lo hace mediante diferentes actores y escenarios. Todos tenemos un amor furtivo, un beso robado, una mirada de deseo para alguien inalcanzable, una herida yaciente en el alma, un «si hubiera», un silencio eterno, un suspiro, un adiós… un reencuentro. Pero el amor, a través de la pasión, cabalga nuestras vidas dejándonos heridas de guerra: unas cicatrizan y desaparecen; otras quedan muy presentes para...
| Автор | Montserrat García Pino |
THE NOVELS The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob's Room (1922) Mrs. Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) The Waves (1931) The Years (1937) Between the Acts (1941) THE 'BIOGRAPHIES' Orlando: a biography (1928) Flush: a biography (1933) Roger Fry: a biography (1940) THE STORIES Two Stories (1917) Kew Gardens (1919) Monday or Tuesday (1921) A Haunted House, and other short stories (1944) Nurse Lugton's Golden Thimble (1966) Mrs...
| Автор | Knowledge house |
