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Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the French writer Jules Verne. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe,...
| Автор | August Nemo |
This omnibus contains the 3 famous stories by Stephen Crane: The Blue Hotel The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky The Open Boat Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet who is often called the first modern American writer. Crane was a correspondent in the Greek-Turkish War and the Spanish American War, penning numerous articles, war reports and sketches.
| Автор | Stephen Crane |
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. A group of fearless explorers led by Jeff Ramsden are wandering through the Himalayas in search for his onetime compatriot Elmer Rait, whose lust for knowledge brought him in association with dugpa sorcerers of the Black Lodge.The group is drawn in the mists of the mountains where a battle is taking place between the Black Lodge and the White Lodge.
| Автор | Talbot Mundy |
La esperada continuación de Mi planta de naranja-lima. Zezé creció y es casi un adolescente. Viajó para estudiar a otra ciudad, donde vive con una familia adoptiva, y quiere ser un buen estudiante para volver a ayudar a sus padres y hermanos. Ya no tiene a su amiga, la planta de naranja lima, pero cuenta con Adán, un sapo que le enseña a cuidar el sol de su corazón. Más importante que el que brilla en el cielo,es el sol de la esperanza, el que calentamos en el pecho para entibiar los sueños....
| Автор | José Mauro de Vasconcelos |
‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces for personal thinking. It reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles. Part one of the book analyses the work of four representative authors: Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot. Part two sets out the results...
| Автор | Kelda Green |
Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, a writer and medical doctor. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in...
| Автор | Артур Конан Дойл |
Ariel, la protagonista, va a tener la oportunidad de ver desde otro ángulo cómo es la vida de las personas que la rodearon durante su estancia en el mundo. Con sus visitas desde el Más Allá, irá descubriendo sus secretos mejor guardados, sus traumas, sus miedos, alegrías y quién es en realidad. Los personajes se van perfilando y cobrando vida ante los ojos del lector gracias a la ecuanimidad y la empatía de la protagonista: «Una tragicomedia que invita a reír por las acciones y ocurrencias de...
| Автор | Marian Cisterna |
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. Fields are becoming overrun by forest, domesticated animals are running wild, roads and towns are becoming overgrown, and the hated London is reverting to lake and poisonous swampland.
| Автор | Richard Jefferies |
Elasphera. Ein Mythos, der Wirklichkeit wird. Die Prophezeiung erfüllt sich. Seit jeher war das Kaiserreich im Osten ein Symbol von Macht. Doch der Kaiser wird älter. Sein Sohn ist nicht zum Regieren geboren, und die Aasgeier des Senats kreisen bereits über das einst so stolze Reich. Elasphera erbebt im Schatten einer drohenden Gefahr. Aus der Asche des Goldenen Kerindai erhebt sich die Schwarze Schlange. Alles verändert sich … "Die Kaiserstadt blühende Metropole 'Heil dem...
| Автор | Jannis Raptis |
Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the British writer Saki, pen name of H. H. Munro. His witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize...
| Автор | August Nemo |
Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the writer Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island,...
| Автор | August Nemo |
"Acción, suspense y grandes dosis de crítica social han convertido a la saga policiaca Más que cuerpos, de Susana Martín Gijón, en un referente de la novela negra española. La oficial Annika Kaunda, adscrita a la comisaría de Mérida, lleva desde 2013 deleitando a los apasionados del género con casos como el tráfico de personas o el atentado contra representantes públicos; tramas secundarias de actualidad como la homofobia y la violencia doméstica, y su vida que, como mujer, africana y...
| Автор | Susana Martín Gijón |
Take a dilapidated castle in the Scottish Highlands; add a peacock gone rogue, a group of bankers on a teambuilding trip, an overwhelmed psychologist, a housekeeper with a broken arm, and an ingenious cook; get Lord and Lady McIntosh to try and keep it all together; and top it off with all sorts of animals – soon no one will know exactly what's going on. Selling 500,000 copies, Isabel Bogdan's book is a big hitter in Germany – and now it's coming home to roost.
| Автор | Isabel Bogdan |
"Vielleicht braucht die Welt keine Helden, vielleicht braucht sie uns." Medusa, eine magisch begabte und unter Schlafentzug leidende Zwanzigjährige, wandert jede Nacht in die Träume anderer Leute. Als sie wiederholt denselben Albtraum miterlebt, erkennt sie, dass mehr hinter diesem stecken muss. Sie beschließt, der Sache nachzugehen, in der Hoffnung, danach endlich wieder ruhig schlafen zu können. Doch muss Medusa bald feststellen, dass eine Welt voller Magie gefährlicher ist, als sie...
| Автор | Johanna T. Hellmich |
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 | RMB |