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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 | A to Z Classics |
This collection gathers together the works by Ambrose Bierce in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! contents – bierce THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY (1906) EPIGRAMS early writings THE FIEND'S DELIGHT (1873) NUGGETS AND DUST (1873) COBWEBS FROM AN EMPTY SKULL (1874) THE DANCE OF DEATH (1877) stories ASHES OF THE BEACON THE LAND BEYOND THE BLOW FOR THE AHKOOND IN THE MIDST OF LIFE—TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS (1898) CAN SUCH THINGS BE? (1893) THE WAYS...
| Автор | Reading Time |
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 | Luigi Pirandello |
With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's...
| Автор | A to Z Classics |
This is the book that began Napoleon Hill's self-help odyssey. Hill queried dozens of people about the keys to their prosperity and organized his findings into 16 principles. Each principle marks a chapter of this book, forming a methodology for employing untapped 'mind-power' that leads to success. Hill was well known for researching what made millionaires different from the common man. The sixteen lessons in this book perfectly crystallize everything you will need to know to...
| Автор | A to Z Classics |
Contents : The Christmas Books: – A Christmas Carol – The Chimes – The Cricket on the Hearth – The Battle of Life – The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain The Christmas Stories: – A Christmas Tree – What Christmas is as we Grow Older – The Poor Relation's Story – The Child's Story – The Schoolboy's Story – Nobody's Story – The Seven Poor Travellers – The Holly-Tree – Wreck of the...
| Автор | A to Z Classics |
Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of biting irony, along...
| Автор | Джейн Остин |
Here you will find the complete novels and novellas of Leo Tolstoy in the chronological order of their original publication. – Childhood – Boyhood – Youth – Family Happiness – The Cossacks – War and Peace – Anna Karenina – The Death of Ivan Ilyich – The Kreutzer Sonata – Resurrection – The Forged Coupon – Hadji Murad
| Автор | Leo Tolstoy |
Contents : The Christmas Books: – A Christmas Carol – The Chimes – The Cricket on the Hearth – The Battle of Life – The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain The Christmas Stories: – A Christmas Tree – What Christmas is as we Grow Older – The Poor Relation's Story – The Child's Story – The Schoolboy's Story – Nobody's Story – The Seven Poor Travellers – The Holly-Tree – Wreck of the...
| Автор | A to Z Classics |
Gurian Hollerbach reist aus dem Jahr 2226 ins heutige Deutschland und lernt das Weihnachtsfest kennen, das es in seiner Welt nicht mehr gibt. Nach anfänglichem Zögern nehmen ihn seine Vorfahren, die vierköpfige Familie Hollerbach, herzlich gerne bei sich auf. Zusammen bereiten sie sich auf den Geburtstag eines Mannes namens Jesus vor. Gurian gewinnt den Eindruck, dass die Feierlichkeiten vor allem aus vielen Ritualen und ungeschriebenen Regeln bestehen. Wann darf man den ersten Lebkuchen...
| Автор | Nadine Luck |
With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. One spring day, the Narrator of The Canterbury Tales rents a room at the Tabard Inn before he recommences his journey to Canterbury. That evening, a group of people arrive at the inn, all of whom are also going to Canterbury to receive the blessings of «the holy blissful martyr,» St. Thomas à Becket. Calling...
| Автор | A to Z Classics |
This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cather,...
| Автор | Эмили Бронте |
discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. From its iconic opening scene, in which Gregor Samsa awakens to find himself transformed into an insect, to its heartbreaking conclusion, Kafka's novella remains a seminal work of magical realism. As Gregor navigates his new world, he begins to question the very meaning of his existence. One of the world's most widely...
| Автор | RMB |
( newly updated TOC ) The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a...
| Автор | Charles W. Eliot |
This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history. Quotes from the book: "Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute." "Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not...
| Автор | Knowledge house |
Dieser Band versammelt sämtliche Texte von Franz Kafka (1883–1924): die zu Lebzeiten erschienenen Erzählungen, die aus dem Nachlass herausgegebenen unvollendeten Romane und Erzählungen sowie die Tagebücher. DRUCKE Betrachtung (1913): Kinder auf der Landstraße, Entlarvung eines Bauernfängers, Der plötzliche Spaziergang, Entschlüsse, Der Ausflug ins Gebirge, Das Unglück des Junggesellen, Der Kaufmann, Zerstreutes Hinausschaun, Der Nachhauseweg, Die Vorüberlaufenden, Der Fahrgast, Kleider, Die...
| Автор | Knowledge house |
Nach einer behüteten Kindheit heiratet die 17jährige Effi, dem Willen ihrer Eltern entsprechend, den fast 20 Jahre älteren Baron von Innstetten, ein Jugendfreund ihrer Mutter, dem sie nach Kessin, einem kleinen Ort an der Ostsee folgt. In dem etwas unheimlich anmutenden Haus des Barons vereinsamt die junge, phantasievolle und lebhafte Effi, der es schwerfällt, in ihrer neuen Heimat Anschluß zu finden. Auch die Geburt ihrer Tochter kann sie nicht über ihre innere Vereinsamung hinwegtäuschen. Viel...
| Автор | Knowledge house |
Es war eine wundervolle Nacht, eine solche Nacht, wie sie vielleicht nur vorkommen kann, wenn wir jung sind, lieber Leser." – In dieser Nacht treffen in Petersburg zwei einsame Gestalten aufeinander: der Erzähler, ein «halbkranker Städter» und zugleich lebensfremder Träumer, und die junge, naive Nastenka, die verzweifelt die Rückkehr ihres Geliebten erwartet. Aus der zufälligen Begegnung entwickelt sich eine freundschaftlich-liebevolle Zuneigung. In vier Nächten nehmen sie Zuflucht zu intensiven...
| Автор | RMB |
Als Nicolas Eichborn, seines Zeichens Sicherheitsberater des deutschen Bundeskanzlers, erfährt, dass Terroristen an einem Sprengsatz mit katastrophalem Zerstörungspotenzial arbeiten, geht er der Sache zunächst nur halbherzig nach. Schließlich fahndet er noch immer nach den Drahtziehern hinter dem kürzlich vereitelten Sturz der Bundesrepublik. Doch dann geschehen die ersten Morde – und Eichborn kommt ein ungeheuerlicher Verdacht: Sind all diese Verbrechen miteinander verknüpft? Und wie tief ist...
| Автор | V. S. Gerling |
Contemplaciones refiere a un estado de concentración e inspiración, de existencia consciente de la vitalidad al respirar aire puro para sentir los latidos del buen corazón, templar el alma y conectarse con los sueños personales, donde la atmósfera es consecuencia de un escenario de iluminación. Lo que propicia estas meditaciones es un parque estilo japonés y los atardeceres de La Serena desde el umbral de la autora. La influencia del espíritu en el jardín del corazón, la contemplación del...
| Автор | Stella Maris |
Trafalgar is the historical novel of the Battle of Trafalgar. The action is narrated in the first person by Gabriel de Araceli, a heroic character, mixing his romantic and often folkloric biography. Gabriel is presented as a rogue orphan from Cádiz, who at the age of 14 gets involved in the battle of Trafalgar as a servant of an old Navy officer in the reserve. The action takes place in October 1805 and narrates with a certain epic rhythm, the preparations, development and outcome of the battle,...
| Автор | Benito Pérez Galdós |
Keiner hätte ihr das zugetraut! Luzie Linders, frischgebackene Erbin des ehemals führenden Luxushotels in der Megametropole London, hat es geschafft, das altehrwürdige Eden Palace aus dem Dornröschenschlaf zu erwecken. Das Hotel erstrahlt in neuem Glanz und steht direkt vor seiner Feuerprobe: Eine Traumhochzeit soll in den besten Räumlichkeiten stattfinden. Die prominentesten Gäste des Boulevards haben sich angesagt, und die Paparazzi stehen Schlange. Luzie weiß: Ein Misserfolg der Veranstaltung...
| Автор | Leah Konstantin |
"Uno de los mejores libros del año", Chicago Tribune y The Guardian Mejor Primera Novela, CrimeReads Finalista del Premio Edgar a la Mejor Primera Novela Bobby Saraceno tiene un padre afroamericano a quien nunca conoció y una madre blanca que, por momentos, desearía no conocer. Criado por un abuelo racista e intolerante decide ocultarle la verdad de su familia a todos. Es el año 1995 y en la ciudad de Pittsburgh a sus veintidós años Bobby se hace pasar por blanco. Aaron es su mejor amigo y...
| Автор | John Vercher |
"Uno de los mejores libros del año", Chicago Tribune y The Guardian Mejor Primera Novela, CrimeReads Finalista del Premio Edgar a la Mejor Primera Novela Bobby Saraceno tiene un padre afroamericano a quien nunca conoció y una madre blanca que, por momentos, desearía no conocer. Criado por un abuelo racista e intolerante decide ocultarle la verdad de su familia a todos. Es el año 1995 y en la ciudad de Pittsburgh a sus veintidós años Bobby se hace pasar por blanco. Aaron es su mejor amigo y...
| Автор | John Vercher |