In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dream of their lives. First published in book form in 1915, the Anthology was the crowning achievement of Masters' career as a poet, and a work that would become a landmark of 20th-century American literature. In these pages, no less than 214...
"Square Deal Sanderson" by Charles Alden Seltzer. 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 are user-friendly and...
"State of the Union Addresses" by Andrew Johnson. 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 are user-friendly and...
"State of the Union Addresses" by Andrew Jackson. 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 are user-friendly and...
"State of the Union Addresses" by George Bush. 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 are user-friendly and...
"State of the Union Addresses" by George W. Bush. 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 are user-friendly and...
"Stella Maris" by William John Locke. 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 are user-friendly and accessible to...
While dining in one of glamorous Brussel hotels, a well known writer of detective novels, Georgia Yeo, meets charming and rich Count. She gets intrigued with this mysterious character and it will come back to haunt her. Under false pretenses she is invited to the estate on his private island, and over there the hank unfolds and strange things start happening. Ethel Lina White (1876-1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins, on which the Alfred Hitchcock film,...
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. Sternstunden der Menschheit präsentiert vierzehn novellenartig aufgebaute historische Begebenheiten, deren Auswirkungen die Geschichte der Menschheit verändert haben. Zweig schreibt im Vorwort: «Solche dramatisch geballten, solche schicksalsträchtigen Stunden, in denen eine zeitüberdauernde...
"Immer müssen Millionen müßige Weltstunden verrinnen, ehe eine wahrhaft historische, eine Sternstunde der Menschheit, in Erscheinung tritt." Vierzehn solcher «schicksalsträchtiger Stunden» beschreibt Zweigs wohl bedeutendstes Werk. In unterschiedlichster Form, als dramatische Szene, Bericht oder Gedicht, versammeln sich hier in beeindruckenden Einzelporträts Abenteurer und Forscher wie Robert Scott, Dichter wie Goethe und Tolstoi, Komponisten wie Händel oder Personen der Zeitgeschichte wie...