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"Little Lord Fauntleroy" is the first children's novel written by English playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was originally published as a serial in the «St. Nicholas Mag…

Gianluca Delfino’s study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris’s works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author’s complex imagination. As a valuable contributi…

"In the wake of the fear that gripped Europe after the fall of Constantinople (1453), the English dramatists joined most continental artists (literary and visual) in representing the Ottoman…

Книга о философском потенциале творчества Пришвина, в основе которого – его дневники, создавалась по-пришвински, то есть отчасти в жанре дневника с характерной для него фрагментарной афористическ…

In a collection of sixteen essays, Gagiano addresses more than twenty texts from various African regions and periods. The works discussed here range from transcriptions of ancient (Khoikhoi/San) …

An honest and soul-searching account of a daughter's journey with her dad and his final years with dementia; the highs, lows, laughter and tears. The book also offers practical tips, a self-…

"All was quiet at the Marvin ranch-house by the British Columbian lake, and across the shining water a tranquil sunset glimmered on the snow. The head of the lake was narrow, and for a space…

Ronald Wilfred Jansen visited Anne Frank's home addresses in Frankfurt am Main, Aachen and Amsterdam; her hiding place the Secret Annex; and the Westerbork, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Bel…

"The Prince" (Italian: «Il Principe») is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have b…

"He wondered what Mrs. Welland would have said if he had uttered the words instead of merely thinking them. He could picture the sudden decomposure of her firm placid features, to which a li…

Eine Sammlung von Gedichten der zeitgenössischen Dichterin aus Uganda, Carolyne Afroetry MA, in der deutschen Übersetzung von Milena Rampoldi von ProMosaik Die Themen sind Frau, Liebe, Konflikt u…

"Frank Reade Jr.'s Submarine Boat; or, to the North Pole Under the Ice" is a 1902 story published by American dime novel writer Luis Philip Senarens (1863–1939) using the pseudonym Nona…

American author Jim Kjelgaard (1910-1959, full name: James Arthur Kjelgaard) wrote «The Story of Geronimo» in 1958 as a biography for teenagers of the Apache leader Geronimo (1829-1909), but usin…

At 15, Alice's period has not yet arrived. She feels like she will never be a woman. Her friends stuff her bra with cotton balls, her mother forces her to wear improbable outfits to look mor…

Sensual Classics Edition <br/> presents <br/> The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival, The Belle of the Delaware by Kate Percival (Herself) <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <…

This is Book 6 of the series «The Chronological Sherlock Holmes». <br/> &quot;The Return of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by A…

The destiny of this time targeted Mr Williams Barnett. The name of the dark jungle came to the ear of the ancient village of Mr William Barnett. He was a loving man who was in loved and circulate…

&quot;Inside the Whale and Other Essays" is a collection of 9 essays by George Orwell. <br/> Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an Englis…

The [i]fourth edition[/i] of this essential Middle English textbook introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. Beginning with an extensive overv…

In Philadelphia (USA) a club of amateur aircraftmen meets and discusses the construction of a steerable airship, when suddenly a stranger named Robur appears and claims to already own such an air…