Daniel Zimmermann: 83 books

This e-book gives a fairly detailed summary of the contents of "Paradise" of "The Divine Comedy." This study is based on the original Italian of Dante. It is an excellent introduction to Dante's epic.

This e-book treats the following legends of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer: The Green Eyes, The Kiss, El Miserere, The Cross of the Devil, The Moonbeam, The White Roe Deer, The Promise, and four more. They contain all the essentials of the plots. For those who have not yet read Becquer's work, this e-book...

The e-book treats "Torquato Tasso" by Goethe, "Minna von Barnhelm" by Lessing, "Viola Tricolor" by Theodor Storm, "Der Mann im Salz" by Ganghofer, "Der goldene Topf" and other tales by ETA Hoffmann, "Richilde" and other tales by Musaeus,...

This e-book retells three works of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, a Spanish dramatist who lived in the seventeenth century: Life Is a Dream, The Purgatory of Saint Patrick, and The Wonder-Working magician. The first tells of a king who imprisons his son because of a disturbing astrological prediction...

This e-book treats “The War of the Worlds,” “The Time Machine,” “The Invisible Man,” and six other stories. “The Isle of Doctor Moreau” concerns a doctor who operated on animals to give them the power to speak and other human qualities. “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham” centers...

This e-book treats the following stories: Lost Hearts, Mezzotint, The Ash Tree, Number 13, Count Magnus, A School Story, and three others. They present all the essentials of the plot. For those who have not yet read M. R. James, this e-book is an excellent introduction. For those acquainted with this author, this e-book is an excellent review.

Most of these delightful poems are lyric in character. There are imaginative love poems, such as, The Cosmic Courtship, and I Walked in Paradise Today.” Others imaginatively portray natural phenomena, such as The Harvest Moon. Histrory is portrayed in such poems as Gluck’s Chivalrous Deed. While...

This e-book deals with a collection of Longfellow’s poems entitled “Birds of Passage: Flight the Fourth.” The collection contains eight poems. The first deals with the U..S. Senator Charles Sumner, who was Longfellow’s friend. In the second, Longfellow travels, not with his feet, but by reading...

This edition treats “Lady of the Lake” by Sir Walter Scott plus “King Lear” and “Othello” by Shakespeare. Other Shakespearean plays treated are “Macbeth,” “Hamlet,” “As You Like It,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Julius Caesar,” “Twelfth Night,” and “Coriolanus.”...

Three additional tales are treated in this edition: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, The Fairies by Charles Perrault, and a story about three ridiculous wishes, also by Perrault. Also treated are three tales by Anatole France: The Crainquebille Affair, Tbe Miracle of the Great Saint Nicholas,...

This e-book contains Christian poetry, romantic poetry, poems of conjugal love, poetic legends, Chinese themes, Sanskrit themes, historical poems, Christmas poems, Easter poems, Reformation Day poems, poetic jokes, etc. The poems are characterized by originality and imagination. Most have regular rhyme and meter.

This e-book treats the poems in Longfellow’s collection entitled “Voices of the Night,” including “The Psalm of Life.” Also treated is his “Book of Sonnets,” including his tribute to his friends Charles Sumner, Louis Agassiz, and Cornelius Felton and his justly famous “The Cross of...

This e-book contains twenty-two reviews. Each gives the essentials of the plot of a Sherlock Holmes mystery. Penetrating critical comments are offered. The following popular stories are among those that are treated: “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” and...

This e-book is an excellent introduction to the works of Saki. This second edition treats considerably more stories than the first edition. Included are The Interlopers, Dusk, The She-Wolf, The Hounds of Fate, The Wolves of Cernogratz, The Square Egg, The Lost Soul, Reginald, The Mouse, A Matter of...