Daniel Zimmermann: 83 books

Henry James is represented by Sir Edmund Orne, The Turn of the Screw, and Owen Wingate. Washington Irving is represented by “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” ”Rip Van Winkle,” “The Student of Salamanca,” “The Devil and Tom Walker,” “The Spectre Bridegroom,” “Philip of Pokanoket,”...

After an introductory poem, this e-book presents the following facets of love: the dawn of love, love’s blessed consummation, faithful love, frantic love, hopeless love, unwelcome love, and anomalous love. The poetry is characterized by beautiful language and daring originality. Two of the poems...

This e-book takes you to Latin America, Europe, heaven, and hell. In Guatemala, you will enjoy an ode to Lake Atitlán. In Belize, Placencia will be poetically described. Among the Mayans, you will learn how they viewed the ceiba. In Mexico, you will enjoy an interesting Tepehuan legend. Moving to...

Twenty years elapsed before Odysseus returned from the Trojan War. He lost his entire fleet and suffered many woes. Everyone thought he was dead, and a host of suitors barged into the house of Odysseus and demanded that his wife Penelope marry one of them.When Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, was...

This e-book offers the plots of the seven voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, plus experiences of the disguised Caliph Harun ar-Rashid. Other stories treated are "Jullanar of the Sea," "Nur-ed-Din and Enis-el-Jelis," and stories concerning a fisherman and a humpback.

O. Henry specialized in surprise endings. In “Makes the Whole World Kin,” a burglar enters a house, but after conversing with the owner, decided to buy him a drink instead of robbing him. In “Squaring the Circle,” an unusual chain of events reconciles a man to his enemy. “The Unfinished...

This e-book treats eleven Father Brown mysteries, including "The Hammer of God," "The Blue Cross," "The Three Tools of Death," "The Wrong Shape," "The Secret Garden," etc. Father Brown is a clever priest who understands criminals and is adept at solving...

The Legend of Quaoar creates an antediluvian cult that worshiped a god named Quaoar. In other stories, two juvenile enemies forgive each other and become friends; St. Paul is tried before Nero and acquitted; a professor discovers the tree of life; a warlord named Eblis suffers destruction when Christ...

The ultimate goal of Dante’s travels is heaven. However, the first step of his journey is a passage through hell, which, according to Medieval ideas, is located within the earth. The Roman poet Virgil serves as his guide. He witnesses the punishment of those impenitent sinners who committed such...

This e-book contains the best poems that I have written on a specific subject, namely, the natural world. Some treat the natural world directly; in others, the imagery is taken from the natural world.. The work begins with a prelude that reveals the nature of the work. This is followed by three poems...

This e-book gives a brief summary of "Paradise Lost," followed by detailed summaries of each of its ten books. The epic begins with Satan's plot to destroy the innocence of God's newly created world. He escapes from hell and crosses the realm of Chaos. When he comes to the Garden of Eden,...

This e-book treats the fish order Percopsiformes. It contains three families and four genera. Their common names are trout fish, sand rollers, pirate fish and cave fish. While philosophical comments are minimal in this e-book, prospective buyers are advised that the author believes that God created this creatures, and this is occasionally reflected in its contents.

This e-book offers historical facts concerning the Mitanni, the city of Mari, the ancient Olympic games, and Cyrus the Great of Persia. It also treats the Gilgamesh Epic, the odes of Horace,"Theogony" and "Works and Days" of Hesiod, material from Greek mythology as presented by...

This e-book treats the satellites of Neptune. Considerable space is devoted to the physical features on Triton and the meaning of their names. Treated are its craters, its catenae, its cavi, its dorsa, its fossae, its regiones, its sulci, its planitia, its plana, its paterae, its maculae, and its plumes. An article is devoted to its rings.