Victor: 3403 books

Victor Auburtin (* 5. September 1870 in Berlin; † 28. Juni 1928 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen) war ein deutscher Journalist und Schriftsteller. Auburtins journalistische und literarische Arbeiten bewegen sich zwischen der Literatur der Jahrhundertwende und der klassischen Modernen gleichermaßen wie...

Der Titel ist Programm: Victor Auburtin erzählt phantastische Geschichten, bunt und schillernd wie eine Pfauenfeder. Sie spielen in fernen Zeiten und an entlegenen Orten, gelegentlich aber auch im Café nebenan. In seinem leichten, elegant-ironischen Stil liefert er kurzweilige Einblicke in die Geschichte und in die menschliche Seele.

Vollständige Überarbeitung der ersten Übersetzung von 1910 Victor Hugo beendete dieses Meisterwerk, das zu den wichtigsten Werken der französischen Literatur gehört, im Jahre 1862, als er im Exil weilte. Es schildert das bedrückende Dasein der Unterschicht, der Elenden, der Verzweifelten, der...

What was it like to pioneer in a new world? Travel the continent in covered wagons? Explore the wilds until you found that place where generations would call home? In this autobiographical account of pioneering in Canada in the late 1800's, British journalist Victor H. Ricci invites reader to join...

This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose and enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then scrutinize three extended paragraphs, suggesting with remarkable specificity how to improve them. The volume...

EXTRAIT: Les événements de Février trouvent des chroniqueurs à foison. Il y a eu des héros partout, des vainqueurs à tous les carrefours. Les cancans du National et de la Réforme servent de thème aux plus fabuleux...

The Harvard Classics - Shelf of Fiction represents a specific selection of the greatest novels, novellas and short stories of seven national literatures, namely: English, American, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Scandinavian. Table of Contents: Vols. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones by Henry...

Victor LaValle has already established himself as “one of the most eloquent voices of the approaching century” (Kirkus Reviews), a writer of darkly humorous tales full of haunting beauty, astonishing leaps of imagination, and language that “crackles and hums” (Chicago Tribune). The Ecstatic...

Daydreaming the Idyll, the first collection of poems by Ryan Victor is a book about love, despair, imagery and chaos. The poet uses a wide range of subjects to express his feelings and convey his perspective across to the reader. The tone and lyric of his poems varies considerably as they have been...

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, all art is surface and subtext, and the artist dives beneath at his own peril. Mark Wright is a moderately successful artist, yet he understands what it is like to lose himself in his art, to go too deep, to cut to the bone and all the way to the cancerous growth of an artist's...

Deep inside there is a struggle to sort through the good and bad. Discover the unrealized power of hope that every good creature speaks to you. Something more than life and death remain, these true stories are healing parables that point to how you have always needed to live.

The pulp magazines of the early to mid 20th Century are often "politically incorrect" by modern standards. However, the "Spicy" magazines -- Spicy-Adventure Stories, Spicy Mystery, Spicy Western, etc. -- were politically incorrect by their own contemporary standards as well. With...

George Walburn has found no comfort beneath fate's umbrella. His life has been one of being gut-kicked and back-stabbed, and the only thing that he anticipates with any eagerness is death. But whatever gods there might be will not be denied their fun. The old voodoo witch doctor, Unk Maum, had told...

In 1838 Hugo began a play entitled Les Jumeaux (The Twins), but halfway through the third act he relinquished it, and the drama remained unfinished. It was finally published in 1889, as a fragment, after his death. The MS. was broken off with the words, "Interrompu le 28 Aout par la maladie ";...