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Cover of The Young Fur Traders
by Robert Michael Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Follows the adventures of a young man called Charles Kennedy. Loosely autobiographical account of Ballantyne's own time with the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada. Its success prompted a series of excellent stories of adventure for the young with which this prolific Scottish author's name is popularly...
Cover of Jarwin and Cuffy
by Robert Michael Ballantyne
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015

Excerpt: "In all the wide expanse of ocean that surrounded that island, there was nothing visible save one small, solitary speck on the far-off horizon. It might have been mistaken for a seagull, but it was in reality a raft—a mass of spars and planks rudely bound together with ropes. A boat’s...
Cover of Juvenilia – Volume I
by Jane Austen
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015

Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the "Juvenilia," containing pieces originally written between...
Cover of Odissea
by Homer
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2015

L'Odissea e uno dei due grandi poemi epici greci attribuiti all'opera del poeta Omero. L'opera, insieme all'Iliade, viene composta nella Ionia d'Asia intorno al IX secolo a.C., anche se alcuni autori pensano che sia nata intorno al 720 a.C. L'originale piu antico dell'opera risale alla fine dell'VIII...
Cover of The Four Days' Night
by Fred Merrick White
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Another in the "Doom of London" series, in which the author sounds a clarion call of potential disasters that may fall upon the great city. Here he relates a tale of air pollution. Excerpt: They crawled along through the black suffocating darkness, feeble, languid, and sweating at...
Cover of The Nightingale and the Rose
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015

A nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the white roses tell her that there's a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale...
Cover of A Texas Matchmaker
by Andy Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature.
Cover of Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
by Edward Bellamy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Dr. Heidenhoff has the perfect solution for unwanted memories.
Cover of Christian Gellert's Last Christmas
by Berthold Auerbach
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015

A Christmas short-story extracted from "German Tales".
Cover of Der zerbrochne Krug
by Heinrich von Kleist
Language: German
Release Date: August 5, 2016

Heinrich von Kleist Niemiecki pisarz epoki romantyzmu. Pochodził ze szlacheckiej rodziny. W 1792 r. wstąpił do armii pruskiej i jako oficer brał udział w walkach z Francuzami. Doszedł do stopnia podporucznika, a w 1799 r. zrezygnował z kariery wojskowej i rozpoczął studia we Frankfurcie...
Cover of Die Kreutzersonate
by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Language: German
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Posdnyschew, Mörder seiner Frau, frühzeitig ergraut, mit blitzenden Augen und nervösem Gebaren, hört auf einer längeren Zugfahrt, wie die Reisenden über Liebe als Grundbedingung für eine glückliche Ehe diskutieren – eine Ansicht, die vor allem von einer nicht mehr jungen, häßlichen, rauchenden...
Cover of Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?
by Immanuel Kant
Language: German
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung? ist ein Essay, der 1784 von dem Philosophen Immanuel Kant geschrieben wurde. Kant lieferte in diesem Aufsatz seine Definition der Aufklärung.
Cover of Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten
by Immanuel Kant
Language: German
Release Date: June 29, 2015

Die Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten ist ein Buch von Immanuel Kant, das im Jahr 1785 erschien. Es ist die erste grundlegende Schrift Kants zur Ethik, die er im schon recht hohen Alter von 61 Jahren veröffentlichte. Kants eigentliche Schrift zur Ethik ist die Kritik der praktischen Vernunft....
Cover of Vater Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
Language: German
Release Date: June 17, 2015

Balzacs Roman Le Père Goriot thematisiert an einem praktisch alle Sozialschichten umfassenden Personenensemble sowohl den gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg als auch dessen Niederungen und Abgründe im Kontext der Restauration des beginnenden 19. Jahrhunderts. Balzac gewährt am Beispiel des früheren Nudelfabrikanten...
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