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AS the Pyrates in the West-Indies have been so formidable and numerous, that they have interrupted the Trade of Europe into those Parts; and our English Merchants, in particular, have suffered more by their Depredations, than by the united Force of France and Spain, in the late War: We do not doubt...

This little book of poetry and verse sums up the thoughts of the author as he worked his way through the last months of an abusive and violent marriage, and the hope he felt after finally achieving freedom from abuse.

The Transnational publishes poetry and essays from authors from around the world. Texts which are published in the Transnational can dissolve existing boundaries or suggest new ones. They can make us question our beliefs, champion social justice and human rights, war and psychological violence, giving...

Hans-Dieter and Daniela are young people with Down syndrome. They live in a home for the handicapped in Bavaria. The two of them are friends, love each other and want to get married. As a child Hans-Dieter was upset and hurt a lot by his father because he is different from other people. There are so...

Take a photographic journey through 67 of the trickiest English-German false friends you will ever meet. Test your knowledge, expand your vocabulary, expose your mistakes, increase your English skills...

The unique quiz informs playfully about the former Jewish family. They lived from 1926 to 1939 in Freiburg Haslach. Behind it there stand single mother Käthe and their children Fränze und Werner. Only because they were Jews, they were pursued and expelled. Through immediate escaping abroad, they...

The Americans, of all nations at any time upon the earth, have probably the fullest poetical Nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at...

This edition contains 29 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh Medical School. A London-based "consulting detective" whose abilities border on the fantastic,...

Oscar Wilde was a friend of mine for many years: I could not help prizing him to the very end: he was always to me a charming, soul-animating influence. He was dreadfully punished by men utterly his inferiors: ruined, outlawed, persecuted till Death itself came as a deliverance. His sentence impeaches...

The wife of a rich man fell sick, and as she felt that her end was drawing near, she called her only daughter to her bedside and said, “Dear child, be good and pious, and then the good God will always protect thee, and I will look down on thee from heaven and be near thee.” Thereupon she closed her...

The tale with the beautiful illustrations by Carl Offterdinger: Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to the child. Once she gave her a little riding hood of red...

PICTURE PERFECT IMAGES AND FRACTIONS OF MY MIND SIMPLE WORDS OF PASSION IS ALL WHAT I CAN FIND. VISIONS OF THE FUTURE AND GLIMSES IN THE PAST NOTHING MENT TO BE FOREVER NOTHING MADE TO LAST. "Fractions of my mind" is a series of poems based on random thouhgts passing in my mind caught on paper and...

One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than believe in him. But...

Alice in Wonderland tells the well-known story of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a strange world which is populated by very peculiar creatures. The tale plays with logic and absurdity, giving the story lasting popularity.