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Heinrich Theodor Fontane (* 30. Dezember 1819 in Neuruppin; † 20. September 1898 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Fontane gilt als der herausragende Vertreter des poetischen Realismus in Deutschland. In seinen Romanen, die großenteils erst nach seinem 60. Lebensjahr entstanden, charakterisiert...

Bei seinen Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg kam Fontane 1862 die Idee zu seinem Stoff, damals noch unter dem Arbeitstitel Lewin von Vitzewitz. Er unterbrach die Arbeiten daran 1863, um erst 1876 einen neuen Anlauf zu unternehmen. Der Roman erschien ab dem 5. Januar 1878 als 36-teiliger Vorabdruck...

Jenseit des Tweed ist ein Reisebericht von Theodor Fontane. Er wurde 1860 erstmals veröffentlicht. Jenseit des Tweed handelt von einer Reise nach Schottland, die Fontane mit seinem Freund, dem Schriftsteller Bernhard von Lepel, im Sommer 1858 unternahm. (aus wikipedia.de)

Love is the only healing and supporting power. Hearts will open up to healing, as long as we have our angels guiding us. Life is full of situations which ask us to go other ways. While doing this we get in touch with our angels through our hearts. The angels' messages show us how to turn towards fond changes in life. From my deepest heart, Your Veronika Broszinski Medium and medial healer

Here, a commissioner is working with the new department on a case that has a lot of tact and psychology. Commissar Dare works the way that every day and every night offers a chance to solve his case in the style you can muster. A woman had made a Noah's Ark, which soon afterwards was her ruin and...

This edition contains 71 short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers...

Meisterwerke von Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Clemens Brentano, Adelbert von Chamisso, Joseph von Eichendorff, Ludwig Uhland, Friedrich Rückert, Gustav Schwab, August von Platen, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Nikolaus Lenau, Eduard Mörike, Friedrich Hebbel, Ferdinand...

This is a fascinating autobiographical story about a Finnish woman’s life in Egypt where she got pregnant and gave birth to a new life with a Bedouin man. The author says Finland and Egypt are like night and day. There is nothing similar with them. “The village was called Arab Abou Tamma. If I understood...

Carle our most noble Emperor and King, Hath tarried now full seven years in Spain, Conqu'ring the highland regions to the sea; No fortress stands before him unsubdued, Nor wall, nor city left, to be destroyed, Save Sarraguce, high on a mountain set. There rules the King Marsile who loves not God, Apollo worships and Mohammed serves; Nor can he from his evil doom escape. Aoi.

The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 that recounts his experiences while overseeing the construction of a railroad bridge in what would become Kenya. It is titled after a pair of lions which killed his workers, and which he eventually killed. Following the death...

Voici un livre qui retrace le cheminement poétique, complexe et profond, d’un grand poète de notre temps. Hédi Bouraoui nous livre ici ses réflexions sur le genre poétique en ses diverses formes (du prosème au narratoème) tout en s’appuyant sur une panoplie de stratégies qui lui sont propres....

Collection of my first poems combined with some underwater pictures...a book which was never planned or even dreamed of...it just happened... and I embrace it... Sammlung von meinen ersten Gedichten, zusammengestellt mit einigen Unterwasser-Fotos. Dieses Buch war nie geplant oder erträumt...es kam einfach......

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus ist ein Roman, der die Geschichte von Victor Frankenstein erzählt,...

Guido [Taking a letter from his pocket and reading it.] "The hour noon; the city, Padua; the place, the market; and the day, Saint Philip's Day." Ascanio And what of the man, how shall we know him? Guido [reading still] "I will wear a violet cloak with a silver falcon broidered on the...