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The Firm of Girdlestone

Publiziert am 10. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Firm of Girdlestone – Arthur Conan Doyle

“The Firm of Girdlestone” dealt in ivory, gums, ebony, gold-dust and other African products. Its two members, father and son, were cold-hearted, hard-headed scoundrels, who over-insured their ships and indulged in other fraudulent practices. The elder Girdlestone becomes guardian of a young heiress whose money reverts to her guardian in case of her death. The plotting of father and son to obtain this fortune and save the firm from bankruptcy makes up the story, the scene of which is principally in England.

The Firm of Girdlestone

The Firm of Girdlestone

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The Firm of Girdlestone.

ISBN: 9783849690809

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Micah Clarke

Publiziert am 10. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Micah Clarke – Arthur Conan Doyle

“Micah Clarke,” like Mr. Blackmore’s “Lorna Doone,” is a tale of the last romantic rebellion with a base in England—the futile attempt of Monmouth. The big Porthos-like hero is, in some ways, akin to John Ridd; but he occupies, as regards politics and religion, the juste milieu that Sir Walter favored when he wrote history, and assigned to such romantic heroes of his own as Henry Morton, and even Roland Graeme. Though “a simple-hearted unlettered yeoman,” Micah Clarke is really wise with the wisdom of the later Victorian time, and, in one remark, speaks as if he had read Mr. Herbert Spencer with approval, so far as the problems of religion are concerned.

Micah Clarke

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A Study in Scarlet

Publiziert am 10. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle

Even today, Mr. Doyle’s stories create such a sensation all over the world that he now ranks among the best English novelists. This novel marks the first appearance ever of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and shows the marvellous imagination which enables him to invent a seemingly insoluble mystery and then to clearly unravel it. 

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet

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A Study in Scarlet.

ISBN: 9783849690946

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A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

Publiziert am 7. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse – Vicente Blasco Ibanez

Many authors have seen the Great War through the eyes of their own country. Senor Ibanez seems to see it through eyes that are world-wide in their sweep and with a mind that is very human and pitiful in its comprehension of the suffering and the heroism. ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ is a great novel, one of the three of four outstanding novels of the war. It is rich and varied in scene, human in its characterizations, interesting throughout, and, above all, refreshingly straightforward and conclusive on the subject of the Germans and their methods of warfare.

The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

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Jane Austen – Woman of Letters

Publiziert am 4. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Jane Austen – Francis W. Cornish

Mr. Francis Warre Cornish has devoted most of his chapters to a running comment on the novels. His criticism of the characters is shrewd and has the pleasant flavor of talk about people with whom one is intimately acquainted. He also excels in analyzing the plots and in reproducing the atmosphere of the country life which surrounded Jane Austen.

Jane Austen - Woman of Letters

Jane Austen – Woman of Letters

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Jane Austen – Woman of Letters.

ISBN: 9783849692377

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Jane Austen

Publiziert am 4. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Jane Austen – Oscar W. Firkins

A biography worth reading. The author has looked at Miss Austen more through his own eyes, and less through the eyes of her many illustrious eulogists, than any other writer we know of. Even when he is in harmony with the opinions of Miss Austen’s posterity one feels his first-handedness. Not one of his more heretical opinions exists for the sake of saying something new. This critical study of Jane Austen falls into three parts: the novelist; the realist; the woman. Part 1 is a searching and unsparing analysis of the six novels, with particular reterence to plot. Part 2 is a more brief and general treatment of the characters. Part 3, the biographical … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Twilight

Publiziert am 3. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Twilight – Julia Frankau

Not perhaps since Henry James gave us the inimitable “Daisy Miller” has modern fiction presented the character of a woman so sensitive, so innately innocent in her faults and weaknesses, so inevitably tragic in her fate, as the heroine of this book, Margaret Capel. The story develops in this fashion: A talented woman writer, who is ill and under the influence of morphia, goes to a nursing home where a gifted girl has lived and died. For a year she lives in this home attended by the same physician who had treated the girl. In the “twilight” world, under the influence of drugs, she sees the phantom of the girl, and with the aid of a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Glinda of Oz

Publiziert am 1. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Glinda of Oz – L. Frank Baum

This is the story of the adventures of Ozma and Dorothy when they set out to prevent a war between the Flatheads (who, for lack of a cranium, carry their brains in a can) and the Skeezers, whose island home can be submerged by their Queen. The two girls find themselves imprisoned below the lake and must be rescued with the help of Glinda the Good. Glinda of Oz was unfinished at the time of Baum’s death in May, 1919, and it was completed by one of his sons.

Glinda of Oz

Glinda of Oz

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Glinda of Oz.

ISBN: 9783849692148

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The Magic of Oz

Publiziert am 1. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Magic of Oz – L. Frank Baum

This is the thirteenth book in the Oz series. Trot and Cap’n Bill set out to search for a wonderful Magic Flower in a golden pot as a birthday present for Ozma. In the meantime, the Nome King attempts to raise an army of beasts to conquer the people of Oz. His fellow conspirator is a boy named Kiki. Transformations are the order of the day in this story, because Kiki knows the magic transformation word, and isn’t in the least restrained about using it. Properly enunciated the word PYRZQXGL can bring about any desired transformation—and a good deal of mischief. But all ends well when Ozma uses her Fountain of Oblivion … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Tin Woodman of Oz

Publiziert am 1. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Tin Woodman of Oz – L. Frank Baum

This is the twelfth book of the Oz series. Many years ago, before he had become a tin man, Nick Chopper was engaged to a lovely Munchkin girl named Nimmie Amee. He no longer loves her because when his limbs were replaced with tin, his body had no heart, and even the red silk one given to him by the Wizard did not succeed in reviving this love. But now the Woodman decides to find the girl, marry her and bring her home as Empress of the Winkies. He sets out with his friend the Scarecrow and Woot the Wanderer. On the way they meet another tin man, also a product … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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