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Queer Things About Egypt
Queer Things About Egypt – Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen This book is filled with varied information about Egypt. Everything is touched upon—the people, their customs, and manner of writing English, descriptions of scenery, history and social conditions—in the manner of a well informed traveler willing to tell all he knows. 1t is an entertaining book, […]
The Key Of The Mysteries
The Key Of The Mysteries – Eliphas Levi This volume represents the high-water mark of the thought of Eliphas Levi. It may be regarded as written by him as his Thesis for the Grade of Exempt Adept, just as his „Ritual and Dogma“ was his Thesis for the grade of a Major Adept. He is, […]
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume 2: 1886-1910
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume 2: 1886-1910 – Albert Bigelow Paine Mark Twain’s humour has secured him a large audience not only in America and this country, but also in Germany and other Continental countries. It is the dry, incisive humour of a shrewd man of the world who, having gone through life with his […]
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume 1: 1835-1885
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume 1: 1835-1885 – Albert Bigelow Paine Mark Twain’s humour has secured him a large audience not only in America and this country, but also in Germany and other Continental countries. It is the dry, incisive humour of a shrewd man of the world who, having gone through life with his […]
The Essential Short Stories
The Essential Short Stories – Willa Cather Willa Cather surely belongs to America’s most famous authors of the early 20th century. Most of her stories are set in the Great Plains, especially in Nebraska, where she was born and where she lived. This volume is a carefully selected compilation of more than 25 of her […]
One of Ours
One of Ours – Willa Cather „One of Ours“ is the 1922 Pulitzer price winning novel of Willa Cather. Claude Wheeler was „one of ours“ who left his Nebraska farm to fight and die in the Great war. He was an eager, sensitive youth, to whose inarticulate longings life had brought no answer. In the […]
The Great Plains Trilogy
The Great Plains Trilogy – Willa Cather Willa Cather was the 1922 winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her breakthrough in literature were the three novels featured here in this edition, the so-called “Great Plains Trilogy”. All three novels stage in Nebraska and the surrounding Great Plains territory and deal with the life there, family challenges […]
Alexander’s Bridge
Alexander’s Bridge – Willa Cather Alexander’s Bridge is the story of a great engineer who has reached the crisis in his life when success and responsibility have begun to fret and weary a restless, energetic nature inherently impatient of restraint. Alexander tries to shake himself free, to go back to the time when life was […]
A Window in Thrums
A Window in Thrums – James M. Barrie „A Window in Thrums“ is a very curious realistic production, but it cannot rightly be called a novel. It is rather a series of detached pictures taken from the domestic life of a Scotch weaver’s family. There is no continuous narrative. The tableaux as they succeed one […]
When a man’s single
When a man’s single – James M. Barrie The career of a young Scotchman‘ „Rob Angus,“ is the subject of this novel. He is unusually gifted and clever, though born among the working people of a little Scotch village. His literary career is interfered with for awhile from his having to assume the care of […]