Archiv der Kategorie: Classics of Fiction (English)

Around The World In Eighty Days

Publiziert am 4. Mai 2018 von Jazzybee

Around The World In Eighty Days – Jules Verne

Phileas Fogg, a respectable English gentleman of phlegmatic temperament and methodical habits, maintains, during a discussion at his club in London, that a man can travel around the world in eighty days; and to prove it, he makes a wager of half his fortune that he can do it himself in that time. The bet is accepted, and he starts the same night, taking his French servant Passepartout with him. He wins his wager, after a series of adventures in which nature, man, accident, and the novelist combine to defeat him, but are all baffled by his unfailing resource, iron will, invincible coolness, and Napoleonic readiness to sacrifice everything else to … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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American Fairy Tales

Publiziert am 3. Mai 2018 von Jazzybee

American Fairy Tales – L. Frank Baum

This is a collection of twelve short stories, or as Baum put it “modern tales about modern fairies”. The book includes the following stories:

The Box Of Robbers
The Glass Dog
The Queen Of Quok
The Girl Who Owned A Bear
The Enchanted Types
The Laughing Hippopotamus
The Magic Bon Bons
The Capture Of Father Time
The Wonderful Pump
The Dummy That Lived
The King Of The Polar Bears
The Mandarin And The Butterfly

American Fairy Tales

American Fairy Tales

Format: Paperback.

American Fairy Tales .

ISBN: 9783849672331.

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Biography of Lyman Frank Baum (from Wikipedia):

Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known as L. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Life Of George Washington Volume 5

Publiziert am 1. Mai 2018 von Jazzybee

The Life Of George Washington Volume 5 – Washington Irving

“The Life Of George Washington” is a monumental work on the life of one of the most famous American presidents. Originally published in five volumes between 1853 and 1859, it is a treasure chest of information on Washington and the Civil War. This work is presumeably the most intimate and fascinating biography of a man who worked his way from an Army commander to the first President of the United States. This is volume five out of five.

The Life Of George Washington Volume 5

The Life Of George Washington Volume 5

Format: Paperback.

The Life Of George Washington Volume 5.

ISBN: 9783849672317.

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Biography of George Washington (from Wikipedia):

George … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sleeper Awakes

Publiziert am 26. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The Sleeper Awakes – H. G. Wells

It is certainly an easy assumption to make that the readers of H. G. Wells’ novel, “The Sleeper Awakes,” will agree that it is a truly wonderful production. Mr. Wells has devoted himself strictly to the weird and fantastic, and with great success in every case. This book is of the same character, but it is told so vividly, it is wrought out with such life-like detail, that the reader forgets that the book is only the product of a novelist’s fancy, and lives for the time intent on the strange scenes and customs and peoples of London in 2100. “When the Sleeper Wakes” is a story of the future. Its plot is … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The House Of The Seven Gables

Publiziert am 25. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The House Of The Seven Gables – Nathanie Hawthorne

This book, which the author himself preferred to his previous novel, is of quieter tone than “The Scarlet Letter.” It is more minutely elaborated, and its pathos depends more on the peculiar temperaments of its characters. The scene is laid in Salem, and the house, which much effort has been made to identify, corresponds in many points to an old dwelling formerly standing there, known as the Curwen House, and sometimes called “the old witch-house.” Some points in the story corresponding to the history of the Hawthornes were noted in the beginning of this sketch. The character of Clifford and the problem of his strange destiny, the mockery of fate, which, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Story of Joan of Arc

Publiziert am 13. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The Story of Joan of Arc – Andrew Lang

Joan of Arc was perhaps the most wonderful person who ever lived in the world. The story of her life is so strange that we could scarcely believe it to be true, if all that happened to her had not been told by people in a court of law, and written down by her deadly enemies, while she was still alive. She was burned to death when she was only nineteen: she was not seventeen when she first led the armies of France to victory, and delivered her country from the English.

The Story of Joan of Arc

The Story of Joan of Arc

Format: Paperback.

The Story of Joan of Arc.

ISBN: 9783849672539.

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The Olive Fairy Book

Publiziert am 13. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The Olive Fairy Book – Andrew Lang

The tales in this book are derived from various sources from india, France, Turkey, Armenia, and Denmark. They are as fascinating as those in Lang’s other fairytale books and are sure to enthral any child who may possess it, and many persons of more discreet years.

From the Contents:

Madschun
The Blue Parrot
Geirlaug
The King’s Daughter
The Story Of Little King Loc
‘A Long-Bow Story’
Jackal Or Tiger?
The Comb And The Collar
and many more

The Olive Fairy Book

The Olive Fairy Book

Format: Paperback.

The Olive Fairy Book.

ISBN: 9783849672522.

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Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books (from Wikipedia):

Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Life Of Sir Walter Scott

Publiziert am 13. April 2018 von Jazzybee

The Life Of Sir Walter Scott – Andrew Lang

If all reading mankind had time to read Lockhart’s Life of Scott, a brief volume on Sir Walter would be a thing without excuse. The author still has tried to compress as much as possible of the essence of Lockhart’s great book into this space, with a few additions from other sources.

The Life Of Sir Walter Scott

The Life Of Sir Walter Scott

Format: Paperback.

The Life Of Sir Walter Scott.

ISBN: 9783849672515.

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Short biography of Andrew Lang (from Wikipedia):

Lang was born in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Redgauntlet

Publiziert am 6. April 2018 von Jazzybee

Redgauntlet – Sir Walter Scott

In a historical sense ” Redgauntlet” is a sequel to ” Waverley.” It takes up the action some eighteen’ years later, at “that point of time when the Chevalier Charles Edward, though fallen into the sere and yellow leaf, was yet meditating a second attempt, which could scarcely have been more hopeless than his first.” Mr. Alexander Fairford, a worthy advocate of Edinburgh, has received into his home, for his son Alan’s sake, an impulsive young man known as Darsie Latimer. Darsie has an ample income and is assured of a legacy upon reaching the age of twenty-five; but meanwhile knows nothing of his family history and is warned not to venture into England. The … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Martin Chuzzlewit

Publiziert am 29. März 2018 von Jazzybee

Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens

The issue of a new edition of Martin Chuzzlewit tempts us to devote a few words to the consideration of what we venture to think the most brilliant and entertaining of all the works of Mr. Dickens. We do not pretend to have any observations to offer on so familiar a work that can have much novelty for the established admirers of Mr. Dickens. There are especially three parts of Martin Chuzzlewit that have thus been incorporated into the body of English thought. There is the history and character of Mr. Pecksniff; there is the figure, the habits, and the friend of Mrs. Gamp; and there is the description of all that Martin did and … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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