Archiv der Kategorie: Classics of Fiction (English)

The Trumpet-Major

Publiziert am 19. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Trumpet-Major – Thomas Hardy

The reader of Mr. Hardy’s novel, “The Trumpet Major,” will at once ask himself, “Is not this author making a brave struggle against the scepticism, the pessimism that have been assailing him? Will not the optimism of the poet and idealist finally conquer the pessimism of the realist?” If Mr. Hardy had died after writing “The Trumpet Major” the last question might well have been answered in the affirmative. Few more charming, spontaneous, wholesome stories than this have ever been written by an English novelist. Sweet Anne Garland may well be set by Sweet Anne Page, and her two devoted swains, fickle Bob Loveday, the sailor, and staunch John Loveday, the Trumpet Major, are worthy … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The World Of Homer

Publiziert am 10. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The World Of Homer – Andrew Lang

In the perpetual running fight about the Homeric Homer, Mr. Andrew Lang has been for some years a most prominent champion. In his latest return to the fray, ” The World of Homer ” (Jazzybee Publishing), he lays about him in a very joyous and triumphant mood. His foemen are all those who hold, in some form or other, that ” the Iliad is a mosaic produced by a long series of Ionian additions to an Achaean ‘ kernel.’ ” Against them he maintains that ” the Iliad is, in the main, the work of a single poet, as is shown by the unity of thought, temper, character and ethos ” ; that … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Violet Fairy Book

Publiziert am 9. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Violet Fairy Book – Andrew Lang

There are still unused colors in the spectrum, and Mr. Andrew Lang’s “The Violet Fairy Book” has the merits of its predecessors, with some of its own added. Doubtless the stories suitable for inclusion in these volumes are innumerable, but the later books show the tendency to go farther and farther afield. Many of those in this book are from African and Romanian sources, and of much interest and worth.

The Violet Fairy Book

The Violet Fairy Book

Format: Paperback.

The Violet Fairy Book.

ISBN: 9783849673192.

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Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books (from Wikipedia):

Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Publiziert am 9. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade – Herman Melville

Typee was Melville’s first book, originally published in London in 1846. Even today it is an absolute classic in travel and adventure literature and is partly based on the author’s actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands. Of course there is still room for a lot of imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material from other books. Typee was Melville’s most popular work during his lifetime.

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Format: Paperback

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade.

ISBN: 9783849673185.

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Some background on The Confidence-Man (from Wikipedia):

The novel’s title refers to its central character, an ambiguous figure who sneaks aboard a Mississippi … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Ivanhoe

Publiziert am 8. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

The period of “Ivanhoe” is a few months subsequent to “The Talisman.” Richard I has abandoned his Crusade, and, after an incarceration in an Austrian prison returns to his English throne to find plots against him headed by his brother John, and also a general state of unrest. Normans and Saxons still quarrel, and the story as a whole gives an admirable picture of feudal times. Ivanhoe is the only son of Cedric the Saxon, and has been disinherited by his father on account of his love for Cedric’s ward, the Lady Rowena. lie thereupon goes with King Richard to Palestine and wins renown in the Crusade. He returns to England disguised as a Palmer. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Wallenstein’s Lager / Wallenstein’s Camp

Publiziert am 8. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

Wallenstein’s Lager / Wallenstein’s Camp – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Friedrich Schiller

This is the first part of the Wallenstein trilogy by German playwright and mastermind Friedrich Schiller. The work as a whole produced a profound impression, and it is certainly Schiller’s masterpiece in dramatic literature. He brings out with extraordinary vividness the ascendency of Wallenstein over the wild troops whom he has gathered around him, and at the same time we are made to see how the mighty general’s schemes must necessarily end in ruin, not merely because a plot against him is skilfully prepared by vigilant enemies, but because he himself is lulled into a sense of security by superstitious belief in his supposed destiny as revealed to him … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Life Of George Washington Volume 2

Publiziert am 6. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Life Of George Washington Volume 2 – 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 two out of five.

The Life Of George Washington Volume 2

The Life Of George Washington Volume 2

Format: Paperback.

The Life Of George Washington Volume 2.

ISBN: 9783849673093.

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Biography of George Washington (from Wikipedia):

George … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The War of the Worlds

Publiziert am 6. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells

Mr. H. G. Wells wears his skeleton of scientific knowledge so palpably on the outside that the most erratic flights of his imagination are received with a docile hushfulness accorded to few of the inventive. In The War of the Worlds, with clean-cut, stirring language, he discusses the exquisite possibilities of a bombardment of London by the planet Mars. The outrage upon experience which, with the gravity of a Swift, he calls upon us to accept is so tremendous and far-reaching as to counteract the effect of humorous details and leave a sense of horror and baffled intelligence. Over a track of forty million miles, in obedience to predictions at Lick … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Three Sunsets And Other Poems

Publiziert am 5. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

Three Sunsets And Other Poems – Lewis Carroll

This book contains the following poems by the famous author:

Three Sunsets.
The Path Of Roses.
The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death.
Solitude.
Far Away.
Beatrice.
Stolen Waters.
The Willow-Tree.
Only A Woman’s Hair.
The Sailor’s Wife.
After Three Days.
Faces In The Fire.
A Lesson In Latin.
Puck Lost And Found.
A Song Of Love.

Three Sunsets And Other Poems

Three Sunsets And Other Poems

Format: Paperback.

Three Sunsets And Other Poems.

ISBN: 9783849673079.

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A short biography of Lewis Carroll (from Wikipedia):

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Book Of Saints And Heroes

Publiziert am 5. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Book Of Saints And Heroes – Andrew Lang

A noted non-Catholic writer on pedagogical subjects stated some time ago that if his own religious body had the wealth of story contained in the lives of the saints of the Catholic Church, it would be abundantly supplied with religious literature for children. It is true that the lives of the saints are an inexhaustible treasure-house for all that will interest and stimulate children; and that the same treasure-house is too seldom drawn upon. Its riches are, comparatively speaking, little known to our children or, indeed, to our older folks. A book that taps this vein of Catholic inheritance is: The Book of Saints and Heroes, by Mrs. Lang, and edited … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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