Classics

By Marilyn S. Severson

Undying French masterpieces akin to Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and Camus' The Plague (1947) were the topic of copious literary feedback considering their guides. This quantity used to be built in particular to aid scholars and common readers achieve a deeper realizing of 8 French masterpieces. Lucid but demanding literary research specializes in plot and personality improvement, issues, sort, and biographical and ancient context. This advisor deals a fuller experience of the historic and literary atmosphere within which each one writer labored.

By Carl Strikwerda

The 1st e-book to discover the old improvement of Belgian politics, this groundbreaking learn of the competition among Catholicism, Socialism and nationalism is key interpreting for an individual attracted to Europe prior to global battle I.

By Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, (1771 – 1832) was once a Scottish historic novelist, playwright, and poet. Scott used to be the 1st English-language writer to have a very foreign profession in his lifetime, with many modern readers in Europe, Australia, and North the US. His novels and poetry are nonetheless learn, and lots of of his works stay classics of either English-language literature and of Scottish literature. well-known titles contain Ivanhoe, The Antiquary and man Mannering, or The Astrologer.

By Victor Appleton

While Tom quick and his group leap again from the Alpha Centauri method via hyperspace to the Earth's galaxy, they're captured via their arch enemy David Luna and brought prisoner aboard his astral citadel.

By Graham Handley (auth.)

By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is healthier identified this day as one of many Victorian interval s major exponents of supernatural fiction, and was once defined by means of M.R. James as status completely within the first rank as a author of ghost tales.
the home by means of the Churchyard is likely to be his top novel during this style. Set within the village of Chapelizod, close to Dublin, within the 1760s the tale opens with the unintended disinterment of an outdated cranium within the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral. This discovery pertains to murders, either contemporary and ancient whose repercussions disrupt the complacent speed of village affairs and alter the lives of a lot of its remarkable characters perpetually. allure and chilling darkness abound in equivalent degree in a single of the best novels of a Victorian grasp of poser.

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me." With those chilling phrases a husband claims his spouse after a two-year absence. however the baby she clutches isn't really his, and Hester wears a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the signal of adultery noticeable to all. less than an assumed identify, her husband starts his vindictive look for her lover, made up our minds to reveal what Hester is both decided to guard. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of 2 very varied males, as ethical codes and felony imperatives painfully collide. Set within the Puritan neighborhood of seventeenth-century Boston, The Scarlet Letter additionally sheds gentle at the 19th century during which it was once written, as Hawthorne explores his ambivalent family along with his Puritan forebears. The textual content of this version is taken from the Centenary variation of Hawthorne's works, the main authoritative severe variation. It encompasses a new, wide-ranging advent that sheds mild at the novel's autobiographical, old, and literary contexts, a accomplished and updated bibliography, and thorough notes that supply crucial details on Puritan and nineteenth-century lifestyles.

By James Baldwin, N. C. Wyeth

Far-off within the Frozen Land within the some time past time a grasp wizard cast the wondrous Sampo or mill of fortune, which floor out all kinds of treasures and gave wealth and tool to its proprietor. This tale, retold in prose from the Finnish Kalevala, tells of the making of this magic mill with its pictured lid of rainbow colours and of the adventures of the heroes who sought to realize ownership of it.

By Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff: Erinnerungen 1848-1914

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2013

Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

• Erstdruck: Leipzig (Koehler) 1928.

Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe:

• Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von: Erinnerungen 1848–1914. Leipzig: Koehler, 1928.

Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger

Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion

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