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Not a whit, said the old man. "England will never understand America; for England never does understand a foreign country; and whatever you may say about kindred, America is as much a foreign country …

geschrieben von Nathaniel Hawthorne (Autor)

"I mean to write the Story of Midas, with his Golden Touch, Pandora's Box, The Adventure of Hercules in quest of the Golden Apples, Bellerophon and the Chimra, Baucis and Philemon, Perseus and Medusa; …

geschrieben von Nathaniel Hawthorne (Autor) und George Parsons Lathrop (Solist)

The explanation of this lies in the wretchedly dependent state of native authorship at that time. The law of copyright had not then attained to even the refined injustice which it has now reached. "I …

geschrieben von George Parsons Lathrop (Autor)

A portrait of the great American …

geschrieben von George Parsons Lathrop (Autor)

This much-anticipated follow-up to "Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories for Women" retells the classic fairy tale about the 12 dancing princesses, with each chapter written as a separate story, in which …

geschrieben von Nancy Madore (Autor)

Contained in this volume are the three best-known works of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. Hesiod's "The Theogony" concerns the origins of the world and of the gods and forms a foundation for all Greek …

geschrieben von Hesiod (Autor) und Hugh G. Evelyn-White (Übersetzung)

Abenteuer eines MüllerburschenDrei Jahre verbringt Krabat beim teuflischen Meister in der Mühle im Koselbruch. Ab 12Während seiner Lehrzeit als Müllerjunge lernt Krabat nicht nur …

Otfried Preußler ist fast allen Kindern wohlbekannt. Mit seinen Kinderbüchern hat er ihre Herzen erobert und deshalb werden sie diesen Jugendroman mit großer Neugier zur Hand nehmen. …

geschrieben von Otfried Preußler (Autor)

Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his …

His masterpiece . . .The book reads like a conflation of the Inferno, The Iliad and Moby Dick. I can only declare that Blood Meridian is unlike anything I have read in recent years, and seems to me …

geschrieben von Cormac McCarthy (Autor)

Jazzmusiker wie Glen und Pit Buschmann, Günter Boas, Siggi Gerhardt, die Bönschen-Brüder, Jimmy Horschler und viele andere warben nach Kriegsende für eine Musik, die für die …

geschrieben von Hermann Hesse (Autor)

Joanna Trollope is the author of eagerly awaited and sparklingly readable novels often centred around the domestic nuaunces and dilemmas of life in present-day England. She has also written a number …

Latest saga from the number one bestselling author, many of her books having transferred to television. Relates the events in the lives of two families, loyal and devoted friends for years. But both …

A poignant novel about friendships …

geschrieben von Joanna Trollope (Autor)