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Airlords of Han is the 2nd Buck Rogers story, the sequel to Armageddon 2419 A.D.. Anthony Rogers takes the fight to free 25th Century America to the Han overlords. From the March, 1929 issue of Amazing Stories.

In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history. And through his use of the vernacular prevalent in the South of that time, Chesnutt lent a compassionate voice to a group that America did not want to hear. More broadly, however, Chesnutt illustrated, in this character play, the vast and perhaps insurmountable debt this country continues to pay for the sins of slavery.

A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-American manners and a fascinating glimpse of late Victorian London.

Het Heilige Weten is het vierde en laatste deel van de romancyclus "De boeken der kleine zielen".
Het is 10 jaar na het derde deel, "Zielenschemering". Addy is inmiddels dokter, getrouwd met Mathilde en heeft twee kleine kinderen. Zij wonen in de grote, sombere villa in Driebergen die hij ge-erfd heeft van zijn grootouders. Bij hem in (en in de buurt) wonen een groot aantal familieleden die we kennen uit de vorige delen, onder andere zijn ouders en de kinderen van Constance's overleden broer. Addy is de spil van de familie geworden. Hij weet altijd wat het beste is voor iedereen om hem heen, behalve voor zichzelf. (Samenvatting door Anna Simon)

Reputedly the best-selling poetry collection of the 20th century, 'Songs of a Sourdough' is best known for Robert W. Service's classic Yukon ballads, 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew' and 'The Cremation of Sam McGhee'. Service was born in Preston, Lancashire, and grew up in Scotland. In his twenties, he made his way to Canada and settled in the Yukon where he worked as a bank clerk but evidently dreamed of more adventurous pursuits. Service's readings of his poems show that he could adopt either a Scottish or North American accent. Here they are read in an accent that is not too far removed from the place of his birth.

Verhaal over een zeer langdurig en vooral kostbaar juridisch proces, dat uiteindelijk toch tot een einde komt. In schril contrast met de nobele arts en sobere huishoudster worden de advocaten stevig bekritiseerd. (Samenvatting door Marcel Coenders)

John Henry Mackays Buch „Die Anarchisten“ ist überwiegend biographisch gefärbt und basiert auf eigenen Erlebnissen. Anhand zweier Charaktere mit unterschiedlichen philosophischen Grundsätzen, wobei einer der beiden sein Alter Ego darstellt, illustriert er das Wesen sowohl des individualistischen Anarchismus‘ als auch des Kommunismus‘ seiner Zeit.
Auban, Mackays Alter Ego, wird nicht nur mit den Widrigkeiten in einer Bewegung, die sich zwar anarchistisch nennt, aber mit seinen individualistischen Grundsätzen nicht konform geht, sondern auch mit der zunehmenden Entfremdung seines Freundes Trupp gegenüber, der ein glühender Anhänger der kommunistischen Arbeiterbewegung ist, konfronti...

"When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member of this body, he has much to learn and much to endure. Little does he know of what he will have to encounter. He may be well read in public affairs, but he is unaware of the difficulties which must attend and embarrass every effort to render what he may know available and useful. He may be upright in purpose and strong in the belief of his own integrity, but he cannot even dream of the ordeal to which he cannot fail to be exposed; of how much courage he must possess to resist the temptations which must daily beset him; of that sensitive shrinking from undes...

As usual, Trollope creates a nice variety of characters of different English classes, sentiments and positions. The primary themes are the inheritance of property, extravagance or reason in the spending of assets, the mating of young people, and the electoral practices of the time. The election chapters are based on Trollope's own experiences when he ran for Parliament.

There are, of course, many subplots which allow Trollope to express, through dialog, his opinions about greed, snobbery, work ethics and dandyism. Trollope probably regretted the duplicative naming of his characters after a while; we have two Gregory Newtons, uncle (and present Squire of Newton) and one of his neph...

Ein Brief seiner Stiefschwester zieht den jungen Mann Franz Grach zurück in seine Heimatstadt. Konfrontiert mit der provinziellen Spießbürgerlichkeit, erlebt er eine Zeitreise, die ihn nicht nur an Kindertage erinnert…
John Henry Mackays Erzählung ist nicht allein ein frühes Plädoyer für freie Liebe, sondern gleichsam eine Kritik an der Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsform seiner Zeit.