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Like the later and more famous novel Middlemarch, Deerbrook describes the life of country people in a fictional English town. The Grey family live in one of the loveliest houses in Deerbrook, but a change in their lives is going to take place... The Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, orphaned distant cousins of Mr. Grey. Like in Jane Austen's novels, we see how the sisters are trying to advance themselves. In Victorian England, the chief way for women to "advance themselves" is to marry well. But will they succeed? And if they succeed, will they be happy?

“Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre – eine wahre Geschichte.” ist ein Kriminalbericht Friedrich Schillers, der 1786 zunächst unter dem Titel “Verbrechen aus Infamie” veröffentlicht wurde.

The title character in Ibsen's drama, Ellida Wangel, is married to a prosperous doctor, but feels stifled by her roles as wife and stepmother to her husband's two daughters by a previous marriage, Hilde and Bolette. Ten years earlier she had promised to marry another man - and on a sultry summer day, he comes back to her. Ellida must decide whether to choose the safety of her life with Wangel, or to yield to the siren song of the sea.

De kleine zielen is het eerste gedeelte van de romancyclus De boeken der kleine zielen, die zich afspeelt in Den Haag.

Fragmenten uit een recensie ten tijde van de eerste druk (Elsevier, 1902): deze Haagse roman geeft van de Hagenaars een weinig lieflijke portrettengalerij. Toch geloven wij niet dat speciaal Haagse ondeugden en Haagse kleinzieligheden worden getekend in deze roman. Mensen van elders moeten typen herkennen. Voor niemand is dit echter een troost. Couperus toont zich in dit werk een meester in de kunst van karaktertekening. Al die mensen uit het boek leven, leven zo krachtig in ons, dat wij hun karakters onthouden, lang na de lectuur van het koste...

Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua ist das zweite vollendete Drama Friedrich Schillers. Er begann das Stück, das sich an die historische Verschwörung des Giovanni Luigi de Fieschi gegen Andrea Doria in Genua des Frühjahrs 1547 anlehnt, nach der Premiere seines Stücks Die Räuber 1782.
Sektion 00 - Vorrede - Anzeige der Buehnenbearbeitung - Erinnerung an das Publikum: Text 1
Sektionen 01 - 10 - Ein republikanisches Trauerspiel: Text 2

Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen’s masterwork, only equalled by The Wild Duck of 1884. As expressed by the protagonist, Rosmer, the theme of the play is social and political change, in which the traditional ruling classes relinquish their right to impose their ideals on the rest of society, but the action is entirely personal, resting on the conduct of the immoral, or amoral, “free thinking” heroine, Rebecca, who sets herself to undermine Rosmer’s religious and political beliefs because of his influential position in the community. Rebecca has abandoned not only Christianity but, unlike Rosm...

Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in- law, Billy. In spite of his success, he is disillusioned with his life, drinks too much, and is deeply troubled by his agnosticism which leads to trouble and confusion. When Billy embezzles money, Charley discovers the theft and sets out to make things right. Charley however, ends up in a waterfront saloon where he encounters a barroom brawl and becomes unconscious. Charley loses his memory and ends up in the Canadian Northwoods where he falls in love with a pretty postmistress, Rosalie. He finds he is perfectly content with his "new" life but when his memory returns, he i...

Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 – May 27, 1867) explains the his work is “an attempt tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement. We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according to the ancient authorities, so that when the reader finds them referred to he may not be at a loss to recognize the reference. Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.”

The Bulfinch version of myth, presents the myths in their literary versions, without unnecessary violence, sex, psychology or ethnograp...

Wallensteins Lager ist der erste Teil von Friedrich Schillers Wallenstein-Trilogie, dem Drama über den Niedergang des berühmten Feldherren Wallenstein.

Die Piccolomini ist der zweite Teil von Friedrich Schillers Wallenstein-Trilogie.

Wallensteins Tod ist der dritte Teil von Friedrich Schillers Wallenstein-Trilogie.

Das Werk spielt im Winter 1633/1634 (also fast 16 Jahre nach Beginn des Dreißigjährigen Krieges).


Sektionen 01 - 27 - Ein dramatisches Gedicht: Text (1)
Sektion 28 - Über die erste Aufführung der Piccolomini: Text (2)

Zoals de titel al aangeeft gaat het boek over oude mensen (en ouder worden) en de dingen die voorbijgaan. Maar niet alles gaat voorbij met het ouder worden… Een duister geheim uit het verleden werpt zijn steeds groter wordende schaduw over een familie.