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Miser
The Miser is a comedy of manners about a rich moneylender named Harpagon. His feisty children long to escape from his penny-pinching household and marry their respective lovers. Although the 17th-century French upper classes presumably objected to the play's message, it is less savage and somewhat less realistic than Molière's earlier play, Tartuffe, which attracted a storm of criticism on its first performance.
In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of "In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations" by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 30, 2013.Written during the First World War, this is a poem about love, war and their timelessness by one of the best Victorian novelists.
Die Räuber - Ein Schauspiel
Die Räuber ist der Titel des ersten veröffentlichten Dramas von Friedrich Schiller. Das Werk, das zunächst nicht als Bühnenstück, sondern als Lesedrama vorgesehen war (siehe unterdrückte Vorrede), sorgte für nationales Aufsehen im Literaturbetrieb und machte Schiller schlagartig berühmt.
Enthält die Besprechung "Die Räuber. Ein Schauspiel von Friedrich Schiller. 1782", und den "Anhang über die Vorstellung der Räuber" im Wirtembergischen Repertorium 1782, beide von Schiller anonym verfaßt.
Der Text folgt der zweiten Auflage von 1782.
Sektion 00 - unterdrueckte Vorrede - Vorrede zur zwoten Auflage - Avertissement zu der ersten Auffuehrung: Text (1)
Enthält die Besprechung "Die Räuber. Ein Schauspiel von Friedrich Schiller. 1782", und den "Anhang über die Vorstellung der Räuber" im Wirtembergischen Repertorium 1782, beide von Schiller anonym verfaßt.
Der Text folgt der zweiten Auflage von 1782.
Sektion 00 - unterdrueckte Vorrede - Vorrede zur zwoten Auflage - Avertissement zu der ersten Auffuehrung: Text (1)
Across The Years
These 18 wonderful short stories by Eleanor H. Porter, the author of Pollyanna, deal with those marvelous and maddeningly frustrating creatures: human beings. As always, Porter describes real people with sensitivity and an insight into all of their variety that makes you say "I knew someone just like that". She is able to capture the faded, but not quite extinguished, dreams of the elderly and the bright hopes of youth. The theme of this collection is how we humans deal with life and love throughout our lives, "Across the Years", no matter where we are or what era we live in.
Mother Stories From the New Testament
A book of the best stories from the New Testament that mothers can tell their children.
Eline Vere; Een Haagsche roman
De 19e eeuwse klassieker Eline Vere speelt in de gegoede kringen van Den Haag. Eline is een jonge, mooie maar labiele vrouw die zich veel van het leven voorstelt en een levendige fantasie heeft. De werkelijkheid valt haar telkens tegen en ze vlucht weg van de realiteit. (Samenvatting door Carola Janssen)
Deerbrook
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
“Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre – eine wahre Geschichte.” ist ein Kriminalbericht Friedrich Schillers, der 1786 zunächst unter dem Titel “Verbrechen aus Infamie” veröffentlicht wurde.
Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems
This is a volume of later Poetry by the famous American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.
The Lady From the Sea
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.