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Jane Austen, WB Yeats, Chesterton, Shaw... these are personal and intelligent short essays on a selection of great (and great-ish) writers: some well known, and some a bit more obscure to the average reader today. Robert Lynd (1879 – 1949) is best known as a literary essayist and Irish nationalist. He published many essays, all written in an easy, conversational style. Lynd was an essayist after the manner of Charles Lamb, and deserves to be better known. A complete list of his works is available at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wilson_Lynd

In deze roman die in het wilde westen van circa 1870 speelt, portretteert Karl May de reis van een groep jagers (door Karl May West-mannen genoemd) naar het nabijgelegen Silver Lake in de Rocky Mountains. Hoofdpersonen zijn onder andere Old Shatterhand, Old Firehand en Winnetou en de schurk Cornel Brinkley, die om zijn rode haar bekend staat als "Rode Cornel". Deze is de leider van een grote bende zwervers die er niet voor terugschrikt om boerderijen en treinen aan te vallen en te beroven. (Samenvatting van Wikipedia)

An English epic poem that follows the exploits of Alfred the Great in his defense of Christian civilization in England from the heathen nihilism of the North. Following a string of defeats at the hands of the invading Danes, a vision from heaven in the river island of Athelney fills Alfred with joy and hope. Though it gives no promise of victory in the coming struggle, it inspires him to rally his chieftains for a last stand against the invading hordes. His adventures lead throughout the country as he gathers his men, and take him through the Danish camps disguised as a minstrel before culminating in the Battle of Ethandune and the prophesying of the enemy’s subtle return in the ages t...

Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten ist eine Erzählungssammlung von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, erschienen (1795).

Das Konzept der Rahmenhandlung dieser Novelle hat Goethe von Boccaccios Decamerone übernommen (eine Erzählwelt wird der realen Situation der Flüchtlinge entgegengesetzt). Doch zeigt sich bei ihm, dass die Rahmengesellschaft in ihrer Funktion versagt. Es gelingt nicht mehr, das schreckliche Ereignis, das die Rahmengesellschaft konstituiert und dazu motiviert, sich mittels Erzählungen über das drohende Schicksal zu vertrösten, mittels Erzählen vergessen zu machen. Im Gegenteil: Das Ereigni...

The story could really have been simple: Miss Milner, who is admired for her beauty and charm, could have been a socialite, marry a respectable and good looking man and be happy in the standards of her time. But if it was so, why would there be a book? Miss Milner, beautiful and charming as she is, announces her wish to marry her guardian, a catholic priest. But women in the 18th century do not declare their wishes or speak about their passions, and- after all- he is a catholic priest… And if he finds a way to marry her, is this her road to happiness?

Spanning the time between 1872 and the year before he died, this collection of after-dinner speeches, random thoughts to "the press", etc. clearly documents, once again, the truly eclectic mind of Samuel Clemens. It also demonstrates how he dealt with adulation, compliments and notoriety...head on! This collection is a treasure-trove of Twain sayings, witticisms and pronouncements on a huge galaxy of issues and concerns in his life.

Charles Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the “Prince of Preachers”. In his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people, often up to 10 times each week at different places. He was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years.

Spurgeon was a prolific author of many types of works. His accessible commentaries on the Psalms are a combination of meditation and teaching and are appropriate for anyone wanting to understand these familiar poems on a deeper level. In this seco...

“Mr. Benson sees the world, four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels, and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who believe in no divinity but that of man, Catholicism for those who believe in no divinity but that of God.”

This apocalyptic novel from the early 1900's is sometimes deemed one of the first modern dystopias.

« La police est bien mal faite. » Voilà l'opinion qu'Onésime Coche, reporter dans un quotidien du matin, à Paris, ne manque pas d'émettre à la fin de ses articles.

Au sortir d'un dîner chez son ami Ledoux, il trouvera l'occasion d'en faire la preuve.

Par quel moyen et d'où viendra l'épouvante ? À vous de le découvrir.

"Our police service is thoroughly inefficient." That is the opinion Onesimus Coche, mere journalist, frequently expresses in his articles.

After dining at his friend's Monsieur Ledoux, he will have the opportunity to prove his point.

Where will the grip of fear come from? You will have to find out for yourself.
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These letters were arranged in two volumes by Albert Bigelow Paine, Samuel L. Clemens's literary executor, as a supplement to Mark Twain, A Biography, which Paine wrote. They are, for the most part, every letter written by Clemens known to exist at the time of their publication in 1917. They begin with a fragment of a letter from teenaged Sam Clemens to his sister, Pamela, and conclude with a letter to his attorney two weeks before his death.

These letters give us some degree of insight into the evolution of Twain's style of speech and prose over the period of his lifetime; they are a small window into the psyche that created the various characters of his stories.
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