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'Het late leven' is het tweede boek in de romancyclus 'De boeken der kleine zielen', en gaat verder direct na het einde van het vorige boek, 'De kleine zielen'. Hoewel het draait om dezelfde personen is de inhoud en aard van dit boek heel anders dan het vorige.
Zowel Henri van der Welcke als zijn vrouw Constance, gevangen in een liefdeloos huwelijk, worden verliefd - hij op zijn jonge nichtje Marianne van Naghel, zij op Brauws, een oude schoolvriend van Henri. Constance's ziel lijkt te ontwaken in haar opkomende liefde voor Brauws, ook al vindt ze zichzelf eerst veel te oud voor zoiets, met haar 42 jaar. Om deze hoofdpersonen heen groepeert de schrijver weer de hele grote Haagse famili...

Erstes Kapitel: Carlsson tritt seinen Dienst an und wird als Gauner charakterisiert.
Zweites Kapitel: Sonntagsruhe und Sonntagsarbeit; der gute Hirte und die verlorenen Schafe; die Waldschnepfen, die erhielten, was ihnen zukam, und der Knecht, der die Kammer bekam.
Drittes Kapitel: Der Knecht spielt seinen Trumpf aus, wird Herr im Hause und lehrt die jungen Hähne sich beugen.
Viertes Kapitel: Hochzeit in Aussicht. Die Alte wird des Geldes wegen genommen.
Fünftes Kapitel: Man prügelt sich am Tage des dritten Aufgebots, geht zum Abendmahl und feiert die Hochzeit.
Sechstes Kapitel: Veränderte Verhältnisse und veränderte Aussichten. Es geht mit der Landwirtschaft zurück, aber d...

A Victorian novel devoted to beloved character first introduced to readers in MacDonald's David Elginbrod.

A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British keen to live free and exploit the innocent; the other the supernatural as perceived by Stevenson working in the lives of the natives. One tale carries the germ of the story of Madame Butterfly, since become a part of Western culture. Another is an extraordinary retelling of a German horror story transposed to a South Sea Island setting. The last is an effort of the pure Stevensonian imagination and there can be nothing better.

Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic prose writings includes The Last Generation (a short science fiction story), short sketches, a dialogue, and several critical studies.

Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiographical, the protagonist is 15-year-old Maude Foster, a quiet and serious girl who writes poetry that explores the tensions between religious devotion and worldly desires. The text includes several of Rossetti's early verses, which were later published as part of her collections of poetry.

Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales.
PREFACE.
This volume presents the first publication of the famous lectures of Governor Robert L. Taylor. His great popularity as an orator and entertainer, and his wide reputation as a humorist, have caused repeated inquiries from all sections of the country for his lectures in book form; and this has given rise to an earlier publication than was expected. The lectures are given without the slightest abridgment, just as delivered from the platform throughout the country. The consecutive chain of each is left undisturbed; and the idea of paragraphing, and giving headlines to the various subjects treated, was conceived merely for the convenience of the reader...

E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30 plus collections of short stories. Most of his tales are thrillers and espionage. The Great Impersonation was written following World War I and is considered by many to be perhaps his best novel. The story focuses on German espionage in England prior to the start of World War I. The tale centers on two characters that are almost identical in appearance. Indeed, while both attend the same school in England, they are often mistaken for one another. One character is Sir Everard Dominey, an English baronet who enjoys the “good life” but falls into disfavor when he is accused of murdering Roger Unthank. Unth...

Zielenschemering, het derde boek uit de romancyclus De Boeken der Kleine Zielen van Louis Couperus, beschrijft een volgende periode uit het leven van de familie van Lowe. Een van de hoofdpersonen is Constance's broer Gerrit, uiterlijk een blonde sterke bruut van een man, ritmeester bij de huzaren, maar hij voelt zichzelf van binnen vaak ziek en zwak. Broer Ernst, altijd al zonderling en op zichzelf, wordt nu gekweld door angstaanjagende hallucinaties. De familie overkomt de ene ellende na de andere. De familieleden reageren ieder op hun eigen manier. (Samenvatting door Anna Simon)

Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 1846, and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Bronte sisters adopted androgynous first names. Marked by profound sentiments, gravity and melodious harmony, the poems are strewn on the fields of soulful love, rueful reminiscence and the immortal yearnings of a Christian soul, and represent a fragrant assemblage of noetic flowers from the glebes of olden England. For those not familiar with the Bronte sisters’ poetry, it should be noted that many of their poems were written in the context of ...