Casa editrice: Leverton Classics
This edition contains original illustrations. The Pickwick Papers details the adventures of the Pickwick club, named after president for life Samuel Pickwick. They travel throughout England, and the country and its people are portrayed in a nostalgic, and humourous way. The book is designed to give you that old book feeling, complete with antique feelings.
A young man accused of the appalling murder of his mother is acquitted on the grounds that his crime is almost harmless in comparison with his previous murder of his uncle, which was both barbaric and highly unusual. Written with Ambrose Bierce's uniquely witty and tongue-in-cheek style.Mostra libro
"The Adventure of the Creeping Man" (1923) is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 total) by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes first published in Strand Magazine October 1921 - April 1927. A man named Trevor Bennett comes to Holmes with a most unusual problem. He is Professor Presbury's personal secretary, and Mr. Bennett is also engaged to the professor's only daughter, Edith. Professor Presbury is himself engaged to a young lady, Alice Morphy, a colleague's daughter, although he himself is already 61 years of age. Their impending marriage does not seem to have caused a great scandal, so that is not Mr Bennett's problem. Nonetheless, the trouble seems to have begun at about the time of Professor Presbury's and Alice's engagement. First, the professor suddenly left home for a fortnight without telling anyone where he was going. He returned looking rather travel-worn, and it was only through a letter from a friend sent to Mr Bennett that the family learnt that Professor Presbury had been to Prague.Mostra libro
Francis Marion Crawford, an only child, was born on 2nd August 1854 at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. He was a nephew to Julia Ward Howe, the American poet and writer of ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’. Crawford was educated at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire and then on to Cambridge University, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Rome. In 1879 he went to India, to study Sanskrit and then to edit The Indian Herald. In 1881 he returned to America to continue his Sanskrit studies at Harvard University. His family became increasingly concerned about his employment prospects. After an attempt at a singing career as a baritone was ruled out, he was encouraged to write. In December 1882 his first novel, ‘Mr Isaacs’, was published and was an immediate hit as was his second novel ‘Dr Claudius’ in 1883. In October 1884 he married Elizabeth Berdan and encouraged by his excellent start to a literary career they returned to Sant Agnello, Italy to make a permanent home, buying the Villa Renzi that then became Villa Crawford. In the late 1890s, Crawford began work on his historical works which would later include ‘Corleone’, in 1897, the first major treatment of the Mafia in literature. Crawford is also exceedingly popular and anthologized as a short story writer of bizarre and creepy tales. In 1908 came his classic ‘The Screaming Skull’. Without doubt its unsettling nature is heightened as the reader/listener is drawn into to the story by its narrator. Everything is explained and plausible until, of course, it isn’t. Francis Marion Crawford died at Sorrento on Good Friday 1909 at Villa Crawford of a heart attack.Mostra libro
In “The Domain of Arnheim” Poe combines an explication of his aesthetic theory and a physical description of a landscape-garden, Arnheim. The builder of Arnheim, Ellison, is described by a narrator as a fabulously wealthy man, interested “instinctively . . . . in the creation of novel forms of Beauty” . He is interested in shaping nature, in molding it into a “purely physical loveliness.”Mostra libro
A collection of short stories written by prominent supporters of the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. 'The Operation' by Violet Hunt 'An Idyll of London' by Beatrice Harraden 'The Mahatma's Story' by May Sinclair 'The Man in the Scented Coat' by Sarah Grande'A Bird on Its Journey' by Beatrice Harraden 'The World's Slow Stain' by May Sinclair 'Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched' by May Sinclair 'The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore' by Ella Hepworth Dixon 'The Token' by May Sinclair 'The Nature of the Evidence' by May Sinclair'The Umbrella Mender' by Beatrice Harraden A Red Door Consulting production.Mostra libro
Emma Woodhouse has it all – beauty, brains, breeding and bucks. She considers it her highest achievement to have successfully played matchmaker for her governess, seeing her happily settled nearby. But when chooses Harriet Smith as her next matchmaking target, she unwittingly builds a house of cards for Harriet and herself.In one of Jane Austen’s most beloved novels, Emma explores the vagaries of class, the foibles of matchmaking, and the merits of true character.Mostra libro
