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Charles Dexter Ward is a young man from a prominent Rhode Island family who has disappeared from a mental asylum. He had been incarcerated during a prolonged period of insanity, during which he exhibited minor and inexplicable physiological changes. His empty cell is found to be very dusty.
The Eternal Husband is a psychological novella by the acclaimed Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The plot revolves around the intense and complex relationship between Velchaninov and Trusotsky. Velchaninov, the protagonist, is a former lover of the recently deceased wife of Trusotsky, the title character. Some critics have ranked this novella among Dostoeyevsky's best works because of its style and structure. Alfred Bem has called it "one of the most complete works by Dostoyevsky in regards to its composition and development.Zum Buch
In this collection of beautifully written modern fairy tales Oscar Wilde does not fail to both entertain with humorous characters and witty dialogue and at the same time deliver a subtle yet very potent message about some of the most human qualities such as true friendship, true happiness, selfishness, ignorance, playfulness and love. Some of the most famous epigrams of Oscar Wilde come from the characters in these tales. This volume includes: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale And the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, The Remarkable Rocket. Read in English, unabridged.Zum Buch
'Was this what it all meant - utter, intact separateness, obscured by heat of living?' In Odour of Chrysanthemums D.H. Lawrence explores the concept of human isolation and the nature of love and relationships. This is the story of Elizabeth, a young wife and mother waiting for her alcoholic husband to return home from what she assumes is another night of drinking…Zum Buch
CONTENTS:A Suspicious Gift [Algernon Blackwood],Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp [Algernon Blackwood],The Wood of the Dead [Algernon Blackwood],A Baby Tramp [Ambrose Bierce],The Damned Thing [Ambrose Bierce],Dagon [H.P Lovecraft],The Horror of the Heights [Arthur Conan Doyle],The Descendant [H.P Lovecraft],The Cats of Ulthar [H.P Lovecraft],The Evil Clergyman [H.P Lovecraft],He [H.P Lovecraft],The Book [H.P Lovecraft],In the Vault [H.P Lovecraft],Nyarlathotep [H.P Lovecraft],Death and the Woman [Gertrude Atherton],The Striding Place [Gertrude Atherton],Hop-Frog [Edgar Allan Poe],The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe],The Tell-Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe],Shadow [Edgar Allan Poe],The Beast in the Cave [H.P Lovecraft],The Doom That Came to Sarnath [Lovecraft],The Vampire Maid [Hume Nisbet],A Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Poe],The Demon Spell [Hume Nisbet],Out of the Earth [Arthur Machen],The Signal-Man [Charles Dickens],The Colloquy of Monos and Una [Poe],Demons of the Sea [William Hope Hodgson],Glámir [Sabine Baring-Gould],Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story [Sabine Baring-Gould],Tales of Secret Egypt [Sax Rohmer],Some Words with a Mummy [Poe],In the Dark [Edith Nesbit],The Sea Raiders [H. G. Wells],The Baron of Beauguard [Gilbert Parke],The Vampire [Jan Neruda],A Journey of Little Profit [John Buchan],The Keeper of Cademuir [John Buchan],Dickon the Devil [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu],The Child That Went With The Fairies [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu],Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling [Le Fanu],Two Doctors Montague [Rhodes James],A School Story Montague [Rhodes James],The Diary of Mr. Poynter Montague[ Rhodes James],In the Forest of Villefére by [Robert E. Howard],The Dream Snake [Robert E. Howard],The Thing On the Roof [Robert E. Howard],The Imp of the Perverse [Poe],The Devil in the Belfry [Poe],The Crawling Chaos [Lovecraft],Aunt Joanna [Sabine Baring-Gould],The Outsider [Lovecraft],The Hound [Lovecraft],The Disinterment [Lovecraft],The Horror At Martin's Beach [Lovecraft],The Tree On The Hill [Lovecraft],The Outgoing of The Tide [John Buchan],The Curse of Yig [Lovecraft],The Haunter Of The Dark [Lovecraft],Berenice [Poe],The Angel Of The Odd [Poe],Black Ram [Baring-Gould],The Cask Of Amontillado [Poe],Dracula's Guest [Bram Stoker],The Mother Of Pansies [Baring-Gould],On The Leads [Baring-Gould],McAlister [Baring-Gould],Mustapha [Baring-Gould],The Ghost and the Bone-setter [Le Fanu],The Drunkard's Dream [Le Fanu],The Novel of the White Powder [Arthur Machen],The Merewigs [Baring-Gould],Xélucha [Matthew Phipps Shiel],Solange [ Alexandre Dumas],The Fall of The House of Usher [Poe],The Assignation [Poe],The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade [Poe],Laura Silver Bell [Le Fanu],Descent Into The Maelstrom [Poe],The Power of Darkness [ Edith Nesbit],An Authentic Narrative of A Haunted House [Le Fanu],The Night Wire [H. F. Arnold],The Dualists [Bram Stoker],Stories of Lough Guir [Le Fanu],The Vision of Tom Chuff [Le Fanu],The Three Strangers [Thomas Hardy],Crooken Sands [Bram Stoker],The Cairn of the Headland [Robert E. Howard],The Shining Pyramid [Arthur Machen],Schalken The Painter [Le Fanu],Hellhound Of The Cosmos [Clifford Donald Simak],Ibid [Lovecraft],The Grove Of Ashtaroth [John Buchan],The Moon Bog [Lovecraft],An Account of Some Strange Disturbances [Le Fanu],Ultor De Lacy A Legend of Cappercullen [Le Fanu],The Red Hand [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 98,The Inmost Light [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 100.Zum Buch
In a sometimes meandering, intermittently rhyming narrative, Page retells the Brothers Grimm tale about four animals who set out to make a new life for themselves after their masters reject them.Zum Buch
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE I: With the single exception of Falstaff, all Shakespeare's characters are what we call marrying men. Mercutio, as he was own cousin to Benedick and Biron, would have come to the same end in the long run.Zum Buch
