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Little Women follows the March sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, who live with their mother during the Civil War. After their father falls ill, Beth contracts scarlet fever, and their family suffers much financial hardship. In the end, the three surviving March sisters are able to build happy lives for themselves.
The complete unabridged version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of "pirates and buried gold".Zum Buch
Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial from 1837 to 1839. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin.Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own experiences as a youth contributed as well.Zum Buch
"The Sandman" (German: Der Sandmann, 1816) is a short story written in German by E. T. A. Hoffmann. It was the first in an 1817 book of stories titled Die Nachtstücke (The Night Pieces).The story is told by a narrator who claims to have known Lothar. It begins by quoting three letters...Zum Buch
The Ukrainian writer Vera Jelihovsky was born on the 29th April 1835. At that time Ukraine, or Little Russia as it was also called, was part of the Russian Empire. Vera was also the sister of Helena Blavatsky, herself a noted writer and a co-founder of the Theosophical Society. As a writer Vera’s works rests mainly on her children’s stories and little of any of her work is known in the West. ‘The General’s Will’ is a fascinating story of a dying man who tries, with the writing of a new Will, to right the wrongs his second marriage has caused to the children of his first. His scheming second wife attempts to change that. But will her selfish plan succeed? Vera Jelihovsky died on the 17th May 1896. She was 61.Zum Buch
Robert Duncan Milne was born on 7th June 1844 in Cupar in Fife, Scotland. Little is known of the life of this extraordinary author who created some of the most appealing science fiction stories ever written. As an adult he lived in San Francisco and wrote short stories for local newspapers and periodicals of the time and principally for The Argonaut, the political and literary newspaper heavyweight of the area. Robert Duncan Milne died in San Francisco, California on 15th December 1899. He was 55. Into the Sun is a compelling narrative of what happens when the doomed Earth falls into the sun. Is survival possible?Zum Buch
Chief of the Intelligence Department Sir Leonard Wallace—bearing always the hall mark of coolness and wit—is up to his earlobes in trouble. Summoned by the Viceroy of India, he makes a rapid flight to India to investigate the mysterious death of British officer Major Elliot and the theft of some very important dispatches.Zum Buch
