Verlag: Imaginaria Books
The Canterville Ghost is a funny and spooky story by Oscar Wilde. An American family moves to an old house in England with a ghost, Sir Simon, who tries to scare them. But the family is not afraid! They laugh at the ghost and play tricks on him.
Charles Sheldon's In His Steps poses a powerful question: "What would Jesus do?" A pastor challenges his congregation to commit for a year to making every decision based on that principle. The novel follows the lives of various characters – a singer, a businessman, a newspaper editor – as they grapple with the implications of living by this radical standard. The story explores themes of social justice, faith in action, and the transformative power of selfless living.Zum Buch
Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. Here are four of his best stories: The Whale Tooth, To Build A Fire, The House of Pride, The House of Mapuhi.Zum Buch
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born on 9th November 1818 in Oryol, Russia to parents from the nobility. He and his two brothers were raised by their mother on the family estate. Surrounded by foreign governesses he became fluent in French, German, and English. Their father spent little time with them and this undoubtedly had an effect on him and his brothers. When he was nine the family moved to Moscow to give their children a proper education. Turgenev studied for a year at the University of Moscow and then at the University of St Petersburg to study Classics, Russian literature, and philology. During that time his father died from kidney stone disease. In 1838 Turgenev studied philosophy and history at the University of Berlin for 3 years before returning to St Petersburg for his master's. He started his career with the Russian Civil Service and it was only in 1852 that he made his name with his short story collection, ‘A Sportsman's Sketches’, based on his observations of peasant life and nature. That same year he wrote an obituary for Nikolai Gogol: "Gogol is dead!... What Russian heart is not shaken by those three words?... He is gone, that man whom we now have the right (the bitter right, given to us by death) to call great." The St Petersburg censor banned publication but the Moscow censor allowed it. He was dismissed but Turgenev was held responsible and imprisoned for a month, and then exiled to his country estate. Along with many other Russian intellectuals Turgenev left and settled in Paris in 1854. During this period he wrote his finest stories and four novels. Alexander II ascended the Russian throne in 1855, and the political climate became more relaxed, Turgenev returned home. ‘Fathers and Sons’, Turgenev's most famous and enduring novel, appeared in 1862. Its leading character is considered the first ‘Bolshevik’ in Russian literature. But the hostile reaction prompted Turgenev's decision to again leave Russia. His health declined during his later years. In January 1883, an aggressive malignant tumor was removed but by then it had metastasized in his upper spinal cord, causing him intense pain in his final few months of life. Ivan Turgenev died on 3rd September 1883 of a spinal abscess, a complication of the metastatic liposarcoma, in his house near Paris. He was buried in St Petersburg.Zum Buch
“Three Sundays in a Week,” published in 1841, was written by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe, best known for his tales of ratiocination, fantastical horror, and genre-founding detective stories, tells the story of Bobby, who wants to marry cousin Kate. Uncle Rumgudgeon says he can—when there are three Sundays in a week.Zum Buch
Some men are born to lead. Others are born to follow. Bertie Wooster, however, was born to regard the legal system as something that happens to other people—preferably at a safe distance. In Without the Option, P. G. Wodehouse sends Bertie hurtling from harmless celebration into the dignified horror of British justice, where a misplaced moment of enthusiasm for a policeman's helmet has entirely proper consequences. When his friend Sippy finds himself threatened by an aunt of truly formidable proportions, Bertie agrees—without fully consulting reality—to a bold and highly experimental solution involving impersonation, relocation, and the general suspension of sensible decision-making. The countryside, it turns out, is not a refuge so much as a different stage on which to commit the same errors in slightly better lighting. Very quickly, Bertie discovers that "being someone else" is an occupation with no pension plan and a shocking amount of paperwork. Between suspicious relatives, social expectations, and objects of questionable legal ownership, he is soon operating at the very limits of polite endurance. Effortlessly comic and structurally disastrous in the most reassuring way, this is Wodehouse at full tilt: where plans behave like unruly pets, authority arrives without warning, and every attempt at improvement quietly accelerates chaos. Perfect for listeners who appreciate British humour at its most refined, where catastrophe is inevitable, but always impeccably dressed.Zum Buch
"Nostromo" is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1904. It is considered one of Conrad's most significant works and a masterpiece of modernist literature. The novel is set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, where political turmoil and the quest for wealth intersect. The story revolves around the enigmatic figure of Nostromo, an Italian expatriate and trusted longshoreman in the port of Sulaco. Conrad explores themes of greed, imperialism, and the corrupting influence of power while offering a complex narrative that weaves together the lives of various characters.Zum Buch
