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The novel recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl. “Anne of Green Gables” has been adapted as films, television movies, musicals, and plays.
The story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone.
It was first published in 1853. In “Twelve Years a Slave” Solomon Northup describes how he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South.
My mother, of course, had little time in which to give attention to the training of her children during the day. She snatched a few moments for our care in the early morning before her work began, and at night after the day's work was done.
Literary Thoughts edition presents The White Cheyenne by Max Brand (pseudonym of Frederick Schiller Faust) ------ "The White Cheyenne" was written in 1925 Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) under his pseudonym Max Brand, telling the story ...
It is the only novel Twain wrote with a collaborator, and its title very quickly became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life.
" On my hearth a tongue of flame whispered secrets to the whitening ashes. In the street below I heard footsteps, a voice, and a song. Robert W. Cambers is an incredible storyteller.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman used “The Yellow Wallpaper” to explore the role of women in America during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The story was first published in 1892.
Literary Thoughts edition presents Moby Dick; or, the Whale by Herman Melville ------ Written by American writer Herman Melville, the novel "Moby Dick; or, the Whale" was published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance.
He looked like some kind of an Indian when he capered round the garden, an old tea-cosy on his head, beating a tin with his fist and yelling: “Ya! yaka, yaka, yaka!” “Dubliners” is a collection of fifteen short stories by James ...
He went up to Anna Pávlovna, kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, and complacently seated himself on the sofa. “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia ...
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Immer wieder fügt Gogol erklärende Passagen ein, in denen er das groteske Treiben auf die Umstände der Zeit zurückführt. Dieses E-Book enthält eine vollständige deutsche Ausgabe des Werkes „Tote Seelen“ von Nikolai Gogol.
“In undertaking to describe the recent and strange incidents in our town, till lately wrapped in uneventful obscurity, I find myself forced in absence of literary skill to begin my story rather far back, that is to say, with certain ...
They needed clearance to get a mobile crane into the hospital yard. A massive strike blew the roof off the building and took out the main control board, shutting out the mains, the generators and the standby batteries.
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Jay H. Twelve. dieses Thema sind viele Bücher geschrieben worden, aber niemand glaubt daran. ... Je mehr notbedingte Änderungen, desto heißer wird die politische Lage und die Heizer sind die ferngelenkten Drohnen auf den ...
I had so much presence of mind, as well as breath left, that seeing myself nearer the mainland than I expected, I got upon my feet, and endeavoured to make on towards the land as fast as I could before another wave should return and take me ...
“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness.