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„Me!“ cried Fanny…„Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act.“ At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her ..

This title comes with an introduction by Amanda Vickery. The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers and Austen fans: Alexander McCall Smith, Ly ..

Dieser Band vereint alle Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm. Ungekürzt und im Wortlaut der letzten zu Lebzeiten der Brüder Grimm erschienenen Ausgabe. Ein unvergänglicher Schatz deutscher Literatur.

Thomas Manns Novelle aus dem Jahr 1929 über den Auftritt eines Hypnotiseurs in einem italienischen Badeort ist oft als Parabel auf die Verführbarkeit des Einzelnen und Manipulierbarkeit der Massen gedeutet worden, zugleich aber auch als prophetische ..

Kniha Marple: Twelve New Stories autora Agatha Christie,Naomi Alderman,Leigh Bardugo,Alyssa Cole,Lucy Foley,Elly Griffiths,Natalie Haynes,Jean Kwok,Val McDermid,Karen M. McManus vydaná v nakladatelství HarperCollins Publishers v roce 2023, jazyk: Ang

The semiautobiographical „Martin Eden“ is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education an ..

Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes are dramatized through personal st ..

‚It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.‘ Set in Manchester in the 1840s – a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation – Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the cit ..

Set in fourth-century B.C. Greece, The Mask of Apollo is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theatre's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask graduall ..

Robin und Prudence Merriot sind seit frühester Kindheit gute Geheimniskrämer und Strategen – kein Nachteil in diesen unruhigen Zeiten. So fällt es ihnen auch nicht schwer, eine reiche Erbin aus den Händen ihres Entführers zu befreien. Doch die hierfü ..

The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and ..

The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth, and a recreation of the story of Pontius Pilate, constitute the elements out of which Mikhail Bulgakov wove The Master and Margarita.