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L’Art de faire des livres
L’Art de faire des livres
Washington Irving
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Extrait du Livre d'esquisses (The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, 1819-1820)
The Guest of Quesnay
The Guest of Quesnay
Newton Booth Tarkington
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Alongside William Faulkner and John Updike, Booth Tarkington is one of just three authors to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. Tarkington accomplished the feat with Alice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons, dramas that explored the lives of fictional characters who live in a setting similar to the one Tarkington experienced in Indianapolis. Tarkington continues to garner praise for his works' historical realism.
Harlequin and Columbine
Harlequin and Columbine
Newton Booth Tarkington
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American novelist Booth Tarkington's life spanned the period 1869-1946, giving him a unique insight into the United States as its culture underwent a number of rapid changes. In the humorous novel Harlequin and Columbine, Tarkington explores the cult of celebrity that began to flower in earnest in the early decades of the twentieth century, using the character of an egotistical actor, Talbot Potter, as the focus of his gentle but hilariously spot-on satire.
Gentle Julia
Gentle Julia
Newton Booth Tarkington
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Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkington's Indiana of the early 20th Century.
The Song of the Lark
The Song of the Lark
Willa Cather
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The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915. It is generally considered to be the second novel in Cather's Prairie Trilogy, following O Pioneers! (1913) and preceding My ?ntonia (1918). The book tells the story of a talented artist born in a small town in Colorado who discovers and develops her singing voice. Her story is told against the backdrop of the burgeoning American West in which she was born in a town along the rail line, of fast-growing Chicago near the turn of the twentieth century, and of the audience for singers of her skills in the US compared to Europe. Thea Kronborg grows up, learning herself, her strengths and her talent, until she reaches success. The title comes from a painting of the same name by Jules Breton in 1884 and part of the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
In the Arena: Stories of Political Life
In the Arena: Stories of Political Life
Newton Booth Tarkington
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Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.
Alice Adams
Alice Adams
Newton Booth Tarkington
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Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee and, more famously, in 1935 by George Stevens. The narrative centers on the character of a young woman (the eponymous Alice Adams) who aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affections of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell. The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly after World War I.
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories
Willa Cather
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The Troll Garden is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1905. This collection contains the following seven stories: "Flavia and Her Artists" "The Sculptor's Funeral" "A Death in the Desert" "The Garden Lodge" "The Marriage of Phaedra" "A Wagner Matinee" "Paul's Case"
The Complete Fiction
The Complete Fiction
H.P. Lovecraft
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The Nameless City The Festival The Colour Out of Space The Call of Cthulhu The Dunwich Horror The Whisperer in Darkness The Dreams in the Witch House The Haunter of the Dark The Shadow Over Innsmouth Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" The Shadow Out of Time At the Mountains of Madness The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Azathoth Beyond the Wall of Sleep Celepha?s Cool Air Dagon Ex Oblivione Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family From Beyond He Herbert West-Reanimator Hypnos In the Vault Memory Nyarlathotep Pickman’s Model The Book The Cats of Ulthar The Descendant The Doom That Came to Sarnath The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Evil Clergyman The Horror at Red Hook The Hound The Lurking Fear The Moon-Bog The Music of Erich Zann The Other Gods The Outsider The Picture in the House The Quest of Iranon The Rats in the Walls The Shunned House The Silver Key The Statement of Randolph Carter The Strange High House in the Mist The Street The Temple The Terrible Old Man The Thing on the Doorstep The Tomb The Transition of Juan Romero The Tree The Unnamable The White Ship What the Moon Brings Polaris The Very Old Folk Ibid Old Bugs Sweet Ermengarde, or, The Heart of a Country Girl A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson The History of the Necronomicon
The Transition of Juan Romero
The Transition of Juan Romero
H.P. Lovecraft
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The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom. The night after the discovery of the abyss the narrator and one of the mine's workers, Juan Romero, venture inside the mine, drawn against their will by a mysterious rhythmical throbbing in the ground.
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Thing on the Doorstep
H.P. Lovecraft
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"The Thing on the Doorstep" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror fiction. It was written in August 1933, and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales. Daniel Upton, the story's narrator, begins by telling that he has killed his best friend, Edward Derby, and that he hopes his account will prove that he is not a murderer ...
The Rats in the Walls
The Rats in the Walls
H.P. Lovecraft
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The story is narrated by the scion of the Delapore family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory. On several occasions, the protagonist and his cats hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further, he finds that his family maintained an underground city for centuries and that the inhabitants of the city fed on human flesh, even going so far as to raise generations of human cattle, who eventually began to de-evolve due to their sub-human living conditions
In the Walls of Eryx
In the Walls of Eryx
H.P. Lovecraft
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"In the Walls of Eryx" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, written in January 1936 and first published in Weird Tales magazine in October 1939. It is unusual among Lovecraft's work as a standard science fiction story involving space exploration in the near future. The story, written in first-person narrative, depicts the life and death of a prospector on the planet Venus who, while working for a mining company, becomes trapped in an invisible maze.
He
He
H.P. Lovecraft
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"He" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written August 1925, it was first published in Weird Tales, September 1926.[1]
The Haunter of the Dark
The Haunter of the Dark
H.P. Lovecraft
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The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island and revolves around the Church of Starry Wisdom. The cult uses an ancient artifact known as the Shining Trapezohedron to summon a terrible being from the depths of time and space. The Shining Trapezohedron was discovered in Egyptian ruins, in a box of alien construction, by Professor Enoch Bowen before he returned to Providence, Rhode Island in 1844. Members of the Church of Starry Wisdom in Providence would awaken the Haunter of the Dark, an avatar of Nyarlathotep, by gazing into the glowing crystal. Summoned from the black gulfs of chaos, this being could show other worlds, other galaxies, and the secrets of arcane and paradoxical knowledge; but he demanded monstrous sacrifices, hinted at by disfigured skeletons that were later found in the church. The Haunter of the Dark was banished by light and could not cross a lighted area.
Ex Oblivione
Ex Oblivione
H.P. Lovecraft
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"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1920 or early 1921 and first published in The United Amateur in March 1921, under the pseudonym Ward Phillips. It is written in first person and tells of the dreams of a presumably dying man. In his dreams, the man is walking through a valley and encounters a vine-covered wall with a locked bronze gate therein. He longs to know what lies beyond the gate.
Dreams in the Witch-House
Dreams in the Witch-House
H.P. Lovecraft
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Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, takes a room in the Witch House, a house in Arkham thought to be accursed. The first part of the story is an account of the history of the house, which has once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem gaol in 1692. Gilman discovers that for the better part of two centuries many if not most of its occupants have died prematurely.
Durchs wilde Kurdistan
Durchs wilde Kurdistan
Karl May
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Bei den allseits verachteten "Teufelsanbetern" wird Kara Ben Nemsi mit seinen Begleitern freundlich aufgenommen. Amad el Ghandur, der Sohn von Scheik Mohammed Emin, ihrem Gastfreund aus dem ersten Band, wird aus einer Festung in Amadijah befreit. Und Kara Ben Nemsi lernt Marah Durimeh kennen - und einen geheimnisvollen H?hlengeist
Winnetou 2
Winnetou 2
Karl May
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In diesem Band, der als wahre Reiseerz?hlung betrachtet werden kann, führt es den Ich-Erz?hler Old Shatterhand kreuz und quer durch die USA. Zun?chst verfolgen er und Winnetou noch den M?rder Santer, müssen sich dann aber trennen, und man erf?hrt dann, wie Old Shatterhand über St. Louis nach New Orleans gelangt, von wo er nach Europa zurück segeln will. Da er aber kurz nach Verlassen des Hafens in einen Hurrikan ger?t und dabei seinen gesamten Besitz verliert, verschl?gt es ihn zun?chst nach New York, wo er – um sich das Geld für die ?berfahrt zu verdienen – einen Job als Detektiv annimmt. Nach mehreren erfolgreich gel?sten F?llen, über die man nichts weiter erf?hrt, wird er damit beauftragt, einen dem Wahnsinn verfallenen Bankierssohn, der einem Betrüger in die H?nde gefallen ist, zu seinem Vater zurück zu bringen.
10 Reisegeschichten
10 Reisegeschichten
Karl May
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Der Schut Durch das Land der Skipetaren Durch die Wüste Durchs wilde Kurdistan In den Schluchten des Balkan Von Bagdad nach Stambul Winnetou 1 Winnetou 2 Winnetou 3 Winnetou 4
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it.