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The Art of Fiction
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…
Geschichte des Agathon
Verbesserte und erweiterte Ausgabe von 1794.Wieland war – neben Lessing, Lichtenberg und Kant – der bedeutendste und reflexionsmächtigs…
History and Fiction
Why don't writers who fictionalize history just write fiction? Why did Shakespeare call his character Richard III or King John? Why not ca…
Historical Tales
Volume VI of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers t…
Der Mord im Ballsaal
Ein Arzt und ein Kriminalkommissar untersuchen gemeinsam einen mysteriösen Mordfall im Deutschen Theater München. Als sie dem T&au…
The Heroines of History
A look at some of the famous women in European history. Includes biographies on Cleopatra; Isabella of Castile; Joan of Arc; Maria Theresa; …
Denkwürdigkeiten eines englischen Edelmannes
Fiktiver Roman der auf historischen Tatsachen beruht. Es ist die Geschichte eines Engländers, der zuerst im 30jährigen Krieg unter…
Short Nonfiction Collection
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include astronomy, religion, United States…
Nicholas Nickelby
Der junge Nikolas Nickleby muss sich Anfang des 19. Jahrhundert in England durch den Verlust seines Vaters plötzlich in einer gefä…
Universal History. A general view of its principal divisions
In The World’s Story Volume XIV: An Outline of Universal History
The fourteenth volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story has a different concept than the previous books edited by Eva March Tappan. …
Preface by Hilaire Belloc
In Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand A…
A Bit of U. S. History
In New Year's Tangles and Other Stories
This is a collection of 40 short (some VERY short) stories from Christian author Pansy. They seem to have been taken from her magazine for c…
Introduction & Forward
In The Vengence of the Gods: And Three Other Stories of Real American Color Line Life
Although slavery was abolished in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865, its cancerous tendrils …
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.Der selbstsüchtige Riese übersetzt von Wilhelm Cremer …
Schwarzwaldau
Das Buch Schwarzwaldau (1856) ist einer der frühesten Vertreter des Genres "Thriller" in der deutschen Sprache. Die Handlung …
The Favourite Plot
In The Man who Understood Women, and Other Stories
This is a collection of 20 short stories by English novelist and playwright Leonard Merrick. The stories concern varied topics, and succeed …
Preface and Intro Note
In Warriors of Old Japan, and Other Stories
This is a collection of stories featuring members of the Samurai - the warrior class of old Japan, rendered into English by Yei Theodora Oza…
Preface
In The Golden Windmill and Other Stories
In this 1921 collection of short stories, many dealing with the experiences of ordinary people during the Great War, the master English stor…
Preface
In A Group of Noble Dames
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…
Plots and plans
In Doxie Dent
Following the short story collections, Clog Shop Chronicles and Beckside Lights, John Ackworth completed the adventures of clogger Jabez Cle…