This book consists of short stories seen through a mystic window, with your fantasies occurring by daydreaming or an unconscious swoon. Metaphors are used to imply and compare phrases ordinarily similar or equal to the content being mentioned. Suspense starts to build when the darkness enters and starts showing itself; the tales and fables get wilder as you go further in through the book. ...
This book is for everyone who is struggling or suffering along life’s path. Everyone has a life’s journey. This journey can be frightening and lonely. It may seem that this part of the journey will never end. This story is about a boy’s journey in life. He is alone and frightened by the jungle of life. He works his way out of the swampy jungle. The next part of his journey is a hill that he must climb. He must put in the ...
Punavoim on Eestist pogenenud ning algab saksa aeg. See naib toovat kergendust – kuid illusioon Eesti riigi taastamisest moraneb kiirelt. Proua Kuke harrasteklubi on segi paisatud – uks tudruk on hukkunud, kaks kadunud, uks teisi reetnud. Ehkki aeg naib haavu parandavat, rebib see valla vanu, juba ammu kinni kasvanud arme. Minevikust kerkib sungeid saladusi, mis ohustavad mitmeid elusid, ning inimesi, keda on tahetud unustada. Ka koige usaldusli ...
"Es ist schon eine unglaubliche Erfahrung, sein eigenes Buch zu lesen. Ich hatte mir das ein bisschen leichter vorgestellt. Dass das wirklich harte Arbeit ist, war mir so vorher nicht bewusst. Dachte, ach, so ein bisschen lesen, das wirste ja wohl noch auf die Reihe kriegen. Und dann wurden es doch drei sehr intensive Arbeitstage, die ich aber sehr genossen habe." Hape Kerkeling Kein Witz: Hape Kerkeling, Deutschlands vielseitigster TV-Ent ...
One of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement, was Emile Zola (1840-1902). He was the most important example of the literary genre of naturalism, and an integral part of developing theatrical naturalism. «The Kill» is the second book in Zola's «Les Rougon-Macquart», a twenty-volume series about a fictional family during the Second French Empire. The Kill ...
The «Divine Comedy» was entitled by Dante himself merely «Commedia,» meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect i ...
First published in 1866, Hugo's story unfolds the life of a reclusive fisherman, Gilliat, who lives on the Isle of Guernsey, where Hugo himself was exiled for a large portion of his life. When Gilliat becomes a young man, he falls in love with Deruchette, the beautiful niece of wealthy ship-owner Lethierry. When Lethierry's steamship mysteriously runs aground, Deruchette, who is in love with the new rector of the island, offers to marr ...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist whose noble Hungarian origins afforded her an idyllic childhood and extensive education in the arts at schools in Brussels, Paris and London. In 1903, with the success of a play written by Orczy and her husband based on one of her short stories about an English aristocrat, Orczy rewrote the story as a novel that drew huge sales. As a result, «The Scarlet Pimpernel» ...
"A Princess of Mars" is the first tale in the classic Martian novel series of Edgar Rice Burroughs. At the center of the series is the protagonist John Carter, a Confederate Captain of the American Civil War, who finds himself mysteriously transported to the planet Mars. «A Princess of Mars» is both a romantic adventure and a science fiction tale of fantasy. John Carter finds himself captive by large four-armed green men along with the love ...
