Zola beschreibt das heuchlerische, verlogene, zum Schein sittsame, dabei durch und durch verdorbene und lasterhafte Bürgertum. Im Mittelpunkt der Geschehnisse steht Octave Mouret, ein junger Mann, der aus Plassans nach Paris zieht, um dort sein Glück zu machen.
Der Talisman was written in the year 1825 by Sir Walter Scott. This book is one of the most popular novels of Sir Walter Scott, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers...
Im April/Mai 1901 schreibt ein nach Europa zurückgekehrter Österreicher fünf Briefe an einen anonymen alten Freund nach London. Darin schätzt er sich weder als Visionär ein, noch gestattet er sich als Geschäftsmann Halluzinationen. Mit Kunst hat er sich noch...
Marguerite Gautier, vom Luxus verwöhnte Mätresse zahlungskräftiger Herren der Gesellschaft, lernt mit dem jungen Armand Duval die echte Liebe kennen. Um seinetwillen ist sie bereit, ihr unmoralisches Leben aufzugeben, um mit ihm ein einfaches Leben auf dem...
Der Roman ist eine fiktive Autobiographie. Der Protagonist, der Mönch Medardus, der, wie man im Laufe des Romans erfährt, mit nahezu allen handelnden Personen des Romans in irgendeiner Weise verwandt ist, weiß zu Beginn des Romans nichts von diesen Verbindungen...
Die Gespenstersonate ist ein Kammerspiel von Johan August Strindberg, das er am 21. Januar 1908 im 'Intima teatern', das er im Jahr davor, zusammen mit dem Schauspieler August Falck, gegründet hatte, uraufführt. Die Uraufführung floppt und das Stück wird erst...
My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK in May 1919 by George Newnes. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie...
J. Arbuthnot Wilson (pseudonym of the real author, Grant Allen) tells this short story of his strange night spent inside "the great unopened Pyramid of Abu Yilla" in Egypt. On New Year's Eve, on the night before his group was to take a guided tour and climb...
My Visit To Niagara was written in the year 1863 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book is one of the most popular novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings...
The following essays have been written and published at various times, and my thanks are due to the previous publishers for the permission to reprint them. The essay on "Mysticism and Logic" appeared in the Hibbert Journal for July, 1914. "The Place of Science...
Mystification was written in the year 1837 by Edgar Allan Poe. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edgar Allan Poe, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers...
Excerpt:Ta-ra! ta-ra! ta-ra-ra-ra! ta-rat!Professor Krenner took the silver bugle from his lips while the strain echoed flatly from the opposite, wooded hill. That hill was the Isle of Hope, a small island of a single eminence lying half a mile off the mainland,...
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave was written in the year 1850 by Sojourner Truth. This book is one of the most popular novels of Sojourner Truth, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period....
The story is about the literary world of late-Victorian London that Gissing inhabited, and its title, New Grub Street, alludes to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with the "hack writing" that pervades Gissing's novel;...
Love of Life & Other Stories was written in the year 1907 by Jack London. This book is one of the most popular novels of Jack London, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings...
Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.The play opens with the King of Navarre and three noble companions, Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville, taking an...