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Sir Harry Johnston Mrs. Warren's Daughter (Fiscle Part-Vi) A Story Of The Woman's Movement

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
126002 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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The Date When This Story Begins Is A Saturday Afternoon In June, 1900, About 3 P.M. The Scene Is The Western Room Of A Suite Of Offices On The Fifth Floor Of A House In Chancery Lane, The Offices Of _Fraser And Warren_, Consultant Actuaries And Accountants. There Is A Long Window Facing West, The Central Part Of Which Is Open, Affording A Passage Out On To A Parapet. Through This Window, And Still Better From The Parapet Outside, May Be Seen The Picturesque Spires And Turrets Of The Law Courts, A Glimpse Here And There Of The Mellow, Red-Brick, White-Windowed Houses Of New Square, The Tree-Tops Of Lincoln's Inn Fields, And The Hint Beyond A Steepled And Chimneyed Horizon Of The Wooded Heights Of Highgate. All This Outlook Is Flooded With The Brilliant Sunshine Of June, Scarcely Dimmed By The City Smoke And Fumes. [mehr]

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Harry Johnston Mrs. Warren'S Daughter (fiscal part I) A Story Of The Woman'S Movement

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
125476 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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The Date When This Story Begins Is A Saturday Afternoon In June, 1900, About 3 P.M. The Scene Is The Western Room Of A Suite Of Offices On The Fifth Floor Of A House In chancery Lane, The Offices Of _Fraser And Warren_, Consultant Actuaries And Accountants. There Is A Long Window Facing West, The Central Part Of Which Is Open, Affording A Passage Out On To A Parapet. Through This Window, And Still Better From The Parapet Outside, May Be Seen The Picturesque Spires And Turrets Of The Law Courts, A Glimpse Here And There Of The Mellow, Red-Brick, White-Windowed Houses Of New Square, The Tree-Tops Of Lincoln'S Inn Fields, And The Hint Beyond A Steepled And Chimneyed Horizon Of The Wooded Heights Of Highgate. All This Outlook Is Flooded With The Brilliant Sunshine Of June, Scarcely Dimmed By The City Smoke And Fumes. [mehr]

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Sir Harry Johnston Mrs. Warren'S Daughter (fiscal part I) A Story Of The Woman'S Movement

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
124395 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
0

The Date When This Story Begins Is A Saturday Afternoon In June, 1900, About 3 P.M. The Scene Is The Western Room Of A Suite Of Offices On The Fifth Floor Of A House In chancery Lane, The Offices Of _Fraser And Warren_, Consultant Actuaries And Accountants. There Is A Long Window Facing West, The Central Part Of Which Is Open, Affording A Passage Out On To A Parapet. Through This Window, And Still Better From The Parapet Outside, May Be Seen The Picturesque Spires And Turrets Of The Law Courts, A Glimpse Here And There Of The Mellow, Red-Brick, White-Windowed Houses Of New Square, The Tree-Tops Of Lincoln'S Inn Fields, And The Hint Beyond A Steepled And Chimneyed Horizon Of The Wooded Heights Of Highgate. All This Outlook Is Flooded With The Brilliant Sunshine Of June, Scarcely Dimmed By The City Smoke And Fumes. [mehr]

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Temple Bailey Contrary Mary (fiscle part-I)

Drama
Englisch
91012 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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The Big House, Standing On A High Hill Which Overlooked The City, Showed In The Moonlight The Grotesque Outlines Of A Composite Architecture. Originally It Had Been A Square Substantial Edifice Of Colonial Simplicity. A Later And Less Restrained Taste Had Aimed At A Castellated Effect, And Certain Peaks And Turrets Had Been Added. Three Of These Turrets Were Excrescences Stuck On, Evidently, With An Idea Of Adornment. The Fourth Tower, However, Rounded Out And Enlarged A Room On The Third Floor. This Room Was One Of A Suite, And The Rooms Were Known As The Tower Rooms, And Were Held By Those Who Had Occupied Them To Be The Most Desirable In The Barn-Like Building [mehr]

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Temple Bailey Contrary Mary (Fiscle Part-I)

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
89429 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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The Big House, Standing On A High Hill Which Overlooked The City, Showed In The Moonlight The Grotesque Outlines Of A Composite Architecture. Originally It Had Been A Square Substantial Edifice Of Colonial Simplicity. A Later And Less Restrained Taste Had Aimed At A Castellated Effect, And Certain Peaks And Turrets Had Been Added. Three Of These Turrets Were Excrescences Stuck On, Evidently, With An Idea Of Adornment. The Fourth Tower, However, Rounded Out And Enlarged A Room On The Third Floor. This Room Was One Of A Suite, And The Rooms Were Known As The Tower Rooms, And Were Held By Those Who Had Occupied Them To Be The Most Desirable In The Barn-Like Building [mehr]

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Charlotte Yonge Unknown To History (Fiscle Part-Xii) Part 1

Historisches
Englisch
86977 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
1

In P. 58 Of Vol. Ii. Of The Second Edition Of Miss Strickland's Life Of Mary Queen Of Scots, Or P. 100, Vol. V. Of Burton's History Of Scotland, Will Be Found The Report On Which This Tale Is Founded. If Circumstances Regarding The Queen's Captivity And Babington's Plot Have Been Found To Be Omitted, As Well As Many Interesting Personages In The Suite Of The Captive Queen, It Must Be Remembered That The Art Of The Story-Teller Makes It Needful To Curtail Some Of The Incidents Which Would Render The Narrative Too Complicated To Be Interesting To Those Who Wish More For A View Of Noted Characters In Remarkable Situations, Than For A Minute And Accurate Sifting Of Facts And Evidence. [mehr]

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Gambler

Belletristik
Englisch
60257 Wörter
Ab 12 Jahren
243
2

The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts. The first-person narrative is told from the point of view of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman Des Grieux and has mortgaged his property in Russia to pay only a small amount of his debt. Upon learning of the illness of his wealthy aunt, "Grandmother", he sends streams of telegrams to Moscow and awaits the news of her demise. His expected inheritance will pay his debts and gain Mademoiselle De Cominges's hand in marriage. One day while Polina and Alexei are on a walk they see a Baron and Baroness. Polina dares him to insult the aristocratic couple and he does so with little hesitation. This sets off a chain of events that details Madame de Cominges's interest in the General and gets Alexei fired as tutor of the General's children. Shortly after this, Grandmother shows up and surprises the whole party of debtors and indebted. She tells them all that she knows all about the General's debt and why the French man and woman are waiting around the suite day after day. She leaves the party of death-profiteers by saying that none of them are getting any of her money. She then asks Alexei to be her guide around the town famous for its healing waters and infamous for its casino where the tables are stacked with piles of gold; she wants to gamble. Alexei starts to gamble to survive. One day he passes Mr. Astley on a park bench in Bad Homburg and has a talk with him. He finds out from Astley that Polina is in Switzerland and actually does love him. Astley gives him some money but shows little hope that he will not use it for gambling. Alexei goes home dreaming of going to Switzerland the next day and recollects what made him win at the roulette tables in the past. [mehr]

Stichwörter: the gambler, fyodor dostoyevsky, psychological thriller, gambling, classic literature, russian fiction, great novel

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Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Saint Elizabeth And Other Stories

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
27610 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
0

She Had Not Been Brought Up In America At All. She Had Been Born In France, In A Beautiful Château, And She Had Been Born Heiress To A Great Fortune, But, Nevertheless, Just Now She Felt As If She Was Very Poor, Indeed. And yet her home was in one of the most splendid houses in New York. She had a lovely suite of apartments of her own, though she was only eleven years old. She had had her own carriage and a saddle horse, a train of masters, and governesses, and servants, and was regarded by all the children of the neighborhood as a sort of grand and mysterious little princess, whose incomings and outgoings were to be watched with the greatest interest. "There she is," they would cry, flying to their windows to look at her. "She is going out in her carriage." "She is dressed all in black velvet and splendid fur." "That is her own, own, carriage." "She has millions of money; and she can have anything she wants—Jane says so!" "She is very pretty, too; but she is so pale and has such big, sorrowful, black eyes. [mehr]

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Honore De Balzac Droll Stories, Complete (fiscle part-XII) Part 1 Collected from The Abbeys Of Touraine

Horror
Englisch
100432 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
1

The Archbishop Of Bordeaux Had Added To His Suite When Going To The Council At Constance Quite A Good-Looking Little Priest Of Touraine Whose Ways And Manner Of Speech Was So Charming That He Passed For A Son Of La Soldee And The Governor. The Archbishop Of Tours Had Willingly Given Him To His Confrere For His Journey To That Town, Because It Was Usual For Archbishops To Make Each Other Presents, They Well Knowing How Sharp Are The Itchings Of Theological Palms. Thus This Young Priest Came To The Council And Was Lodged In The Establishment Of His Prelate, A Man Of Good Morals And Great Science. Philippe De Mala, As He Was Called, Resolved To Behave Well And Worthily To Serve His Protector, But He Saw In This Mysterious Council Many Men Leading A Dissolute Life And Yet Not Making Less, Nay --Gaining More Indulgences, Gold Crowns And Benefices Than All The Other Virtuous And Well-Behaved Ones. Now During One Night--Dangerous To His Virtue--The Devil Whispered Into His Ear That He Should Live More Luxuriously, Since Every One Sucked The Breasts Of Our Holy Mother Church And Yet They Were Not Drained, A Miracle Which Proved Beyond Doubt The Existence Of God. And The Priest Of Touraine Did Not Disappoint The Devil. He Promised To Feast Himself, To Eat His Bellyful Of Roast Meats And Other German Delicacies, When He Could Do So Without Paying For Them As He Was Poor. [mehr]

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Jules Verne Voyage au centre de la Terre

Belletristik
Französisch
68759 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
265
0

"Voyage au centre de la Terre" est un roman de science-fiction, écrit en 1864 par Jules Verne. Il fut publié en édition originale in-18 le 25 novembre 1864, puis en gd in-8° le 13 mai 1867. Le texte de 1867 est différent de celui de 1864. Il comporte en effet deux chapitres de plus (45 au lieu de 43). Ayant découvert un manuscrit runique ancien, un savant, son neveu et leur guide entreprennent un voyage vers le centre de la Terre en y entrant par un volcan islandais éteint, le Sneffels (c'est-à-dire le Snæfellsjökull). Comme à l'habitude de Jules Verne, le roman est un habile mélange de données scientifiques, d'extrapolations osées et d'aventure. L'introduction du roman reflète l'engouement d'alors pour une science jeune, la cryptologie. La suite enchaîne sur une description de l'Islande de la fin du XIXe siècle, puis sur une vaste introduction à deux autres sciences en plein essor, la paléontologie et la géologie (on notera d'ailleurs les divergences entre les interprétations de l'époque et celles couramment admises aujourd'hui). [mehr]

Stichwörter: jules verne, voyage au centre de la terre, vingt mille lieues sous les mers, tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

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