Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character. The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood...
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Auteur: Carroll, LewisSommaire:A collection of 10 readers performing Jabberwocky.
- Auteur: Campbell, John WoodSommaire:
Islands of Space is a science fiction novel by author John W. Campbell, Jr.. It was first published in book form in 1957 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 1,417 copies. The novel originally appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories...
- Auteur: Barlow, JaneSommaire:
Irish Idylls is a collection of short stories about Irish peasantry during the 19th Century. Ms Jane Barlow, an Irish lass, having, unbelievably, an uncertain date of birth, has a turn of phrase that delights and simultaneously enmeshes...
- Auteur: Trouillot, HénockSommaire:
Constitutes one chapter of Le dossier du vaudou.
- Auteur: BINGHAM, HiramSommaire:
Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale Makes the Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the Age by Locating and Excavating Ruins of Machu Picchu on a Peak in the Andes of Peru.
- Auteur: DAVIS, Richard HardingSommaire:
The story is set in London, at an elite gentleman’s club called "The Grill," where an American gentleman arrests the attention of four other men by relating how one night he got lost in a thick London fog. He...
- Auteur: Foote, Mary HallockSommaire:
Contents: In exile. -- Friend Barton's "concern". -- The story of the Alca?zar. -- A cloud on the mountain. -- The rapture of Hetty -- The watchman.
- Auteur: Murri, RomoloSommaire:
What it means to be our B. P. of democratic propaganda: We say in the course of this volume what is our democracy. It is the same human consciousness in motion for the conquest of himself, his beliefs, social institutions. To...
- Auteur: BEARD, Charles A. & Mary R.Sommaire:
In 1921, Charles and Mary Beard published their History of the United States. A contemporaneous review stated: “The authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a...
- Auteur: MASPERO, GastonSommaire:
History Of Egypt, Chaldă, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original by M. L. McClure (d1918), “Histoire...
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Auteur: Siringo, Charles A.Sommaire:History of the American outlaw Billy the Kid.
- Auteur: Hall, James NormanSommaire:
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an unpolished feel because it was published in June of 1918 while Mr. Hall was a captive in a German...
- Auteur: LODGE, Henry CabotSommaire:
Its purpose … is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die; who proved their truth by their endeavor; and who joined to the stern and manly qualities which are...
- Auteur: Altsheler, Joseph A.Sommaire:
The Northern Army has just be handed a great defeat at Bull Run and is headed back to Washington, DC. How will the North answer this defeat? Follow our hero, Dick Mason, into the Western campaign to find out.
- Auteur: TACITUS, Caius CorneliusSommaire:
Germania, written by Cornelius Tacitus around 98, is an ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire. Germania fits squarely within the tradition established by authors from Herodotus to Julius Caesar. Tacitus...
- Auteur: COURTENAY, Calista McCabeSommaire:
In this biography for young people, Calista McCabe Courtenay takes the reader from George Washington the surveyor to his early military career, first as a colonel in the Virgina militia and then as a member of General Braddock'a...
- Auteur: Stratton-Porter, GeneSommaire:
Freckles, a plucky orphan who has lost one hand, finds work with the kindly owner of a vast lumber camp and discovers the plot of a former employee to cut and steal some of the trees.
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Auteur: Ibsen, Henrik - Auteur: Collingwood, HarrySommaire:
This is a very well-written and seamanlike book. The hero is young Harry Collingwood, the same as the pseudonym of the author. His father has not returned from a previous voyage to sea, and is presumed to be lost. There are also some...