The Description of Wales Giraldus Cambrensis http://feedbooks.com/book/3826 en 1194 Non-Fiction History Williams' classic edition of Hoare's classic translation is here augmented with almost 200 new annotations concerning quotations, language, geography, history, and customs alluded to in the text. http://feedbooks.com/book/3826.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3826.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3826.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3826.mobi Winnetou 4 Karl May http://feedbooks.com/book/3487 de 1910 Novels Western Der Schriftsteller Karl May erhält in Radebeul Post aus Amerika und bricht daraufhin mit seiner Frau, dem Herzle, zu seiner letzten Reise dorthin auf. Seinem Blutsbruder Winnetou soll ein Denkmal gesetzt werden. Karl May / Old Shatterhand trifft alte Bekannte, deren Nachwuchs und zahlreiche symbolreiche Handlungsträger und kann den Bau des Monumentaldenkmals gerade noch abwenden. Der Band kommt in Gestalt der alten Reiseberichte daher, aber doch ist vieles anders geworden. Die Gewehre hat Old Shatterhand zwar immer noch (oder wieder) dabei, sie werden aber nicht mehr gebraucht und sind auch deshalb fast die ganze Zeit im Gepäck. Nicht mehr mit der "Schmetterhand" werden die "Feinde" besiegt, sondern höchstens noch durch List und die Gewalt des Wortes. Ganz im Friedensgedanken seiner Spätwerke werden am Ende alle "Feindschaften" mit den alten Widersachern des Westens in Freundschaft aufgelöst. Sogar die zum Hauptschurken Santer stellvertretend mit dessen Söhnen. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3487.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3487.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3487.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3487.mobi Winnetou 3 Karl May http://feedbooks.com/book/3485 de 1893 Novels Western Old Shatterhand trifft in der Savanne den berühmten Westmann Sans-Ear. Nachdem Sans-Ear vier feindliche Komantschen besiegt hat, reiten beide zusammen weiter und verhindern einen Zugüberfall. Bei diesem Überfall beteiligt sich ein Weißer, der von Sans-Ear als der Mörder seiner Familie identifiziert wird, Fred Morgan. Durch einen glücklichen Umstand können sie die Spur des Verbrechers entdecken und folgen ihm durch den Llano Estacado, wo sie sich erneut gegen die Comanchen behaupten müssen, zwischenzeitlich begleitet von Winnetou und Bernard Marshall, der ebenfalls hinter Fred Morgan her ist. In der Nähe der Goldfelder von San Francisco erwischen sie endlich beide Morgans. Im zweiten Teil trifft Old Shatterhand auf einer Zugfahrt Fred Walker, einen Detektiv, der hinter den Railtroublers her ist, einer Bande von Zugräubern. Old Shatterhand und später auch Winnetou verbünden sich mit Spürauge und verhindern einen Überfall auf Echo Canyon, eine große Bahnstation. Auf der Flucht überfallen die mit den Zugräubern verbündeten Sioux eine Siedlung und verschleppen alle Bewohner. Bei der Rettungsaktion am Berg Hancock wird Winnetou von einem Sioux erschossen. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3485.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3485.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3485.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3485.mobi Winnetou 2 Karl May http://feedbooks.com/book/3473 de 1893 Novels Western In diesem Band, der als wahre Reiseerzählung betrachtet werden kann, führt es den Ich-Erzähler Old Shatterhand kreuz und quer durch die USA. Zunächst verfolgen er und Winnetou noch den Mörder Santer, müssen sich dann aber trennen, und man erfährt dann, wie Old Shatterhand über St. Louis nach New Orleans gelangt, von wo er nach Europa zurück segeln will. Da er aber kurz nach Verlassen des Hafens in einen Hurrikan gerät und dabei seinen gesamten Besitz verliert, verschlägt es ihn zunächst nach New York, wo er – um sich das Geld für die Überfahrt zu verdienen – einen Job als Detektiv annimmt. Nach mehreren erfolgreich gelösten Fällen, über die man nichts weiter erfährt, wird er damit beauftragt, einen dem Wahnsinn verfallenen Bankierssohn, der einem Betrüger in die Hände gefallen ist, zu seinem Vater zurück zu bringen. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3473.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3473.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3473.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3473.mobi Winnetou 1 Karl May http://feedbooks.com/book/3467 de 1893 Novels Western Der Ich-Erzähler Charlie (vergleiche Karl May) alias Old Shatterhand arbeitet als Vermesser für die Eisenbahngesellschaft Great Western. Da seine Kollegen sehr träge und trunksüchtig sind, muss er alles alleine machen. Zum Glück stehen ihm die Westmänner Sam Hawkens, Dick Stone und Will Parker zur Seite. Die Eisenbahngesellschaft plant einen Gleisbau mitten durch das Gebiet der Apachen. Intschu-tschuna (Gute Sonne), der Häuptling aller Apachen, sein Sohn Winnetou (Brennendes Wasser) und der aus Deutschland stammende Klekih-petra (Weißer Vater) kommen, um die Eisenbahner friedlich darauf hinzuweisen, dass dies ihr Land sei. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3467.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3467.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3467.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3467.mobi Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache Mark Twain http://feedbooks.com/book/2126 de 1897 Essay This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2126.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2126.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2126.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2126.mobi Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad http://feedbooks.com/book/15 urn:isbn:0486264645 en 1902 Novels Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/15.png http://feedbooks.com/book/15.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/15.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/15.mobi Dubliners James Joyce http://feedbooks.com/book/5 urn:isbn:0486268705 en 1914 Short Fiction Collections Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They center on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/5.png http://feedbooks.com/book/5.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/5.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/5.mobi Tales of Three Hemispheres Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3373 en 1920 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections Tales of Three Hemispheres is a collection of fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany. The first edition was published in Boston by John W. Luce & Co. in November, 1919; the first British edition was published in London by T. Fisher Unwin in June, 1920. The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication in a new edition by Owlswick Press in 1976, with illustrations by Tim Kirk and a foreword by H. P. Lovecraft, actually a general article on Dunsany's work originally written by Lovecraft in 1922, but unpublished until it appeared in his posthumous Marginalia (Arkham House, 1944). The book collects 14 short pieces by Dunsany; the last three, under the general heading "Beyond the Fields We Know," are related tales, as explained in the publisher's note preceding the first, "Idle Days on the Yann," which was previously published in the author's earlier collection A Dreamer's Tales, but reprinted in the current one owing to the relationship. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3373.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3373.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3373.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3373.mobi A Dreamer's Tales Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3352 en 1910 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections A Dreamer's Tales is the fifth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in September, 1910, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories as A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories in 1917. The book is actually Dunsany's fourth major work, as his preceding book, The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth (March, 1910), was a chapbook reprinting a single story from his earlier collection The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (October, 1908). In common with most of Dunsany's early books, A Dreamer's Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3352.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3352.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3352.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3352.mobi Tales of Wonder Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3357 en 1916 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The Last Book of Wonder, originally published as Tales of Wonder, is the tenth book and sixth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3357.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3357.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3357.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3357.mobi Fifty-One Tales Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3356 urn:isbn:1592240062 en 1915 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections Fifty-One Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. The first editions, in hardcover, were published simultaneously in London and New York by Elkin Mathews and Mitchell Kennerly, respectively, in April, 1915. The British and American editions differ in that they arrange the material slightly differently and that each includes a story the other omits; "The Poet Speaks with Earth" in the British version, and "The Mist" in the American version. The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication (as The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales) by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the third volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in September, 1974. The Newcastle edition used the American version of the text. The book collects fifty-one short stories by the author. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3356.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3356.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3356.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3356.mobi