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Book Brigitta and Other Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adalbert Stifter
  • Publisher : Penguin Classics
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780140446302
  • Pages : 247 pages

Download or read book Brigitta and Other Tales written by Adalbert Stifter and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1994 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of these four stories is set in a recognisable world depicted with a measured realism. But once the reader has learned to look beneath the calm, apparently seamless surface of the narrative, and in Stifter's words, 'to see with an eye of the heart', strange tensions are revealed.

Book CLASSICS Brigitta and Other Tales

Download or read book CLASSICS Brigitta and Other Tales written by Adalbert Stifter and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Brigitta  and Other Tales

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  • Author : Adalbert Stifter
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9780140448795
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Brigitta and Other Tales written by Adalbert Stifter and published by . This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroine of Brigitta makes a barren corner of the Hungarian plains bloom. Limestone concerns a priest whose one erotic encounter determines his future behaviour. Abdias is the story of a Jew raised in the North African desert and the hero of The Forest Path is a counterpart to Brigitta.

Book Brigitta  Vol  41

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  • Author : Berthold Auerbach
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2018-01-20
  • ISBN : 9780483508729
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Brigitta Vol 41 written by Berthold Auerbach and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Brigitta, Vol. 41: A Tale The rafts-men, who bring down the trunks of timber from the upper part of the valley, are always ready to lean their long steering poles against the house wall in token that here they tarry awhile; they appreciate the good food and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Brigitta  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Brigitta Classic Reprint written by Berthold Auerbach and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Brigitta Brigitta was not written until 1880, and though thus late in the author's life, it reveals no loss of skill in paint ing men and women, and, in the Opinion of many, it sur passes some of his earlier tales. In Brigitta we have the maximum of simplicity, for the entire story is the narrative of the heroine and is thus free from complex structure and elaborate diction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Brigitta

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  • Author : Berthold Auerbach
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-03-14
  • ISBN : 9780371694480
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Brigitta written by Berthold Auerbach and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Penguin Classics

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  • Author : Penguin (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780147715975
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Penguin Classics written by Penguin (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brigitta   with Abdias   Limestone   And  the Forest Path

Download or read book Brigitta with Abdias Limestone And the Forest Path written by Adalbert Stifter and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly evocative and brushed with mystery...a wonderful new translation.--Publishers Weekly. A writer who portrayed the development of people, how they overcome antagonistic forces of family and nature and very often have to pay a great price unti

Book Brigitta

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  • Author : Berthold Auerbach
  • Publisher : Trieste Publishing
  • Release : 2017-08-20
  • ISBN : 9780649292431
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Brigitta written by Berthold Auerbach and published by Trieste Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully reproduces the original, and to the maximum degree possible, gives them the experience of owning the original work.We pride ourselves on not only creating a pathway to an extensive reservoir of books of the finest quality, but also providing value to every one of our readers. Generally, Trieste books are purchased singly - on demand, however they may also be purchased in bulk. Readers interested in bulk purchases are invited to contact us directly to enquire about our tailored bulk rates.

Book A Simple Story

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  • Author : Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1997-05-01
  • ISBN : 1101161779
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book A Simple Story written by Elizabeth Inchbald and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. In scenes charged with understated erotic tension it tells the stories of the flirtatious Miss Milner who falls in love with her guardian, a Roman Catholic priest and aristocrat, and of their daughter Matilda who, banished from her father's sight, craves his love. In her use of dramatic methods—expressive gestures, delayed revelations and economical dialogues—to present these two versions of the same power-struggle between an older father-lover figure and a young girl, Inchbald achieves a psychological intensity and subtlety of characterization rarely found in other late eighteenth-century novelists.

Book Brigitta

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  • Author : Berthold Auerbach
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-12-12
  • ISBN : 9780332325507
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Brigitta written by Berthold Auerbach and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Brigitta: Erzahlung The dialect of his youth Swabian - was especially potent in lending a charm to these simple tales. Its very simplicity of structure made it the proper vehicle for the expression of the untrammeled thoughts of the peasants. Its fondness for recurring sounds made it possible to add emphasis by the use of rhyming and alliterative phrases, while its richness in metaphor substituted graphic simile for ornate diction. Auerbach was permeated with the Spirit of this dialect and breathed it with all of its charm and beauty into his stories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Lady with the Toy Dog  and Other Famous Short Stories

Download or read book The Lady with the Toy Dog and Other Famous Short Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2009 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lady with the Toy Dog," "Goussiev" and other famous tales by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). -- Time's revenges or the irony of satisfied desires are treated in "The Lady with the Toy Dog." Yet one cannot say that Chekhov himself is "disillusioned." His sense of spiritual beauty is too strong; and his depth of acceptation of life's pattern forms an aura enveloping his subject. This spiritual aura hovers about it and enwraps the gloomiest, greyest, most sardonic facts of life; death itself cannot diminish it. Examine "Goussiev," a sketch of the death of two worn-out soldiers on board a steamer, when returning from the East, a sketch that is so "modern" in its all-embracing outlook and bold acceptations as to shame nearly all our writers of today. It is so humanly broad, so tender, so infallibly true in its spiritual lightings, and it conveys the mystery of nature and all its transitory processes with sharp precision.

Book The Sandman  The Elementary Spirit  Two Mysterious Tales  German Classics

Download or read book The Sandman The Elementary Spirit Two Mysterious Tales German Classics written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2008 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No literature can produce a more original writer than Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 1822), a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann). His works are very numerous and were published at Berlin in fifteen volumes. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's famous but fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann.---Of the two tales in this book, "The Sandman" is from the collection "Night Pieces," and The Elementary Spirit is from his "Later Works." In these stories, Hoffmann's purpose is to point out the ill-effect of a morbid desire after an imaginary world, and a distaste for realities. Different as their adventures are, there is a striking similarity in the characters of Nathaniel (in "The Sandman") and Victor (in "The Elementary Spirit"). However wild may be the subjects of Hoffmann, and however rambling his method of treating them, his style is remarkably lucid.---The story of the Sandman had its origin in a discussion which actually took place between La Motte Fouque (a German writer of the romantic movement, 1777 1843) and some friends, at which Hoffmann was present. Some of the party found fault with the cold, mechanical deportment of a young lady of their acquaintance, while La Motte Fouque zealously defended her. Here Hoffmann caught the notion of the automaton Olympia, and the arguments used by Nathaniel are those that were employed by La Motte Fouque."

Book Tales Before Tolkien  The Roots of Modern Fantasy

Download or read book Tales Before Tolkien The Roots of Modern Fantasy written by Douglas A. Anderson and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Brooks. David Eddings. George R. R. Martin. Robin Hobb. The top names in modern fantasy all acknowledge J. R. R. Tolkien as their role model, the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But what writers influenced Tolkien himself? Here, internationally recognized Tolkien expert Douglas A. Anderson has gathered the fiction of authors who sparked Tolkien’s imagination in a collection destined to become a classic in its own right. Andrew Lang’s romantic swashbuckler, “The Story of Sigurd,” features magic rings, an enchanted sword, and a brave hero loved by two beautiful women— and cursed by a ferocious dragon. Tolkien read E. A. Wyke-Smith’s “The Marvelous Land of Snergs” to his children, delighting in these charming tales of a pixieish people “only slightly taller than the average table.” Also appearing in this collection is a never-before-published gem by David Lindsay, author of Voyage to Arcturus, a novel which Tolkien praised highly both as a thriller and as a work of philosophy, religion, and morals. In stories packed with magical journeys, conflicted heroes, and terrible beasts, this extraordinary volume is one that no fan of fantasy or Tolkien should be without. These tales just might inspire a new generation of creative writers. Tales Before Tolkien: 22 Magical Stories “The Elves” by Ludwig Tieck “The Golden Key” by George Macdonald “Puss-Cat Mew” by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen “The Griffin and the Minor Canon” by Frank R. Stockton “The Demon Pope” by Richard Garnett “The Story of Sigurd” by Andrew Lang “The Folk of the Mountain Door” by William Morris “Black Heart and White Heart” by H. Rider Haggard “The Dragon Tamers” by E. Nesbit “The Far Islands” by John Buchan “The Drawn Arrow” by Clemence Housman “The Enchanted Buffalo” by L. Frank Baum “Chu-bu and Sheemish” by Lord Dunsany “The Baumhoff Explosive” by William Hope Hodgson “The Regent of the North” by Kenneth Morris “The Coming of the Terror” by Arthur Machen “The Elf Trap” by Francis Stevens “The Thin Queen of Elfhame” by James Branch Cabell “The Woman of the Wood” by A. Merritt “Golithos the Ogre” by E. A. Wyke-Smith “The Story of Alwina” by Austin Tappan Wright “A Christmas Play” by David Lindsay

Book The Poor Musician  German Classics  The Life of Grillparzer

Download or read book The Poor Musician German Classics The Life of Grillparzer written by Franz Grillparzer and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2008 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Poor Musician" is an autobiographical novella by Austria's famous dramatist and poet Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872): Rounded and compacted, and yet saturated with the sad tragedy of his own isolation -- it is the most artistic work we have from his pen. For the student of Grillparzer-psychology it is a veritable treasure trove. "The Poor Musician" was the one piece of his creative genius that unflinchingly grappled with the great problem of resignation; the one piece that pictured resignation; but also the one piece that made resignation itself tragic. --- The poor, half-witted fiddler, shipwrecked in life, coddling his woe as the last sweet treasure it has left him, pouring it forth in the midnight solitude of his chamber in music that is music to none but the illusioned player -- such is resignation.

Book The Cold Heart  Nose  the Dwarf  Two German Tales

Download or read book The Cold Heart Nose the Dwarf Two German Tales written by Wilhelm Hauff and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilhelm Hauff was a writer of extraordinary fancy and invention, but working for a more obvious purpose, and producing narratives more related in character to popular legends. He was born in 1802, at Stuttgard, and in early life showed a great predilection for telling childish narratives. Being designed for the theological profession, he went to the University of Tubingen in 1820. --- On leaving the university, Hauff became tutor to the children of the Wurttemberg minister of war, General Ernst Eugen Freiherr von Hugel, and for them wrote his Tales, which he published in his "Almanach of Tales for the year 1826". --- Only a few of his famous tales take place in Germany, among them the "Nose, the Dwarf" and "The Cold Heart." --- Hauff needs only to be known to become popular in any country. His works, which are somewhat numerous, were published in a complete edition by the poet Gustav Schwab, in 1830. Wilhelm Hauff died in 1827, before he had completed his twenty-sixth year.

Book A Long  Long Time Ago and Essentially True

Download or read book A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True written by Brigid Pasulka and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an original new voice in fiction comes this warm-hearted debut. Pasulka reimagines half a century of Polish history through the legacy of one couple's profound love affair.