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Im entlegenen Nordwesten der Republik findet sich ein so flaches wie idyllisches Fleckchen Erde: Windmühlen erheben sich aus weiten Weiden, von sandigen Inseln werfen Leuchttürme ihr Licht aufs Meer, und die Einwohner sprechen eine Sprache, die zwar Deutsch ähnelt, es aber irgendwie doch nicht ist.
Auch Sonja träumt von der See, von Aufbruch und der Ferne. Für ein Zeitungsvolontariat verschlägt es sie aus dem Ländle ins ostfriesische Leer. Über die Einheimischen und ihre Eigenarten informiert sie sich vorher nicht – wozu auch? Immerhin befindet sich Ostfriesland in Deutschland, so anders kann es also nicht sein. Doch weshalb starrt der Jogger Sonja nach ihrem beherzten «Guten Moin» so grimmig an? Wieso rühren Ostfriesen diesen verflixten Tee partout nicht um? Und warum überlässt ihr der Mann auf dem Viehmarkt nach einem stinknormalen Handschlag sein Kalb? Zum Glück schließt Sonja schnell Freundschaft mit Grietje, die sie so manches Mal davor bewahrt, ins nächste Fettnäpfchen zu hüpfen. Und so langsam dämmert es Sonja, dass die Weigerung der unbeugsamen Ostfriesen, sich dem Rest der Welt anzupassen, manchmal gar nicht so verkehrt ist.
Der neue ultimative Reiseknigge für das platte Land am Wattenmeer
Little Women
Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The first part of the book was an immediate commercial and critical success and prompted the composition of the book's second part, also a huge success. Both parts were first published as a single volume in 1880. The book is an unquestioned American classic.
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the days of the 19th century Klondike Gold Rushes. Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is one of London's most-read books, and it is generally considered one of his best. Because the protagonist is a dog, it is sometimes classified as a juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence. London followed the book in 1906 with White Fang, a companion novel with many similar plot elements and themes as The Call of the Wild, although following a mirror image plot in which a wild wolf becomes civilized by a mining expert from San Francisco named Weedon Scott.
La llamada de la selva
Esta historia tiene como protagonista a un perro llamado Buck que en el otoño de 1894, cuando el descubrimiento de los yacimientos auríferos de Klondike arrastra hacia los hielos de Alaska a hombres de todas partes del globo, Buck es productivamente vendido y enviado al Norte. Sin ser ya acariciado ni respetado, en un país salvaje y hostil, se ve obligado a doblegarse a la ley primitiva del bastón y el látigo,
The Prince
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. The Prince is the most controversial book about winning power – and holding on to it – ever written. Machiavelli's tough-minded, pragmatic argument that sometimes it is necessary to abandon ethics to succeed made his name notorious. Yet his book has been read by strategists, politicians and business people ever since as the ultimate guide to realpolitik.
How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? How do you keep your enemies in check? Is it better to be feared than loved? When is it necessary to break the rules? This shrewd handbook on how power really works answers all these questions by examining regimes and their rulers around the world and throughout history, from Roman emperors to renaissance Popes, from the savagely cruel Hannibal to the utterly devious Cesare di Borgia.
Plato: The Complete Works (31 Books)
Plato was a philosopher in Ancient Greece. He was an essential figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition, and he founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
Plato's dialogues have been used (and are still used) to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion and mathematics. His lasting themes include Platonic love, the theory of forms, the five regimes, innate knowledge, among others. His theory of forms launched a unique perspective on abstract objects, and led to a school of thought called Platonism.
This collection contains the following works by Plato:
Early Works •Apology •Charmides, or Temperance •Crito •Euthyphro •Gorgias •Hippias, Lesser •Hippias, Greater •Ion •Laches •Lysis •Protagoras
Transitional Works •Cratylus •Euthydemus •Meno •Parmenides •Phaedo •Phaedrus •Symposium •The Republic
Middle Works •Theaetetus
Late Works •Critias •Laws •Philebus •Sophist •Statesman •Timaeus
Works of Disputed Authorship •Alcibiades I & II •Eryxias •Menexenus •Theages
The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable.
The Stories included are:
–The Nameless City –The Festival –The Colour Out of Space –The Call of Cthulhu –The Dunwich Horror –The Whisperer in Darkness –The Dreams in the Witch House –The Haunter of the Dark –The Shadow Over Innsmouth –Discarded Draft of «The Shadow Over Innsmouth» –The Shadow Out of Time –At the Mountains of Madness –The Case of Charles Dexter Ward –Azathoth –Beyond the Wall of Sleep –Celephaïs –Cool Air –Dagon –Ex Oblivione –Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family –From Beyond –He –Herbert West-Reanimator –Hypnos –In the Vault –Memory –Nyarlathotep –Pickman's Model –The Book –The Cats of Ulthar –The Descendant –The Doom That Came to Sarnath –The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath –The Evil Clergyman –The Horror at Red Hook –The Hound –The Lurking Fear –The Moon-Bog –The Music of Erich Zann –The Other Gods –The Outsider –The Picture in the House –The Quest of Iranon –The Rats in the Walls –The Shunned House –The Silver Key –The Statement of Randolph Carter –The Strange High House in the Mist –The Street –The Temple –The Terrible Old Man –The Thing on the Doorstep –The Tomb –The Transition of Juan Romero –The Tree –The Unnamable –The White Ship –What the Moon Brings –Polaris –The Very Old Folk –Ibid –Old Bugs –Sweet Ermengarde, or, The Heart of a Country Girl –A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson –The History of the Necronomicon
La llamada de la selva
Esta historia tiene como protagonista a un perro llamado Buck que en el otoño de 1894, cuando el descubrimiento de los yacimientos auríferos de Klondike arrastra hacia los hielos de Alaska a hombres de todas partes del globo, Buck es productivamente vendido y enviado al Norte. Sin ser ya acariciado ni respetado, en un país salvaje y hostil, se ve obligado a doblegarse a la ley primitiva del bastón y el látigo,
The Call of the Wild
Buck, a sturdy crossbreed canine (half St. Bernard, half Shepard), is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. But then he is kidnapped and sold to be a sled dog in the harsh and frozen Yukon Territory. Passed from master to master, Buck embarks on an extraordinary journey, proving his unbreakable spirit… First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.
No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in «The Call of the Wild». —H. L. Mencken. Few men have more convincingly examined the connection between the creative powers of the individual writer and the unconscious drive to breed and to survive, found in the natural world… London is in and committed to his creations to a degree very nearly unparalleled in the composition of fiction. —James Dickey
Emma
Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as «handsome, clever, and rich» but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel, Austen wrote, «I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like.»