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Barchester Türme
The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 2: Barchester Towers
Written as a sequel to "The Warden", this is the second book of the Barsetshire novels. Described as humorous, this wonderful novel that interweaves power, love, greed, and deceit in Barchester.
Barchester Towers (1857) is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire, the work in which, after a ten-year apprenticeship, Trollope…
Gemeinsame Themen: Barsetshire, Clergy in fiction, England in fiction, Clergy
Das Erbe Kains
At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English prison during the earlier period of my appointment as Governor.
Gemeinsame Themen: Clergy in fiction, Fathers and daughters in fiction, England in fiction, Clergy
Framley-Pfarrei
The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 4: Framley Parsonage
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative…
Gemeinsame Themen: Barsetshire, Clergy, Social life and customs, Classic Literature
Der Pfarrer von Wakefield
Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Gemeinsame Themen: Children of clergy, England in fiction, Clergy, History
Vater Goriot
SCOTT (copy 1): The Hédi Bouraoui Collection in Maghrebian and Franco-Ontario Literatures is the gift of University Professor Emeritus Hédi Bouraoui.
Gemeinsame Themen: Fathers and daughters in fiction, Fathers and daughters, Social life and customs, History
Wildfeuer
From the book:For some reason the desert scene before Lucy Bostil awoke varying emotions - a sweet gratitude for the fullness of her life there at the Ford, yet a haunting remorse that she could not be wholly content - a vague loneliness of soul - a thrill and a fear for the strangely calling future, glorious, unknown. She longed for something to happen. It might be terrible, so long as it was…
Gemeinsame Themen: Fathers and daughters, Romance & Relationships, Classic Literature
Der Weg alles Fleisches
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.' With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, the novel is a thinly…
Gemeinsame Themen: Children of clergy, Social life and customs, Classic Literature
Der unkommerzielle Reisende
A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches.
Gemeinsame Themen: Social life and customs, Classic Literature, History
Noli me tangere
The book revolves on the struggles of young Crisostomo Ibarra: how he humbly fights for his childhood sweetheart Maria Clara, for himself and for his fellowmen against the Spanish priest Padre Damaso and the Spanish Government who were then conquerors of San Diego, his native hometown. Coming home to San Diego from Spain to mourn for his father's death, he learned how his father, a rich…
Gemeinsame Themen: Romance & Relationships, Classic Literature, History