11 Bücher ähnlich wie Das Erbe Kains
Doktor Thorne
The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 3: Dr. Thorne
Mary Thorne, orphaned (and illegitimate) niece of Dr. Thorne, has long been a favorite at Greshamsbury House--until Lady Arabella Gresham learns that her only son Frank is in love with Mary. The unhappy Mary is banished forthwith, because the Gresham family fortunes are so depleted that Frank must marry money.
Frank, however, is one of the few…
Gemeinsame Themen: Clergy in fiction, Fathers and daughters in fiction, England in fiction, Clergy
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: Clergy in fiction, England in fiction, Clergy, British and irish fiction
Silas Marner
Eliot's touching novel of a miser and a little child combines the charm of a fairy tale with the humor and pathos of realistic fiction. The gentle linen weaver, Silas Marner, exiles himself to the town of Raveloe after being falsely accused of a heinous theft. There he begins to find redemption and spiritual rebirth through his unselfish love for an abandoned child he discovers in his isolated…
Gemeinsame Themen: Adopted children, Fathers and daughters, Mystery
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
Die Königin der Herzen
The queen of hearts is a playing card in the standard 52-card deck.
Gemeinsame Themen: British and irish fiction, Mystery
Der Mond und die Sechspence
The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is told first-person, dipping episodically into the mind of the artist. Charles Strickland is an English stock broker, who leaves everything behind him in his middle age to live in defiant squalor in Paris as an artist. His genius is eventually recognized by a Dutch painter.
Gemeinsame Themen: England in fiction, British and irish fiction, England
Maurice
Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university and beyond. It was written in 1913–1914, and revised in 1932 and 1959–1960.
Gemeinsame Themen: England in fiction, British and irish fiction, England
Das Geheimnis des Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final, uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens. John Jasper is a choirmaster who is in love with one of his pupils, Rosa Bud. She is the fiancee of his nephew, Edwin Drood. A hot-tempered man from Ceylon also becomes interested in her and he and Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Later, Drood disappears, and as Dickens never finished the novel, Drood's…
Gemeinsame Themen: England in fiction, British and irish fiction, England, Mystery
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: England in fiction, Clergy, British and irish fiction
Der schwarze Priester
The Black Robe is an 1881 partially-epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book, which relates the misadventures of one "Lewis Romayne", is noted for its anti-Catholic lens.
Gemeinsame Themen: British and irish fiction, England, Mystery
Das Gesetz und die Dame
Three years ago, her husband stood accused of murder -- and the verdict that came in from the jury was the Scottish Verdict, Not Proven. The jury had not evidence enough to convict him
-- nor enough to comfortably exonerate him. Eustace could not bear the weight of her discovery; he fled to the continent, to live in anonymity. But Valeria knew her husband, and she loved him. She knew he was…
Gemeinsame Themen: Married people, British and irish fiction, England, Mystery