18 books like Corinne
Travels through France and Italy
Smollett describes in great detail the natural phenomena, history, social life, economics, diet and morals of the places he visited. Smollett had a lively and pertinacious curiosity, and, as his novels prove, a very quick eye. He foresaw the merits of Cannes, then a small village, as a health-resort, and the possibilities of the Corniche road.
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The Lands of the Saracen
This volume comprises the second portion of a series of travels. This work includes author's adventure travels in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain.
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Journey Without Maps
This is an account of a trip Graham Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the trip. Possibly as a result of this he also made a point of noting the many illnesses with which the local inhabitants were assailed, particularly malaria and…
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Paul et Virginie
Paul and Virginia, two fatherless children are brought up in poverty and innocence, amid the tropical scenery of the island of Mauritius. Virginia is recalled to France by a harsh and wealthy aunt. There she is miserable, and after two years returns to the island. But her ship is wrecked and she is drowned before the eyes of Paul.
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Reisebilder
Die in diesem Band enthaltenen Texte der Reisebilder des Dichters Heinrich Heine werden in diesem Buch mit vielen passenden Bildern neu aufgelegt. Seine Wanderung von Göttingen in den Harz und auf den Brocken sowie seine Reise über die Alpen nach Italien werden ausführlich geschildert. Außerdem äußert sich Heine eingehend über die Engländer und die Polen.
Rezension zur maritimen gelben Reihe: Ich…
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Twilight in Italy
In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. "Twilight in Italy" is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old.
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Pictures from Italy
From the book:If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect. Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of…
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Down Under (In a Sunburned Country)
In a Sunburned Country is the 2000 travelogue book about Australia written by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The title is taken from the famous Australian poem, "My Country". In other countries, including Britain, the book was titled Down Under.
In this book, Bill Bryson describes his travels by railway and car throughout Australia, his conversations with people in all walks of life…
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Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia
An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Europe under the Atlantic.
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A Survey of London
This volume offers a rare 1603 account of London and its history.
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Etruscan places
For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of ‘Women In Love’ or ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received, suppressed at times and generally at odds with Establishment values. This of course did not deter him. At his death in 1930 at the young age of 44 he was more…
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Travels with Charley
A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives…
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The Black Robe
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.
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The Paradise Mystery
American tourists, sure appreciators of all that is ancient and picturesque in England, invariably come to a halt, holding their breath in a sudden catch of wonder, as they pass through the half-ruinous gateway which admits to the Close of Wrychester. Nowhere else in England is there a fairer prospect of old-world peace. There before their eyes, set in the centre of a great green sward, fringed…
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The Aspern Papers
With a decaying Venetian villa as a backdrop, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest for the personal documents of a deceased Romantic poet, one Jeffrey Aspern. Led by his mission into increasingly unscrupulous behavior, he is ultimately faced with relinquishing his heart's desire or attaining it at an overwhelming price.
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The Treasure Box
Ee schrijfster van reisboeken beleeft achter haar computer het emotionele verhaal rond de aankoop van een mooi beschilderd schatkistje.
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The Last Hope
The Last Hope
Hugh Stowell Scott, english novelist wrote under the pseudonym Henry Seton Merriman (1862-1903)
This ebook presents «The Last Hope», from Hugh Stowell Scott. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- LE ROI EST MORT
-03- VIVE LE ROI
-04- THE RETURN OF THE LAST HOPE
-05- THE MARQUIS'S CREED
-06- ON THE…
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Seven Years in Tibet (Sieben Jahre in Tibet)
An account of an Austrian mountain climber's escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his twenty-one-month journey through the Himalayas to safety in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet.
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