18 books like Italienische Reise
Aus meinem Leben
This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Faust• Erotica Romana• The Sorrows of Young Werther• Maxims and Reflections• Representative Men: Seven LecturesRalph Waldo Emerson• Faust — Part • Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books• Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe• Wilhelm…
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Iphigenie auf Tauris
"Iphigenie auf Tauris" ist ein Bühnenstück von Johann Wolfgang Goethe nach der Vorlage von Euripides' Iphigenie bei den Taurern. 1779 schrieb der Dichter eine Prosafassung, die er während seiner Italienreise ab 1786 in ein Versdrama umformte. Den Titel wählte Goethe in falscher Analogie zur latinisierten Version des Titels der Euripidestragödie Iphigenia in Tauris. Der griechische…
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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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Anton Reiser
xv, 456 p. ; 23 cm
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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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Le Rhin
Dans ces pages de voyage, Victor Hugo fait du Rhin et de ses villes un vaste livre de pierre, où Mayence, Cologne, Francfort, Worms et Rome révèlent les combats du temps, de l'histoire et de la modernité. L'arrivée par le chemin de fer, la douceur des paysages rhénans, les cathédrales, les cloîtres, les tombeaux et les ruines composent une méditation à la fois savante, lyrique et indignée sur la…
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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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Autobiography of Lutfullah
Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli
"This first complete reprint of James Boswell's book on Corsica since the eighteenth century is enhanced by comprehensive annotation, textual apparatus, and a critical introduction. Boswell designed his text in two parts, first, an "Account" of Corsica, which gives a historical, political, socioeconomic, and cultural overview of the Corsican people, and second, the "Journal" of his tour to see…
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Italian journeys
"In the later part of his long and productive life - he wrote well over a dozen novels, thirty-one dramas, a few volumes of verse, several autobiographical works, eleven books of travel - W. D. Howells was considered one of America's foremost men of letters."--BOOK JACKET.
"Italian Journeys, published in 1867 and written during the four years Howells spent as an American consul in Venice, is…
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Trionfo della morte
Trionfo della morte, apparso prima a puntate sulla “Tribuna illustrata” e su “Il mattino” e poi pubblicato in volume nel 1894, chiude il cosiddetto ciclo dei «Romanzi della Rosa» iniziato con Il piacere (1889) e proseguito con L’innocente (1892). È un testo fortemente influenzato dall’estetica wagneriana e dalle teorie superomistiche di Nietzsche. L’opera più che dalla trama appare sorretta dalla…
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
In "A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland," Samuel Johnson embarks on a rich narrative that intertwines travelogue with philosophical reflection. Written in 1775, this work documents Johnson's exploration of the Scottish Highlands alongside his companion James Boswell. The text is characterized by Johnson's keen observations, eloquent prose, and a blend of personal anecdote and…
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The Path to Rome
The Path to Rome is British-French writer and historian Hilaire Belloc’s first travelogue. It describes the pilgrimage he took to Rome as the result of a vow he made while visiting his hometown of Toul, in Lorraine, France. In his own copy of the book, dated May 29, 1904, he notes: “I wrote this book for the glory of God.” Belloc walked “two and a half hundred leagues” to Rome, over twenty-two…
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Eine Jugend in Deutschland
Eine Jugend in Deutschland ist eine Autobiographie von Ernst Toller, die 1933 erschien. Der Autor erinnert sich seines Lebens bis zum Jahr 1924.
(Quelle: Wikipedia)
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Works (American Notes / Pictures from Italy)
American Notes was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philadelphia; Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis; railways and steamboats. Its publication was greeted with dismay: what Dickens described as "honest and true" was regarded in America as "a compound of…
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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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The Aran Islands
"In the late 1890s, John M. Synge, in his middle twenties and unsure of his vocations made his way to Paris intending to study French literature and become a literary critic. There he met William Butler Yeats. The eminent poet advised Synge to drop his involvements with fin de siecle French authors, return to Ireland, and describe a society with which he had some natural connection.
Yeats…
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