18 books like Sämtliche Werke
Goethe's Werke
Diese Sammlung der Werke von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, bedeutender deutscher Dichter und Naturforscher, enthält u. a.:Die Leiden des jungen WertherWilhelm Meisters theatralische SendungUnterhaltungen deutscher AusgewandertenBassompierres Geschichte von der schönen KrämerinDer ProkuratorFerdinands Schuld und WandlungDas MärchenUnterhaltungen Deutscher AusgewandertenDie Sängerin AntonelliWilhelm…
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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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The fairy mythology of Shakespeare
With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.
Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We…
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Anton Reiser
xv, 456 p. ; 23 cm
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What I Know For Sure
"After film critic Gene Siskel asked her, "What do you know for sure?" Oprah Winfrey began writing the "What I Know For Sure" column in O, The Oprah Magazine. Saying that the question offered her a way to take "stock of her life," Oprah has penned one column a month over the last fourteen years, years in which she retired The Oprah Winfrey Show (the highest-rated program of its kind in history),…
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha es una novela escrita por el español Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Publicada su primera parte con el título de El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha a comienzos de 1605, es la obra más destacada de la literatura española y una de las principales de la literatura universal. En 1615 apareció su continuación con el título de Segunda parte del ingenioso caballero don…
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The common sense of science
Discusses science as a characteristic part of human activity and as an effort to render the world predictable.
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Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret
In the last years of his life.
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Goethe & the Greeks
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Longitude
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem."
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude,…
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The magical worlds of Harry Potter
Fans of epic undersea adventures will love the world and style of this brand new story from Disney's Atlantis. Taking place after the movie, Milo and Kida team together to protect the world of Atlantis. This original graphic novel brings a classic tale for fans of the movie, and it's also a classic adventure for anyone coming to this world and characters for the first time!A brand-new adventure…
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Italienische Reise
RE choice of the following extracts has been governed by the wish to provide interesting reading-matter for the class-room. From selections made with such an aim much of what fell within the wide range of Goethe's interest is excluded. His observations on the geological and mineral ogical character of the regions through which he passed, his notes on botany, on the nature of the soil and on meth…
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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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L' altrui mestiere
«La capacità d'osservare è la grande dote di Primo Levi». Italo Calvino La mia casa, Ex chimico, Contro il dolore, Il salto della pulce, Notizie dal cielo, Il mondo invisibile, Il linguaggio degli odori, sono alcuni titoli degli scritti che Primo Levi ha pubblicato tra il 1964 e il 1984. Le scienze naturali, la zoologia, l'astronomia, la letteratura diventano punti di partenza per una serie di…
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Tracks in the snow
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I Like What I Know
Vincent Price—best known until recently for his career in the theatre and motion pictures—recounts here the delightful story of his lifelong love affair with the art world.
In I LIKE WHAT I KNOW, Vincent Price writes of his early consciousness of the art around him, and of his first art acquisition—which he paid for with money earned at odd jobs. He recalls his trip to Europe at the age of…
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Poems
From the book:Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyesSee nothing save their own unlovely woe,Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -But that the roar of thy Democracies,Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,Mirror my wildest passions like the seaAnd give my rage a brother -! Liberty!For this sake only do thy dissonant criesDelight my discreet soul, else might all kingsBy…
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The wife of Bath
The Wyves Tale of Bathe and prologue are among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale.
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