Oscar: 1500 books

Dieses eBook: "Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe...

Few works in English literature have so peculiar a history as Oscar Wilde's play Salome. Written originally in French in 1892 and ridiculed on its publication, translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie" himself) and again heaped with scorn, it has survived for 75 years, served as the...

The Picture of Dorian Gray, the only novel by Oscar Wilde, was first published in 1890. A substantially revised and expanded edition was published in April 1891. For the new edition, Wilde revised the content of the novel's existing chapters, divided the final chapter into two chapters, and created...

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an extremely popular Irish writer and poet who wrote in different forms throughout his career and became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the strange circumstances of...

Horror hides behind an attractive face in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s scandalous tale of a Victorian libertine and his life of evil excesses. Though Dorian’s hedonistic indulgences leave no blemish on his ageless features, the painted portrait imbued with his soul proves a living catalogue...

Le Fantôme de Canterville (Edition Intégrale - Version Entièrement Illustrée) * Inclus une courte biographie d'Oscar Wilde Résumé : Un ministre américain et sa famille achètent à Lord Canterville son château et tout ce qu'il contient... fantôme compris. Mais la famille Otis n'a...

Throughout this book, I try to point out different investment strategies that I think will lead to prosperity. Given current global conditions, what is the best way to preserve and grow wealth? I argue the answer to this question is: physical silver and gold, both coins and bars. My emphasis is especially on gold for reasons I will explain throughout this book.

"Children in prison and other cruelties of prison life" is a letter that Oscar Wilde wrote to the editor of the London Daily Chronicle after a warder (guard) in the prison in Reading (one of the prisons where Wilde himself was incarcorated) was dismissed after having fed a starving child...

Thousands of readers remember with pleasure Oscar Lewis’s fine book on the Western railroad robber barons, The Big Four. Silver Kings is a companion piece, dealing as it does with the big four of the Nevada Comstock Lode, one of the greatest of all silver mines. These were really fabulous men who...

In Oscar Kamazimas Visions beyond My Eyes, poems of life, love, and faith come together in forms of creatively placed words to create vivid stories that captivate the reader. This collection of poems encapsulates life-changing events and visions that are hard to understand or move past due to the...

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer and poet who distinguished himself as a leader of London's school of Aesthetics in the late nineteenth century. He became famous for his long hair, flamboyant dress, green carnations and colorful, biting wit. His successful novels, social comedies, poetry and...

A New York Times "Editor's Choice" A Vanity Fair "Best Book for History Buffs" An Amazon Best Book of November 2015 A David Baldacci Top Pick for Fall 2015 A Boston Globe Fall 2015 Pick An EW.com Blockbuster Novel Pick One of Newsday's...

Tales of tank warfare from Pusan to the Chosin Reservoir, based on interviews with the veterans who were there—from the author of Tanks in Hell. The outbreak of the Korean conflict caught America (and the Marine Corps) unprepared. The Corps' salvation was the existence of its Organized Reserve...

An extraordinary slice of untold WWII history: how unproven Marines driving untested Sherman tanks turned the tide against Japan in the Battle of Tarawa. In May 1943, a self-described “really young, green, ignorant lieutenant” assumed command of a new US Marine Corps company. His even younger...