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Wallace Delois Wattles (1860-1911) was an American author. As a New Thought writer, he remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements. Wattles often trave...

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Carmilla is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). Le Fanu presents the story as part of the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, whos...

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In "Beyond Good and Evil" Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind...

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This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of c...

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The Job is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, and her desire to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story tak...

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As the butch doyenne of the Parisian Salons, Gertrude Stein captures the heart of Picasso in that context and gives insights on how Picasso worked as an artist and why Cubism came about in the way that it did. Also, this portrait of Picasso contai...

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Carl Spitteler (1845-1924) war ein Schweizer Dichter und Schriftsteller, Kritiker und Essayist. 1919 erhielt er den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Sein grosses Versepos Olympischer Frühling (1900-1905), in dem Spitteler in rund 20.000 Versen Figuren un...

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This carefully crafted ebook: "e;VICTOR L. WHITECHURCH Ultimate Collection: 30+ Thrillers & Mysteries, including The Thorpe Hazell Detective Tales, The Thrilling Stories of the Railway & Other Tales On and Off the Rails"e; is formatted for...

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The Divine Comedy is widely considered to be the preeminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view of the 14th centu...

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Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy - since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as conte...

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Dieses eBook: "e;Gedichte"e; ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfaltig korrekturgelesen. Joachim Ringelnatz (1883-1934) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Kabarettist und Maler, der vor all...

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The Malleus Maleficarum or "Hammer of Witches" is the best known and the most important treatise on witchcraft. It endorses extermination of witches and for this purpose develops a detailed legal and theological theory. It was a bestseller, second...

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The subjects of Mackay's debunking include witchcraft, alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, hau...

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The richness of the Treasure Valley, high in the mountains of Stiria is lost through the evil of the owners, the two elder "e;Black Brothers"e;, Hans and Schwartz, who in their foolishness mistreat Southwest Wind, Esquire, who in turn floo...

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The Jungle Book is a collection of stories. The tales in the book are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, familie...

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Martin Eden is a tale about a young sailor struggling to become a writer. Eden is trying to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the litera...

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The Divine Comedy is widely considered to be the preeminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval world-view of the 14th centu...

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In addition to his poetry, Coleridge also wrote influential piece of literary criticism, Biographia Literaria, a collection of his thoughts and opinions on literature. The work delivered both biographical explanations of the author's life as well ...

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Franz Kafka (1883-1924) war ein deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller. Sein Hauptwerk bilden neben drei Romanfragmenten zahlreiche Erzählungen. Kafkas Werke wurden zum größeren Teil erst nach seinem Tod und gegen seine letztwillige Verfügung von Max Br...

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At the beginning of The Great War William Le Queux started rumbling German schemes, and he wrote several novels and short stories set in occupied countries during the War. His heroes are mainly spies, secret service agents and other brave patriots...

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The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary, loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, presented mostly as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wi...

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Aus dem Buch: "Ich ging mit Winnetou fort, um nicht Zeuge der Vollstreckung dieses Urteiles zu sein. Ein Ebenbild Gottes prügeln zu sehen, ist nicht jedermanns Sache. Leider aber giebt es Menschen, bei denen selbst eine solche Strafe ohne all...

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is the original 1818 'Uncensored' Edition of Frankenstein as first published anonymously in 1818. This original version is much more true to the spirit of the author's original intentions than the heavily re...

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Babylon was a key kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia from the 18th to 6th centuries BCE. The city was built on the Euphrates river and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods...

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This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-settin...

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Jahre der Entscheidung. Deutschland und die weltgeschichtliche Entwicklung ist eine politisch-philosophische Schrift. Spengler plädiert, mit seinem Vorbild Friedrich Nietzsche, für einen Pessimismus der Stärke, der sich von dem der Feigen und Müde...

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Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932), war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Übersetzer. Die Zentren seines literarischen Schaffens waren Prag und München. Zu beiden pflegte er zeitlebens eine innige Hassliebe. Als einer der Ersten im deutschen Sprachr...

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