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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie der Antike, Note: 2,3, Universität Leipzig, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Nikomachische Ethik gilt als der wichtigste Text der aristotelischen Ethikkonzeption. Im Gegensatz zur fragmentarisch überlieferten Eudemischen Ethik und zur Magna Moralia, deren Authentizität umstritten ist, handelt es sich hierbei um ein in sich kohärentes, abgeschlossenes Buch mit systematisch-logischem Aufbau. Das inhaltlich dichte und komplexe Werk beeinflusste signifikant die Philosophiegeschichte des Abendlandes und scheint bis heute kaum an Aktualität eingebüßt zu haben. Zunächst definiert Aristoteles das Endziel des Strebens nach einem guten Leben als Glück (eudaimonia) und schließt daran eine ausführliche Untersuchung der ethischen und dianoethischen Tugenden an. Die Untersuchung der Freundschaft (Buch VIII und IX) bildet den Höhepunkt gegen Ende des Buches, da hier Bedingung und Konsequenz des moralisch- glücklichen Lebens (das Zusammenleben in der Gemeinschaft) aufgezeigt werden. Auffällig ist, dass der aristotelische Freundschaftsbegriff ein weiteres Feld menschlicher Beziehungen umfasst als die Freundschaft in der (post-)postmodernen Welt und darüber hinaus auch von politischer Relevanz ist, ohne dabei den Privatmenschen und seine Bedürfnisse auszuklammern.Die heute selbstverständliche und tiefgreifende Unterscheidung zwischen privatem und öffentlichem/politischen Leben war zur Zeit der hellenistischen Monarchien geradezu unbekannt. Für Aristoteles ist ein glückliches und gelungenes Leben untrennbar mit politischer Aktivität als Polisbürger verbunden. Dabei spielt Freundschaft (philia) eine besondere Rolle, deren Bedeutung weit über privates, innerliches Glücksgefühl (oder die sinnliche Liebe- aphrodisia) hinausreicht. Im Folgenden werde ich die verschiedenen Aspekte der Freundschaft (ihre Erscheinungsformen, verschiedene Beziehungen zu den Mitmenschen, Selbstliebe und die Konsequenzen für das Polisleben) darstellen und in einen Zusammenhang bringen, der zeigt, dass Aristoteles vor ca. 2300 Jahren (unabhängig von christlichem Einfluss) eine Theorie des ganzen Menschen entwarf, in der alle Seelenteile1 und Aspekte des Lebens von Vernunft und Selbstbeherrschung vereint und integriert werden, um so ein glückliches Leben anstreben und verwirklichen zu können.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Note: 1,3, Technische Universität Dresden (Philosophische Fakultät - Institut für evangelische Theologie), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Kirchengeschichte: 'Martin Luther', Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mehr als Renaissance und Humanismus hat sich die Reformation in Deutschlandausgewirkt. 'Sie hat in alle Lebensgebiete hinein und auf alle Volkskreise ausstrahlenkönnen, sie hat das ganze deutsche Kulturleben, Sprache, Staat, Wissenschaft, aufsstärkste beeinflusst, und nicht zuletzt die Bildung und das Unterrichtswesenwenigstens im protestantischen Teil Deutschlands.'1Martin Luther strebte nicht nur eine Erneuerung der Theologie und der Kirchesondern auch die der Bildung an. Denn nach einem Aufschwung der Schulen undUniversitäten im Zuge des Humanismus kam es zum Niedergang des Schulwesensund die Studentenzahlen gehen drastisch zurück. Im Lichte dieser Entwicklungergreift Luther das Wort und richtet sich in seiner Schrift 'An die Burgermeyster undRadherren allerley Stedte ynn Deutschen landen' 1524 an die Kommunalvertreter derStädte.Ich verfolge das Ziel, anhand Luthers Schrift 'An die Burgermeyster und Radherrenallerley Stedte ynn Deutschen landen' von 1524 seine Vorstellung von Bildung undErziehung der Jugendlichen dieser Zeit auszumachen und darzustellen. Dabei ist mirwichtig, seine Gedanken in den Kontext der Zeit einzubetten und aufzuzeigen, wasLuthers Hauptgedanken und Hauptanliegen hinsichtlich der Erziehung und Bildungder Jugendlichen sind.[.]. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Investition und Finanzierung, Note: keine, Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Veranstaltung: Schwerpunktfach Finanzwirtschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Stiftungswesen gewinnt seit den 90er Jahren, ganz besonders aberab dem Jahr 2000 in Deutschland zunehmend an Bedeutung. Dabei stelltsich die Frage, was konkret unter einer Stiftung zu verstehen ist und welcheCharaktereigenschaften sie besitzt.Gesetzlich ist der Begriff Stiftung nicht definiert, allerdings besitzen alleStiftungen bestimmte einheitliche Wesensmerkmale. Nach allgemeinerMeinung versteht man unter einer Stiftung eine selbständige Organisation(Institution), die einem vom Stifter bestimmten Zweck mit Hilfe eines dazugewidmeten Vermögens dauernd dienen soll.Der Zweck, den ein Stifter zur Gründung einer Stiftung motiviert, kannsehr vielfältig sein. Meist ist er privat- oder gemeinnütziger Natur, wobei95% aller Stiftungen in Deutschland den Zweck der Wohltätigkeit erfüllen. Sie sind daher gemeinnützige Stiftungen. Die Intention einer gemeinnützigenStiftung ist es, die Allgemeinheit auf materiellem, geistigem odersittlichem Gebiet selbstlos zu fördern. Dabei wird das Stiftungsvermögenbeispielsweise zur Unterstützung bestimmter Forschungsgebiete, zur Hilfebei sozialen Problemen oder zur stärkeren Beachtung des Umweltschutzeseingesetzt. Wichtig hierbei ist, wie auch bei allen anderen Stiftungen,dass nicht das Stiftungsvermögen selbst, sondern nur die Erträge diesesVermögens für den bestimmten Zweck benutzt werden. Das Stiftungsvermögenbleibt somit ungeschmälert.Den gemeinnützigen Stiftungen stehen privatnützige Stiftungen gegenüber.Ein Hauptanwendungsfall privatnütziger Stiftungen stellen Familienstiftungendar. Sie sollen das vom Stifter gewidmete Vermögen vor Zersplitterungim Erbgang bewahren und somit der Familie insgesamt verfügbarhalten.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie der Antike, Note: 2,3, Universität Leipzig, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Nikomachische Ethik gilt als der wichtigste Text der aristotelischen Ethikkonzeption. Im Gegensatz zur fragmentarisch überlieferten Eudemischen Ethik und zur Magna Moralia, deren Authentizität umstritten ist, handelt es sich hierbei um ein in sich kohärentes, abgeschlossenes Buch mit systematisch-logischem Aufbau. Das inhaltlich dichte und komplexe Werk beeinflusste signifikant die Philosophiegeschichte des Abendlandes und scheint bis heute kaum an Aktualität eingebüßt zu haben. Zunächst definiert Aristoteles das Endziel des Strebens nach einem guten Leben als Glück (eudaimonia) und schließt daran eine ausführliche Untersuchung der ethischen und dianoethischen Tugenden an. Die Untersuchung der Freundschaft (Buch VIII und IX) bildet den Höhepunkt gegen Ende des Buches, da hier Bedingung und Konsequenz des moralisch- glücklichen Lebens (das Zusammenleben in der Gemeinschaft) aufgezeigt werden. Auffällig ist, dass der aristotelische Freundschaftsbegriff ein weiteres Feld menschlicher Beziehungen umfasst als die Freundschaft in der (post-)postmodernen Welt und darüber hinaus auch von politischer Relevanz ist, ohne dabei den Privatmenschen und seine Bedürfnisse auszuklammern.Die heute selbstverständliche und tiefgreifende Unterscheidung zwischen privatem und öffentlichem/politischen Leben war zur Zeit der hellenistischen Monarchien geradezu unbekannt. Für Aristoteles ist ein glückliches und gelungenes Leben untrennbar mit politischer Aktivität als Polisbürger verbunden. Dabei spielt Freundschaft (philia) eine besondere Rolle, deren Bedeutung weit über privates, innerliches Glücksgefühl (oder die sinnliche Liebe- aphrodisia) hinausreicht. Im Folgenden werde ich die verschiedenen Aspekte der Freundschaft (ihre Erscheinungsformen, verschiedene Beziehungen zu den Mitmenschen, Selbstliebe und die Konsequenzen für das Polisleben) darstellen und in einen Zusammenhang bringen, der zeigt, dass Aristoteles vor ca. 2300 Jahren (unabhängig von christlichem Einfluss) eine Theorie des ganzen Menschen entwarf, in der alle Seelenteile1 und Aspekte des Lebens von Vernunft und Selbstbeherrschung vereint und integriert werden, um so ein glückliches Leben anstreben und verwirklichen zu können.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Note: 1,3, Technische Universität Dresden (Philosophische Fakultät - Institut für evangelische Theologie), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Kirchengeschichte: 'Martin Luther', Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mehr als Renaissance und Humanismus hat sich die Reformation in Deutschlandausgewirkt. 'Sie hat in alle Lebensgebiete hinein und auf alle Volkskreise ausstrahlenkönnen, sie hat das ganze deutsche Kulturleben, Sprache, Staat, Wissenschaft, aufsstärkste beeinflusst, und nicht zuletzt die Bildung und das Unterrichtswesen,wenigstens im protestantischen Teil Deutschlands.'1Martin Luther strebte nicht nur eine Erneuerung der Theologie und der Kirche,sondern auch die der Bildung an. Denn nach einem Aufschwung der Schulen undUniversitäten im Zuge des Humanismus kam es zum Niedergang des Schulwesensund die Studentenzahlen gehen drastisch zurück. Im Lichte dieser Entwicklungergreift Luther das Wort und richtet sich in seiner Schrift 'An die Burgermeyster undRadherren allerley Stedte ynn Deutschen landen' 1524 an die Kommunalvertreter derStädte.Ich verfolge das Ziel, anhand Luthers Schrift 'An die Burgermeyster und Radherrenallerley Stedte ynn Deutschen landen' von 1524 seine Vorstellung von Bildung undErziehung der Jugendlichen dieser Zeit auszumachen und darzustellen. Dabei ist mirwichtig, seine Gedanken in den Kontext der Zeit einzubetten und aufzuzeigen, wasLuthers Hauptgedanken und Hauptanliegen hinsichtlich der Erziehung und Bildungder Jugendlichen sind.[.]. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Investition und Finanzierung, Note: keine, Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Veranstaltung: Schwerpunktfach Finanzwirtschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Stiftungswesen gewinnt seit den 90er Jahren, ganz besonders aberab dem Jahr 2000 in Deutschland zunehmend an Bedeutung. Dabei stelltsich die Frage, was konkret unter einer Stiftung zu verstehen ist und welcheCharaktereigenschaften sie besitzt.Gesetzlich ist der Begriff Stiftung nicht definiert, allerdings besitzen alleStiftungen bestimmte einheitliche Wesensmerkmale. Nach allgemeinerMeinung versteht man unter einer Stiftung eine selbständige Organisation(Institution), die einem vom Stifter bestimmten Zweck mit Hilfe eines dazugewidmeten Vermögens dauernd dienen soll.Der Zweck, den ein Stifter zur Gründung einer Stiftung motiviert, kannsehr vielfältig sein. Meist ist er privat- oder gemeinnütziger Natur, wobei95% aller Stiftungen in Deutschland den Zweck der Wohltätigkeit erfüllen. Sie sind daher gemeinnützige Stiftungen. Die Intention einer gemeinnützigenStiftung ist es, die Allgemeinheit auf materiellem, geistigem odersittlichem Gebiet selbstlos zu fördern. Dabei wird das Stiftungsvermögenbeispielsweise zur Unterstützung bestimmter Forschungsgebiete, zur Hilfebei sozialen Problemen oder zur stärkeren Beachtung des Umweltschutzeseingesetzt. Wichtig hierbei ist, wie auch bei allen anderen Stiftungen,dass nicht das Stiftungsvermögen selbst, sondern nur die Erträge diesesVermögens für den bestimmten Zweck benutzt werden. Das Stiftungsvermögenbleibt somit ungeschmälert.Den gemeinnützigen Stiftungen stehen privatnützige Stiftungen gegenüber.Ein Hauptanwendungsfall privatnütziger Stiftungen stellen Familienstiftungendar. Sie sollen das vom Stifter gewidmete Vermögen vor Zersplitterungim Erbgang bewahren und somit der Familie insgesamt verfügbarhalten.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - Erster Weltkrieg, Weimarer Republik, Note: 1,3, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Thema der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Verbindung zwischen dem Tannenberg-Denkmal und dem Personenkult um Paul von Hindenburg. Interessant ist hierbei vor allem, in welchem Maße der Hindenburg-Mythos und das Denkmalprojekt bei Tannenberg nationalistisch aufgeladen waren und sich so geradezu dafür anboten, von den Nationalsozialisten schließlich für ihre Zwecke instrumentalisiert zu werden, eine Offerte, die von den Agitatoren des ¿Dritten Reiches¿ gerne angenommen wurde. Der ¿Tag von Potsdam und die Beisetzung Hindenburgs im Tannenberg-Denkmal sind dabei herausragende Beispiele für die Vereinahmung des Generalfeldmarschalls durch die Propaganda der Nazis und werden in dieser Arbeit thematisiert.Da die Arbeit die Verbindung zwischen dem Hindenburgkult und dem Tannenberg-Denkmal zum Thema hat, wird im Verlauf der Arbeit weder ausführlich auf Hindenburgs Funktion als Chef der OHL, noch auf sein politisches Wirken als Reichspräsident näher eingegangen. Diese beiden fraglos wichtigen Aspekte seines Lebens werden zwar im Hinblick auf den Aufbau seines Mythos angeschnitten, können aber im Rahmen einer Masterarbeit ebenso wenig ausführlich behandelt werden, wie die Baugeschichte und Ausgestaltung des Tannenberg-Nationaldenkmals erschöpfend betrachtet werden kann. Vielmehr soll veranschaulicht werden, dass das gesamte Denkmalprojekt von Beginn an kein Vorhaben der Weimarer Republik war, in dem Sinne, dass es von republikanisch gesinnten Kreisen getragen worden wäre. Das Denkmal wurde ganz im Gegenteil zu einem Ort, an dem der Geist von Konservatismus und Nationalismus lebte und der ein Symbol des Revisionismus wurde, was nicht zuletzt von den Nationalsozialisten betont wurde. Das Tannenberg-Denkmal wurde von Anfang an vor allem von den konservativen und militaristischen Schichten der Bevölkerung getragen und war von Beginn an nicht nur ein Denkmal für die ¿Schlacht von Tannenberg¿ oder Hindenburg, sondern auch für deutschen National-stolz und die Sehnsucht nach einem Wiedererstarken des Deutschen Reiches.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensethik, Wirtschaftsethik, Note: 1,0, Technische Universität Dortmund, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender globaler Umwelt- und Entwicklungsprobleme wurde Mitte der 1980er Jahre der Begriff ¿nachhaltige Entwicklung¿ geprägt. Bei der Analyse der zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen zu diesem Thema wird schnell erkennbar, dass es an Konkretisierungsversuchen für diesen Begriff nicht mangelt.Eine mittlerweile mehr als zwanzig Jahre andauernde, intensiv geführte wissenschaftliche und politische Diskussion hat allerdings bislang noch nicht zu einem Konsens über ein einheitliches Begriffsverständnis von ¿Nachhaltigkeit¿ bzw. ¿nachhaltiger Entwicklung¿1 geführt (vgl.Walz/Kuhlmann 2005, S. 279; Klemmer/Lehr/Löbbe 1999, S. 29f.). Darüber hinaus ist noch weitestgehend unklar, wie Nachhaltigkeit zu bewerten ist und welche konkreten Schritte notwendig sind, um die Gesellschaft auf einen nachhaltigen Entwicklungspfad zu bewegen (vgl. Coenen/Grunwald 2003, S. 37).Die Ursache, weshalb sich nachhaltige Entwicklung trotz dieser konzeptionellen Unklarheiten als ein gesellschaftliches Leitbild etabliert hat, liegt in der generellen Zustimmungsfähigkeit. Darüber hinaus besteht ein weitgehender Konsens darüber, dass die Art und Weise der menschlichenBedürfnisbefriedigung gegenwärtig als nicht nachhaltig bezeichnet werden muss(vgl. Coenen/Grunwald 2003, S. 56; Belz 2002, S. 18; Klemmer/Lehr/Löbbe 1999, S. 29f.). ¿Trotz dieser zweifellos beeindruckenden Karriere eines Begriffs fließen die Grundannahmen der Nachhaltigkeit jedoch nicht selbstverständlich und reibungslos in wirtschaftliches, umweltrelevantes und soziales Handeln ein. Es mangelt ganz offensichtlich an tragfähigen Brückenschlägenzwischen Zielvorgaben, Umsetzungskonzepten und den vorhandenen Innovationspotenzialen in den relevanten Handlungsfeldern¿ (Linne/Schwarz 2003, S. 13).…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Gesch. Europa - Deutschland - I. Weltkrieg, Weimarer Republik, Note: 1,3, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 110 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Thema der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Verbindung zwischen dem Tannenberg-Denkmal und dem Personenkult um Paul von Hindenburg. Interessant ist hierbei vor allem, in welchem Maße der Hindenburg-Mythos und das Denkmalprojekt bei Tannenberg nationalistisch aufgeladen waren und sich so geradezu dafür anboten, von den Nationalsozialisten schließlich für ihre Zwecke instrumentalisiert zu werden, eine Offerte, die von den Agitatoren des Dritten Reiches gerne angenommen wurde. Der Tag von Potsdam und die Beisetzung Hindenburgs im Tannenberg-Denkmal sind dabei herausragende Beispiele für die Vereinahmung des Generalfeldmarschalls durch die Propaganda der Nazis und werden in dieser Arbeit thematisiert. Da die Arbeit die Verbindung zwischen dem Hindenburgkult und dem Tannenberg-Denkmal zum Thema hat, wird im Verlauf der Arbeit weder ausführlich auf Hindenburgs Funktion als Chef der OHL, noch auf sein politisches Wirken als Reichspräsident näher eingegangen. Diese beiden fraglos wichtigen Aspekte seines Lebens werden zwar im Hinblick auf den Aufbau seines Mythos angeschnitten, können aber im Rahmen einer Masterarbeit ebenso wenig ausführlich behandelt werden, wie die Baugeschichte und Ausgestaltung des Tannenberg-Nationaldenkmals erschöpfend betrachtet werden kann. Vielmehr soll veranschaulicht werden, dass das gesamte Denkmalprojekt von Beginn an kein Vorhaben der Weimarer Republik war, in dem Sinne, dass es von republikanisch gesinnten Kreisen getragen worden wäre. Das Denkmal wurde ganz im Gegenteil zu einem Ort, an dem der Geist von Konservatismus und Nationalismus lebte und der ein Symbol des Revisionismus wurde, was nicht zuletzt von den Nationalsozialisten betont wurde. Das Tannenberg-Denkmal wurde von Anfang an vor allem von den konservativen und militaristischen Schichten der Bevölkerung getragen und war von Beginn an nicht nur ein Denkmal für die Schlacht von Tannenberg oder Hindenburg, sondern auch für deutschen National-stolz und die Sehnsucht nach einem Wiedererstarken des Deutschen Reiches.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensethik, Wirtschaftsethik, Note: 1,0, Technische Universität Dortmund, 115 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender globaler Umwelt- und Entwicklungsprobleme wurde Mitte der 1980er Jahre der Begriff nachhaltige Entwicklung geprägt. Bei der Analyse der zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen zu diesem Thema wird schnell erkennbar, dass es an Konkretisierungsversuchen für diesen Begriff nicht mangelt.Eine mittlerweile mehr als zwanzig Jahre andauernde, intensiv geführte wissenschaftliche und politische Diskussion hat allerdings bislang noch nicht zu einem Konsens über ein einheitliches Begriffsverständnis von Nachhaltigkeit bzw. nachhaltiger Entwicklung 1 geführt (vgl.Walz/Kuhlmann 2005, S. 279; Klemmer/Lehr/Löbbe 1999, S. 29f.). Darüber hinaus ist noch weitestgehend unklar, wie Nachhaltigkeit zu bewerten ist und welche konkreten Schritte notwendig sind, um die Gesellschaft auf einen nachhaltigen Entwicklungspfad zu bewegen (vgl. Coenen/Grunwald 2003, S. 37).Die Ursache, weshalb sich nachhaltige Entwicklung trotz dieser konzeptionellen Unklarheiten als ein gesellschaftliches Leitbild etabliert hat, liegt in der generellen Zustimmungsfähigkeit. Darüber hinaus besteht ein weitgehender Konsens darüber, dass die Art und Weise der menschlichenBedürfnisbefriedigung gegenwärtig als nicht nachhaltig bezeichnet werden muss(vgl. Coenen/Grunwald 2003, S. 56; Belz 2002, S. 18; Klemmer/Lehr/Löbbe 1999, S. 29f.). 'Trotz dieser zweifellos beeindruckenden Karriere eines Begriffs fließen die Grundannahmen der Nachhaltigkeit jedoch nicht selbstverständlich und reibungslos in wirtschaftliches, umweltrelevantes und soziales Handeln ein. Es mangelt ganz offensichtlich an tragfähigen Brückenschlägenzwischen Zielvorgaben, Umsetzungskonzepten und den vorhandenen Innovationspotenzialen in den relevanten Handlungsfeldern' (Linne/Schwarz 2003, S. 13).…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Chapter 1'TOM!'No answer.'TOM!'No answer.'What's gone with that boy, I wonder You TOM!'No answer.The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for 'style,' not service - she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:'Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll - 'She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.'I never did see the beat of that boy!'She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and 'jimpson' weeds that constituted the garden. No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:'Y-o-u-u TOM!'There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.'There! I might 'a' thought of that closet. What you been doing in there ''Nothing.''Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What IS that truck ''I don't know, aunt.''Well, I know. It's jam - that's what it is. Forty times I've said if you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you. Hand me that switch.'The switch hovered in the air - the peril was desperate'My! Look behind you, aunt!'The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger. The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and disappeared over it.His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh.[.] 192 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, , language: English, abstract: BOOK FIFTH. THE DESCENT\*\*\*CHAPTER I. THE HISTORY OF A PORGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS\*\*\*And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child Where was she What was she doing After leaving her little Cosette with the Thenardiers, she had continued her journey, and had reached M. sur M.This, it will be remembered, was in 1818.Fantine had quitted her province ten years before. M. sur M. had changed its aspect. While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness to wretchedness, her native town had prospered.About two years previously one of those industrial facts which are the grand events of small districts had taken place.This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at length; we should almost say, to underline it.[.]\*\*\*BOOK SIXTH. JAVERT\*\*\*CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE\*\*\*M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep.On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to the wall.Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last she said timidly:'What are you doing 'M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:'How do you feel ''Well, I have slept,' she replied; 'I think that I am better, It is nothing.'He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him as though he had just heard it:'I was praying to the martyr there on high.'[.] 60 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Some Particulars Concerning a LionWe have a great respect for lions in the abstract. In common with most other people, we have heard and read of many instances of their bravery and generosity. We have duly admired that heroic self-denial and charming philanthropy which prompts them never to eat people except when they are hungry, and we have been deeply impressed with a becoming sense of the politeness they are said to display towards unmarried ladies of a certain state. All natural histories teem with anecdotes illustrative of their excellent qualities; and one old spelling-book in particular recounts a touching instance of an old lion, of high moral dignity and stern principle, who felt it his imperative duty to devour a young man who had contracted a habit of swearing, as a striking example to the rising generation.[.]\*\*\*Somebody's LuggageChapter I--His Leaving It Till Called ForThe writer of these humble lines being a Waiter, and having come of a family of Waiters, and owning at the present time five brothers who are all Waiters, and likewise an only sister who is a Waitress, would wish to offer a few words respecting his calling; first having the pleasure of hereby in a friendly manner offering the Dedication of the same unto Joseph, much respected Head Waiter at the Slamjam Coffee-house, London, E.C., than which a individual more eminently deserving of the name of man, or a more amenable honour to his own head and heart, whether considered in the light of a Waiter or regarded as a human being, do not exist.[.]\*\*\*Sunday Under Three HeadsDedicationTo The Right ReverendTHE BISHOP OF LONDONMY LORDYou were among the first, some years ago, to expatiate on the vicious addiction of the lower classes of society to Sunday excursions; and were thus instrumental in calling forth occasional demonstrations of those extreme opinions on the subject, which are very generally received with derision, if not with contempt.[.]\*\*\*Three Detective AnecdotesI. - The Pair of Gloves'It's a singler story, sir,' said Inspector Wield, of the Detective Police, who, in company with Sergeants Dornton and Mith, paid us another twilight visit, one July evening; 'and I've been thinking you might like to know it.[.] 120 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, , language: English, abstract: BOOK FIRST. A JUST MAN\*\*\*CHAPTER I. M. MYRIEL\*\*\*In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne. He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of Digne since 1806.Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. M. Myriel was the son of a councilor of the Parliament of Aix; hence he belonged to the nobility of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in parliamentary families. In spite of this marriage, however, it was said that Charles Myriel created a great deal of talk. He was well formed, though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and to gallantry.The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate of M. Myriel The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall of his own family, the tragic spectacles of '93, which were, perhaps, even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him Was he, in the midst of these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.[.] 64 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller's place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants' cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches. Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank where Judge Miller's boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon.And over this great demesne Buck ruled. Here he was born, and here he had lived the four years of his life. It was true, there were other dogs, There could not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but they did not count. They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless,-strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground. On the other hand, there were the fox terriers, a score of them at least, who yelped fearful promises at Toots and Ysabel looking out of the windows at them and protected by a legion of housemaids armed with brooms and mops. 100 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The Begging-Letter WriterThe amount of money he annually diverts from wholesome and useful purposes in the United Kingdom, would be a set-off against the Window Tax. He is one of the most shameless frauds and impositions of this time. [.]\*\*\*Bill-StickingIF I had an enemy whom I hated - which Heaven forbid! - and if I knew of something which sat heavy on his conscience, I think I would introduce that something into a Posting-Bill, and place a large impression in the hands of an active sticker. I can scarcely imagine a more terrible revenge. [.]\*\*\*A Child's Dream of a StarTHERE was once a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. [.]\*\*\*The Child's StoryOnce upon a time, a good many years ago, there was a traveller, and he set out upon a journey. It was a magic journey, and was to seem very long when he began it, and very short when he got half way through. [.]\*\*\*A Christmas TreeI have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects. [.]\*\*\*The Detective PoliceWE are not by any means devout believers in the old Bow Street Police. To say the truth, we think there was a vast amount of humbug about those worthies. Apart from many of them being men of very indifferent character, and far too much in the habit of consorting with thieves and the like, they never lost a public occasion of jobbing and trading in mystery and making the most of themselves. [.]\*\*\*Doctor MarigoldI am a Cheap Jack, and my own father's name was Willum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed by some that his name was William, but my own father always consistently said, No, it was Willum. [.]\*\*\*Down with the TideA VERY dark night it was, and bitter cold; the east wind blowing bleak, and bringing with it stinging particles from marsh, and moor, and fen - from the Great Desert and Old Egypt, may be. [.] 128 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: To Be Read at DuskOne, two, three, four, five. There were five of them.Five couriers, sitting on a bench outside the convent on the summit of the Great St. Bernard in Switzerland, looking at the remote heights, stained by the setting sun as if a mighty quantity of red wine had been broached upon the mountain top, and had not yet had time to sink into the snow.[.]\*\*\*The Trial for MurderI have always noticed a prevalent want of courage, even among persons of superior intelligence and culture, as to imparting their own psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort. [.]\*\*\*A Walk in a WorkhouseOn a certain Sunday, I formed one of the congregation assembled in the chapel of a large metropolitan Workhouse. With the exception of the clergyman and clerk, and a very few officials, there were none but paupers present. [.]\*\*\*What Christmas Is as We Grow OlderTime was, with most of us, when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and every one around the Christmas fire; and made the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.[.]\*\*\*The Wreck of the Golden MaryTHE WRECKI was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have encountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject.[.]\*\*\*A Message from the SeaCHAPTER I - THE VILLAGE'And a mighty sing'lar and pretty place it is, as ever I saw in all the days of my life!' said Captain Jorgan, looking up at it.Captain Jorgan had to look high to look at it, for the village was built sheer up the face of a steep and lofty cliff. There was no road in it, there was no wheeled vehicle in it, there was not a level yard in it. [.] 124 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, , language: English, abstract: BOOK SIXTH - LE PETIT-PICPUS\*\*\*CHAPTER I. NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS\*\*\*Nothing, half a century ago, more resembled every other carriage gate than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse.[.]\*\*\*BOOK SEVENTH. PARENTHESIS\*\*\*CHAPTER I. THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA\*\*\*\*This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.Man is the second.Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it has been our duty to enter it. Why Because the convent, which is common to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to modern times, to paganism, to Buddhism, to Mahometanism, as well as to Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the Infinite.This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall![.] 48 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Chapter 1YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly -- Tom's Aunt Polly, she is -- and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece -- all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round -- more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up. Well, then, the old thing commenced again. The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them, -- that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better. [.] 260 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, , language: English, abstract: BOOK FIRST. WATERLOO\*\*\*CHAPTER I. WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES\*\*\*Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved road, which undulated between two rows of trees, over the hills which succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce something in the nature of enormous waves.He had passed Lillois and Bois-Seigneur-Isaac. In the west he perceived the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet bearing the inscription Ancient Barrier No. 4, a public house, bearing on its front this sign: At the Four Winds (Aux Quatre Vents). Echabeau, Private Cafe.A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through the embankment of the road. The clump of sparsely planted but very green trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in the direction of Braine-l'Alleud.On the right, close to the road, was an inn, with a four-wheeled cart at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of some outside spectacle, such as a parish festival, was fluttering in the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The wayfarer struck into this.After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat medallions. A severe facade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular to the facade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed.[.] 60 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, , language: English, abstract: BOOK SECOND. THE SHIP ORION\*\*\*CHAPTER I. NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430\*\*\*Jean Valjean had been recaptured.The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs published by the journals of that day, a few months after the surprising events which had taken place at M. sur M.These articles are rather summary. It must be remembered, that at that epoch the Gazette des Tribunaux was not yet in existence.We borrow the first from the Drapeau Blanc. It bears the date of July 25, 1823.An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune in the business, and that of the arrondissement as well, we will admit. He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison.[.]\*\*\*BOOK THIRD. ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO A DEAD WOMAN\*\*\*CHAPTER I. THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL\*\*\*Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois. In 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so many well-satisfied citizens: it was only a village in the forest. Some pleasure-houses of the last century were to be met with there, to be sure, which were recognizable by their grand air, their balconies in twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet; it was a peaceful and charming place, which was not on the road to anywhere: there people lived, and cheaply, that peasant rustic life which is so bounteous and so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the plateau.[.] 76 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, , language: English, abstract: BOOK THIRD. IN THE YEAR 1817\*\*\*CHAPTER I. IN THE YEAR 1817\*\*\*1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguiere de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angouleme. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned.[.]\*\*\*BOOK FOURTH. TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER\*\*\*CHAPTER I. ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER\*\*\*There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists. This cook-shop was kept by some people named Thenardier, husband and wife. It was situated in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against the wall. Upon this board was painted something which resembled a man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably represented a battle. Below ran this inscription: AT THE SIGN OF SERGEANT OF WATERLOO (Au Sargent de Waterloo).[.] 48 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, , language: English, abstract: BOOK FOURTH. THE GORBEAU HOVEL\*\*\*CHAPTER I. MASTER GORBEAU\*\*\*Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of the Salpetriere, and who had mounted to the Barriere d'Italie by way of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the city, for the streets had ruts like highways, and the grass grew in them; it was not a village, the houses were too lofty. What was it, then It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a street of Paris; more wild at night than the forest, more gloomy by day than a cemetery.It was the old quarter of the Marche-aux-Chevaux.[.]\*\*\*BOOK FIFTH. FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK[.]CHAPTER I. THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY[.]An observation here becomes necessary, in view of the pages which the reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further on.The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning himself, has been absent from Paris for many years. Paris has been transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after a fashion, unknown to him. There is no need for him to say that he loves Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by. He must be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is possible that when the author conducts his readers to a spot and says, 'In such a street there stands such and such a house,' neither street nor house will any longer exist in that locality. Readers may verify the facts if they care to take the trouble. For his own part, he is unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he beheld when he was in his own country, and that all has not vanished.[.] 56 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, , language: English, abstract: BOOK EIGHTH. CEMETARIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITED THEM\*\*\*CHAPTER I. WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT\*\*\*It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed it, 'fallen from the sky.'He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle of the night, was the nuns chanting matins; that hall, of which he had caught a glimpse in the gloom, was the chapel. That phantom which he had seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent.Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have already seen, supped on a glass of wine and a bit of cheese before a good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw.Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: 'I must remain here henceforth.' This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night long.To tell the truth, neither of them slept.Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded him in this cloister. Jean Valjean had, henceforth, but one thought,-- to remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he could manage to get himself accepted there and remain there, who would ever seek him in such a place To dwell in an impossible place was safety.[.] 60 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, , language: English, abstract: BOOK F SECOND. THE FALL\*\*\*CHAPTER I. THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING\*\*\*Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a man who was travelling on foot entered the little town of D---- The few inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance. He was a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a drooping leather visor partly concealed his face, burned and tanned by sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a shaved head and a long beard.The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole. His hair was closely cut, yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to have been cut for some time.No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came he From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below the city had seen him pause beneath the trees of the boulevard Gassendi, and drink at the fountain which stands at the end of the promenade. He must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in the market-place.[.] 64 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject Romance Languages - French Literature, , language: English, abstract: BOOK EIGHTH. A COUNTER-BLOW\*\*\*CHAPTER I. IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR\*\*\*The day had begun to dawn. Fantine had passed a sleepless and feverish night, filled with happy visions; at daybreak she fell asleep. Sister Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister had been in the laboratory of the infirmary but a few moments, bending over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on account of the dimness which the half-light of dawn spreads over all objects. Suddenly she raised her head and uttered a faint shriek. M. Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently.'Is it you, Mr. Mayor ' she exclaimed.He replied in a low voice:'How is that poor woman ''Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy.'She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the day before, and that she was better now, because she thought that the mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had not come from there.'All that is good,' said he; 'you were right not to undeceive her.''Yes,' responded the sister; 'but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and will not see her child. What shall we say to her 'He reflected for a moment.'God will inspire us,' said he.'But we cannot tell a lie,' murmured the sister, half aloud.It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's face. The sister chanced to raise her eyes to it.[.] 28 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child Aged Two Years and Two MonthsMY CHILD, To recount with what trouble I have brought you up--with what an anxious eye I have regarded your progress,--how late and how often I have sat up at night working for you,--and how many thousand letters I have received from, and written to your various relations and friends, many of whom have been of a querulous and irritable turn,--to dwell on the anxiety and tenderness with which I have (as far as I possessed the power) inspected and chosen your food; rejecting the indigestible and heavy matter which some injudicious but well-meaning old ladies would have had you swallow, and retaining only those light and pleasant articles which I deemed calculated to keep you free from all gross humours, and to render you an agreeable child, and one who might be popular with society in general,--to dilate on the steadiness with which I have prevented your annoying any company by talking politics--always assuring you that you would thank me for it yourself some day when you grew older,--to expatiate, in short, upon my own assiduity as a parent, is beside my present purpose, though I cannot but contemplate your fair appearance--your robust health, and unimpeded circulation (which I take to be the great secret of your good looks) without the liveliest satisfaction and delight. [.]\*\*\*A FlightWHEN Don Diego de - I forget his name - the inventor of the last new Flying Machines, price so many francs for ladies, so many more for gentlemen - when Don Diego, by permission of Deputy Chaff-wax and his noble band, shall have taken out a Patent for the Queen's dominions, and shall have opened a commodious Warehouse in an airy situation; and when all persons of any gentility will keep at least a pair of wings, and be seen skimming about in every direction; I shall take a flight to Paris (as I soar round the world) in a cheap and independent manner. At present, my reliance is on the South-Eastern Railway Company, in whose Express Train here I sit, at eight of the clock on a very hot morning, under the very hot roof of the Terminus at London Bridge, in danger of being 'forced' like a cucumber or a melon, or a pine-apple. [.][.] 136 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The Haunted HouseCHAPTER I - THE MORTALS IN THE HOUSEUnder none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect. More than that: I had come to it direct from a railway station: it was not more than a mile distant from the railway station; and, as I stood outside the house, looking back upon the way I had come, I could see the goods train running smoothly along the embankment in the valley. I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, because I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people- -and there my vanity steps in; but, I will take it on myself to say that anybody might see the house as I saw it, any fine autumn morning.[.]\*\*\*Holiday RomancePART I - INTRODUCTORY ROMANCE PROM THE PEN OF WILLIAM TINKLING, ESQ. (Aged eight.)THIS beginning-part is not made out of anybody's head, you know. It's real. You must believe this beginning-part more than what comes after, else you won't understand how what comes after came to be written. You must believe it all; but you must believe this most, please. I am the editor of it. Bob Redforth (he's my cousin, and shaking the table on purpose) wanted to be the editor of it; but I said he shouldn't because he couldn't. HE has no idea of being an editor.[.]\*\*\*The Holly-TreeFirst Branch-MyselfI have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man. Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did suppose it, but I am naturally a bashful man. This is the secret which I have never breathed until now.I might greatly move the reader by some account of the innumerable places I have not been to, the innumerable people I have not called upon or received, the innumerable social evasions I have been guilty of, solely because I am by original constitution and character a bashful man. But I will leave the reader unmoved, and proceed with the object before me.[.] 128 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Hunted DownMost of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last thirty years seen more romances than the generality of men, however unpromising the opportunity may, at first sight, seem.[.]\*\*\*The Lamplighter'If you talk of Murphy and Francis Moore, gentlemen,' said the lamplighter who was in the chair, 'I mean to say that neither of 'em ever had any more to do with the stars than Tom Grig had.''And what had HE to do with 'em ' asked the lamplighter who officiated as vice.[.]\*\*\*The Long VoyageWHEN the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel. Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I never have been round the world, never have been shipwrecked, ice-environed, tomahawked, or eaten.[.]\*\*\*Lying Awake'MY uncle lay with his eyes half closed, and his nightcap drawn almost down to his nose. His fancy was already wandering, and began to mingle up the present scene with the crater of Vesuvius, the French Opera, the Coliseum at Rome, Dolly's Chop-house in London, and all the farrago of noted places with which the brain of a traveller is crammed; in a word, he was just falling asleep.'[.]\*\*\*A Monument of French FollyIT was profoundly observed by a witty member of the Court of Common Council, in Council assembled in the City of London, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, that the French are a frog-eating people, who wear wooden shoes.[.]\*\*\*Mr. Robert Bolton: The 'Gentleman Connected with the Press'In the parlour of the Green Dragon, a public-house in the immediate neighbourhood of Westminster Bridge, everybody talks politics, every evening, the great political authority being Mr. Robert Bolton, an individual who defines himself as 'a gentleman connected with the press,' which is a definition of peculiar indefiniteness. [.]\*\*\*The Noble SavageTo come to the point at once, I beg to say that I have not the least belief in the Noble Savage. I consider him a prodigious nuisance, and an enormous superstition. His calling rum fire- water, and me a pale face, wholly fail to reconcile me to him. I don't care what he calls me. [.]\*\*\*[.] 128 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Plated ArticlePutting up for the night in one of the chiefest towns of Staffordshire, I find it to be by no means a lively town. In fact, it is as dull and dead a town as any one could desire not to see. It seems as if its whole population might be imprisoned in its Railway Station. The Refreshment Room at that Station is a vortex of dissipation compared with the extinct town-inn, the Dodo, in the dull High Street.[.]\*\*\*A Poor Man's Tale of a PatentI am not used to writing for print. What working-man, that never labours less (some Mondays, and Christmas Time and Easter Time excepted) than twelve or fourteen hours a day, is But I have been asked to put down, plain, what I have got to say; and so I take pen-and-ink, and do it to the best of my power, hoping defects will find excuse.[.]\*\*\*The Poor Relation's StoryHe was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, by beginning the round of stories they were to relate as they sat in a goodly circle by the Christmas fire; and he modestly suggested that it would be more correct if 'John our esteemed host' (whose health he begged to drink) would have the kindness to begin.[.]\*\*\*Prince BullOnce upon a time, and of course it was in the Golden Age, and I hope you may know when that was, for I am sure I don't, though I have tried hard to find out, there lived in a rich and fertile country, a powerful Prince whose name was BULL.[.]\*\*\*Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble - Once Mayor of MudfogMudfog is a pleasant town-a remarkably pleasant town-situated in a charming hollow by the side of a river, from which river, Mudfog derives an agreeable scent of pitch, tar, coals, and rope-yarn, a roving population in oilskin hats, a pretty steady influx of drunken bargemen, and a great many other maritime advantages.[.]\*\*\*The Schoolboy's StoryBeing rather young at present-I am getting on in years, but still I am rather young-I have no particular adventures of my own to fall back upon.[.]\*\*\*The Seven Poor TravellersStrictly speaking, there were only six Poor Travellers; but, being a Traveller myself, though an idle one, and being withal as poor as I hope to be, I brought the number up to seven.[.]\*\*\*The Signal Man'Halloa! Below there!'When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.[.] 128 pp. Englisch.…