Maven books jul 2021 (43 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The legacy of a country is in its varied cultural heritage, historical literature, developments in the field of economy and science. The top nations in the world are competing in the field of science, economy and literature. This vast legacy has to be conserved and documented so that it can be bestowed to the future generation. The knowledge of this legacy is slowly getting perished in the present generation due to lack of documentation.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - If-and the thing is wildly possible-the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (in p. 18) 'Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.' In view of this painful possibility, I will not (as I might) appeal indignantly to my other writings as a proof that I am incapable of such a deed: I will not (as I might) point to the strong moral purpose of this poem itself, to the arithmetical principles so cautiously inculcated in it, or to its noble teachings in Natural History-I will take the more prosaic course of simply explaining how it happened. The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances, used to have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to be revarnished, and it more than once happened, when the time came for replacing it, that no one on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged to. They knew it was not of the slightest use to appeal to the Bellman about it-he would only refer to his Naval Code, and read out in pathetic tones Admiralty Instructions which none of them had ever xbeen able to understand-so it generally ended in its being fastened on, anyhow, across the rudder. The helmsman1 used to stand by with tears in his eyes: he knew it was all wrong, but alas! Rule 42 of the Code, 'No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm,' had been completed by the Bellman himself with the words 'and the Man at the Helm shall speak to no one.' So remonstrance was impossible, and no steering could be done till the next varnishing day. During these bewildering intervals the ship usually sailed backwards. Contents: FIT I - The Landing, FIT II - The Bellman's Speech, FIT III - The Baker's Tale, FIT IV - The Hunting, FIT V - The Beaver's Lesson, FIT VI - The Barrister's Dream, FIT VII - The Banker's Fate, FIT VIII - The Vanishing.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - STRAY BIRDS comprises three hundred twenty six short verses or aphorisms by Tagore, the Indian Poet Laureate, whose love of nature and simplicity as well as his regal command of poetic words is crystalized by this precious volume of poetry. Tagore won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 with Gitanjali (Song Offerings) and this book, published in 1916, and translated by the poet into English himself offers new readers a quick window to peek into the greatness of the Tagore literary temple.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - THE SCENES OF THE PLAY: Act I. Morning-room in Lord Windermere's house.Act II. Drawing-room in Lord Windermere's house.Act III. Lord Darlington's rooms.Act IV. Same as Act I.Time: The Present.Place: London.The action of the play takes place within twenty-four hours, beginning on a Tuesday afternoon at five o'clock, and ending the next day at 1.30 p.m. CONTENTS: Act I Morning-Room in Lord Windermere's House, Act II Drawing-Room in Lord Windermere's House, Act III Lord Darlington's Rooms, Act IV Same as Act.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Terrace at Hunstanton Chase, The Drawing-room at Hunstanton Chase, The Hall at Hunstanton Chase, Sitting-room in Mrs. Arbuthnot's House at Wrockley., The Present, The Shires.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Contents: Chapter I - Into the Primitive, Chapter II - The Law of Club and Fang, Chapter III - The Dominant Primordial Beast, Chapter IV - Who Has Won to Mastership, Chapter V - The Toil of Trace and Trail, Chapter VI - For the Love of a Man, Chapter VII - The Sounding of the Call.…

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This dramatic rendering of Alice in Wonderland, by Alice Gerstenberg of Chicago, was produced by The Players Producing Company of Chicago (Aline Barnsdall and Arthur Bissell), at the Fine Arts Theater, Chicago, February 11, 1915. After a successful run it opened at the Booth Theater, New York, March 23, 1915.The scenery and the costumes were designed by William Penhallow Henderson of Chicago.The music was written by Eric De Lamarter of Chicago.The advertising posters and cards were designed by Jerome Blum of Chicago.The illustrations of the characters of the play in this book were drawn by J. Allen St. John from photographs by Victor Georg of Chicago.Contents: ACT I: Scene I - Alice's Home, Scene II - The Room in the Looking Glass, Scene III - The Hall with Doors, Scene IV - The Sea Shore, ACT II: Scene I - The March Hare's Garden, ACT III: Scene I - The Garden of Flowers, Scene II - The Court of Hearts, Scene III - Alice's Home.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A wonderful allegorical play, 'The King of the Dark Chamber,' echoes the very rhythm of unearthly and personal rousing of an individual in their eternal quest for truth and beauty. This play was adapted from Tagore's short story, Raja. The immense humanism, the sheer vitality and that intoxication to appreciate nature's timeless beauty coupled with Tagore's political view sets the mood of the remarkable work, 'The King of the Dark Chamber'. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 1. The Decay of Lying, 2. Pen, Pencil and Poison, 3. The Critic as Artist (Part I), 4. The Critic as Artist (Part II), 5. The Truth of Masks.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - ¿ Mashi¿ The Skeleton¿ The Auspicious Vision¿ The Supreme Night¿ Raja and Rani¿ The Trust Property¿ The Riddle Solved¿ The Elder Sister¿ Subha¿ The Postmaster¿ The River Stairs¿ The Castaway¿ Saved¿ My Fair Neighbour.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century. Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in Northern England. He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over the very ill deacon. Two clues are given against Silas: a pocket knife, and the discovery in his own house of the bag formerly containing the money. There is the strong suggestion that Silas' best friend, William Dane, has framed him, since Silas had lent his pocket knife to William shortly before the crime was committed. Lots are drawn in the belief - shared by Silas - that God will direct the process and establish the truth, but they indicate that Silas is guilty. The woman Silas was to marry breaks their engagement and marries William instead. With his life shattered, his trust in God lost and his heart broken, Silas leaves Lantern Yard and the city for a rural area where he is unknown. Marner travels south to the Midlands and settles near the rural village of Raveloe in Warwickshire, where he lives isolated and alone, choosing to have only minimal contact with the residents beyond his work as a linen weaver. He devotes himself wholeheartedly to his craft and comes to adore the gold coins he earns and hoards from his weaving.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - BOOK ONE - THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS : Chapter 1 - The Eve of the War, Chapter 2 - The Falling Star, Chapter 3 - On Horsell Common, Chapter 4 - The Cylinder Opens, Chapter 5 - The Heat-Ray, Chapter 6 - The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road, Chapter 7 - How I Reached Home, Chapter 8 - Friday Night, Chapter 9 - The Fighting Begins, Chapter 10 - In the Storm, Chapter 11 - At the Window, Chapter 12 - What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton, Chapter 13 - How I Fell in with the Curate, Chapter 14 - In London, Chapter 15 - What Had Happened in Surrey, Chapter 16 - The Exodus from London, Chapter 17 - The 'Thunder Child'. BOOK TWO - THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS : Chapter 1 - Under Foot, Chapter 2 - What We Saw from the Ruined House, Chapter 3 - The Days of Imprisonment, Chapter 4 - The Death of the Curate, Chapter 5 - The Stillness, Chapter 6 - The Work of Fifteen Days, Chapter 7 - The Man on Putney Hill, Chapter 8 - Dead London, Chapter 9 - Wreckage, Chapter 10 - The Epilogue.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 1. Karain, A Memory, 2. The Idiots, 3. An Outpost of Progress, 4. The Return, 5. The Lagoon. Of the five stories in this volume, 'The Lagoon,' the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions. Conceived in the same mood which produced 'Almayer's Folly' and 'An Outcast of the Islands,' it is told in the same breath (with what was left of it, that is, after the end of 'An Outcast'), seen with the same vision, rendered in the same method-if such a thing as method did exist then in my conscious relation to this new adventure of writing for print. I doubt it very much. One does one's work first and theorises about it afterwards. It is a very amusing and egotistical occupation of no use whatever to any one and just as likely as not to lead to false conclusions.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again. We had no such thing as printed newspapers in those days to spread rumours and reports of things, and to improve them by the invention of men, as I have lived to see practised since. But such things as these were gathered from the letters of merchants and others who corresponded abroad, and from them was handed about by word of mouth only; so that things did not spread instantly over the whole nation, as they do now. But it seems that the Government had a true account of it, and several councils were held about ways to prevent its coming over; but all was kept very private. Hence it was that this rumour died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in, and that we hoped was not true; till the latter end of November or the beginning of December 1664 when two men, said to be Frenchmen, died of the plague in Long Acre, or rather at the upper end of Drury Lane. The family they were in endeavoured to conceal it as much as possible, but as it had gotten some vent in the discourse of the neighbourhood, the Secretaries of State got knowledge of it; and concerning themselves to inquire about it, in order to be certain of the truth, two physicians and a surgeon were ordered to go to the house and make inspection. This they did; and finding evident tokens of the sickness upon both the bodies that were dead, they gave their opinions publicly that they died of the plague.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - THIS little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication. It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even advertised, and why the business proceeded no farther, the author has never been able to learn. That any bookseller should think it worth-while to purchase what he did not think it worth-while to publish seems extraordinary. But with this, neither the author nor the public have any other concern than as some observation is necessary upon those parts of the work which thirteen years have made comparatively obsolete. The public are entreated to bear in mind that thirteen years have passed since it was finished, many more since it was begun, and that during that period, places, manners, books, and opinions have undergone considerable changes.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Sisters, An Encounter, Araby, Eveline, After the Race, Two Gallants, The Boarding House, A Little Cloud, Counterparts, Clay, A Painful Case, Ivy Day in the Committee Room, A Mother, Grace, The Dead.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - We Americans devour eagerly any piece of writing that purports to tell us the secret of success in life; yet how often we are disappointed to find nothing but commonplace statements, or receipts that we know by heart but never follow. Most of the life stories of our famous and successful men fail to inspire because they lack the human element that makes the record real and brings the story within our grasp. While we are searching far and near for some Aladdin's Lamp to give coveted fortune, there is ready at our hand if we will only reach out and take it, like the charm in Milton's Comus, 'Unknown, and like esteemed, and the dull swainTreads on it daily with his clouted shoon;' the interesting, human, and vividly told story of one of the wisest and most useful lives in our own history, and perhaps in any history. In Franklin's Autobiography is offered not so much a ready-made formula for success, as the companionship of a real flesh and blood man of extraordinary mind and quality, whose daily walk and conversation will help us to meet our own difficulties, much as does the example of a wise and strong friend. While we are fascinated by the story, we absorb the human experience through which a strong and helpful character is building.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasion-an appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her not to dissipate his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also, herself, before she had succeeded in doing so, the same sight that had shaken him. It was this observation that drew from Douglas-not immediately, but later in the evening-a reply that had the interesting consequence to which I call attention. Someone else told a story not particularly effective, which I saw he was not following. This I took for a sign that he had himself something to produce and that we should only have to wait. We waited in fact till two nights later; but that same evening, before we scattered, he brought out what was in his mind.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Chapter I - The Strange Man's Arrival, Chapter II - Mr. Teddy Henfrey's First Impressions, Chapter III - The Thousand and One Bottles, Chapter IV - Mr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger, Chapter V - The Burglary at the Vicarage, Chapter VI - The Furniture that went Mad, Chapter VII - The Unveiling of the Stranger, Chapter VIII - In Transit, Chapter IX - Mr. Thomas Marvel, Chapter X - Mr. Marvel's Visit to Iping, Chapter XI - In the 'Coach and Horses', Chapter XII - The Invisible Man Loses his Temper, Chapter XIII - Mr. Marvel Discusses his Resignation, Chapter XIV - At Port Stowe, Chapter XV - The Man Who was Running, Chapter XVI - In the 'Jolly Cricketers', Chapter XVII - Dr. Kemp's Visitor, Chapter XVIII - The Invisible Man Sleeps, Chapter XIX - Certain First Principles, Chapter XX - At the House in Great Portland Street, Chapter XXI - In Oxford Street, Chapter XXII - In the Emporium, Chapter XXIII - In Drury Lane, Chapter XXIV - The Plan that Failed, Chapter XXV - The Hunting of the Invisible Man, Chapter XXVI - The Wicksteed Murder, Chapter XXVII - The Siege of Kemp's House, Chapter XXVIII - The Hunter Hunted, The Epilogue.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Lady with the Dog, A Doctor's Visit, An Upheaval, Ionitch, The Head of the Family, The Black Monk, Volodya, An Anonymous Story, The Husband.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The novel is set against the backdrop of the Partition of Bengal in 1905. It was Lord Curzon's most unpopular measure, and sparked off a public outcry and protests by the people of Bengal. Rabindranath Tagore's Home and the World played a pivotal role in providing leadership to the movement against the Partition. The movement developed into a call for swaraj or self-rule centering on the use of swadeshi or Indian made goods. Tagore however was to distance himself from the Swadeshi movement after the outbreak of communal riots in Bengal in 1907.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I - Civilizing Huck-Miss Watson-Tom Sawyer Waits, , II - The Boys Escape Jim-Torn Sawyer's Gang-Deep-laid Plans, III - A Good going-over-Grace Triumphant- 'One of Tom Sawyer's Lies', IV - Huck and the Judge-Superstition, V - Huck's Father-The Fond Parent-Reform, VI - He went for Judge Thatcher-Huck decided to Leave- Political Economy- hrashing Around, VII - Laying for Him-Locked in the Cabin-Sinking the Body-Resting, VIII - Sleeping in the Woods-Raising the Dead- Exploring the Island-Finding Jim-Jim's Escape-Signs-Balum, IX - The Cave-The Floating House, X - The Find-OldHank Bunker-In Disguise, XI - Huck and the Woman-The Search- Prevarication- Going to Goshen, XII - Slow Navigation-Borrowing Things-Boarding the Wreck-The Plotters-Hunting for the Boat, XIII - Escaping from the Wreck-The Watchman-Sinking, XIV - A General Good Time-The Harem-French, XV - Huck Loses the Raft-In the Fog-Huck Finds the Raft-Trash, XVI - Expectation-A White Lie-Floating Currency-Running by Cairo-Swimming Ashore, XVII - An Evening Call-The Farm in Arkansaw-Interior Decorations-Stephen Dowling Bots-Poetical Effusions, XVIII - Col. Grangerford-Aristocracy-Feuds-The Testament-Recovering the Raft-The Wood-Pile-Pork and Cabbage, .…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called 'A Voyage round the world.' But I do not remember I gave you power to consent that any thing should be omitted, and much less that any thing should be inserted; therefore, as to the latter, I do here renounce every thing of that kind; particularly a paragraph about her majesty Queen Anne, of most pious and glorious memory; although I did reverence and esteem her more than any of human species. But you, or your interpolator, ought to have considered, that it was not my inclination, so was it not decent to praise any animal of our composition before my master Houyhnhnm: And besides, the fact was altogether false; for to my knowledge, being in England during some part of her majesty's reign, she did govern by a chief minister; nay even by two successively, the first whereof was the lord of Godolphin, and the second the lord of Oxford; so that you have made me say the thing that was not. Likewise in the account of the academy of projectors, and several passages of my discourse to my master Houyhnhnm, you have either omitted some material circumstances, or minced or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know my own work.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - then Miss Bürstner, First Cross-Examination, In the Empty Courtroom - The StudentThe Offices, Miss Bürstner's Friend, The Whip-Man, K.'s Uncle - Len, Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter, Block, the Businessman - Dismissingthe Lawyer, In the Cathedral. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16 1/2) as they come of age. They have an older half-brother, John, and a younger sister, Margaret, 13. The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park. Because Norland is passed down to John, the product of Mr. Dashwood's first marriage, and his young son, the four Dashwood women need to look for a new home. They have the opportunity to rent a modest home, Barton Cottage, on the property of a distant relative, Sir John Middleton. There they experience love, romance, and heartbreak. The novel is likely set in southwest England, London and Sussex between 1792 and 1797. The novel, which sold out its first print run of 750 copies in the middle of 1813, marked a success for its author. It had a second print run later that year. It was the first Austen title to be republished in England after her death, and the first illustrated Austen produced in Britain, in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series of 1833. The novel continued in publication throughout the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries and has many times been illustrated, excerpted, abridged, and adapted for stage and film. …