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Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby-Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby-Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to exact revenge.

All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare, originally classified as a comedy, though now often counted as one of his problem plays, so-called because they cannot be easily classified as tragedy or comedy. It was probably written in later middle part of Shakespeare's career, between 1601 and 1608, and was first published in the First Folio in 1623.The name of the play comes from the proverb All's well that ends well, which means that problems do not matter so long as the outcome is good.

Waterfront Fists was written in the year 1930 by Robert Ervin Howard. This book is one of the most popular novels of Robert Ervin Howard, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

All of the boys at the Flying U grumbled -- among themselves -- when they heard that the Old Man's sister was coming to spend the summer. They didn't want a woman at the ranch, and certainly not one who had just received a medical degree! But if they'd had an inkling of what was really going to happen, they would have done more than grumble...

Evil master criminal sets out for world domination from the French pioneer of Science Fiction.

Odour of Chrysanthemums was written in the year 1914 by David Herbert Lawrence. This book is one of the most popular novels of David Herbert Lawrence, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Der grüne Kakadu ist eine Groteske in einem Akt von Arthur Schnitzler. Sie entstand 1898 und wurde am 1. März 1899, zusammen mit seinen Stücken Paracelsus und Die Gefährtin, am Wiener Burgtheater uraufgeführt. Das Stück thematisiert die Ununterscheidbarkeit von Wahrheit und Lüge, von Schein und Sein.Inhalt [Bearbeiten]Paris 1789: Prospére, ein ehemaliger Theaterdirektor, betreibt eine Spelunke namens „Der grüne Kakadu“. Viele erfolglose Schauspieler, Prospéres ehemalige Angestellte, sind Stammgäste. Die Kneipe wird aber auch von Adeligen besucht. Diese erhoffen sich dort den angenehmen Nervenkitzel, sich zwischen echten Straßengaunern und anderem Gesindel zu bewegen. Also spielen die Schauspieler Verbrecher. Sie prahlen voreinander mit ihren Gewalttaten. Am 14. Juli, dem Tag des Ausbruchs der Französischen Revolution, dringt nun der reale Aufruhr der Straße in die Szene ein. Realität und Spiel vermischen sich, und für die adligen Zuschauer wie auch für die Darsteller wird es immer schwieriger, Rollen von echten Personen und Spiel von Wahrheit zu unterscheiden.1958 wurde Schnitzlers Stück von Richard Mohaupt unter dem gleichen Titel als Oper in einem Akt adaptiert.Quelle: Wikipedia

A collection of related short stories by British author G. K. Chesterton. Each story is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade"). To gain admittance to the Club, one must have a unique queer trade as principal source of income. "Cherub" Swinburne describes his quest for The Club of Queer Trades with his friend Basil Grant, a retired judge, and Rupert Grant, a private detective who is Basil's younger brother. Each of the stories describes their encounter with one of the trades. In the final story, Rupert Grant rescues a lady from her kidnappers but cannot understand why she refuses to be rescued. The answer leads to the unveiling of the mystery of The Club of Queer Trades.First published by Harper & Brothers, London, 1905.

David Hume is known for his philosophical writings, but he also wrote on politics, history, and economics. This eBook contains 7 economic essays which were first published in Hume's Political Discourses (1752) and republished in Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1 (1758, 1777). One essay has been praised by the Nobel-Prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman, who said in his newspaper column:"... Hume also helped found economics: his 'Of the Balance of Trade', published 34 years before The Wealth of Nations, was arguably the first example of modern economic reasoning, based on what amounts to a stylized model, albeit one without any equations or diagrams." (New York Times, 8 May 2011, "Hume Day".) ... "You could argue that modern economics really began with David Hume’s 'Of the Balance of Trade', whose core is a gloriously clear thought experiment...." (ibid., 2 Feb 2011, "Models, Plain and Fancy".)Adam Smith (1723-1790), the author of The Wealth of Nations (1776), is commonly considered the "father of modern economics", but Hume pre-dated Smith in that regard. Both were Scottish philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, and although Hume was a decade older than Smith, they became lifelong friends after they met in 1750.The essays cover Commerce, Money, Interest, Balance of Trade, Jealousy of Trade, Taxes, and Public Credit (national debt). Hume explained economic phenomena we observe even today, such as the self-correction of job migration to lower cost countries, money supply issues, the undesirable results of tariffs, military buildup in underdeveloped countries, and other topics that give insights into the happenings we read about in the news almost daily.This eBook is available only for personal and educational uses, non-commercial, with attribution to the source www.davidhume.org.

The Years was written in the year 1937 by Virginia Woolf. This book is one of the most popular novels of Virginia Woolf, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Dombey and Son was written in the year 1848 by Charles Dickens. This book is one of the most popular novels of Charles Dickens, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

The Obliterated Man was written in the year 1913 by H. G. Wells. This book is one of the most popular novels of H. G. Wells, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City was written in the year 1917 by Laura Lee Hope. This book is one of the most popular novels of Laura Lee Hope, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

In Peru besteht zu der Zeit, zu der die Geschichte spielt, die Gesellschaft aus drei Hauptgruppen. Es handelt sich um die Nachfahren der spanischen Konquistadoren, den Mischlingen zwischen Europäern und den Eingeborenen (Mestizen) und den Indianern. Der Marquis Don Vergal, dessen Vermögen stetig abnimmt, ist ein Spanier, der aufstrebende Neureiche Andreas Certa ein Mestize und Martin Paz ein Indianer.

The Diary of a Man of Fifty was written in the year 1879 by Henry James. This book is one of the most popular novels of Henry James, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

It tells the story of Thomas Saunders, a sailor's son and neglected street urchin struggling to survive in Greenwich, London in the early 19th century. ("Poor Jack" was the title given by the waterfront boys, or mudlarks, to their chief.) In a rags-to-riches story Saunders eventually rises by his own efforts to become a pilot on the Thames, makes his fortune and retires to the life of a wealthy squire.