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Dalyrimple Goes Wrong was written in the year 1920 by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. This book is one of the most popular novels of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 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.

Sequel to "The Mysterious Card", in which the mystery of the card is resolved.According to Uncertain Endings: The World's Greatest Unsolved Mystery Stories by Otto Penzler (Penguin Books, 2006), this 2-part story is one of the two most famous riddle stories of all time, the other being "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank Stockton. The Mysterious Card stories were published in a magazine called The Black Cat, the first part in 1895 and the conclusion in 1896.The magazine publisher in 1912 put the two parts together in one volume, with the second part sealed, and offered a refund to purchasers if they could return the book with the seal still unbroken. We don't know if anyone actually returned the book without reading the second part.

Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice.Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created.

Drei Meister: Balzac. Dickens. Dostojewski. was written in the year 1920 by Stefan Zweig. This book is one of the most popular novels of Stefan Zweig, 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 Damned (La-bas) was written in the year 1891 by Joris-Karl Huysmans. This book is one of the most popular novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, 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.

Darkness and the Light was written in the year 1942 by William Olaf Stapledon. This book is one of the most popular novels of William Olaf Stapledon, 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 Mystery of 31 New Inn was written in the year 1912 by R. Austin Freeman. This book is one of the most popular novels of R. Austin Freeman, 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.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.

Ein Blatt Liebe erzählt von einer Pariser Straßendirne, der es gelingt, sich in die höchsten Kreise der Stadt "hochzuschlafen". Mit verheerenden Folgen. Denn ihre Anziehungskraft erlaubt es ihr, die Männer so zu manipulieren, dass sie ihre Ehen auf's Spiel setzen, sich wirtschaftlich ruinieren und sich sogar das Leben nehmen. Zola beschreibt das Paris des Zweiten Kaiserreichs eindringlich und detailliert. Leidenschaftlichkeit und Sinnlichkeit, aber auch Rohheit und Verderbtheit: Zola lässt den Zuhörer in überzeugender Weise teilhaben am Lebensgefühl der damaligen Gesellschaft.

A tale of love, Indian vengeance, and a mystery of the North. The danger trail is over the snow-smothered North. A young Chicago engineer, who is building a road through the Hudson Bay region, is involved in mystery, and is led into ambush by a young woman.

The final novel by the acclaimed writer places heroine Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity and deep emotion, against the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England.

The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the legendary Athenian misanthrope Timon (and probably influenced by the eponymous philosopher, as well), generally regarded as one of his most obscure and difficult works. Originally grouped with the tragedies, it is generally considered such, but some scholars group it with the problem comedies. (From Wikipedia)

Ex Oblivione was written in the year 1921 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. This book is one of the most popular novels of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 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 Plumed Serpent was written in the year 1926 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.

On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter. Responding to a review that took him to task for his realism, Jack London wrote, "I have had these experiences and it was out of these experiences, plus a fairly intimate knowledge of prize-fighting in general, that I wrote The Game." With this intimate realism, London took boxing out of the realm of disreputable topics and set it on a respectable literary course that extends from A. J. Liebling to Ernest Hemingway to Joyce Carol Oates. The familiarity of London's boxing writing testifies to its profound influence on later literary commentators on the sport, while the story The Game tells remains one of the most powerful and evocative portraits ever given of prizefighters in the grip of their passion.

Der junge Chevalier Des Grieux hat seine Studien beendet und steht kurz vor der Abreise aus Amiens, als er der liebenswürdigen Manon Lescaut begegnet. Seine weitere berufliche Laufbahn - er soll Ritter des Malteserordens werden - gerät in den Hintergrund. Des Grieux entführt seine junge Geliebte nach Paris und beginnt dort ein zweifelhaftes Leben. Er wird zum Spieler und muss miterleben, wie ihn Manon mit dem wohlhabenden Monsieur de B. betrügt. Der Chevalier nimmt, scheinbar geläutert, in Paris ein Theologiestudium auf und scheint von seiner Leidenschaft kuriert, bis Manon erneut seinen Weg kreuzt. Wieder gibt Des Grieux seine Studien auf, um mit ihr zusammenzuleben. Ihr Bruder erscheint und gewährt Des Grieux Einblicke in das Leben als Falschspieler. Ebenso taucht Monsieur de G.M. auf, der sich Manons Gunst gern etwas kosten lässt, doch rasch merkt, dass Des Grieux und Manon hauptsächlich an seinem Geld interessiert sind. Er lässt Des Grieux ins Gefängnis und Manon ins Arbeitshaus bringen. Als sich der Sohn des Herrn von G.M. in Manon verliebt, schmiedet der enttäuschte Des Grieux einen Plan, der jedoch mit Verhaftungen endet. Manon wird aufgrund ihres liederlichen Lebenswandels nach Amerika deportiert, wohin ihr Des Grieux folgt. Dort ist es der Sohn des französischen Gouverneurs, der sich Hoffnungen auf Manons Zuneigung macht. Es kommt zum Duell mit Des Grieux. Dieser schiesst ihn nieder und flieht mit Manon, die jedoch bald darauf in den Armen ihres Geliebten stirbt.