In A Country Christmas, Louisa May Alcott tells the story of Sophie, a debutante from the city who travels to rural Vermont to spend Christmas with her cousins Saul and Ruth. Though apprehensive at first, Sophie learns that the charms of celebrating Christmas in the country are many. ...
Алиса в Стране чудес. Алиса в Зазеркалье» – сказки, написанные английским математиком, поэтом и прозаиком Чарльзом Лютвиджем Доджсоном под псевдонимом Льюис Кэрролл. В них рассказывается о девочке по имени Алиса, которая попадает сквозь кроличью нору в воображаемый мир, населённый странными антропоморфными существами и как Алиса прошла сквозь зеркало и оказалась в Зазеркалье, где мир представляет собой большую шахматную доску. Сказки пользуютс ...
Eighteen-year-old Henry Fleming is a private in the Union Army's 304th New York Regiment. Having enlisted despite his mother's protest, Henry internally questions if his bravery will hold true in the face of battle. Determining that all hope is lost during his regiment's first skirmish, Henry flees in the midst of a bleak and bloody situation. However, as he reaches the rear of the army, he learns that the Union has actually won t ...
John Clare (1793-1864), ein bedeutender Dichter der englischen Romantik, geriet in seinen spaten Jahren in eine tiefe Lebenskrise, bis er schlie?lich 1837 in eine private Nervenheilanstalt in High Beach, Essex, eingewiesen wurde. Vier Jahre spater versuchte er, der Anstalt zu entkommen. Die «Reise aus Essex» ist die Geschichte dieser Flucht. Clare wanderte in einem brutalen Viertagemarsch uber fast 100 Meilen zuruck in sein Heimatdorf. Seine Eri ...
Abandoned at birth by her parents, Auli-Ambar is seen as a child blighted by a callous talon-stroke of fate. A worthless burden, she is blind, severely disfigured, and fit only for the most menial tasks. Then, a simple act of kindness changes her life. Flown to the Halls of the Dragons, the painfully shy girl becomes a cleaner of Dragon roosts and a helpless wanderer of the Dragon Library. Here, Auli is able to walk amidst the lore she is drawn ...
Originally published in the 1852 Christmas edition of Dickens' journal Household Words, The Child's Story is the account of a man's life from childhood to the present as told to his grandson in the form of a fairytale about a traveler and the people he meets. This version of The Child's Story is part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens. ...
In years following, Mims buries the horrid memory of the rape and her father’s ultimate betrayal. When she becomes a wife and mother, her shame and guilt ignite with a latent anger to create in her gruesome thoughts of inflicting violence on her loved ones. One night, she stands beside her baby’s crib, her rosary in one hand, and in the other, a ribbon with which she would strangle her baby. Will she succumb to the power of her anger, or will th ...
In Wilhelm Hauffs Marchen «Die Errettung Fatmes» hat Mustafa die Versklavung seiner Schwester und seiner zukunftigen Braut zu verschulden. Der Vater belegt ihn mit einem Fluch und nur wenn er seine Schwester Fatme zuruck bringen kann, wird er von dem Fluch befreit … Andreas Frohlich nimmt den Horer in dieser ungekurzten Lesung mit auf eine abenteuerliche Reise. ...
