This is the tale of a two dimensional square who makes a new friend – a three dimensional sphere. Freiligrath, Ferdinand Das malerische und romantische Westphalen.
in 1914, this collection is comprised of color reproductions of newspaper photographs picturing various European nations’ regiments. Down and Out in the Magical Kingdom is a tale of a post-death, Disney-owned world where dying is just a temporary inconvenience. Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. Blank, Matthias Die Krone seines Lebens. Cromie also wrote a space travel story called A Plunge Into Space in 1890.
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. Still, the book created a template for future invasion stories, predicted germ warfare, and has created a series of adaptations and imitators.
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In celebration of what would be John Cheever’s 102nd birthday, we’re sharing five free reads that flaunt what he was known for: the short story. But In Search of the Unknown is about a search for rare animals, cryptids, and out-and-out monsters from the perspective of a world-traveling zoologist. Note: Project Gutenberg is for "public domain" works that are out of copyright. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2194), The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1528), Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1510), The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1317), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1297), The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1179), Et dukkehjem. list created April 11th, 2012
Armageddon – 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan. Trinity was the first nuclear weapon detonated by the United States Army on July 16, 1945 at what is now the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. 10.000 Werke lokal lesen: Gutenberg-DE Edition 15 auf USB. Fun stuff! Projekt Gutenberg | Die weltweit größte kostenlose deutschsprachige Volltext-Literatursammlung | Klassische Werke von A bis Z | Bücher gratis online lesen
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. He combined his writings on the matter with utopic novels of the time to tell the tales of Erewhon, guiding us through a strange society in a pseudo-sci-fi setting. By John Wenz. Still, this was the start of one of the most influential heroes of the pulp era.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3), The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1), Around the World in Eighty Days (Extraordinary Voyages, #11), Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1), The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances, #1), The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4), The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence #1), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6), The Wisdom of Father Brown (Father Brown, #2), King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table. That's such a long time that many of the greatest works have fallen into the public domain, providing a way to get free and easy access to many of these timeless works (and a few that time has forgotten.).
Lists are re-scored approximately every 5 minutes. Another short story, but this 1869 tale by Hale is credited as the first to anticipate artificial satellites and space habitations—though we know today that there will never be an orbital colony built out of bricks. Still famous today, this novel portrays a scientist twisted by his chemistry experiments into a monster that comes out and savagely attacks people in the night, as the timid Dr. Jekyll works to control his more monstrous half. The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds by H.G. , along with notes found following his death.
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Penned by an American author in 1884, Balzac moves from the French writer’s birth to his death, covering his major works, like The Human Comedy, without too many detours into literary analysis along the way.
All of humanity lives in one gigantic fortress. This 1915 biography by fellow French poet Gautier plumbs further into Baudelaire’s life. Multiple downloads from the same Internet address on the same day count as one download, and addresses that download more than 100 eBooks in a day are considered robots and are not counted. The pulpy space opera tale has aliens who secretly shape humanity's destiny, nuclear war, space travel, genetic engineering, stellar pirates, and more. As opposed to his later works, both combine elements of fantasy and science fiction into a far-future, dying-earth tale. While Nova and Dahlgren are his most known works, The Jewels of Aptor and Captives of the Flame kicked off his long career. It's about how hackers and makers struggle to survive as the economy falls apart, using ad hoc fixes to make their way through a changing economic landscape. Deathworld is a sort of parallel story to Harrison's famous Stainless Steel Rat series, taking place in the same sort of framework but focusing on a gambler thrust onto a hellish world full of dangerous beasts and awful weather on a smuggling trip.
There are also symbiotic aliens and more weirdness as the protagonists try to defuse worlds on the brink of destruction. He becomes a freedom fighter in a hellish world five centuries from his own. The novel straddles a line between horror and science fiction and includes elements of time travel and dimension hopping. It's been adapted to film a dozen times over, been copied in part into The Incredible Hulk, and has something or other to do with that Entourage movie I desperately want to avoid seeing. English by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2325), The Happy Prince, and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde (2323), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein (2246), The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (2241), A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (2190), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs (2090), Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993), The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (1911), The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (1857), The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe (1857), Le jardin des supplices by Octave Mirbeau (1785), The Confessions of St. Augustine by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine (1766), Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri (1747), Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome (1722), The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1691), Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne (1689), The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1640), A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1590), The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1569), Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1563), Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1523), Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Gravitation by J. Malcolm Bird (1512), The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (1475), David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1463), The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal (1443), Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory (1416), Anthony, A. V. S. (Andrew Varick Stout) (11196), Du Bois, W. E. B. should fill you up. Released at the start of World War I in 1914, this collection is comprised of color reproductions of newspaper photographs picturing various European nations’ regiments.