Herman: 1212 books

Hard gras bevat verhalen uit de bundel De korte geschiedenis van het bedrog (ca 50 blz.) `Mijn coming-out vond pas aan het eind van de jaren zeventig plaats. Pas toen durfde ik de wereld recht in het gezicht te kijken en eindelijk hardop te zeggen: `Ja, ik houd van voetbal! En wat dan nog? Herman...

Min of meer toevallig bevat verhalen uit de bundel De korte geschiedenis van het bedrog (ca 80 blz.) In een paar raak gekozen zinnen weet Herman Koch een sfeer op te roepen die nu eens melancholisch is, dan weer geestig en vol ironie. Verhalen over personages die er net niet bij horen of krampachtig...

Mardi and A Voyage Thither - Volume I Herman Melville, american novelist, poet, and writer of short stories (1819-1891) This ebook presents «Mardi and A Voyage Thither - Volume I», from Herman Melville. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

In Survivors of WWII in the Pacific, Ronny Herman de Jong shares 14 compelling real-life experiences of men and women she knows, many of whom were only youngsters at the time of WWII.Like Ronny and her family, each person was caught up in the world-shaking events of WWII in the Pacific. In spite...

Miz Suzies Boy is a remarkable book about a Negro boy, born into abject poverty during the Great Depression to a teenage mother. Hardships of the depression included shooting crows for meals and keeping hand-me-down shoes together with string and newspaper. Negroes in the town of West Munden, a few...

Cette édition contient la traduction française et le texte original en anglais. "Bartleby" (titre original : "Bartleby, the Scrivener - A Story of Wall Street") est une nouvelle de Herman Melville (l'auteur de "Moby Dick") parue une première fois en 1853 dans le "Putnam's Monthly Magazine" et reprise...

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet from the American Renaissance period. Most of his writings were published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his sea adventure Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he was...

Intelligence was a central element of the Cold War and the need for it was expected to diminish after the USSR's collapse, yet in recent years it has been in greater demand than ever. The atrocities of 11 September and the subsequent "war on terrorism" now call for an even more intensive effort. Important...

New York Times/Guardian article: The book builds on photographs featured in the New York Times in 2015 as part of an article written by Gabriela Herman for the Sunday Review Exposures column called "What Could Gay Marriage Mean for the Kids?" The photos were also featured in a cover story for The...

“Billy Budd” is the final work of American author Herman Melville which was discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and first published in Raymond Weaver’s 1924 edition of “The Collected Works of Melville.” The emergence of that collection as well as Weaver’s 1921 biography,...

In Moby-Dick’s wide philosophical musings and central narrative arch, Herman finds a philosophy very closely aligned specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism. In exploring the likelihood of this hitherto undiscovered influence, Herman looks at works Melville is either known to have...

An inspirational, eye-popping true story about conquering incredible adversities. The drama, suspense and offbeat humor will keep you turning pages. The author and his brother were born in Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. He recounts their childhood of danger, starvation, homelessness...

Herman Potocnik Noordung’s ‘Inhabitable Wheel’. In 1929, an Austro-Hungarian - Slovene called Herman Potocnik published a book under the pseudonym of ‘Noordung’. The book was Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums (The Problem of Space Travel). It was the first book to devote most...