Herman: 1212 books

Novela que relata el conflicto entre el capitán Ahab, jefe del ballenero Pequod, y la gigante ballena blanca Moby Dick que en realidad es un cachalote, l acual ya le ha quitado una de sus piernas hasta la altura de la rodilla.

... Als Kathinkas Mutter starb, erhielten sie die Erbschaft ausgezahlt. Für zwei einzelne Menschen befanden sie sich im Wohlstand und hatten alles vollauf. Bai liebte es gut zu essen und bezog aus der Stadt vielen und guten Wein. Er legte sich etwas in die Breite und machte es sich bequem, während...

In diesen autobiografischen Werk schildert Hermann Bang seine Kindheit im weißen Haus. Es verklärt sich in seiner Erinnerung zum Zustand reinen, lichtdurchfluteten Glücks, eng verbunden mit der Beziehung zur Mutter. Das weiße Haus - mit seinen hellen Tapeten und weißen Konsolen, dem weiß gestrichenen...

The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans.

This book could be entitled Come On In and Help Us Build This Country. The heroes of this work escaped to New York City from Iasi, Romania, in 1901. They entered our country with a huge smile on their faces, fear tearing at their hearts. They fought constant battles against prejudice. Early they learned...

Succès phénoménal aux Pays-Bas, alliance détonante d'une comédie de mœurs à l'humour ravageur et d'un roman noir à la tension implacable, Le Dîner dresse le portrait de notre société en pleine crise morale. Deux frères se donnent rendez-vous avec leurs épouses dans un restaurant...

We were now voyaging straight for Maramma; where lived and reigned, in mystery, the High Pontiff of the adjoining isles: prince, priest, and god, in his own proper person: great lord paramount over many kings in Mardi; his hands full of scepters and crosiers. Soon, rounding a lofty and insulated...

It is 1806; a powerful and criminal secret society has almost complete control over many of the elected officials, international finance, and commerce in the young nation. Its leaders arrange for a dissident to be brutally murdered and left floating in the Potomac River so that the body surfaces within...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Research hydraulic engineers job, or to apply for a better job. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines....

A groom, chewing the inevitable straw, gave a final polish to the saddle, and then stood at the animal's head, waiting for the tall, spare man with the bronzed, weather-beaten face, who was slowly drawing on his gloves in the yard, to mount. Idly the groom wondered if the would-be sportsman knew which...

Bannadonna is an eccentric artist and architect who dreams up plans for a magnificent bell tower. After receiving approval from the city, Bannadonna happily begins construction, but local citizens begin to notice strange occurrences associated with the bell-tower, and complaints eventually reach the...

Taking up where Archons: The Foundling left off, Hutch and Jasmine find their new daughter, Simmie, is eagerly sought after by the evil Gadiael, the Keepers long-hated enemies. Why they want the baby Archon is uncertain, but the fact that they will stop at nothing to attain her is made perfectly clear....

Uma irônica e literária análise da natureza humana, do mesmo autor de Moby Dick. A narrativa de Melville – um dos precursores do absurdo na literatura – é curta, rica e múltipla; leitura para se perder em interpretações. O personagem título é um jovem escrivão judicial que, cansado do...

"–Você poderia me contar qualquer coisa a seu respeito?' –Acho melhor não." Repetida mais de 20 vezes, a frase "Acho melhor não" é uma espécie de leitmotiv, ou fio condutor, da obra-prima de Melville. A história é contada pelo sócio de um escritório de advocacia de...