Charles - Libros y biografía

Dies ist die Geschichte eines schönen, mutterlosen jungen Mädchens, dessen Vater zum zweiten Mal heiratete. Er nahm eine hochmütige und stolze Witwe zur Frau, die zwei eigene Töchter hatte. Beide Mädchen...

A picture of life in the fifth century must needs contain much which will be painful to any reader, and which the young and innocent will do well to leave altogether unread. It has to represent a very...

Most of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last thirty years seen more romances than the generality of men, however unpromising...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it...

Baudelaire is a masculine poet. He carved rather than sang; the plastic arts spoke to his soul. A lover and maker of images. Like Poe, his emotions transformed themselves into ideas. Bourget classified...

The kettle began it! Don't tell me what Mrs. Peerybingle said. I know better. Mrs. Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time that she couldn't say which of them began it; but, I say the kettle...

Auszug aus Darwins Reisebericht: Ich habe die Reise mit zu tief empfundenem Entzücken gemacht, als dass ich nicht jedem Naturforscher empfehlen könnte unter allen Umständen die Gelegenheit zu ergreifen...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French...

Charles Darwin entwickelt in seinem bahnbrechenden Werk über »Die Entstehung der Arten« die Grundlagen der Evolutionstheorie. Darwin erklärt die Theorie anhand der Methodik der Tierzucht. Ein Züchter...

Le Spleen de Paris, également connu sous le titre Petits poèmes en prose, est un recueil posthume de poésies en prose de Charles Baudelaire, établi par Charles Asselineau et Théodore de Banville. Il a...

We know from the contents of Charles Darwin's Note Book of 1837 that he was at that time a convinced Evolutionist. Nor can there be any doubt that, when he started on board the Beagle, such opinions as...

This volume contains, in the form of a Journal, a history of our voyage, and a sketch of those observations in Natural History and Geology, which I think will possess some interest for the general reader....

"Eine Geschichte aus zwei Städten" (Originaltitel: "A Tale of Two Cities") ist ein historischer Roman von Charles Dickens. Geschrieben 1859, ist das Buch mit über 200 Millionen verkauften Ausgaben das...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long...

L'expérience rare dans le monde de la Justice d'un Premier Président de cour d'Appel devenu, une fois en retraite, Juge de proximité en Correctionnelle : une découverte pour lui, et pour tous ses lecteurs.

Cet ouvrage n’a pas d’équivalent, ni en français, ni en aucune autre langue. C’est une œuvre de première main, reflet ou relais du dernier état de la recherche, originale et personnelle s’agissant de...

Comment diriger ? D’où vient la capacité de certains hommes à enthousiasmer ceux qui les suivent, tandis que d’autres semblent dépourvus d’autorité ? Mus par le sens du service ou une ambition personnelle...

It was called in as a robbery at Hayek Associates, an online game company. So you can imagine Sergeant Sue Smith's mood as she watches the video footage of the heist being carried out by a band of orcs...

A Trader had no home - yet was at home everywhere.From the Chill settlements to Cap City, from the Strine Interior to the Darklands and out to the space colonies, the Traders were always on the move.They...

The power of one...Job. Against all evidence he never lost faith in his fellow man.Job. Born on he bottom rung in an age that made ours seem Golden, his life went rapidly downhill from there.Job. Cast...

Twenty-five years ago there was a great interplanetary war in the Solar System. It was a suicidal spasm in which terrible weapons were created and used; in which nine billion people were killed. The rivalries...

Set more than four thousand years in the future, Summertide introduces a galaxy widely populated by humans and a variety of intelligent aliens, all of whom live in the shadow of the vanished race known...

Lawyers in space?!Well, yes. It's a terrifying thought. But there are lawyers and lawyers. And then, there are Henry Carver and Waldo P. Burmeister. Sometimes it's not clear if their greatest skill lies...

There were problems with the Form Change process. One or two malfunctions at first: people emerging from the tanks in an incorrect form or completely unchanged.For three years it had been getting worse....

Bleak House in half the timeEsther Summerson finds herself caught up in the frustrations of a seemingly unending law-case involving her generous guardian Mr Jarndyce and her wards Ada and Richard.Brought...

Neptune's Brood is a brand new space opera from science fiction legend Charles Stross. Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Hugo Award for Best Novel.She was looking...

Lionel Salkind was glad for a visit from his twin brother Leo; the two rarely saw each other. Tehn their plane went down, and as he lost consciousness Lionel knew that Leo was dead. Lionel woke up in...

Charles Lenox, Member of Parliament, sets sail on a clandestine mission for the government. When an officer is savagely murdered, however, Lenox is drawn toward his old profession, determined to capture...

Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas,...

Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political career and is a delighted new father. His days of regularly investigating the crimes of Victorian London now some years behind him, he plans a trip to...