Henry - Libros y biografía

"This way, everyone!” Coach Payson sent the call to each end of the field and then, swinging his small blue megaphone in his hand, waited for the panting players to gather about him in front of the bench....

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration...

The Banjo and Mandolin Club, huddled together on the right of the platform in Assembly Hall, strummed diligently and with enthusiasm, their zeal atoning for shortcomings due to lack of practice. For this...

A boy with light blue eyes that just about matched the slightly hazy June sky sat on the float below the town landing at Greenhaven, L. I., and stared thoughtfully across harbor and bay to where, two...

The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited...

Henry David Thoreau built a log cabin in the Concord Forest in Massachusetts in 1845. Thoreau lived there for two years to try out an alternative to the hectic and economically successful everyday life....

Questa è un’opera divulgativa di grande efficacia, nella quale Huxley affronta il problema filosoficamente decisivo di come considerare la posizione dell’uomo nello scenario della natura affrontando...

Verwirrspiel um die Bergung eines gesunkenen Schiffs mit wertvoller Fracht. Mitten drin ein gescheiterter Zeitungsverleger und seine gerade angetraute Frau, Tochter eines als verschollen geglaubten Kapitäns,...

La disobbedienza civile, il più noto tra gli scritti di Henry Thoreau, sancì l’affermazione della lotta non violenta come forma di opposizione al potere. Pubblicato nel 1849, suscitò l’entusiasmo di Tolstoj...

Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence.

Men go out into the void spaces of the world for various reasons. Some are incited simply by a love of adventure, some have a keen thirst for scientific knowledge, and others are drawn away from trodden...

"A week before the day set for her wedding, in a bright hour of early April, Hera rode forth from the park of Villa Barbiondi. Following the margin of the river, she trotted her horse to where the shores...

Im Menschen liegt eine Kraft verborgen, durch deren Nutzung er sich zu höheren und besseren Dingen erheben kann. Es gibt im Menschen ein größeres Selbst, das über das endliche Selbst des Sinnesmenschen...

Il y a un pouvoir caché dans l'homme, par lequel il peut s'élever à des choses plus élevées et meilleures. Il existe en l'homme un Soi plus grand, qui transcende le moi fini de l'homme des sens, tout...

Há um poder escondido no homem, pelo uso do qual ele pode subir para coisas mais altas e melhores. Há no homem um Eu maior, que transcende o eu finito do homem-sentido, mesmo como as torres da montanha...

Wolf-Henry Sturt - Auf Biegen und Verbrechen 15 Krimi-Kurzgeschichten 15 Krimi-Kurzgeschichten, die einem nicht nur das Blut...

William Henry Crook (October 15, 1839 - March 13, 1915) was one of President Abraham Lincoln’s bodyguards in 1865. After Lincoln’s assassination (while Crook was off duty), he continued to work in the...

Away in the western quarter of St. Petersburg, at some distance from the fashionable centre, stands a rather decrepit hall of debased classic. In England one would have put it down to George II.’s time,...

Warum sich mit der Genese der Fürbitte und der Relevanz von Fürbittegebeten für Gottes Barmherzigkeit und Wiederherstellung heute befassen. Sie werden erfahren, warum Gott Fürbitten für sündige Menschen...

Evoluzione ed etica è un breve saggio sul rapporto tra etica e teoria dell’evoluzione. L’autore, a dieci anni dalla morte di Darwin, era il più influente e prestigioso esponente dell’evoluzionismo. Thomas...

Dan Vinton returned to Yardley after the Christmas vacation on an afternoon of one of those bright, warm days which sometimes happen along in the middle of Winter. As the train rumbled over the bridge,...

“Wonder why it always rains on Saturdays?” muttered Alf Loring, laying his book face-down in his lap and staring discontentedly out of the window beside him. It was a cheerless outlook. Through the blurred...

IT is just a year ago since this Essay on “The English Flower Garden” was published in the Quarterly Review. It was written with a twofold object: to give in the smallest compass an outline history of...

“All together! Cheer on cheer! Now we’re charging down the field! See how Broadwood pales with fear, Knowing we will never yield! Wave on high your banner blue, Cheer for comrades staunch and true; We...

There was a warning clang from the engine bell and a sudden return to darkness as the fireman slammed the furnace door and tossed the slicer-bar back onto the tender. The express messenger in the car...

To one who wanders by my side As cheerfully as waters glide; Whose eyes are brown as woodland streams, And very fair and full of dreams; Whose heart is like a mountain spring, Whose thoughts like merry...

Henry David Thoreau: Walden, oder: Leben in den Wäldern | Neuauflage 2019, mit einem aktuellen Vorwort des Herausgebers | Ende März 1845, er ist jetzt 28 Jahre alt, leiht sich Henry David Thoreau eine...

Comment atteindre l'harmonie, la santé, le succès, la réussite, la maîtrise de soi, l'optimisme, la prospérité, la paix de l'esprit, grâce au pouvoir de la pensée juste. Je veux que vous réalisiez :...

Come raggiungere l'armonia, la salute, il successo, la realizzazione, la padronanza di sé, l'ottimismo, la prosperità, la pace della mente, attraverso il potere del pensiero giusto. Voglio che ti renda...

Joan Haste is an 1895 novel by English writer H. Rider Haggard. Set primarily in London, it is the story of a love affair hampered by differences in social class and ending in tragedy. |Afterter the liberal...