John - Libros y biografía

The Forsyte Saga, first published under that name in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize-winning English author John Galsworthy. They chronicle...

Richard's story é um musical para ler inspirado nas canções dos Beatles e conta, numa sucessão de experiências e emoções, a vida do jovem Richard. De “Twist and shout” e ”Please, please me”,  passando...

Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share information. We tell each other that many things...

My first duty this evening is to ask your pardon for the ambiguity of title under which the subject of lecture has been announced: for indeed I am not going to talk of kings, known as regnant, nor of...

QUESTO LIBRO È A LAYOUT FISSO La vera storia della caccia al più famoso assassino seriale americano. Per 31 anni, l’uomo che si firmava BTK (Bind Tortur Kill: Lega Tortura Uccidi) terrorizzò la città...

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse....

Paradise Regained is a poem by English poet John Milton, first published in 1671 by John Macock. The volume in which it appeared also contained the poet's closet drama Samson Agonistes. Paradise Regained...

Author of Vampyre, possibly the first work of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. Polidori went in 1810 to Edinburgh University, where he received his degree as a doctor of medicine on August 1, 1815...

The following addresses, though spoken at different times, are intentionally connected in subject; their aim being to set one or two main principles of art in simple light before the general student,...

The following lectures were really given, in substance, at a girls' school (far in the country); which, in the course of various experiments on the possibility of introducing some better practice of drawing...

The following Lectures are printed, as far as possible, just as they were delivered. Here and there a sentence which seemed obscure has been mended, and the passages which had not been previously written,...

The greater part of the following treatise remains in the exact form in which it was read at Manchester; but the more familiar passages of it, which were trusted to extempore delivery, have been since...

The title of this book,—or, more accurately, of its subject;—for no author was ever less likely than I have lately become, to hope for perennial pleasure to his readers from what has cost himself the...

"Paradise Lost" is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton.The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel...

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC (/?b?x?n/; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the...

QUESTO LIBRO E' A LAYOUT FISSO Pubblicato nel 1919, I dieci giorni che sconvolsero il mondo narra, gli avvenimenti della Rivoluzione d’ottobre. Al centro del libro, il popolo russo: soldati, operai,...

Kämpfen Sie ständig für eine positive und gesündere Änderung Ihrer Essgewohnheiten? Versuchen Sie abzunehmen, Fett zu verbrennen und Muskeln aufzubauen? Wenn Sie diese Frage mit Ja beantworten, ist dieses...

THE compiler of this little compendium of Telegraph History places it in the hands of the public in the hope that it may be received with favor. The historical data is taken from leading standard authorities.

Trixy was not a babe, for she had passed her seventh birthday and was as wise and irrepressible as the only child of a loving father and mother usually becomes. Her parents and relations continued to...

"Mieux vous régner dans Enfer que servir dans le Ciel". Un texte fascinant, à la fois poétique et épique, sur la chute de Lucifer et la guerre entre Archanges au Paradis. Mais c'est aussi une splendide...

If by any chance you should ever sail on a low ebb-tide along a certain western coast, you will, if you are of a receptive humour and new to the district, receive a somewhat startling impression of the...

The narrative, now for the first time presented to the world, was written by the Sieur de Rohaine to while away the time during the long period and painful captivity, borne with heroic resolution, which...

John Milton scrisse il poema epico Il Paradiso Perduto fra il 1658 e il 1665. Rappresentante emblematico del conflitto fra Rinascimento e Riforma, profondo conoscitore dei classici greci e latini, l’autore...

The infamous Andersonville prison was only in operation for little more than one year, from 1864 into 1865, but in that short time became the largest city in Georgia and the fifth largest city in the...

Mon crédo pédagogique est le «manifeste» des nouvelles écoles. Au moment où un coup de feu au milieu d'un marécage pédagogique que ne pouvait pas reconnaître la centralité du sujet dans le processus éducatif....

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That some of Clare’s poems belong of right to the excellent things of this earth admits of no dispute. A worshipper of Nature, by whom he was surely appointed to be one of her chief historians, he revelled...

The Island of Sheep (1936) is a novel by John Buchan. It is the last of his novels to revolve around Richard Hannay and Sandy Arbuthnot. The action occurs twelve years later on from the last novel, when...

It is mortifying enough to write,—but I think thus much ought to be written,—concerning myself, as 'the author of Modern Painters.' In three months I shall be fifty years old: and I don't at this hour—ten...

Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during...