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Der Spieler erschien 1866 kurz nach Schuld und Sühne; Dostojewski diktierte ihn seiner Stenotypistin und späteren Ehefrau in nur 26 Tagen. Eingebettet in eine burleske, gelegentlich grotesk komische Geschichte um eine Gruppe von Menschen, die, kurz vor dem finanziellen Ruin stehend, im fiktiven Kurort Roulettenburg auf den Geldsegen einer umfangreichen, alle erlösenden Erbschaft wartet, finden sich präzise und detaillierte Beschreibungen der Spielsucht, die Dostojewski aus eigener Erfahrung kannte.

Elvestad liefert hier einen mystischen Kriminalroman, der unter die Haut geht. In einem norwegischen Dorf geschah vor vielen Jahren ein großes Unglück, das die gesamten Einwohner nicht mehr los läßt. Eines Tages kommt ein geheimnisvoller Fremder mit der Fähre. Aber er bringt nur weiteres Unheil für das Dorf, und bald nimmt dieses seinen Lauf ...

Posdnyschew, Mörder seiner Frau, wegen Handelns aus Eifersucht freigesprochen, frühzeitig ergraut, mit blitzenden Augen und nervösem Gebaren, hört auf einer längeren Zugfahrt, wie die Reisenden über Liebe als Grundbedingung für eine glückliche Ehe diskutieren - eine Ansicht, die vor allem von einer nicht mehr jungen, nicht sonderlich attraktiven, rauchenden Dame vertreten wird. Ein alter Kaufmann dagegen vertritt rigoros patriarchalische, antiquiert anmutende Ansichten. Endlich, nachdem die meisten ausgestiegen sind, erzählt Posdnyschew seine Geschichte: Als junger Mann, nach Jahren des Alleineseins beschließt er zu heiraten. Obwohl er körperliche Begehrlichkeiten als "tierisch" ablehnt, ist er von der Sinnlichkeit seiner Frau angezogen und fasziniert, sie bekommen fünf Kinder. Seine Gattin - sie ist eine nun dreißigjährige Schönheit - erfährt, dass sie aus gesundheitlichen Gründen keine Kinder mehr bekommen darf, damit ist jede körperliche Beziehung zu Ende. Sie widmet sich nun ihren persönlichen Neigungen, besonders dem Klavierspiel. Posdnyschew argwöhnt, dass sie nach einer neuen Liebe Ausschau hält, und er vergeht vor Eifersucht, wenn sie in dem gemeinsamen Haus mit einem Geiger musiziert (die "Kreutzersonate"). So kommt es zur Zuspitzung des Ehekonflikts, er tötet die vermeintliche Ehebrecherin.

Eine historische Erzählung über die Königin von Frankreich, die in der sogenannten Bartholomäusnacht tausende Hugenotten ermorden liess und der einflussreichen Familie der Medici aus Florenz entstammte.

Originally a part of the "Historic Towns" series, this title gives a comprehensive account of the history of Boston, one of the oldest towns in the United States. The author takes us from the Puritan beginnings through Colonial times, further on to the role of Boston in the American revolution and the Civil War, and far beyond these times.

Der Kleine und der Große Katechismus sind Schriften, die Martin Luther verfasst hat. Der kleine Katechismus will als Einführung in den christlichen Glauben verstanden sein. Er ist mit dem Großen Katechismus und den Schmalkaldischen Artikeln der Teil der lutherischen Bekenntnisschriften, die aus Luthers eigener Feder stammen. Er hat deshalb in den lutherischen Kirchen Bekenntnis- und Lehrcharakter: Auf diese werden heute noch Pfarrer und Pfarrerinnen der evangelischen Landeskirchen und die Pastoren der evangelischen Bekenntniskirchen ordiniert. D.h. sie versehen ihren Dienst auf Grundlage der Heiligen Schrift und gemäß dieser Bekenntnisschriften.

The "History of Cambridge" was originally published in 1877. Besides the historical narrative in this volume, the second volume contains a very full and carefully compiled "Genealogical Register" of the early settlers and their descendants. These volumes are, in the most essential respects, models of what a town history should be. They contain the most important information obtainable from the sources then open to the author, and this is presented in a clear and concise narrative. In the estimation of those most competent to pass judgment, these volumes are authorities. But they are something more than authorities. They not only instruct; they inspire. Nobody deserves the privilege of growing up in this city who does not make himself familiar with these books. They are epitomes of the history, not only of this town, but of a good many other Puritan towns. It fills this place with memories of by-gone scenes and deeds which were precious to the people of those times, and are precious still to us, their descendants or successors.

Dieser Band bietet eine sorgfältig ausgewählte Sammlung der schönsten deutschen Weihnachtsgedichte. 119 besinnliche, friedvolle oder heitere Stücke lassen die Zeit bis zum Weihnachtsfest kürzer werden und die Herzen aufgehen. Zu den Autoren gehören Achim von Arnim, Wilhelm Busch, Max Dauthendey, Johannes Dose, Joseph von Eichendorff, Karl Gerok, Franz Grillparzer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Klabund u.v.m.

Die "Abhandlung" gilt als eines der umstrittendesten Werke Spinozas. Seine Ansichten über Denkfreiheit und Religion, Theologie und Philosophie waren revolutionär und für das 17. Jahrhundert geradezu futuristisch.

The Pali Version of this small collection of stories and sentences has not been translated into English until the early 20th century. Several passages, however, occur in the Cullavagga, Mahavagga and Maha Parinibbâna Suttas and have been translated in the "Sacred Books of the East."

In the last half of 1509 and the first months of 1510, Cornelius Agrippa, known in his day as a Magician, gathered together all the Mystic lore he had obtained by the energy and ardor of youth and compiled it into the elaborate system of Magic, in three books, known as Occult Philosophy, the first book of which--Natural Magic--constitutes the present volume. This is true and sublime Occult Philosophy. To understand the mysterious influences of the intellectual world upon the celestial, and of both upon the terrestrial; and to know how to dispose and fit ourselves so as to be capable of receiving the superior operations of these worlds, whereby we may be enabled to operate wonderful things by a natural power--to discover the secret counsels of men, to increase riches, to overcome enemies, to procure the favor of men, to expel diseases, to preserve health, to prolong life, to renew youth, to foretell future events, to see and know things done many miles off, and such like as these. These things may seem incredible, yet read but the ensuing treatise and thou shalt see the possibility confirmed both by reason and example.

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals. Indian Thoroughfares. Washington's Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War. Braddock's Road. The Old Glade (Forbes's) Road. Boone's Wilderness Road. Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent. Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin. Waterways of Westward Expansion. The Cumberland Road. Pioneer Roads of America (two volumes). The Great American Canals (two volumes). The Future of Road-Making in America. This volume is devoted to two great lines of pioneer movement, one through northern Virginia and the other through central New York. In the former case the Old Northwestern Turnpike is the key to the situation, and in the latter the famous Genesee Road, running westward from Utica, was of momentous importance. A chapter is given to the Northwestern Turnpike, showing the movement which demanded a highway, and the legislative history which created it. Then follow two chapters of travelers' experiences in the region covered. One of these is given to the Journal of Thomas Wallcutt (1790) through northern Virginia and central Pennsylvania. Another chapter presents no less vivid descriptions from quite unknown travelers on the Virginian roads. The Genesee Road is presented in chapter four as a legislative creation; the whole history of this famous avenue would be practically a history of central New York.

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose (c. between 337 and 340 - 4 April 397), was a bishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century. He was one of the four original doctors of the Church. (courtesy of wikipedia.com) This edition includes the following writings: On the Duties of the Clergy. Three Books on the Duties of the Clergy. Three Books on the Holy Spirit. The Two Books on the Decease of His Brother Saytrus. Exposition of the Christian Faith On the Mysteries. The Book Concerning the Mysteries. Two Books Concerning Repentance. Concerning Virgins. Three Books Concerning Virgins. The Treatise Concerning Widows. Selections from the Letters of St. Ambrose.

The most weighty of the doctrinal treatises is that on the Holy Trinity. The Latin original (De Trinitate contra Arianos libri quindecim), is contained in the 8th volume of the Benedictine edition. It is the most elaborate, and probably also the ablest and profoundest patristic discussion of this central doctrine of the Christian religion, unless we except the Orations against the Arians, by Athanasius, "the Father of Orthodoxy," who devoted his life to the defense of the Divinity of Christ. Augustine, owing to his defective knowledge of Greek, wrote his work independently of the previous treatises of the Eastern Church on that subject. He bestowed more time and care upon it than on any other book, except the City of God. Besides this treatise the following works are included: The Enchiridion, or On Faith, Hope and Love, On the Catechising of the Uninstructed, Treatise on Faith and the Creed, Concerning Faith of Things not Seen, On the Profit of Believing On the Creed.

This book is an interesting addition to the voluminous biographical literature of the war that has been made in the Memoirs of Robert E. Lee. General A. L. Long of the Confederate Army was a friend and fellow-soldier of Lee. This large volume has been written under great difficulties, the author having lost his sight; but, like some more eminent American historians who have worked under similar disadvantages, he has not slighted his task, but has made diligent use of a great body of material. The work is not autobiographical, of course, but makes large use of the words and records of General Lee. Its value rests in its full, clear, and enthusiastic presentation of the character and career of one of the most remarkable men of a great epoch. Included are also the full official Reports of Gen. Lee with copious selections from his confidential letters, dispatches, and official communications never before published-the only official record of the closing years of the war.

A study of the remains of the native religious literature of ancient Egypt which have come down to us has revealed the fact that the belief in magic, that is to say, in the power of magical names, and spells, and enchantments, and formulæ, and pictures, and figures, and amulets, and in the performance of ceremonies accompanied by the utterance of words of power, to produce supernatural results.

The Constitution of Athens is a thorough description of the political system of that ancient state. The treatise was composed between 330 and 322 BC and consists of two parts. The first part deals with the different forms of the constitution, the second part describes the city's institutions, including the terms of access to citizenship, magistrates and the courts.

Tullidge's monumental work on the beautiful desert metropolis, its history and growth, its evolution and its most significant troubles is obviously also a history of Mormonism and its growth and development in Utah, written by "authority of the Council and under supervision of its Committee on Revision," and therefore giving a picture of Mormonism in the most favorable light in which it is possible to present the institution to the public. There are too many outside evidences of material prosperity and thrift everywhere to be seen in the resourceful valley where the Mormon emigrants from Illinois and Missouri began to make their home in July, 1847, and the vitality of the community has been too plainly manifested on many occasions, for any one easily to escape the conclusion that the "Mormon question," as it is called, is still one of no insignificant importance. Why and how it has become of such material significance is probably more fully explained in thus volume than in any other one work published. This is volume two out of two.

Tullidge's monumental work on the beautiful desert metropolis, its history and growth, its evolution and its most significant troubles is obviously also a history of Mormonism and its growth and development in Utah, written by "authority of the Council and under supervision of its Committee on Revision," and therefore giving a picture of Mormonism in the most favorable light in which it is possible to present the institution to the public. There are too many outside evidences of material prosperity and thrift everywhere to be seen in the resourceful valley where the Mormon emigrants from Illinois and Missouri began to make their home in July, 1847, and the vitality of the community has been too plainly manifested on many occasions, for any one easily to escape the conclusion that the "Mormon question," as it is called, is still one of no insignificant importance. Why and how it has become of such material significance is probably more fully explained in thus volume than in any other one work published. This is volume one out of two.

One ot the chief literary events in biographical writings is this work. Not only does its subject recommend it, but the fact that it is written by Mr. Julian Hawthorne, a man of genius himself, and probably the one of all others best able to appreciate his father's genius. The basis of the work is Hawthorne's letters, Mrs. Hawthorne's letters, and letters from intimate friends and relatives to either. Every one will rejoice that the author disregarded his father's wish, that no biography of him should be written. It would have been a misfortune if this delightful series of letters had been withheld from the world. The beautiful family life they describe, with scarcely a flaw in it from beginning to end, is a bright contrast to some other interiors of the homes of great writers offered us of late years. For the first time, too, we learn through them of Mrs. Hawthorne's lovely character, and all the depths and contrasts of her husband s many-sided nature. As the letters weie written only for the eyes of intimate friends, they are often quite frank in expression of opinion regarding literary contemporaries. No one should miss reading the work, if only to learn what a model biography is.

The career of a city contains as much good material, out of which an entertaining history may be constructed, as does the life of an individual, or the development of a nation; but, for some reason, it has come to pass in America that the preparation of city, or "local", history has usually fallen into the hands of schemers who exploit the "prominent" citizen for his biography, and throw in something of a narrative, merely as an apology for the book's existence. The present book is an attempt to supply in convenient and portable shape the material facts in the history of Los Angeles city. It contains nothing in the form of paid or biographical matter (strange that such a statement should be needed!), and it is offered for sale at the bookshops on its merits as a book.

Sophocles was an Athenian dramatist, born of a prosperous family at Colonus, a beautiful suburb of Athens. His long and happy life coincided with the period of the Imperial greatness of Athens and his dramas are the most perfect exemplars of Attic art. This edition contains the following works: Oedipus The King Oedipus At Colonus Antigone Ajax Electra Trachiniae Philoctete

The text is closely confined to the colonial period; but the mode of presentation is extraordinary indeed to those accustomed to the prosaic methods of town and village historians. Mr. Hudson has tried to transport his readers and himself back two hundred years or more, as in a vision. In imagination we sit before the humble firesides of the first settlers; hear and join in their gossip, superstitions, and communings, social and religious; inspect their farm lands and homestends, and mark well and remember their boundaries and their family histories. At the same moment we are supposed to be living in the present, and viewing these days through the customary haze of retrospect. It is asking a good deal of any one to fancy himself in two centuries at the same time, but Mr. Hudson's humor is insistent on this point, and he keeps up the illusion, which is, unfortunately. no illusion whatever, and then finds himself on the safe road of steady and progressive narrative.

The Soliloquies were written by St. Augustine in the 4th-century. The two books contain an "inner dialogue" with questions, answers and thorough discussions, that finally aim to gain self-knowledge. While in the first book the dialogue longs to know a soul, it becomes evident in the second book that it is the author himself who wants to get to know his own.

Leo I. was the first pope to have been called "the Great". He is also known as a Doctor and Father of the Church and has issued the Tome of Leo, a document which was one of the cornerstones in the debates of the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon. The sermons and letters included in this book are mostly concerned with theological questions concerning the person of Jesus Christ and his role as mediator and savior.

Since Washington Irving with delicious humor satirized the Dutchmen who founded New York, many writers have handled the history of America's chief city. Notable among them has been Mrs. Lamb, and it was thought her work left nothing undone. Mr. Todd, how ever, thought the picturesque story would be well re-told in language and form more likely to be attractive to young people, and this book is the result. The style is lucid, and there is little of the pedantic minuteness that makes so many histories hard reading. On the other hand it has not been thought necessary to make the book puerile in order to get young people to read it, and there is nothing in it to remind one of the primer. So it will prove entertaining, also to older folks who like to take their history in pleasant form.