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Heidi by Johanna Spyri. Search eText, Read Online, Study, Discuss.
WEBHeidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature. Adelheid ("Heidi") is a girl who has been raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid (Dete's sister and brother-in-law). Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather (her ...
Charles Dickens - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read …
WEBCharles John Huffman Dickens was born on 7 February, 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (now the Dickens Birthplace Museum) the son of Elizabeth née Barrow (1789-1863) and John Dickens (c.1785-1851) a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. John was a congenial man, hospitable and generous to a fault which caused him financial difficulties ...
Leo Tolstoy - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online.
WEBAlmost one hundred years after his death, in January of 2007, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1878) and War and Peace were placed on Time magazine’s ten greatest novels of all time, first and third place respectively. Childhood: days of idyll, Moscow and Kazan University. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on 28 August 1828 into a long line of ...
Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Search eText, Read Online, Study, Discuss.
WEBDec 30, 2018 · Line 70, Canto 32 "doglike". In Dante Alighieri's "Inferno" in Canto XXXII on Line 70, it says: "And after that I saw a thousand faces made doglike by the cold; for which I shudder- and always will- when I face frozen fords." Now this is during his travels across "The Ninth Circle of Hell, the First Ring, in which Traitors to their Kin are ...
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Search eText, Read Online, Study, …
WEBJul 21, 2016 · War and Peace: The Movie (1956) and the Novel. WAR AND PEACE: Leo Tolstoy and Me stoy Part 1: The 1956 release of War and Peace was the first English-language film version of the novel War and Peace by the Russian novelist and short-story writer, essayist and playwright Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). This 1956 film was released …
An Old-fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott. Search eText, Read …
WEBDec 19, 2009 · An Old-fashioned Girl. Polly Milton is the new face of the girl who everyone calls Polly Pure, even if she is from the Victorian era. Being the country girl with her city cousins, Polly just can't seem to fit in. She means well, but she isn't just the image of high fashion; much to the dismay of her hostess, Fran.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Search eText, Read Online, Study, …
WEBJan 6, 2017 · Moby Dick is now considered one of the greatest novels in the English language and has secured Melville's place among America's greatest writers. Written in 1851, it is the story of Ishmael’s whaling voyage. It contains many examples of alliteration, allusion, similes, and metaphors; it also presents an ironic argument against ...
The Odyssey by Homer. Search eText, Read Online, Study, Discuss.
WEBThe Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second--the Iliad being the first--extant work of Western literature. It was probably composed near the end of the 8th century BC ...
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. Search eText, Read Online, Study, …
WEBAnne of Geierstein (1829). Ivanhoe is the story of knights, yeomen, and the like. Though its genre is favorably historical fiction, it tells the tales of romance, power, and glory. A chief part of the book is the characters; they stay with the book in all circumstances, and are honourable persons. The setting is in Old England, but Scott tells ...