London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a...
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited aby the...
This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the...
Alice in Wonderland żeby Lewis Carroll. This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout żeby Sir John Tenniel,...
Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole – without giving a thought about how she might get out. And so she tumbles into Wonderland: where animals answer back, a...
What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection contains all of his poetry: the early work, which is often...
In diesem Band (Nr. 255) werden alle Modelle (fortwo city-coupe, fortwo cabrio, crossblade, roadster, roadster-coupe) mit folgenden Motoren behandelt:§- 0,6 Liter, 33kW/45PS, ab 09/99§- 0,6 Liter,...
Wer sein Fahrzeug mit einfachen Hilfsmitteln richtig pflegen, warten und kleinere Reparaturen selbst durchführen möchte, findet hier zahlreiche Tipps und Anleitungen. Und sollten doch einmal...
With an Introduction aby Donald McFarlan. Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity...
Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field....
Seit der Bahnreform 1994 sind auf deutschen Gleisen immer Privatbahnen unterwegs. Dies führt zu einer ungeheuren Vielfalt, bei der es schwierig ist, den Überblick zu behalten. Aus diesem Grund hat...
All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'. Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master...
Die Ereignisse der letzten Wochen und Monate in der Ukraine rufen längst vergangene Ängste wieder wach. Denn die russische Armee gehört zu den größten Streitkräften der Welt, und auch wenn das...
Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created aby writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an Intelligence officer during the First World War. The strong and silent...
Was macht einen Sportwagen eigentlich aus? Die Antwort darauf findet sich in diesem Buch: Auf 224 prall gefüllten Seiten mit weit über 500 Fotos werden hier die berühmtesten und extravagantesten...
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright,...
Widely censured at the time of its publication in 1899, Kate Chopin's The Awakening is an evocative story of self-discovery and female emancipation that has since become one of the most popular...
When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sourtempered aunt after her father's death, things seem bad enough, but then a dreadful accident ensues. However, Pollyanna's sunny nature and...
In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it...
Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years...
Jane Austen is without question, one of England\'s most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature\'s most charismatic...
In diesem Band (Nr. 248) werden alle Limousinen (W 211) ab Baujahr 2002 und T-Modelle ab Baujahr 2003 mit folgenden Motoren behandelt:§Zur Premiere 2002:§Benziner§- 2,0 Liter, 130 kW/177 PS, ab...
Traumatised żeby ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with...
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gingen die beiden deutschen Staatsbahnen getrennte Wege. Dabei gelang es der jungen Deutschen Bundesbahn sehr viel schneller als der Deutschen Reichsbahn der DDR, ihren...