Model Number: BBFEBBASE_15637DLDA
Author: Thoreau, Henry David
One of the most important documents of American Political thought, Civil Disobedience eloquently states a position that has influenced the thinking of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and many figures of the 1960's protests against the Vietnam War. Thoreau argues that the progress from an absolute to a limited ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412144671DLDA
Author: Achleitner, Arthur
Zum Geleit seien nur wenige Worte vorausgeschickt. Der geneigte Leser wolle nicht an Bischöfe und Priester unserer Zeit denken, wenn er an Wolf Dietrich, den erhabenen Kirchenfürsten des 16. Jahrhunderts denkt und seine Schicksale liest. Die Verhältnisse der damaligen Zeit lagen ganz anders, wie denn ...more »
Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies are classic children's books which speak powerfully to adult readers. Una and Dan, performing a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream one Midsummer's Eve, accidentally summon Puck to a fairy ring near their Sussex home. Through Puck the children are witnesses ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASE_18464DLDA
Author: Montgomery, Lucy M.
I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it. The Story Girl said that once upon a time. Felix and I, on the May morning when we left Toronto for Prince Edward Island, had not then heard her say it, and, indeed, were but barely aware of the existence of such a person ...more »
Model Number: BBFEBBASE_15636DLDA
Author: Thoreau, Henry David
This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood ...more »
