Books published in 1840
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Ali Pacha
[english | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [Ali Pacha by Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre Dumas was a French writer best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels including The Count of Monte Cristo The Three Musketeers Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was ...]
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Alida
[english | 1840]Amelia Stratton Comfield
Excerpts: [... those whose beneficent feelings were in accordance with their own, in testifying their gratitude to their Creator for daily benefits, blended with a ...... day. He gave his hand to Theodore with seeming warmth of friendship. If it was reciprocated, it must have been affected. There was no alteration in ...... around were mild, sociable, moral, and diligent. The produce of their own ...]
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Countess De Saint Geran
[english | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [Countess De Saint Geran by Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre Dumas pre born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie 24 July 1802 5 December 1870 was a French writer best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels including The Count of Monte Cristo The Three Musketeers Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de ...]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 265
Das Haidedorf
[german | 1840]Adalbert Stifter
Excerpts: [... Sinne des Wortes ist es nicht eine Haide, wohin ich den lieben Leser und Zuhrer fhren will, sondern weit von unserer Stadt ein traurig liebliches Fleckchen ...... er auch nach ihnen suchen mute ja, das Suchen war ihm selber abenteuerlich, vorzglich, wenn er weit und breit wandern mute. Auf dem Hgel des Roberges ...... erschrockenen Aeuglein ansah. Von Wlfen oder andern gefhrlichen ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 163
Democracy In America Vol 2
[english | 1840]Alexis De Tocqueville
Summary: [De la democratie en Amerique (published in two volumes the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville on the democratic institutions of the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses. A literal translation of its title is Of Democracy in America but the usual translation of the title is simply Democracy in America. It is regarded as a ...]
Genres: [politics | non fiction | audiobook] Downloads: 362
Derues
[english | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [Derues by Alexandre Dumas. This book covers the period of English history from 50 B.C. to 1837. The work also includes a summarized version of events from 1837 to the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne. This is not a precise or accurate account of history but an entertaining work that is meant to inspire and involve the juvenile readers.]
Genres: [history] Downloads: 344
George Cruikshank
[english | 1840]William Makepeace Thackeray
Summary: [Podeschi J.B. Dickens]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 290
Jan Van Huysums Blomsterstykke
[norwegian | 1840]Henrik Wergeland
Summary: [Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland (17 June 1808 ? 12 July 1845) was a Norwegian writer most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright polemicist historian and linguist. He is often described as a leading pioneer in the development of a distinctly Norwegian literary heritage and of modern Norwegian culture. Though Wergeland lived to 37 years old his range of pursuits covered ...]
Genres: [non fiction | biography] Downloads: 443
Jephthas Bok
[swedish | 1840]Emil Nervander
Excerpts: [... stridens lia t dem slr,. n sjelf Han ses mot likar rasa. Och sprida kring sig dd och fasa. - Och vckt i tid af deras skrn,. Som vrnlst fr ...... till Herran frn solens uppgng allt till dess nedergng. II. Capitlet. Innehll: Samuel lter blsa i basunerne. Isral drager i hrnad. Stammarne upprknas. ...... nu Samuel detta af budet frnam, vardt Hans ande ter lefvande i Honom och Han ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 184
Joan Of Naples
[english | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
Summary: [Joan Of Naples by Pere Alexandre Dumas. In the night of the 15th of January 1343 while the inhabitants of Naples lay wrapped in peaceful slumber they were suddenly awakened by the bells of the three hundred churches that this thrice blessed capital contains. In the midst of the disturbance caused by so rude a call the first brought in the mind of all was that the town was on fire or that the army ...]
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John Inglefields Thanksgiving
[english | 1840]Nathaniel Hawthorne
Summary: [John Inglefields Thanksgiving by Nathaniel Hawthorne. THE SNOW-IMAGE AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES JOHN INGLEFIELDS THANKSGIVING By Nathaniel Hawthorne On the evening of Thanksgiving day John Inglefield the blacksmith sat in his elbow-chair among those who had been keeping festival at his board. Being the central figure of the domestic circle the fire threw its strongest light on his massive and ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 98
Karl Ludwig Sand
[english | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
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La Constantin
[english | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
Excerpts: [... piques my curiosity. For some months now this little fellow here, Chevalier de Moranges, follows you about everywhere like your shadow. You never told ...... to what we were talking about just now. Are we agreed and shall we amuse ourselves by paying out the lady in, her own coin? If you like. Which ...... they withdrew from her circle, without even letting her know they had found ...]
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Le Capitaine Pamphile
[french | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
Excerpts: [... si je laissais toute cette m'enagerie dans ma chambre, je courais le risque de ne pas dormir une minute c''etait un bruit, comme si on e^ut enferm'e ...... dans une atmosph`ere `a faire marcher un bateau `a vapeur de la force de cent vingt chevaux. Autant que cette fum'ee pouvait le permettre, on distinguait, ...... en silence et sans rien comprendre `a cette manoeuvre, `a laquelle ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 141
Le Lac Ontario
[french | 1840]James Fenimore Cooper
Summary: [Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario is a book written by Daniel Pinkwater. It was published in 1979.]
Genres: [fiction | historical | war military] Downloads: 185
Le Magasin Dantiquites Tome I
[french | 1840]Charles Dickens
Summary: [Nelly et son grand-pre vivent dans une petite maison. Kit un brave et honnte garon les sert avec une loyaut sans faille... Mais le vieil homme bien quadorant lenfant cache de sombres secrets... Un horrible nain Mr Quilp va les chasser de leur maison et les poursuivre persuad que le vieil homme a emport un magot. Pendant ce douloureux voyage au travers de lAngleterre ils rencontreront toute une ...]
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Le Magasin Dantiquites Tome Ii
[french | 1840]Charles Dickens
Summary: [Nelly et son grand-pre vivent dans une petite maison. Kit un brave et honnte garon les sert avec une loyaut sans faille... Mais le vieil homme bien quadorant lenfant cache de sombres secrets... Un horrible nain Mr Quilp va les chasser de leur maison et les poursuivre persuad que le vieil homme a emport un magot. Pendant ce douloureux voyage au travers de lAngleterre ils rencontreront toute une ...]
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Marquise Brinvillier
[english | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
Excerpts: [... the anger he felt at being arrested in the middle of the street thus, although during the whole drive he uttered not a single word, it was plain to ...... but the rays of the moon, which, shining through a barred window some eight or ten feet from the ground, shed a gleam upon a miserable truckle-bed ...... wife and child were ruined. D'Alibert's brother-in-law, who was Sieur de la ...]
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Marquise De Ganges
[english | 1840]Alexandre Dumas
Excerpts: [... than she was. She was dressed in black her hair hung in plaits her neck, arms, and feet were bare the belt at her waist was clasped by a large ...... death. This is for the future. THE SPIRIT.. The answer was written upon a paper like that upon which the questions had been set down. The marquise ...... yet this fatal prophecy impressed itself upon her mind and left behind a deep ...]
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