Books published in 1847
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A Christmas Greeting
[english | 1847]Hans Christian Andersen
Excerpts: [... The Young Readers. -. THE OLD HOUSE. In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house,-it was almost three hundred years old, for ...... at the broker's came to the broker's again and there it hung, for no one knew her more-no one cared about the old picture. In the spring they pulled ...... lonely he must have been. said she. Very, very lonely. said the pewter soldier but it ...]
Genres: [short story collection] Downloads: 159
A Journal Of A Visit Of Three Days To Skibbereen
[english | 1847]Elihu Burritt
Excerpts: [... Poor Relief Bill, March 12th, 1847. A gentleman who lately called upon me, and whom I have every reason to trust, gave me a letter from a person ...... pressure of famine and disease. In this appeal, which was sent to the United States by the last steam packet, Elihu Burritt, speaking of the locality ...... measures and that of giving the cultivators of the soil a proper security ...]
Genres: [history | politics] Downloads: 29
Agnes Grey
[english | 1847]Anne Bronte
Summary: [Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Bront. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Bronts own experiences in the field. It was Bronts first novel. Similar to her sister Charlottes novel Jane Eyre this is a novel that addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman.The Irish novelist George Moore ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 181
Belle Rose
[french | 1847]Amedee Achard
Summary: [Belle-Rose gentilhomme et soldat ne peut obtenir la main de sa belle car il ne peut prtendre la fortune ou la noblesse de son rival. Il annonce quil les gagnera et quil reviendra... Suivent les annes de combat pendant lesquelles il gagne lamiti indfectible de la Droute et de son fidle Grippard mrite lamiti des soldats et linimitis des intriguants et des puissants. Le destin de notre hros sera ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 82
Blackbeard
[english | 1847]B Barker
Summary: [this was not a book about Edward Teach aka Blackbeard and was very short. It did not meet any expectations of Blackbeard.]
Genres: [nautical | fiction and literature | pirate tales] Downloads: 69
Der Arme Spielmann
[german | 1847]Franz Grillparzer
Summary: [Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 - 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 214
Eight Days In New Orleans In February 1847
[english | 1847]Albert James Pickett
Excerpts: [... with an outfit of a thousand men, with arms, munitions, priests and chains. His object, the conquest of a country teeming with wealth and splendour, ...... to reach their native country, which he was never to see. To conceal his body from the brutalities of the natives, it was encased in an oaken trough, ...... property greatly augmented in value. But these pious adventurers were ...]
Genres: [essays | history] Downloads: 434
Exercises In Knitting
[english | 1847]Cornelia Mee
Summary: [Exercises In Knitting by Cornelia Mee. AUTHORESS OF A MANUAL OF KNITTING NETTING AND CROCHET WORK THE COMPANION TO THE WORK TABLE CROCHET EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED CROCHET DOILIES AND EDGINGS ETC. 1846 ]
Genres: [instructional | non fiction] Downloads: 250
Germania And Agricola
[english | 1847]Caius Cornelius Tacitus
Excerpts: [... in matters of fact or opinion, I have cited authorities not only when I have been indebted to them for the suggestion, but whenever, in a case of coincidence ...... except that Pliny says (Epist. iv. 13), he was much esteemed by the learned and the great at Rome, who went in crowds to his levees. Of the time of ...... quos pressos sacro curru sacerdos ac rex vel princeps civitatis ...]
Genres: [history | audiobook] Downloads: 276
I Nuovi Tartufi
[italian | 1847]Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
Summary: [I Nuovi Tartufi Latest Edition Italian Edition by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi. I nuovi tartufi by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 55
La Cousine Bette
[french | 1847]Honore De Balzac
Excerpts: [... 1 O`u la passion va-t-elle se nicher ? Vers le milieu du mois de juillet de l'ann'ee 1838, une de ces voitures nouvellement mises en circulation ...... arri'er'ees. Si la baronne lui donnait un joli chapeau nouveau, quelque robe taill'ee au go^ut du jour, aussit^ot la cousine Bette retravaillait chez ...... dernier degr'e de l'inqui'etude sur l'avenir de son p`ere, et la fille ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 393
La Logeuse
[french | 1847]Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Excerpts: [... ?? changer de logement. Sa logeuse, une femme ??g??e, tr??s pauvre, veuve d???un fonctionnaire, avait d??, pour des raisons impr??vues, quitter Saint-P??tersbourg ...... pour la premi??re fois, et retombe frapp?? par la lumi??re et le tourbillon ??clatant de la vie, de m??me, Ordynov ??tait ??tourdi et fatigu?? par le ...... devant eux une bande d???oiseaux migrateurs, fuyant sans ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 38
La Serpicina
[italian | 1847]Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
Summary: [Bibliography : p. 23-28.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 276
Le Domaine Darnheim
[french | 1847]Edgar Allan Poe
Excerpts: [... de sa carri`ere m'a fait comprendre que la mis`ere de l'esp`ece humaine na^it, en g'en'eral, de la violation de quelques simples lois d'humanit'e ...... quelques mots. Il n'admettait que quatre principes, ou, plus strictement, quatre conditions 'el'ementaires de f'elicit'e. Celle qu'il consid'erait comme ...... centi`eme ann'ee. Plusieurs tentatives avaient 'et'e faites pour ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 35
Le Vicomte De Bragelonne Tome I
[french | 1847]Alexandre Dumas
Excerpts: [... d'une voix claire et pr'ecise, qui fut parfaitement entendue de la fen^etre o`u se cachaient les deux jeunes filles: - Un messager pour Son Altesse Royale, dit-il. - ...... et d'edaigneuse. Il parlait aux gens en les regardant en face, sans affectation, il est vrai, mais sans scrupule de sorte que l''eclat de ses yeux bleus ...... frais de voyage de ses gardes, il usait en ...]
Genres: [adventure | romance] Downloads: 328
Le Vicomte De Bragelonne Tome Ii
[french | 1847]Alexandre Dumas
Excerpts: [... m'a dit: et vous... - Eh bien! et moi? - Et vous, vous m'avez donn'e votre b'en'ediction. - Que voulez-vous! mon ami, dit en souriant Aramis, ...... Que Votre Majest'e veuille bien jeter les yeux sur ce travail, dit-il. Le roi d'eplia lentement le rouleau. - Des plans? dit-il. - Oui, Sire. - Et quels ...... sans h'esitation. Le plan moral de Malicorne, car on pense bien ...]
Genres: [adventure | romance] Downloads: 143
Le Vicomte De Bragelonne Tome Iii
[french | 1847]Alexandre Dumas
Excerpts: [... `a mon amant, une part de dot `a apporter `a mon mari, que cette aventure d'un roi jou'e par une malicieuse jeune fille. - Sire! s''ecria La Valli`ere ...... vous refusez pour vous, acceptez au moins pour les v^otres. - Sire, votre intention si g'en'ereuse m''eblouit et m'effraie, car, en faisant pour ma ...... me comblez. - Je sais, mademoiselle, r'epondit Fouquet, que l'amiti'e ...]
Genres: [adventure | romance] Downloads: 347
Le Vicomte De Bragelonne Tome Iv
[french | 1847]Alexandre Dumas
Excerpts: [... s'agissait d'une demande que je venais adresser `a Votre Majest'e, touchant le mariage que voulait contracter M.deBragelonne avec Mlle de La Valli`ere. - ...... la r'ebellion de M.d'Artagnan, n'est-ce pas? - Oui, certes! - En v'erit'e? Et le roi haussa les 'epaules. - Et je dirais `a mon capitaine des mousquetaires, ...... La porte s'ouvrit. Baisemeaux se disposait `a entrer chez ...]
Genres: [adventure | romance] Downloads: 10
Libussa
[german | 1847]Franz Grillparzer
Summary: [Libussa German Edition by Franz Grillparzer. Franz Grillparzer 1791-1872 war ein osterreichischer Schriftsteller der vor allem als Dramatiker hervorgetreten ist. Grillparzer studierte an der Universit at Wien Rechtswissenschaften. Ab 1821 arbeitete er im Finanzministerium danach als Archivdirektor bei der kaiserlich-k oniglichen Hofkammer. Grillparzers poetische Anf ange wurden von der Romantik ...]
Genres: [drama] Downloads: 268