sharp ink nov 2023 (793 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion presents Coué's influential method for redirecting thought, habit, and bodily response through deliberate repeated suggestion. Written in lucid, practical prose rather than technical medical language, it belongs to the early twentieth-century convergence of psychology, psychotherapy, and popular self-culture. Its famous formula-'Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better'-distills an argument about imagination, belief, and the unconscious. Émile Coué, a French pharmacist associated with the Nancy tradition of suggestion, developed his ideas from observing how expectation shaped patients' responses to remedies. His professional life placed him between medicine and psychology, where placebo effects, hypnotic practice, and therapeutic language were being reconsidered. This background explains the book's confidence that healing begins not with coercive willpower but with training the imagination to accept beneficial ideas. Readers interested in the history of self-help, psychosomatic medicine, or practical philosophy will find this concise work historically important and provocative. Though some claims require modern critical caution, Coué's emphasis on disciplined inner speech anticipates later cognitive and behavioral approaches. The book remains a foundational document in self-transformation: simple in method, ambitious in implication, and enduringly suggestive.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In 'Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816,' Jean Baptiste Henry Savigny presents a compelling account of his expedition to West Africa, combining meticulous observations with rich descriptive prose. The text encapsulates the complexities of intercultural encounters during the early 19th century, marked by colonial ambitions and the burgeoning interest in African resources. Savigny's narrative integrates elements of travel writing, ethnography, and natural history, reflecting the Enlightenment's thirst for knowledge. His detailed observations of Senegal's landscapes, societies, and flora and fauna reveal a deep engagement with both the environment and indigenous cultures, providing a rare historical glimpse into a region often overshadowed by European narratives of conquest and exploitation. Savigny, a prominent French naval officer and naturalist, was influenced by the prevailing sentiments of exploration and scientific inquiry of his time. His background in the naval service and dedication to the study of natural history equipped him with the tools necessary for keen observation and analysis. Savigny's experiences in Senegal not only shaped his career but also enriched the scientific community's understanding of a region away from the European gaze, emphasizing the value of diverse perspectives in the quest for knowledge. This narrative is a must-read for those interested in the intersections of travel, colonialism, and ethnographic studies. Savigny's insights serve as an invaluable resource for historians, anthropologists, and armchair travelers alike, offering a nuanced perspective that challenges conventional views of 19th-century Africa. Readers will find themselves transported to a world that is both vividly descriptive and intellectually stimulating, inviting them to reflect on the complexities of cultural dialogue.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -In 'Some Must Watch,' Ethel Lina White masterfully weaves a tale of suspense and intrigue set against the backdrop of an isolated country house. The narrative unfolds with the intensity of a psychological thriller, as the characters grapple with their fears while mysterious occurrences spiral them into a web of paranoia. White's prose is marked by its atmospheric detail and carefully constructed tension, positioning her firmly within the canon of early 20th-century crime fiction. The story explores themes of trust, vulnerability, and the darker sides of human nature, reflecting the societal anxieties of her time, particularly concerning the role of women within domestic spaces. Ethel Lina White, a pioneering female author in the realm of mystery fiction, drew upon her own experiences and observations of gender roles to inform her writing. Living through two World Wars, her narratives often explore the complexities of fear, isolation, and resilience, mirroring the tumultuous era. White's background as a journalist also contributed to her keen eye for detail and her ability to create compelling, intricate plots that captivate readers. 'Some Must Watch' is an essential read for aficionados of mystery and thriller genres, offering rich psychological complexity and a gripping, atmospheric narrative. White's adept storytelling and nuanced characterizations make this novel a significant contribution to the literary landscape, ensuring its place among classic thrillers that continue to resonate with contemporary audiences.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Walt Whitman's 'The Complete Poetical Works' represents a monumental collection of American poetry that captures the breadth and depth of human experience through its free verse and innovative diction. Comprising poems that explore themes of nature, individuality, and the interconnectedness of humanity, this anthology showcases Whitman's groundbreaking style. His use of sweeping lines and varied rhythm not only reflects the cadence of American speech but also invites readers to engage in a uniquely democratic artistic experience, transcending the traditional forms prevalent during his time. As a culmination of his poetic journey, the collection includes iconic works like 'Leaves of Grass,' which was continually revised and expanded throughout Whitman's life, reflecting his evolving thoughts on identity and society. Walt Whitman, often hailed as the father of free verse, lived during a transformative period in American history that shaped his visionary poetry. His experiences as a journalist, a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, and a traveler across the American landscape deeply informed his perspectives on democracy, equality, and personal freedom. Whitman's commitment to capturing the essence of the human spirit and the American experience resonates throughout his oeuvre, influenced by his encounters with diverse cultures and social movements. For readers seeking a profound exploration of the human condition, 'The Complete Poetical Works' is an essential addition to any literary collection. Whitman's eloquent embrace of both the sublime and the mundane invites readers to reflect on their own lives and society as a whole. His work remains a vital touchstone for appreciating the complexities of identity, belonging, and the quintessentially American pursuit of self-expression.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Acres of Diamonds is Russell Conwell's celebrated lecture-turned-classic, a compact work of moral exhortation built around the parable of Ali Hafed, who abandons his home in search of diamonds only to miss the wealth beneath his own fields. Its style is sermonic, anecdotal, and insistently practical, combining nineteenth-century pulpit rhetoric with the emerging American literature of self-help and civic uplift. In the context of the Gilded Age, it reframes prosperity not as greed, but as the disciplined recognition of opportunity close at hand. Conwell, a Baptist minister, lawyer, journalist, Civil War veteran, and founder of Temple University, brought to the book a life shaped by public service and educational ambition. He delivered the lecture thousands of times, using its proceeds to support students and institutions. This background helps explain the work's fusion of entrepreneurial optimism, Christian moral duty, and faith in individual improvement. Readers interested in American motivational literature, religious rhetoric, or the intellectual roots of success culture will find Acres of Diamonds both historically revealing and still provocative. It rewards attention as a brief but influential meditation on work, perception, and responsibility.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion presents Coué's influential method for redirecting thought, habit, and bodily response through deliberate repeated suggestion. Written in lucid, practical prose rather than technical medical language, it belongs to the early twentieth-century convergence of psychology, psychotherapy, and popular self-culture. Its famous formula-'Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better'-distills an argument about imagination, belief, and the unconscious. Émile Coué, a French pharmacist associated with the Nancy tradition of suggestion, developed his ideas from observing how expectation shaped patients' responses to remedies. His professional life placed him between medicine and psychology, where placebo effects, hypnotic practice, and therapeutic language were being reconsidered. This background explains the book's confidence that healing begins not with coercive willpower but with training the imagination to accept beneficial ideas. Readers interested in the history of self-help, psychosomatic medicine, or practical philosophy will find this concise work historically important and provocative. Though some claims require modern critical caution, Coué's emphasis on disciplined inner speech anticipates later cognitive and behavioral approaches. The book remains a foundational document in self-transformation: simple in method, ambitious in implication, and enduringly suggestive.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Ball and the Cross is one of G. K. Chesterton's most exuberant philosophical romances, a comic adventure built around the improbable duel between Evan MacIan, a fierce Highland Catholic, and James Turnbull, a militant atheist editor. First published in the Edwardian period, the novel mingles fantasy, farce, theological debate, and picaresque pursuit, turning argument into action. Its style is paradoxical, aphoristic, and theatrically energetic, placing it within Chesterton's larger project of defending wonder, conviction, and spiritual seriousness against the flattening habits of modern rationalism. Chesterton, already renowned as an essayist, journalist, controversialist, and Christian apologist, wrote from within the intellectual ferment of early twentieth-century Britain, where secularism, materialism, and institutional complacency were vigorously debated. His own temperament-delighting in paradox, public controversy, and the moral imagination-shapes the novel's unusual premise. Though Chesterton had not yet entered the Catholic Church when it appeared, the book anticipates many of his later religious preoccupations. Readers interested in fiction that treats ideas not as abstractions but as living forces will find The Ball and the Cross especially rewarding. It is recommended to admirers of satirical fantasy, theological disputation, and literary works in which comedy and metaphysics become inseparable. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Harrigan! offers a panoramic exploration of the Western genre as seen through the pioneering eyes of Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Schiller Faust. This anthology captures the raw vitality and mercurial climates of the Old West, leaping between gritty action sequences and reflective moments that ponder the nature of heroism and lawlessness. With each story, readers are invited to traverse a landscape where the margins between moral ambiguity and justice are artfully balanced. The collection is imbued with the stylistic trademarks of Faust's work-masterful, vivid descriptors and compelling, intricate plots-making the anthology both a thrilling read and a legitimate homage to the Western literary tradition. As an author of prodigious output and deep respect for character complexity, Faust contributed significantly to shaping the Western narrative. Given the historical backdrop of the early 20th century, his work captures an era of transformation mirrored by the evolving American frontier. The assembly of stories here reflects not only divergent plotlines but an array of human experiences resembling the unpredictability of the Wild West itself. This makes the collection a rich tapestry woven from the varied threads of one man's engagement with a genre he helped define. For scholars and enthusiasts alike, Harrigan! provides a rare opportunity to delve into the multifaceted world of Western literature through the prolific lens of Max Brand. Whether read for academic inquiry, literary pleasure, or historical interest, this anthology reveals a breadth of nuance and intensity present in Faust's writing. It is a testament to the timeless allure of Western tales and a valuable addition to the reader's exploration of iconic American narratives, offering a robust dialogue within its pages. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin extends evolutionary inquiry into the visible language of feeling: smiles, tears, blushing, fear, rage, and grief. Written in a lucid, empirical style, the book combines anecdote, observation, questionnaires, comparative anatomy, and early photographic evidence to argue that emotional expressions are inherited, adaptive, and continuous across humans and animals. Published in 1872, it stands as a crucial companion to On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, relocating psychology within natural history. Darwin's long engagement with variation, instinct, and common descent prepared him uniquely for this study. His observations of children, animals, colonial correspondents, and medical cases reflect both the breadth of Victorian science and his own habit of patient accumulation of evidence. The book also reveals Darwin's humane curiosity: he treats emotional life not as a uniquely human mystery, but as a biological inheritance linking species through shared histories. This work is recommended to readers interested in evolution, psychology, anthropology, animal behavior, and the history of science. It remains intellectually provocative, not merely as a period classic, but as a foundational attempt to understand emotion scientifically. 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig is a brisk social comedy of manners and ambition, following a self-made Westerner whose entrance into Washington society exposes the fragile codes of class, courtship, and political respectability. Phillips writes with satirical sharpness, blending romance, social observation, and Progressive Era skepticism toward inherited privilege. In the tradition of American realist fiction, the novel treats 'fashionable' life not as ornament but as a field of power, vanity, and moral testing. David Graham Phillips was one of the most incisive American writers of the early twentieth century, known both for fiction and for muckraking journalism. His investigations of political corruption and the influence of wealth upon public life shaped his imaginative work. Phillips's familiarity with Washington, journalism, and the hypocrisies of elite society gave him the material and moral urgency behind Joshua Craig's rise and collisions. Readers interested in Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, or the social novels of the Progressive Era will find this book especially rewarding. It offers wit, narrative energy, and a revealing portrait of American ambition at the moment when democracy, money, and manners uneasily met. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Secret Service belongs to the formative moment of Victorian detective fiction, when the 'casebook' and the police memoir were becoming vehicles for urban knowledge, suspense, and moral inquiry. Its narratives turn secrecy itself into a method: hidden identities, intercepted schemes, and patient surveillance reveal a society governed as much by disguise as by law. Forrester's style is brisk, documentary, and episodic, combining sensational incident with the sober authority of official investigation. Andrew Forrester was the pen name of James Redding Ware, a prolific nineteenth-century journalist, playwright, and popular writer whose work shows a keen awareness of metropolitan life and its anxieties. Writing in the wake of the professionalization of policing and amid public fascination with crime, fraud, and detection, Forrester helped shape conventions later associated with detective fiction: methodical observation, narrative revelation, and the investigator as interpreter of modern social disorder. Readers interested in the prehistory of Sherlock Holmes, in Victorian popular literature, or in the cultural imagination of surveillance will find Secret Service especially rewarding. It offers not merely entertainment, but a revealing glimpse into how nineteenth-century fiction taught readers to read clues, motives, and the hidden mechanisms of society. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -King Solomon's Mines is a foundational adventure romance of the late Victorian era, following Allan Quatermain, Sir Henry Curtis, and Captain Good through the perilous landscapes of southern Africa in search of a lost brother and the legendary treasure of the biblical king. Written in a brisk, episodic style, the novel combines travel narrative, imperial fantasy, and mythic quest, helping to establish the 'lost world' genre. Its vivid action and suspense are inseparable from the colonial assumptions of its time, making it both an exciting tale and a revealing cultural document. Henry Rider Haggard drew upon his years in southern Africa, where he worked in colonial administration and absorbed local histories, landscapes, and political tensions. His familiarity with the region gave the novel a persuasive geographical texture, even as he reshaped reality into romance. Published in 1885, the book reflects Victorian fascination with exploration, antiquity, masculinity, and empire. Recommended to readers of classic adventure fiction, King Solomon's Mines rewards attention not only for its pace and imagination but also for its historical significance. It is essential reading for understanding how popular fiction shaped modern adventure storytelling. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -First published in 1919, The Sheik is a seminal work of the desert romance, following the fiercely independent Diana Mayo after her journey into the Algerian Sahara brings her under the domination of Ahmed Ben Hassan. Written in heightened, melodramatic prose, the novel blends adventure, erotic fantasy, and imperial exoticism. Its literary context is the post-Victorian popular romance market, where Orientalist settings enabled transgressive plots that both fascinated and unsettled contemporary readers. E. M. Hull, born Edith Maude Henderson in England, wrote from within the cultural atmosphere of wartime and postwar Britain, when distant landscapes and passionate escape held strong appeal. Though not a scholarly ethnographer of North Africa, she drew on the imaginative conventions of empire, travel writing, and popular fiction. Her work reflects both the constraints placed upon women writers and the era's troubling assumptions about race, gender, and desire. This book is recommended to readers interested in the history of romance fiction, early twentieth-century popular culture, and the origins of enduring genre fantasies. It should be read critically, not as a modern love story, but as an influential, controversial text whose narrative power and cultural assumptions reveal much about its time. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Published in 1926, The Blue Castle is Lucy Maud Montgomery's rare adult novel, a sharp yet lyrical romance set amid the stifling respectability of small-town Ontario and the liberating wilderness of Muskoka. Its heroine, Valancy Stirling, is transformed by a mistaken medical diagnosis into a woman willing to defy family tyranny, social convention, and emotional timidity. Blending comedy of manners, satire, pastoral description, and fairy-tale wish fulfillment, the novel belongs to the interwar tradition of female self-emancipation while retaining Montgomery's characteristic sensitivity to landscape and inner life. Montgomery, best known for Anne of Green Gables, was a Canadian writer whose fiction often explores imagination as a means of survival. Orphaned in childhood and raised among strict relatives, she understood both the comforts and cruelties of domestic expectation. By the time she wrote The Blue Castle, her own experiences of marriage, authorship, religious duty, and emotional confinement had deepened her interest in women seeking private freedom. Readers who admire intelligent romantic fiction, feminist coming-of-age narratives, or Canadian literary landscapes will find The Blue Castle both charming and subversive. It is a restorative novel, witty and humane, that argues for courage, desire, and the right to inhabit one's own life. 128 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Set in the ancient cathedral city of Wrychester, The Paradise Mystery turns on a death in the 'Paradise,' the precinct adjoining the cathedral, where antiquity, clerical respectability, and concealed guilt converge. Fletcher constructs the novel as a classic early twentieth-century puzzle mystery: briskly plotted, rich in local atmosphere, and attentive to documents, inheritances, identities, and the telling accident of overheard speech. Its style is plain yet suspenseful, belonging to the pre-Golden Age tradition that helped shape modern British detective fiction. J. S. Fletcher, a Yorkshire-born journalist, historian, and extraordinarily prolific novelist, brought to his crime fiction a reporter's instinct for evidence and a antiquarian's fascination with place. His knowledge of provincial England, legal procedure, ecclesiastical settings, and archival secrets informs the novel's texture. The book reflects the period's appetite for rational detection while retaining Victorian melodrama's concern with lineage, reputation, and buried scandal. Readers who enjoy atmospheric mysteries grounded in old cities, hidden pasts, and methodical investigation will find The Paradise Mystery rewarding. It is especially recommended to admirers of classic British detective fiction seeking a work that bridges sensation fiction and the formal detective novel. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dead Man's Money is a taut mystery of inheritance, secrecy, and violent interruption, built around the unsettling question of who profits when a dead man's wealth comes suddenly into view. Fletcher works in the transitional mode between Victorian sensation fiction and Golden Age detection: brisk chapters, documentary clues, legal complications, and a strong sense of provincial place replace melodrama with methodical inquiry. Its style is lucid, practical, and suspenseful, attentive to wills, identities, motives, and the social networks through which crime is concealed. J. S. Fletcher (1863-1935) was a remarkably prolific English writer, journalist, historian, and antiquarian whose career gave him an unusually sharp eye for records, local knowledge, and the narrative possibilities of legal irregularity. His background in regional history and newspaper work deeply informs his detective fiction: he understood how rumor, public evidence, and private memory could be arranged into compelling narrative puzzles. This expertise helps explain the book's confident handling of investigation and atmosphere. Readers who enjoy classic detective fiction will find Dead Man's Money especially rewarding. It offers the pleasures of a carefully staged mystery without excessive ornament, and it is ideal for those interested in the development of British crime writing before the genre's later formal codification. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Wooing of Malkatoon is a compact romance in verse, shaped around courtship, honor, beauty, and the imaginative allure of the East. Wallace writes in an elevated, pictorial style, favoring ceremonial language, rich color, and the cadence of nineteenth-century narrative poetry. The work belongs to the same cultural moment that produced American and British 'Oriental' romances: literary fantasies indebted to Byron, Scott, Tennyson, and The Arabian Nights, yet marked by Wallace's own moral earnestness and taste for pageantry. Lew Wallace was not merely a novelist but a soldier, lawyer, politician, and diplomat, best remembered for Ben-Hur. His service as U.S. minister to the Ottoman Empire deepened his fascination with Near Eastern settings, manners, and historical imagination. That cosmopolitan experience, joined to his lifelong interest in heroic conduct and spiritual aspiration, helps explain the poem's fusion of exotic scenery with chivalric and ethical themes. Readers interested in Victorian-era romance, American Orientalism, or the lesser-known works of a major popular writer will find The Wooing of Malkatoon rewarding. It is best approached as a lyrical artifact: ornate, idealizing, and revealing of Wallace's imagination beyond Ben-Hur. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In The Seven Secrets, William Le Queux fashions a brisk Edwardian mystery in which private crime, social deception, and international intrigue converge around a chain of revelations that must be deciphered before their full danger is understood. The novel's method is characteristically episodic and suspense-driven: clues arrive as shocks, conversations conceal motives, and apparently respectable settings acquire an atmosphere of conspiracy. Written in the tradition of the late-Victorian sensation novel while anticipating the modern thriller, it combines melodramatic plotting with a journalist's appetite for topical unease. Le Queux was especially well placed to produce such fiction. Born in London to an Anglo-French family, he worked as a journalist, travelled widely, and became one of the most prolific popular novelists of his age. His fascination with diplomacy, espionage, technological communication, and hidden networks shaped much of his work. Even when not strictly a spy novel, The Seven Secrets reflects his enduring preoccupation with secrecy as a force operating beneath polite society. Readers who enjoy early crime fiction, labyrinthine plots, and the atmosphere of pre-war Europe will find The Seven Secrets rewarding. It is best approached as a vigorous popular thriller: ingenious, theatrical, and revealing of the anxieties that helped form twentieth-century suspense literature. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In Phases of Irish History, Eoin Mac Neill offers a lucid, revisionary survey of Ireland's past from early Gaelic society through the coming of Christianity, Norse incursions, Norman settlement, and the long contest with English power. Written in a measured but polemically alert scholarly prose, the book challenges colonial caricatures of Ireland as historically passive or primitive, instead emphasizing native law, learning, political organization, and cultural continuity. Its context is the Irish intellectual revival, when historical writing became inseparable from national self-definition. Mac Neill was exceptionally placed to write such a work. A pioneering historian of early Ireland, co-founder of the Gaelic League, professor, and major figure in the Irish Volunteers, he combined philological rigor with civic urgency. His knowledge of manuscripts, language, and institutions allowed him to reconstruct Irish history from indigenous evidence, while the political crises of his lifetime sharpened his desire to restore historical agency to the Irish people. This book is recommended to readers seeking more than a chronological narrative. It is a foundational interpretation of Ireland's historical consciousness, valuable for students of nationalism, medieval society, and the cultural roots of modern Ireland. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Solomon Kane Collection gathers Robert E. Howard's brooding tales of a wandering Puritan swordsman who pursues evil across Europe and Africa with relentless moral intensity. Combining historical adventure, Gothic horror, and early sword-and-sorcery, these stories move in a stark, incantatory prose style shaped by pulp magazine urgency and archaic biblical resonance. Kane's world is one of haunted ruins, sorcery, imperial violence, and spiritual trial, placing the collection within the vibrant interwar tradition of Weird Tales while anticipating later dark fantasy. Robert E. Howard, the Texas-born creator of Conan the Barbarian, was fascinated by frontier violence, lost civilizations, and the clash between barbarism and decadence. His own sense of isolation, his voracious reading of history, and his attraction to stern codes of personal honor all inform Kane's character. Unlike Conan, Kane is driven not by appetite but by conscience, making him one of Howard's most morally austere and psychologically compelling creations. This collection is highly recommended to readers interested in the origins of modern fantasy, supernatural adventure, and pulp literature at its most intense. It offers not only gripping storytelling but also a revealing portrait of Howard's evolving imagination. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -First published in 1890, News from Nowhere imagines William Guest awakening in a future England transformed by a peaceful communist revolution. Money, prisons, parliamentary bureaucracy, and industrial ugliness have vanished; labor has become voluntary, pleasurable, and artistically meaningful. Morris shapes this vision as pastoral romance, dream narrative, and political dialogue, countering the mechanized collectivism of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward with a medievally inflected, ecological socialism rooted in fellowship, beauty, and craft. Morris was uniquely equipped to write such a work. A major Victorian poet, designer, translator, printer, and founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, he understood aesthetic production as a social question. His activism in the Democratic Federation and Socialist League, alongside his hatred of exploitative factory labor and cultural impoverishment, informs the novel's insistence that political emancipation must also renew everyday life, architecture, landscape, and human desire. Readers interested in utopian fiction, socialist thought, Victorian literature, or environmental humanities will find News from Nowhere indispensable. It is not a blueprint but a provocation: a sensuous argument that justice requires transformed habits of work, leisure, art, and affection. Its optimism remains challenging precisely because Morris asks us to imagine freedom not as abundance alone, but as shared beauty. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Occult Japan: The Way of the Gods is Percival Lowell's searching account of Shinto practice as he encountered it in Meiji Japan, especially its rites of possession, pilgrimage, ascetic discipline, and visionary performance. Written in a polished late-Victorian prose that combines travel narrative, comparative religion, and ethnographic observation, the book belongs to the era's formative literature on Japan, yet it is more attentive than most to lived ritual rather than merely aesthetic surface. Lowell was an American scholar-traveler later famous for his astronomical work, but before turning decisively to Mars he immersed himself in East Asian cultures, publishing several studies of Japan and Korea. His access to Japanese informants, his fascination with systems of belief, and his willingness to observe ceremonies firsthand shaped this unusual volume, in which curiosity about the unseen world meets the intellectual habits of a nineteenth-century scientific observer. Readers interested in Japanese religion, Meiji cultural history, or the Western discovery of East Asia will find this book both revealing and provocative. Though marked by assumptions of its time, it remains a valuable document: a lucid, often vivid attempt to understand Shinto not as abstraction, but as experience, discipline, and sacred drama. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In Ancient Rome and Modern America, Guglielmo Ferrero reads Roman history not as a remote antiquarian field but as a mirror for modern power. Moving between the late Republic, imperial administration, economic expansion, and the moral strains of wealth, he compares Rome's ascent with the United States' industrial and democratic dynamism. The prose is lucid, essayistic, and comparative, shaped by the early twentieth-century tradition of historical sociology rather than by narrow chronicle. Ferrero, the Italian historian best known for The Greatness and Decline of Rome, brought to the subject an unusual combination of classical learning, political observation, and concern for modern civilization. Living through an age of mass democracy, imperial rivalry, and rapid capitalism, he saw in Rome a laboratory for questions that still troubled his own world: legitimacy, social cohesion, luxury, conquest, and the fragility of republican institutions. This book is recommended for readers who want history to illuminate public life rather than merely recount events. Students of Rome, American political culture, comparative empire, and intellectual history will find Ferrero's arguments provocative, elegant, and still suggestive. It is a concise but ambitious work for anyone interested in how ancient precedents can clarify modern anxieties. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Clinton Scollard's Lyrics and Legends at Christmas-Tide gathers poems and narrative pieces that treat Christmas as both sacred season and cultural memory. Moving between devotional lyric, fireside tale, and antiquarian legend, the volume evokes Nativity wonder, winter landscape, charitable feeling, and the inherited customs that gather around the feast. Its style is musical, decorous, and late-Victorian in its polish: regular measures, clear imagery, and a cultivated fondness for romance and moral sentiment place it within the genteel American verse tradition while looking back to medieval and folk sources of holiday lore. Scollard (1860-1932), an American poet, editor, and longtime man of letters associated with Hamilton College, wrote prolifically in an era when poetry still served public occasions and domestic ritual. His wide reading, travel, and interest in legend help explain the book's blend of literary refinement and seasonal storytelling. He approaches Christmas not merely as doctrine, but as an imaginative inheritance sustained by song, memory, and communal affection. Readers drawn to classic Christmas literature, traditional verse, or the history of holiday feeling will find this collection rewarding. It offers a graceful alternative to modern seasonal prose: earnest, melodious, and attentive to the symbolic richness of Christmas-Tide. 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Art of Story-Telling is a practical and reflective manual on the craft of oral narration, written for teachers, librarians, parents, and all who would bring literature vividly before children. Cowles treats storytelling not as mere entertainment but as an educational art, requiring selection, preparation, voice, gesture, sympathy, and imaginative discipline. Its style is clear, humane, and pedagogical, belonging to the Progressive-era movement that valued children's literature, kindergarten practice, and spoken narrative as instruments of moral and aesthetic cultivation. Julia Darrow Cowles was an American educator and author associated with the world of children's reading and elementary instruction. Her experience in teaching and in shaping material for young minds informs the book's practical emphasis: she understands both the child's appetite for wonder and the adult's responsibility to present stories with sincerity, order, and artistic restraint. The work reflects a period when storytelling was being systematized as a professional skill within schools and libraries. Readers interested in children's literature, education, folklore, or performance will find this book rewarding. It remains valuable for anyone seeking to understand how stories live when spoken aloud and why the storyteller's art matters. 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is a landmark of Victorian animal literature, framed as the 'autobiography' of a horse whose changing fortunes expose the moral failures and occasional kindnesses of human society. Written in clear, restrained prose, the novel combines sentimental realism with reformist purpose, using Black Beauty's first-person voice to make cruelty, class hierarchy, urban labor, and the ethics of ownership vividly immediate. Its literary context lies in nineteenth-century social-problem fiction, yet its innovation is to grant moral authority to a nonhuman narrator. Sewell's own life deeply informs the book's humane vision. Born in 1820 into a devout Quaker family, she developed a strong ethical sensitivity to suffering and reform. A childhood injury left her with limited mobility, making her reliant on horse-drawn transport and unusually attentive to the treatment of horses. Black Beauty, her only novel, was written late in life and published shortly before her death in 1878. This book is highly recommended for readers interested in Victorian literature, animal studies, ethical storytelling, and the origins of modern animal-welfare consciousness. It remains moving because its simplicity is never naïve: Sewell turns compassion into a disciplined moral argument. 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Secret Garden is a luminous work of children's literature in which illness, grief, and emotional neglect are answered by cultivation, friendship, and imaginative renewal. Set chiefly on the Yorkshire moors, the novel follows Mary Lennox, a spoiled and lonely child, as she discovers a locked garden and, through tending it, awakens both herself and the hidden life of Misselthwaite Manor. Burnett's prose blends realism, fairy-tale patterning, pastoral romance, and Edwardian faith in nature's restorative power, placing the book among the great classics of childhood transformation. Frances Hodgson Burnett, born in Manchester and later emigrating to America, knew both transatlantic displacement and the instability of fortune. Her career moved between popular fiction, drama, and celebrated children's books, and her own experiences of bereavement, social aspiration, and spiritual searching inform the novel's preoccupation with loss and rebirth. The garden's revival reflects Burnett's interest in healing, optimism, and the mysterious energies of growth. This book is highly recommended to readers seeking a profound yet accessible meditation on recovery, belonging, and the moral education of feeling. It remains rewarding for children and adults alike. 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Samuel Butler's Erewhon is a brilliant Victorian satire disguised as a traveler's romance, recounting a narrator's discovery of a remote society whose customs invert those of nineteenth-century England. In Erewhon, illness is treated as crime, crime as misfortune, and machines are feared as potentially evolving rivals to humanity. Written with lucid irony and philosophical wit, the book belongs to the tradition of utopian and anti-utopian fiction, standing beside Swift while anticipating later speculative critiques of modernity. Butler's own life illuminates the novel's rebellious intelligence. Educated at Cambridge and initially expected to enter the clergy, he rejected orthodox religion and emigrated to New Zealand, where he worked as a sheep farmer before returning to England as a writer and critic. His skepticism toward dogma, Darwinian debate, institutional hypocrisy, and Victorian moral certainties all inform Erewhon's searching inversions and comic provocations. This book is recommended to readers interested in satire, intellectual history, and early science fiction. Its humor remains sharp, but its deeper value lies in its unsettling questions about morality, progress, punishment, education, and the machines we create. 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Winning Clue is a briskly constructed early twentieth-century detective novel in which a seemingly opaque crime is gradually clarified through observation, inference, and the reassessment of misleading appearances. Hay works in the clue-puzzle tradition descended from Poe and Conan Doyle, yet his manner is distinctly American: practical, conversational, and attentive to social surfaces, legal procedure, and the psychology of suspicion. The novel's style favors lucid narration, carefully staged revelations, and the intellectual pleasure of watching scattered facts become evidence. James Hay, often published as James Hay, Jr., belonged to the generation of American writers who helped adapt the detective story to modern urban life before the full emergence of hard-boiled fiction. His background in journalism and public affairs likely sharpened his interest in testimony, motive, and the public consequences of private guilt. That sensibility informs the book's measured realism and its fascination with how truth is assembled. Readers who enjoy classic mysteries built on reasoning rather than spectacle will find The Winning Clue rewarding. It is especially recommended to admirers of vintage detective fiction, literary historians of the genre, and anyone interested in the American development of the fair-play mystery. 132 pp. Englisch.