Student Classics Literature

Imagine a society under a totalitarian regime in which people are brainwashed through television screens and books have become illegal and burned by and firefighters. Imagine one such firefighter who starts questioning his work and the conformity of a mass culture where diverging opinions are a threat. Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s most acclaimed novel, a classic of world literature and is often read in schools as a warning to future generations. This guided edition has been skillfully abridged and edited. It offers a detailed reading and provides a step-by -step analysis of the plot, ...

You are probably familiar with the popularized versions of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but have you ever heard the original, unabridged stories by Washington Irving? The skillfully written and colorful original tales have much more meaning and depth. In Rip Van Winkle Irving makes a profound social comment about the changes then happening in America.

Written in her unique prose style, Gertrude Stein's The World Is Round chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Rose - a whimsical tale that delights in wordplay and sound while exploring the ideas of personal identity and individuality. This stunning volume replicates the original 1939 edition to a T. Also featured here are two essays that provide an inside view to the making of the book.

Feel the breath-taking tingle of suspense. Share the captivating horror of the supernatural in these six complete stories presented by a masterful reader.

The Professor, the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed, is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842. Told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator she created, the work questions many of the presuppositions of Victorian society.

V 1895 godu rjad obstojatel'stv - ja ne budu zdes' na nih ostanavlivat'sja - privel mistera Sherloka Holmsa i menja v odin iz nashih znamenityh universitetskih gorodov; my probyli tam neskol'ko nedel' i za jeto vremja stolknulis' s odnim proisshestviem, o kotorom ja sobirajus' rasskazat', ne slishkom zaputannym, no ves'ma pouchitel'nym. Razumeetsja, ljubye podrobnosti, pozvoljajushhie chitatelju opredelit', v kakom kolledzhe proishodilo delo ili kto byl prestupnik, neumestny i dazhe oskorbitel'ny.

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens' beloved Christmas masterpiece and one of the greatest works of wisdom literature the world has ever known. Set in Victorian London in 1843, the story follows a bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge, as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future conduct him through the stages of life in hopes of inspiring him with the true meaning of Christmas.

Neil Munro (1863-1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic who is now mainly known for his humorous short stories. The Student Lodger is the humorous tale of a Scottish couple who take on an English divinity student as a lodger. The trainee minister turns out rather livelier than his landlords had hoped....

Tschechow ist der Meister der Erzählkunst, er wollte "das Leben beschreiben, so wie es ist". Sein Stil ist präzise und gleichzeitig zauberhaft leicht, er schreibt komisch und bitterernst, zeichnet seine Figuren voll Liebe und Menschlichkeit und behält dabei die Klarsicht für jene Missstände in der russischen Gesellschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts.

In der Täuschung, eine Zauberei zu vollführen, legt ein Student sich ins Grab und stirbt dort vor Furcht. Eine humorvolle Geschichte aus dem lustvollen Leben im Mittelalter... die unanständigen Geschichten von den Gattinnen, die ihren Männern Hörner aufsetzen, von den Frauen, die sich mit Brüdern, Schwägern, Vettern und anderen Blutsverwandtschaften mischen. Von den Männern, die nicht weniger sündigen als die Weiber, die ihr Weib allein im Bette vor Kälte erfrieren lassen und ehebrecherisch anderen Weibern nachlaufen.

Gerd Köster, eine der beliebtesten Vorlesestimmen Deutschlands, startet eine neue Hörbuch-Reihe mit den legendären Krimis um den Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes und seinen Begleiter Dr. Watson. Die ungekürzten Lesungen auch selten gehörter Geschichten werden durch Kösters Einfühlungsvermögen, Ausdruck und Wandlungsfähigkeit zu neuem Leben erweckt. Über Kösters Sprecherqualitäten schrieb die "Buchkritik": "Köster wechselt - je nach Stimmung und Figur - immer wieder die Tonlage und schafft so schon fast ein Ein-Personen-Hörspiel. Ein ganzes Ensemble von Sprechern könnte es kaum besser machen."

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are once more called upon for help, this time by Professor Soames, a university lecturer in Greek. A paper for an important exam due to take place the next day goes missing from Soames’ study and suspicion falls on three students living nearby. Holmes and Watson must unmask the cheat in time for the exam.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and prolific short story writer. 'The Adventure of the German Student' is a ghost story set during the French Revolution. A young German student who is depressed and lonely has a recurrent dream about a beautiful female face. He begins to obsess over the features day and night. Then one evening as he is walking home through the Place de Grève, where the guillotine stands....