····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray It was a sense of chillness and unreality that made Gervase Hastings the most miserable of the ten miserable guests annually assembled at the Christmas Banquet. Year after year, in accordance with the founder`s bequest, the ¿aring torches mingled their golden splendor with the purple of the dusky curtains in the somber, wreath-hung hall. Year after year the guests assembled, only each time to murmur at the bestowal of the cypress-wreath upon the only one of their number who seemed to have no grief. But his misfortune was the deepest of all: he felt no strong emotion of any kind. Joy moved him not nor grief. Men passed before him like shadows on the wall. His children came coldly to his knees. His wife wept in secret at the desolation of her life. His riches, his cultivated and scholarly taste, his library-none of these things alleviated his misfortune he was the most miserable of human beings ... ····· 1036145611
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray How Santa Claus Came to Simpson`s Bar, is universally conceded to rank among Bret Harte`s best tales. ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· 1036145610
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray There was surprise and some disappointment in Rough and Ready when it was known that Dick Spindler intended to give a `Family` Christmas party at his own house. That he should take an early opportunity to celebrate his good fortune and show hospitality was only expected from the man who had just made a handsome ` strike ` on his claim but that it should assume so conservative, old-fashioned, and respectable a form was quite unlocked-for by Rough and Ready, and was thought by some a tri¿e pretentious ... ····· 1036145609
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The poems comprising this volume have appeared from time to time in the magazine published in connection with the church-St. Barnabas, Pimlico-of which Mr. Gurney was vicar. They are, therefore, devotional in character. They are also, in some degree, symbolical and mystical. Mr. Gurney has evidently been a good deal under the influence of that earlier phase of Rossetti`s art-both in printing and poetry-which dallied with spiritual mysteries, and sought to give them a visible embodiment. The author comes somewhat late as a disciple of the revival of mediaeval feeling, which began in this country forty yoars ago but ho has the distinction of being more attracted by the spiritual than by the aesthetic side of that revival. ····· 1036145608
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Christmas, by Zona Gale, is a tender little study of the intricacies of human nature, done with that clear-eyed understanding that made the Friendship Village stories memorable. This new story has its scene laid in Old Trail Town, a town which is undergoing a temporary period of financial depression, because the Ebenezer Rule Factory Company has been obliged to shut clown for the time being, and Abel Ames`s Granger Company Merchandise Emporium is in straitened circumstances, owing to the failure of about half the towns-folk to settle their bills for last year`s Christmas presents. So the church committees and the town meeting and other official bodies get together and vote that this year, for the good of the community at large, no one shall give presents,-and despite a few feeble protests from mothers who foresee heart-aches and tears for the little ones, the measure is carried with general approval. But it happens that a certain maiden lady, Mary Chavah, receives word that her sister has died, leaving a little orphaned boy, who is to be sent on to her, and will arrive just before Christmas. And it is the Christmas spirit brought by the advent of this little child into the house of Mary Chavah that sets at nought all the wise economical forethought of the worldly minded Abels and Simeons and Ebenezers. There is a good deal of symbolism lurking behind the simple surface narrative, making an effective little parable, embodying much indulgent criticism of human frailty and shortsightedness. ····· 1036145607
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The various ` sisters, cousins, and aunts ` composing the year by year increasing Elsie`s relatives gather from the Oaks, the Laurels, the Pines, Woodburn, Fairview, and Roselands to spend their Christmas at Ion with the original Elsie, now a delightful old grandmother. They eat, drink, and are merry for a week, talk over the best way to spend $10,000 a year in charities, and finally have a little adventure with burglars. ····· 1036145606
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Four beautiful Christmas stories in a single book: The First Christmas Tree The Coming Of The Prince The Mouse And The Moonbeam The Divell`s Chrystmass. ····· ····· ····· ····· 1036145605
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This compilation includes the following of Dickens` beautiful Christmas tales: A Christmas Tree What Christmas Is As We Grow Older The Poor Relation`s Story The Child`s Story The Schoolboy`s Story Nobody`s Story ····· 1036145604
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This compilation includes the following Christmas tales: A Christmas Carol. The Christmas Babe. A Western Christmas In The Old Days. Joe`s Search For Santa Claus. Angela`s Christmas. The First Puritan Christmas Tree. The First Christmas In New England. The Chimes. Billy`s Santa Claus Experience. Christmas In Poganuc. The Christmas Princess. Widow Townsend`s Visitor. The Old Man`s Christmas. The Christmas Goblins. The Song Of The Star. Indian Pete`s Christmas Gift. My Christmas Dinner. The Poor Traveler. The Legend Of The Christmas Tree. The Peace Egg. ····· 1036145603
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories: Contents: They Saw A Great Light Christmas Waits In Boston. Alice`s Christmas-Tree. Daily Bread. Stand And Wait. The Two Princes. The Story Of Oello. Love Is The Whole. Christmas And Rome. The Survivor`s Story. The Same Christmas In Old England And New. ····· 1036145602
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray No greater teaching force has ever been discovered than the story and no one has ever lived who used that force so skillfully as did our Great Teacher. It is not strange, then, that among all the stories that have ever been written or told none are so dear to us as the stories and legends which center in His birth. Young and old alike delight in them and never tire of hearing them. Contents: The Legend Of The `White Gifts` Her Birthday Dream The Fir Tree The Little Match Girl Little Piccola The Shepherd`s Story The Story Of Christmas The Legend Of The Christmas Tree Little Jean How The Fir Tree Became The Christmas Tree The Magi In The West And Their Search For The Christ Little Gretchen And The Wooden Shoe The Little Shepherd Babouscka The Boy With The Box The Worker In Sandalwood The Shepherd Who Didn`t Go Paulina`s Christmas Unto Us A Child Is Born The Star ····· 1036145601
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray A series of Christmas stories by the well-known Danish fairytale author H. C. Andersen: The Old House. The Drop Of Water. The Happy Family. The Story Of A Mother The False Collar. The Shadow. The Old Street-Lamp. The Dream Of Little Tuk. The Naughty Boy. The Two Neighboring Families. The Darning-Needle. The Little Match Girl. The Red Shoes. ····· 1036145600
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray A Christmas fantasy in which Jesus becomes again a determining influence in the crises of human lives. In the form of a child he appears to those who need aid or solace, in scenes ranging from the ballroom to the slums. It might be said of the little stories gathered together between the covers of `And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy,` by Cyrus Townsend Brady, that they fall across the brain of the reader like spiritual mirages in the midst of a world of overgrown materialism. Each is poignant with a message: To the hectic dancer in the brilliant ballroom, planning to elope with a lover, comes the vision of the Christ-Child, and thrusting temptation from her she is inspired book contains a number of dainty tipped-in pictures by Walter N. Everett. ····· 1036145598
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Every member of the family will find here something suited to his years and fancy. A story for little girls, one for boy scouts, a story for grown-ups, a word of advice about giving, a meditation and some personal reminiscences of Christmas in Kansas make up the volume. The book is attractively gotten up making a fit setting for the stories, which are interesting, wholesome and should foster the Christmas spirit. That they are conventional and rather preachy will probably be no objection to those to whom they appeal. ····· 1036145597
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This book tells how a little toy Christmas angel brings joy into the lives of a lonely spinster and an unfortunate little girl. The story is an absorbing one, full of tender human pathos, but with a happy ending. ····· 1036145596
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This book includes the following stories from The Sketch Book of Washington Irving: Christmas The Stage Coach Christmas Eve Christmas Day The Christmas Dinner ····· ····· ····· 1036145595
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The `Baron`s Yule Feast` is, the author states,`` a metrical essay, composed chiefly of imperfect and immature pieces,` some of them written `many years ago:` but which have no doubt been more or less touched in adapting them to the purposes of a poetical Christmas entertainment. The scene of the poem is laid in the baron`s hall of Torksey, in Lincolnshire, which is revived with all the festivities of a Christmas of the olden time. Opportunity is here afforded for the introduction of various songs or narratives in the ballad style. Passing over these, there are a few lines, the concluding ones of the poem, that arrest the reader`s attention, and which are calculated to awaken an echo in the breasts of but too many of the people of England. ····· 1036145594
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The hero is an American who has given up his promising career as a professor of mathematics in order to devote himself to the perfecting of an air motor which he has invented. After his money is gone his wife becomes governess and his boy spends his time constructing a little model of the college town his father has left. This they name the `City of Hope` and through it comes to them a Christmas blessing. ····· 1036145593
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Four essays packed full of common sense which here as elsewhere is really very uncommon sense. Mr. Crothers thrusts his gentle spear down to the deepest reaches of many sham philosophies without appearing to be a philosopher at all. His fashion of making figures or metaphors do his work, and the witty way in which he turns them over or dresses them up result in a style that is charming. For wholesome and elevating views carried home in a most alluring rhetoric these essays are incomparable. `The Bayonet Poker` hinges on an old bayonet converted into a fire-poker as a lesson that evil of the universe and its regeneration are not all in things as apparently intended, but in men and their ways of using things. `On Being a Doctrinaire` is a fine distinction between the doctrinaire and the idealist and a plea for `things as they are` plus a motive to do the best we can with them instead of posing and scolding at imperfections. `The Ignominy of Being Grown-up` is a slap at the false education that most of us get as a consequence of losing the child`s idealism. In `The Spirit of Democracy` Mr. Crothers punctures some older ideas and commends the new spirit of charity that has become personal and sympathetic. ····· 1036145592
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This is a book of tales and verse for children, of that sort which holds older readers with an equal fascination. Mr. Field is a master of this delicate sort of art, and the book abounds in a great variety of themes and moods, from the mediaeval romance to the symbolic prose-poem, or the modern child-story. A common spirit of tenderness and of a sort of elfish humor, if we may be allowed the expression, binds the various tales and verses together as on one string, and gives a very distinct and unified impression to the whole volume. `The Mouse and the Moonbeam` is as exquisite a bit of folly and wistful pathos as one could wish for, and so simple in style and word! The book is profusely illustrated by Florence Storer. ····· 1036145591
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray A beautiful Christmas story, including a forbidden romance, a ghost, a magic recovery and lots of intrigues. ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· ····· 1036145590
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray In this volume the myths and legends of ancient Egypt are embraced in a historical narrative which begins with the rise of the great Nilotic civilization and ends with the Græco-Roman Age. The principal deities are dealt with chiefly at the various periods in which they came into prominence, while the legends are so arranged as to throw light on the beliefs and manners and customs of the ancient people. Metrical renderings are given of such of the representative folk songs and poems as can be appreciated at the present day. ····· 1036145387
····· lezzter Preis 2.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray An exploration into all beasts fabled, fabricated, fantastical, and fanciful, from across the world, including the Chinese and Japanese Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix, and the spate of Sea Serpents sighted off the 19th century New England coast. ····· 1036145154
····· lezzter Preis 0.99€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This is the extended annotated edition including a rare and extensive biographical essay on the author, a special introductory to the book, as well as an essay by Edgar Allan Poe on Hawthorne`s tale-writing. In the winter of 1853 the `Tanglewood Tales,` a series of stories like the `Wonder-Book,` was written. The introductory chapter has some interesting observations on the adaptation of the classic myths to children. This work belongs to a special class of books, those in which men of genius have retold stories of the past in forms suited to the present. The stories themselves are set in a piece of narrative and description which gives the atmosphere of the time of the writer, and the old legends are turned from stately myths not merely to children`s stories, but to romantic fancies. ····· 1036145127· 1 · ::::: · 7 ·· 8 ·· 9 ·· 10 ·· 11 ·· 12 ·· 13 · ::::: · 22 ·
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