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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen, was an actual baron living in 18th-century Hanover famous for entertaining his guests with outrageously-embellished tales of his wartime exploits¿so much so that his nickname in German is Lügenbaron, or ¿Baron of Lies.¿ When Rudolph Eric Raspe, a writer and scientist living in England, heard of the Baron¿s tales, he wrote his own versions centered around a fictional Baron Munchausen.While the real Baron wasn¿t amused to have his name attached to a silly character famous for his bald-faced lies, Raspe¿s tales became hugely popular, reprinted for hundreds of years and illustrated just as many times. These very short tales were originally intended as contemporary satire, but their outrageous silliness is still entertaining today.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Judah and Massala are close friends growing up, though one is Jewish and the other Roman. But when an accident happens after Massala returns from five years in Rome, Massala betrays his childhood friend and family. Judah¿s mother and sister are taken away to prison, and he is sent to a galley-ship. Years later, Judah rescues a ship¿s captain from drowning after a ship-to-ship battle, and the tribune adopts him in gratitude. Judah then devotes himself to learning as much as he can about being a warrior, in the hopes of leading an insurrection against Rome. He thinks he¿s found the perfect leader in a young Nazarite, but is disappointed at the young man¿s seeming lack of ambition.Before writing Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace was best known for being a Major General in the American Civil War. After the war, a conversation with an atheist caused Wallace to take stock of how little he knew about his own religion. He launched into what would be years of research so that he could write with accuracy about first-century Israel. Although Judah Ben-Hur is the novel¿s main character, the book¿s subtitle, ¿A Tale of the Christ,¿ reveals Wallace¿s real focus. Sales were only a trickle at the beginning, but it soon became a bestseller, and went on to become the best-selling novel of the nineteenth century. It has never been out of print, and to date has inspired two plays, a TV series, and five films¿one of which, the 1959 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer epic, is considered to be one of the best films yet made.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Troverai, Lettor carissimo, la presente Commedia diversa moltissimo dall'altre mie, che lette avrai finora. Ella non è di carattere, se non se carattere considerare si voglia quello del Truffaldino, che un servitore sciocco ed astuto nel medesimo tempo ci rappresenta: sciocco cioè in quelle cose le quali impensatamente e senza studio egli opera, ma accortissimo allora quando l'interesse e la malizia l'addestrano, che è il vero carattere del villano.Ella può chiamarsi piuttosto Commedia giocosa, perché di essa il gioco di Truffaldino forma la maggior parte. Rassomiglia moltissimo alle commedie usuali degl'Istrioni, se non che scevra mi pare di tutte quelle improprietà grossolane, che nel.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Nel dar alla luce del pubblico le notizie sulla mia vita parmi già di vedere alcuni accigliati censori, ed udirli con le loro rispettabili bocche esclamare: oh ecco una nuova eroina, che viene a farsi vedere sulla grande scena dell'universo! Adagio, Signori miei; io non vengo a farmi vedere nel secolo della esagerazione e dell'impostura, ove non si affetta che filosofia, ed in cui le ragioni della mente prevalgono a quelle del cuore. Vengo solamente per farmi sentire qual ineducata figlia del bosco, come si compiacque di chiamarmi il cantore dell'Armonia, scrivendo e parlando di me al Cesarotti;

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Es war einmal ein kleines süßes Mädchen, das hatte jedermann lieb, der sie nur ansah, am allerliebsten aber ihre Großmutter, die wusste gar nicht, was sie alles dem Kinde geben sollte. Einmal schenkte sie ihm ein Käppchen von rotem Samt, und weil ihm das so wohl stand, und es nichts anders mehr tragen wollte, hieß es nur das Rotkäppchen. Eines Tages sprach seine Mutter zu ihm: ¿Komm, Rotkäppchen, da hast du ein Stück Kuchen und eine Flasche Wein, bring das der Großmutter hinaus; sie ist krank und schwach und wird sich daran laben. Mach dich auf, bevor es heiß wird, und wenn du hinauskommst, so geh hübsch sittsam und lauf nicht vom Wege ab, sonst fällst du und zerbrichst das Glas, und die Großmutter hat nichts. Und wenn du in ihre Stube kommst, so vergiss nicht guten Morgen zu sagen und guck nicht erst in allen Ecken herum!¿¿Ich will schon alles richtig machen,¿ sagte Rotkäppchen zur Mutter, und gab ihr die Hand darauf. Die Großmutter aber wohnte draußen im Wald, eine halbe Stunde vom Dorf. Wie nun Rotkäppchen in den Wald kam, begegnete ihm der Wolf. Rotkäppchen aber wusste nicht, was das für ein böses Tier war, und fürchtete sich nicht vor ihm. ¿Guten Tag, Rotkäppchen!¿ sprach er. ¿Schönen Dank, Wolf!¿ - ¿Wo hinaus so früh, Rotkäppchen ¿ - ¿Zur Großmutter.¿ - ¿Was trägst du unter der Schürze ¿ - ¿Kuchen und Wein. Gestern haben wir gebacken, da soll sich die kranke und schwache Großmutter etwas zugut tun und sich damit stärken.¿ - ¿Rotkäppchen, wo wohnt deine Großmutter ¿ - ¿Noch eine gute Viertelstunde weiter im Wald, unter den drei großen Eichbäumen, da steht ihr Haus, unten sind die Nusshecken, das wirst du ja wissen,¿ sagte Rotkäppchen. Der Wolf dachte bei sich: Das junge, zarte Ding, das ist ein fetter Bissen, der wird noch besser schmecken als die Alte. Du musst es listig anfangen, damit du beide schnappst. Da ging er ein Weilchen neben Rotkäppchen her, dann sprach er: ¿Rotkäppchen, sieh einmal die schönen Blumen, die ringsumher stehen. Warum guckst du dich nicht um Ich glaube, du hörst gar nicht, wie die Vöglein so lieblich singen Du gehst ja für dich hin, als wenn du zur Schule gingst, und ist so lustig haussen in dem Wald.¿.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -' La douloureuse passion de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ est une retranscription des visions de la religieuse Anne-Catherine Emmerich sur la passion du Christ. Clemens Brentano recueille ce que la religieuse lui raconte au sortir de ses visions, et il en rapporte le récit. L¿ensemble des visions représente plusieurs volumes ; nous proposons ici les visions de la dernière Cène du Christ, de sa passion et sa résurrection. Le traducteur en est l¿abbé de Cazalès.Anne-Catherine Emmerich a été béatifiée par l¿Église catholique et par Jean-Paul II, ce qui tente à donner une certaine confirmation aux visions. Certes, Brentano précise bien au début de l¿ouvrage qüelle n¿a en aucun cas la volonté d¿apporter des éléments qui seraient plus véridiques que les évangiles : les livres saints restent la seule source reconnue d¿inspiration pour la vie du Christ.Il n¿empêche que les visions sont d¿une précision terrible, et complètent avantageusement les Évangiles. Nous voyons tout : l¿institution de l¿Eucharistie, l¿affection du Christ à l¿égard de Judas, la présence de la Vierge Marie, la terrible agonie de Jésus au Jardin des Oliviers, les multiples mauvais traitements ignobles des ennemis du Christ, l¿attitude de Pilate, la crucifixion¿ et la Résurrection.Ce texte permet de comprendre beaucoup de choses, et de vivre la passion avec toutes ses conséquences.'.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Einem Sylter in Wenningstedt wird seine einzige Tochter von einem dänischen Seeoffizier verführt (das Schiff ist hier stationiert). Haß des Sylters gegen das Militär und alles Gesetzliche. Er strandraubt. Der König setzt einen energischen Landvogt ein. Dieser hat eine halberwachsene Tochter. Die Verführte war im Wochenbett gestorben; der hinterlassene Sohn (Lars) wird vom Großvater im Haß gegen das Militär und das Gesetz erzogen und ist verrufen auf der Insel. Er ist schön und stark, gleich des Landvogts Tochter. Da ¿ zur Jahrmarktszeit ¿ tritt er ihr, die von anderen Knaben und Mädchen umringt ist, entgegen. Jene warnen sie vor dem gefürchteten Jungen, und sie sagt ihnen, sie sollten ihn wegjagen. Sie versuchen es; er wirft sie. Da werden die Augen des Mädchens zornig. »Zurück, laßt mich! Nein, allein!« ruft sie. Und das schöne kräftige Mädchen stürmt gegen ihn. Er starrt sie an, und wie sie mit ihren kleinen festen Händen ihn packt, kommt es wie Lähmung über ihn; sie wirft ihn zu Boden und setzt ihren Fuß auf seinen Nacken. Er geht schweigend fort.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Over four hundred years after it was first published, Romeo and Juliet remains one of Shakespeare¿s most famous and most frequently performed plays. During the late 1500s many playwrights loved to base their plays off of Italian stories, and Shakespeare was no different; he was heavily influenced by the Italian tale ¿The Goodly History of the True and Constant Love of Romeo and Juliett.¿ Today Romeo and Juliet continues to spread its influence within literature and performing arts. It has been adapted into 24 operas, numerous films, a ballet, and has also been referenced in law. The play has entertained generations with its romance, deception, revenge, sword-fighting, creative verse, comedic relief, and tragic fate.The prologue lays before us the fate of our star-crossed lovers: two Italian households have a long, ongoing vendetta against each other, kept under control only by Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona. Romeo meets with his friends Benvolio and Mercutio after having his heart broken by Rosaline. Encouraged to find love elsewhere, Mercutio sneaks him into one of Capulet¿s masked parties, where he encounters Juliet, Capulet¿s daughter. This is the beginning of a love affair that is destined to end in tragedy.This Standard Elektronisches Buchs edition is based on William George Clark and William Aldis Wright¿s 1887 Victoria edition, which is taken from the Globe edition. 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Thomas De Quincey spent much of his life addicted to the powerful drug opium. This book, first published anonymously in the London Magazine, is the autobiographical account of his addiction. De Quincey¿s compelling language and frankness give the reader a window in to both the strange pleasures and the horrible pains of that famous drug.As the science of addiction was an unheard of thing at the time, De Quincey¿s account became a sort of authoritative reference for decades, with people going so far as to denounce the book for presenting too pleasurable a picture of opium use. His work stands as a fascinating window into the life of a Georgian-era addict in one of the busiest cities in the world. 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -She Stoops to Conquer is one of the few 18th century plays that has stood the test of time. First produced in 1773 in Covent Garden, it has been revived many times¿once even running for 1,777 performances in the 1860s.The events take place over the course of a single evening in a country house where two young ladies await potential suitors. The young squire of the household, a prankster and layabout (and intended for one of the young ladies by the family matriarch), sets off a comic chain of mistaken identities and farcical intrigues when he encounters the potential suitors in a nearby tavern, and sends them to the house with the belief that they¿re visiting an inn.The impact of She Stoops to Conquer was such that it was heralded as restoring ¿laughing comedy¿ to the English stage after decades of sentimentality. It also stands as the origin of the phrase, ¿Ask me no questions and I¿ll tell you no lies.¿ 126 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Christopher Marlowe wrote The Jew of Malta at the height of his career, and it remained popular until England¿s theaters were closed by Parliament in 1642. Many have critiqued it for its portrayal of Elizabethan antisemitism, but others argue that Marlowe criticizes Judaism, Islam, and Christianity equally for their hypocrisy. This antisemitism debate continues on to Shakespeare¿s The Merchant of Venice, which was written about ten years later and which some consider to be directly influenced by The Jew of Malta.The play focuses on a wealthy Jewish merchant named Barabas who lives on the island of Malta. When the island¿s governor strips Barabas of all his wealth in order to pay off the invading Turks, Barabas plots and schemes to get his revenge, killing all who get in his way and ultimately pitting Spanish Christians against Ottoman Muslims in an attempt to punish them all.Scholars dispute the authorship of the play, with some suggesting that the last half was written by a different author. Though the play is known to have been performed as early as 1594, the earliest surviving print edition is from 1633, which includes a prologue and epilogue written by another playwright for a planned revival. 118 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Rome has transitioned from a monarchy to a republic. The last king of Rome was dead, and the Senate and rich aristocrats now control Rome. The citizens are starting to riot due to a food shortage. The plebeians blame the patrician Caius Marcius for hoarding grain and fixing prices, but Marcius believes the citizens don¿t deserve grain if they¿ve never served in the military. To calm the plebeians, five tribunes are chosen to represent the common people in legal matters. Soon after, a Volscian army attacks, and Marcius leaves the city to fight.After a successful siege on the city of Corioli and the defeat of the Volscian army, Caius Marcius is rewarded with the name of Caius Marcius Coriolanus. He returns to Rome a hero, beloved by both the Senate and the plebeians. Coriolanus is encouraged to pursue politics and run for consul, a position elected by the people. There are others, like the tribunes Brutus and Sicinius, who still remember Coriolanus¿ disdain for the plebeians and view him as an enemy.This Standard Elektronisches Buchs edition is based on William George Clark and William Aldis Wright¿s 1887 Victoria edition, which is taken from the Globe edition. 170 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -King Cymbeline had plans to arrange the marriage between his daughter Imogen and his son-in-law Cloten. Instead, she secretly marries Posthumus Leonatus, a poor gentleman. Before Cymbeline banishes Posthumus, Imogen is gifted a beautiful bracelet that she vows never to remove, while Posthumus is given an expensive ring.While on his way to Rome, Posthumus meets Iachimo, who is heading to Britain, and the two make a bet: If Iachimo can seduce Imogen and provide proof of her adultery, Posthumus must hand over his ring.Cymbeline is set in pre-Roman Britain during the 1st century AD. The plot is inspired by the story of King Cunobeline, most likely sourced from Holinshed¿s Chronicles. Shakespeare also drew from other sources; Boccacciös Decameron tells of a similar wager involving hiding in a trunk.This Standard Elektronisches Buchs edition is based on William George Clark and William Aldis Wright¿s 1887 Victoria edition, which is taken from the Globe edition. 166 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The narrator of The Infernöostensibly August Strindberg himself¿has not had an easy recent past, and a move to Paris is not helping. As his mania overtakes his ability to function in the society of artists, writers, scientists and philosophers he¿d like to be part of, he turns to more unconventional methods to help make sense of his world.Written in diary form, The Inferno is a semi-autobiographical work that blends self-deprecating humour with a whirl of neurosis and attempted rationalisation. The novel, with a certain amount of exaggeration for literary effect, charts two years of Strindberg¿s life in the 1890s. Presented here is Claud Field¿s 1913 translation from the original French. 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Rasselas is a fable-like story, more apologue than novel, written by Johnson in 1759 to help pay for the costs of his recently-deceased mother¿s funeral. While the plot is basic and the characters are thin, the work is an important philosophical piece exploring whether or not humanity can attain happiness.Rasselas, an Abyssinian prince, travels with his sister Nekayah, her handmaiden Pekuah, and the wise poet Imlac¿a proxy for Johnson himself. Their exploration of happiness and the meaning of leading a happy life is a complex and subtle one, though the work ends with ¿nothing concluded.¿ Johnson leaves the reader to ponder: Can an individual ever attain happiness in any meaningful sense 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Island of Doctor Moreau is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man who finds himself on a mysterious island full of humanoid animal creatures. He comes to find that these creatures are the work of Dr. Moreau, a man who experiments in vivisection, and his assistant Montgomery.The story of Dr. Moreaüs island began as an article in the January, 1895 issue of Saturday Review. It was later adapted into a novel. Its themes reflect concerns growing in the society of the day, like the cruelty of vivisection, degenerationism, and the theory of evolution. 162 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Known primarily for his work in political philosophy, ethics, and economics, John Stuart Mill is perhaps less well known as an early feminist thinker.Published in 1869, The Subjection of Women was ahead of its time. Motivated by the conviction that the subordination of women was ¿one of the chief obstacles to human improvement,¿ Mill argued not merely for women¿s suffrage, but for ¿a principle of perfect equality¿¿the complete social, political, and legal equality of the sexes.Mill credited his late wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, with many of the important ideas put forth in the book. 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Sign of the Four, initially titled just The Sign of Four, is the second of Doyle¿s novels to feature the analytical detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion and chronicler Dr. Watson. The action takes place not long after the events in A Study in Scarlet, the first Holmes novel, and that prior case is referred to frequently at the beginning of this one.Holmes is consulted by a young woman about a strange communication she has received. Ten years previously her father Captain Morstan went missing the night after returning from service in the Far East before his daughter could travel to meet him. He has never been seen or heard of ever since. But a few years after his disappearance, Miss Morstan was startled to receive a precious pearl in the mail, with no sender¿s name or address and no accompanying message. A similar pearl has arrived each subsequent year. Finally, she received an anonymous letter begging her to come to a meeting outside a London theater that very evening. She may bring two companions. Naturally, Holmes and Watson accompany the young woman to the mysterious meeting, and are subsequently involved in the unveiling of a complex story of treasure and betrayal. 150 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -After the bloody battle at Tewksbury and the second dethroning of Henry VI, England and its citizens are finally able to enjoy peace under the reign of Edward IV. The remaining Lancastrian leaders are either killed or scattered to the four winds. Within the kingdom, not everyone is happy with their new king¿and when Edward falls ill, his power-hungry brother Richard, the Duke of Gloucester, sees his chance and prepares to kill anyone who stands between him and the throne.Richard puts into play numerous schemes to eradicate the line of succession and control the court. The first victim is King Edward¿s other brother, Clarence. Rumors lead to Clarence¿s imprisonment in the Tower of London, and Richard sends two murderers to stab him to death. This causes Edward¿s health to worsen, and the title of Protector falls to the remaining brother. Next on Richard¿s hit list is Lord Hastings, the loudest voice to object to Richard¿s accession, and who is promptly arrested and executed for treason. As Richard orchestrates murder after murder, the deaths start coming back to haunt him.This Standard Elektronisches Buchs edition is based on William George Clark and William Aldis Wright¿s 1887 Victoria edition, which is taken from the Globe edition. 174 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A collection of stories that highlight the trials and tribulations of life in the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush. Greed, determination, compassion, competition, and survival dominate as native tribes intermingle with western settlers. Despite the laws that each culture abides by, the law of the wilderness will overcome you when unprepared. 170 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 leveled the city of Lisbon and surrounding areas, and killed perhaps as many as 100,000 people. It came at a decisive time in the history of western thought: the melding of Faith, Philosophy, and Science into a post-enlightenment rational view of the universe. In some sense mankind had just begun to believe he had the universe figured out when the universe struck back with a tragedy so terrible in scale it could not be fit into any box of understanding. It was not predicted. It could not have been prevented. It was not rational. And it certainly could not have been the will of a benevolent God.Lisbon was only one moment in a much larger context¿industrialization was upending a pre-historic way of life, science was upending nature, and the first great republics in America and France were about to upend previously unchallenged forms of government. It was the awe, inspiration, and uncertainty of all this change that gave rise, ultimately, to Romanticism in art, literature, and music.J. W. von Goethe is, by some accounts, the father of the romantic period in literature, or at least the proto-romantic Sturm und Drang (¿Storm and Stress¿) period. And The Sorrows of Young Werther was its genesis. It was Goethe¿s first major work, an immediate sensation upon publication, and made Goethe a household name.While Voltaire parodied rationalism in Candide, Goethe transcended it with the semi-autobiographical story of Werther, a young man governed more by his emotions than his reason, whose only employment is his delight in the romantic ideals of the pastoral lives he finds in the rural town of Walheim. There he also finds Charlotte, and in her an idealized but unobtainable old-world domesticity. Werther¿s internal dialog about his growing obsession with Charlotte, and his inability to cope rationally with the fact that she is engaged töand in love with¿another man, form the bulk of the book in the form of a series of ever more intense letters to a friend.Werther¿s descent into sorrow has captivated readers for centuries, helped by Goethe¿s intensely beautiful prose (translated here by R. D. Boylan), enchanting imagery, and obvious reverence for nature and a dying past. 150 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Sport of the Gods is a novel set in the United States in the late nineteenth century. It chronicles the tribulations of the Oakleys, an African American family of four, as they struggle to survive and maintain their integrity in a Southern town and then in New York City. Prejudice, provincialism, and temptation take their tolls, and the justice system stands ever ready to grab the losers.This was Paul Laurence Dunbar¿s final novel, published first in the May 1901 issue of Lipincott¿s Monthly Magazine. In 1902, Dodd, Mead & Co. published it as a book. 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Early in his literary career Oscar Wilde published two collections of children¿s stories and fairy tales. This edition contains the stories from both The Happy Prince and Other Tales, published in 1888, and A House of Pomegranates, published in 1891. The two books present two slightly different sensibilities, and though stories like ¿The Happy Prince¿ and ¿The Selfish Giant¿ have grown into timeless children¿s classics, the darker tales told in A House of Pomegranates remain less well known and were, as Wilde said, ¿intended neither for the British child nor the British public.¿While Wilde is best known as a playwright and celebrated for his wit and aphorisms, his early writings contain the seeds of his biting criticism of late Victorian society. And this was true no more so than in these fairy stories which explore the ideals of friendship, love, kindness and charity; the stories both celebrate these attributes and show how they are too often twisted or ignored by the very societies that espouse them. 166 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Charlotte Temple is the story of the titular young woman who becomes entangled in a love affair with a lieutenant in the British army. Encouraged by her wayward teacher, Mademoiselle La Rue, Charlotte leaves behind her boarding school and absconds to America along with her seducer, lieutenant Montraville, and his friend Belcour. Far from her home in England, Charlotte¿s notions of purity, romance, and familial devotion are quickly brought into stark conflict as she experiences the pain of misplaced trust and betrayal on the unfamiliar shores of New York.The novel, first published in 1791, quickly became a bestseller, and remained the best-selling novel in American literature until it was unseated in 1851 by Uncle Tom¿s Cabin. 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In The Servile State, British-French writer and historian Hilaire Belloc makes a provocative case that capitalism will inevitably move toward the reestablishment of slavery. The thesis in this book forms the backbone of Belloc¿s life-long effort as an advocate for reform to the existing socioeconomic system in the direction of what he terms as ¿distributism.¿As a critic of both socialism and capitalism, and a fervent Catholic, Belloc lays out a history of Europe where, over generations, the pagan slavery of the Roman Empire was transformed into a ¿distributive¿ model of the Middle Ages. But, he argues, this model was broken by the rise of capitalism in England during the reign of Henry VIII. Ever since, capitalism has been moving ever closer towards the servile state: the restoration of status in the place of contract, and a vast proletariat of wage-earners with few incredibly wealthy owners. 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -' Sorrell was trying to fasten the straps of the little brown portmanteau, but since the portmanteau was old and also very full, he had to deal with it ten derly.'Comeandsitonthisthing,Kit.'The boy had been straddling a chair by the window, his interest di- vided between his father's operations upon the portmanteau and a game of football that was being played in Lavender Street by a number ofv erydir tyandv erynoisysmallbo ys.Christopher went and sat. He was a brown child of eleven, with a grave face and a sudden pleasant smile. His bent knees showed the shininessofhistrousers .'Havetobecare ful,y oukno w,'saidSor rell.The father's dark head was close to the boy's brown one. He too was shiny in a suit of blue serge. His long figure seemed to curve over the portmanteau with anxiously rounded shoulders and sallow and in- tentface .T hec hildbe sidehimmadehimlookdustyandfrail.'Now, the other one, old chap. Can't afford to be rough. Gently doesit.'' 440 pp. Englisch.