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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of the 18th Century and its male authors whose time has now come again.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of Continental Europe and its male authors whose time has now come again.

Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study. Contents: The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry; The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry; What Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark Twain; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain; The Toys of Peace by Saki (H. H. Munro); The Artful Hussar by Johann Peter Hebel; From The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe; The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner; When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Micromegas: A Philosophical History by Voltaire.

The German peoples spent centuries as tribes and regions without being a whole. Otto von Bismarck was instrumental in unifying these central European states into one country albeit based on the militaristic doctrine of Prussia. In the 20th Century its history was blighted by its capacity to resort to war to fulfill its ambitions, or right its perceived historical wrongs. In this volume the short stories by its greatest authors readily attest that their talents are equal to the greatest in World literature.

Bestimmt von dem optimistischen Besserungswillen des Aufklärungszeitalters hält Hebel in den "Kalendergeschichten" den Menschen den Spiegel vor mit der erklärten Absicht, zum Guten zu verändern. Suspekte, im Umkreis der Besitzideologie und des Konkurrenzkampfes entwickelte Verhaltensweisen - Gewinnsucht, Geiz, die Neigung zum Übervorteilen und zum blinden Sparen - scheitern am Mutterwitz, an der Klugheit und Geistesgegenwart Einzelner.

18 Geschichten aus Johann Hebels berühmtem "Schatzkästlein des Rheinischen Hausfreunds", nachdenklich und vergnüglich. Mit Musik von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Sechs Schauergeschichten von Meistern ihres Fachs...

Diese achtundvierzig ausgewählten Geschichten sind vergnüglich, hintersinnig, nachdenklich stimmend, moralisierend...

Bestimmt von dem optimistischen Besserungswillen des Aufklärungszeitalters hält Hebel in den "Kalendergeschichten" den Menschen den...

Der Schwank - jene volksnahe Erzählung aus den Tiefen der deutschen Sprachkunst...