Student Classics Literature

A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman. IN THE PAST fifty...

A leisurely research trip turns into a race against time when Professor Soames comes to Holmes and Watson with a bizarre mystery. Three students are suspected of cheating - can Holmes solve the case in time for the examination to go ahead? An illustrated adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes mystery - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages!

Haleigh DeRocher delightfully unpacks the classic novel, The Age of Innocence, in this engaging and informative readers’ guide. Taking time to carefully note historical context, cultural significance, and societal norms, DeRocher sets up a well annotated journey through the romantic twists and...

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....

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."

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....

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.