Leopold: 240 books

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom...

e-artnow presents to you this unique Halloween collection with horror thrillers, supernatural mysteries, monster tales and gothic novels carefully picked out to strike the fear and chills into your bones as …the winter is coming: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House From Beyond...

Obsession, infatuation, and sexual deviance fill this controversial psychodrama Titillating and taboo, Venus in Furs tells the story of one nineteenth-century gentleman of means, Severin von Kusiemski, and his voracious lover, Wanda von Dunajew. Severin falls so deeply in love with his mistress...

On a bright, snowy night in December, some years ago, Dr. Spenlove, having been employed all the afternoon and evening in paying farewell visits to his patients, walked briskly toward his home through the narrowest and most squalid thoroughfares in Portsmouth. The animation of his movements may be...

111 Werke - das ist ein winziger Bruchteil dessen, was die Musikgeschichte hervorgebracht hat. Aus dem riesigen Fundus von Kompositionen, der sich in mehr als einem Jahrtausend gebildet hat, ist zwar einiges zum Hören oder zum Lesen verfügbar, doch schon dieses überfordert den, der sich einen Überblick...

A renowned violinist and teacher discusses the interpretation of violin repertoire classics, drawing upon 360 musical illustrations and excerpts as examples. Featured composers include Bach, Mozart, Handel, Paganini, Bruch, Wieniawski, Joachim, and many others. Auer's observations, hints, and suggestions illuminate all aspects of performance and are suitable for players at all levels.

In the broad history of the Cold War, the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was the climax of a far-off, but nonetheless important African war. It was waged between the apartheid South African Defence Force (SADF) and the armed forces of the communist MPLA government in Angola and the People’s Republic...

As the events management field expands as an area of study, there is a need to move beyond the business and marketing-driven approaches which dominate the literature towards a more advanced conceptual analysis and understanding of events from a socio-cultural context. This book addresses this...

In the heart of a very maze of courts and lanes Stoney-alley proclaims itself. It is one of multitude of deformed thoroughfares, which are huddled together--by whim, or caprice, or in mockery--in a populous part of the City, in utter defiance of all architectural rules. It is regarded as an incontrovertible...

Consœur ès atrocités de Gilles de Rais, la comtesse Bàthory se livrait en sa forteresse des Carpates au XVIIe siècle à des jeux férocement pervers. Elle fit torturer et mettre à mort plus de 600 jouvencelles afin de se tremper dans leur sang, pensant avoir trouvé dans ces bains criminels,...

Crafting wings out of wax and poems from the underground, Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea is a dreamlike voyage through poetic narrative format, blurring the line between poetry and fiction. Exploring the frenetic lives of Mexican cowboys, robots, sultans, Greek gods, and convenience store clerks, Zeus...

From a peculiar restlessness in my wife's movements, I gathered that she was considering some scheme which threatened to disturb the peaceful surroundings of my life. Upon two or three occasions lately she had reproached me for not being sufficiently lofty in my social views, and although the tone in...

MRS. JAMES PREEDY, lodging-house keeper, bred and born in the vocation, and consequently familiar with all the moves of that extensive class of persons in London that has no regular home, and has to be cooked for, washed for, and generally done for, sat in the kitchen of her house, No. 118, Great Porter...

At six o'clock in the evening of the first day of March, in the year of Grace, 1898, Abel Death, a man of middle age, with a face appropriate to his name--which should never be given to any living human being--was sitting at his desk, employed in the task of writing the last of a number of letters,...