Tobias: 1167 books

Travel through eighteenth-century Europe with aristocratic dandy Peregrine Pickle, a hilarious character plucked from the imagination of famed Scottish author Tobias Smollett. In The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Smollett uses his protagonist as the lens through which to pull off a side-splitting send-up of the ridiculous airs and blatant hypocrisy that were endemic during the era.

Travels through France and Italy is travel literature by Tobias Smollett published in 1766. After suffering the loss of his only child, 15-year-old Elizabeth, in April 1763, Smollett left England in June of that year. Together with his wife, he traveled across France to Nice. In the autumn...

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, a novel by Tobias Smollett, was published in 1760 in the monthly paper The British Magazine. Its first number, published in January, 1760, contained the first installment of Smollett’s fourth novel. The novel, Smollett's shortest, differs stylistically...

Four author's are celebrating their recent successes by vacationing in a cabin out in a mountain forest of Tennessee. These four author's(and friend's) come together in a high-stakes showdown to determine who the Best storyteller is. You get to benefit from this winner-take-all competition,and---you...

Wir lieben unsere Verwandten. Solange sie weit genug weg sind. Aber was, wenn sie mit uns verreisen? Etwa der Cousin, der unbedingt mit zum Wandern will und sich auf dem Jakobsweg als echte Klette erweist. Oder der FKK-liebende Onkel, der uns beim Campingurlaub seine neue Freundin vorstellt. Und schließlich...

'Regan - a Love Story.' A touching novella about overcoming adversity, young love, the quest for spiritual fulfilment and never-ending love. The narrator remembers the 1970s and his one and only love. Longing is tinged with humour and pathos. The story will make you laugh and cry. Taking place across...

Mark and Audrey rendezvous in the park for some sunset romance. Finding wide-open spaces in the city is becoming harder and harder, but it is a necessity. Why? Because for Mark and Audrey, sex isn't just hot, it's dangerous.

All four of the epic fantasy as one - for a limited time only !  Our six heroes are called to protect a planet from destruction. With a warning that not all will make it home, Toby, Alessandro, Lewis, Jessie, Kendra and Sinead venture through Auriala, in a race to stop the Lamia from destruction. 

Unheimliche Nebelmonster tauchen bei einem Leuchtturm an der Ostküste Englands auf. Dem neuen Besitzer - Professor Manning - macht das Angst. Seine Wohnung befindet sich im Turm und dieser ist nur per Boot erreichbar. Professor Manning bittet die 5 Geschwister Marianne, Petra, Hans-Georg, Esther...

Von Gott reden heisst, in Bildern reden, ohne sich ein Bild von Gott zu machen - was letztlich heisst, Geschichten von Menschen zu erzählen. Tobias Grimbacher lässt verschiedene Gäste einer Bar aufeinandertreffen und wesentliche Fragen zu Gott und Mensch diskutieren. Ein Analyst, ein Katholik,...

Underwater photography is a fascinating pursuit for those who aspire to capture the magical world found within our oceans and bring it to the surface. In this book, award-winning photographer Tobias Friedrich teaches us how to create stunning underwater images, covering everything from the equipment...

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom is a novel by Tobias Smollett first published in 1753. It was Smollett's third novel and met with less success than his two previous more picaresque tales. The central character is a villainous dandy who cheats, swindles and philanders his way across Europe...

For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding...

When four Zurich Gnomes of the American Capitalist Church are kidnapped, Noodles and Botzi are summoned by Papa Speculatus III to his Basilica, the Golden Sucks Tower on Wall Street to go on a mission and save them. The missing Capitalist monsignors are the only ones who hold the codes to the multi-billion...