books by Konemann     books:       Frankenstein (Konemann Classics)320 reviews Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Konemann, 1996 You've seen Karloff, now read the original Once you read Shelley's classic you're going to scratch your head and wonder: Is this really the book that gave us the Karloff movie? Not to mention Herman Munster and Frankenberry. For over a century and half people have been cannibalizing this book for ideas, movies, other books, and products of every size, shape and type that our modern concept of Frankenstein holds little to no resemblence to ...             The Picture of Dorian Gray (Konemann Classics)248 reviews Oscar Wilde Konemann, 1996 A tale of pleasures without consequence One of the great joys of fiction is the positive encouragement to discard the intentions of the author and draw out individual meaning from its pages. This positive fruition is exemplified quite extraordinarily by Oscar Wilde in `The Picture of Dorian Gray', as he weaves a tale of youth, corruption and disregarding hedonism. The protagonist of the story is the youthful and worldly-naive ...             Emma (Konemann Classics)202 reviews Jane Austen Konemann, 1999 A True Romantic Comedy.... The title character of "Emma" is unique among the heroines of Jane Austen's novels. She is "handsome, clever, and rich" and, for most of the novel, not actively seeking a husband. The grim economic realities that made finding the right husband so important for Lizzie Bennet and her counterparts in the other novels does not apply. The young and inexperienced Emma can therefore be allowed to be ...             The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Konemann Classics)355 reviews Mark Twain Konemann, 1998 One of my favorites! Why do people hate it? First off, I love this book and I was very mad to hear stuff like "All people who like it are stupid" I read one review where the person said "It shows how stupid Anericans can be" You misspelled Americans buddy! People did talk like that. I know because they still talk like that. I loved the language, and snobs who just turn their noses up and say "that's not proper English!" are obnoxious and ...             Crime & Punishment (Konemann Classics)459 reviews Fyodor Dostoyevsky Konemann, 1999 A great novel This is, of course, one of the great novels of all time. Fyodor Dostoyevsky created a number of truly wonderful works over time, such as "The Brothers Karamazov," "The Gambler," and "The Devils" (or "The Possessed"). The "Translator's Introduction" to "Crime and Punishment" provides useful context. David Magarshack, the translator, observes that (page 11) ". . .the main theme. . .had occupied ...             Moby Dick: Or the Whale (Konemann Classics)317 reviews Herman Melville Konemann, 1996 Moby Dick is a Whale of a Tale on many levels of literary brilliance Herman Melville dedicated "Moby Dick" his 1850 epic masterpiece to his good friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. Like that Salem sage, Sailor Melville was a man of dark brooding genius. Both of these men were opposed to the sanguine philsophy of transcendentalism whose chief exponents were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. And as Joseph Conrad explored the dark side of the human heart in "The ...             Wuthering Heights (Konemann Classics)493 reviews Emily Bronte Konemann, 1998 Not bad, not bad at all... I was kind of skeptical of this book in the beginning, after all, a book that has like three generations of families, half of them with the same name is really confusing. In addition, it seemed that I could find any good characters in this book. Even the main character has faults that I would look down upon. This book centers around the revenge of the main character Heathcliff. After trudging ...             The Scarlet Letter409 reviews Nathaniel Hawthorne Konemann, 1998 A wonderful piece of literature, however I completely agree with most HS students that this book should be optional reading for them because HS teachers should very well know that there are many different minds that need very different kinds of reading material and exposure to variety is not always a good thing that's why you end up having reviews of books like this by some HS students who puke on it rather then have savored it like I ...             Heart of Darkness (Konemann Classics)379 reviews Joseph Conrad Konemann, 1999 "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. Conrad's book had a crucial influence on five important works of the twentieth century: J. G. Frazier's book The Golden Bough. Jessie L. Weston's book From Ritual to Romance, T. S. ...             Pride and Prejudice (Konemann Classics)869 reviews Jane Austen Konemann, 1996 My favorite Jane Austen Book If you have never read any of Jane Austen's books, I recommend you read this one. Definitely her masterpiece. Wonderful love story, great characters. You won't want to put it down.             Middlemarch (Konemann Classics)103 reviews George Eliot Konemann, 1997 If you are getting married Everyone should read this book before they get married. George Eliot is a master at rendering human character. She is a true sympathizer with the human condition, and merciless at the same time. Beautiful.             Treasure Island (Konemann Classics)250 reviews Robert Louis Stevenson, Iain Galbraith Konemann, 1998 Tense, Readable Adventure This is a solid condensed version of the classic search for buried treasure in the late 1700's. Author Robert Louis Stevenson draws readers in early as the Captain arrives at the Benbow Inn in Britain, focused on incoming ships, and warning young Jim Hawkins of one-legged visitors. The story picks up as Billy Bones arrives, bringing danger and discovery of the treasure map, a discovery that ...             Culinaria Spain15 reviews Marios Trutter Konemann, 2007 Excellent Primer A perfect book for one either wanting to learn more about Spain or its cooking. The recipes are often simple, always marvelous and take into account the true spirit of the country. If you want to understand Spain and Spanish cooking in all its glory then here it is- there is no better.             War & Peace (Konemann Classics)285 reviews Leo Tolstoy Konemann, 2000 Maudes at Home with Tolstoy The Maudes translated WAR AND PEACE in Tolstoy's house, consulting with him. They did a nice, thorough and very readable job. Meanwhile Tolstoy deliberately wrote in a simple, easy way to reach more readers. So while the Pevear translation may be slightly better (scholars have examined this work for more than a century and picked up translation errors here and there) or slightly worse, you really ...             The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Konemann Classics)290 reviews Mark Twain Konemann, 1998 Yes, it's a classic for a reason. I somehow tragically managed to make my way to adulthood with never reading anything but the kiddie version of this book. When I found this book for super-cheap in the teachers' lounge book sale and I figured "hey, why not?" And thus I picked it up and immediately fell in love with the sheer Old-South charm that only Twain can deliver. Really, people, it is no wonder that this book is such a ...             Wings of the Dove (Konemann Classics)31 reviews Henry James Konemann, 2001 To Betray Others Is To Betray Yourself By the time Henry James had written WINGS OF THE DOVE in 1902, most of his best work was behind him. In many of these novels and short stories, James had shown a fascination with the theme of the new world American bumping into the old world European. Just as James himself seemed unable to label himself definitively as one or the other, so do many of his characters muck about with some Americans ...             Jane Eyre (Konemann Classics)596 reviews Charlotte Bronte Konemann, 1998 Best Book in the World! Jane Eyre is my favorite book. I love it. I read it first when I was 10, but it did not appeal to me at all, so I stopped reading it. I tried a year later. It immediately became my favorite book. I have read many other good books too, like Rebecca, but Jane Eyre is #1! I have recommended it to all my friends who love reading. This book is very great for someone my age (12) who is not ...             Ingredients12 reviews Peter Mirams, Loukie Werle, ... Konemann, 2000 delisherotic We have lots of books about the economics of food and its place in the world's economy. There are books about the dietetics of food and its relation to individual health and a healthy life. There are, of course, a million cookbooks and a dozen or so good books about the chemistry and physics of food and cooking. We even have a handful of good books about the history of food (has ...             Nostromo (Konemann Classics)37 reviews Joseph Conrad Konemann, 1998 Lord Jim Meets the Heart of Darkness [47] Protagonist Nostromo experiences the life which the author seeks for the reader to envy - or does he or she? Living amid the fictional South American country torn with civil war and military coup's strife, Nostromo works for foreign miners whose ill begotten gain is admonished by the countrypeople and the leaders of the coup. Eventually, even the loyal and most helpful to the English Nostromo ...             Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Konemann Classics)173 reviews Jules Verne Konemann, 1998 Excellent, Updated Translation For those rereading 20,000 Leagues under the Sea after many years of telling yourself it was time to read it again, you will find William Butcher' translation quite a surprise. Not only quite accurate but you find additional chapters, not found in earlier translations. The sixty pages of "Explanatory Notes" puts a whole new slant on the story.              search for books adventures, classics, culinaria, darkness, dorian, frankenstein, heart, heights, huckleberry, ingredients, island, konemann, leagues, letter, middlemarch, nostromo, peace, picture, prejudice, pride, punishment, sawyer, scarlet, spain, thousand, treasure, twenty, under, wings, wuthering books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Nuove formole d'integrazione: integrazione per inversione di variabile; ... Impressum - about us get your own free shoutbox