Drei schöne Kurzgeschichten für Autoren aus den Südstaaten der USA. Best of Dixie!

Best Poems by Henry Timrod, a Southern Poet, written in and about the South.

Die Feier des Geburtstages der regierenden Frau Gräfin, wie sie am 29. u. 30. Mai 1842 in der Begüterung vor sich ging.

Die meisten der im Tom Sawyer erzählten Abenteuer sind wirklich vorgekommen. Eines oder zwei habe ich selbst erlebt, die anderen meine Schulkameraden. Huck Finn ist nach dem Leben gezeichnet, Tom Sawyer ebenfalls, jedoch mit dem Unterschied, daß in ihm die Charaktereigenschaften mehrerer Knaben vereinigt sind.

Einige Kurzgeschichten von Kate Chopin im englischem Original / Some Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Our scene lies in the upper part of the state of Georgia, a region at this time fruitful of dispute, as being within the Cherokee territories. The route to which we now address our attention, lies at nearly equal distances between the main trunk of the Chatahoochie and that branch of it which bears the name of the Chestatee, after a once formidable, but now almost forgotten tribe. Here, the wayfarer finds himself lost in a long reach of comparatively barren lands. The scene is kept from mo...

It was the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerved back from the rigid plan and relieved their harshness of line by making a little sheltered nook and filling it to the brim with sweetness and roundness and softness. Here all things rested. Even the narrow stream ceased its turbulent down-rush long enough to form a quiet pool. Knee-deep in the water, with drooping head and half-shut eyes, drowsed a red-coated, many-antlered buck.