Showing results for "Tramps" in Classics

At the end of the 19th Century W.H.Davies hustled his way across America, working when he could, begging and stealing when he couldn't. He saw life on the breadline. He was beaten up in New Orleans, thrown into prison in Michigan and was present at lynching’s in Tennessee, truly a diarist of the nether side of the American dream. After travelling with some of the most interesting and adventurous characters, an accident forced him to return to a similar poverty filled world back in England.

Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. TRAMPS: The chance use of the word 'Tramp' in my last paper, brought that numerous fraternity so vividly before my mind's eye.

When a tramp is recovered from the Seine after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to figure out just who wanted to kill him. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret and the Dosser and Maigret and the Bum.

In A Tramp Abroad, the ever adventurous Mark Twain brings his wit and creativity to his travels in Europe. Twain takes fictional liberty, turning his travels into an entertaining journey as he visits many of the countries of Central Europe. Listeners are sure to be delighted and humored as they enjoy what is considered by many to be one of Mark Twain's best works.

In 1884, with a job offer to become City Editor of the Los Angeles Times, Charles Fletcher Lummis determined to walk to his new job from Ohio, covering over 3,500 miles through 8 states and territories. He witnessed and documented the end of the old American West and the beginning of the modern age, which picked new winners and losers. Adventurous author, passionate Indian rights activist, pioneering reporter, workaholic newspaper editor, librarian, poet, anthropologist and archeologist, Charles Fletcher Lummis was a great colorful individualist....

A novel by one of the outstanding Russian writers of the 20th century, Evgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937), God's Tramp explores the sunset of the Roman Empire. "God's Tramp" was the name of Attila (406-453), the leader of the Huns - one of the greatest rulers of the barbarian tribes that invaded the Roman Empire. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Wer weiß, ob man nicht heute noch in Gefängnisakten den Namen Jack London findet - des großen Schriftstellers, der als junger Bursche auf Zügen durch ganz Nordamerika trampte und Jahre später mit mehr als nur einem selbstironischen Augenzwinkern davon berichtete. Verfilmt im Rahmen des legendären "Seewolf"-Mehrteilers. In der klassischen Übersetzung von Erwin Magnus.