The Robbers (Esprios Classics)
Title | The Robbers (Esprios Classics) PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich von Schiller |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1794898026 |
The Robbers
Title | The Robbers PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich Schiller |
Publisher | The Floating Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1775419738 |
Fans of classic European melodrama will love The Robbers. Originally staged in the late eighteenth century, this play -- which follows the feud between brothers in an aristocratic German family -- was a blockbuster success that propelled Friedrich Schiller to the height of literary fame. The Robbers was later adapted into an equally renowned opera written by Verdi.
Lincoln's Grave Robbers (Scholastic Focus)
Title | Lincoln's Grave Robbers (Scholastic Focus) PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Sheinkin |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0545532264 |
A true crime thriller -- the first book for teens to tell the nearly unknown tale of the brazen attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body. Reissued in Scholastic Focus, with an exciting new cover. The action begins in October of 1875, as Secret Service agents raid the Fulton, Illinois, workshop of master counterfeiter Ben Boyd. Soon after Boyd is hauled off to prison, members of his counterfeiting ring gather in the back room of a smoky Chicago saloon to discuss how to spring their ringleader. Their plan: grab Lincoln's body from its Springfield tomb, stash it in the sand dunes near Lake Michigan, and demand, as a ransom, the release of Ben Boyd -- and $200,000 in cash. From here, the action alternates between the conspirators, the Secret Service agents on their trail, and the undercover agent moving back and forth between them. Along the way readers get glimpses into the inner workings of counterfeiting, grave robbing, detective work, and the early days of the Secret Service. The plot moves toward a wild climax as robbers and lawmen converge at Lincoln's tomb on election night: November 7, 1876.A dynamic and thrilling tale from critically acclaimed author Steve Sheinkin.
The Robbers
Title | The Robbers PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich Schiller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 1795 |
Genre | German drama (Tragedy) |
ISBN |
Robbers
Title | Robbers PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Watson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780860205692 |
The Robbers and Wallenstein
Title | The Robbers and Wallenstein PDF eBook |
Author | F. Lamport |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 1979-11-22 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0141908203 |
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most influential of all playwrights, the author of deeply moving dramas that explored human fears, desires and ideals. Written at the age of twenty-one, The Robbers was his first play. A passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal, it quickly established his fame throughout Germany and wider Europe. Wallenstein, produced nineteen years later, is regarded as Schiller's masterpiece: a deeply moving exploration of a flawed general's struggle to bring the Thirty Years War to an end against the will of his Emperor. Depicting the deep corruption caused by constant fighting between Protestants and Catholics, it is at once a meditation on the unbounded possible strength of humanity, and a tragic recognition of what can happen when men allow themselves to be weak.
The Game of Cops and Robbers on Graphs
Title | The Game of Cops and Robbers on Graphs PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Bonato |
Publisher | American Mathematical Soc. |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2011-08-16 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0821853473 |
This book is the first and only one of its kind on the topic of Cops and Robbers games, and more generally, on the field of vertex pursuit games on graphs. The book is written in a lively and highly readable fashion, which should appeal to both senior undergraduates and experts in the field (and everyone in between). One of the main goals of the book is to bring together the key results in the field; as such, it presents structural, probabilistic, and algorithmic results on Cops and Robbers games. Several recent and new results are discussed, along with a comprehensive set of references. The book is suitable for self-study or as a textbook, owing in part to the over 200 exercises. The reader will gain insight into all the main directions of research in the field and will be exposed to a number of open problems.