The journey of the Narvaez expedition is one of the greatest survival epics in the history of American exploration. By combining the accounts of the explorers with the most recent findings of archaeologists and academic historians, this work offers an authentic narrative to replace a legend of North American exploration.

The Enduring Shore is a comprehensive narrative of Cape Cod and the neighboring islands, melding the outsized personalities and dramas that characterize the region into a compelling montage of natives and explorers, pilgrims and beachcombers, religionists and revolutionaries. Here are clipper crews and whaling kings, castaways, summer people, subdividers, and poets. In Schneider's sure hands, the story of this waterland and its varied inhabitants becomes an irresistible biography of a place. Book jacket.

His book is a romance, a story of first love between Americans and a thing they call "wilderness." For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non-Native Americans first learned to cherish the wilderness as a place of recreation and solace. In this lyrical narrative history, the author reveals that the affair between Americans and the Adirondacks was by no means one of love at first sight. And even now, Schneider shows that Americans' relationship with the glorious mountains and rivers of the Adirondacks continues to change. As in every good romance, nothing is as simple as it appears.

After losing his brother in the creature-infested woods in Congo, West Africa, Noah enlists the help of his new friends, JJ and Leah. An interesting friendship is forged among the three, with each hiding personal secrets. Leah lost her best friend to a disease infecting many in the village, but that is not all she is hiding. JJ holds the most secrets, as he is deeply involved in theft and drug activity back home in the States. They cross paths for reasons beyond anything they could ever imagine. The locals in the African village remain silent about the latest happenings as a dreadful disease continues to wreak havoc. A spiritual battle is at hand as Leah seeks help from the local witch doctor, Batu. And then there are the eyespiercing, wild eyes that watch their every move and are about to become discontent with only observing from a distance. Will the trio escape the darkness both from within and without? Will the light prevail against the creeping darkness?

A fascinating account of how the Mississippi River shaped America In Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history—the Mississippi. Some fifteen thousand years ago, the majestic river provided Paleolithic humans with the routes by which early man began to explore the continent's interior. Since then, the river has been the site of historical significance, from the arrival of Spanish and French explorers in the 16th century to the Civil War. George Washington fought his first battle near the river, and Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman both came to President Lincoln's attention after their spectacular victories on the lower Mississippi. In the 19th century, home-grown folk heroes such as Daniel Boone and the half-alligator, half-horse, Mike Fink, were creatures of the river. Mark Twain and Herman Melville led their characters down its stream in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Confidence-Man. A conduit of real-life American prowess, the Mississippi is also a river of stories and myth. Schneider traces the history of the Mississippi from its origins in the deep geologic past to the present. Though the busiest waterway on the planet today, the Mississippi remains a paradox—a devastated product of American ingenuity, and a magnificent natural wonder.

“A nonfiction novel in the style of Capote’s In Cold Blood . . . presents the story the way it might have been from the inside.” —Allen Barra, Chicago Tribune The flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across Depression-era America, based on extensive archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviews. Strictly nonfiction—no dialogue or other material has been made up—and set in the dirt-poor Texas landscape that spawned the star-crossed outlaws, Paul Schneider’s brilliantly researched and dramatically crafted tale begins with a daring jailbreak and ends with an ambush and shoot-out that consigns their bullet-riddled bodies to the crumpled front seat of a hopped-up getaway car. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow’s relationship was, at the core, a toxic combination of infatuation blended with an instinct for going too far too fast. The poetry-writing petite Bonnie and her gun-crazy lover drove lawmen wild. Despite their best efforts the duo kept up their exploits, slipping the noose every single, damned time. That is until the weight of their infamy in four states caught up with them in the famous ambush that literally blasted away their years of live-action rampage in seconds. Without glamorizing the killers or vilifying the cops, the book, alive with action and high-level entertainment, provides a complete picture of America’s most famous outlaw couple and the culture that created them. “When David Newman and I were writing the screen play for Bonnie and Clyde we did an enormous amount of research, but not nearly as much as Paul Schneider . . . a splendid biography of two iconic American gangsters.” —Robert Benton, American screenwriter and film director

Der vorliegende Roman gilt als einer der wichtigsten von Heinrich Mann. Er erschien erstmalig im Jahre 1905 und schildert die makabre Geschichte eines professoralen Gymnasiastenschrecks, einer Spießerexistenz, die in später Leidenschaft einer Kleinstadtkurtisane verfällt und aus den gewohnten bürgerlichen Bahnen entgleist. Mit diesem Frühwerk, dessen Verfilmung mit Emil Jannings und Marlene Dietrich unter dem Titel 'Der blaue Engel' zu einem der wenigen wirklichen Welterfolge des deutschen Films wurde, gelang Heinrich Mann eine meisterhafte Karikatur der Wilhelminischen Zeit.

Mit seinem 1900 erschienenen Roman Im Schlaraffenland legte Heinrich Mann seine erste erfolgreiche Talentprobe als Schriftsteller ab. In diesem Buch über die Korrumpierbarkeit verarbeitete er Erfahrungen aus seinem ersten Berliner Aufenthalt - er arbeitete damals als Volontär im S. Fischer Verlag und studierte gleichzeitig als Gasthörer an der Universität - und vor allem seine Leseerfahrungen bei den Franzosen, da wieder besonders Balzac, Anatole France und Maupassant (Bel ami). Ein Modell des bürgerlichen, kritisch-satirischen Romans des 19. Jahrhunderts wird noch einmal musterhaft gestaltet: das Eindringen eines Außenseiters und Emporkömmlings in die Welt des Reichtums und der Macht. Wie bei Balzac (Illusions perdues) bestimmt das Zusammenspiel von Kunstbetrieb, Zeitungsfeuilleton und Kommerz das Schicksal eines von sozusagen reinem Dichtertum träumenden, aber schwachen und für Wohlleben anfälligen Helden, der während seines Aufstiegs und seines Falls Einblick bekommt in die Mechanismen einer Gesellschaft, deren einziges Bindeglied das Geld mit seinen Möglichkeiten ist. Neben anderen Ergötzlichkeiten findet sich in diesem Buch auch der karikierende Premierenbericht über das pseudorevolutionäre Drama "Rache", worin unverhohlen Gerhart Hauptmann persifliert wird. Jahrzehnte nach der Erstveröffentlichung dieses Buches schrieb Heinrich Mann an Alfred Kantorowicz: "Mit 20 konnte ich gar nichts. Gegen 30 lernte ich an meinem Schlaraffenland die Technik des Romans." Der literarische Chronist des Kaiserreichs war geboren.