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Gottfried Keller legt in seiner Prosa eine außergewöhnliche Sprachgestaltung an den Tag, was sich besonders in der auffallend farbenreichen Ausschmückung sowohl der auftretenden Charaktere als auch sämtlichen Situations-Beschreibungen samt daraus zusammenhängenden Hintergründen äußert. Diese überaus elegante und wortgewandte Ausdrucksweise harmoniert wunderbar mit der Umgangssprache seiner Figuren, so dass im Resultat eine besondere Stilistik in jeder seiner Erzählungen auftritt und als Gesamteindruck immer eine subtile Ästhetik mitschwingt.

Eine von seinem Vater finanzierte zweijährige Bildungsreise nimmt ihr Ende und Eduard muss zu seiner Schande gestehen, dass er dabei zwar etwas Lebenserfahrung gesammelt hat, aber diese zum Verdruss seines Vaters lediglich daraus bestand, einer jungen Frau vergeblich den Hof gemacht zu haben. Er beichtet dem entsetzten Vater seine schreckliche Liebes-Odyssee und regt damit seinen künftigen Schwager, den Gast Baron Geiersberg und schließlich sogar seinen Vater dazu an, eigene außergewöhnliche Geschichten aus ihrem Leben zu erzählen.

To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, alongside the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.

Nesta obra, Paulo Honório conta sua história de vida, desde a conquista da fazenda São Bernardo até a amargura da velhice. Nesta versão adaptada para áudio, os diálogos diretos foram incorporados à narração, visando a facilitar a compreensão para o ouvinte. Foram mantidos, porém, o conteúdo do texto e os trechos narrados em primeira pessoa tal qual o autor os escreveu.

The year 1942 marked the turning point of World War II. The Americans destroyed the Japanese Battle Fleet in the decisive engagements of Midway and the Coral Sea. General Montgomery defeated General Rommel at El Alamein … But for President Roosevelt, 1942 was the darkest hour of the war. He knew the Germans were developing the atomic bomb. Our victories would be meaningless if the Nazis perfected the “A” bomb first. There was only one man who could find out the biggest Nazi secret of the war—Lanny Budd!

Charles Dickens ist bis heute einer der meistgelesenen Autoren Englands und seine famose Weihnachtsgeschichte läuft Jahr für Jahr in der xten Verfilmungsvariante pünktlich zum Geburtstag von Jesus plus minus 1-3 Tage beim Fernsehsender freier Wahl in den meisten bekannten Sprachregionen dieses Planeten. Zurück zur Literatur: Seine Erzählungen sind geprägt durch die Lebenswirklichkeit, entsprechend sind die auftretenden Charaktere Menschen wie Sie und du, welche einem täglich über den Weg laufen können bzw. das Treffen eines solchen Menschen unvermeidlich ist, was Positives wie Negatives an Begleitumständen mit sich bringt.

Ambitious. Ruthless. Unprincipled. With their blurred morals and relatable imperfections, it’s no wonder we find anti-heroes so appealing and fascinating. Featuring a mixture of male and female anti-heroes across England, Scotland, France and New York, these fantastic adaptations of five of the best-known and best-loved classics of literature follow some of these flawed, nuanced characters as they steal the spotlight and make their presence known.

When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend’s return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened – while Giovanni’s life descends into tragedy.

Europe, 1940. As war rages across the continent, America watches anxiously from the sidelines. And President Franklin Roosevelt has been keeping an even closer eye on developments in the Third Reich. At the president’s personal request, Lanny Budd gained the confidence of the Nazi high command and began transmitting valuable information back to the White House. Espionage is a dangerous game, however, and Presidential Agent 103 soon finds himself a target of the French Resistance fighters he is attempting to assist.

Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind.

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Sir Hugo Drax is a multimillionaire tycoon and war hero, revered by the British public for his new Moonraker missile defense system. But there’s more to this enigmatic millionaire than he lets on. When M suspects Drax of cheating at cards, he is baffled that the patriot would risk his reputation and his rocket program on a game, so he assigns Bond to infiltrate Drax’s circle.

A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. Now an old man, Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm, untouched by change, a precious moment he has carried with him through the disappointments of the years.

On a trip to the South of France, a shy young woman falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his proposal comes as a surprise, she happily agrees to marry him. But as they arrive at her husband's home, Manderley, a change comes over Maxim, and the young bride is filled with dread. Friendless in the isolated mansion, she realizes that she barely knows him. In every corner of every room is the phantom of his beautiful first wife, Rebecca, and the new Mrs de Winter walks in her shadow.

Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Doctor Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world. Deftly mingling memory and dream, Kerouac captures the accents and textures of his boyhood in Lowell in this novel of a cryptic, apocalyptic hipster phantom.

Jack Kerouac tells the story of Jack Duluoz, a French-Canadian boy growing up in Kerouac’s own birthplace, the dingy factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts. There, Doctor Sax, with his flowing cape, slouched hat, and insinuating leer, is chief among the many ghosts and demons that populate Jack’s fantasy world.

Graf Fönix - Acharat - Joseph Balsamo - hinter all diesen Namen verbirgt sich der selbe Mann; ein Magier, Goldmacher, Umstürzler, der seine Verbindung zu höchsten Kreisen des Hofes nutzen will, um diesen zu stürzen. Doch der Preis für dieses Streben ist nicht nur der Verlust seines persönliches Glückes - er zieht auch die Familie Taverney in einen Strudel von Gier, Leiden und Verbrechen. Der Entstehungszeit des Romans geschuldet, sind heute einige Elemente mit der Ethik nicht mehr vereinbar, wurden aber nicht gestrichen, um den ungekürzten Text mitsamt seinem Kontext zu erhalten.