Poetry

Ein Geschichtenschatz mit zweitausendjähriger Aura.'Stilvoller kann man kaum in Weihnachtsstimmung kommen.'- Welt am Sonntag'Diese Sammlung weist den Weg von vorchristlicher Zeit bis in unsere Gegenwart. Sie stellt weithin Bekanntes neben nahezu Vergessenes und schafft es, den üppigen Reigen heiter zu beschließen mit Robert Gernhardts Die Falle.'- DeutschlandfunkGeschichten und Gedichte, Lieder und Legenden, Erzählungen, Sagen und Novellen: Heinz Rölleke ordnet mit profunder Kennerschaft den Geschichtenschatz. Entstanden ist eine reiche Gabe, ein Lesebuch zu den Festtagen.

"As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty-most of them in someone else's body." -USA TodayJohn Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports.Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it.Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.Is it an accident or murder? FBI agents and Haden-related crime investigators, Chris Shane and Leslie Vann, are called in to uncover the truth-and in doing so travel to the darker side of the fast-growing sport of Hilketa, where fortunes are made or lost, and where players and owners do whatever it takes to win, on and off the field.

Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.A depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, The Crucible is also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America.

Egon Bondy (1930-2007) galt als 'Vater des tschechischen Undergrounds', der zeitlebens als radikalverweigernder Außenseiter zwischen allen Stühlen saß. Sein wilder und ehrlicher Erinnerungstext .Die ersten zehn Jahre. kam zustande, da Freunde und Verehrer Bondy dazu drängten, seine Perspektive auf die ereignisreichen Nachkriegsjahre und seine Erlebnisse festzuhalten. Entstanden ist ein Bericht über die Zeit zwischen 1947 und 1957, der zugleich ein Portrait der tschechischen Avantgarde zeichnet: radikal subjektiv, formal und inhaltlich provozierend. Es ging diesen Avantgardisten ums Ganze - ihre Lebensverhältnisse waren während der Errichtung einer 'neuen sozialistischen Gesellschaft' prekär, die Gefahr der Verhaftung und Repression schwebte bei ihrem ausschweifenden, alle Normen missachtenden Lebensstil fortwährend über ihnen, der aufbegehrende, mit Vorliebe ordinär-primitive, antipoetische literarische Ausdruck ging weiter als alles zuvor. Inmitten der sich zusammenschnürenden politischen Verhältnisse in der Tschechoslowakei der 1950er Jahre beschreibt Bondy allerdings auch entfesselte Räume der Freiheit. Sexuell wie künstlerisch wurden Grenzen gesprengt, was eine Rückkehr in die Bürgerlichkeit unmöglich machte. Die Übersetzung von Eva Profousová folgt dem sprunghaften Erzählstil Egon Bondys in all seiner Rohheit und Rotzigkeit, glättet nichts an dessen widerständiger Verweigerungsgeste. Jan Faktor zeigt mit seiner Gedichtauswahl und im Nachwort die Neuheit und die explosive Wirkung des anarchischen Aufbruchs, der die tschechische Literatur auf den Kopf stellte und bis heute nachhallt.

I hope you enjoy this collection of poems I have conjured up from my imagination. My words are reminders of strength in the midst of adversity while fighting off the monsters that like to hide their faces with different masks within the land I once thought of as home. This book is to anyone that has been afraid of the dark; don't you worry.

Wer hilft dem kleinen Biber?"O weh", klagt der Biber. "Ich glaub, ich habe Fieber!" Sofort wollen ihm alle seine Freunde helfen. Das Frettchen schickt ihn ins Bettchen, die Schnecke gibt ihm eine Decke, das Karnickel liefert kalte Wickel und die ganze Truppe kocht ihm eine warme Suppe! Da kann man doch nur gesund werden!- Detailreich und kindgerecht illustriertes Pappbilderbuch für Kinder ab 18 Monaten. - Lebendig erzählt mit hinreißend lustigen Reime zum Mitsprechen und Mitfühlen. - Fördert Empathie und Fürsorge , indem Kindern auf spielerische Weise gezeigt wird, wie wichtig es ist, füreinander da zu sein und sich gegenseitig zu unterstützen. - Ideal geeignet für kranke Tage - bietet Kindern Trost und Ablenkung und erinnert sie daran, dass Pflege und Liebe helfen können, schneller gesund zu werden.  

For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries…<BR><BR>As the nineteenth century comes to a close, the illustrious Vanderbilt family dominates Newport, Rhode Island, high society. But when murder darkens a glittering affair at the Vanderbilt summer home, reporter Emma Cross learns that sometimes the actions of the cream of society can curdle one's blood. . .<BR><BR>Newport, Rhode Island, August 1895: She may be a less well-heeled relation, but as second cousin to millionaire patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt, twenty-one-year-old Emma Cross is on the guest list for a grand ball at the Breakers, the Vanderbilts' summer home. She also has a job to do--report on the event for the society page of the Newport Observer. <BR><BR>But Emma observes much more than glitz and gaiety when she witnesses a murder. The victim is Cornelius Vanderbilt's financial secretary, who plunges off a balcony faster than falling stock prices. Emma's black sheep brother Brady is found in Cornelius's bedroom passed out next to a bottle of bourbon and stolen plans for a new railroad line. Brady has barely come to before the police have arrested him for the murder. But Emma is sure someone is trying to railroad her brother and resolves to find the real killer at any cost. . .

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end. The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.'When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wishes to stay forever young, and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. Set in fin-de-siécle London, the novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Hallward to the opium dens of the East End. As Dorian's slide into crime and cruelty progresses he stays magically youthful, while his beautiful portrait changes, revealing the hideous corruption of moral decay.Ever since its first publication in 1890 Wilde's only novel has remained the subject of critical controversy. Acclaimed by some as an instructive moral tale, it has been denounced by others for its implicit immorality. Combining elements of the supernatural, aestheticism, and the Gothic, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an unclassifiable and uniquely unsettling work of fiction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron.The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien's world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor.Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Númenor at the end of the Second Age and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings.This pivotal work features the revised, corrected text and includes, by way of an introduction, a fascinating letter written by Tolkien in 1951 in which he gives a full explanation of how he conceived the early Ages of Middle-earth.

Dumas séduit, fascine, intéresse, amuse, enseigne.Victor Hugo.Tout le monde connaît la verve prodigieuse de M. Dumas, son entrain facile, son bonheur de mise en scène, son dialogue spirituel et toujours en mouvement, ce récit léger qui court sans cesse et qui sait enlever l'obstacle et l'espace sans jamais faiblir. Il couvre d'immenses toiles sans jamais fatiguer ni son pinceau, ni son lecteur.Sainte-Beuve.Les Trois Mousquetaires... notre seule épopée depuis le Moyen Âge.Roger Nimier.Les Trois Mousquetaires forment le plus divertissant des romans d'aventures. Leurs personnages, Athos, Porthos, Aramis et d'Artagnan, sont sortis des bibliothèques pour descendre dans la rue. Ils ont enseigné l'insolence et l'amitié à beaucoup de jeunes Français qui ont aussi découvert les fatalités de l'amour en rèvant aux belles épaules de Milady et à ses regards de perdition.Kléber Haedens.

Wie tritt das Machen an die Stelle der Macht? In den neuen Gedichten von Dagmara Kraus weiß die Poesie, die im Wortsinn ein Gemachtes ist, Einspruch zu erheben gegen die gegenwärtigen Vormachtstellungen autoritären Sprachgebrauchs. In diesen fein gewebten Gedichten wird die schlecht eingerichtete Welt kurzerhand noch einmal neu gemacht und erdacht. Alles beginnt im Paradies, bei der adamitischen Ursprache, deren Zipfel abzubeissen ist. Neue Sprach-Lampen und Gigantenlichter werden entzündet, Plansprachen erfunden und angewandt, Blueouts, Reparaturen und Moritaten arbeiten an einer Verbesserung der herrschenden Grammatiken. Nicht zuletzt ist das Buch auch ein ganz praktischer Survival-Guide: Wer den täglichen Kampf mit der Deutsche Bahn, der Post und anderen deutschen Idyllen überleben will, der findet hier die nötigen poetischen Strategien und "thetischen Lanzen".

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books<BR><BR>'Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before'<BR><BR>After five years of 'strange amnesia', Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee remains haunted by madness and memories that cannot be real. Desperate for answers he travels to Western Australia, joining an archaeological excavation into Earth's deep past.<BR><BR>Journey with Peaslee to discover his fate in the story described by author Lin Carter as 'Lovecraft's single greatest achievement in fiction'.