Resultados para "Úrsula" en Antologías y relatos breves

Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley' s Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many listeners see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to power - all the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor.

Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels and the Harper Connelly Mysteries, and New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden present The Cemetery Girl trilogy. She calls herself Calexa Rose Dunhill—names taken from the grim surroundings where she awoke, bruised and bloody, with no memory of who she is, how she got there, or who left her for dead. She has made the cemetery her home, living in a crypt and avoiding human contact. But Calexa can’t hide from the dead—and because she can see spirits, they can’t hide from her.

Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time - and introduced by the legendary author - in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades, from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud awards. She has had her work collected over the years but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works.

The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories--as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself--the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best short story writers of the present day. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's earthbound stories which range around the world, from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp.

Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled fans with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, this renowned writer has created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including a never-before-published novella, each of which probes the essence of humanity.

Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves, read by actors Frances Sternhagen, Robert Sean Leonard, Keir Dullea, Joanna Gleason, Harold Gould and Joanne Woodward. A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime in Do You Know Where I Am by Sherman Alexie. In Karen E. Bender's Eternal Love, a mother nervously chaperones her retarded daughter's honeymoon.

Deep in the sewers of New York City, the rat population is growing. Dr. Randolph Finch is determined to break the cycle. His new rodenticide, Degenesis, doesn’t kill rats. It sterilizes them from reproducing. But nothing adapts faster than a New York rat.... City exterminators and soon-to-be divorced Chris and Benita Jackson think they know how these rats think. They know how rats breed. And they fear that Degenesis has only made these rats stronger. More aggressive. More intelligent. And more ravenous than ever...

From the Hugo Award-winning hosts of the Writing Excuses writing advice show comes a collection of all-new stories of the fantastic, with beautiful illustrations and a behind-the-scenes look at each story’s creation.

Die Heiligenlegende zum Monat Oktober: Ursula, Gallus und Franz von Assisi. Legenden - das sind Geschichten, die seit zweitausend Jahren erzählt und immer wieder aufgeschrieben wurden, Geschichten von Mut und Glaubensstärke, von Wundern und Visionen, von Menschen, die für das Gute einstanden, im Glauben lebten und dem Tod furchtlos ins Auge sahen. Enthält die Legenden über die Heiligen: Ursula, Gallus und Franz von Assisi.

Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she discovers a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, a nasty lunch, whimpering children, their punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes—literally. Sita discovers entire planes of existence and visits societies not found on Earth—bizarre societies that share similarities with Earth's cultures and sometimes open doors into the alien.

“Splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales.” —Newsweek The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's...

Eines Tages seid ihr plötzlich Männer, die keine Frauen haben. Dieser Tag kommt ganz unerwartet, ohne die leiseste Vorankündigung, ohne jeden Hinweis, ohne Vorgefühl, ohne Ahnung, ohne Klopfen und ohne Räuspern. Wenn ihr um die Ecke biegt, wisst ihr bereits, was dort ist. Aber ihr könnt nicht mehr umkehren. Seid ihr einmal um die Ecke gebogen, wird das eure einzige Welt. Auf dieser Welt nennt man euch "Männer, die keine Frauen haben".

Wer bin ich, wer war ich, wer werde ich sein? Diese Fragen beschäftigen die Ich-Erzähler der acht Geschichten in Erste Person Singular, dem neuen Erzählband des von Kritik und Publikum gefeierten Weltbestsellerautors Haruki Murakami. Nach seinem epischen Roman Die Ermordung des Commendatore wendet er sich wieder der kurzen Form zu und bleibt doch seinem Universum treu: Seine unglaublich eleganten klassischen Erzählungen entführen uns in eine Welt aus nostalgischen Jugenderinnerungen, vergangenen Liebschaften, philosophischen Betrachtungen, Literatur, Musik und Baseball.

Zillian Blackburn—my father's death has made headlines all over the press. I've returned to Detroit with my sisters to pay respects and tie up loose ends, only for war to break out among the seven families. Zara is the chosen leader, and there's a bounty on her head should she be killed. It'll take the entire Blackburn family standing as one to win this battle. But then luck strikes me at the worst moments when I lay eyes on Cassie Brown—the owner of a small coffee shop in downtown Detroit.

Here are six stories from the January and February 2003 issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, at once more current and more human than today's headlines.

Full-cast dramatisations of six masterpieces from the founding fathers of dystopian fiction Dark and disturbing, provocative and prescient, dystopian literature has long captured our imagination with its nightmarish visions of forbidding future worlds. Included here are six classic novels of...

Deutsche Klassiker mal anders. "Effi Briest" steht ganz oben auf der Leseliste, aber es fehlt die Zeit? Kein Problem! Diesen und vier weitere deutsche Klassiker gibt es nun im praktischen Hörbuchformat. Egal ob Theodor Fontane, Theodor Storm oder Gottfried Keller. Hier ist für jeden Geschmack etwas dabei. Die Meister des deutschen Realismus laden mit diesem Hörbuch auf eine ganz besondere Reise ein. Die vorliegende Sammlung enthält die Werke "Effi Briest", "Die drei gerechten Kammmacher", "Die Regentrude", "Pankraz der Schmoller" und "Bulemanns Haus".

Grimms Märchen sind keineswegs nur kindgerecht und harmlos. Im Gegenteil! Hier wird von Hexen, Teufeln und Bösewichtern aller Art gemordet, zerstückelt, verbrannt und verzaubert. Die unheimlichsten und blutrünstigsten Schauergeschichten der berühmten Märchensammlung gibt es nun endlich als aufwendige Hörspiel-Neuvertonungen. Enthält die Hörspiel-Versionen der Märchen "Blaubart", "Das Mädchen ohne Hände", "Der Räuberbräutigam" und "Der Liebste Roland". Das bereits 7. Abenteuer von Alwyne und Colin Hargreaves, unserem sympathischen Geisterjäger-Ermittler-Team im Gruselkabinett!

Endlich: die besten Kästner-Gedichte und -Geschichten rund ums Reisen und unterwegs sein! Ob am Strand, am Ufer eines Sees, in der Stadt oder in den Bergen - dieses Hörbuch ist der ideale Begleiter: geistreich, witzig und höchst unterhaltsam.

A walk around the block, a quick drive, before shutting down your PC ? these short story collections are perfect for when you only have a few minutes to listen."