Resultados para "Das Märchen" en Narrativa literaria

Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession of occupations, proudly rejecting each as too limiting - until he tangles with the glamorous perfectionist Thea.

There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little Rhoda is around?

L'ultimo romanzo di George March è come sempre un successo, adorato dai lettori e dalla critica. Nessuno potrebbe essere più fiero della sua devota moglie, che si sente parte di tutti gli onori e i riconoscimenti: Mrs. March è infatti completamente dedicata al marito. La sua vita nell'Upper East Side segue una rigida routine fatta di dignità e totale controllo. Finché una mattina, mentre compra il pane nella consueta pasticceria, Mrs. March conversa con la commessa e per caso capisce che la protagonista del romanzo, una disgustosa e meschina prostituta, è ispirata a lei.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the...

In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops...

Savannah Moore arrives in Eternity Springs alone, determined to put her troubled past behind her. Her handcrafted-soap shop fits right in with the magic of this warm and welcoming community - but the sexy, suspicious local sheriff promises to upset her hard-won happiness. Zach Turner knows this woman means trouble - maybe to his town. Possibly to his friends. Definitely to his heart. Something about this simmering Southern beauty does crazy things to his committed bachelor status.

Town physician Rose Anderson hides a well of sadness behind her cheerful and capable professionalism. Heartbreak has only reinforced her belief that marriage and children aren't in her future. Yet she's a woman with a pulse - and when sexy, brooding artist Hunt Cicero shows up at her office with his young nephew, the sheer physical attraction he ignites in her is both exciting and unsettling.

December 1941. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture - or worse. Desperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila.

På den lange march bekæmpede hæren sydstatstropperne og levede af det, de kunne skaffe sig på vejen. De plyndrede plantager, stjal kvæg og afgrøder og ødelagde byer, mens en større og større mængde af frigjorte slaver samt hvide flygtninge sluttede sig til dem. I Marchen tages læseren med ind i mylderet af de mange forskellige mennesker, der marcherede.

In diesem Band sammeln sich die großen Namen der romantischen Märchen. Mit ihren Geschichten bleiben sie bis heute im Gedächtnis. Novalis erzählt mit dem "Märchen von Hyazinth und Rosenblütchen" beispielsweise die Geschichte eines Liebespaares, das sich einigen Hindernissen stellen muss. Und Wilhelm Hauff führt seine Leser und Leserinnen in "Die Geschichte von Kalif Storch" in eine ganz andere Welt! Außerdem enthalten sind: "Das Märchen von Witzelspitzel", Clemens Brentano "Zwerg Nase", Wilhelm Hauff "Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte", Adalbert von Chamisso.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Always and Blackberry Winter, a heartbroken woman stumbles upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author. In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of GQ...

“Mr. Wilder has brought to his character the warmth which was totally lacking in the Caesar of schoolbooks and Shakespeare, and in his hero’s destruction there is the true catharsis.”—Edward Weeks, Atlantic First published in 1948, The Ides of March is a brilliant epistolary novel of the...

In this enchanting first novel, an irrepressibly optimistic oddball orphan is thrust into the wilds of postwar New York City after an extraordinary childhood in a theater—Candide by way of John Irving, with a hint of Charles Dickens Abandoned as an infant by his actress mother in her theater...

"Bleak March in Epping Forest" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. All along the selvage of Epping Forest there was excitement. Before the swallows, before the violets, long before the cuckoo, with only untimely honeysuckle bushes showing a trace of green, two trippers had been seen traversing the district, making their way towards High Beech, and settling awhile near the Forest Hotel.

Cassandra est une élève studieuse qui ne garde qu'un objectif en tête : devenir vétérinaire. Elle décide de partir pour le Gabon, rejoindre son ami Jaro afin d'aider à l'entretien d'une réserve animalière. Cassandra ne pouvait absolument pas imaginer que son périple prendrait cette abominable tournure. Ce qu'elle subira lors de son séjour dans le cœur d'une Afrique aussi merveilleuse que dangereuse, la changera définitivement. Même l'amour naissant avec Jaro ne suffira pas à lui faire oublier.

The healing magic of Eternity Springs continues in this novel in Emily March’s vibrant series about a very special town and the people who need it most. Married for more than twenty years, and with her children out of the nest, Ali Timberlake has come to Eternity Springs alone. She’s...

Hänsel und Gretel im Ostblock. Deutschland in den Achtzigern: Anna und Max, beide fast 14, brechen aus. Raus aus der Kindheit, raus aus der DDR. Sich abwechselnd, erzählen sie von der Einsamkeit elternloser Kindheiten, auf sich gestellt, finden sie nur ineinander Halt. Ein Roadmovie in Buchform, eine Hommage an die Zeit der Adoleszenz, in der noch alles möglich scheint. Selbst schwere Verletzungen zu heilen. Selbst über ein Meer in den Westen zu fliehen.

Imaginez un terrain de tennis. D'un côté, un couple modèle, heureux en mariage depuis cinquante ans. De l'autre, leurs quatre enfants, soit la panoplie du bonheur. L'enjeu de la partie ? Le grain de sable qui a enrayé une mécanique jusqu'alors parfaitement huilée, dévoilant des failles et des rivalités insoupçonnables, transformant les membres d'une famille idéale en de redoutables adversaires.

L'une vient de donner naissance à une petite fille arrivée trop tôt. Elle est minuscule, pourtant elle prend déjà tellement de place. L'autre vient de voir ses grands enfants quitter le nid. Son fils laisse un vide immense, mais aussi son chien farfelu. L'une doit apprendre à être mère à temps plein, l'autre doit apprendre à être mère à la retraite. C'est l'histoire universelle de ces moments qui font basculer la vie, de ces vagues d'émotions qui balaient tout sur leur passage, et de ces rencontres indélébiles qui changent un destin.

Cela fait désormais cinq ans que le petit Timmy vit sous la menace du tueur qui a abattu froidement son père devant lui. Est-ce dans l'espoir de retrouver la trace de l'assassin que sa mère Laurie, célèbre productrice télé, lance une série choc sur des cold cases ?