Resultados para "Herbert" en Narrativa literaria

Three scary monsters – racism, misogyny and ageism – roam through this mesmerising audiobook. This audiobook can be listened to in two different ways – either Lyle or Lili can be heard first. Lyle works for a sinister government department in near-future Australia. An Asian migrant, he fears repatriation. Lili’s family migrated to Australia from Asia when she was a teenager. Now, in the 1980s, she’s teaching in the south of France. She makes friends, observes the treatment handed out to North African immigrants and is creeped out by her downstairs neighbour.

Benjamin Weis erblickt 1919 in Frankfurt als Sohn der ledigen Kanzleigehilfin Anna das Licht der Welt, vom Vater fehlt jede Spur. Der Anwalt Fritz Bernoulli nimmt sich der jungen Familie an, stellt Wohnung und Unterhalt zur Verfügung. So wächst Benjamin trotz der widrigen Umstände behütet in der Bergerstraße heran. Er taucht ein in die Welt von Don Quijote und Robinson Crusoe und erlebt mit seinen Freunden kleine und große Abenteuer.

Joe Summers is quite a mixed-up young boy. Born during the Second World War, the boy knows all about going without many things. Joe's father, Mark, who he once adored, has an accident that leaves him badly injured and much changed and becomes a no-good drunkard. Unfortunately, Joe also gets mixed up with an older boy who comes from a bad family.

הכירו את הנרי פְּרֶסטוֹן סְטֶנדיש, האדון שעמו תהיו בקשר הדוק: ג'נטלמן ניו יורקי הנופל למי האוקיינוס השקט במהלך שייט תענוגות בגלל מעידה קטנה על כתם שמן. ספינת...

The nightmare home. We thought we'd found our haven, a cottage deep in the heart of the forest. Quaint, charming, maybe a little run-down, but so peaceful. The woodland animals and birds couldn't have been more neighbourly. That was the first part of the Magic. Midge's painting and my music soared to new heights of creativity. That was another part of the Magic. Our sensing, our feelings, our love for each other - well, that became the supreme Magic. But the cottage had an alternative side. The Bad Magic.

Surviving the Trojan War was just the beginning of the adventure for Odysseus. What lay ahead was a journey home that would last for years as he encountered gods and monsters before finally returning home - only to face the greatest threat to his happiness of all. This translation of Homer's classic tale captures all the timeless excitement and gripping drama that have made it a favorite for centuries.

Efter et halvt århundrede rejser Thea tilbage til sin ungdoms Paris og får husly i en ejendom pakket ind i stilladser og slør. I dagtimerne opsøger hun steder, hun engang kendte, og genfinder sig selv som nysgerrig ung student i halvtredsernes Paris, sårbar, men fuld af mod på at møde verden. Under Theas oplevelser i storbyen ligger tanker om den demente mor derhjemme og erindringen om en barndom på landet ... DEN NØGNE MUR er en roman om at forsone sig med sin alder og sit levede liv. "Et håndfast symbol.

Follow the horror of the career of Herbert West, as in medical school he seeks and fails with terrifying consequences to animate the "Graveyard's Cold Clay", to return the dead to life, continuing through his private practice as a physician where he finally learns to reanimate not only entire dead bodies, but parts, with horrendous consequences.

The story of the physical relationship between the aristocratic protagonist Constance Chatterley and gamekeeper Oliver Mellors - which occurs right under the nose of her wheelchair-bound husband, Clifford. In exploring the class system of the early 20th century, the novel also touches upon the declining coal mining industry, its effect on the workers, and the politics which surrounded it. Yet possibly the most important theme is the individual’s need for physical as well as intellectual satisfaction.

This is a tale of two women, separated by over 400 years, whose lives are inexorably intertwined. Karen, a goal-driven pre-med student, is pursued by two men: well-bred and wealthy Martin and Peter, her virtuous but poor blue-collar study partner. After a series of relationship stumbles, an accidental pregnancy forces vacillating Karen to choose Peter. In 1572 Anthwerp, Mariken discovers she has a physician's gift for healing. She falls in love with Pieter, an injured blacksmith with a mysterious past of his own. How are these two women connected?

War Lord Byron ein Spion? Der Verdacht liegt nahe, denn nur Spione verwenden seltene Sprachen zur Verständigung. Das Alt armenische ist eine solche Sprache und bis heute in den höchsten Spionagekreisen beliebt. Byron hatte den Ehrgeiz, genau diese Sprache - mit mehr oder weniger Erfolg - in Venedig zu erlernen. Die Grammatik war für ihn Konversation und Obsession zugleich, zwischen seiner Schwester und anderen Frauen seines Lebens, zwischen Mönchen und Duellanten. Auf der Suche nach Abenteuern, auf der Flucht vor der Langeweile...

Primeiro romance de Thomas Mann, publicado em 1901, este livro monumental acompanha a saga dos Buddenbrook, uma família de comerciantes abastada do norte da Alemanha. Quatro gerações são retratadas na crônica familiar inspirada na linhagem do próprio escritor e situada numa cidade com todas as características de Lübeck, a terra natal dos Mann.

Read by the author, this compilation of key excerpts from the brilliant Dune trilogy is melded with connective text written by Frank Herbert specifically for these recordings. It includes selections from Dune: The Banquet Scene, Sandworms of Dune, The Battles of Dune, and The Truths of Dune...

Night falls. It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. And somewhere in the night...a small girl smiled as her mother burned...asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants...in slimy tunnels once-human creatures gathered. Madness raged as the lights began to fade and humanity was attacked by an ancient, unstoppable evil.

A ghostly twist. Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook. Three nights in which David Ash, there to investigate a haunting, will be victim of horrifying games. Three nights in which he will face the blood-chilling enigma of his own past. Three hideous nights before Edbrook's dreadful secret will be revealed...And the true nightmare will begin.to the surface, tormenting him, refusing to let him rest. The memory of what he once had been.

Dark destiny. When Steadman agreed to investigate the disappearance of a young Mossad agent, he had no idea he would be drawn into a malevolent conspiracy. Neo-Nazi cultists are bent on unleashing an age-old unholy power on an unsuspecting world-power rising out of a demonic relic from man's dark primal past to threaten humanity with horror beyond any nightmare. James Herbert was one of Britain’s greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction.

Half light. The shadow of his past was always with him. But he never knew what it was, or when it would strike next.Sent to a small coastal town to investigate drug smuggling, Kelso stumbles onto a dangerous organisation and, suddenly, more than just his life is at stake. It's his past, his future, his sanity. Through torture and drugs he discovers the terrifying secret of the The Jonah. And learns, in the most horrifying way, that it can destroy him as well as others.

There is an old, empty house in Devil's Cleave, a deep gorge that leads from the high moors down to the harbour village of Hollow Bay. The house is Crickley Hall and it's large and grim, somehow foreboding. It's rumoured to be haunted. It's thought to hold a secret. Despite some reservations, the Caleighs move in, searching for respite in this beautiful part of North Devon, seeking peace and perhaps to come to terms with what's happened to them as a family. But all is not well with the house....

The Kell has died in a time of political uncertainty. Moctan to the East and Longbridge to the West share a tenuous truce, and when evidence suggests that his passing may not have been natural, Gregor of Durkshire and a team of hand-picked men are sent to the rival city state to uncover the truth. As Gregor works to root out possible corruption at the highest levels of Church and government, he finds that he must constantly weigh his allegiance to his men, his country, and his faith.

O volume traz duas novelas magistrais do jovem Thomas Mann, complementadas por ensaios do crítico Anatol Rosenfeld. A morte em Veneza (1912), aqui na tradução de Herbert Caro, é uma das novelas exemplares da moderna literatura ocidental. A história do escritor Gustav von Aschenbach, que viaja a Veneza para descansar e lá se vê hipnotizado pela beleza do jovem polonês Tadzio, mais tarde daria origem ao notável filme homônimo do diretor italiano Luchino Visconti, de 1971.