Resultados para "Was" en Antologías y relatos breves

Zügellosigkeit, Lebenslust, Mord und Totschlag, Triumph und Tragödie: Die griechischen Göttersagen sind wilder und wüster als das Leben selbst und bieten damit alles, was sich Leser wünschen. Die alten Griechen inspirierten unter anderen Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce und Walt Disney. In Stephen Frys brillanter Nacherzählung erwachen die alten Sagen zu neuem Leben. Wir verlieben uns mit Zeus, sehen die Geburt der Athene, nehmen mit Kronos und Gaia Rache an Uranos, wir weinen mit König Midas und jagen mit der wunderschönen und furchtlosen Artemis.

Bridgett Nelson, the two-time Splatterpunk Award-nominated author of the hugely popular A Bouquet of Viscera, has three deranged stories to tell that all you freaks are sure to love!

Skeletons and corpses rise from their fitful sleep and share a haunting message from beyond the grave.

Neun Orte, an denen die Zeit stehen bleibt — und du dabei einschläfst. Dieses Hörbuch erzählt von Dingen, die sehr lange liegen bleiben, ohne dass jemand sie bewacht. Von einem Tropfen Harz, der vor Millionen Jahren eine Mücke mitnahm. Von Moorwasser, das nichts zersetzt. Von Eis, in dem...

Was bei den Sternen war, Erzählung von Peter Rosegger: Selbst der Naturforscher gibt es diesmal zu, was der Poet behauptet, dass nämlich im Waldland die Sterne heller leuchten als sonst wo. Das macht die reine, feuchte Luft, sagt der eine; der andere hingegen meint, der kindliche Glaube der Einschichtbewohner sei Ursache, dass der Sternenhimmel so hell und hold niederfunkle auf den weiten, stillen Wald.

Helmut Zenker 1949-2003. Seit 1973 freier Schriftsteller, seit 1989 auch Regisseur. Romane, Theater, Kinderbücher, Lyrik, Drehbücher, Comedy, Essays, Comics, Lieder. Seine Bücher sind in 23 Sprachen erschienen. Die Angelika steht im schweren Schlafrock beim Gasherd in der Nische. Sie wartet bis das Teewasser kocht. Ich sitze am runden Tischchen mit dem Telefon. Die letzte Canasta-Partie habe ich knapp verloren. Die Angelika ist sozusagen vom Fach. Acht Jahre auf dem Autostrich beim Messegelände, sechs Jahre im Hotel D., jetzt teilt sie mit mir die Kosten für die Zwei-Zimmer-Wohnung. Sie ist drei Jahre älter als ich: vierundfünfzig.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Jagd mit Bertram Graf von Quadt, einem passionierten Jäger und Geschichtenerzähler. In diesem Hörbuch versammeln sich ausgewählte Erzählungen aus sieben seiner Werke, die den Hörer auf eine Reise durch Wälder, Wiesen und Berge mitnehmen. Mit einer tiefen Verbundenheit zur Natur und einem feinen Gespür für die besondere Stimmung des Augenblicks beschreibt Graf v. Quadt unvergessliche Jagdabenteuer, die von Spannung, Respekt und Bewunderung für die Wildnis geprägt sind.

Tales of passion and jealousy, lust and romance from the award-winning author of Red Dust Road This fierce, funny and compassionate collection explores every facet of that most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions: love. With winning directness, Jackie Kay captures her characters’...

FNH Audio presents a reading of this classic science fiction story, lifted directly from the pages of the April, 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science. Astounding Stories was a magazine that had its zenith during the "classic" age of science fiction. This short tells contains all the classic elements of such stories: a brave protagonist, an evil enemy, and amazing Super Science. Set in the backwoods of the United States during a cold dark night, a stranger has a horrid tale to tell.

Everybody remembers Wych Street, a road in London which no longer exists. But nobody can agree on exactly where it used to run. Stacy Aumonier's classic story follows the catastrophic events sparked by a dispute over the location of the elusive street, from pub brawls and murders, to the infamous siege of Aztec Street, to the ignominious ending of a promising young lawyer's career, a broken engagement and a foreign policy fiasco.

A story from Night in the Front Line, a collection of Second World War short stories. In this lighthearted short story, a farm labourer observes the land girls going about their work and wondering what the future might hold for the farming industry.

"The Man That Was Used Up", sometimes subtitled "A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign", is a short story and satire by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in August 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. The story follows an unnamed narrator who seeks out the famous war hero John A. B. C. Smith. He becomes suspicious that Smith has some deep secret when others refuse to describe him, instead remarking only on the latest advancements in technology. When he finally meets Smith, the man must first be assembled piece by piece.

The Child-Who-Was-Tired is a short story by Katherine Mansfield: She was just beginning to walk along a little white road with tall black trees on either side, a little road that led to nowhere, and where nobody walked at all, when a hand gripped her shoulder, shook her, slapped her ear. - “Oh, oh, don’t stop me,” cried the Child-Who-Was-Tired. “Let me go.”

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Empire State Building has vanished into thin air! Gone, too, are Grant’s Tomb and Grand Central Station, and all hell is breaking loose in New York City! What’s the story? One grizzled old newspaper reporter known simply as Pop - a role made for Walter Matthau - is on top of it...and better stay there, because his livelihood is on the line. If Pop fails to get to the bottom of the vanishing landmarks, his job will disappear as well - and land in the hands of the newspaper publisher’s son-in-law.

One day when Susie was out walking the dog, she ran it off a cliff. Susie thought this was really cool, but Susie didn't realize killing things isn't such a cool thing to do. Susie was ready to test the waters of death on her friends. Susie invited three of her closest friends over for a sleepover.

When I Was a Witch is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1909. What would you do if you could right all the wrongs that annoy you in this world?

In the tradition of Calvino’s Italian Folktales, Greg Sarris, author of the award-winning novel Grand Avenue, turns his attention to his ancestral homeland of Sonoma Mountain in Northern California. In 16 interconnected original stories, the twin crows Question Woman and Answer Woman take us through a world unlike yet oddly reminiscent of our own: one that blooms bright with poppies, lupines, and clover; one in which Water Bug kidnaps an entire creek; in which songs have the power to enchant; in which Rain is a beautiful woman who keeps people’s memories in stones.

Joe Market makes his living by panhandling cars while he tries to suppress trauma. On her 80th birthday, Alice awaits a visit from her daughter. Karen's mother expects her to give up her life to care for her. As a hospice patient, Jane struggles to leave a legacy. Two women struggle with hearing child abuse in a neighbour's apartment. In each story, the characters grapple with a problem that can haunt them or provide salvation.

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. 'How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped' is the romantic story of a very small child who is abducted by two female travellers and taken away to the sea.

Was als routinemäßige Ermittlung beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einem albtraumhaften Puzzle aus Rache, Eifersucht und tödlicher Besessenheit. Auf Gran Canaria, wo andere ihren Traumurlaub verbringen, wird eine Serie von Leichenfunden entdeckt.