Resultados para "Was" en Narrativa literaria

Travis Smith is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a grey English town. He offers people comfort in their final days and hours of life. He's stoic, gentle, a little naive, despite what he knows. He's handsome, he seems young, despite what he is. Each death has a meaning to him...

Poet Gabriel Syme believes in the beauty of order and, as such, is recruited by Scotland Yard to an anti-anarchist police corp. While undercover, Syme meets fellow poet Lucian Gregory, a verse writer devoted to disorder, who introduces him to London’s anarchist underworld. Just as Gregory is to be elected to the central council, Syme’s cover is revealed and he is forced to make a decision that sends the cabal into chaos. Is anyone in this underground faction who or what they seem? Syme suddenly realizes he doesn’t have all the answers.

Two young manager graduates, with nothing similar in family backgrounds and temperament, join a New York international bank on the same day - and take entirely different routes to success.

The number 1 European bestseller by the author of New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon A Man Called Ove, Britt-Marie was Here is a funny, poignant and uplifting tale of love, community, and second chances. For as long as anyone can remember, Britt-Marie has been an acquired...

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...

Ein Sohn wendet sich an seine Eltern. Mit einem Brief versucht Marco Ott das Schweigen zu überwinden, das sich über die Jahre zwischen ihnen ausgebreitet hat. Eine unerwartete Nachricht seines Vaters weckt Erinnerungen: an seine Kindheit und Jugend in einer Arbeiterfamilie im Ruhrgebiet und...

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.

Ist das Lachen nicht bloßer Reflex, gedankenloses Schafsblöken, das der komplexen Tragikomik des Lebens nicht gerecht wird? Ein sinnentleerter Epilog, der auf eine gute Geschichte folgt? Aira eröffnet in dieser überraschend intimen Erzählung, die mal Autofiktion, mal wilde Fabel ist, einen Raum zwischen Witz und Gelächter, jenen Spalt, der oft zwischen dem eigenen Bewusstsein und der Gegenwart des Moments klafft: Darin finden wir Träume, Erinnerungen, einen Ozean der Wehmut - und schließlich auch das Lachen.

Es ist nur ein Glas Wein, sagt sie. Und Jonas will ihr glauben. Drei Jahre allein. Donnerstags Kickboxtraining mit seinem Bruder Max. Mehr braucht Jonas nicht. Sagt er sich. Dann geht die Glastür der Trainingshalle auf. Clara tritt ein. Aufrecht. Ruhig. Als würde sie den Raum abmessen, bevor sie einen Platz darin einnimmt. Aus einem Donnerstag wird mehr. Eine Zahnbürste neben ihrer. Ein Schlüssel in seiner Tasche. Später ziehen sie aufs Land.

Part spy novel and part allegory, The Man Who Was Thursday centres on Gabriel Symes, a poet who was recruited by Scotland Yard to secretly infiltrate an anarchist group. During his first meeting with the anarchists, Symes is unexpectedly elected as a new delegate to the central council. Each member is named after a day of the week, and so Syme becomes ‘Thursday’. As he begins to unmask the other council members, he discovers that all is not what it seems: one by one these supposed anarchists are unveiled to be working undercover too. That is until Syme gets to man called ‘Sunday’…

Gallipoli, 1916. Lovat Scout soldier Donald Peter Gillies lies in hospital, blinded by the Turks. There he falls in love with his Queen Alexandra Corps nurse, Louise. The story moves back and forth from their time at the field hospital to the west highlands of Scotland where Donald grew up. As they talk in the quiet hours he tells her the stories of the coast and glens. Louise in turn tells her own story of growing up in a Welsh coal mining valley. They get cut off from the Allied troops and are forced to make an escape, but there is still another tragic twist to their story....

That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is spreading through the town and picking off its victims one by one.

This Was Not the Plan tackles one of the most important issues of our time with humor, compassion, and authenticity. The collision of the lives of Sylvia, Meg, and Caroline reminds us of the dangers of thinking in black and white and the possibility of finding humanity in each other, even where you least expect it.

In the midst of chaos and destruction, a young singer's vibrant spirit fights to find its voice. "What was Beautiful and Good" is an enthralling novel based on a true story, weaving together history, art, and a tale of resilience. Emmy Hennings, a free-spirited artist, revels in the beauty and excitement of Europe's most captivating cities. But when the First World War shatters her world, Emmy's life takes an unexpected turn. Unable to perform and separated from her friends and lovers who are drafted into the military, she finds herself imprisoned for trivial offenses and branded unpatriotic.

In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view. After some time, the frustrated Gregory finds Syme and leads him to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove that he is a true anarchist.

Originally published in 1994, When the World Was Steady is award-winning author Claire Messud's first novel.

"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.

In the autumn of 1940, four children meet on a train. Behind them is London, under heavy aerial attack; ahead of them is a ship bound for the safe shores of Canada. Arthur has promised his mother not to let his little brother, Philip, out of his sight. Pippa and Dora are on their own: polar opposites, brought together by the adventure of a lifetime. But disaster strikes mid-Atlantic, and in the chaos one of the children makes a choice that will determine the course of their lives forever.

One big mistake. One bigger regret. Once the lead singer of a renowned rock band, Joe Jarrett now cherishes a quiet life by the sea. With family as his anchor, Joe's world is on the brink of collapse when historic accusations of rape and murder surface against his band. As Joe is forced to face the consequences of the past, threatening letters from a stalker seeking revenge reach his home. Who is she? Meanwhile, his son's new girlfriend, Edie, conceals her own dark secret.

Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy and Dorothy Koomson, Alison May thrills in this English familial mystery. In 1967, Patience Bickersleigh is a teenager who discovers a talent for telling people what they want to hear. Fifty years later, she is Patrice Leigh, a nationally celebrated medium. But...