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January 1995Eliza Pirex, California
Ein Kriminalroman
by McRae, Diana / Englisch Kähler, Cornelia R
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August 2012Fortunas Tochter
Von der Autorin des Weltbestsellers »Das Geisterhaus«
by Isabel Allende
Fortunas Tochter erzählt die bewegte Geschichte der Eliza Sommers, einer lebenshungrigen jungen Frau, die zwischen zwei Kulturen lebt und einen abenteuerlichen Weg geht. Als chilenisches Findelkind in der Obhut einer englischen Familie aufgewachsen, bricht sie, kaum 17jährig, aus ihrer wohlbehüteten Welt aus und stürzt sich auf der Suche nach ihrem Geliebten in die Wirren des kalifornischen Goldrauschs.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2009Popular Victorian women writers
by Kay Boardman, Shirley Jones
Popular Victorian women writers considers a diverse group of women writers within the Victorian literary marketplace. It looks at authors such as Ellen Wood, Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Charlotte Yonge as well as less well-known writers including Jessie Fothergill and Eliza Meteyard. Each essay sets the individual author within her biographical and literary context and provides refreshing insights into their work. Together they bring the work of largely unknown authors and new perspectives on known authors to critical and public attention. Accessible and informative, the book is ideal for students of Victorian literature and culture as well as tutors and scholars of the period. ;
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September 2020Zauberhafte Weihnachten. Die schönsten Klassiker für Erstleser
by Andersen, Hans Christian; Dickens, Charles; Hodgson Burnett, Frances
Drei der schönsten Klassiker der Weltliteratur zum Weihnachtsfest, für Erstleser nacherzählt und wunderschön illustriert, in einem Band! So wird das Warten auf Weihnachten ein bisschen einfacher. Kay und Gerda müssen beweisen, dass ihre Freundschaft stärker ist als die Zauberkräfte der Schneekönigin. Ein Geist lässt den Geizhals Ebenezer Scrooge in die Vergangenheit und in die Zukunft blicken. Da erkennt Scrooge, wie wichtig es ist, dass er sich ändert. Noch ist es nicht zu spät. Cedric wird über Nacht zu einem englischen Lord und zieht in ein echtes Schloss. Sein griesgrämiger Großvater macht es ihm allerdings zunächst nicht leicht. Dieser Sammelband enthält folgende Geschichten: Hans Christian Andersen: Die Schneekönigin Charles Dickens: Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte Frances Hodgson Burnett: Der kleine Lord Durch die große Schrift ideal für Leseanfänger, aber auch zum Vorlesen bestens geeignet für Kinder ab 7 Jahren.
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August 2006Die Geliebte des Diktators
Eine Geschichte aus Paraguay. Roman
by Lily Tuck, Katharina Förs, Thomas Wollermann
"Eliza Alicia Lynch hatte Irland im Alter von zehn Jahren verlassen; mit fünfzehn heiratete sie einen französischen Offizier; mit neunzehn, geschieden und mit einem gutaussehenden, aber mittellosen russischen Grafen liiert, mußte sie noch einmal neu loslegen." Paris, im Jahr 1854. Der Graf zieht in den Krimkrieg, und Ella lernt einen draufgängerischen jungen Südamerikaner kennen. Sie reist mit ihm in sein Land. Francisco, der seinen Vater, den steinreichen Diktator Paraguays, beerbt, macht Ella zu seiner offiziellen Mätresse. Sie wird die Mutter seiner Kinder. In Asunción beginnt ein Leben in Saus und Braus - gefährdet durch die Gewalten der subtropischen Natur, bedroht durch Intrigen und durch die Launen des kindlich-barbarischen Autokraten. Paraguay, 1864: Ruhmsüchtig bricht Franco einen Krieg mit den mächtigen Nachbarn Brasilien und Argentinien vom Zaun, den er, auf einem schier endlosen Rückzug ins Landesinnere - Ella und Kinder im Troß -, fast bis zur Auslöschung der Bevölkerung durchhält. Er stirbt im Dschungel. War Ella die Kriegstreiberin? Mit einigen Schätzen entkommt sie nach Paris. Die Kinder schickt sie aufs Internat. Sie selber, die nirgendwo mehr vorgelassen wird, dämmert verarmt dahin.
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800August 2004King Lear
Second edition
by Alexander Leggatt
This updated and expanded analysis of King Lear in performance includes new chapters on the television version of the Royal National Theatre production directed by Richard Eyre and starring Ian Holm; and on Akira Kurosawa's 'Ran'. Earlier chapters provide close, detailed analyses of the stage, film and television interpretations of John Gielgud, Harley Granville Barker, Paul Scofield, Peter Brook, Peter Ustinov, Michael Gambon, Adrian Noble, Grigori Kozintsev, Michael Hordern, Jonathan Miller, Laurence Olivier and Michael Elliott. By examining such issues as the playing of Lear, the staging of the storm and the battle, and the choice of historical period, this book shows how interpretation and performance are bound together, and how the play is transformed through different historical and political contexts. This will be essential reading for students in English, drama or film at any level, theatregoers, and anyone involved in productions of the play.
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February 2000Die Blumenhochzeit
Ein Märchen
by Eliza Orzeszkowa, Karl Dedecius, Rebecca Berlinger
Karl Dedecius, 1921 in Lodz geboren, galt als bedeutendster Mittler polnischer Literatur und Kultur in Deutschland. Als Übersetzer hunderter Bücher, Autor zahlloser Reden und Aufsätze, Herausgeber der Polnischen Bibliothek, Gründer des Deutschen Polen-Instituts in Darmstadt wurde er vielfach gewürdigt und ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (1990), dem Orden des Weißen Adlers (1999) in Polen und dem Deutschen Nationalpreis (2010). Karl Dedecius starb am 26. Februar 2016 im Alter von 94 Jahren in Frankfurt am Main.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2000Cultures of Empire
A reader
by Catherine Hall, Meg Davies
Collects together the best articles by key historians, literary critics, and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.. A substantial introduction by the distinguished historian, Professor Catherine Hall, discusses new approaches to the history of empire and establishes a narrative frame through which to read the essays which follow.. The volume is clearly divided into three sections: theoretical, emphasising concepts and approaches; the colonisers 'at home', focusing on how empire was lived in Britain; and 'away' - the attempt to construct new cultures through which the colonisers defined themselves and others in varied colonial sites. A useful guide to recent scholarship on the culture of imperialism. ;
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 1905Alaska Days with John Muir
by Samuel Hall Young
Samuel Hall Young, a Presbyterian clergyman, met John Muir when the great naturalist's steamboat docked at Fort Wrangell, in southeastern Alaska, where Young was a missionary to the Stickeen Indians. In "Alaska Days With John Muir" he describes this 1879 meeting: "A hearty grip of the hand and we seemed to coalesce in a friendship which, to me at least, has been one of the very best things in a life full of blessings." This book, first published in 1915, describes two journeys of discovery taken in company with Muir in 1879 and 1880. Despite the pleas of his missionary colleagues that he not risk life and limb with "that wild Muir," Young accompanied Muir in the exploration of Glacier Bay. Upon Muir's return to Alaska in 1880, they traveled together and mapped the inside route to Sitka. Young describes Muir's ability to "slide" up glaciers, the broad Scotch he used when he was enjoying himself, and his natural affinity for Indian wisdom and theistic religion. From the gripping account of their near-disastrous ascent of Glenora Peak to Young's perspective on Muir's famous dog story "Stickeen," Alaska Days is an engaging record of a friendship grounded in the shared wonders of Alaska's wild landscapes.
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January 2022Forty Years of Stage Life -- Mei Lanfang's Statement
by Mei Lanfang ，Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall
Mei Lanfang's surviving literature amounts to more than 6 million words. Forty Years of Stage Life is the core of his works. It is a self-description of Mr. Mei Lanfang's life. It is the most convenient and reliable way to approach the master and understand his artistic life. The previous editions of the book were arranged according to the published versions under certain historical conditions. This is the first time for Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall to arrange the book according to the original manuscript, which is an original publication returning to the master's original intention based on the accumulation of long-term academic research and the revision of new materials. A large number of pictures of Mei Lanfang's stage performances, artistic creations and reports will be added to the book, as well as some hand-drawn illustrations restoring historical situations, in an effort to show and reproduce the radiance and splendor of the master artist and his unparalleled artistic life in a more comprehensive, full, real and beautiful way.
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September 2008Jungfrau
Roman
by Thomas Meinecke
Läßt sich erotische Annäherung auch im Sinn einer Asymptote vollziehen? Lothar erforscht das gemeinsame Werk des Theologen Hans Urs von Balthasar und seiner legendären Amica, der Ärztin und Mystikerin Adrienne von Speyr. Er glaubt sich einem unglaublichen Liebesdrama auf der Spur. Und Lothar selbst, ein von den Theaterwissenschaften zur katholischen Theologie sowie zu sexueller Enthaltsamkeit konvertierter Student, gerät zunehmend in Gewissenskonflikte mit seiner hoch und heilig gelobten Haltung: Das Charisma der Klavierspielerin Mary Lou stellt ihn vor Versuchung und Versagung. Wie in Tomboy entwickelt das Diskursnetz in Jungfrau ein burleskes Eigenleben. Hollywoods B-Film-Ikone Maria Montez sowie ihr Wiedergänger Mario Montez sind darin ebenso verstrickt wie Clemens Brentano, der jahrelang Visionen einer stigmatisierten Nonne protokollierte, Ronald Tavel, Begründer des Theatre of the Ridiculous, der Camp-Filmer Jack Smith oder die Jazzpianistin Jutta Hipp. Thomas Meinecke ist mit einem popistischen Zugang zum Katholischen gesegnet. In seinem neuen Roman begibt er sich auf extravagante Pfade des Glaubens: Polyphon geht es que(e)r durch die Jahrhunderte, campy und kinky.
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FictionJanuary 2016Hall of Mirrors
by Chen Qian
In this novel, a series of mirrors has been used by the author as a tool to reflect daily life of ethnic Chinese scientists in Silicon Valley. Behind the marvelous high-tech products and glory of scientific workers, there are deep anxiety and bewilderment.
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January 1994
Die vierzehn Schwestern des Emilio Montez O'Brien
Roman
by Hijuelos, Oscar / Englisch Strand, Michael
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2017Tourism and Geopolitics
Issues and Concepts from Central and Eastern Europe
by Derek R Hall
With 29 contributors from across Europe and beyond, this work represents a unique and important resource that examines the many relationships between tourism and geopolitics, with a focus on experiences drawn from Central and Eastern Europe. It begins by assessing the changing nature of 'geopolitics', from pejorative associations with Nazism to the more recent critical and feminist geopolitics of social science's 'cultural turn'. The book then addresses the important historical role of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in geopolitical thinking, before exemplifying a range of contemporary interactions between tourism and geopolitics within this critical region. Edited by a renowned authority on tourism geopolitics, this book: · Provides the most comprehensive overview of tourism and geopolitics available · Applies a range of geopolitical concepts and approaches to empirical experiences of tourism and mobility in Central and Eastern Europe · Embraces contributions from both established and new academic voices. Pursuing innovative analytical paths, the book demonstrates the interrelated nature of tourism and geopolitics and emphasizes the freshness of this research area. Addressing key principles and ideas which are applicable globally, it is an essential source for researchers, teachers and students of tourism, geography, political science and European studies, as well as for diplomatic, business and consultant practitioners. ; This book is a unique and important resource that discusses the relationship between tourism and geopolitics, with a focus on experience from Central and Eastern Europe ; Part I: Introduction and Overviews1: Bringing geopolitics to tourism2: Tourism and geopolitics: the political imaginary of territory, tourism and space3: Tourism in the geopolitical construction of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)Part II: Reconfiguring Conceptions and Reality4: The Adriatic as a (re-)emerging cultural space5: Crimea: geopolitics and tourism6: The geopolitical trial of tourism in modern Ukraine7: Under pressure: the impact of Russian tourism investment in MontenegroPart III: Tourism and Transnationalism8: Large-scale tourism development in a Czech rural area: contestation over the meaning of modernity9: The expansion of international hotel groups into Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 – strategic couplings and local responses10: Conceptualising trans-national hotel chain penetration in Bulgaria11: New consumption spaces and cross-border mobilitiesPart IV: Borderlands12: From divided to shared spaces: transborder tourism in the Polish-Czech borderlands13: Finnish-Russian border mobility and tourism: localism overruled by geopolitics14: Kaliningrad as a tourism enclave/exclave?15: An evaluation of tourism development in KaliningradPart V: Identity and Image16: Mutli-ethnic food in the mono-ethnic city: tourism, gastronomy and identity in central Warsaw17: Rural tourism as a meeting ground in Bosnia and Herzegovina?18: Interrogating tourism’s relevance: mediating between polarities in Kosovo19: European Night of Museums and the geopolitics of events in Romania20: The power of the Web: blogging destination image in Bucharest and SofiaPart VI: Mobilities21: The role of pioneering tour companies22: The geopolitics of low-cost carriers in Central and Eastern Europe23: Tourism and a geopolitics of connectivity: the Albanian nexus24: Heroes or ‘Others’? A geopolitics of international footballer mobility25: Tourism, mobilities and the geopolitics of erasurePart VII: Conclusions26: In conclusion
