Ergebnis für "Beatrice" in Klassiker

Aus dem Zeitalter der Uniformität. Aus dem Zeitalter der Einsamkeit und des Doppeldenk. Aus dem Zeitalter des Big Brothers. Von mir, Winston Smith. Grüße. Es ist das Jahr 1984 und das Leben hat sich massiv verändert. Luftstützpunkt Nummer Eins, vormals bekannt als Großbritannien, ist ein Ort, den Big Brother ständig überwacht und wo sich niemand verstecken kann. Außer vielleicht Winston Smith. Während er im Ministerium für Wahrheit daran arbeitet, die Geschichte umzuschreiben, träumt er insgeheim von der Freiheit.

Nell'estate del 1940, un ragazzo di undici anni ascoltò il padre che leggeva e spiegava ai fratelli maggiori l'Inferno di Dante; le due estati seguenti toccò a Purgatorio e Paradiso. Proprio quel ragazzo, che all'epoca capiva meglio il concerto che facevano le cicale che non le terzine del poeta, mezzo secolo più tardi avrebbe letto e spiegato Dante ai microfoni della radio e in più di cinquecento letture pubbliche.

Writing a century later than Jane Austen, Whitby’s work examines many of the same themes: women and marriage, concepts of honor and pride, passion and love, and self-sacrifice. In The Awakening of Mary Fenwick, we find a naïve young woman who has been raised in a sheltered and isolated home by a grieving father.

Symbole et mythe de la passion amoureuse, chef d'œuvre de la littérature médiévale, "Tristan et Iseut" est une œuvre intemporelle. Elle happe le lecteur et résonne en chacun d'une étonnante modernité.

A collection of short stories written by prominent supporters of the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom....

'The Umbrella-Mender' is a disturbing tale about an eccentric man who runs a repair shop for umbrellas. One evening he is surprised by a knock at the door. Outside is a man who tells the umbrella-mender that his son is on his deathbed and wishes to see his father. The umbrella-mender sets off at once with the stranger. In the course of their conversation on the journey, the stranger explains that he himself has murdered the umbrella-mender's son.

Beatrice Harraden (1864-1936) was a British writer and suffragette. 'A Bird on Its Journey' is the story of a mysterious young Englishwoman hiking alone through Switzerland. When she arrives at a mountain hotel, she discovers that the piano is badly out of tune. The young woman, although she is travelling with only a small knapsack, has brought with her a tuning hammer, and she proceeds to tune the piano.

Germain, Petit Pierre et Marie sont forcés de passer la nuit au lieu-dit La mare au Diable. Le laboureur et la jeune fille ont le coeur triste : Germain va chercher une mère pour ses enfants, mais l'amour n'y est pas, et Marie a quitté sa mère pour se louer comme bergère à la ferme des Ormeaux. Seul Petit Pierre est heureux et confiant : de lui dépendra le sort de ceux qu'il aime tant.

Fanny Hill is an erotic novel that was first published in 1748 and has remained a best seller for over 250 years, in spite of its being banned shortly after publication. In 1966 the US Supreme Court ruled that it was not obscene, shortly after making the same ruling for Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence and Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. Today, it is considered, by many critics, to be an erotic masterpiece and a true literary classic.