Ergebnis für "Blind" in Klassiker

Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following.

The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver's seat, off on 21 unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time, and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable one.

Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In first person, the narrator offers a string of hazy, dreamlike recollections fueled by opium and alcohol. He spends time painting the exact same scene on the covers of pen cases: an old man wearing a cape and turban sitting under a cypress tree, separated by a small stream from a beautiful woman in black who offers him a water lily.

When the publicity team of the new local restaurant Going in Blind begins their search for a hot, local celebrity to promote the wildly popular eatery, they couldn't have found a better person than Noely Clark. A hopeless romantic with an exceedingly demanding schedule, she found it impossible to find the man of her dreams so being set up on three very different, very attractive, and very distinctive blind dates, seemed like a great idea, but who will she choose?

The assignment begins with a simple errand - a parcel to deliver. But to Alan Stewart, standing on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looks anything but simple. The desolate terrain is obstacle enough. But when Stewart realises he has been double-crossed and that the opposition is gaining ground, his simple mission seems impossible....

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden von Scotland Yard zu einem eigentlich unspektakulären Mordfall hinzugezogen. Die Ermittlungen gestalten sich jedoch schwierig, da der einzig verfügbare Zeuge der Tat blind ist.

"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Or is he? In H. G. Wells' acclaimed tale, a stranded mountaineer encounters an isolated society in which his apparent advantage, sight, since all the people are blind, proves less than valuable.

First published in 1887, ‘The Blind Brother’ was one of American author Homer Greene’s earliest works. The tale follows the story of two brothers, 14-year-old Tom Taylor and his blind younger brother Bennie, and their experiences while working in the Pennsylvania coal mines. The boy’s father was killed in a mining accident some years previously, and now the brothers must work to make ends meet. A heart-warming story of brotherly love, the novel also gives a vivid insight into the daily life of a mine worker - detailing strikes, gangs and cave-ins.

The book contains a wonderful story of the great Russian writer and public figure Vladimir Korolenko (1853-1921) "The Blind Musician".

Guy de Maupassant gilt als Aushängeschild weltliterarischer Novellenkunst. Seine Erzählungen erfrischen uns nach wie vor durch deren Natürlichkeit, schlichter Eleganz und Bodenständigkeit. Erfreut und amüsiert genießen wir diese kleinen Zeitreisen, welche einen genüsslichen Einblick in die bürgerliche Lebenswirklichkeit der französischen Gesellschaft des 19ten Jahrhunderts gewähren. Auf diesem Hörbuch befinden sich folgende vier Erzählungen: Vater Milon berichtet aus der Zeit des Deutsch-französischen Krieges 1870/71.

Two brothers and a female cousin live in a distant cabin in the wilderness. The oldest brother is hiding from the law because of murder, so the younger brother must do the trading in town (they are trapping for a living). One day, while Hugh (the convict) leaves the cabin, he meets a girl who is sun blind. He falls in love and uses her momentary blindness to his advantage. The only problem is that his younger brother, Pete, falls in love with her too...

In der LILYLA Hörbuch-Edition "Meistererzählungen" widmen wir uns einem Autoren, dessen Werke in Ausdruck, Authentizität und Sprachgewalt Einzug in den erlauchten Kreis der Weltliteratur erhalten haben und dessen Werke mit Recht dem Kanon der Weltliteratur zugerechnet werden, weil sie das widerspiegeln, was dem jeweiligen Zeitgeist entspricht und weil ihre Erzählungen von dem handeln, was von zeitloser Ästhetik und Würde ist.

"The Blind Man" is a delicate study of a loving relationship blighted by the man's blindness and disfigurement in the First World War. The arrival of an old friend of the woman brings into the open feelings and fears previously suppressed.

Die Blumenverkäuferin Alwine wartet auf ein Lebenszeichen ihres Mannes Henry, den sie in misslichen Verhältnissen bei der Fremdenlegion vermutet. Derweil macht ihr der Steuermann Lauken einen Heiratsantrag... - eine anrührende, dramatische Geschichte über Liebe, Treue und Schuld.

„Wenn es bei euch dunkel ist, wird es bei mir Licht!“ So sprach der junge, blinde Bürstenbinder, der mein rechter Bettnachbar im Krankenhaus war. Und ein Lächeln huschte über die krankhaften Kanten seines totgeborenen Gesichtes und machte es gütig und milde.

A blind man shuffles along a busy neighborhood street attempting to sell pencils to residents and people passing by. The blazing sun and too many layers of clothing don't appear to hamper his persistence. What occurs in this story illustrates American writer Kate Chopin's use of irony and the element of luck in all our lives.

'The Country of the Blind' is the strange story of a mountain guide who accidently falls off a cliff ledge in the Andes. He survives the fall unhurt, and finds himself in a remote valley where a tribe lives completely cut off from the rest of the world. A hereditary illness has meant that for 15 generations all the members of the tribe have been born blind. As a result, they now have a highly evolved sense of hearing, scent and touch. 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king,' thinks the mountaineer.

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels and often credited as being the father of science fiction. 'The Country of the Blind' is the strange story of a mountain guide who accidently falls off a cliff ledge in the Andes. He survives the fall unhurt, and finds himself in a remote valley where a tribe lives completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Zwei erblindete Nachbarskinder, Marlene und Clemens stehen aufgeregt vor einer Augenoperation, die beiden ermöglichen könnte, wieder zu sehen. Bei ihm gelingt die Operation, bei ihr nicht, ihre Lebenswirklichkeit driftet dramatisch auseinander, sie verlieren sich aber nie "aus dem Blick", und schließlich obsiegt die Zuneigung über alles Trennende.

Louisa Baldwin (1845-1925) was a British author of popular Victorian ghost stories. She spent much of her adult life as a bedridden invalid. Her hatred of idleness, combined with her imagination, led her to write. Her son was Stanley Baldwin, who became the British prime minister. 'The Shadow on the Blind' is a classic gothic ghost story. An old, abandoned house, Harbledon Hall, is rented by the Stackpoole family.