Ergebnis für "De experimenten" in Historische Romane

Geoffrey Rathburn, Earl of Tallis, will soon overcome his father's gambling debts. However, to pay his sister's dowry before her London wedding, he must marry an heiress. But the dowagers and daughters parading through his house are only after his title - just as he is after their money. Then a young woman climbs into his music room from a tree branch wanting something entirely different.

‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN 'Gripping … Bravura storytelling' VOGUE 'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a...

Named one of the best books of 2019 by the Daily Mail, The Sunday Times (London), and the BBC An utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpected--and deeply, shatteringly human--results. "The best kind...

Düsseldorf, Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. In der Stadt macht der "Magnetiseur" Professor Terrano von sich reden, der auf seinen Séancen Kontakt zu Verstorbenen herstellt. Ist der Frauenschwarm Terrano ein Schwindler - oder tatsächlich ein verkannter Künstler? Als bei einer Sitzung auch noch der Rubin der ehrwürdigen Gräfin von Studt auf mysteriöse Weise verschwindet, beginnen Dr. Sonderberg und Minnie Cogner zu ermitteln.

The year is 1792, and Herbert Powyss is set on making his name as a scientist. He is determined to study the effects of prolonged solitude on another human being, though before now Powyss' sole subjects have been the plants in his greenhouse. He fills three rooms beneath Moreham House with books, paintings and even a pianoforte, then puts out an advertisement, hoping for a gentleman recluse to claim the substantial reward. The only man desperate enough to apply is John Warlow, a semi-literate farm labourer who needs to support his wife, Hannah, and their six children.

Amid the chaos and destruction of World War II, racial profiling runs rampant. After kidnapped children whose appearances fails to meet the Nordic ideal are taken to concentration camps, some are used in experiments to satisfy the Reich's quest for Aryan Superiority.

In Sparta: The Warrior Experiment, Earth has been reshaped into a single arena of empires. Caesar commands Rome’s iron legions. Alexander dreams of uniting the world. Charlemagne rallies his knights, whilst Saladin works on unifying the Arabian Peninsula. Greece lies shattered—its proud city-states reduced to Roman provinces beneath Governor Flamininus’ rule. The once-mighty Spartans now fight as Rome’s enslaved warriors against the northern Germanic tribes and the rising Ottoman power.

In “Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc,” a millennial English professor facing mounting personal crises puts her energies into TikTok, but her newfound viral fame could wreck her already unstable life. In “Patriot’s Day,” a man trying to leave his marriage for the woman he loves finds himself caught up in larger currents of anti-Asian violence. In other stories, an array of loners and artists—a young poet haunted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde, a queer beer brewer, a boy with wings—struggle for connection and fulfillment in a world battered by the pandemic and reactionary politics.

"Schulman delivers the known world in startling new sounds, colours, tastes and smells."— New York Times Sunday Book Review It is 1965 and Cora, a deaf young woman, buys a one-way ticket to the island of St Thomas, where she discovers four dolphins held in captivity, part of an experiment led...