Ergebnis für "Georges" in Literatur & Belletristik

Mr Jones has a problem. He just doesn't know it yet. As he sleeps, the beasts of Manor Farm are conspiring. Rumours of an uprising spread. The goal? Remove the greatest obstacle to their freedom and happiness. Man. Brought to life by masterful narrator Peter Noble, Animal Farm follows the animals of Manor Farm as they drive out their neglectful owner and take control of their future. As authority shifts and the rules begin to change, the animals slowly learn how easily virtuous ideals fall under the control of those who hold influence.

Eighteen of the very best American short stories, each a classic in its own right. Stories include "The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots", by George Pope Morris; "The Angel of the Odd", by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Schoolmasters’s Progress", by Caroline M.S. Kirkland; "The Watkinson Evening", by Eliza Leslie; "Titbottom’s Spectacles", by George William Curtis; "My Double and "How He Undid Me", by Edward Everett Hale; "A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters", by Oliver Wendell; and more.

Endlich liefert Sedaris die sehnlich erwarteten neuen Episoden aus seiner Parallelwelt. Er erläutert, warum Kaffeekochen mit Hilfe einer Blumenvase ihn an die Wohnwagensiedlung erinnert, in der er als Student Marihuana zu kaufen versuchte oder wie man sich vor neurotischen Singvögeln schützt, indem man seine Fenster mit Schallplattenhüllen vernagelt. Kurz: Sedaris at his best!

Edward Mills and George Benton (A Tale): These two were distantly related to each other seventh cousins, or something of that sort. While still babies they became orphans, and were adopted by the Brants, a childless couple, who quickly grew very fond of them. The Brants were always saying: "Be pure, honest, sober, industrious, and considerate of others, and success in life is assured.

"La fattoria degli animali" voleva essere, nelle intenzioni dell'autore, una realistica allegoria della Russia Sovietica, dominata da Stalin. La cacciata dell'uomo avrebbe dovuto portare tra gli animali della fattoria liberata alla realizzazione di quei valori di egualitarismo, fratellanza e libertà che sono il manifesto ideologico dell'illuminismo e da cui hanno tratto la loro origine marxismo, socialismo, comunismo. Nel libro viene ben rappresentato come nella realtà la salita al potere da parte dei nuovi suonatori non determinerà affatto il cambiamento della musica, tutt'altro.

Stundenlang übt er vor dem Spiegel seinen Gang, sein Lächeln, seine Art zu sprechen. Julius Varga, der Parteichef, ist das ganz große Idol des namenlosen Erzählers. "Ich gebe mich für dich auf, Julius. Ich liebe dich." In seiner Abwesenheit gießt er seine Zimmerpflanzen, als ob dies ein Staatsakt wäre. Auf einer unteren Ebene dient der Erzähler der Partei und eifert seinem Vorbild nach. Er ist besessen von Marken und Äußerlichkeiten und der Ästhetik von Terroranschlägen.

Sie gehören zur Crème de la Crème des politischen Kabaretts in Deutschland. 2014 gingen sie erstmalig zusammen auf Tour. Und dann ging es gleich auf "Abschiedstour". Aus gutem Grund, denn Georg Schramm und sein Alter Ego Lothar Dombrowski packen den Lederhandschuh ein. Schramm macht Schluss mit Kabarett. Seine Freunde und Kollegen Jochen Malmsheimer und Urban Priol bereiteten ihm einen würdigen Abschied.

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One of the very best science fiction novels of all time. An intelligent and thought provoking allegory for the Vietnam War. Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home...

I am insanely in love with George Cross, a perfect detective for our time and for all time' Stephen Fry DS George Cross delves deep into the world of dirty politics in this Bristol detective series perfect for fans of Peter James and Joy Ellis. At first glance, the murder of Peggy Frampton looks...

Brought to you by Penguin. In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London to the sun-soaked cobbles of Cadiz and the frosty squares of Warsaw, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession...

In the scorching heat of the Turanian summer, Thraxas is doing his best to avoid working. His plans for a spell of uninterrupted beer drinking go wrong when the Civil Guards arrest a man for murder, right in Thraxas's office. Outraged at this insult to his dignity, Thraxas goes into action. Soon he finds himself in the middle of a deadly war between rival bands of warrior monks. The situation becomes more complicated when a consignment of the King's gold goes missing.

Yes, George Carlin is here with more of what he did better than any other comic: uproarious observations, laser-targeted crankiness, linguistic legerdemain, and inspired weirdness. ("If the shoe fits, get another just like it." "When you sneeze, all the numbers in your head go up by one.") Napalm & Silly Putty is just what his fans have been waiting for—another generous helping of notions, nonsense, assertions, assumptions, mockery, merriment, silliness, sarcasm, and, to be sure, plenty of disturbing references and toxic alienation.

Diese rasante und trashige Parodie auf das Seeräubergenre arbeitet mit allen erlaubten und unerlaubten Tricks: Captain Ben Avery soll eine wertvolle Krone auf dem Seeweg nach Madagaskar bringen. Mit an Bord ist die schöne Lady Vanity. Natürlich verliebt sich Avery in die attraktive Mitreisende, natürlich wird das Schiff von Piraten überfallen, die Krone geraubt und Vanity in die Sklaverei verschleppt. Und so bleibt Ben Avery nichts anderes übrig, als heldenhaft einzugreifen.

A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school. Steven Wright is one of the most significant and influential stand-up comedians in history. Rolling Stone ranked him fifteenth on...

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Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents - horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the nineteenth century despite trying his utmost to escape them all. Flashman, soldier, duellist, lover, imposter, coward, cad, and hero triumphs in this first installment of The Flashman Papers.

In big stakes bass fishing tournaments, contestants will do anything to win. Maybe that's why there is a corpse floating in Coon Bog. Now it's up to R J Decker, novice private investigator, to find out who was dying to get the biggest fish. Help comes in the unlikely form of Skink, a half-mad hermit with a taste for road kill.

The long-awaited sequel to Jasper Fforde's cult bestseller Shades of Grey, set in world where social hierarchy revolves entirely around visual colour. Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see. This is the world inhabited by Eddie...

An Georg Christoph Lichtenberg kam vor mehr als 200 Jahren nichts unkommentiert vorbei - weder eine mathematische Formel noch eine Alltagsbeobachtung. Der studierte Physiker, Mathematiker und Astronom konnte komplexe Zusammenhänge anschaulich zuspitzen. In seinen "Sudelbüchern" notierte er Tausende davon. Heute gilt Lichtenberg nicht nur als einer der originellsten Köpfe des 18. Jahrhunderts, sondern auch als Begründer des modernen deutschen Aphorismus. Baldur Seifert liest "Aus den Sudelbüchern", die bis heute nichts von ihrem Witz und Scharfsinn verloren haben.