Ergebnis für "Illuminations" in Literatur & Belletristik

Rosa Mandolini knows in her heart that her family are the greatest painters of magical illuminations in the city. But the eccentric Studio Mandolini has fallen on hard times and the future is no longer certain. While trying to help her family, Rosa discovers a strange magical box protected by a painted crow. But when she finds a way to open the box, she accidentally releases the Scarling, a vicious monster determined to destroy the Mandolini family at any cost.

Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne's secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.

Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and his theses on the philosophy of history.

From New York Times bestselling author Alan Moore—one of the most influential writers in the history of comics—"a wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving" (Neil Gaiman) which takes us to the fantastical underside of reality. In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover—and in some cases even make and unmake—the various uncharted parts of existence.

By day, Lucían brews potions and illuminates manuscripts in service to the monastery that took him in as a child, wielding magic based in his faith and his purity. By night, he dreams of the world outside the cloister-a world he knows only in books and scrolls.

L'un des écrivains les plus influents de toute l'histoire des comics nous offre un ouvrage « merveilleux, brillant et souvent émouvant » (Neil Gaiman), qui nous emmène dans l'envers occulte et fantastique de la réalité. Avec son tout premier recueil de nouvelles, couvrant quarante années d'activité, Alan Moore nous présente une palette de personnages aussi variés qu'inoubliables qui découvrent - et dans certains cas, font et défont - la trame diverse et encore largement inexplorée de l'existence. Dans la première des nouvelles, la relation intime entre deux spécialistes de l'amour sorcier connaît de tragiques ramifications.

Les "Illuminations" ont été publiées en 1886, sous forme de feuilletons, dans la revue "La Vogue". Rimbaud a remis ces poèmes à Verlaine lors de leur rencontre à Stuttgart en mars 1875. C'est Verlaine qui s'est occupé de publier ces vers. Il y insère une préface dans laquelle il annonce que ces "ornementations colorées" se composent de "prose exquise ou vers délicieusement faux exprès".

It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

On awakening from a 13-month coma, Tara discovers the well-adjusted infant she remembers is gone, replaced by a toddler who shies away from her mother and who has yet to speak her first word. Threats and violence have split the Spencer family apart, and protestors plague Tara wherever she goes after discharging herself from the hospital. A young woman arranges to meet Tara, giving her what she says is the key to unraveling the mystery of Tara's pregnancy and mission. But she brings news of death and destruction as well and is suspicious of Tara's closest allies.

An inspiring and beautiful collection of poems to give you strength, arm you for hardship, and remind you that you're always growing, from the bestselling author of Chasers of the Light. Tyler Knott Gregson is the original InstaPoet. With loyal fans across the country and all over the Internet...

Am 1. Mai 1776 gründet Adam Weishaupt in Ingolstadt den Illuminatenorden. Nur acht Jahre später wird der Geheimbund bereits wieder zerschlagen. Doch warum hält sich bis heute das Gerücht, die Illuminaten hätten nie aufgehört zu existieren? Der Berliner Student Georg Brand findet im Nachlass des Hackers Tron ein verschlüsseltes Dokument, das die Wahrheit enthält, wo genau sich die Erben Weishaupts zwei Jahrhunderte lang "versteckt" haben! Doch die finsteren Ordensbrüder wissen ihre Tarnung mit aller Härte zu verteidigen!

Illumination Night follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening; an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughter's soul; a family torn apart by a wife's fears and a husband's unrealized desires; and the high school girl who comes to Martha's Vineyard against her will, who steals husbands and cars, and who will bring everyone together in a web of yearning, sin, and ultimate redemption.

Redemption and Illumination: The Way Home is the conclusion of the McGonegal Chronicles. The artifact is searching with Cillian and his party as they travel to find its missing pieces so they can free their friends who are trapped in the underworld by the monster Atun.

Nancy Jane Moore wrote her first flash fiction many years ago when everyone in her writing group decided to enter a contest for one-page stories. None of them won, but she got hooked and has been writing short-shorts ever since. Her first project for Book View Café was posting a free flash fiction every week for a year. Some were reprints, others older stories that needed one more revision, but quite a few were written in the week they went up. This 52-story collection includes most of those stories and a few new ones as well.

Ginger Holliday is entering into a season of change, but refusing to let go of the old ways without a fight. Her stubborn insistence on clinging to the way things used to be results in a hodgepodge of emotional revelations—some good, some bad...all necessary.

En 1896, le jeune Albert Einstein est chargé d'installer les illuminations de la Foire de Munich, aidé de sa soeur Maja et de Niels Bohr le lanceur de nains. Mais l'opération court à la catastrophe et de manège en manège, il va devoir se frotter aux lois de l'univers. Peut-on voyager dans le temps ? Qu'est-ce que le hasard ?

Fire spews and ice follows. The world Drakonis is near death, and all life has fled. Except for Brennan, the thief who hears mysterious directions to Castle Drakon on the wind, and the brothers Bastian and Cole who choose to follow her. Then, there’s Halley, an exotic dancer from the burning cities, and Audri, who refuses to speak. These five are the last, and it is their task to ensure at least memory remains, or Drakonis will be eternally forgotten.

Trapped by the creature Thadnelius J. Gromfort, Cillian McGonegal must find the missing pieces of an ancient artifact to free his friends who have been sent on a journey of their own into the afterworld.

Life had gone wrong for Obhin. Once a respected palace guard, now he sells his sword as a bandit. Trapped by his missteps, he little reason for hope, until one young woman sees more in him.

Esteemed archaeologist Cillian McGonegal had gone missing. He was onto a discovery that would shake up what we know about ancient Egyptian mythology, its origins, time, and our place in the world. Then he vanished. After two years, the McGonegal family had given up on ever finding him. Then one day an astounding letter arrived for the other McGonegal brother, Patrick. Cillian was alive, and what’s more, he had solved the mystery of the Serpent Mound. There is danger in this discovery, for not all who want answers have the noblest reasons, as Cillian and his brother will discover.