Ergebnis für "Kinder" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

Alles, was du noch nicht über die Welt der "besonderen Kinder" wusstest: "Miss Peregrines Museum der besonderen Kinder" ergänzt die abenteuerliche Fantasy-Reihe von Bestsellerautor Ransom Riggs und ist ein unverzichtbarer Wegweiser durch die magische Welt – zauberhaft ausgestattet mit neuen geheimnisvollen Fotografien und Illustrationen. Miss Peregrine höchstpersönlich verrät alles, was du über Jacob Portman, seine Freunde und die Ymbrynen wissen musst.

Diese "Erzgebirgischen Dorfgeschichten" stammen aus Mays frühester Schaffenszeit. Er zeigt sich hier von ungewohnter Seite...

Eduard Fährmann sitzt wegen Diebstahl und Unterschlagung im Gefängnis. Sein Sohn Paul, der von seiner Mutter vernachlässigt wird, möchte ihn daraus befreien. Doch vor Ort angekommen, wird Paul von einem Wächter angeschossen. Als Eduard Fährmann von dem angeblichen Tod des Jungen erfährt, kann er außer sich vor Kummer fliehen. Doch wohin? "Des Kindes Ruf" ist eine Kurzgeschichte. Sie wurde bereits in "Aus dunklem Tann" (Band 43 der Gesammelten Werke) veröffentlicht.

Das Mädchen und wie es die Welt sah. Das Mädchen ist zurück: In zehn Geschichten entfaltet Angelika Klüssendorf ein Kinderleben in der DDR in den 60ern und 70ern, geprägt von Ungeborgenheit und Sehnsucht. Nach dem Tod der geliebten Großmutter muss das Mädchen Übergriffen und Teilnahmslosigkeit begegnen. Es ringt darum, seine Eltern auszuhalten und zu verstehen und die Schwester zu beschützen. Lichtblicke liefern Bücher, das Lesen bietet selbst im Kinderheim noch einen Ausweg.

A definitive collection of new and selected stories by a master of the form “Comparisons might be drawn to writers ranging from Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami to Margaret Atwood and J. D. Salinger. All of Lethem’s stories are enlivened by his wit and provocative wordplay.”...

Werner Meier, der bekannte Liedermacher und Kabarettist, erzählt in 15 bairisch-verqueren Geschichten von seiner Bauernbuben-Kindheit zwischen Kuhmist, Zinkbadewanne und dem Besuch eines japanischen Bischofs. Ganz ohne falsche Sentimentalität – mal verschmitzt, mal tiefgründig und mal poetisch-leise – so kommen sie daher seine Geschichten. Fein verwoben mit dem zeitgeschichtlichen Hintergrund nehmen sie einen sofort mit auf den kleinen oberbayerischen Bauernhof der Fünfziger- und Sechziger-Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts.

Not much happens here. A mole gives up spring-cleaning. A dragon refuses to fight. Children explore gardens, secrets, and grown-up nonsense. And that's exactly the charm. In The Classic Collection of Kenneth Grahame, the smallest moments matter: a picnic basket, a dusty lane, a long afternoon with nowhere in particular to go. These are tales where animals talk, time meanders, and adventure might mean simply getting lost — on purpose. This volume brings together four of Grahame's most loved works: The Wind in the Willows, The Reluctant Dragon, The Golden Age, and Dream Days.

Die Prosa von Joachim Ringelnatz gleicht einer großen Überraschungsbox, die im phantastisch-grotesken Gewand gesellschaftliche Schwächen und menschliche Verhaltensweisen scharfsinnig und humorvoll charakterisiert. "Die Walfische und die Fremde" erzählt von schiffbrüchigen Seeleuten und deren privaten Erlebnissen bei ihrem erzwungenen Landgang. "Vom Tabarz" berichtet über eine todesmutige Fliege, die glaubt aus der Eiszeit zu stammen und damit über tausend Jahre alt zu sein und die Philosophie für sich entdeckt.

Sviska is a man of the shadows, an assassin without any one place to call his own. But in the Far North, he discovers a secret. Magic, long thought lost to the world, is alive. The genocide to destroy every elf, wizard, and sacred being of old is not yet complete. Sviska's masters work the strings of the world and he has been sent for a task he does not even fully understand yet. When at last he feels he has what he has always wanted, darkness falls upon the world.

Collected for the first time, the New York stories of John O'Hara, "among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language" (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker) Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the twentieth century’s definitive...

These two tales, the first ever written by Clive, are offered here for the very first time. Their production has been lovingly supervised by Clive himself to ensure that these are not mere books, but works of art to be cherished. First Tales is sure to delight everyone from longtime fans to new listeners.

First published in 1900, The Book Of Dragons is one of Edith Nesbit's best loved and most inventive children’s books. Her heroes and heroines are children faced unexpectedly with real live dragons, which are fiery, fierce, ravenous, irritating, grumpy, furry and even gifted cooks! They appear from caves, from the pages of a magical book, at the North Pole or from mysterious dungeons where nobody dares enter.

Harmon Tomeral and his friends wanted nothing more than to go to space, and they have beaten the odds, time and again. They developed a mech and won the Top Fleet Marine Competition. They brought back a battlecruiser from an unknown system and made it their own. They made allies who helped them achieve great victories, and they ultimately founded new colonies in what has become known as the Salvage System.

Magic is often seen as wondrous and benevolent. But T.W. Grim, a celebrated author of eerie NoSleep tales, offers a different kind of sorcery: one that pulls at the very threads of reality, weaving tales of terror and wonder.

This collection of short stories displays Ed Gorman's talents as a masterful storyteller across a range of genres.

A mysterious and beautiful girl who teaches arrogant young men about true love, a lonely traveling salesman who learns that his passenger is Death, children who can absorb the psychic pain of their parents, a desperately pursued serial killer who hides his face under gauze in a hospital room, and a woman who loves the alien infant nobody else wants - these stories and 10 others make up this collection by award-winning author Ed Gorman. Here are stories that led him to be called "one of the best" by Dean Koontz and "one of the most original writers in crime fiction today" by Kirkus Reviews. Here, you'll find the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award.

Included in Different Kinds of Dead, and Other Tales are "Different Kinds of Dead", "Deathman", "A Girl Like You", "Loverboy", "Muse", "Riff", "The Brasher Girl", "Survival", "Masque", "Second Most Popular", and others.

This collection reveals the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award. His protagonists, gritty and gruff, are strangely likable, and his writing, according to Mystery News, is "powerful, disturbing, [and] often poetic".

How does a Mexican American, the son of poor immigrants, leave his border home and move to the heart of gringo America? How does he adapt to the worlds of wealth, elite universities, the rush and power of New York City? How does he make peace with a stern, old-fashioned father who has only known hard field labor his whole life? Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the 21st century, his characters suffering from the loss of culture and language, the loss of roots and home as they adapt to the glittering promises of new worlds that seem so empty.

Joombie Chuckie Dance Book 3 of the Joombie Chuckie Series By Charles Forest Watts Jr. Joombie Chuckie has learned how to stand tall and walk proud — now it’s time to find his rhythm! In this final chapter of the Joombie Chuckie series, our young Moko Jumbie hears the drums of his island calling. The music is alive, the crowd is waiting, and the night is filled with color and joy. With every step, Joombie Chuckie learns that dancing isn’t just about moving— it’s about feeling the spirit of the Moko Jumbie within him.

Four short stories with a bit of a twist. In these delightful short stories we find churchmen who are a little eccentric, a woman who can't keep her nose out of things and another woman trying to keep her family together.

In a desperate attempt to escape destruction decades earlier, humankind was forced underground into the depths of the Earth, creating a new society called the Tri-Realms. After her parents and sister are abducted by the Enforcers, 17-year-old Adele, a member of the middle-class moon dwellers, is unjustly sentenced to life in prison for her parents' crimes of treason.

From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award nominee, a “funny…beautiful…audacious…masterful” (J. Courtney Sullivan, The Boston Globe) novel about the way memory haunts and shapes the present. Marie and Simone, friends for decades, were once immigrants to the city...