Ergebnis für "Landleben" in Romanbiografien

"Der Hotelier sagt, das ist kein Wind. Ich versuche, die Basstölpel zu fotografieren, aber der Wind, der keiner ist, schlägt mir immer wieder die Kamerahand weg. Ich habe meine Kapuze festgezurrt und lehne mich bei jedem Schritt nach vorn, um überhaupt voranzukommen." In der erlesenen MARE-Inselreihe folgt in diesem Sommer ein Ausflug mit Isabel Bogdan nach Helgoland, wo der Wind so weht und das Meer überall und so blau ist, Erinnerungen an James Krüss aufkommen und das Schreiben leicht von der Hand geht.

Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late 20th century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between England and France yet a world away from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the story of those he has known.

"Oceano" è un boscaiolo, un marito, un padre, un uomo e un audiolibro: proprio questo audiolibro qui, che stai stringendo tra le mani. Un volume che lo salva dall'oblio di se stesso perché lui si sta dimenticando. Invecchia, la sua memoria svanisce e questi ricordi gli sopravvivono. Raccontano una storia che ha la forza del fulmine quando squarcia l'abete e lo rompe a metà. Oceano viene abbandonato e affidato a due genitori tutti nuovi provenienti dalle Dolomiti. Il suo cammino incrocia quello della dolce Italia, di “Sandrino e Basta", di nonno Giusto e di Giovannino.

Zrezygnowana i rozczarowana postawą najbliższych, Rozalia porzuca dotychczasowe życie i przenosi się do upragnionego domu na wsi. Jednak nawet ta decyzja nie pozwala jej żyć spokojnie. Wkrótce Róża musi zdecydować, czy ulec presji i poddać się namowom córki, czy być wierną swoim postanowieniom. Fabuła powieści rozgrywa się w dwóch planach czasowych – teraźniejszości, kiedy to Rozalia walczy o niezależność, oraz w latach 70. i 80., w czasie, na który przypadły jej młodość, pierwsza miłość, rozbudzone nadzieje i obciążone konsekwencjami decyzje.

“Where Eagles Nest chronicles a young couple, Alex and Julianna Lampert, as they immigrate from Lichtenstein, in search of land where they can raise a family and participate in the American dream. The young newlyweds eventually settle in the rugged hills and pasturelands above the Sandy River in Oregon, where they forge a life of love and pursue their quest for prosperity in spite of the struggle in the wild terrain of the Pacific Northwest in the 1880s.”—Sharon Nesbit, writer and historian, author of It Could’ve Been Carpdale.

When Jon and Ray form a tight friendship, they find in each other everything they lack at home, but it’s not until Ray falls in love with beautiful, headstrong Karen Dorsey that the three friends begin to dream of breaking away from Brewster for good. Freedom, however, has its price. As forces beyond their control begin to bear down on them, Jon sets off on the race of his life - a race to redeem his past and save them all.

Ronnie Fairchild hates his brother. He always has. Mick’s a bastard. A weight hanging heavy 'round everyone’s neck and a reminder of a wrong never made right. But when their momma dies, leaving a final demand to find his daddy, Ronnie’s going to uncover a whole heap of trouble tracking him down. And when that bombastic journey leads him to a no-good Texan motel with his sorry-for-nothing brother laying wait to settle a debt, by God, there’s going to be hell to pay.

The soldiers called her the Angel of Waterloo...Henrietta Bartlett, the esteemed surgeon's daughter who was born on a battlefield, lost her mother on a battlefield, and was widowed on the battlefield, where she worked alongside her father on that fateful day in June 1815. But after the carnage of war, Hen dreams of peace, and her own home, and a society that would allow a woman to practice medicine. The new and faraway colony of New South Wales seems a paradise, where even convicts have a chance of a good life.

I feared for their lives and their ears. Our local weekly newspaper showed pictures of them dangling from ropes hanging in woven baskets off the embankment of a mountain in order to tap sticks of dynamite into the holes they drilled in the granite cliff faces they blasted away. One could hear that awful, loud dynamite blasting all the way in town. But the booming had been even worse for the ears of the railroad workers who detonated the charges for the grading and tunneling, especially the Chinese who were given these most dangerous jobs.

Une maison d'un étage, à la façade de lierre, dans un village des environs de Paris où le narrateur, que l'on appelait plus facilement "Patoche" à l'époque, a grandi avec son petit frère car leur mère était partie jouer une pièce en tournée. Une maison où ne vivaient que des femmes, une époque où tant de questions se bousculaient : qu'est-ce qu'une tête brûlée ? et une "série noire" ? Eliot Salter, marquis de Caussade, reviendrait-il dans son château comme l'avait promis le père des enfants lors d'un déjeuner ?

Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas, darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them. On September 8, 1900, a hurricane ripped apart Galveston, Texas, killing nearly 8,000 people and nearly obliterating the town. Lansdale's story brings dimension to many who lost their lives that day, and a few who survived.

La jeunesse provençale de Giono, entre une mère repasseuse et un père cordonnier, est forcément solaire, musicale, saturée de parfums, de portraits, de tableaux... Dans ces souvenirs parus en 1932, les simples deviennent des héros, les animaux voisinent avec les anges et la nature se gorge de mythes. Transcrite dans la langue du bonheur, voici la genèse d'un très grand écrivain.

Una piccola città di provincia, un garage. Un gruppo di ragazzi che ogni martedì si incontra per giocare di ruolo. Per vent'anni, mentre fuori la vita va avanti, il mondo cambia, la provincia perde di senso e scopo. Desiderio di fuga o forma di resistenza? Quel continuo tessere mondi prende i contorni dell'opposizione a una forza centripeta che, come il "Nulla" della Storia infinita, divora il fuori, vaporizza la città, il paese, le relazioni, le vite.

Un giovane prete, diviso tra la vocazione e l'amore terreno per una ragazza, e sua madre, che cerca di ricondurlo nel tracciato dal quale ha deviato. Ecco i protagonisti del romanzo di Grazia Deledda La Madre, proposto in audiolibro da il Narratore per la lettura di Virginia Alba.

Il romanzo è l'ultima opera pubblicata quando Pavese era ancora in vita. Ampiamente autobiografico il racconto si snoda tra presente e passato, nelle colline della sua giovinezza. La cornice musicale è di Charlie Parker, Cool Blues.

Now in her early teens, Laura moves to the village of Candleford Green to work in the post office under the tutelage of her cousin Dorcas Lane, and grow into womanhood. In Candleford Green, new ideas and new ways are coming in from the outside world, from Dorcas' famous telegraph machine to the scandalous sight of ladies riding bicycles. There are also new people entering Laura's life: the curmudgeonly old servant Zillah, the grand Sir Thomas, the Irish Harvesters and the ardent young gamekeeper Philip White.

Verga ci racconta la storia di Jeli, ragazzo povero che vive da solo insieme alla pecore che porta al pascolo. Attraverso il suo rapporto conflittuale con Don Alfonso, ricco rampollo di famiglia, assistiamo alla graduale emarginazione di Jeli che, a causa della sua povertà e della sua condizione sociale, viene sempre più marginalizzato.

Join Keith as he opens windows on peoples’ loves, lives, hopes, and dreams—some humorous, some sad. Keith performs a series of works prompted by his favorite pastime—people watching. Each story progressively builds a picture of a life from a first day at school. We meet a West Country Marilyn Monroe and fall in love with a Welsh Audrey Hepburn. We meet Miss Rebecca of Paris and see if diamonds are a girl’s best friend. We grow old and reminisce.