Ergebnis für "Penelope" in Abenteuer auf See

Penelope – Inbegriff der treuen Gattin, makellos in der Erfüllung ihrer Rolle als bescheiden dienende Ehefrau. Ulrike Draesner wirft dieses Narrativ beherzt über Bord und ermöglicht eine Vielzahl neuer Perspektiven: auf die Person Penelope und ihre Wünsche, ihre Tatkraft, ihren Aufbruch in ein neues Leben. Auf die bis heute prägende Kraft der Frauen- und Männerbilder des alten Griechenland. Und nicht zuletzt auf die Frage danach, was gute Regierung bedeutet.

The fiercely independent daughter of famous adventurers, she grew up travelling the world on the environmental flagship The Watch. So when Harriet's ship sinks in Antarctica and she has to be rescued by Commander Per Amundsen, an infuriatingly capable Norwegian naval officer and living breathing action hero, her world is turned upside down. Per thinks Harriet is an accident waiting to happen; Harriet thinks Per is a control freak. But when Harriet realises that Per is the only one who can help her fund the new ship she desperately wants, she is forced to cooperate with him.

Dark, magical and unsettling, Folk is a debut of breathtaking imagination which introduces the remote, unforgiving island of Neverness and its singular inhabitants. Take a torch, the last to be lit, and follow the jostle of fat, spitting lights as the men and women of Neverness spread out along the gorse edge. Every year they gather while the girls shoot their arrows and the boys hunt them out. The air is riddled with spiteful shadows - the wounds and fears and furies of a village year.

Villa Dolce Vita, a rambling stone house on the Amalfi Coast, sits high above the Gulf of Naples amidst dappled lemon groves and the fragrant, tumbling bougainvillea. Kim, Colette and Annie all came to the villa in need of escape and in the process forged an unlikely friendship. Now, years later, Kim has transformed the crumbling house into a luxury retreat and has invited her friends back for the summer to celebrate. But as friendships are rekindled under the Italian sun, secrets buried in the past will come to light, and not everyone is happy that the three friends are reuniting....