Ergebnis für "Rebellion" in Klassiker

A new recording of Ray Bradbury’s timeless classic Fahrenheit 451 narrated by Penn Badgley! Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its...

Wien 1919: Traumatisiert und mit nur einem Bein kehrt Andreas Pum von den Schlachtfeldern des Ersten Weltkrieges nach Hause zurück. Das Glück steht zunächst auf der Seite des Kriegsinvaliden: Er findet eine Frau und schlägt sich als Leierkastenmann auf den Hinterhöfen durch. Aber dann wendet sich das Blatt und sein sozialer Abstieg scheint unvermeidlich. Joseph Roths kluge, melancholische Geschichte über die verzweifelte Auflehnung eines um Anpassung an die bürgerliche Gesellschaft bemühten einfachen Mannes ist so zeitlos wie existenziell.

Os Sertões é a obra fundadora do pré-modernismo brasileiro. Em linguagem analítica e jornalística, faz um relato da Guerra de Canudos, liderada por Antônio Conselheiro no interior da Bahia, entre 1896 a 1897. Quando redigiu a obra, Euclides da Cunha tinha a pretensão de transformá-la em um estudo de tese jornalística, mas ao presenciar as atrocidades vividas neste conflito sangrento, mudou o rumo de sua narrativa, incluindo também o tom crítico contra as injúrias cometidas ao homem nordestino.

Wuthering Heights is a fierce and haunting tale of love, vengeance, and the wild forces that shape the human heart. Set against the storm-lashed moors of northern England, the story follows the doomed and unforgettable bond between Heathcliff, a brooding foundling of mysterious origin, and Catherine Earnshaw, the restless young woman who becomes both his salvation and his torment.

Crime and Punishment stands as one of the most penetrating psychological dramas ever written—a dark, relentless journey into the mind of a young man who believes he can outthink morality itself. Raskolnikov, trapped in the poverty-stricken streets of St. Petersburg and drowning in his own feverish theories, commits a desperate act that shatters every illusion he ever held about power, conscience, and destiny. In the days that follow, he discovers that the courts do not deal out the real punishment, but by the silent terror of his own soul.

Emma is Jane Austen’s most subtle and deceptively brilliant portrait of privilege, misunderstanding, and the unpredictable pathways of the human heart. At the center stands Emma Woodhouse, clever, charming, wealthy, and absolutely certain she knows what is best for everyone around her.

Austen’s genius lies in her ability to expose hypocrisy while championing sincerity, independence, and emotional honesty. Pride and Prejudice endures not only because it is a romance, but because it is a vibrant portrait of flawed, vivid people learning to see one another clearly.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ rises anew in this sweeping, unabridged presentation that restores Lew Wallace’s monumental epic to its full emotional, spiritual, and cinematic grandeur, telling the story of Judah Ben-Hur with a vividness and intensity that resonates far beyond its historical setting.

The Brothers Karamazov Redux presents Dostoevsky’s towering masterpiece in a newly ignited form, amplifying the emotional, philosophical, and spiritual power of the original while sharpening its raw immediacy for a modern listener.

Swiss Family Robinson: The Lost Manuscript presents Johann David Wyss’s beloved tale of adventure, survival, ingenuity, and family courage in a newly expanded narrative that deepens the emotional and imaginative world of the original classic.

Any kind of death annuls everything except his present knowledge and returns him to the past. This is a good way to test all sorts of things. That is, it would be, if not for one little thing.... This loop has real lords and it's unlikely that they'll be happy to hear about an uninvited guest. And that isn't his only problem - all of his memories of the last year have simply disappeared, but the world around him has changed in the meantime.

Shakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his country The 1590s were bleak years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension...

"The Heroic Slave" is the only work of fiction by the eminent abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The narrative was inspired by Madison Washington, a slave on the Creole who led a rebellion on the ship in November 1841, and had it sail to Nassau in the Bahamas instead of New Orleans. The short story appeared in the collection Autographs for Freedom (1852).

The classic adventure story of kidnap, shipwreck, murder and pursuit as young David Balfour tries to claim the inheritance he has been cheated out of. ‘I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.’ Orphaned as a...

"The Sign of the Four" (1890) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the second novel featuring "Sherlock Holmes". Doyle wrote 4 novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. "The Sign of the Four" has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, "A Study in Scarlet".