Ergebnis für "Richard Morgan" in Belletristik

1840: Der Jahrhundertsturm beginnt. Alvin von Briest ist ein echter Preuße. Er fühlt sich den alten Traditionen seines Heimatlandes verpflichtet, auch wenn es ihm nicht immer leicht fällt. Auf Rat seines Freundes Otto von Bismarck entscheidet er sich sogar für eine Militärlaufbahn. Ganz anders sein Freund Paul Baermann. Paul stammt aus dem Münchner Bürgertum und ist ein Mann des Fortschritts. Seine einzige Liebe gilt der Eisenbahn. Bis er in Paris Louise Ferrand kennenlernt, die ihn mit ihrer Schönheit verzaubert.

First published in 1899, this mysterious narrative recounts the tale of an American politician who, disillusioned with the corruption of Washington, sails beyond the Antarctic ice barrier—only to discover an advanced civilization hidden on the other side. What he finds there is a society built on freedom, equality, and advanced technology—a startling contrast to the decaying moral and political landscape of his own world.

In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common, where they are all about to meet, where the dual frames of this inventive novel to coalesce.

Rückkehr nach Morgan's Hall. Die emotionale Familiensaga geht weiter. 1956: Isabelle und John geben ihrer Ehe eine zweite Chance. Seite an Seite kämpfen sie um den Erhalt von Morgan's Hall. Die gesamte Ernte wurde vernichtet, und die Schatten der Vergangenheit holen sie immer wieder ein. Ihre Tochter Elizabeth ist zu einer jungen Frau herangewachsen und fühlt sich mehr denn zu ihren Stiefbruder James hingezogen. Dieser begegnet fernab im lebhaften New York einer aufregenden Frau, die ihn immer näher an sein Ziel bringt, ein berühmter Pianist zu werden.

In 1859, the Shawtuck Lunatic Asylum opened in rural Delaware County as the new standard for the treatment of the mentally ill. But now this huge, Gothic structure sits brooding and abandoned, brought down by a long, sordid history of depravity, mistreatment, and murder. It may be rotting up on Shawtuck Mountain, but it's not alone. Oswald "Oz" Patterson is the new sheriff of Delaware County. After a near-death experience as a cop in the South Bronx, he decided to move away from the inner city and live a safer life. Oz will find that he has only traded one nightmare for a worse one.

In this new novella by Richard McCrohan, novelist Jonathan York is flying back to his hometown of Hillcrest for his 50th high school reunion. He hasn’t returned since he left for college in 1971. A long weekend of old memories and rekindled friendships is what he is warmly looking forward to.

Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness. Meanwhile, in private, Eddie puts the finishing touches on a secret project he calls Hobbstown, a place that he promises will save him, the world, and everything that's in it. A dazzling novel of compassion and imagination, Prisoner's Dilemma is a story of the power of invalid experience.

Actor Matthew McConaughey descends into a surreal desert of the soul, an admirer of Miley Cyrus performs a 3,000-word sentence in defense of his passion, an aging porn star dons a dinosaur costume to film the sex scene of a lifetime, and Leonard Cohen shills for Subway: these mercurial and wildly varied stories explode the conventions of short fiction.