Ergebnis für "Silence" in Klassiker

1941 : un jeune officier allemand, cultivé et francophile, est l'hôte imposé d'un homme et de sa nièce. A cette intrusion de l'"ennemi", ils répondront par un inaltérable mutisme : pas une phrase ne sera échangée pendant leurs longs mois de cohabitation, en dépit des tentatives du jeune homme qui aimerait partager avec eux ses convictions humanistes. Mais sous la calme surface des eaux, c'est toute "la vie sous-marine des sentiments cachés, des désirs et des pensées qui se nient et qui luttent".

In the #1 New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson novels, the coyote shapeshifter has found her voice in the werewolf pack. But when Mercy’s bond with the pack—and her mate—is broken, she’ll learn what it truly means to be alone... Attacked and abducted in her home territory, Mercy...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cosmos and renowned astronomer Carl Sagan’s international bestseller about the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space remains the “greatest adventure of all time” (Associated Press). The future is here…in an adventure of cosmic...

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was born on 21st August in Oryol, Russia, to a middle-class family of Polish, Ukranian and Finnish ancestry. In 1898 his first short story ‘Bargamot and Garaska’, published in the ‘Kurier’ newspaper, caught the attention and friendship of Maxim Gorky. His first collection of short stories appeared in 1901 and sold over a quarter of a million copies. He was a sensation. His classic story ‘Silence’ is a haunting and a desperately sad account of a family broken by death and unable to reconcile their feelings.

A group of people within a tomb are surprised by a demon. To their amazement, they are not consumed by it. Instead, they learn a GREAT, dark secret about humanity.

Doctor John Silence is an experienced investigator of the paranormal. In this book, he faces three challenges. In the first, a man seems possessed of an ancient spirit and driven to do its will. In he second, he deals with a man whose experiences in a remote part of France almost pulled him into a cursed afterlife. In the final story, a family are haunted by a spirit of fire-bent on destruction.

The book addresses the question of the silence of God, especially when people suffer. It also deals with miracles, and the Bible versus the church. Several indexes contain further discussions on the subject matter.

Harrington Strong (pseudonym of Johnston McCulley) gives us one of his typically effective and suspenseful detective stories: our protagonist Sidney Prale returns to New York from Honduras after ten years. He has made a fortune and now wants to invest it on Wall Street...Things don't go smoothly from here on. He finds himself sabotaged at every moment and accused of murder. With a hired private investigator, he intends to get to the bottom of this mess...

André Maurois (1885-1967) est l'un des écrivains les plus importants et les plus connus de la littérature française. Par des romans fins et délicats, il s'est imposé, marquant de son style tout le monde des lettres. C'est par "Les silences du colonel Bramble" qu'André Maurois devient célèbre. Pour écrire ce premier roman, Maurois s'est inspiré de sa propre expérience d'officier de liaison auprès de l'armée britannique. Créant des figures atypiques et extraordinaires de soldats anglais flegmatiques, sages, philosophes, il rend compte d'une joie de vivre toute anglo-saxonne, et ce malgré la guerre, qui est tout de même le sujet réel et la toile de fond du roman.

Here is one of London's famous stories of the Klondike, where men had to battle the elements, and often each other, to survive.