Ergebnis für "The Return of the Sphinx" in Literatur & Belletristik

Alan Ainslie is an able and dedicated man high in the government. Daniel Ainslie, his son, is a member of an explosive movement impelled by the naive rebelliousness of the New Left. Hugh MacLennan weaves a complex and story of two generations in conflict. Originally published in 1967, Return of the Sphinx is something of a sequel to the more optimistic Two Solitudes and reflects MacLennan's disenchantment with the world in general and the apparently intractable French-English debate in Canada.

Innerhalb einiger weniger kurzer Jahre hat sich David Weber mit seiner Serie um Honor Harrington, der zähesten und tüchtigsten Kommandantin eines Sternenschiffs in der Galaxis, an die Spitze der amerikanischen Science Fiction geschrieben. In diesem Hörbuch berichtet er u. a. von einer Vorfahrin seiner Heldin, die als erster Mensch die Brücke schlägt zu einer der geheimnisvollsten Spezies der Milchstraße - den Baumkatzen von Sphinx. Zum ersten Mal teilt David Weber sein Universum mit zwei bekannten Co-Autoren: David Drake und S. M. Stirling.

It's 1892, and Amelia and her now-husband Radcliffe Emerson have settled down in Victorian England after their escapade in Egypt. They're raising their young son Ramses and everything seems normal–until they are approached by a damsel in distress. Lady Baskerville's husband, Sir Henry, has died after uncovering what might be a royal tomb in Luxor. Despite rumors of a curse haunting all those involved with the dig, Amelia and Radcliffe proceed to Egypt and realize that Sir Henry did not die a natural death.

In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins not 20 years later but a mere 20 days afterward. The Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off.

Poe weiß nun, wo er den finsteren Dr. Baker finden kann. Doch dazu braucht er noch einen Schlüssel. Der einzige Weg führt durch die Katakomben der alten Kirche von Father O'Neill. Dieser ist rätselhaft wie eine Sphinx. Und er hat die Antwort auf eine von Poes drängendsten Fragen.

During his twilight years, the French author Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote two original sequels to books that had fired his own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Johann Wyss's Swiss Family Robinson and Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Arthur Gordon Pym (1845) was only one of many Poe stories which Verne admired; no other single author had more impact on his writing.