Ergebnis gesprochen von "Veronika" in Literatur & Belletristik

Zu den Feierlichkeiten in der Kathedrale von Salisbury treffen sich Militärs von Rang und Namen. Die meisten von ihnen gehörten zum Planungsstab der erfolgreichen Operation in der Normandie vor zehn Jahren. Die Militärkapellen spielen, die Stimmung ist ausgelassen, die Gäste sind begeistert... bis zu dem Moment, als ein hoher Militärangehöriger tot umfällt. Die erfahrene Hobbydetektivin Mimi Rutherfurt, die als Ehrengast alles beobachtet hat, muss in der Vergangenheit suchen, um an den Mörder zu kommen.

Virginia Woolf's semi-biographical novel, inspired by her life changing love affair with Vita Sackville-West, takes us on an exhilarating, fantastical roller coaster, tracing 400 years of English history, in the company of her shape-shifting, gender-bending, time-travelling hero Orlando, whose inner conflicts and triumphs challenge our preconceptions of the nature of love, the battle of the sexes, posing socal and metaphysical questions including what we now call climate change.

Lady Chatterley's Lover, written in 1928, tells the story of a passionate love affair between an upper class woman and her husband’s gamekeeper, which was thought to be so shocking in its content and its straightforward use of explicit sexual terms, that it was not officially published until 1960.

Kenya, 1961. As a small plane carrying Nathalie Nelson lands at a remote airstrip in the Serengeti, Nathalie knows she’s run just about as far as she can from home. Trained as an archaeologist, she has fought hard to be included in a team excavating ruins in Kenya, her first opportunity to escape England and the painful memories of her past. But before she can find her bearings, the dig is surrounded by controversy - and murder. In a country on the brink of crisis, nowhere and no one is safe.

Geistreiche Szenen über die Tücken des Alltags, herrlich komisch und hintergründig interpretiert von Veronika von Quast und Wolf Euba.

Die "Traumnovelle" von Arthur Schnitzler erschien zuerst 1925 kapitelweise in der Berliner Modezeitschrift "Die Dame". Die erste Buchausgabe erfolgte dann 1926 im S.-Fischer-Verlag. Schnitzler beschreibt in dieser Novelle die scheinbar harmonische Ehe des Arztes Fridolin und seiner Frau Albertine. Unter der Oberfläche ihres bürgerlichen Zusammenlebens werden beide von ungestillten erotischen Begierden und Träumen heimgesucht. Erzählt werden die sonderbaren Geschehnisse einer Nacht und des darauffolgenden Tages, die Fridolin und Albertine widerfahren.

"Западня" - знаменитый роман Эмиля Золя, французского писателя, публициста и политического деятеля. Книга входит в серию "Ругон-Маккары", сопровождавшаяся громким скандалом, положила начало славе Золя. Действие романа разворачивается в Париже и повествует о жизни героев в течение двадцати лет.

Что значит рухнуть с вершин благополучия в полную неизвестность графиня Вера Чернышёва познала на собственном опыте: после восстания на Сенатской площади арестован её брат, а затем её семья лишается почти всего имущества. Однако на этом беды графини не заканчиваются - кто-то пытается взорвать её экипаж. Вера удаляется в бабушкино имение, но и в тихом Полесье её снова пытаются убить.

Posle smerti otca Deniza Bodju s brat'jami, shestnadcatiletnim Zhanom i pjatiletnim Pepo, ostajotsja bez sredstv k sushhestvovaniju. Oni priezzhajut v Parizh k djade, torgovcu tkanej gospodinu Bodju, i Deniza, imeja opyt prodavshhicy, rasschityvaet na obeshhannuju ej pomoshh'. Ih vnimanie privlekaet ogromnyj i roskoshnyj magazin "Damskoe schast'e".

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure was one of the most banned and censored books in the history of literature. John Cleland (a contrary man of letters, prone to boasting and getting into trouble with the law) wrote it while he was in Fleet debtor’s prison. First published in 1748 and withdrawn within a year, it was not legally republished until a hundred years later. Widely considered to be the first example of literary erotica and a stylistic tour de force, with its combination of charm, daring and love of pleasure.

На берегах реки Уай, что в Уэльсе, иногда кипят страсти не менее жаркие, чем на Диком Западе или в пустынях Мексики. И когда, однажды утром молодые мисс Гвендолин Винн и Элеанора Лиз решили вдвоем прокатиться на лодке, они и предположить не могли, какие им предстоят приключения.

The Lifted Curtain and My Conversion are two short erotic classics written by the colourful, aristocratic political fire-brand, esteemed author, and renowned libertine the Comte Gabrel Honore Riquetti de Mirabeau, who spent much of his young adult life in prison at the behest of this father, who disapproved of his son's licentious behaviour. During one particular stretch, Mirabeau decided to put pen to paper, to while away the time and to make the separation from his then paramour more bearable.

This book of outstanding Russian writer Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) includes his great stories about horses.

With elegant simplicity and unswerving honesty, Irene Nemirovsky chronicles the brutalizing effects of war on three ordinary Parisian families whose lives intertwine, spanning the years between 1912 and 1941. What starts out as a glorious campaign in 1914, full of optimistic declarations of France's greatness, soon turns to shame and cynicism as the conflict drags on. Parisians, suffering from cold and hunger, seem unable or unwilling to comprehend the horrors of the trenches.