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Ein gefährlicher Stalker versetzt ganz New York in Angst und Schrecken – der packende 15. Fall für Lincoln Rhyme und Amelia Sachs! Er kommt nachts in dein Haus. Er beobachtet dich, während du schläfst. Er trinkt deinen Wein. Er stiehlt wertlose Dinge. Er verbringt Zeit bei dir. Keine Tür kann ihn draußen halten. Keine Überwachungskamera kann ihn aufzeichnen. Und nun ist er bereit zu töten. Niemand in New York ist mehr sicher. Jetzt liegt es an Lincoln Rhyme, das Netz an Hinweisen zu entwirren und ihn aufzuhalten.

Doch die Verhältnisse, in die Eugene Gant hineingeboren wird, sind alles andere als heimelig. Der Vater, ein jähzorniger Alkoholiker, die Mutter, eine berechnende Krämerseele...

Als "Schau heimwärts, Engel!" 1929 veröffentlicht wurde, schlug der Roman des erst 29-jährigen Thomas Wolfe ein wie eine Bombe. Der Literaturnobelpreisträger Sinclair Lewis bezeichnete das Werk als "eine kolossalische Schöpfung von tiefer Lebenslust" und William Faulkner rühmte Wolfe als den überragenden Autor seiner Generation. Mit dem Familienepos um Eugene Gant, der seiner Familie und der amerikanischen Provinz den Rücken kehrt und seiner Herkunft doch nicht entkommen kann, hat Thomas Wolfe einen Roman geschaffen, der fast ein Jahrhundert nach seinem Erscheinen noch immer unzählige Menschen in seinen Bann schlägt.

Ein gefährlicher Stalker versetzt ganz New York in Angst und Schrecken – der packende 15. Fall für Lincoln Rhyme und Amelia Sachs! Er kommt nachts in dein Haus. Er beobachtet dich, während du schläfst. Er trinkt deinen Wein. Er stiehlt wertlose Dinge. Er verbringt Zeit bei dir. Keine Tür kann ihn draußen halten. Keine Überwachungskamera kann ihn aufzeichnen. Und nun ist er bereit zu töten. Niemand in New York ist mehr sicher. Jetzt liegt es an Lincoln Rhyme, das Netz an Hinweisen zu entwirren und ihn aufzuhalten.

Dazzlingly rich, lyrical and elegiac, Thomas Wolfe’s vibrant autobiographical first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, follows the story of Eugene Gant, the ninth and last child born to alcoholic Oliver and go-getting Eliza in the fictional town of Altemont, based on Wolfe’s hometown of Asheville, North Carolina. The novel recounts Eugene’s early life, up to his departure from home at the age of 19.

Since their introduction in 2017, transformers have quickly become the dominant architecture for achieving state-of-the-art results on a variety of natural language processing tasks. If you're a data scientist or coder, this practical book shows you how to train and scale these large models using Hugging Face Transformers, a Python-based deep learning library.

Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture. By turns sedate and mercurial and possessing a moral mind set of various social values, the American short story reveals in its pages the psyche of a growing, sprawling nation whose sense of destiny has always been larger than life. Here are seven masterpieces that will make you smile, make you frown, and leave you pondering the mystery that surrounds the soul of a great nation.

Thomas Wolfe’s first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is at once a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story and a dark novel depicting a cynical post-war world view. The book follows the life of Eugene Gant, a young man driven by passion, intellect, and a search for something greater than himself. His earliest years in rural North Carolina include a wonderful education in poetry and literature against the backdrop of a loving, but tumultuous family life.

George Webber, a first-time author, writes a book that makes frequent references to his home town of Libya Hill. The book is a success, except in Libya Hill, where the residents believe that it paints an extremely distorted portrait of their town. They send Webber menacing letters, including death threats.

Mit allem, was nachts auf Erden geschieht, hatte ich Bekanntschaft gemacht, und schließlich auch nachts jene drei Gefährten kennengelernt, mit denen ich meines Lebens besten Teil zubrachte, - den stolzen Tod und dessen Geschwister, die strenge Einsamkeit und den großen Schlaf." So beginnt die Erzählung von Thomas Wolfe, in der er nächtliche Begebenheiten von Menschen, Schicksalen und Tod im New York der 1920er Jahre schildert.

Something very strange is going on. People from all walks of life and from every corner of the world feel it. Something is wrong! Those with faith in Biblical prophecy suffer less with the problem as they look to the Bible and their faith for grounding, but even they have questions. They feel it too. We all do: Something is wrong! It is the intention of this short podcast to enter into the darker side of human history with the hope that it might be “a guidebook” to what is happening now and to what has happened to get us here. We can’t promise that it won’t be blunt, disturbing, and ...

Reading books, debating, theory crafting, and analysis on all sorts of titles.

L'autore di "Angelo guarda il passato", che è stato indicato dalla critica in modo contraddittorio a volte come genio ("Genius" fra l'altro è il titolo dell'ultimo film che descrive la sua vita) e a volte come scrittore fallito, specie se paragonato al suo contemporaneo Faulkner, scrive questi racconti in modo lirico, sregolato, come se fosse la scrittura a travolgere lui stesso e non lui a padroneggiarla col mestiere del letterato.

Thomas Clayton Wolfe, morto di tubercolosi a soli 38 anni, è uno scrittore e poeta statunitense. È famoso soprattutto per la sua scrittura moderna, poetica, impressionista. Questo è il suo romanzo più famoso, il cui titolo si ispira ad un verso di Milton, e ripercorre , attraverso le vicende dei protagonisti, la vita dell’America di inizio del XX secolo.

In the summer of 1932, at the beginning of the turbulent decade that would remake America, baseball fans were treated to one of the most thrilling seasons in the history of the sport. As the nation drifted deeper into the Great Depression and reeled from social unrest, baseball was a diversion for a troubled country - and yet the world of baseball was marked by the same edginess that pervaded the national scene.

The Reading Rainstorm is a series all about first time read throughs of fantasy novels. The show is hosted by Thomas Wolf, Kevin Wolf, and Tim Sanders. We begin with an episode dedicated to the author and theory generation knowing little to nothing about the book. Following that is a chapter by chapter read through going into detail story arch, character develop, and world building of that many have fallen in love with. If you're new like us join us on the journey, if you have already experienced the series relive it through fresh eyes. Either way sip your morning coffee, grab a drink, get ...