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Mit der Novelle «Bahnwärter Thiel» verfasste Gerhart Hauptmann 1887 eines der Hauptwerke des Naturalismus. In eindringlicher Sprache schildert der Autor darin das fatale Schicksal von Bahnwärter Thiel: einem Mann, der innerlich hin- und hergerissen ist. Erinnerungen an seine tote Ehefrau Minna und das jetzige, harsche Leben mit seiner zweiten Frau Lene zermürben Thiel. Nur Tobias, sein Sohn aus der Ehe mit Minna, gibt ihm Halt. Doch eines Tages geschieht bei einem Ausflug zum Arbeitsplatz des...
| Автор | Gerhart Hauptmann |
"FAUST ist ein Meisterwerk, das den Zwiespalt, der unser Leben trägt, auch heute noch bestens zum Ausdruck bringt. Mephisto ist der größte Manipulator der Weltliteratur, größer auch als Machiavelli. Ein Vorbild für jeden Rockstar. So bin auch ich ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft? Aber gerne doch!" Bela B. Felsenheimer "Goethe hat mit FAUST ein zeitlos philosophisches und sprachgewaltiges Werk geschaffen, das im Laufe der Zeit nur noch mehr...
| Автор | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Friedrich Schillers Die Räuber in einer spannenden Hörspiel-Fassung für alle Generationen. Erleben Sie Die Räuber von jungen Schauspielern im Original szenisch gelesen und mit lebhaften Hörspielszenen illustriert. Ein Erzähler führt durch die Handlung und erläutert das Werk. Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805) ist einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Dichter und Dramatiker. Gemeinsam mit Johann Wolfgang von Goethe prägte er die Weimarer Klassik. In Die Räuber erzählt er die Geschichte zweier Brüder,...
| Автор | Friedrich Schiller |
Schnitzler beschreibt in dieser Novelle die scheinbar harmonische Ehe des Arztes Fridolin und seiner Frau Albertine. Unter der Oberfläche werden beide von ungestillten erotischen Begierden und Träumen heimgesucht, die sich durch wechselseitige Entfremdung zu einer Ehekrise auswachsen. Das Geheimnisvolle dieser Novelle rührt von der Entdeckungsreise ins Selbst her, die Fridolin unternimmt, einen Abstieg in die Tiefen seiner eigenen Psyche, und den Veränderungen in den Beziehungen zwischen...
| Автор | Arthur Schnitzler |
"Schloss Gripsholm" ist eine der hinreißendsten Sommergeschichten, die die deutsche Literatur zu bieten hat. Dieses innige, unnachahmlich elegante und amüsante Buch haben sich Liebende seit seinem Erscheinen 1931 immer wieder geschenkt, weil sie in ihm ihre eigene Verliebtheit mit all ihren Torheiten und Verzauberungen erkannten. In einer erstklassigen Lesung belebt Uwe Friedrichsen die Figuren mit seiner markanten Stimme. Und gelegentlich schnackt er auch ein bisschen «plattdütsch». So...
| Автор | Kurt Tucholsky |
Soames Forsyte fehlt es an nichts. Der Spross einer reichen Londoner Anwaltsfamilie hat Geld, Macht, Ansehen in der feinen Gesellschaft. Und mit Irene eine schöne Frau, die er aber auch nur wie einen Besitz behandelt. Irene leidet unter der Gefühlskälte ihres Mannes. Als Soames den Architekten Philip Bossiney beauftragt, ein Haus für ihn zu bauen, lernt dieser auch Irene kennen und beide beginnen eine Affäre. Soames erfährt davon und greift er zu drastischen Mitteln, um seine Frau wieder unter...
| Автор | John Galsworthy |
Daß man den so unheimlichen und doch so natürlichen Geschehnissen, die ich jetzt berichten will, Glauben schenkt, erwarte ich nicht, verlange es auch nicht. Ich müßte wirklich wahnsinnig sein, wenn ich da Glauben verlangen wollte, wo ich selbst das Zeugnis meiner eigenen Sinne verwerfen möchte. Doch wahnsinnig bin ich nicht – und sicherlich träume ich auch nicht. Morgen aber muß ich sterben, und darum will ich heute meine Seele entlasten.
| Автор | Эдгар По |
Die 17-jährige Effi Briest heiratet auf Wunsch ihrer Eltern den lebenserfahrenen Baron von Innstetten. Ihrem Ehealltag und einer Welt voller Zwänge entkommt sie durch eine Affäre mit dem weltmännisch auftretenden Major Crampas. Viele Jahre später erfährt Innstetten durch Zufall vom Treuebruch seiner Gattin. Um sein gesellschaftliches Ansehen zu wahren, fordert er den Liebhaber seiner Frau zum Duell heraus Oliver Rohrbeck erweckt Fontanes Figuren zu neuem Leben: Keck die Effi , kultiviert der...
| Автор | Теодор Фонтане |
This chilling tale of a gruesome monster unleashed into the world by an unthinking scientist was first conceived in 1818 by nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley on a dark, rainy night on Lake Geneva. Lord Byron and Percy Shelley challenged their friends to see who could come up with the most horrifying story imaginable. Mary Shelley did, terrifying them all with her nightmare-inspired tale. Brilliantly narrated by British actor Clive Hayward, this 200th anniversary audio edition of Frankenstein is...
| Автор | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
When an American man discovers that he's the last descendant of the De la Poer family, he travels to England to take over their crumbling estate. Accompanied only by his cat, the man follows the incessant sound of rats to a dark place beneath the estate, unearthing horrible, dark, gruesome secrets about his ancestors and the type of activities they partook in. Taken by madness, the man falls into a dark pit of despair and commits unthinkable crimes. This jarring story from a renowned writer...
| Автор | H. P. Lovecraft |
Everybody knows A Christmas Carol, but the prolific Charles Dickens wrote several other holiday tales. Here, Dreamscape Media has compiled a collection of Dickens' classic Christmas stories. Disc one includes: A Christmas Tree; What Christmas is as We Grow Older. Disc two contains: What Christmas is as We Grow Older (continued); The Poor Relation's Story; The Child's Story; The Schoolboy's Story; Nobody's Story.
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Following her recent adaptation of Great Expectations, bestselling novelist and award-winning audiobook narrator Alison Larkin changes the gender of Scrooge in this exciting new recording of A Christmas Carol. It's the same beloved Christmas story – only one thing has changed. In this version, Scrooge is a woman. Everything else, though, is pure Dickens. So, the characters around Scrooge behave as if it were quite normal for a woman to learn to read and write, fall in love with and reject...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see. One man who was so devout in his pursuit of hunger pushed against the boundaries set by the circus that housed him and strived to go longer than forty days without food. As interest in his art began to fade, he pushed the boundaries even further. In this short story about one man's plight to prove his worth, Franz Kafka illustrates the themes of...
| Автор | Franz Kafka |
Alison Larkin selects and introduces fairytales of strong, independent, brave, at times irreverent girls and women who take charge of their lives, go on their own adventures, rescue themselves and sometimes even save the men they love. These are not stories of helpless females shut up in high towers waiting around for a handsome man to rescue them while they sleep for years or from brushing their golden hair a lot. These heroines have far more to distinguish them than the fact that they...
| Автор | Ганс Андерсен |
Marley was dead, to begin with…' And yet, he manages to visit his old partner, the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, and send him on a transformative journey, led by three ghosts. First to his own past, where he sees again the love he spurned, then to the present, where he sees those around him going about their holiday preparations, and then into his own future, to see his just reward. A Christmas favorite, it will warm your heart with favorite memories, and remind you how the true Christmas spirit...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand "the Science of Things,? but he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in his world: personal possessions are nonexistent, individual preferences are condemned as sinful, and romantic love is forbidden. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word "I? has been...
| Автор | Айн Рэнд |
Mit ihrer einzigartigen, skurrilen Phantasie und ihren absurd-witzigen Sprachspielen gehören die Abenteuer der kleinen Alice mit zu dem Schönsten, was die englische Kinderliteratur hervorgebracht hat. Immer noch begeistern sie Groß und Klein und entführen in eine Welt, in der manches auf dem Kopf steht und seinen eigenen Regeln folgt… Neuübersetzung von Sonja Hartl, die für tacheles! auch schon Pinocchio von Carlo Collodi und Tom Sawyer von Mark Twain übersetzt und bearbeitet hat. Mit...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Abandoned at birth by her parents, Auli-Ambar is seen as a child blighted by a callous talon-stroke of fate. A worthless burden, she is blind, severely disfigured, and fit only for the most menial tasks. Then, a simple act of kindness changes her life. Flown to the Halls of the Dragons, the painfully shy girl becomes a cleaner of Dragon roosts and a helpless wanderer of the Dragon Library. Here, Auli is able to walk amidst the lore she is drawn to so profoundly. She can touch it and imagine...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Chills race up and down young solicitor Jonathan Harker's spine as he enters the eerie castle of a Transylvanian count. His host, Count Dracula, is a curious creature that becomes enamored with the photograph of Harker's fiancee, Mina. Dracula decides he must find the enchanting Mina and have her as his own. He boards a boat and makes the long journey to find Mina as the ship's crew mysteriously disappears one by one. Van Helsing, called to care for Mina's friend Lucy, senses...
| Автор | Bram Stoker |
Introduced by Edwin Morgan. A ‘gowk storm’ is an untimely fall of snow in early Spring – a fitting symbol for the anguished story that unfolds. Nearly a hundred years ago, three girls were born to a minister and his wife in a remote Highland manse; the rigid patriarchal structure of the times is set against their approaching womanhood and growing awareness of life beyond the safety of home. After the disposal by marriage of the eldest, the sisters’ lives reach a new level of intensity....
| Автор | Nancy Brysson Morrison |
Introduced by Allan Massie. Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldier’s soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Colonel Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese prison camps. But he has come to take command of the Battalion he has long admired, the one that Jock Sinclair has served in since he was a boy. In the claustrophobic world of Campbell barracks, a conflict is inevitable...
| Автор | James Kennaway |
In Little Green, Loretta Stinson’s stunning, redemptive first novel, tragedy leaves Janie Marek orphaned and in the care of her stepmother. The novel opens two years later, in 1976, when Janie, at fourteen, runs away. A ride she’s hitchhiked leaves her on the freeway outside a Northwestern town. A strip club called The Habit is the closest thing within walking distance, and Janie finds herself working there. Janie falls for Paul Jesse, a drug dealer, and moves in with him as...
| Автор | Loretta Stinson |
Andrew is a timid high school student in a small town named Tomliw. Like most freshman, he has quite a few things to be on edge about. However, unlike most freshman, Andrew is in fact one of the only gay students in his high school. His greatest fear is that he will become a social pariah if someone finds out his secret. But once he is confronted by an old bully from middle school, he comes face to face with every fear he's had since 6th grade: being noticed in a bad way. Luckily, he...
| Автор | Zack W. Van |
Tim is the youngest son of Irish American immigrants growing up in Chicago in the 1950's and 60's. Follow his memories of Chicago in short stories that recall the sights, sounds, vigor and tensions that were the Windy City.<br><br>Share in Tim's joys, sadness, successes and failures as he navigates through life in his Chicago neighborhood. Meet the varied, interesting, and intriguing people – both good and bad that he encounters as he grows...
| Автор | Thomas Walsh |