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Katzen und Wasser passen überhaupt nicht zusammen. Doch dem kleinen Straßenkater bleibt keine Wahl. Wenn er überleben will, muss er auf ein Schiff flüchten. Ehe er sich's versieht, ist er auf hoher See, unter Ratten und Piraten. Aber ein Kater gibt nie auf!
| Автор | Lisa Dröttboom |
In the Year of Jubilee is a novel written by George Gissing and depicts the story of the romantic and sexual initiation of a suburban heroine, Nancy Lord. It shows marriage troubles and damages that industrial society made to the moral values.
| Автор | George Gissing |
Hermano Sol, hermana Luna, hermano Lobo, hermana ninguna. Soy la mujer luna, aunque la aurora y el paso de la noche no despejen el misterio que oculta mi cintura.
| Автор | Rossi Blengio |
The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. <i>The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America</i> is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nineteenth century. Ann Fabian examines the tales of beggars, convicts, ex-slaves, prisoners of the Confederacy, and others to explore cultural authority, truth-telling, and the...
| Автор | Ann Fabian |
In the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S., competing with the Soviet Union for global power, extended its reach into Asia to an unprecedented degree. This book reveals that these trends—the proliferation of Orientalist culture and the expansion of U.S. power—were linked in complex and surprising ways. While most cultural historians of the...
| Автор | Christina Klein |
In this deeply moving collection of short stories and essays, Gordon Lee Johnson (Cupeño/Cahuilla) cements his voice not only as a wry commentator on American Indian reservation life but also as a master of fiction writing. In Johnson's stories, all of which are set on the fictional San Ignacio reservation in Southern California, we meet unforgettable characters like Plato Pena, the Stanford-bound geek who reads Kahlil Gibran during intertribal softball games; hardboiled...
| Автор | Gordon Lee Johnson |
Ein Romanfragment über die Entwicklung eines jungen Mannes zum Dichter: Heinrich erscheint in einem Traum im Kelch einer blauen Blume, die ein wichtiges Symbol der Romantik wurde, das Gesicht einer jungen Frau, die er nach einigen Begebenheiten schließlich kennenlernt. Mit vielen Märchen, Träumen, Allegorien und Liedern durchsetzt, ist dieses Romanfragment ein Meisterwerk der Romantik.-
| Автор | Novalis |
Ein Lebkuchenhaus im Wald, ein Wirtshaus in Wolfenbüttel und ein kleiner Junge mit einem Dämon unter dem Bett. All sie stecken in diesem Buch mit ungewöhnlichen Kurzgeschichten. Meine gruseligen, witzigen, seltsamen und merkwürdigen Geschichten. Viel Spaß!
| Автор | Marie-Christin Spitznagel |
Shakespearian Henriad refers to a group of four William Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V. These four plays constitute the Shakespearian epic with Prince Harry, who later becomes Henry V, as a central figure. Thanks to Shakespeare, King Henry V today stands side by side with the classical epic heroes such are Achilles and Aeneas, as one of the greatest warrior kings of medieval England,.
| Автор | William Hazlitt |
This unique collection of essays, accompanied by a pioneering DVD, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. The book presents the work of a renowned and diverse group of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing scholars who examine original ASL poetry, narrative, and drama. The DVD showcases the poems and narratives under discussion in their original form, providing access to them for hearing non-signers for the...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Essential Japanese Grammar is an indispensable study guide for students of the Japanese language at all levels. Long the standard in Japanese language education, it provides clear, jargon-free explanations of how Japanese grammar works and offers hundreds of example sentences. An essential handbook for self-study or the classroom, students will find that a strong foundation in grammar is vital to those wishing to learn Japanese. Essential Japanese Grammar presents many unique features....
| Автор | Eriko Sato |
This collection of Japanese haiku profiles noted poet Kenneth Yasuda and is a welcome addition to the world of haiku.In the compact, evocative verse-form known as haiku Japanese writers have for centuries been condensing their finest poetic thought and feeling. Adequate translation of haiku into English awaited a Japanese writer fully acquainted with the English language. That writer has now appeared in Kenneth Yasuda, and this book is the result of a long-time labor of love on the finest poetry...
| Автор | Kenneth Yasuda |
This is a complete and easy–to–use guide for reading and writing Chinese characters. Learning written Chinese is an essential part of mastering the Chinese language. Used as a standard by students and teachers learning to read Chinese and write Chinese for more than three decades, the bestselling Reading & Writing Chinese has been completely revised and updated. Reading & Writing Chinese places at your fingertips the essential 1,725 Chinese characters'...
| Автор | William McNaughton |
Sie bewegte die Hüften und spürte einen harten, männlichen Oberschenkel zwischen ihren Beinen. Sie spürte ihn unter ihrem Wonnehügel, als sie daran auf und abrieb. Sie spürte, wie die Kleidung zwischen diesem harten Schenkel und ihrer weichen Pussy rutschte. Es gefiel ihr beinahe besser, als es nackt zu machen.-
| Автор | Anonym |
Brigitte Adam lässt Sie, liebe Leser, in ihrem 1. Gedichtband über die Schulter schauen wie sie Blatt für Blatt des leeren Papiers mit ihren Gedanken, Erlebnissen und Wortspielereien füllt. Dabei geht es um Erinnerungen, Reiseerlebnisse und dies und das. Sie führt Sie quer durch das Jahr mit den Jahreszeiten und Feiertagen, in die Natur und auch die Liebe kommt nicht zu kurz. Die Gedichte sind kurzweilig und kommen ohne Gedichtinterpretation aus … versprochen!
| Автор | Brigitte Adam |
This collection of modern Japanese poetry presents carefully selected works for Western readers.The state of Japanese poetry in the twentieth century, its high quality and individuality is clearly shown in this book. The introduction gives a brief, lucid history of poetry in Japan, with the emphasis on modern poetry. The body of the book is taken up with the translation of the work of forty–nine widely acclaimed poets: free–verse poets, tanka poets, and haiku poets. At the back...
| Автор | Yuki Sawa |
A Hundred Verses from Old Japan is an early translation of one of Japan's most famous anthologies of poetry. This gem of Japanese poetry has preserved its charm for almost a century while remaining the most popular of classical poetry anthologies among the Japanese. The Hyaku-nin-isshiu (literally «one hundred poems by one hundred poets») is a collection of a hundred evocative and intensely human specimens of Japanese tanka (poetry written in a five-line thirty-one syllable format in...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Based on a true story, Shiokari Pass is a moving tale of love eclipsed by sacrifice and tragedy.The hero of this Japanese novel is the young and idealistic Nobuo Nagano, who finds himself forced to make a heart-rending decision, when he must choose between his childhood sweetheart, Fujiko, and his newly found Christian faith. Set in Hokkaido at the turn of the nineteenth century, when for the first time Western culture and ideas were beginning to challenge Japan's long-held traditions,...
| Автор | Ayako Miura |
Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu.This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses.Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful (and unnamed) noblewoman of the Heian dynasty...
| Автор | Bruce Ross |
Mit ihrem Mann, dem Arzt Richard, und ihrer kleinen Tochter führt die junge Inge ein glückliches und sorgloses Leben. Bis zu dem Tag, an dem Richard die attraktive Olga vor dem Ertrinken rettet und dabei selbst schwer verletzt wird. Von dieser Stunde an wird er zu einem respektlosen Tyrann, zudem flirtet er hemmungslos mit Olga – Inge erkennt ihren einst liebevollen Mann nicht mehr wieder. Ist das das Ende ihrer großen Liebe?-
| Автор | Marie Louise Fischer |
Eine Märchennovelle über einen Jäger, den die magische Anziehungskraft des geheimnisvollen Runenbergs schließlich in den Abgrund stürzt: Im Wald wird Christian von einem Fremden der Weg zum Runenberg gezeigt, wo ihm alle Wünsche erfüllt werden würden. Dort angekommen hat er ein eindrückliches Erlebnis, das sein ganzes Leben verändern wird…-
| Автор | Ludwig Tieck |
Prickelndes Abenteuer zwischen Chef und Sekretärin…Kenneth Hansen wohnt noch nicht lange in Barcelona. Sein einziger Kontakt ist der zu seiner molligen Sekretärin Señora Alicia Tavares, die verwitwet und deutlich älter ist als er. Trotzdem fühlt sich Kenneth zu ihr hingezogen. Als er die Señora eines Abends verführt, beginnt für beide ein heißes Abenteuer, das weit über einen schnellen Fick hinausgeht… -
| Автор | Camille Bech |
This collection of Japanese poetry and paintings is a wonderful addition to the collection of any enthusiast of Japanese poetry or culture.Land of the Reed Plains presents a rare and beautiful combination of Japanese lyric genius and artistic mastery. The poetry comes from the Manyoshu, Japan's earliest and greatest anthology and masterpiece of world literature, ably translated by Kenneth Yasuda. The 100 paintings that accompany the poems, each in full color, are the work of the...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Masao Abe: A Zen Life of Dialogue is a compilation of essays that cover the life and work of Masao Abe, perhaps one of the greatest Zen Buddhist communicators of the twentieth century.Masao Abe has opened up a rich dialogue between Japan and the West. He is considered the leading living Zen figure in the Kyoto School of Buddhist thought and the successor of D.T. Suzuki, his early mentor, as the foremost exponent of Zen Buddhism in the West.Through stories and recollections, thirty-five leading...
| Автор | Donald W. Mitchell |