Dan Harland was a legend. A hired gun, Harland had earned a reputation as one of the fastest gunslingers in the West. He didn't like to kill, but he did it with deadly accuracy. The money wasn't too bad, either. However, when he is hired to kill a man who is seemingly all too ready to die, Harland begins to have second thoughts about his occupation and seeks out the shadowy figure who hired him. ...
Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding the novel, as well as a foreword by Olga Matich, acclaimed scholar of Russian literature.Set in 1905 in St. Petersburg, a city i ...
Als der «reuige Sunder» an die Pforte des Paradieses pocht, wird er gefragt, wie er sein Leben verbracht hat. Da er sein Leben ins Sunde gelebt hat, wird ihm kein Einlass gewehrt. Da klopft er erneut an … Christian Rode liest Lew Tolstois «Der reuige Sunder». ...
Weihnachtsgru? bietet eine wunderbar abwechslungsreiche Textauswahl, die das Weihnachtsfest in all seiner Vielfalt darstellt. Denn fur jeden bedeutet Weihnachten etwas anderes … So finden sich nachdenklich-religiose Texte von Selma Lagerlof und Martin Luther. Geschichten und Gedichte also, die das Besinnliche der Weihnachtszeit betonen. Es gibt aber auch Marchenhaftes von Hans Christian Andersen zu entdecken, dessen beruhmte Geschichte vom Madch ...
"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Traumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt." So beginnt Kafkas wohl bekannteste Geschichte. Das Ungeheuerliche wird detailliert und sachlich, fast im Stile eines nuchternen Tatsachenberichts geschrieben. Die emotional regungslose Art der Erzahlung und die Unfassbarkeit des Inhalts des Erzahlten bilden einen scharfen Kontrast, welcher dem Unmoglichen ...
It's just another boring summer for our teenaged narrator — until Barbra arrives. An Ethiopian Jew, Barbra was brought to Israel at age five, a part of Operation Solomon, and now our narrator's well-intentioned father has brought her, as a teen, to their home for the summer. But Barbra isn't the docile and grateful orphan they expect, and soon our narrator, terrified of her and drawn to her in equal measure, finds himsel ...
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book! Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. What he can't understand is people and why they're poisoning the planet around him. Shouldn't everyone be losing sleep over the fact that so many animals are on the endangered species list? ...
Longlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Lemon is the story of a teenaged girl with the numbers against her: three mothers, one deadbeat dad, one cancer-riddled protege, two friends, one tree-hugging stepbrother and a 60 percent average. The adults in her life are all mired in self-centeredness and the other kids are busy getting high, and she just can't be bothered to fit in. ...
The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it’s winter, but the kid makes good lemonade, even if his friend Mullen thinks it ought to be sweeter. They don’t talk much with the other ten-year-olds – most of the others are Dead Kids anyway. Except for Jenny Tierney, but she’s busy breaking kids’ faces with her math book. Besides, the Russians from the meat-packing ...
