検索キーワード： "アドニス" 文学・フィクション

Things are never as clear-cut as they seem. One minute, I'm a struggling single mother being fired from my job of three years. Next, I'm wearing a diamond that costs more than my salary and having my back blown out on a private jet as the fiancée of my billionaire boss. At least that's what everyone thinks. Only he and I know the truth. It's all a ruse. Required to marry in order to seal a fifty-million-dollar deal for his company, billionaire bachelor Adonis Holland offered me fifty thousand dollars to be his fake fiancée for one week.

Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises “Light Duties. Large Pay. No Questions Asked or Answered.” Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads of the Halcyon Corporation. Her task will be to care for their adored heir, Elijah, who is currently lying in a coma amidst an armada of premium machinery. The Vincettis claim this golden boy is everything from a saint to a genius, but they refuse to reveal how he entered a comatose state.

Georgs Schritt ist kurz und knapp, der Schritt eines schwergewichtigen Mannes, seine Schuhe knarren rhythmisch unter ihrer Last. Sein praller Bauch spreizt die Knopflöcher seiner Übergrößenhemden zu ovalen Öffnungen auf, und an seinem Haaransatz steht immer Schweiß in dicken Perlen. Seine Kleider hat er schon so oft durchgeschwitzt, dass sie selbst nach dem Waschen nicht mehr gut riechen. Mit seinen 36 Jahren bringt Georg knapp 150 Kilo auf die Waage, und sein Übergewicht macht ihn hinfällig wie einen Greis.

"The Death of Adonis" is a fundamental part of Greek mythology and one of its most touching stories. Accidentally wounded by one of Eros' arrows, the goddess Aphrodite falls desperately in love with the handsome Adonis, son of a king and a beauty among mortals. Yet his only passion is hunting and he refuses to take her warnings seriously when he hears about a great boar he would love to slay. There is something of the idea of coming of age in this tale, when the moment of realisation brings forth the understanding of what could have been and where the real beauty lays.

These two great poems date from Shakespeare’s early years and are full of passion and invention. In Venus and Adonis, the goddess of love pleads with the beautiful boy to submit to her advances and become her love - but he only wants to hunt boar. In the more serious Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare draws on the Roman tale of the Emperor Tarquin’s desire for Lucrece and its tragic consequencies. These poems give prominent parts to the two heroines, and Clare Corbett and Eve Best shine.

Accused of a hate crime and expelled from school in his final year, Connor returns home to his seaside town to let everything blow over. There, not only does he have to learn to deal with the addition of two new stepbrothers and a new stepdad, but he also has to grapple with a world set against him. It's not all bad, though. Within his dad's underwater lab, he discovers something in the deep. Something exciting. Something that calls to him.

A aristocrática Madaleine Shelton está no auge de sua carreira como escritora de romances policiais, e sua mente sagaz já auxiliou até mesmo a Interpol a resolver crimes. Madaleine só não consegue desvendar a mente do próprio marido, que, apesar de traí-la constantemente, é incapaz de deixá-la livre. Em uma última tentativa de salvar o casamento, eles partem para uma viagem de reconciliação na misteriosa ilha de Zakynthos, onde a atmosfera erótica e quente parece trazer à tona a libido tão bem controlada da lady inglesa.

Schon mal darüber nachgedacht, sich statt einer freundlichen älteren Gastarbeiterin, die einen mit ihrer fürsorglichen Art an die eigene putzwütige Mutter erinnert und einem damit ein schlechtes Gewissen macht, sich einen Herrn vom Nacktputzdienst für die Hausarbeit kommen zu lassen? Und wenn der dann da ist, was tut man in seiner Gegenwart? Ihn anstarren?

Both Ovid and Spenser also treat this ancient myth, but Spenser alters the ending, converting the tale into an archetype of fulfilled love, whereas Ovid, like Shakespeare, combines humor with pathos as a buffer against sentimentality. Ovid’s Venus behaves absurdly out of character, becoming a huntress to keep her lover company in the woods. Shakespeare, however, preserves decorum; his Venus remains at all times the queen of love. The humor arises rather from the fact that the would-be paramour isn’t interested. This endows the goddess’s wooing with nearly slapstick over-exertion, and yet...

A Great Dane. A deer. A dove. A pit bull. And something lurking just beyond the veil of dreams. Adonis never expected to become a legend, he just followed his heart. When the harlequin Great Dane rescues an injured deer named Jericho, it sparks an unlikely friendship that quickly grows into a pack of misfit heroes, including Jules, a melodramatic dove, and Bully, a tough pit bull mix with a soft center. Together, they journey from small-town fields to the chaos of New York and the crashing waves of Atlantic City, rescuing animals, dodging danger, and winning hearts.

Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal youth Adonis, dedicated partly to his patron, the Earl of Southampton (thought by some to be the beautiful youth to which many of the Sonnets are addressed). The poem recounts Venus' attempts to woo Adonis, their passionate coupling, and Adonis' rejection of the goddess, to which she responds with jealousy, with tragic results. This recording features three different readers performing the narration, Venus, and Adonis. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)Read by Elizabeth Klett, Arielle Lipshaw, Bob ...

Später im Bett denke ich noch einmal an den süßen Adonis von der Haltestelle. Oh ja, ich merke, wie ich plötzlich feucht werde, und sich alles in mir nach Streicheleinheiten sehnt. Wieder fange ich an, mich zu erkundigen, meine Brüste zu kneten und gleichzeitig tief in mich einzudringen. Ich stelle mir vor, dass mein schnuckeliger Adonis seinen Liebesstock zwischen meine Brüste reibt, erst langsam, dann immer schneller.

The fifth volume and the first of two in the fourth part of Frazer's seminal work on the evolution of belief deals with the semi mythological legends of the Mediterranean and the eastern civilizations. Many analogies are traced between the worship of Osiris and the worship of the dead, especially of dead kings. The conclusion to which these analogies appear to the point is that under the mythical pall of the glorified Osiris, the god who died and rose again from the dead, there once lay the body of a dead man. The traditions of sacred men and women, ritual sacrifice and burning of gods, the ...

The sixth volume in the Golden Bough. Frazer continues into the second part of the compilation of analogies dealing with the recurring theme of the dying god. the worship of the dead, and dead kings. Extensive evidence is presented from the history of Egypt and what had been learned from archaeology in North Africa and the Mediterranean. The Egyptian calendar and festivals, the identify and personality of Osiris, and the relationship of the mother goddess, are discussed in length. - Summary by Leon Harvey

Adonis Morgan used to be a hero. As The Phenom, he kept the Arizona desert safe from trouble, masked or otherwise. But it didn't take. Now, he lives among the rest of us, keeping his head down, avoiding trouble. But trouble has a way of finding him in author Frank Byrns' Adonis Morgan: Nobody Special from Pro Se Productions.

Despite William Shakespeare being regarded as the most significant figure in the Western literary canon, relatively little is known about his early life and his later ‘lost years’. Even the exact date of his birth is uncertain. 23rd April generally accepted to be the date of his birth, could be a scholarly mistake amplified by the coincidence of it also being the date of his death. His iconic status now spans global literature and stems directly from the magnitude of his plays, both tragedies and comedies, and his poetry which is often cited as some of the greatest love poetry ever written.

Explore the intricate dance of love and desire, as suggested by the title, which evokes themes of romance, beauty, and the complexities of human emotion. This podcast offers a rotating collection of full-length audiobooks that capture these elements, inviting listeners into stories where passion and longing intersect with fate and consequence. Each week, a different book is featured, showcasing a variety of perspectives, time periods, and styles. This is not a single narrative but a series of diverse tales that offer listeners the opportunity to explore the many facets of love and human ...

How long should a wife wait for her husband to come home from war? For 12 years, Charlea Ludlow has hung on to the hope that her husband Mark, listed as missing in action, will return home from the Korean Conflict. Her life is on hold while she waits for Mark, wondering what happened to him and if he's trying to get home. Her life changes when Roland and David come to the library seeking clues to a hidden treasure mentioned in an old letter.

Ein Klassiker der Liebesdichtung: Die Liebesgöttin Venus verliebt sich in den schönen Adonis und bietet all ihre Verführungskünste auf, um ihn für sich zu gewinnen. William Shakespeare gelingt mit Venus und Adonis eine Erzählung voller Sinnlichkeit und spielerischem Witz, die zu Shakespeares Lebzeiten die populärste seiner Dichtungen war.

Venus and Adonis is a rich and rewarding work. This version includes substantial in introductory and concluding commentary from Shakespeare expert Charlie Creed, in addition to the full poem. Written in glorious language, the story balances comic invention with a tragic and moving love story. Appearing in quarto form in 1593, Venus and Adonis was Shakespeare’s first published work - for though several of the author’s plays had been performed by this date, none had been printed.