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Neue, aberwitzig Erzählungen aus einem Jahr außer Rand und Band, die genau da weitermachen, wo 1913 – Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts aufhört! Florian Illies erzählt mit Poesie, Witz und sprachlicher Eleganz von seinen neuen Funden aus dem letzten Jahr vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg: Hermann Hesse flieht auf Skiern aus seiner Ehe, Marcel Proust besticht seine Kritiker mit Gebäck, Giacomo Puccini hat keine Lust mehr auf ein Duell – und Rilke hat natürlich wieder Schnupfen, diesmal in Bad Rippoldsau.

Ein romantisches Drama über Liebe, Schuld und Ehre in Zeiten der Revolution – ungekürzt gesprochen von Sven Görtz. "Das Schloss Dürande" ist eine tiefgründige Novelle von Joseph von Eichendorff, die zur Zeit der Französischen Revolution spielt. In einer Mischung aus Romantik, Tragik und politischer Umwälzung erzählt sie vom Konflikt zwischen persönlichen Gefühlen und historischen Kräften. Im Mittelpunkt steht René, der als Sekretär des Grafen von Dürande zwischen seiner geheimen Liebe zur Schwester des Grafen und den Anforderungen der standesgebundenen Welt zerrieben wird.

An all new edition of the much-loved novella. For fans of Jojo Moyes' The Girl You Left Behind, this is the prequel novella, Honeymoon in Paris. Sophie, a provincial girl, is swept up in the glamour of Belle époque Paris but discovers that loving an artist like Edouard brings undreamt of...

Set in the crumbling Spanish missions of nineteenth-century Baja California, this mythic novel in linked stories follows two grief-stricken people as haunted as the desolate chapels around them: a priest who caused the drowning of a native boy by compelling him to fish for pearls, and a deaf...

Mit „Das Gold von Caxamalca" schildert Jakob Wassermann die dramatischen Ereignisse rund um die Eroberung des Inkareiches durch die spanischen Konquistadoren. Im Zentrum steht das sagenumwobene Gold von Caxamalca – Symbol für Reichtum, Macht und zugleich für die zerstörerische Gier der Eroberer. Die Begegnung zwischen den Kulturen führt zu Verrat, Gewalt und einem tragischen Zusammenbruch einer ganzen Welt. Wassermann verbindet historische Ereignisse mit dichterischer Gestaltungskraft und wirft einen eindringlichen Blick auf Schuld, Machtmissbrauch und die Folgen menschlicher Maßlosigkeit.

En el corazón de un imperio milenario, el destino de familias enteras se forja entre la guerra y la pasión. Imagina un vasto imperio en constante convulsión, donde el choque de culturas occidentales y orientales desata guerras y profundas transformaciones. "China. La novela" te invita a un viaje épico que comienza en 1839, con el alba de la Primera Guerra del Opio, y se extiende, sin pausas, a través de la Revolución Cultural de Mao hasta el presente.

Halt the Carriage is a book of compelling stories ranging across a broad literary spectrum, with themes touching on friendship, sacrifice, childbirth, betrayal, and death set on seven different stages, spanning from the year 1900 to the mid-1980s. Sharing common themes of compassion and fortitude under fire, set in bygone days when empathy was real, and when an act of courage wasn’t something that one boasted about, but rather, it was simply what one did with quiet dignity because it was the right thing to do.

A crumbling English estate. A mysterious past. A woman drawn into secrets buried deep beneath the surface. Welcome to Hatchmere: a timeless English village of tangled family secrets, sweeping countryside, and quiet revelations. When Juliet Winchcombe arrives at Hatchmere Manor, she intends only a brief stay — a chance to escape the city and clear her head. But the silent house seems to breathe with stories of its own, and the land beneath it whispers of betrayal, loss, and a vanished girl named Isobel.

Fortune promises everything. Greed demands the rest. In The Rynard Gold Reef Company, Ltd., Sir Walter Besant delivers a sharp historical drama of mining speculation, ambition, and moral consequence. Set against the world of late nineteenth-century financial schemes and gold reef investments...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "A Lodging for the Night: A Story of Francis Villon" is a gripping tale set in 15th-century Paris. Francis Villon, a poet and a poor master of arts, finds himself entangled in a web of crime and desperation on a snowy November night. After witnessing a...

Un relevante conjunto de relatos sobre la guerra civil española, escritos durante 1936 y 1937 y publicados inicialmente en varias revistas internacionales. Chaves Nogales revive en estas páginas sucesos de la guerra que conoció directamente y retrata su perspectiva como una de las voces más destacadas de la primera mitad del siglo XX.

"The Spectacles" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in March 1844 in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. It is one of Poe's comedy tales. The narrator, 22-year-old Napoleon Buonaparte Froissart, changes his last name to "Simpson" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity, "resolutely refused to employ them".

"The Balloon-Hoax" is the title used in collections and anthologies of a newspaper article by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844 in The Sun newspaper in New York. Originally presented as a true story, it detailed European Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a gas balloon. It was later revealed as a hoax and the story was retracted two days later.

The Colloquy Of Monos And Una: Una. "Born again?" Monos. Yes, fairest and best beloved Una, "born again." These were the words upon whose mystical meaning I had so long pondered, rejecting the explanations of the priesthood, until Death himself resolved for me the secret. Una. Death! Monos. How strangely, sweet Una, you echo my words! I observe, too, a vacillation in your step — a joyous inquietude in your eyes. You are confused and oppressed by the majestic novelty of the Life Eternal. Yes, it was of Death I spoke.

“In Rabbit Test and Other Stories, Mills examines the human spirit with a sharp eye and a gentle heart.”—Eugenia Triantafyllou A subversive debut short-fiction collection from one of the hottest talents in speculative fiction: 2025 Compton Crook Award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee...

Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache ist ein kurzer humoristisch-satirischer Essay des US-amerikanischen Schriftstellers Mark Twain aus dem Jahre 1880. Das englische Original wurde zuerst in der Anthologie „A Tramp Abroad" als Annex D veröffentlicht. Twain, der sich zu jener Zeit auf einer mehrmonatigen Reise durch Europa befand, schildert darin die – wie er es empfand – Skurrilitäten, Absurditäten, Widersprüchlichkeiten und generellen Schwierigkeiten beim Erlernen der deutschen Sprache als Fremdsprache.

Six nouvelles ou la coïncidence est si forte qu'elle en abolit le hasard. D'un résistant sauvé par un nom de famille à une philosophie qui gagne une fortune sur un concours de circonstances, ces récits explorent les fils étranges qui nous relient à travers les siècles au mystère historique de la coïncidence.

He was called many things—outlaw, poet, killer, gentleman. But in the dying light of the Arizona Territory, Johnny Ringo was simply a man trying to outrun his own shadow. From the dusty backroads of Texas to the lawless streets of Tombstone, Ringo follows one of the West’s most haunted figures—a man torn between faith and fury, poetry and the pistol. As the world around him bleeds into legend, Ringo searches for something the frontier can’t give him: peace.

The Golden Flame of India The monsoon winds whispered secrets through the narrow alleys of Bombay, where incense mingled with the scent of wet earth, and lanterns cast golden halos upon ancient stone, in a world where tradition-bound daughters in silk and silence, Asha Patel dared to dream beyond the confines of her father's courtyard.

In the language of the Lakota Sioux, the word "Sunka Wakan", means "horse". The English translation of Sunka Wakan, is "Sacred Dog". This story is about the epic life of one such sacred dog whose fight for survival in the brutal high deserts of Nevada leads him on an unbelievable journey. Live the incredible experiences of "Son of Banshee", as he leads his herd of wild mustangs through the unforgiving wilds of Nevada. At every turn, his life is a battle against not only the brutal land in which he and his herd lives, but a relentless struggle also to elude the capture of man.