Romane

" Je voudrais présenter, en les groupant sous quelques larges rubriques, des faits qui pourront renseigner sur la féodalité chinoise. Ces faits, peut-être offrent-ils un double intérêt. Ils pourront intéresser et par leur nature et par leur origine. Par son étendue, sa durée, sa masse, la civilisation chinoise est l¿une des plus puissantes créations de l¿humanité : nulle autre n¿est plus riche d¿expérience humaine. Elle est cependant infiniment moins connue du public que les civilisations méditerranéennes. Il est très légitime de vouloir attirer sur elle l¿attention et il serait très utile d¿y réussir. Utile, d¿abord, pour les spécialistes qui s¿en occupent. Si leur travail était contrôlé par un public plus vaste, peut-être seraient-ils plus nombreux au travail et travailleraient-ils plus efficacement. Davantage attirés par les questions qui présentent un large intérêt humain, ils se complairaient moins aux petits problèmes qüon débat entre initiés et qüil ne paraît point nécessaire de discuter en termes accessibles à tout homme cultivé. Pourtant, tout homme cultivé prend aujourd¿hui conscience de l¿étroitesse du monde circonscrit par les humanités classiques. Pourquoi la Chine lui resterait-elle étrangère si rien d¿humain ne doit lui rester étranger ? L¿homme ne se connaîtra que s¿il connaît toutes les manières d¿être de l¿homme. Il faut pour cela qüen se dépaysant, il se retrouve. Il faut qüil s¿observe à travers tous les climats et aussi à travers tous les temps."

Immerse in Irish culture with this book, an inspiring mix of songs, stories, poems, and more. Ideal for bedtime reading or travel. A true gem for those who value Ireland's rich heritage.

They want it so badly ...Book contracts and literary success.But will it ever happen?Members of The Crazy Writers Group bemoan their fates as unpublished writers.They drink, chase romantic fantasies, and live out their days in acts of quiet desperation.Dreamers and misfits ... each of them.A funny story of longing, misspent youth, and the bad choices we all make in life.

Zwei Herzen, zwei Welten, eine LiebeDer gefühlvolle College-Roman für Fans von Sports Romances und echten GefühlenAuf den ersten Blick würde Abigail und Malcolm wohl niemand für das perfekte Paar halten. Doch sind sie das Traumpaar der Elite-Uni von Berkeley, obwohl sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Bei dem Nerd und der blonden Cheerleaderin war es Liebe auf den ersten Blick, die beiden scheinen unzertrennlich. Doch dann trifft sich Abby auf einmal heimlich mit dem Eishockey-Star der Eagles und auch Malcolm verbirgt etwas Entscheidendes vor seiner Freundin. Sind die Unterschiede zwischen den beiden doch zu groß? Oder gibt es eine Chance für die gemeinsame Zukunft, von der Malcolm und Abby träumen?Dies ist eine überarbeitete Neuauflage des bereits erschienenen Titels Wenn wir unser Geheimnis teilen.Weitere Titel dieser ReiheWenn ich deine Wahrheit kenne (ISBN: 9783987786716)Wenn ich auf dein Gewissen höre (ISBN: 9783987786631)Erste Leser:innenstimmen„In dieser Sports-Romance geht es um eine wundervolle Geschichte über Liebe und Vertrauen."„Die Dynamik zwischen Abigail und Malcolm ist so erfrischend anders!"„Die Zwei sind auf den ersten Blick ungleiche Partner, aber ihre Beziehung ist so authentisch und fesselnd."„Dieser Liebesroman ist eine einzige Achterbahnfahrt der Gefühle!"

Frank, a resident of the Cave Court Care Home, spends his days trying to convince his fellow residents why socialism must replace capitalism.However, his audience is less than receptive to his political ideals.Sue and her fellow staff are overworked, understaffed and underpaid. Their life is a constant struggle to pay the bills and keep their heads above water.The Ragged Arsed Philanthropists follows the lives of the staff and residents of Cave Court.Will they overcome all the obstacles thrown at them as they navigate 2020s Britain.Based on the 1914 novel, the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.

Dizem que uma paixão juvenil nunca é esquecida, talvez porque seja pura e real o suficiente...Depois de anos procurando Anais Price, sonhando em tê-la novamente ao seu lado, Federith Cooper precisa se casar com Lady Caroline, já que ela carrega o filho de ambos no ventre, ou assim ele pensa. Mas sua vida de casado é o inferno; sua esposa rejeita sua presença, sua ternura e até sente repulsa por ele, o homem mais educado e respeitoso de Londres.Federith tenta assimilar a vida que o tocou, embora... por quanto tempo ele possa manter o comportamento frio e aristocrático que seus pais o ensinaram quando criança, quando o amor de sua vida reaparece anos depois?Um amor verdadeiro não desaparece com o tempo, e a promessa que ele fez para protegê-la, cuida-la dela e amá-la, tão pouco.

Impressionable Benny Collins, transplanted at seven years old into the rapidly changing Santa Clara Valley, narrates a story of growing up in the town of Santa Clara, as he witnesses firsthand the "Valley of Heart's Delight" slipping into the past. If you lived in Santa Clara, California in the fifties and sixties, you likely remember many of these places: Santa Clara and Sunnyvale orchards, Lawrence Station Road, St. Lawrence the Martyr Catholic Parish, Valley Fair Shopping Center, El Camino Real, Santa Clara Schools, Lawrence Square, Moonlight Drive-in, Stevens Creek Dam, Sunnyvale Shopping Center, Sunken Gardens Golf Course, Libby's Cannery, Calaveras Creek, Santa Clara A&W, The Corn Palace, Briarwood Little League Park, Uncle John's Pancake House, Edelweiss Dairy, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, War Memorial Pool, Schurra's, Andy's Pet Shop, Santa Clara Theater, Lawrence Meadows, Santa Clara Grandview Hardware. These are just some of the places recreated in the story New to Santa Clara. Historical events shaped, reshaped, and even eliminated many of those places. People of this young boy's past bring them back to life.

The revelry after the victory at Yellow Ford could not mask the tragedy that followed. Seamus and Eunan were dealt a devastating blow. They were left with a grim determination to seek revenge by any means, even leading the rebellion against their oppressors. The Curse of Black Mountain hung over Seamus as his ultimate challenge lay ahead: returning to Munster where his clan had been decimated and family murdered, to reclaim what was stolen from him. Eunan, likewise, was determined to face these same forces-not only for vengeance, but to rescue the woman he loved.What awaited them when they arrived? Would the remains of the MacSheehy welcome Seamus back with open arms? Can Eunan protect himself from his adversaries or would they win and take his life? The Curse of Black Mountain is the fifth book in the epic Irish historical fiction Exiles series.Set during the Elizabethan wars in Ireland in the 1590s, it tells a story of Irish clans, their politics and fight for control, brimming with spies and intrigue, as well as a burning desire for rebellion against English rule. If you enjoy fast-paced action and adventure-based historic fiction, you'll love this book.

As they acclimate to the newly revised ship and crew, Tar and Gorth try to retrieve the scarf lost in the battle with The Insane Moth. Against his mother's demands, Tar drags everyone to the remote and extremely hostile planet of Rimtiki Lumdung. Things seem to be going well as they infiltrate the populace until their plans are thwarted by an old flame of Gorth's-the beautiful and extremely deadly Zeestra.To escape with their lives, the crew must fight against an ever shortening time line to remove an ancient curse that has plagued the planet for centuries. Will Tar and Gorth live through the ordeal while fighting zombies dead, alive and otherwise? Or will Zeestra's treachery seal their fate and end their adventures forever?

Three short stories, introducing Tar Reztap, his shipmate Gorth, and their action-packed universe.A Little Misunderstanding: Tar and Gorth are roped into another mission by Renni, Tar's half-brother. This time, they're supposed to make a simple delivery to stop intergalactic war--it doesn't go quite as planned. On top of restarting the centuries-old war between the Claches and the Progorians, they put their longest serving navigator in a life and death struggle to not get eaten.Digging Reztap: The seminal story of how Tar and Gorth first met on a rescue mission in a mining colony at the tender age of nine. A girl, two mining carts and a high speed chase that ends with a shocker.Armed But Not Ready: The latest in a string of mishaps that find Tar and Gorth losing yet another navigator to a tragic circumstance. At an expensive space resort, the dui bail out their latest navigator candidate only to have him fall prey to a girl and her cat. It's like these navigators are wearing red shirts!

" Dans "Histoire de l'art. L'esprit des formes: L'art antique", Élie Faure entreprend une exploration profonde et passionnée de l'art antique, cherchant à dévoiler les motivations sous-jacentes, les idées et les émotions qui ont façonné les formes artistiques de l'Antiquité. À travers une prose riche et évocatrice, Faure guide le lecteur à travers les époques et les civilisations anciennes, mettant en lumière les ¿uvres marquantes de la Grèce et de Rome, tout en exposant les évolutions stylistiques et philosophiques qui ont caractérisé cette période.L'auteur s'attache à capturer l'essence même de l'art antique, explorant les thèmes récurrents, les techniques distinctives et les influences culturelles qui ont donné naissance à des chefs-d'¿uvre immortels. De l'architecture majestueuse aux sculptures éloquentes, Faure offre une vision holistique de l'art antique, contextualisant chaque ¿uvre dans son époque tout en exprimant son propre engagement passionné envers la beauté et l'émotion que ces créations évoquent."

Wer mir auf Facebook folgt, kennt die Geschichten über meinen besten Freund Karli, die ich seit 2018 in unregelmäßigen Abständen poste. Ich glaube sogar, die meisten amüsieren sich tatsächlich darüber. Jedenfalls ist es nur so erklärbar, dass mehrfach der Wunsch an mich herangetragen wurde, diese Geschichten zu sammeln und in Buchform herauszugeben. Ich habe das stets abgelehnt oder verschoben, weil ich das meinem Karli einfach nicht antun will. Aber meine Kinder studieren jetzt, und ich bin alt und brauche das Geld. Sorry, Karli!Natürlich heißt Karli in Wahrheit nicht Karli. So gemein bin ich auch wieder nicht. Ich habe einfach einen Namen genommen, der weit verbreitet ist, um die Spur zu Karl-Heinz S. zu verwischen. Außerdem sagt sowieso niemand "Karl-Heinz" zu ihm, alle nennen ihn seit unserer gemeinsamen Schulzeit immer nur "Karli", sogar seine besseren Hälften. Karli hatte über die Jahre nämlich verschiedene bessere Hälften, lediglich seine schlechtere Hälfte blieb immer gleich, und von der lest ihr in diesem Werk, denn mit ihr (grammatikalisches Geschlecht, nicht physisches!) bin ich ja befreundet.

An einem frostigen Wintermorgen, kurz vor der Jahrtausendwende, stand sie vor mir auf den Straßenbahnschienen. Sie lächelte mich an - dann ließ sie sich von mir überfahren.Seitdem ist nichts mehr so wie es einmal war. Meine selbst gewählte Mittelmäßigkeit ist dahin. Sie hat einem Abenteuer Platz gemacht, das eigentlich niemals hätte sein dürfen ... und für das ich ihr dennoch unendlich dankbar bin.

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Gedichte aus mehreren Jahrhunderten bis zur Gegenwart, bei denen das schönste der Gefühle im Mittelpunkt steht. Die künstlerischen Illustrationen von Franziska Harvey sind so vielfältig und kontrastreich wie die Gedichte selbst. Romantische, fantastische, klassische und moderne Verse treffen auf eine einzigartig fantasievolle Bildsprache. Die Liebe in ihren Höhen und Tiefen, das kann mal rührend, mal freudig, mal traurig oder auch mal komisch sein. So gelingt eine magische und tief berührende Sicht auf die Liebe in all ihren Facetten.Mit Gedichten von:Heinrich HeineMascha KalékoJohann Wolfgang von GoetheRose AusländerJoseph von EichendorffGertrud KolmarWolfgang BorchertHilde DominMarie Luise KaschnitzRio Reiseru. v. m.

A road trip to the past...with a few unintentional crimes along the way Macy Carter goes through the motions of attending high school and pretending to care everyday, but she has felt empty since the day it happened. She goes to class; she avoids her parents, and she tries to forget the events of that summer, but she can't. The memories haunt her day and night. But one day, she gets a phone call from the past, and Macy decides it's time they meet. This can't be done over the phone. She's been running away long enough. It's time to run straight into this storm. But she won't go alone. She'll have to take the other guilty party with her, so she sets out on a cross-country road trip with her estranged and slightly off her rocker sister, Carly, who has no idea where they are going or who they are going to meet when they get there. If she knew, she would never go. Once they catch wind of the unthinkable reunion, her strong yet broken mother and her redemption-seeking father rush to stop her before it's too late. In this mess of a family, everyone is guilty of something, and no one wants to be reminded of it.

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yetLittle Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek’s few consolations is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some people, Ina’s ability to receive transmissions of sacred knowledge from the natural world is a godsend. For others, Ina’s home in the woods is a godless place.The people’s desperate need to believe that there are powers that be who have their best interests at heart is put to a cruel test by their depraved lord and governor, especially in this year of record drought and famine. But when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lord’s family, new and occult forces arise to upset the old order. By year’s end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, and the natural world and the spirit world will prove to be very thin indeed.

An epic continuation of the series that began with The Pillars of the Earth, The Armor of Light heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond

Theo a 12 year old boy born to the greatest military mind in French history Matheo LA Laurentiis was traumatized by the death of his father during an investigation in Spain he contemplated suicide before being stopped by his adopted older brother Jules later he found a book in his father's belongingsthat contained of of his contingency plans if all went wrong after reading it he found out hi had an uncle who knew everything his father knew so he traveled to find his uncle so he could get revenge for his father.

It's 2024 and three-hundred-year-old Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Baron von Munchausen sits in a bar enjoying a glass of wine over a plate of kippers. The legendary spinner of tall tales and self-proclaimed "ambassador of the irrational" has just completed a whirlwind tour of America. Crisscrossing an increasingly divided nation, he's settled a particularly perilous Supreme Court case (mercifully, with the loss of only three justices), verbally jousted with an evangelical preacher on the nature of divine love while riding a church through a tornado, and single-handedly solved the global climate crisis! Now it's time for a well-earned respite. Recounting these and other improbable adventures between puffs of an old briarwood pipe, Munchausen bends the ear of his drinking companion, a concerned citizen of the United States who, like many others, trembles for the future of democracy. Together the two contemplate the slow death of rationality in a free society, and whether fear and paranoia will ultimately triumph over hope and reason. It begs the question: with the body politic at one another's throats, and daily calls for book bans, wall building, and even civil war, can the fabled cannonball rider and raconteur extraordinaire take on his most outrageous adventure yet and save this country from itself?