Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. »Cat on a Hot Tin Roof« ist die Geschichte einer Familie in den amerikanischen Südstaaten. Krankheit, Alkohol und Eifersucht haben sie zerstört. Liebe und Hass liegen dicht beieinander. An einem schwülen Sommerabend bricht die Verzweiflung aus der Familie heraus, und es kommt zu einem dramatischen Konflikt Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2–C1 (GER) Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch
The Enormous Crocodile is incredibly hungry-and incredibly greedy. His favorite meal is a plump, juicy little child, and he intends to gobble up as many of them as he can! But when the other animals in the jungle join together to put an end to his nasty schemes, the Enormous Crocodile learns a lesson he won't soon forget. Dahl's wicked humor is as delightful as ever in this new, larger edition of a hilarious favorite. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
“There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other.” —Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s remains one of his most beloved works. Filled with tender memories of his first wife Hadley and their son Jack; irreverent portraits of literary luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft, A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized. It is an elegy to a remarkable group of expatriates and a testament to the risks and rewards of the writerly life.
Considéré comme l'un des meilleurs livres jamais écrits sur la tauromachie, "Mort dans l'après-midi" offre un regard passionné sur ce sport par l'un de ses véritables aficionados. Il reflète la conviction de Hemingway que la tauromachie était plus qu'un simple sport et révèle une riche source d'inspiration pour son art. Le drame inégalé de la tauromachie, avec sa combinaison rigoureuse d'athlétisme et d'art, ainsi que son affichage nécessaire de grâce sous pression, a enflammé l'imagination de Hemingway. Il décrit et explique les aspects techniques de ce rituel dangereux et "l'intensité émotionnelle et spirituelle et la pure beauté classique qui peuvent être produites par un homme, un animal et un morceau de serge écarlate drapé sur un bâton." À travers ses yeux, la tauromachie devient un ballet richement chorégraphié, avec des interprètes allant d'amateurs maladroits à des maîtres d'une grande élégance et ruse. Un regard fascinant sur l'histoire et la grandeur de la tauromachie, "Mort dans l'après-midi" est aussi une contemplation plus profonde de la nature de la lâcheté et du courage, du sport et de la tragédie, animée tout au long par le commentaire acéré de Hemingway sur la vie et la littérature.
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.” It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desireis one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s.
The tragic impact of the Vietnam War on a relationship between father and daughter. The father is an upstanding individual who believes in the American Dream, but his daughter has a different dream, to get America out of Vietnam and she kills innocent people to achieve it. For the father it is the end of the world, he has lost his daughter. By the author of Sabbath's Theater
"Quatre personnages, dans un salon, vont vivre la plus singulière et la plus normale, la plus burlesque et la plus tragique, la plus atroce et aussi la plus tendre des nuits.
Williams' play about drifter Chance Wayne who returns to his hometown with a
faded movie star hoping to find the girl of his youth is a classic study of
the dream of recapturing youth and finding fame. This edition features an
extensive critical commentary and questions aimed at students of the play.
Lisez ces neuf nouvelles. Vous y découvrirez un écrivain extraordinairement sensible et extraordinairement habile - je voudrais dire: un romancier complet, comme on le dit d'un athlète, parce que, chez lui, l'intuition et le métier s'équilibrent dans une parfaite maîtrise, - et comme on le dit d'un spectacle, parce qu'il sait toucher à la fois notre cœur et notre imagination, et jouer, en virtuose incomparable, de toute la gamme de nos émotions : la tendresse et le rire, le frisson d'horreur, la pitié. Jean-Louis Curtis
»Wenn du deinem Paßbild ähnlich zu sehen beginnst, ist es höchste Zeit wegzufahren.« Dieses Motto stellt Kishon seiner Weltreise des Humors in 13 Länder von Holland bis Griechenland, von Deutschland bis in die Türkei voran und charakterisiert damit den Traum jedes Alltagsmenschen nach der lockenden Ferne, in der er sich in sein anderes Ich verwandelt. Höchstes Lesevergnügen für Weltenbummler und Reise-Profis, für alle, die von fremden Ländern träumen oder in Gedanken die Fahrt in das Land ihrer Sehnsucht antreten wollen: die besten Satiren um Reisen und Reisende in einem Band.
Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the "blue highways, " the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.-- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published.
Volně spojený cyklus dvanácti elegických povídek amerického autora českého původu tvoří jakýsi skupinový portrét tří generací mužů a žen obývajících podmanivé okolí jezera ve státě New York. Výjimečná schopnost zachytit ducha krajiny, jenž jako by spoluutvářel životní osudy jednotlivých postav, přitom není jediným pozoruhodným rysem této neobyčejně vyzrálé prvotiny: autorovo umění ponoru do skutečných i domnělých hlubin vnitřních životů jeho hrdinů je tu ukázkovým příkladem zdánlivě paradoxní schopnosti imaginativní prózy překonat v živosti a autenticitě samu skutečnost.
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives an immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the aboriginal. "Breathtaking...To read this remarkable book is to remember Babylon well, whether you think you've been there or not." --The New York Times Book Review
Ein köstliche Sammlung zahlreicher neuer und einiger klassischer Satiren über all die Fragen, die sich der Menschheit stellen, seit Eva ihren Adam in den Apfel beissen liess.
" Ai été nommé garde-chasse honoraire et à cause des événements (la rébellion mau-mau), fais ici office de garde-chasse suppléant. C'est une vie de première classe ", écrit Hemingway depuis son camp de safari, au Kenya, en janvier 1954. Ecrit au lendemain des deux accidents d'avion survenus au Congo belge, mis en forme par son fils Patrick, ce roman inédit de Hemingway forme le contrepoint des récits africains et du premier safari que fit l'écrivain. Au pied du Kilimandjaro, en compagnie de sa quatrième femme, Mary, qui elle aussi est décidée à tuer son lion, Hemingway, promu gardien de réserve, est chargé de protéger les populations massaï et kamba. Aux descriptions magiques de cette Afrique, où une chose est vérité à l'aube et mensonge à midi, s'ajoute une brève rencontre africaine avec une jeune et ravissante Kamba. Dans ce récit, Hemingway mêle les souvenirs du Montana, du Michigan et du Paris de sa jeunesse avec des réflexions sur les écrivains et l'écriture. L'humour féroce alterne avec une nostalgie poignante.
‘Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and—sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way.’First published in The New Yorker as two sequential stories, ‘Franny’ and ‘Zooey’ offer a dual portrait of the two youngest members of J. D. Salinger’s fictional Glass family.Franny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. They appear to be the perfect couple, but as they struggle to communicate with each other about the things they really care about, slowly their true feelings come to the surface. The second story in this book, ‘Zooey’, plunges us into the world of her ethereal, sophisticated family. When Franny’s emotional and spiritual doubts reach new heights, her older brother Zooey, a misanthropic former child genius, offers her consolation and brotherly advice.Written in Salinger’s typically irreverent style, these two stories offer a touching snapshot of the distraught mindset of early adulthood and are full of the insightful emotional observations and witty turns of phrase that have helped make Salinger’s reputation what it is today.
'Subtle, funny and furious' Observer. What if a lookalike stranger stole your
name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you?
Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has
been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a
bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their
ancestral homes in Europe. Roth decides to stop him, even if that means
impersonating the impersonator. Operation Shylock is at once spy story,
political thriller, meditation on identity and unfathomable journey through a
volatile, frightening middle-east.
"First published in the New Yorker in the 1950s, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction are two novellas narrated by Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait of Salinger himself. In the first, Buddy has taken leave from the army during World War II to attend the wedding of the eldest Glass brother, Seymour, and an atmosphere of portentous suspense sets the scene for the tragedy that will follow. In the second, Buddy reminisces about Seymour and the novella unfolds into a deep and far-reaching exploration of a complex and sad character which displays all the tenderness and subtlety which distinguish the best of Salinger's writing"--Publisher's website
Schulausgabe für das Niveau B2, ab dem 6. Lernjahr. Ungekürzter englischer Originaltext mit Annotationen
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In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller's extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life'.
Hlavní hrdinka, dívka, která si rozhodně žádné životní problémy nepřipouští, líčí otevřeně ve svém fingovaném deníčku poněkud neromantickou cestu za „svým místem na slunci“. Nešetří při tom ani své okolí a s humorem a nadhledem vypráví nejen o vyšších společenských, ale též o uměleckých – literárních a filmových kruzích i o jiném atraktivním prostředí. Zajímavý je také hrdinčin pohled na mužské protějšky – to si už však jistě rádi přečtete v této milé knížce.
For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder.
Obsahuje: Mrtvá strana mikrofonu, Situační tragédie, Vražda bez nápovědy Detektivní příběhy z prostředí britského rozhlasu a televize, spojené postavou amatérského detektiva. 1. vydání
Bratři Machalovi cestovali po místech, kde žil E. Hemingway, hovořili s těmi, kdo velkého amerického spisovatele poznali. Rekonstruují jeho pohnutý život - neukázněné mládí, osobní vztahy k rodičům, čtyřem manželkám, přátelům a konečně i dramatický závěr spisovatelova bytí.
2. část trilogie, která navazuje na 1. část Vesnice a bude pokračovat 3. částí Panské sídlo. Doslov: Eva Masnerová Druhý díl Faulknerovy volné trilogie začíná ve chvíli, kdy Flem Snopes, reprezentant nastupujících dravých ekonomických sil na americkém Jihu počátku 20. století, přijíždí do Jeffersonu...
2. část trilogie, která navazuje na 1. část Vesnice a bude pokračovat 3. částí Panské sídlo. Doslov: Eva Masnerová Druhý díl Faulknerovy volné trilogie začíná ve chvíli, kdy Flem Snopes, reprezentant nastupujících dravých ekonomických sil na americkém Jihu počátku 20. století, přijíždí do Jeffersonu...
The publishing house Megali focuses on making historical works accessible by reproducing them in large print, catering specifically to individuals with impaired vision. This initiative emphasizes the importance of inclusivity in literature, allowing a broader audience to engage with historical texts.
Dobrodružné až detektivní povídky, jejich námětem je oslava mužnosti, statečnosti a spravedlnosti: Plantážník z Malaty, Společník, Hostinec u dvou čarodějnic, Kvůli dolarům.
'There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all
we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest
things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that
each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to
leave.'-- ERNEST HEMINGWAYIn the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife
Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa,
camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount
Kilimanjaro. 'I had quite a trip,' the author told his friend Philip Percival,
with characteristic understatement.Green Hills of Africa is Hemingway's
account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself.
Richly evocative of the region's natural beauty, tremendously alive to its
character, culture, and customs, and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained
from the extraordinary situations it describes, it is widely held to be one of
the twentieth century's classic travelogues.
Bernard Malamud's second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who "wants better" for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his assistant. But there are complications: Frank, whose reaction to Jews is ambivalent, falls in love with Helen Bober; at the same time he begins to steal from the store. Like Malamud's best stories, this novel unerringly evokes an immigrant world of cramped circumstances and great expectations. Malamud defined the immigrant experience in a way that has proven vital for several generations of writers.
Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City’s Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of supplies, a stifling bureaucracy, and students with no interest in Chaucer. Her bumpy yet ultimately rewarding journey is narrated through an extraordinary collection of correspondence—sternly worded yet nonsensical administrative memos, furtive notes of wisdom from teacher to teacher, “polio consent slips,” and student homework assignments that unwittingly speak from the heart. An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1964, Up the Down Staircase remains as poignant, devastating, laugh-out-loud funny, and relevant today as ever. It timelessly depicts a beleaguered public school system redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognized.
Nová, do značné míry autobiografická hra, děj se odehrává v mysli ústřední postavy, v jejích myšlenkách. Na scénu staví asi čtyřicetiletého právníka, jenž se rozborem nejvýznamnějších skutečností svého života snaží dopátrat se pravdy o své vině na tom, co udělal on i společnostkolem něho. Přeložili Luba a Rudolf Pellarovi za jazykové spolupráce Hildy Lassové.
The hero-narrator is a sixteen-year-old native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. He leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and spends three days underground in New York City. Holden is both simple and complex, making it difficult to draw definitive conclusions about him or his story. He is captivated by beauty, almost to the point of being overwhelmed by it. The novel features various voices—children's, adults', and underground—but Holden's voice stands out as the most eloquent. He expresses a poignant blend of pain and pleasure, transcending his vernacular while remaining true to it. Most of his pain is kept to himself, while he shares the pleasure with the reader who can appreciate it. J.D. Salinger's classic tale of teenage angst and rebellion was published in 1951 and has been recognized as one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has faced challenges for its use of profanity and depiction of sexuality, becoming a must-read for teenage boys in the 1950s and 60s.
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. This is indeed a work full of "sudden passions", in which Conrad is able to show how the full intensity of existence can be experienced by the man who, in the words of the older Captain Giles, is prepared to "stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience." A subtle and penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood, The Shadow-Line investigates varieties of masculinity and desire in a subtext that counters the tale's seemingly conventional surface.
Le bouquiniste Jacob Mendel est un vieil homme érudit au moment du déclenchement de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ne lisant pas les journaux, il ignore la guerre qui fait rage en Europe... ce détachement du monde est-il sans risque dans une époque où l'engagement semble de rigueur ?
