"e;A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action"e; The New Yorker Written over the course of 1904-1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Amerika, Note: 1,0, Universität Konstanz, Veranstaltung: Proseminar: Besiedlung und Eroberung Nordamerikas, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit den Auswanderungsmotiven der Puritaner aus England, zunächst nach Leiden und später in das noch kaum besiedelte Amerika.
In Schools of Fiction, Morgan Day Frank considers a bizarre but integral feature of the modern educational experience: that teachers enthusiastically teach literary works that have terrible things to say about school.
An engaging exploration of the mutually productive interaction of literature and energy science in the Victorian era, as seen in Tennyson, Dickens, Stoker, and others.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Literatur der Romantik, Note: 1,3, FernUniversität Hagen (Institut für Neuere deutsche Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, Kreuzgangs plurale Identität herauszuarbeiten.
LAST DAYS OF THE VOYAGE takes place over a few momentous weeks in the year 2048, starting with the eruption of war between America and China upon Taiwan declaring independence.
This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death, forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese culture and continues to fascinate modern-day readers.
At the heart of Maya Caruso's sharp, tender, insightful and wickedly ironic novel is Silvia Junior: a 42-year-old Italo-Australian workaholic who's nailed career success but flunked personal fulfilment.
'Gripping, poetic' Gwen Strauss, author of The Nine'An unforgettable read' Tatiana de Rosnay, author of Sarah's KeySometimes when you are looking for the dead, you find the living.
For lovers of Coco Mellor's Blue Sisters and the Oscar-nominated Sentimental Value, Mermaid is a piercing, multi-generational saga of shared tragedy, the jagged edges of sisterhood, and the secrets that surface when the past refuses to stay submerged.
Eine starke Frau aus den Fjorden, die sich gegen alle Stürme lehntAn der rauen norwegischen Westküste hat die Schifferin Kristiane ein gutes Leben für sich und ihre Familie erkämpft.
In a future where humanity has scientifically conquered disease and physical death, Timshel leaves behind a civilization that has solved nearly every practical problem.
Each year, Garry Feguson awaited the return of the crows much like a five-year-old awaits Santa Clause's return, he says, because the very first, Caw, spelled anticipation to—the rebirth of his little wedge of this planet.
In this satire of the music industry, David Allington is the son of a politician, a record producer of questionable success, and a man whose life is falling apart like a bad drum track.
After high school graduation, and before starting college, David Martel was persuaded by his best friend to work with him at The Hungry Coyote Café which serves families by day and refugees from bars and strip clubs by night.
Told through a high-school autobiography assignment, Nora and I Stole a Car follows Oliver, a sixteen-year-old trying to survive school, family, and the mysteries of first love.
'Exquisitely written and utterly compelling' SUSAN BARKER'The soul of a stylish mystery and the pace of an old-fashioned thriller' MOHAMMED HANIF'Elegant, edgy and cinematic' EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEYAnna has never met anybody like Loll: a British hostess at the Moonglow bar in the Japanese city of Osaka.
Encrucijada de todas las obsesiones e intuiciones de Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) y exponente de su singular talento para el relato, El lobo estepario se inscribe dentro del empeño, patente a lo largo de toda su obra, por iluminar la zona oscura de la condición humana a fin de poner al descubierto su carga trágica y su incierto destino.
Publicada en 1906, "Bajo las ruedas" es una prodigiosa recreación del mundo de la adolescencia, pero en ella Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) formula también una severa acusación contra los sistemas educativos que se imponen a costa de la imaginación y del cultivo armónico de las facultades espirituales, emocionales y físicas.
