Macbeth tells the story of the Scottish general Macbeth, who, following a prophecy made by witches and influenced by his wife Lady Macbeth, becomes king by murdering King Duncan; whereupon paranoia drives him into a vortex of further murder and violence until he is overthrown and killed by Macduff, restoring the order destroyed by his crimes and addressing the themes of lust for power, guilt and the supernatural.
Captain Ralph Crewe, a wealthy English widower, enrolls his young daughter Sara at Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London, to prepare her for a life in high society.
It is the story of the quest of Siddhartha, a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege and comfort to seek spiritual fulfillment and wisdom.
Dyer and a graduate student named Danforth fly an airplane over the mountains, which they soon realize are the outer walls of a huge, abandoned stone city of cubes and cones, utterly alien compared with any human architecture.
With his devoted amanuensis, Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil in such cases as 'The Speckled Band', in which a terrified woman begs their help in solving the mystery surrounding her sister's death, or 'A Scandal in Bohemia', which portrays a European king blackmailed by his mistress.
Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is told from the point of view of Huck Finn, a barely literate teen who fakes his own death to escape his abusive, drunken father.
Desde la llegada del conde Buono a la Cali de finales del siglo XIX, Los secretos de La Floresta y el pandebono revela el origen del legendario «pan de buono» y la historia de una familia atravesada por secretos, pasiones y disputas de herencia.
Das unentbehrliche "Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Science Fiction 1933–1945" ist das erste und einzige Nachschlagewerk, das sich ausschließlich diesem Genre in diesem Zeitraum widmet.
"Andymonaden" präsentiert eine neue Generation deutschsprachiger Autor:innen, die mit Kurzgeschichten auf den beliebtesten Science-Fiction-Roman der DDR antworten.
Harry Martinson (1904–1978) schrieb über das unermesslich Große und das stecknadelgroß Kleine, das Nahe und das Ferne – er ließ, so die Begründung für seinen Literaturnobelpreis 1974, »in einem Tautropfen den Kosmos sich spiegeln«.
In einer von Klimawandel und gesellschaftlichen Verwerfungen geprägten Zukunft führt ein letzter Auftrag den Forscher Holm auf eine Insel, die dem Untergang geweiht ist.
