In den dampfgetriebenen Straen des viktorianischen Kalkutta erwacht ein technisches Wunderwerk zum Leben: ein mechanischer Elefant aus Stahl und Messing, achtzehn Fu hoch und gesteuert von einer jungen Frau, die in einer von Mannern dominierten Welt um Anerkennung kampft.
An einem gewohnlichen Morgen findet der pensionierte Bahnhofsbeamte Egbert Morell einen ratselhaften Fahrplan auf dem Boden der verlassenen Bahnhofshalle.
Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie konnten durch die Augen eines schwarzen Lochs blicken - nicht als passiver Beobachter, sondern aus der Perspektive der Singularitat selbst.
Im Herzen des Alten Reiches, als die Pyramiden noch unbekannt waren und Agypten nach einer neuen Form der Ewigkeit suchte, beginnt eines der kuhnsten Bauvorhaben der Menschheitsgeschichte: die Stufenpyramide von Sakkara.
In einer Welt, die langst die Grenzen zwischen Ethik und Machbarkeit uberschritten hat, stellt Vera Syndrom die fundamentalste aller Fragen: Was macht uns zum Individuum, wenn unsere genetische Identitat kopierbar geworden ist?
In "e;Jenseits des Fleisches"e; prasentiert Elias Vorne funf fesselnde Erzahlungen, die an den Grenzen des Menschseins entlangfuhren und existenzielle Fragen stellen, die aktueller nicht sein konnten: Was macht uns aus?
"e;During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre"e;Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy.
It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls and Donwell Abbey, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families.
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.
A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi.
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.
