Everyman jun 2001 (5 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann¿s Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann¿s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention¿Albertine, ¿a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.¿For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin¿s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff¿s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The cracks are beginning to show in the idyllic Stonewylde community. As Yul and Sylvie's forbidden friendship grows into something deeper, Magus' true nature starts to emerge through his charming façade. Ever since Yul defied him at the Summer Solstice, his power has been waning, and his mood darkening. Yul is the problem - and Magus is going to deal with him. Nobody challenges his authority and survives.Sylvie is in danger too. Magus has discovered her secret and now, for all its beauty, her magical gift and Magus' desire to possess it is putting her life at risk. As each full moon rises Sylvie is made to suffer more, and the agony she endures as her magic is stolen leaves her increasingly exhausted, sapping her will to fight back. Unless Magus can be stopped, every full moon could be Sylvie's last.As glorious summer turns to golden autumn, the magic of Stonewylde is becoming a curse to the very people it should nurture . Are Yul and Sylvie the only ones who see the truth behind Magus' mask of kindness Why is everyone so deceived by his charm - and why is Mother Heggy, the mysterious wise-woman the only one who will help them The darkness of winter is coming, and as it does Sylvie and Yul's lives hang by a whisker. Either they will save each other, or history will repeat itself at the sinister standing stone above the cliffs.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Marcel continues his voyage of discovery through the homosexual world, where affairs of the ageing Baron de Charlus lead to unexpected and hilarious adventures.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy's enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his developing art and outlook. Volume 1 of the Everyman Collected Shorter Fiction is dominated by the characteristic experiences of his early life as soldier, land-owner, husband and father, the life which shaped Anna Karenina and War and Peace. It also includes several short fables which point to his later preoccupation with the religious life. Volume 2 reveals how these spiritual intimations flowered into a series of extraordinary late masterpieces which equal anything in the earlier novels for intensity and power. Readers of The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Sergius, Master and Man and Hadji Murad will recognize the brilliant younger novelist, now transfigured by his passionate quest for salvation and forgiveness.…