Bücher und Interpretationen 10

Das waren unsere 80er: Walkman, Dallas, Vokuhila. Bandsalat und Rudi Carrell. Eine nostalgische Sammlung von “Weißt-Du-noch-Anekdoten“

Autoren: Christoph Quarch, Evelin König

Herrin des Hügels: Das Leben der Cosima Wagner

Autor: Oliver Hilmes

Silverview: Roman | Lieblingsbuch des Sommers 2022 von Barack Obama - „Der wohl größte englische Autor seiner Generation.“ The Guardian

Autor: John le Carré
Übersetzer: Peter Torberg

Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2024: The best advice on how to write and get published (Writers' and Artists')

Autor: Bloomsbury Academic

Die Pionierinnen: Wie Journalistinnen nach 1945 unseren Blick auf die Welt veränderten

Autor: Rainer Hank

Schwester Tod: Weibliche Trauerkultur - Abschiedsrituale, Gedenkbräuche, Erinnerungsfeste

Autor: Erni Kutter

So lektorieren Sie Ihre Texte. Verbessern durch Überarbeiten: Schritt für Schritt von der Erstfassung zum fertigen Manuskript

Autor: Sylvia Englert

Das einfachste Online-Business der Welt: Dein Weg zu persönlicher und finanzieller Freiheit - mit der perfekten Amazon Kindle-Business-Strategie

Autor: Grigori Kalinski

Ich habe ein Buch geschrieben – Was nun?: Ein Ratgeber für Autoren

Autor: Wilhelm Ruprecht Frieling

Allgemeinwissen - Literatur: 150 Fragen und Antworten zur Trivial- bis Weltliteratur, von Harry Potter bis Shakespeare

Stefan Lieb

Power: A Reader

Mark Haugaard

The Anatomy of Influence

Harold Bloom

A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

Robert Hass

The Western Lit Survival Kit: How to Read the Classics Without Fear

Sandra Newman

A Little History of Literature

John Sutherland

Leaves of Grass and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions)

Walt Whitman

Gun in Cheek: An Affectionate Guide to the "Worst" in Mystery Fiction

Bill Pronzini

Sticking It To The Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy

Earphones Award Winner ( Audio File Magazine)

Exclusively from Audible 

Set on Egdon Heath, a fictional barren moor in Wessex, Eustacia Vye longs for the excitement of city life but is cut off from the world in her grandfather's lonely cottage. Clym Yeobright who has returned to the area to become a schoolmaster seems to offer everything she dreams of: passion, excitement and the opportunity to escape. However, Clym's ambitions are quite different from hers, and marriage only increases Eustacia's destructive restlessness, drawing others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.  

Considered a truly modern story due to its sexual politics and hindered desires it still holds relevance to audiences today. There is a tension between the symbolic setting of the heath and the modernity of the characters that makes the listener question our freedom to shape our lives as we wish. Are we always able to live our dreams?  

Like George Eliot, Hardy was a Victorian realist whose novels and poetry were greatly influenced by Romanticism, especially the poet William Wordsworth. His critical thoughts on Victorian society can be seen throughout much of his work.  

Narrator Biography 

Multi-award winning actor and director Alan Rickman, famous for roles such as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films and the Sherriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), had a varied career that included performing on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company in modern and classical theatre productions. In America, he gained recognition for his Broadway appearance in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1985) and later his role in Die Hard (1988) made him internationally famous. Other notable performances included his 2001 return to the West End and Broadway in Noël Coward's Private Lives and Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman in 2010. Rickman is most remembered for his roles in films such as Love Actually (2003) and Sweeney Todd (2007) as well as voicing Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), and Absalom the Caterpillar in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010).