Inhalt: Emma Woodhouse is introduced to us as "handsome, clever and rich" and, according to Jane Austen, a heroine "which no one but myself would like". Yet such is Emma's spirited wit that, despite her superior airs and egotism, few readers have failed to succumb to her charm. The comedy turns on Emma's self-appointed role as energetic match-maker for her sweet, silly friend Harriet. Emma herself, meanwhile, is cinfidently immune to the charms of the male sex. Her emotional coming of age is woven into what Ronald Blythe has called "the happiest of love stories, the most fiendlishly difficult of detective stories and a matchless repository of English wit". Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 367 S. Standort: Englisch Austen ISBN: 978-0-14-062010-8
Inhalt: "Sense and Sensibility" is the first novel wrote by the English novelist Jane Austen, under the pseudonym "A Lady". The story is about Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John, and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, a cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience both romance and heartbreak. The contrast between the sisters' characters is eventually resolved as they each find love and lasting happiness. Through the events in the novel, Elinor and Marianne encounter the sense and sensibility of life and love. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 373 S. Standort: Englisch Austen ISBN: 978-0-14-062042-9
Inhalt: Jane Eyre was first published in 1847 as the early work of an unknown author under the pen name Currel Bell. Charlotte Brontë's first novel revolutionised the art of fiction with social modernism and an intensity that was by the time only known from poetry. The story is set in the north of England, during the reign of George III (1760-1820). It depicts the development of Jane Eyre. Orphaned as a baby, Jane struggles through her loveless childhood and becomes governess to the young ward of Edward Fairfax Rochester, the Byronic and attractive master of Thornfield Hall. Trying to find a way between libertinage and bigotry, she realises that without the means to be an independent woman, she is bound to either struggle through life trying to make a living or become dependent on a man. We do not hesitate to say that the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority and violated every code human and divine abroad, and fostered Chartism and rebellion at home, is the same which has also written Jane Eyre. -Elizabeth Rigby, The Quarterly Review, 1848. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 447 S. Standort: Englisch Brontë ISBN: 978-0-14-062011-5
Inhalt: Basierend auf Charlotte Brontes persönliche Erfahrungen als Lehrerin in Brüssel. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 474 S. Standort: Englisch Bronte ISBN: 978-1-85326-072-8
Inhalt: Young Fanny Hill is tricked into a life of prostitution, but she quickly learns the power of her own body as she learns the ways of physical passion. She soon escapes her fate for the loving arms of a wealthy young man, but misadventure and fate conspire to keep her from domestic bliss. Instead, Fanny discovers that sex need not be just for love; that it can be had for pleasure. She then sets out to explore those pleasures in as wide a variety as she can. With old men and young, and women as well; in positions of power, and situations where she has none; either watching or participating, Fanny's journey through the realms of sexual pleasure is a literary tour-de-force. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 221 S. Standort: Englisch Cleland ISBN: 978-0-14-062088-7
Inhalt: This epic of urban life tells of small- town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beauty. Hers is a story of struggle? from sweatshop to stage success?and of the love she inspires in an older, married man whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 611 S. Standort: Englisch Dreiser ISBN: 978-0-393-92773-3
Inhalt: Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves. Powerful, intense and magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius, and set him on the way to being one of the greatest literary novelists of the twentieth century. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 218 S. Standort: Englisch Hemingway ISBN: 978-0-09-990850-0
Inhalt: Daisy Miller is about the courtship of a beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, by Winterbourne, a more sophisticated compatriot of hers. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 88 S. Standort: Englisch James ISBN: 978-0-14-062170-9
Inhalt: Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Seamus Deane. The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'. Both an insight into Joyce's life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 288 S. Standort: Englisch Joyce ISBN: 978-0-14-062230-0
Inhalt: Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous is a story that follows fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr. through his adventures. Harvey is the son of a wealthy railroad tycoon, and is spoiled and largely unaware of the ways of the world. When he is stranded on the shore of the Grand Banks after having been washed overboard from his transatlantic steamship, he meets the Captain of "We're Here" and has to accept a position on his ship. Harvey's adventures on the ship teach him about industry and consideration for others while Kipling weaves in themes of class differences and humility. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 173 S. Standort: Englisch Kipling ISBN: 978-0-14-062188-4
Inhalt: Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood, and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands. A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile environment, Kim captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 383 S. Standort: Englisch Kipling ISBN: 978-0-14-062049-8
Inhalt: One, two, three, four wonderful adventures of Peter Rabbit and his friends. Systematik: 5.4 Fremdsprachig Umfang: 78 S. Standort: Englisch 5.4 Potter ISBN: 978-0-14-050444-6
Inhalt: Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 473 S. Standort: Englisch Steinbeck
Inhalt: Elegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time, space, madness and regret. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella McNichol with an introduction and notes by Elaine Showalter. Past, present and future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh, and dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood. In another part of London, war veteran Septimus Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness, slowly spiralling towards self-annihilation. Their experiences mingling, yet never quite meeting, Virginia Woolf masterfully portrays a serendipitous unity of inner lives, converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 213 S. Standort: Englisch Woolf ISBN: 978-0-14-062221-8
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