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Format: 574 Seiten , 22 cm

Edition: 1. Auflage

ISBN: 9783446274006

Content: Im Juni 1954 wird der achtzehnjährige Emmett aus dem Gefängnis entlassen. Zuhause in Nebraska wartet sein kleiner Bruder Billy auf ihn. Nach dem Tod des Vaters möchten sie einen Neuanfang in Kalifornien wagen, wo sie ihre verschwundene Mutter vermuten. Alles ist bereit für die Fahrt mit dem 48 Studebaker, doch plötzlich tauchen zwei Freunde aus dem Gefängnis auf. Sie haben allerdings ein anderes Ziel, New York City. So beginnt eine Reise mit den witzigsten und unglaublichsten Begegnungen - Clowns, Landstreicher, arbeitslose Schauspieler, Bettler und besonders gefährliche Pastoren. "Lincoln Highway" erzählt die ergreifende Odyssee von vier vaterlosen Jungen entlang der ersten Autobahn Amerikas (Verlagstext) ***

Language: German

Keywords: Fiktionale Darstellung ; Fiktionale Darstellung

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Format: 9 CD (675 min)

Edition: Gekürzte Lesung

ISBN: 9783957130891

Content: Moskau 1922, Hotel Metropol. Graf Rostov hadert nicht lange mit seinem Urteil und gestaltet sich sein Leben unter Hausarrest in dem Luxushotel mit internationalen Gästen nach seinem Geschmack. Früher bereiste er die Welt, nun kommt die Welt zu ihm ...

Language: German

Keywords: Hörbuch ; Fiktionale Darstellung

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Format: 1 online resource (368 p.) : , 2 b/w illus.

ISBN: 9780691230955 , 9783110754001

Content: From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of WaldenFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan ● Kristen Case ● George Howe Colt ● Gerald Early ● Paul Elie ● Will Eno ● Adam Gopnik ● Lauren Groff ● Celeste Headlee ● Pico Iyer ● Alan Lightman ● James Marcus ● Megan Marshall ● Michelle Nijhuis ● Zoë Pollak ● Jordan Salama ● Tatiana Schlossberg ● A. O. Scott ● Mona Simpson ● Stacey Vanek Smith ● Wen Stephenson ● Robert Sullivan ● Amor Towles ● Sherry Turkle ● Geoff Wisner ● Rafia Zakaria ● and a cartoon by Sandra BoyntonThe world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the author of Walden, "Civil Disobedience," and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism, an abolitionist, and a critic of materialism and technology, Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. In Now Comes Good Sailing, twenty-seven of today's leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them-and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning.Here, Lauren Groff retreats from the COVID-19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut, where, unable to write, she re-reads Walden; Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan; Gerald Early examines Walden and the Black quest for nature; Rafia Zakaria reflects on solitude, from Thoreau's Concord to her native Pakistan; Mona Simpson follows in Thoreau's footsteps at Maine's Mount Katahdin; Jennifer Finney Boylan reads Thoreau in relation to her experience of coming out as a trans woman; Adam Gopnik traces Thoreau's influence on The New Yorker editor E. B. White and his book Charlotte's Web; and there's much more.The result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move, challenge, and provoke readers today.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Excursions near and Far -- , Wild Apples -- , My Guidebook to Japan -- , Walden and the Black Quest for Nature, or My Summer Vacation with Big Sis -- , Twenty-Four Hours on Pea Island -- , The Fragility of Solitude -- , My Failure -- , Without -- , Deliberate Living -- , To a Slower Life -- , Walden as an Art -- , The Year of Not Living Thickly -- , If I Had Loved Her Less -- , Following Thoreau -- , Directions of his Dreams -- , Thoreau on Ice -- , "The Record of My Love": Thoreau and the Art of Science -- , The Apples of His Eye -- , You Bring the Weather with You -- , Thoreau in Love -- , Practicalities -- , As for Clothing -- , On Pencils and Purpose -- , The House That Thoreau Built -- , Is It Worth the While? -- , A Few Elements of American Style -- , At Walden -- , Concord Is a Kind of Word -- , Dolittle's Rebellion -- , Ice, for the Time Being -- , Walden at Midnight: Three Walks with Thoreau -- , Simplify, Simplify -- , Notes -- , Contributors -- , Credits , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

In: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001

In: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754124

In: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753899

In: Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110739121

Language: English

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691230955

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Format: 414 Seiten , 22 cm

ISBN: 9783862200108

Uniform Title: Rules of civility

Content: Kate und Eve möchten das Leben genießen, und der junge, reiche und charmante Tinker Grey ist der Schlüssel dazu. Doch ein Unfall beendet die leichtfüßige Oberflächlichkeit des dekadenten Lebens im New York der späten 1930er-Jahre.

Language: German

Keywords: New York, NY ; Junge Frau ; Freundin ; Lebemann ; Schickeria ; Geschichte 1937-1938 ; Belletristische Darstellung ; Belletristische Darstellung ; Fiktionale Darstellung

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Author information: Höbel, Susanne

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Format: 558 Seiten

Edition: 1. Auflage, ungekürzte Ausgabe im Ullstein Taschenbuch

ISBN: 3548290728

Uniform Title: A gentleman in Moscow

Content: Moskau 1922, Hotel Metropol. Graf Rostov hadert nicht lange mit seinem Urteil und gestaltet sich sein Leben unter Hausarrest in dem Luxushotel mit internationalen Gästen nach seinem Geschmack. Früher bereiste er die Welt, nun kommt die Welt zu ihm ...

Note: Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe)ISBN: 978-3-471-35146-8

Language: German

Keywords: Fiktionale Darstellung

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Format: 335 Seiten

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 9781444708851 , 9781444708875

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Language: English

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Format: 608 Seiten , 24 cm

ISBN: 9781786332523

Content: Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling a gentleman in Moscow. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden's car. They have a very different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction to New York City. Bursting with life, charm, richly imagined settings and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from the pen of a master storyteller.

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Language: English

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ISBN: 9781448135509

Content: " ***Soon to be a major TV series starring Kenneth Branagh*** OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLDTHE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK AWARD'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it' Chris Cleave 'No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original than Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow ' Sunday Times , Books of the Year 'Charming ... shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism' The Times , Books of the Year '[A] supremely uplifting novel ... It's elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.' Mail on Sunday , Books of the YearOn 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov –,recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt –,is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all? "

Content: Rezension(1): "Amor Towles was born and raised in the Boston area. He graduated from Yale University and received an MA in English from Stanford University. An investment professional for over twenty years, he now devotes himself full time to writing. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children." Rezension(2): "Daily Express:A sheer delight ... a gorgeous comic epic." Rezension(3): "i Newspaper:What makes it a great work of historical fiction are the creations the author builds outside the hotel in a truly tumultuous time." Rezension(4): "Sunday Telegraph:Towles' use of language is an absolute pleasure to read and you can't help but savour every last word . What makes it a great work of historical fiction is the apt creations the author builds outside the hotel walls in a truly tumultuous time. Towles creates such a memorable character in Rostov and this book brings something for everyone - humour, history, friendship and philosophy.'" Rezension(5): "Chris Cleave:I adored A Gentleman in Moscow . This is a lovely, meandering story as charming and elegant as the Count himself." Rezension(6): "Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year:This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it." Rezension(7): "Mail on Sunday:Elegant sentences, wonderful characters and inventive storytelling . This is everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight." Rezension(8): "Sunday Times, Culture Magazine:No historical novel was more witty, insightful and original" Rezension(9): "Irish Times:A work of great charm, intelligence and insight." Rezension(10): "Sunday Times:A comic masterpiece . very funny, tender and as laughably accurate an account of the dismal nature of life in Soviet Russia as one could hope for . Quite apart from the ingeniously ludicrous plot and the acutely drawn characters, what adds to the joy of this book is the precision of Towles' style. Again and again he conveys exactly the right impression with a deliciously surprising choice of words . a sheer delight." Rezension(11): "Daily Express:WINNING . GORGEOUS . SATISFYING . TOWLES IS A CRAFTSMAN" Rezension(12): "New York Times Book Review:There is so, so much to love in this book as we keep company with the endlessly entertaining Count .[This] novel is wistful, whimsical and wry and elegantly captures that most apposite of lessons: 'By the smallest of one's actions, one can restore some sense of order to the world'. Brilliant" Rezension(13): "Sunday Express:If we do a better book than this on the [Simon Mayo Radio 2] Book Club, we'll have a very very good year!" Rezension(14): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: July 11, 2016 House arrest has never been so charming as in Towles’s second novel (following Rules of Civility ), an engaging 30-year saga set almost entirely inside the Metropol, Moscow’s most luxurious hotel. To Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, the Metropol becomes both home and jail in 1922, when the Bolsheviks spare his life (on the strength of a revolutionary poem written in 1913, when the count was at university). Forbidden to venture out, Rostov explores the intricacies of the grand structure and befriends its other denizens: precocious nine-year-old Nina Kulikova, a bureaucrat’s daughter who demands instruction on how to be a princess,Emile, virtuosic chef of the Boyarsky, “the finest restaurant in Moscow”,Andrey, the Boyarsky’s French expatriate maî,re d’,and the beautiful actress Anna Urbanova, who becomes the count’s regular visitor and paramour. Standing in for the increasingly despotic Soviet government is the Bishop, a villainous waiter who experiences gradual professional ascent—he becomes headwaiter of the Boyarsky, finally putting his seating-chart and wine-pairing talents to use. But when the adult Nina returns to ask Rostov for a favor, his unique, precariously well-appointed life must change once more. Episodic, empathetic, and entertaining, Count Rostov’s long transformation occurs against a lightly sketched background of upheaval, repression, and war. Gently but dauntlessly, like his protagonist, Towles is determined to chart the course of the individual."

Language: English

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Format: 576 pages , 1 Karte

Edition: Export edition, international edition

ISBN: 9780593489338

Content: "The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes"--Provided by publisher

Language: English

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Format: 13 CDs (16 1/2 hours)

Edition: unabridged

ISBN: 9780593452097

Content: In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.

Language: English