41 Results for : fabulist
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Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 809min
The professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine, The New Yorker. From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country's most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine's cadre of charming, wisecracking, driven, troubled, and brilliant writers and editors. He introduces us to Wolcott Gibbs, theater critic, all-around wit, and author of an infamous 1936 parody of Time magazine. We meet the demanding and eccentric founding editor, Harold Ross, who would routinely tell his underlings, "I'm firing you because you are not a genius" and who once mailed a pair of his underwear to Walter Winchell, who had accused him of preferring to go bare bottomed under his slacks. Joining the cast are the mercurial, blind James Thurber, a brilliant cartoonist and wildly inventive fabulist; and the enigmatic E. B. White - an incomparable prose stylist and Ross' favorite son - who married The New Yorker's formidable fiction editor, Katharine Angell. Then there is the dashing St. Clair McKelway, who was married five times and claimed to have no fewer than 12 personalities but was nonetheless a superb reporter and managing editor alike. Many of these characters became legends in their own rights, but Vinciguerra also shows how, as a group, The New Yorker's inner circle brought forth a profound transformation in how life was perceived, interpreted, written about, and published in America. Cast of Characters may be the most revealing - and entertaining - book yet about the unique personalities who built what Ross called not a magazine but a "movement". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tony Pasqualini. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008177/bk_blak_008177_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Krampus: The Yule Lord , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 976min
Santa Claus, my dear old friend, you are a thief, a traitor, a slanderer, a murderer, a liar, but worst of all you are a mockery of everything for which I stood. You have sung your last ho, ho, ho, for I am coming for your head.... I am coming to take back what is mine, to take back Yuletide.... —from Krampus The author and artist of The Child Thief returns with a modern fabulist tale of Krampus, the Lord of Yule and the dark enemy of Santa Claus. One Christmas Eve in a small hollow in Boone County, West Virginia, struggling songwriter Jesse Walker witnesses a strange spectacle: seven devilish figures chasing a man in a red suit toward a sleigh and eight reindeer. When the reindeer leap skyward, taking the sleigh, devil men, and Santa into the clouds, screams follow. Moments later, a large sack plummets back to earth, a magical sack that thrusts the down-on-his-luck singer into the clutches of the terrifying Yule Lord, Krampus. But the lines between good and evil become blurred as Jesse's new master reveals many dark secrets about the cherry-cheeked Santa Claus, including how half a millennium ago the jolly old saint imprisoned Krampus and usurped his magic. Now Santa's time is running short, for the Yule Lord is determined to have his retribution and reclaim Yuletide. If Jesse can survive this ancient feud, he might have the chance to redeem himself in his family's eyes, to save his own broken dreams... and to help bring the magic of Yule to the impoverished folk of Boone County. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirby Heyborne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003161/bk_harp_003161_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rain Village: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 651min
Young Tessa is a diminutive girl, far too small for farm work and the object of ridicule by both her own family and the other children in their isolated Midwestern community. Her father seems to believe in nothing beyond his crops, certainly not education for his misfit daughter. When a mysterious, entrancing librarian comes to town, full of fabulous stories, earthy wisdom and potions for the lovelorn, she takes Tessa under her wing, teaching her to read and to believe in herself and a whole new magical world of possibilities opens up. But even as she blooms, Tessa’s father begins sexually abusing her. And her mentor carries a dark secret of her own that finally causes her to drown herself. Tessa runs off, following Mary’s footsteps, to join the circus as a trapeze artist, where she marries a loving man and finds a fulfilling life for herself amidst her new circus family. But she remains haunted by her past. And when a stranger from one of Mary’s fabulist tales shows up, Tessa risks everything to follow him to Rain Village, where she might finally discover her mentor’s tragic secret. A brilliantly evocative debut set in the early part of the 20th century, steeped in emotional turbulence and down-to-earth wisdom, where a young woman must reconcile the inner traumas from her past and learn to live in the present in order to avoid becoming prisoner to her future. Rain Village casts a fabulous spell, pulling us into a world of mystery and possibility where love, friendship and loyalty might either destroy or set one free. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cassandra Morris. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015625/bk_adbl_015625_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 946min
Lillian Hellman was a giant of 20th-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" In A Difficult Woman, renowned historian Alice Kessler-Harris undertakes a feat few would dare to attempt: a reclamation of a combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault lines of her time. Kessler-Harris renders Hellman's feisty wit and personality in all of its contradictions: as a non-Jewish Jew, a displaced Southerner, a passionate political voice without a party, an artist immersed in commerce, a sexually free woman who scorned much of the women's movement, a loyal friend whose trust was often betrayed, and a writer of memoirs who repeatedly questioned the possibility of achieving truth and doubted her memory. Hellman was a writer whose plays spoke the language of morality yet whose achievements foundered on accusations of mendacity. Above all else, she was a woman who made her way in a man's world. Kessler-Harris has crafted a nuanced life of Hellman, empathetic yet unsparing, that situates her in the varied contexts in which she moved, from New Orleans to Broadway to the hearing room of HUAC. A Difficut Woman is a major work of literary and intellectual history. This will be one of the most reviewed, and most acclaimed, books of 2012. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donna Postel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009773/bk_adbl_009773_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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John le Carré Value Collection: Tailor of Panama, Our Game, and Night Manager, Hörbuch, Digital, 966min
This collection is sure to please avid LeCarre fans and new listeners alike. Includes: Night Manager, Tailor of Panama, and Our Game. Night Manager: Enter the new world of post-Cold War espionage. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who have risen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of them all is an untouchable Englishman named Roper. Slipping into this maze of peril is a former British soldier, Jonathan Pine, who knows Roper well enough to hate him more than any man on Earth. Now personal vengeance is only part of why Pine is willing to help the men at Whitehall try to bring Roper down.... Our Game: With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protégé, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left.... Tailor of Panama: Le Carre's Panama is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs, laundered money and corruption. It is also the country which on December 31, 1999, will gain full control of the Panama Canal. Seldom has the weight of politics descended so heavily on such a tiny and unprepared nation. And seldom has the hidden eye of the British Intelligence selected such an unlikely champion as Harry Pendel - a charmer, a dreamer, an evader, a fabulist, and presiding genius to the house of Pendel & Braithwaite Co. Limitada, Tailors to Royalty, formerly of London and presently of Panama City. Yet there is a logic to the spy's choice, for everybody who is anybody in Cental America passes through Pendel's doors. Language: English. Narrator: John le Carré. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003451/bk_rand_003451_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Last Illusion: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 658min
From the critically acclaimed author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects comes a bold fabulist novel about a feral boy coming of age in New York, based on a legend from the medieval Persian epic The Shahnameh, the Book of Kings.In a rural Iranian village, Zal’s demented mother, horrified by the pallor of his skin and hair, becomes convinced she has given birth to a “White Demon.” She hides him in a birdcage and there he lives for the next decade. Unfamiliar with human society, Zal eats birdseed and insects, squats atop the newspaper he sleeps upon, and communicates only in the squawks and shrieks of the other pet birds around him.Freed from his cage and adopted by a behavioral analyst, Zal awakens in New York to the possibility of a future. An emotionally stunted and physically unfit adolescent, he strives to become human as he stumbles toward adulthood, but his persistent dreams in “bird” and his secret penchant for candied insects make real conformity impossible. As New York survives one potential disaster, Y2K, and begins hurtling toward another, 9/11, Zal finds himself in a cast of fellow outsiders. A friendship with a famous illusionist who claims - to the Bird Boy's delight - that he can fly and a romantic relationship with a disturbed artist who believes she is clairvoyant send Zal’s life spiraling into chaos. Like the rest of New York, he is on a collision course with devastation.In tones haunting yet humorous and unflinching yet reverential, The Last Illusion explores the powers of storytelling while investigating contemporary and classical magical thinking. Its potent lyricism, stylistic inventiveness, and examination of otherness can appeal to readers of Salman Rushdie and Helen Oyeyemi. A celebrated essayist and chronicler of the 9/11-era, Khakpour reimagines New York’s most harrowing catastrophe with a dazzling homage to her beloved city. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018892/bk_adbl_018892_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Zu einem Igel sprach die Schlange. Deutsche Fabeln des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts
Der größte Teil der Fabeln hat Tiere, und wohl noch geringere Geschöpfe, zu handelnden Personen -- Was ist hiervon zu halten? Ist es eine wesentliche Eigenschaft der Fabel, daß die Tiere darin zu moralischen Wesen erhoben werden? Ist es ein Handgriff, der dem Dichter die Erreichung seiner Absicht verkürzt und erleichtert? Ist es ein Gebrauch, der eigentlich keinen ernstlichen Nutzen hat, den man aber zu Ehren des ersten Erfinders beibehält, weil er wenigstens belustigend ist?...wieviel Personen sind wohl in der Geschichte so allgemein bekannt, daß man sie nur nennen dürfte, um sogleich bei einem jeden den Begriff von der ihnen zukommenden Denkungsart und andern Eigenschaften zu erwecken?... Man setze, in der Fabel von dem Wolfe und dem Lamme, anstatt des Wolfes den Nero, anstatt des Lammes den Britannicus, und die Fabel hat auf einmal alles verloren, was sie zu einer Fabel für das ganze menschliche Geschlecht macht. Aber man setze anstatt des Lammes und des Wolfes den Riesen und den Zwerg, und sie verliert schon weniger, denn auch der Riese und der Zwerg sind Individua, Charakter, ohne weitere Hinzutuung, ziemlich aus der Benennung erhellet.... Die Fabel hat unsere klare und lebendige Erkenntnis eines moralischen Satzes zur Absicht. Nichts verdunkelt unsere Erkenntnis mehr als die Leidenschaften. Folglich muß der Fabulist die Erregung der Leidenschaften soviel als möglich vermeiden. Wie kann er aber anders z. B. die Eregung des Mitleids vermeiden, als wenn er die Gegenstände desselben unvollkommener macht und anstatt der Menschen Tiere oder noch geringere Geschöpfe annimmt?' (aus: G. E. Lessing, Abhandlungen über die Fabel)- Shop: Audible
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Zu einem Igel sprach die Schlange - Fabeln des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts
Der größte Teil der Fabeln hat Tiere, und wohl noch geringere Geschöpfe, zu handelnden Personen - Was ist hiervon zu halten? Ist es eine wesentliche Eigenschaft der Fabel, daß die Tiere darin zu moralischen Wesen erhoben werden? Ist es ein Handgriff, der dem Dichter die Erreichung seiner Absicht verkürzt und erleichtert? Ist es ein Gebrauch, der eigentlich keinen ernstlichen Nutzen hat, den man aber zu Ehren des ersten Erfinders beibehält, weil er wenigstens belustigend ist? Wieviel Personen sind wohl in der Geschichte so allgemein bekannt, daß man sie nur nennen dürfte, um sogleich bei einem jeden den Begriff von der ihnen zukommenden Denkungsart und andern Eigenschaften zu erwecken? Man setze, in der Fabel von dem Wolfe und dem Lamme, anstatt des Wolfes den Nero, anstatt des Lammes den Britannicus, und die Fabel hat auf einmal alles verloren, was sie zu einer Fabel für das ganze menschliche Geschlecht macht. Aber man setze anstatt des Lammes und des Wolfes den Riesen und den Zwerg, und sie verliert schon weniger, denn auch der Riese und der Zweig sin Individua, Charakter, ohne weitere Hinzutuung, ziemlich aus der Benennung erhellet. Die Fabel hat unsere klare und lebendige Erkenntnis eines moralischen Satzes zur Absicht. Nichts verdunkelt unsere Erkenntnis mehr als die Leidenschaften. Folglich muß der Fabulist die Erregung der Leidenschaften soviel als möglich vermeiden. Wie kann er aber anders z. B. die Eregung des Mitleids vermeiden, als wenn er die Gegenstände desselben unvollkommener macht und anstatt der Menschen Tiere oder noch geringere Geschöpfe annimmt? (G. E. Lessing, 'Abhandlungen über die Fabel')- Shop: Audible
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Janet's World: The Inside Story of Washington Post Pulitzer Fabulist Janet Cooke
Janet's World: The Inside Story of Washington Post Pulitzer Fabulist Janet Cooke: ab 5.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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