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New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (eBook, ePUB)
This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987).'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.' John Banville'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John Carey- Shop: buecher
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New Selected Poems, Hörbuch, Digital, 151min
The landmark selection of poems from the greatest poet of our age, read on audio by Seamus Heaney himself. 'His is "close-up" poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.' (John Banville) 'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' (John Carey) 'Heaney's voice, by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive, is one of a suppleness almost equal to consciousness itself.' (Helen Vendler) Language: English. Narrator: Seamus Heaney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/fabe/000010/bk_fabe_000010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 729min
“John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works.... [A] comedy of the blackest sort.” (The New York Times Book Review)Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on the air; and Sukie, the local gossip columnist, turns milk into cream. Their happy little coven takes on new, malignant life when a dark and moneyed stranger, Darryl Van Horne, refurbishes the long-derelict Lenox mansion and invites them in to play. Thenceforth scandal flits through the darkening, crooked streets of Eastwick - and through the even darker fantasies of the town’s collective psyche.“A great deal of fun to read...fresh, constantly entertaining.... John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)“Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.” (Newsday) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Reading. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/001601/bk_rand_001601_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Louisiana Rambles: Exploring America's Cajun and Creole Heartland , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 585min
After Hurricane Katrina laid bare the fragility and environmental peril of South Louisiana, author Ian McNulty set out on a series of daytrips to delve into the area's diverse cultural landscapes. He explored communities staked up and down the Mississippi River, nestled into the teeming bayous, braced along the edge of the Gulf, and planted out on the golden prairie stretching to the west. Louisiana Rambles is his richly evocative guide to those journeys.McNulty delivers an inimitable take on Cajun and Creole Louisiana-the siren call of zydeco dance halls pulsing in the country darkness; of crawfish "boiling points" and traditional country smokehouses; of Cajun jam sessions, where even wallflowers are compelled to dance; of equine gambits in the cradle of jockeys; and of fishing trips where anyone can land impressive catches. In South Louisiana, distilled European heritage, the African American experience, and modern southern exuberance mix with tumultuous history and fantastically fecund natural environments. The territories McNulty opens to the listener are arguably the nation's most exotic and culturally distinct destinations.McNulty quests for the heart of these places and people. Much more than a travel guide or collection of travel narratives, Louisiana Rambles is a seasoned writer's witness to an epic locale that is very often joyous, sometimes heartbreaking, and always vital and stimulating. The book is published by University Press of Mississippi. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ben Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173697/bk_acx0_173697_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1050min
Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? Not only the erudite Thomas Jefferson, the wily and elusive Ben Franklin, and the underappreciated Thomas Paine, but also Ethan Allen, the hero of the Green Mountain Boys, and Thomas Young, the forgotten Founder who kicked off the Boston Tea Party. These radicals who founded America set their sights on a revolution of the mind. Derided as "infidels" and "atheists" in their own time, they wanted to liberate us not just from one king but from the tyranny of supernatural religion. The ideas that inspired them were neither British nor Christian but largely ancient, pagan, and continental: the fecund universe of the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius, and the potent (but nontranscendent) natural divinity of the Dutch heretic Benedict de Spinoza. Drawing deeply on his study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart pursues a genealogy of the philosophical ideas from which America's revolutionaries drew their inspiration, all scrupulously researched and documented and enlivened with storytelling of the highest order. Along the way, he uncovers the true meanings of "Nature's God", "self-evident", and many other phrases crucial to our understanding of the American experiment but now widely misunderstood. Stewart's lucid and passionate investigation surprises, challenges, enlightens, and entertains at every turn, as it spins a true tale and a persuasive, exhilarating argument about the founding principles of American government and the sources of our success in science, medicine, and the arts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Quinlan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019857/bk_adbl_019857_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Swamplandia! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 787min
From the celebrated 29-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s.... Run for your life. This girl is on fire," said the Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, formerly number-one in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava’s father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage 98 gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell has written an utterly singular novel about a family’s struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking. An arrestingly beautiful and inventive work from a vibrant new voice in fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Arielle Sitrick, David Ackroyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002513/bk_rand_002513_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Hustons , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 2263min
When John Huston died at 81 on August 28, 1987, America lost a towering figure in movie history. The director of such classic films as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon, Prizzi's Honor, and The Dead, John Huston evoked passionate responses from everyone he encountered. He was at the center of a dynasty, with three generations of Oscar winners (Walter, John and Anjelica). Now, for the first time as an audiobook, the complete story of this remarkable family is told in The Hustons by Lawrence Grobel. The book chronicles the family's history - from Walter's days on the vaudeville circuit and his later fame on Broadway, through John's meteoric rise, to Anjelica's emergence as a great actress in film today. Grobel interviewed John Huston for over 100 hours and conducted 200 interviews with John's four children, three of his five wives, many of his mistresses, producers, writers, technicians, and a number of celebrities who rarely grant interviews. J.P. Donleavy named The Hustons the best book of the year when it was published. James A. Michener dubbed it a "Masterpiece." Kirkus called it "Spellbinding." Larry King thought it, "Biography writing at its absolute best." Frederick Raphael wrote, "The Hustons is a delicious, wicked guide to the delicious, wicked life of a sly, sadistic scoundrel who was equaled only by Byron in the sentimental cynicism and fecund carelessness with which he played the world's game." Alyn Brodsky in The Miami Herald called it, "An engrossing study in family dynamics… Marvelous… This is one of the best biographies of a Hollywood personality since - actually, I can't recall since when." And the Hollywood Reporter said it "Reads like a gutsy movie that might have been made by Huston himself." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Drummond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017793/bk_adbl_017793_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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La Chanson D'eve
Gabriel Fauré, La Chanson d'Eve, op. 95 Katherine Bergeron, voice, Dana Gooley, piano. Recorded in Grant Recital Hall, Brown University, June 2009. 1. Paradis 2. Prima Verba 3. Roses ardentes 4. Comme Dieu rayonne 5. L'Aube blanche 6. L'Eau vivante 7. Veilles-tu, ma senteur de soleil 8. Dans un parfum de roses blanches 9. Crépuscule 10. O Mort, poussière d'étoiles Fauré began composing La Chanson d'Eve in 1906, marking what some critics considered a "new manner," and his first real turn to modernism. He started from a book of poems by the same name published two years earlier by the Belgian symbolist Charles Van Lerberghe. The ten poems he set to music together retell the story of Creation, though with a crucial twist. This time there is no Adam, no forbidden fruit, no other sin but speech. In the beginning God created only woman: Eve awakens in a dream of Paradise and, before she knows it, she is singing. Or, as she puts it, she feels a dream resounding through her. "How it sings in my voice," she announces near the beginning, "this long murmuring soul of forest and spring!" Here, in effect, was a representation of the original rustle of language and her exclamation is both announcement and question. For Eve does not know how it happens. She "sings like a child," as one commentator put it, "sings without thinking." She utters her feeling and feels her utterance, wondering at all the new sensations-the sounds in her head, the breath on her lips. And in this unintentionally resonant moment, the word (and the world) felt very good indeed. This was, of course, a marvelous premise for a song cycle but, as Fauré tells it, the good feeling does not last long. You can imagine how it goes: Eve soon begins to think, to question, to bend her words according to her will. But none of this will satisfy. She ends up asking more and more. By the sixth song her thought goes feverish, by the eighth, benumbed. Predictably, as she sees her dream recede, the tale is nearly over. In the dark night of the ninth song, Eve is alone, desperate now for the lost murmur of Paradise ("I listen until it hurts," she cries). And, in the tenth, she finds what she is looking for, although essentially at her peril. For death alone will enable it's return: she gets her wish, and reclaims her Paradise, only by giving up her voice. The ten songs are connected not only through this poetic narrative but also through two musical motifs in the piano line. Both make an appearance in the opening song, "Paradis," which functions like a vast theatrical tableau for the whole set. A rising, naked arpeggio in the first measures announces the stillness of Paradise and the dawning of the "first morning of the world." Later that line warms and blossoms into a fecund chromatic figure pointing to the "blue garden" of Paradise. These two figures recur throughout the cycle, with a dream's surreal logic, both to comment on the developing narrative and to remind Eve exactly where she is. -Katherine Bergeron.- Shop: odax
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