19 Results for : romancer
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American Legends: The Life of Herman Melville , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min
Explains the real-life experiences that inspired Melville's most famous works. Includes some of Melville's most famous quotes and letters to people like Nathaniel Hawthorne. Includes critics' quotes about Moby Dick and some of Melville's other famous works. "Melville was a born romancer. One cannot account for the success of his early romances by saying that in the Great South Sea he had found and worked a new field for romance, since evidently it was not his experience in the South Sea that had led him to romance, but the irresistible attraction that romance had over him that led him to the South Sea. He was able not only to feel but to interpret that charm, as it never had been interpreted before, as it never has been interpreted since." (Eulogy editorial in the New York Times, 1891) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The life and legacy of Herman Melville have taken on various incarnations in the nearly 200 years since he was born. When he died in 1891, Melville was remembered for his series of well-received works back in the mid-19th century, particularly his first novel, Typee, a best seller when it was initially published. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric Dove. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/037298/bk_acx0_037298_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Tono-Bungay , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 952min
Tono-Bungay is very possibly H. G. Wells' finest novel, bringing together so many strands of his work: that of the novelist, the scientific romancer, the humorist, the historian, and the prophet-like sociologist. It was published in 1909, and although Wells was disappointed by its poor sales, Arnold Bennett praised it thus: "When with the thrill of emotion that a great work communicates I finished reading Tono-Bungay, I was filled with a holy joy because Wells had stirred up the dregs again and more violently than ever.... Human nature - you get it pretty complete in Tono-Bungay." George Ponderevo is the novel's first person narrator, his mother the housekeeper of Bladesover House, a great country house in Sussex, that Wells uses throughout the novel to embody the decline of England, its certainties and its values. Tono-Bungay is Dickensian in stature, broad in its social panorama, taking George from childhood in the 1860s, to Chatham in Kent, to teeming London, to Africa and France: His life unfolds warts and all, as he rubs shoulders with every class, goes to live with his aunt and uncle, a Wimblehurst chemist, who goes on to invent a patent medicine of dubious efficacy, that he names, for no obvious reason, Tono-Bungay. George goes up to London to study, falls in love, goes to work for his increasingly wealthy uncle, abandons academia, marries, returns to the study of aeronautics (theory and practice), eventually attempting to dig the crumbling family business out of a very deep hole, by prospecting illegally for a nastily radioactive substance called quap on Mordet Island, and even attempting a moonlit flit in the Lord Roberts beta flying machine. George Ponderevo is a mass of contradictions, seeking truth in science, truth in romance, mourning the passing of old England, chasing the new and the novel. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Greg Wagland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001427/bk_mike_001427_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Skeptical Romancer
The Skeptical Romancer - Selected Travel Writing: ab 10.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Hall Caine
Hall Caine - Portrait of a Victorian Romancer: ab 103.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Romanticize The 2nd Album For Good - Box
Die 5 Jungs von NU'EST (New Established Style & Tempo) traten 2012 zum ersten Mal in Erscheinung und entwickelten sich seitdem zu einer beliebtesten K-Pop-Groups Südkoreas. Nun präsentieren JR, Aron, Baekho, Minhyun und Ren mit "Romanticize: The 2nd Album" ihr zweites internationales Album und das gleich in 5(!) unterschiedlichen Versionen: FOR GOOD, TO BE FREE, THIS MOMENT, AFTER GLOW und NEW ROMANCER kommen in einer Größe von 210 x 150 x 20 mm und 5 unterschiedlichen Farben. Sämtliche Ausgaben enthalten die CD, ein Fotobuch, eine Beilage mit Texten und ein Set aus 6 Postkarten. Hinzu kommen ein individuelles Lesezeichen und 2 weitere Fotokarten, beigelegt nach dem Zufallsprinzip aus einer insgesamt 110-teiligen Serie. Die internationalen Auflagen enthalten zudem ein Miniposter der Band. PS: Bitte beachten Sie, dass der finale Boxeninhalt leicht variieren kann.- Shop: odax
- Price: 31.99 EUR excl. shipping
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