Showing results for "Sylvia" in World Literature

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens. At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex...

In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of a woman too often viewed solely within the confines of what Hughes and his collaborators wanted to be written.

Después de publicar Nenitas con Nitro/Press en 2013, Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny publicó Todo eso es yo, premio nacional de novela Tamaulipas 2015 y El Libro de Aisha, una novela de autoficción publicada por Enjambre Literario. Nenitas, por su parte, se reimprimió para formar parte de programas...

Ted Hughes married Sylvia Plath in 1956, at the outset of their brilliant careers. Plath's suicide six-and-a-half years later, for which many held Hughes accountable, changed his life, his closest relationships, his standing in the literary world, and brought new significance to his poetry.

Im schillernden London des 18. Jahrhunderts wird die verwöhnte Sophia, einzige Tochter von Lord Grafton, in die Gesellschaft eingeführt, um einen standesgemäßen Ehemann für sie zu finden. Doch bevor sie unter der Haube ist, stirbt der geliebte Vater und hinterlässt ihr außer Schulden nur eine Tabakplantage im fernen Amerika. Sie hat keine andere Wahl, als an Bord des nächsten Schiffes zu gehen, der Kurs auf die Neue Welt nimmt.

A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tune Steinway piano. A journey of self-discovery across time and continents, from a dark apartment in Taipei’s red-light district to snow-clad New York. At the heart of the story is the nameless narrator, the piano tuner. In his forties, he is balding and ugly, a loser by any standard. But he was once a musical prodigy. What betrayal and what heartbreak made him walk away from greatness?

Per l’ispettrice Nives Bonora è un periodo complicato. Qualcuno ha sparato al suo collega Pizzi, ferendolo gravemente, ed è stata lei stessa a salvargli la vita. Ma ora il commissario Brandi non vuole che partecipi all’inchiesta e anche la loro sempre altalenante relazione appare decisamente in crisi. Intanto pure il microcosmo familiare di Nives, composto da lei, dal padre e dalla nonna, è sconvolto da un ritorno inaspettato...

Dieses Hörbuch richtet sich an Hörer, die nach einem Einstieg in die unübersichtliche Vielfalt der deutschen Literatur suchen. Dafür eignet sich die gewählte chronologische Reihenfolge deshalb am besten, weil sie, im Gegensatz zu themen- oder genreorientierten Ordnungsverfahren, eine Genese aufzeigt und die Genealogie der deutschen Literatur nachvollzieht.