Showing results for "The Hand" in World Literature

A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous book Renowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel...

Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffel bag. He's been trained to kill but was never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the lonesome high desert in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But then he stumbles across a girl's body ritually placed in a gully. Her murder is only the beginning, and Drake must face humanity's heart of darkness once again if he's to stop a killer from turning even more gullies into graves.

Hands Around, also known as La Ronde or Reigen, is possibly Schnitzler's most provocative and controversial work. In a series of 10 conversations occurring before or after a sexual encounter, between 10 pairs of characters from all walks of life, Hands Around offers a playful scrutiny of the sexual morals and class ideology of the era.

Abbie Mackenzie dreamed of becoming a fine lady like her aristocratic grandmother, devoting herself to music and art. But at eighteen Abbie found a different dream, turning away from the promise of a comfortable life as a doctor’s wife to marry handsome, quiet Will Deal. Together, they eagerly accepted the challenge of homesteading in Nebraska territory, where the prairies stretched as far as the eye could see, and only the strongest survived for long.

The body of a young man has been found in the woods outside Newberg, dead from a close-range shotgun blast. The gun - his own - lies beside the body. Certain things don’t add up for Detective Tia Suarez. Where did the fat envelope of cash in his pocket come from? Who called the police to report the body, then disappeared before the cops arrived? The trail leads Tia to an institution for juvenile incarceration and to the leader of a local mega-church, a political and economic powerhouse in the region. Newberg’s mayor and the medical examiner keep trying to close the case.

A chilling examination of how far we will go to survive and the consequences of the choices we make. In remote Pakistan, Nick Bright awaits his fate. A successful financial trader, Nick is kidnapped by an Islamic militant group, but with no one negotiating his release, he agrees to an unusual...

Das Märchen "Die Geschichte von der abgehauenen Hand" handelt von dem aus Konstantinopel stammenden Zaleukos. Da er Arzt werden soll, schickt ihn sein Vater zum Studium nach Paris. Er zieht als fahrender Arzt und Händler durch Frankreich und Italien, wo er von einem maskierten Mann einen sonderbaren Auftrag erhält.

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As in all his books, Heckler draws from personal experience: training his horse, cultivating presence in aikido dojos, consulting with business executives, raising children. A masterful and encompassing book, Holding the Center develops from the fulcrum of the self in the natural world. Many of...

Sant Jordi coincideix enguany amb el diumenge de Pasqua. En una Barcelona que es prepara per a la gran festa del llibre comencen a aparèixer cadàvers en algunes esglésies i també a les paradetes preparades per a les signatures. Tenen res a veure uns assassinats i els altres. Un periodista cultural, un integrista catòlic apassionat pels exorcismes de Verdaguer i la sergent dels Mossos d’Esquadra Mireia Pla tenen a les seves mans la resolució del que s’amaga a les mans del drac.

Escritor Colombiano (1858-1940), dedicado a retratar con meticuloso realismo las condiciones de vida, el ambiente y los habitantes de la región de Antioquia. En su obra, que incluye cuentos y novelas, los diálogos reflejan la manera de hablar de las personas antioqueñas comunes, con toda su gracia y defectos; por eso están salpicados de palabras deformadas y con ortografía caprichosa.