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Hans Castorp is, on the face of it, an ordinary man in his early 20s, on course to start a career in ship engineering in his home town of Hamburg, when he decides to travel to the Berghof Santatorium in Davos. The year is 1912 and an oblivious world is on the brink of war. Castorp’s friend Joachim Ziemssen is taking the cure and a three-week visit seems a perfect break before work begins. But when Castorp arrives he is surprised to find an established community of patients, and little by little, he gets drawn into the closeted life and the individual personalities of the residents.

A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom.

Dramatisations of Thomas Mann’s three bestselling novels One of Germany’s greatest and most revered writers, Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. A vocal critic of Nazism, he had to leave his homeland when Hitler came to power, and lived in exile in Europe and America for...

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon--Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic...

While carrying out historical research at an Ontario asylum, psychiatrist Harry Karlinsky comes across a familiar surname in the register. Could the "Thomas Darwin of Down, England" be a relative of the famous Charles Darwin?In a narrative woven from letters, photographs, historical documents, and illustrations, what emerges is a sketch of Thomas’s life - the last of 11 children born to Charles Darwin. It tells of his obsession with extending his father’s studies into the realm of inanimate objects - kitchen utensils, to be precise.

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether real or imagined. Seismic events in a life might crush them; the loss of a loved one for instance. Coping is difficult, support hard to find and isolation abounds.

Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never been the social toast of the town, but when he is accused of negligent homicide in the death of his former lover, he finds himself ostracized by his colleagues and realizes just how small his little village truly is. But fortunately for Berl, the very thing that sets him apart—his inability to follow the pack—proves to be his saving grace. With this inglorious hero, McGuane has created an unforgettable voyager.

Frau Rosalie von Tümmler, yılların sessizliğini düzenle, ölçüyle ve “olgunluk” denen kabulle taşımayı öğrenmiş bir kadındır. Ta ki bedeninin ona oynadığı tuhaf oyun başlayana dek… Önce küçük bir belirti, sonra umutla karışık bir sevinç: Rosalie, doğanın ona beklenmedik bir “yeniden gençlik” armağanı sunduğuna inanır. Bu değişim, yalnızca bedenini değil, kalbini de uyandırır; yaşamın geç kaldığı sanılan ihtimalleri bir anda önüne serer. Fakat her mucizenin gölgesinde bir gerçek saklıdır. Rosalie’nin “yeniden doğuş” sandığı şey, aslında başka bir gerçeğin habercisi olabilir.

Ünlü yazar Gustav von Aschenbach, dinlenmek ve zihnini toparlamak için Venedik’e gelir. Ancak burada karşılaştığı “kusursuz güzellik”, onda beklenmedik bir sarsıntı yaratır; hayranlık, giderek kontrol edilemez bir takıntıya dönüşür. Şehrin üzerinde dolaşan gizli bir salgın tehdidi, Aschenbach’ın iç dünyasındaki çözülmeyi daha da hızlandırır. Güzellik, arzu ve sanat arasında sıkışan bir insanın sessiz yenilgisi… Venedik’te Ölüm, Thomas Mann’ın zarif diliyle; tutkunun, itibarın ve iradenin nasıl kırılabileceğini çarpıcı biçimde anlatan modern bir klasik.

Değişen Kafalar’da Thomas Mann, kadim bir Hint hikâyesinden yola çıkarak kimliğin en kırılgan yerini hedef alır: “Ben” dediğimiz şey, akılda mı yaşar, bedende mi? Bir kaza sonucu başlar yer değiştirir; sevgi, sadakat ve tutku ise bu beklenmedik değişimin içinde yönünü kaybeder. Aynı yüz, başka bir zihinle; aynı zihin, başka bir bedenle yaşamak zorunda kalınca, aşk bile kendi gerçeğini sorgulamaya başlar. Mann’ın ironisi, anlatının her kıvrımında hissedilir: Kahramanlar “doğru” olanı ararken, okur da bir sorunun etrafında dönüp durur. Seçim kime aittir?

Tonio Kröger, iki dünyanın eşiğinde büyümüş bir ruhtur: Bir yanında disiplinli, “doğru” ve güvenli burjuva hayatı; diğer yanında ise düzensiz, yalnız ve yakıcı bir çağrı gibi duran sanat. Çocukluğundan beri içinde taşıdığı bu ikilik, onu ne tam olarak ait kılar ne de bütünüyle özgür bırakır. Tonio’nun kalbinde iz bırakan ilk dostluklar ve ilk hayranlıklar, yıllar geçse de silinmez. Çünkü bazen insan, en çok “normal” olanı özler; ama ona yaklaşınca da nefes alamaz.

From her modest home surrounded by great old trees in the small river town of Ophelia, Indiana, Birdie hears the language of the birds and believes they are talking to her. Whatever they are trying to communicate increases in intensity over her life. Born in 1900, for many years she works in the local telephone exchange and so is privy to conversations—and secrets—in Ophelia. But when she says the birds have told her something, the townspeople do not believe her; they just assume she misheard someone's phone conversation.

Wie viel Selbstbestimmung ist möglich, wenn das Leben von einer psychischen Krankheit fremdgesteuert ist? Wonach sehnt sich einer, der nichts mehr zu verlieren hat? Willkommen im »Haus zur Sonne«, einer Institution, die zugleich Wunscherfüllungsmaschine wie Abschaffungsapparat ist.

Divorce attorney Olivia Sinclair is retiring. She is ready to pack the rat race in, settle down in Tahoe with her boyfriend Brian and finally live life at the pace she deserves. But when an old friend calls in a favour, she’s compelled to take on one last case…Ava, wife of tech-millionaire and media darling Mark Bledsoe has escaped from her abusive husband. He has proved himself to be a dangerous man and Ava needs to flee the country before he can track her down.

Somewhere deep in her mind, Christine Marsden is witnessing the murder of young girls. And now she has urges to hurt her own children. After a head injury which left her having nightmares and visions, Christine is convinced that something inside her brain has broken and that she is slowly sinking into insanity. She is terrified of what she might be capable of. She fears that in losing her mind, she will also lose her children and husband.

Brooklyn Thomas is pretty sure she's mostly dead. She can't feel her heart beat and she's disappearing: her reflection keeps vanishing from mirrors. No one else seems to notice. Not her coworkers at the artisanal doughnut shop she works at after failing at her high-paying marketing job. Not her crush, whom she keeps humiliating herself in front of. Not her parents, whose basement suite she's stuck living in. She's hallucinating stars from all her favorite TV shows who want Brooklyn to pull herself together and face the truth about what happened to her.

Seven legendary unproduced screenplays, resurrected and reinvented for BBC Radio 4 The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures – spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten...

Teenager Ebby Engstrom witnesses a murder—and then passes out. The next morning, he wakes in his bed with no memory of how he got there and is told his mother was stabbed to death the previous night. Thirty years later, the case has gone cold, with numerous suspects but no new clues—until Ebby starts having uncontrollable flashbacks to that night. As repressed memories surface, he questions his own role in the murder, leading to a dramatic confession and Ebby’s arrest.

Attorney Olivia Sinclair is shocked when she receives an anonymous video showing her husband Richard sleeping with someone else. After years of handling other people’s divorces, she thought she could recognise a marriage in trouble. She angrily throws Richard out of the home they share. But days later she’s arrested - for the murder of his mistress. Olivia knows she’s innocent but, with all the evidence pointing at her and an obvious motive, she must find the real killer to clear her name.

Ruth Hartland is the director of a trauma unit, a psychotherapist with years of experience, wise and respected by her peers. But professional skill is no guard against private grief. The mother of grown twins, she is haunted by the fact that her beautiful, difficult, fragile son Tom, a boy who never 'fit in', disappeared a year and a half earlier. She cannot give up hope of finding him but feels she is living a kind of half life, waiting for him to return.