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Jules Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. VOLUME 2: We now come to the second part of our journey under the sea. The first ended with the moving scene in the coral cemetery which left such a deep impression on my mind. Thus, in the midst of this great sea, Captain Nemo's life was passing, even to his grave, which he had prepared in one of its deepest abysses.

Als Schiffbrüchiger gerät der gebildete van Weyden auf den Robbenfänger "Ghost" unter dem berüchtigten Kapitän Wolf Larsen, der den Literaten zum Küchenjungen macht, denn für ihn gilt allein das brutale Recht des Stärkeren. Und Wolf Larsen ist der Stärkere. Voller Abscheu und doch auch fasziniert erlebt van Weyden, wie sich bei diesem Mann tierhafte Kraft und Schönheit mit einer gänzlich skrupellosen und zynisch materialistischen Weltanschauung verbinden. Der Konflikt zwischen einem zynisch-brutalen Kapitän und einem Schiffbrüchigen.

Als Schiffbrüchiger gerät der gebildete van Weyden auf den Robbenfänger "Ghost" unter dem berüchtigten Kapitän Wolf Larsen, der den Literaten zum Küchenjungen macht, denn für ihn gilt allein das brutale Recht des Stärkeren. Und Wolf Larsen ist der Stärkere. Voller Abscheu und doch auch fasziniert erlebt van Weyden, wie sich bei diesem Mann tierhafte Kraft und Schönheit mit einer gänzlich skrupellosen und zynisch materialistischen Weltanschauung verbinden. Der Konflikt zwischen einem zynisch-brutalen Kapitän und einem Schiffbrüchigen. Die Figur des Übermenschen und sein Scheitern. Einer der erfolgreichsten Romane der Literaturgeschichte.

Roma, Idi di marzo del 44 a.C. Nella notte di sangue che ha cambiato il corso della storia antica, Marco Tullio Cicerone riceve una tremenda profezia: Giulio Cesare, che giace cadavere trafitto dai pugnali dei congiurati, gli appare in sogno e gli rivela il giorno della sua morte. Angoscia, sgomento e attesa dei fati si fondono nell'animo di Cicerone alla speranza di restituire la libertà a Roma. Ma la realtà diventa di giorno in giorno più dura e sangue chiama altro sangue. La funesta guerra civile, ormai inevitabile, non risparmierà nessuno.

This is the novel Typhoon. Written for you by Joseph Conrad, and read by Jim Edmark.

Eine Inselromanze mit Herz, Humor und einem Hengst der besonderen Art. Melli sieht sich in ihrem Leben am absoluten Tiefpunkt angelangt. Da sorgt eine spontane Zugreise nach Sylt für willkommene Abwechslung. Zusammen mit ihrer Großmutter besucht sie dort ihre Schwester, die mit ihrem Mann einen Pferdehof auf der beliebten Ferieninsel betreibt. Trotz jahrelanger Funkstille wird sie mit offenen Armen empfangen und lernt dabei nicht nur ihre neue Familie zum ersten Mal richtig kennen. Denn sie begegnet hier auch dem attraktiven Sven, der als Stallbursche auf dem Hof lebt.

I 1896 flygtede fire englændere med deres bytte, en formue i uslebne diamanter, gennem den nådesløse Kalahari-ørken, stærkt forfulgt af en afrikansk stamme. Det lykkedes de fire mænd at komme om bord på det ventende HMS Rove, men en storm blæste op, og skibet forsvandt med alle ombordværende. Juan Cabrillo og hans besætning på det ombyggede fragtskib, Oregon, er med nød og næppe sluppet helskindet fra en mission på Congo-floden, da de opfanger et nødkald fra et skib, der er kommet under beskydning ud for den afrikanske kyst.

"Dagon" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11). Dagon was later published in Weird Tales and is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft's most forward looking stories.

Genocide. Jellyfish smack. Unrequited love. This is a tale of thirteen mermaid sisters, the last of their kind.

Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain.

"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages, the growing sense of solitude, the close dependence upon the very forces that, friendly to-day, without changing their nature, by the mere putting forth of their might, become dangerous to-morrow, make for that sense of fellowship which modern seamen, good men as they are, cannot hope to know."

Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic reputation, with visceral disgust. There is a sad irony in this, for Conrad's title originally alluded to a rather complex set of meanings, implying that, by virtue of our human nature, we all carry within the fragile vessel that is our idealised image of ourselves a darker being we find troubling, even despicable, but with whom we must eventually come to terms.

Autumn, a mother-to-be, has an unsteady grip on the meaning of family. Her father abandoned her. She hasn’t seen her estranged mother in more than twelve years. And her marriage is crumbling. As Autumn struggles with painful memories of her childhood and fosters hopes for her own baby’s future, she must come to terms with the past to be the mother she and her child need her to be.

The story follows the undoing of Peter Willems, a dishonorable man on the run from a scandal of his own making. After leaving Macassar, he takes refuge in a remote village and river post. The native people of the village take him in and serve as benefactors to Peter, but he seems doomed to fail each test of his character.

1775: General George Washington has discovered his store of gunpowder has dwindled to next to nothing. Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is despatched to Bermuda to capture the British gunpowder known to be there. But the plan is a trap, hatched by a traitor among the Patriots. Washington's aide-de-camp Major Edward Fitzgerald is tasked with hunting the traitor down; Biddlecomb meanwhile must work to free his ship and his men and capture the gunpowder so vital in the fight for freedom. Will Biddlecomb and Fitzgerald overcome their common enemy – the greatest military power on Earth?

O jovem Humphrey van Weyden é salvo de um náufrago pela escuna Ghost. Porém, ele logo compreende que seu pesadelo está apenas começando: o capitão Wolf Larsen o obriga a integrar a tripulação de seu navio! A bordo, ele vivencia a árdua rotina dos marujos e a tirania imposta pelo capitão.

Gilliatt vive à margem da sociedade na ilha de Guernesey. Um dia ele se apaixona por Deruchette, sobrinha do armador Lethierry. Quando o navio desse armador naufraga perto de um rochedo perigoso, sua sobrinha promete se casar com o homem capaz de recuperar o motor da embarcação. Pensando em sua bem-amada, o jovem se oferece e acaba encontrando muitas aventuras, entre elas um polvo gigante escondido numa caverna!

Incluso nella prima selezione del Premio Strega 2023, "Mare mosso" è un noir da ascoltare tutto d’un fiato che si delinea sullo sfondo di un mondo sommerso, le cui profondità celano insidie di ogni tipo... Cagliari, 1981. Al largo delle coste della Sardegna c’è la Izmir, una grande nave cargo battente bandiera turca, che lancia un allarmante SOS. L’ingegnere navale Achille Vitale, che dirige un’intrepida flotta di rimorchiatori per conto di un facoltoso armatore napoletano, si mette subito all’opera: bisogna raggiungere la nave il prima possibile, in modo da salvare l’equipaggio da morte certa.

It is 1948, and post-war Britain is on her knees. The call has gone out to the British Empire for volunteers to help rebuild the Mother Country, and young men and women from across the Caribbean have been quick to respond, paying the considerable sum of £28.10s to board HMT Empire Windrush. As five hundred disparate passengers begin the two-week voyage, it becomes clear that their lives will never be the same again.

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller ‘I adored it’ – Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of Wait For Me A sweeping and epic love story, The Ghost Ship is a swashbuckling tale of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the high seas. The...