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Feder und Schwert: Der 17-jährige Rilke schrieb den Dialog wohl zunächst als Schulaufgabe. Darauf deuten Korrektionen mit roter Tinte von anderer Hand auf dem Manuskript.

Ich kam viel zeitiger nachhause und verriegelte sofort meine Türe. Als die neunte Abendstunde heranrückte, kam sie. Da sie die Tür versperrt fand, ging sie wieder weg; sie mochte wähnen, ich sei nicht zuhause. Aber ich war unvorsichtig. Ich schob den schweren Schreibtischsessel etwas jäh zurück. Das musste sie vernommen haben. Im nächsten Augenblicke pochte es. Ich blieb still. Noch einmal. Dann ungeduldig ohne Unterlass. Jetzt hörte ich sie schluchzen lange, lange ... Die halbe Nacht musste sie an meiner Türe verbracht haben.

„Mohn..." ist eine Erzählung von Rainer Maria Rilke aus dem Jahr 1895: Sie hatte gar Niemanden auf der Welt, die kleine Antje. Es war ein Waisenkind. Die Dorfgemeinde musste für ihre Erziehung sorgen.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) schrieb seine Erzählung Pierre Dumont 1894 für eine Zeitschrift, sie blieb aber ungedruckt. Erst 1932 hat Carl Sieber diesen kleinen Text veröffentlicht. Pierre Dumont ist kein eigentlicher Schultext, vielmehr schildert Rilke auf den wenigen Seiten die Abschiedsstunden von Mutter und Sohn. Pierre wird zum Militärinternat zurückgebracht und verbringt die letzten fünf Stunden mit seiner Mutter.

Das Christkind ist die Geschichte der kleinen Betty, die sich in festem Glauben an das Christkind ihr eigenes Weihnachtsfest im Wald erschafft. Eine Weihnachtserzählung von Rainer Maria Rilke aus dem Jahr 1893.

Ein ungeschönter Insiderbericht aus Russlands härtester Strafkolonie. Als Andrei Pivovarov im Mai 2021 in einem Flugzeug von St. Petersburg nach Warschau verhaftet wird, beginnt ein dreijähriger Weg durch Untersuchungshaft, soziale Isolation und Schikane. Sein Verbrechen: Facebook-Posts und...

From the 2021 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of How to Stand Up to a Dictator, a frontline guide to understanding, defending, and rebuilding democracy in the age of AI, with 10 strategic goals broken down into 100 concrete actions citizens can take right now. The window...

If leaders aren't integrating their digital offerings into a philosophy of customer success, they will be defeated in the next decade because technical excellence and other traditional competitive advantages are becoming too easy to imitate. The Customer Success Economy offers examples and specifics of how companies can transform. It addresses the pains of transforming organizational charts, leadership roles, responsibilities, and strategies so the whole company works together in total service to the customer.  

Intermediate or advanced. Enjoy the real Spanish listening to the conversations between students and native speakers, with dinamic interviews. Thorough these interviews the student of Spanish practice the language in a significant way preparing the questions for the guest to the podcast. The topics are variated and always learn not only the language but also the culture of Spanish people from differents backgrounds. Read the free transcription for each episode in the web https://rollinglessons.com/ ¿LISTEN MORE EPISODES? Subscribe on Spotify https://www.patreon.com/rollinglessons/membership

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 and the UNESCO Press Freedom Award 2021 What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its...

In this audiobook Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry. Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it...

New York Times bestseller (The Biggest Buff, The Confidence Game, Mastermind) and New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova delves into the mysterious ailment that she and 39 million others suffer from in the U.S. alone: Migraine, a disease that is still little understood, yet debilitating to its sufferers.

How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game Maria Konnikova had never actually...

“All Quiet on the Western Front” is one of the most powerful anti-war novels ever written—a timeless classic that strips away the myths of glory and honor to reveal the brutal, dehumanizing truth of warfare. Told through the eyes of Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier on the front lines of World War I, this harrowing narrative plunges listeners into the mud-soaked trenches, the constant threat of death, and the emotional numbness born of unspeakable loss.

Amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position at a remote manor house haunted by a strange power and the horror of her own memories in this chillingly evocative historical novel braided with gothic horror and supernatural suspense for fans of Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts and The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins.

In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid – loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear – boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for meaning...

Maria Bamford is a creative genius. But the process of creating is not something that “comes easily” or “is enjoyable” for her. So, over the years, she’s invented a number of helpful techniques for tricking, shaming, coercing herself into doing things. You Are (A Comedy) Special is 15-step comedic send up of a self help guide that examines Maria’s approach to stand-up in a hilarious fashion.

Anxiety Is Not a Passing Mosquito that Stings Me explains that anxiety is not something outside the person that could attack them at any moment (as if it were a mosquito). The book also explains that anxiety is not inevitable; rather it is produced by certain behaviours in the individual that make their nervous system feel at risk and this is when the symptoms we call anxiety appear. The text describes these behaviours and how to change them.

Machado de Assis’ classic novel, the precursor of Latin American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly relevant work for 21st-century audiences. In eloquent, contemporary prose, Costa and Patterson breathe new life into the dynamic character of Brás Cubas and reveal the vivid, tempestuous Rio de Janeiro of his time. The recently deceased Cubas narrates his life story, admitting glibly: “I am not so much a writer who has died, as a dead man who has decided to write.”

A groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism, originally published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young poet and nobleman. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his encounters with the city and its people, muses on his family history, and lays bare an alternately exquisite and grotesque atmosphere of death. With a poet’s attention to language, Rainer Maria Rilke forges a dazzlingly visual coming-of-age narrative, kaleidoscopic in its approach to time and its portraits of Parisian life.