Classic Essays

This collection marks the return to print of John Lardner, one of America's press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humor and tireless reporting helped elevate sportswriting to art. The brilliant W. C. Heinz called Lardner "the best of us." This book shows why. Lardner applied his singular touch not only to his era's icons - Joe Louis, Ted Williams, Satchel Paige - but to the scamps, eccentrics, hustlers, and con men in the shadow of sports.

Die Michael-Ende-Hörbuchedition versammelt neben einem bisher unvertonten Kapitel der Unendlichen Geschichte Erzählungen, Essays, Gedichte und Gedankensplitter. Ausdrucksstarke Stimmen führen durch Michael Endes vielschichtiges Werk. In bisher unveröffentlichten Originaltönen ist der passionierte Erzähler Michael Ende selbst zu hören. Diese vielstimmige Sammlung lädt zum Eintauchen in den ganzen Kosmos des berühmten Wortmagiers ein und führt seine Geschichten, die danach verlangen, erzählt zu werden, ihrer eigentlichen Bestimmung zu.

Bei dieser Lesung handelt es sich um die Antrittsvorlesung von Friedrich Schiller in Jena am 26.05.1789. Der Begriff "Universalgeschichte" ist die Übersetzung von dem englischen Wort "Universalhistory", das im damaligen Deutschland eine Diskussion bei Historikern, Philosophen und Theologen ausgelöst hatte. Friedrich Schiller nimmt es als Ausgangspunkt und Thema seiner Vorlesung und zieht seine eigenen Schlüsse.

A young queer millennial physicist unveils some of the most mind-bending physics concepts in the universe—and uses them to illuminate their own fascinating life story “I see physics everywhere,” Karmela Padavic-Callaghan writes. “It offers itself to me when I try to make sense of all the...

More than 60 stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories - later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver's literary development.

America’s beloved Julia Alvarez returns to her first form, poetry, in her latest collection, with scintillating poems drawn from across her life like stars from the sky. As I approach the closing stanzas of a long life practicing my craft, I feel the need to collect the many loose poems I've...

A delightful account of the seasons in a house and its garden near the sea, a domestic idyll of hardy plants and neighbors, outer and inner weather, love and loss, and taking stock of the life we’ve made The delicious long-form poem “The Vineyard” is set in and around the quasi-fictional...

Das vorliegende Hörbuch enthält folgende Produktionen: "Goethes Frühlingsanfang" und "Duett im Garten" (Lesung, 1962, Sprecher: Wolfgang Reinsch, Regie: Hans-Bernd Müller), "Die Herbstzeitlose" (Lesung, 1961, Sprecher: Joachim Nottke, Regie: Hans-Bernd Müller), "Schlaflos" (Lesung, 1962, Sprecher: Kurt Lieck, Regie: Julius Albert Flach) uvm.

Jerome K Jerome began writing in 1888 with "On the Stage and Off', followed the next year by his familiar classic "Three Men in a Boat". In this delightful collection of stories, narrated by Hubert Gregg, the author reveals all too well why these stories should only be "told after supper". Listener beware!

Embark on a journey into the imaginative and whimsical world of "The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches" by Mark Twain. This audiobook offers a delightful collection of Twain's satirical and humorous essays and sketches that explore a wide range of topics, from politics to society to the absurdities of everyday life. With Twain's trademark wit and clever storytelling, you'll find yourself transported to a place where irony reigns, and laughter is guaranteed. These sketches provide a sharp and often hilarious commentary on the quirks and follies of the human experience.

As any fan of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic rereader of books. In 2008, then-new science fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her rereading—about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor. Now this volume presents a selection of the best of them, ranging from short essays to long reassessments of some of the field's most ambitious series.

"Es gibt nichts Langweiligeres auf dieser Erde als die Lektüre einer italienischen Reisebeschreibung", warnt Heinrich Heine und verspricht, sie dadurch "einigermaßen erträglich zu machen, dass er von Italien selbst so wenig als möglich darin redet". So sind "Die Bäder von Lucca" eher bissige Anekdoten über die geistigen und politischen Zustände im Deutschland des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts. Obwohl Heine in der Restaurationszeit verboten wurde, waren seine Reisebilder und Gedichte so erfolgreich, dass er als freier Schriftsteller im Pariser Exil leben konnte.

Colum McCann, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, turns to the troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and children.

Granna is ex-primary school teacher and grandmother Anna Gammond, who has been telling stories to countless numbers of children in her own warm distinctive style for more than 40 years. Here she brings her personal touch to Beauty & The Beast as well as two other classic stories, The Emperor's New Clothes and Three Billy Goats Gruff.

"Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word orthodox. In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. It was the kingdoms of the world and the police and the judges who were heretics. He was orthodox. He had no pride in having rebelled against them; they had rebelled against him. The armies with their cruel security, the kings with their cold faces, the decorous processes of State, the reasonable processes of law - all these like sheep had gone astray...."

Stephan Paryla-Raky versteht es meisterhaft, Kuhs geradezu "magische Prophetie" und heutige Aktualität aufleben und den satirischen Funken auf das Publikum überspringen zu lassen.

Endspurt der großen Europareise: Nach einigen Tagen in Genf folgen Turin, Mailand, Venedig und Rom, inklusive unzähliger Abenteuer, Abschweifungen, Irrungen und Wirrungen...

These passages from the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson on religion and spiritual philosophy reveal a metaphysical thought that is quintessentially American and universally relevant to the spiritual needs of today's world. It is seldom that an American philosopher is found among the gurus, mystics, and masters present in the spiritual milieu. Emerson combined the spiritual intuition of the East with the philosophical acumen of the West.

Mark Twain's marvelous short work relating how to tell a story - an American story that is humorous, not comic as the British or witty as the French. The work also includes four marvelous but little-known essays: "The Wounded Soldier", "The Golden Arm", "Mental Telegraphy", and "The Invalid's Story". Canadian listeners will particularly enjoy "Mental Telegraphy", set in Quebec.

Über viele Jahre hat Lichtenberg ab 1764 in Schreibheften in aphoristischer Form unzählige Gedankensplitter notiert...