Résultats pour "Joséphine" dans Classiques

The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of Tey's 8 major novels in one audiobook, including all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series.

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's presence he feels she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia, her dazzling stepsister, Molly finds her situation hard to accept. Intertwined with the story of the Gibsons is that of Squire Hamley and his two sons.

One of the greatest mystery thrillers ever written, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White was a phenomenal best seller in the 1860s, achieving even greater success than works by Charles Dickens. Full of surprise, intrigue, and suspense, this vastly entertaining novel continues to enthrall audiences today.

Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning. However, it soon becomes clear that darker motives were afoot, and potential suspects in the death of Christine Clay stack up at a rapid pace. As the case grows murkier, the man who spent the last week of Clay’s life living with her in a remote cottage goes on the run, and Inspector Alan Grant must race to uncover the truth.

"Josephine the Songstress, or the Mouse Folk" is the last short story written by Franz Kafka.The story was included in the collection A Hunger Artist published by Verlag Die Schmiede soon after Kafka's death. Franz Kafka's "Josephine the Songstress, or The Mouse Folk" follows the attempts of a member of a community to understand and explain the art of their only singer, Josephine, and the powerful effect that her singing has on the community that ordinarily has no use for song or diversion.FEAT DESC

A singer is popular with the German people but not particularly good at singing. Kafka uses the story to illustrate Germanic beliefs, tight fistedness, strong work effort, and battles with neighbors. Remarkable insights as always from Kafka.

Der in der Gepäckabfertigung arbeitende Devlin, der pensionierte Lehrer Walter und die Gutachterin Gabrielle haben nichts gemeinsam, doch als eine einzige Entscheidung ein neues Kapitel in der Geschichte der Geige in Gang setzt, fühlen sie sich endlich als Teil von etwas – etwas, das zählt und das sie bedeutend macht. Denn während ihre Suche nach den Ursprüngen der Geige ein Geheimnis aufdeckt, das sich über Jahrzehnte erstreckt, lehrt das Instrument sie eine Melodie, die sie nie erwartet hätten.

After Mr. Bennet's sudden death, Mrs. Bennet and her daughters do not know where they will go or who will take care of them. Elizabeth receives a proposal from a horrible man, and in her reduced circumstances, she needs to consider it. Mr. Darcy is not about to let the woman that he secretly loves wed another man. He will do whatever it takes to make her his. She may agree to marry him, but can he truly make her his wife?