Résultats pour "The Game" dans Littérature du monde

Strange is the Light follows a passionately entangled group of childhood friends, fractured by the betrayals and secrets kept as they grew into adulthood. Now, after twenty years, Daphne, Ronan, Leonie and Finn will finally have to face the consequences of cutting their last adventure...

Un joven de dieciocho años llega a la ciudad de México con la secreta intención de convertirse en poeta. Es el final de la década de los cincuenta. Al poco tiempo, comienza a involucrarse en la intensa vida cultural de la capital. Así, se adentra en un mundo de talleres y tertulias, de complicidades sinceras y envidias aún más hondas, cafés y torneos de ajedrez,de intrigas amorosas, vanidades y—a pesar o por encima de todo—de pasión verdadera por la creación literaria. Los peones son el alma del juego es el vivo retrato del México de una época.

Originally published in 1943, The Glass Bead Game was Herman Hesse’s last novel. It was hailed as his magnum opus, and was instrumental in securing him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Set in a utopian future society, it explores themes of knowledge, individualism, creativity and spirituality, and has inspired contemporary thinkers from authors to game designers. Narrated by Derek Jacobi, this two-part radio drama tells the story of Joseph Knecht (Tom Ferguson), plucked from obscurity as a young orphan, admitted to the finest elite school and groomed for greatness.

In a rickety, converted 17th-century farmhouse in Dorset, England, a group of authors teaches a creative writing seminar. One of them - a brash American novelist - finds he's got more to learn about writing and romance than he ever dreamed possible. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring Ian Abercrombie as Jeremy Dean, Michael Brandon as Leo Rapkin, Christine Estabrook as Maude Locket, Jeremy Geidt as Henry Locket, David Hunt as Simon St. Clair, and Melanie van Betten as Penny Seawell.

What happens when you return to the place where your love story began, only to discover you're sharing the city with characters from your favorite novel? Roberto and Marianne Castellanos are celebrating their fifteenth wedding anniversary with a week in Paris—their first return since their chaotic honeymoon with all five children from their blended family. Roberto has just retired from teaching literature; Marianne retired early after a hiking accident changed how she sees the world through her camera lens.

Former Orlando detective Michael Garrity doesn't have a good track record when it comes to women. With two ex-wives and a teenage daughter he rarely sees, the most significant relationship in his life right now is with the tumor in his head. Terminal cancer is no joke, but Mike is determined to make the best of it. He's even named the tumor Bob. With Bob literally on his mind at all times, Mike needs a distraction. And he gets one when the most popular member of a platinum-selling boy band goes missing.

Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility they are also an imposition.

تقدم الروائية الشهيرة "سوزان كولنز" رواية مدهشة، ومشوقة في آن معاً هي حكاية لا تشبه بقية الحكايات، إنها حكاية خاصة، أبطالها، يتبارون في الجوع والموت معاً، وهنا...

In Tess Diamond’s gripping debut, when an elite negotiator and a security expert team up to solve a kidnapping, the only thing higher than the tension is the heat . . . Maggie Kincaid left the FBI two years ago and didn’t look back . . . until now. A senator’s daughter has been abducted...

One small town, one big prize, one handsome stranger... Nothing ever changes in Redford, Georgia. That's what freelance editor Jess Reid loves about her hometown—and part of what keeps her from leaving. Content taking care of her father, a car mechanic who singlehandedly raised her after her...

When a controversial celebrity rabbi drops dead over his matzoh ball soup at the famed Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, retired private eye Amos Parisman - a 60ish, no-nonsense Jewish detective who lives with his addled wife in Park La Brea - is hired by the temple's board to make sure everything is kosher. As he looks into what seems to be a simple, tragic accident, the ante is raised when more people start to die or disappear, and Amos uncovers a world of treachery and hurt that shakes a large LA Jewish community to its core.

Something is rotten in the Fort Belknap Reservation. Life has always been tough on this barren stretch just south of the Canadian border, but now the children are dying. While playing his fiddle in a reservation bar, part-time deputy Gabriel Du Pré meets an accordionist who suspects that the children’s health defects and low test scores are connected to the nearby Persephone mine.

After all the drama surrounding the invasion of the White Crane Hall, Seiki gave his word to Ippei that he’d join the War Games. So, when he hits level 14 and finally gets eligible for his first troops, Seiki gets ready to face the Demonic Clan and begin his climb up the military ranks. But before he can claim his unit from the Shogun, Seiki has one last promise to fulfill. Together with the whole band, he has to clear Nezumi Temple - aka the rat dungeon - in order to secure a rare armguard for Yamura as a thank you for saving their neck back at the siege.

Добро пожаловать в Стикс! Здесь ты больше не вершина эволюции. Здесь ты либо питательный корм для полчищ вечно голодных чудовищ, либо кандидат на становление одной из этих тварей.

Betjeman's England is a place of patriotic poets and seaside coves, provincial cathedrals and eccentric dons. For 50 years, Betjeman celebrated the glories of Englishness and what it meant to be English. Against a tide of rapid change, he unearthed forgotten heroes, bygone haunts, and old-fashioned modes of thought. But as this original collection reveals, his appeal goes far beyond simple nostalgia. It lies in his passionate convictions, his humour and his humanity.

Henry Tsien hätte niemals erwartet, dass der Aktenkoffer, den er erworben hatte, sein Leben für immer verändern würde. Der passionierte Gamer erhält die einmalige Chance, seine Träume durch einen gefangenen Dschinn wahr werden zu lassen. Und das mit nur einem einzigen Wunsch. Mit der Fähigkeit beschenkt, Magie zu wirken, und dem angeborenen Wissen, das wahre Magier zum Erlernen erst studieren müssen, kann Henry es mit dieser neuen Möglichkeit in seinem Leben weit bringen.

This poetry audiobook is a journey to simplistic emotions and feelings. It features contemporary haiku, free verses, and songwriting. This volume is the first of its kind. It is about spirituality and love. The poetry is meant to be passed on or savored by one's self. This is the third and final edition of The Big Game and it has been remastered. It contains over 55 poems with several poetic commentaries.

The quiet porch of a rest home for the aged explodes with emotion when prim Fonsia Dorsey sits down to play gin rummy with the cynical Weller Martin. Fonsia is drawn to Weller, but she just can't stop winning at cards, while Weller bemoans the bad luck that is ruining his game and has dogged him throughout his life. Tragic yet uproariously funny, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama examines themes of individual responsibility and society's mistreatment of the aged. A co-production with The Smithsonian Associates and Voice of America.