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Beginning in 1854 up through to his death in 1870, Charles Dickens abridged and adapted many of his more popular works and performed them as staged readings. This version, each page illustrated with lovely watercolor paintings, is a beautiful example of one of these adaptations.

Because it is quite seriously abridged, the story concentrates primarily on the extended family of Mr. Peggotty: his orphaned nephew, Ham; his adopted niece, Little Emily; and Mrs. Gummidge, self-described as "a lone lorn creetur and everythink went contrairy with her." When Little Emily runs away with Copperfield's former schoolmate, leaving Mr. Peggotty completely brokenhearted, the whole family is thrown into turmoil. But Dickens weaves some comic relief throughout the story with the introduction of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, and David's love for his pretty, silly "child-wife," Dora. Dark nights, mysterious locations, and the final destructive storm provide classic Dickensian drama. Although this is not David Copperfield in its entirety, it is a great introduction to the world and the language of Charles Dickens.

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Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image ? but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates.

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Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology challenging the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of the world's most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound impact on many fields-including business, medicine, and politics-but until now, he has never brought together his many years of research in one book.

In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities-and also the faults and biases-of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behaviour. The importance of properly framing risks, the effects of cognitive biases on how we view others, the dangers of prediction, the right ways to develop skills, the pros and cons of fear and optimism, the difference between our experience and memory of events, the real components of happiness-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

Drawing on a lifetime's experimental experience, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our professional and our personal lives-and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you take decisions and experience the world.

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Ulysses auf CD? Geht das?? Natürlich nicht. Wollte man Leopold Blooms Odyssee im Dublin des 16. Juni 1904 als Gesamtheit aufzeichnen, bräuchte man 15 CDs. Zu aufwendig, zweifellos. Vorliegende Audioaufnahme ist denn auch ein Auszug aus Joyces Werk. Eine Art akustischer Appetithappen.

Was für eingefleischte Joyce-Fans viel zu wenig ist, bietet denjenigen, die sich bislang nicht an den genialen Iren wagten, einen schmackhaften Einstieg. Ulysses, oft als zu schwere Lesekost abgetan, zeigt in seiner abgespeckten Audioversion, welch ein Genuss er in Wirklichkeit ist. Dafür sorgt Jim Norton, der den unterschiedlichsten Charakteren, vom jovial-polternden Kneipenkumpanen bis zur feinsinnigen Hauptfigur, hinreißende Lebendigkeit verleiht. Egal, ob es laut und derb hergeht, fröhlich oder nachdenklich, Nortons Stimme bleibt stets klar und verständlich. Der irische Schauspieler verdeutlicht, wie viel Lust, Liebe und Lebensfreude in diesem genialen Werk stecken. Seine Kollegin, Marcella Riordan, überzeugt ebenfalls durch ihre Interpretation der Molly. Sie stellt die Sehnsüchte, den Lebenshunger von Blooms treuloser Ehefrau und ihre nächtlichen Unpässlichkeiten fassettenreich dar.

Die Aufnahme kommt mit wenigen akustischen Mitteln aus. Neben den Stimmen genügen Musikzitate, um die Spannung zu halten. Kürzungen, zwangsläufig an einigen Stellen drastisch, sind dennoch klug und angemessen. Nach den Anfangsszenen wählte man Schlüsselszenen aus Blooms Alltag aus. Das Booklett, mit englischer Einführung und genauer Auflistung der jeweiligen Episoden, unterstützt das Verständnis dieser Originalaufnahme. So entstand ein Ulysses, mundgerecht für diejenigen, die ihn noch nicht gekostet haben; geeignet, viele auf den Geschmack kommen zu lassen. Denn Joyce ist und bleibt -- akustisch wie optisch -- ein Leckerbissen. (4 CDs von insgesamt 4:49:17 Spieldauer) --Anne Hauschild

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Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession". None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's astonishing command of the English language.

Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is "What happens?" In the case of Ulysses, the answer could be "Everything". William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of inforgettable Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, loiter, argue and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream- of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river-- we're privy to their thoughts, emotions and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordion-folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.

Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call "Early Yeats Lite"-- will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naïve curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus

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Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.

Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.

Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Von Kinsella, Sophie

Als Poppy an nur einem desaströsen Abend sowohl ihr Handy als auch ihren Verlobungsring verliert, liegt es für sie nahe, sich ein Handy anzueignen, welches sie verloren und verlassen in einem Hotelmülleimer findet. Der wahre Besitzer des Telefons, ein erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann names Sam, ist davon ganz und gar nicht begeistert. Denn Poppy kann nicht widerstehen und mischt sich froh, munter und beständig in seine Angelegenheiten ein.

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Please note: This ebook contains books one - three.

My name is Lucy and I was normal once. When I turned 18, everything changed. I found out I was a witch. Add in the hot guy that's been sent to protect me and we have a whole new set of problems. Now I have to save the world and myself while trying to figure out this love thing.

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Please note: This ebook contains books one - three.

My name is Lucy and I was normal once. When I turned 18, everything changed. I found out I was a witch. Add in the hot guy that's been sent to protect me and we have a whole new set of problems. Now I have to save the world and myself while trying to figure out this love thing.

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PANTHER'S PREY
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He rode from out of the Turkish wilderness atop a magnificent charger. Dark and mysterious, Malik Bey swept Boston-bred Amelia Ryder into an exotic world of sultans and revolutionaries, magnificent palaces and desert camps. Amy wanted to hate her virile abductor, to escapte his heated glances forever. But with his suave manners and seductive charm, the hard-bodied rebel was not mere thief out to steal the proper young beauty's virtue. Amy grew ever closer to surrendering to undending bliss in Malik's fiery embrace.