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Owen Wingrave, Ljudbok

Owen Wingrave is a novella by Henry James, first published in The Graphic in 1892A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not follow his ancestors' path into the army. Dire results ensue.Owen Wingrave is often included among Henry James’s ghost stories, even though it reveals more of history, atmosphere and psychology in the Wingrave family.Benjamin Britten in 1970 wrote an opera based on this story.Total Running Time (TRT): 1h, 29 minHenry James, OM (Order of Merit) (1843-1916) was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from a character's point of view allowed him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators brought a new depth to narrative fiction.Henry James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.

Britten: Owen Wingrave

Britten: Owen Wingrave [2 CD]

Alan Davie and David Hockney

Encountering the work of Alan Davie (1920-2014) at Wakefield Art Gallery in 1958, a young David Hockney (b.1937) was struck by Davie's landmark Abstract Expressionist paintings, which mirrored and stimulated his own fledgling experimentation with ...

Mangrove Sands

This book sets out to inspire and educate children, who, for one reason or another, have difficult starts in life either by fate or disability. Each chapter provides a human lesson and human qualities through adventure, including: empathy, bravery...

Beneath the Tree of Heaven

It is the Winter of 2212, and amidst the clamour for power in North America, Emily Asher assumes the role of 'Eldest Daughter' - her society's conscience in the Lowers of her adopted City. Ranged against her, however, are forces with their own age...

White Moon, Red Dragon

On Earth, the mega-cities of the T'ang begin to crumble as war ripples across the planet. It is a time of change, of endings, of beginnings. It is a time when Li Yuan, the last of the T'ang, will make a terrifying alliance?when chaos will erupt in...

Chung Kuo

As Chung Kuo's population continues to swell, the Seven are forced to make further concessions; laws must be relaxed and the House at Weimar re-opened. Change is coming, whether the Seven want it or not. As the tides of unrest unleashed by earlier...

Chung Kuo

The great Empire of Ice - Chung Kuo - has finally been shaken after more than two centuries of peace enforced by brutal tyranny. The Minister of the Edict has been assassinated and the seven ruling T'ang struggle to maintain Stasis, even as their ...

Chung Kuo

Two decades after the great economic collapse the world's cities have ceased to exist and life continues only in scattered communities. Back in '43, Jake was a rich, young futures broker, immersed in the 'datascape' of the world's financial market...

Chung Kuo

Chung Kuo, the great globe-spanning City constructed of the super-plastic Ice, enjoys a brief if uneasy peace, which is threatened by the discovery of the Aristotle File. Suppressed by the Ministry, the 'Thousand Eyes', for centuries the document ...

Chung Kuo

Chung Kuo's once-perfect stasis is fast falling apart. The Seven's dominance is threatened by a series of terrorist attacks as the War of the Two Directions spreads and intensifies. Howard DeVore, the Seven's greatest enemy, is master-minding the ...

Chung Kuo

The Council of Seven ruled Chung Kuo with an iron authority, their boast that they had ended Change and stopped the Great Wheel turning. But war, famine and political instability, thought to be things of the past, had returned to Chung Kuo with a ...

Chung Kuo

Wu Shih, T'ang of North America, has drawn the dragons' teeth, arresting the `Sons' and refusing to give them up to their powerful fathers until they come to heel. But in doing so he seals his own fate and feeds the flames of revolution in the pro...

Chung Kuo

Currents of unrest and tides of innovation threaten to overwhelm Chung Kuo's stability. When a lethal epidemic strikes the Seven's chief supporters, Li Yuan acts ruthlessly to wipe out the disease. But his actions incur far more fatal consequences...

Chung Kuo

Japan lies under a radioactive cloud, its denizens wiped out. America has been subjugated, its inhabitants scattered. The Old World is dead, buried beneath the foundations of the new - Chung Kuo, a mile-high, globe-spanning megacity. Billions have...

Owen Wingrave, E-bok

Owen Wingrave is a novella by Henry James, first published in The Graphic in 1892.A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not follow his ancestors' path into the army. Dire results ensue.Owen Wingrave is often included among Henry James’s ghost stories, even though it reveals more of history, atmosphere and psychology in the Wingrave family.Benjamin Britten in 1970 wrote an opera based on this story.Henry James, OM (Order of Merit) (1843-1916) was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from a character's point of view allowed him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators brought a new depth to narrative fiction.Henry James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.

Owen Wingrave, E-bok

Owen Wingrave is a story by Henry James, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest American authors of all time. In addition to the story, this ebook contains an essay on James by Joseph Conrad, a biography of the author and a selected bibliography of his works.

David

This monographic study focuses upon the work of Jacques-Louis David, in particular, the theme of the connection he established between art and politics.

David

Små bibelhjältar är korta berättelser för barn i alla åldrar. Det finns 4 olika böcker i serien: Julen, Sackaios, Den barmhärtige samariern och David.

Crossing the Mangrove

In this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture. Francis Sancher--a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others--is found dead, ...

Crossing the Mangrove

In this beautifully crafted, Rashomon-like novel, Maryse Conde has written a gripping story imbued with all the nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture. Francis Sancher--a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others--is found dead, ...

Mangrove: Endless Skies

Mangrove: Endless Skies [CD]

The Mangrove Coast

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Crossing the Mangrove

'An extraordinary storyteller' Bernardine Evaristo 'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Rivière au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the mountains...' Francis Sancher always said he would come to an unnatural en...

Learn Freestyle Football With Billy Wingrove

OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.Instructional film by the UK's No1 Football Freestyler, Billy Wingrove. Billy not only shows off his amazing abilities but also shows how they are executed and teaches would be freestylers the skills required to perform them, a must for all young football fans and football freestylers.Typ: DVD

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