Monatsarchive: Oktober 2019

Novellen

Novellen – Georg Engel

Dieser Band bietet eine Vielzahl von Essigs bekanntesten Novellen: “Der Wetterfrosch”, “Ein Weltereignis”, “Aus den Erinnerungen eines Gelähmten”, “Mehr, mehr!” , “Hippodrom”,  “Der Hundsbiß”, u.a.

Novellen

Novellen.

Format: eBook

Novellen.

ISBN eBook: 9783849655280

 

 

Auszug aus “Der Wetterfrosch”:

Einen Fuchssprung vom Dorfe stand eine Erlengruppe um einen kleinen Teich. Dort wohnte ein sehr alter Frosch. Man nannte ihn den »alten Schick«. Der Ursprung dieses Namens war niemand bekannt, beliebt war »Schick« bei den übrigen Dorfbewohnern nicht.

In seinem Hause oder in seinem kleinen Königreich, das dicht bevölkert war, ließ er sich von keinem Menschen etwas drein reden. Im Gegenteil, »Er« dehnte mit Willkür seine Macht bis auf eine Meile und noch weiter im Umkreis aus. Er … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Der Taifun

Der Taifun – Georg Engel

Essigs größter Erfolg war sein Schlüsselroman “Der Taifun”, in dem er sich über das kunstverrückte Berliner Publikum und die modernen Tendenzen des Sturm-Kreises lustig machte.

Der Taifun

Der Taifun.

Format: eBook

Der Taifun.

ISBN eBook: 9783849655273

 

 

Auszug aus dem Text:

Susanne Flaubert gefiel es längst nicht mehr in Brüssel.

Ihre Freunde waren außer Landes. Sie saß trübselig in ihrer Wohnküche. Am Gasbratofen stand Käterchen, ihr Dienstmädchen, und machte Rühreier. Sie tapfte gleichgültig und gedankenarm mit dem Löffel in der Pfanne herum. Zur Vermehrung oder zum Ersatz des Fettgehaltes fielen in kurzen Abständen die Katarrhtropfen von ihrer Nase in die Eierpfanne.

Susanne hatte dafür kein Auge, ihre Blicke gingen wissenshungrig durch die Fensterscheiben. Sehr aufmerksam lag … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Bühnenwerke

Bühnenwerke – Georg Engel

Dieser Band beinhaltet die folgenden Bühnenwerke des Berliner Schriftstellers, dessen größter kommerzieller Erfolg der Schlüsselroman “Der Taifun” war: “Der Schweinepriester”, “Der Frauenmut”, “Ueberteufel.”

Bühnenwerke

Bühnenwerke.

Format: eBook

Bühnenwerke.

ISBN eBook: 9783849655266

 

 

Auszug aus “Der Schweinepriester”:

Erster Aufzug

Personen

Der Pfarrer von Miesbach

Hella

Michel

Büttel

Kirchenpfleger

Schullehrer

Ein Schüler

Kirchgänger

 

Szene: Der Pfarrhof.

Links stehen Scheune und Schweinestall. Zwischen beiden führt ein enger Gang in den Pfarrgarten, dessen Bäume über den Schweinestall heraussehen. Rechts steht das Pfarrhaus, mit ein paar Stufen vor der Haustüre und einer Gartenlaube an der Seite des Hauses vorn an der Rampe; die Laube ist ganz offen, darin Tisch und Bank. Hinten schließt ein Zaun den Hof ab, doch ist … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Juvenilia

Juvenilia – Jane Austen

The Juvenilia are the early works of Jane Austen, small essays, poems or plays that she compiled in three hand-written notebooks.

Juvenilia

Juvenilia.

Format: eBook.

Juvenilia.

ISBN: 9783849655259

 

 

Excerpt from the text:

 

CHAPTER THE FIRST

Mr. Johnson was once upon a time about 53; in a twelve-month afterwards he was 54, which so much delighted him that he was determined to celebrate his next Birthday by giving a Masquerade to his Children & Freinds. Accordingly on the Day he attained his 55th year, tickets were dispatched to all his Neighbours to that purpose. His acquaintance indeed in that part of the World were not very numerous, as they consisted only of Lady Williams, Mr. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Letters

The Letters – Jane Austen

The letters included in this series comprise about three quarters of the collection in two volumes published in 1884 by her great-nephew Lord Brabourne. The lightness, almost friskiness, of their tone cannot fail to strike the reader. Modern letters written by women are filled more or less with hints and queries; questionings as to the why and the wherefore occur; allusions to the various “fads” of the day, literary or artistic,- Ibsen, Tolstoi, Browning, Esoteric Buddhism, Wagner’s Music, the Mind Cure, Social Science, Causes and Reforms. But Cowper and Crabbe were the poetical sensations in Miss Austen’s time, Scott and Byron its phenomenal novelties; it took months to get most books printed, and years to … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Persuasion

Persuasion – Jane Austen

This version includes a detailed introductory annotation on how the book and the plot were created.

“Persuasion” represents the ripest development of Jane Austen’s powers, that latest phase of her thoughts and feelings. It is a novel which, while not wanting in the several excellences of those which preceded it, has a mellower tone and a more finished grace of style than any of the others. It was written at a time when bodily strength had given place to weakness; and although her mind was more active than ever, her physical condition insensibly influenced her thought, giving this latest of her books that deeper note of feeling, that finer touch of sympathy and tenderness, which make … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

This version includes a detailed introductory annotation on how the book and the plot were created.

Her style deserves the highest commendation. It has all the form and finish of the eighteenth century, without being in the least degree stilted or unnatural. It has all the tone of good society without being in the least degree insipid. For a specimen of crisp, rich English, combining all the vigour of the masculine with all the delicacy of the feminine style, we suggest the opening chapter of “Northanger Abbey” as a model for any young lady writer of the present age. – T. E. Kebbel.

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey.

Format: eBook.

Northanger Abbey.

ISBN: 9783849655228

 

 

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Emma

Emma – Jane Austen

This version includes a detailed introductory annotation on how the book and the plot were created.

We, therefore, bestow no mean compliment upon the author of  “Emma,” when we say that, keeping close to common incidents, and to such characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality, that we never miss the excitation which depends upon a narrative of uncommon events, arising from the consideration of minds, manners and sentiments, greatly above our own. In this class she stands almost alone ; for the scenes of Miss Edgeworth are laid in higher life, varied by more romantic incident, and by her remarkable power of embodying and illustrating … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park – Jane Austen

This version includes a detailed introductory annotation on how the book and the plot were created.

How well I recall the greatest literary pleasure of my life, its time and place ! A dreary winter’s day without, within a generous heat and glow from the flaming grate, and I reclining at my ease on the library lounge, ”Mansfield Park” in hand. Then succeed four solid hours of literary bliss, and an absorption so great that when I mechanically close the book at the last page it is only by the severest effort that I come back to the real world of pleasant indoors and bleak outdoors. I was amazed that I, a hardened fiction reader, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Pride And Prejudice

Pride And Prejudice – Jane Austen

This version includes a detailed introductory annotation on how the book and the plot were created. To say nothing of the supreme excellence of the dialogue, there is scarcely a page but has its little gem of exact and polished phrasing; scarcely a chapter which is not neatly opened or artistically ended ; while the whole book abounds in sentences over which the writer, it is plain, must have lingered with patient and loving craftsmanship. . . . Criticism has found little to condemn in the details of this capital novel.- Austin Dobson Never was there a book written which has given more harmless pleasure to those who have come under its spell. As … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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