Herberth E. Herlitschka Libri

A biography of François Leclerc du Tremblay, the French monk who served as advisor to Cardinal de Richelieu

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing them through their thoughts and interior soliloquies. As their understanding of nature’s trials grows, the chorus of narrative voices blends together in miraculous harmony, remarking not only on the inevitable death of individuals but on the eternal connection of everyone. The novel that most epitomizes Virginia Woolf’s theories of fiction in the working form, The Waves is an amazing book very much ahead of its time. It is a poetic dreamscape, visual, experimental, and thrilling.

National Book Award für den besten amerikanischen Roman des Jahres 1967 Vordergründig ist diese amerikanische Saga eine Kriminalgeschichte: Ein unschuldig wegen Mordes zum Tode Verurteilter wird auf der Fahrt zur Hinrichtung von Maskierten befreit. Er beginnt seine Flucht, seine Familie sieht ihn nie wieder. In Rückblenden und Perspektiven des Zukünftigen wird Stück um Stück, durch mehrere Generationen, die Geschichte zweier amerikanischer Familien aufgerollt, die des Ermordeten und die des angeblichen Mörders. Dahinter steht in diesem großen Roman die Frage nach dem Sinn von Leben und Tod.

"Flush" è la biografia del cane della poetessa inglese Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Ed è la storia dell'incontro tra Elizabeth Barrett e Robert Browning raccontata da un punto di vista molto particolare, quello di Flush. Ed è il gioco con cui Virginia Woolf scherza con la mania, tutta inglese, per la biografia. Ed è pure il racconto della sproporzione di tutti gli innamoramenti e di tutti i tradimenti, perché a un certo punto arriva Mr. Browning e Flush è solo un cane. La vita avventurosa, bizzarra, aristocratica e buffa di Flush, dall'infanzia a Reading alla casa di Wimpole Street, dove Miss Barrett è costretta a letto, dalla gelosia per Robert Browning ai balconi assolati di Casa Guidi a Firenze, dalle ali di pollo delicatamente arrostite al covo di un manipolo di rapitori a Whitechapel. L'incantevole biografia del piccolo cocker Flush amato da una grande poetessa.

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition.

"This is Mr. Huxley's best novel for a very long time . . . admirably constructed . . . bright and sun-pierced." New Statesman and Nation

Selection of short stories translated to German - Cheramour - Die Geschichte vom stählernen Floh und dem Linkshänder aus Tula - Ein kleiner Fehler - Das erlesene Korn - Psychopaten von dazumal - Der Alexandrit - Fischsuppe ohne Fisch