eBooks „ Jerome“
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Heinz Squarra
Sattelpartner wider Willen
Cassiopeiapress Western
- Abenteuer
- Deutsch
- 21281 Wörter
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- 31
Westen von Heinz Squarra
Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 89 Taschenbuchseiten.
Als Marshal von Hondale, einer kleinen Stadt im südlichen Neumexiko, führt Dan Brent ein ruhiges Leben. Dann wird die Postkutsche von Jerome Caney und seiner Bande überfallen und der Stadtmarshal nimmt gemeinsam mit seinem ehemaligen Sattelpartner, dem Spieler Jubal Booth, die Verfolgung auf; die achthundert Bucks Kopfgeld, die auf Caney ausgesetzt sind, will sich Booth nicht entgehen lassen. Nach einem weiteren Überfall auf eine Concord-Kutsche, bei dem die Banditen die Besatzung gnadenlos ermorden und Silbermünzen in Höhe von fünfzehntausend Dollar stehlen, verfolgen die beiden Banditenjäger die Flüchtenden bis nach Mexiko. Dort hat der Marshal keine Befugnisse mehr – und auf einmal findet er sich im Jail von Boca Grande wieder und soll am nächsten Tag gehängt werden ... [mehr]
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Horace Walpole
A Castle of Otranto
- Belletristik
- Englisch
- 34586 Wörter
- Ab 8 Jahren
- 474
- 3
A Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Walpole, by extension, is arguably the forerunner to such authors as Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Daphne du Maurier.
The Castle of Otranto tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. The book begins on the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabella. Shortly before the wedding, however, Conrad is crushed to death by a gigantic helmet that falls on him from above. This inexplicable event is particularly ominous in light of an ancient prophecy "That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it". Manfred, terrified that Conrad's death signals the beginning of the end for his line, resolves to avert destruction by marrying Isabella himself while divorcing his current wife Hippolita, who he feels has failed to bear him a proper heir. However, as Manfred attempts to marry Isabella, she escapes to a church with the aid of a peasant named Theodore. Manfred orders Theodore's death while talking to the friar Jerome, who ensured Isabella's safety in the church. When Theodore removes his shirt to be killed, Jerome recognizes a marking below his shoulder and identifies Theodore as his own son. Jerome begs for his son's life, but Manfred says Jerome must either give up the princess or his son's life. They are interrupted by a trumpet and the entrance of knights from another kingdom who want to deliver Isabella. This leads the knights and Manfred to race to find Isabella. Theodore, having been locked in a tower by Manfred, is freed by Manfred's daughter Matilda. He races to the underground church and finds Isabella. He hides her in a cave and blocks it to protect her from Manfred and ends up fighting one of the mysterious knights. Theodore badly wounds the knight, who turns out to be Isabella's father, Frederic. With that, they all go up to the castle to work things out. Frederic falls in love with Matilda and he and Manfred begin to make a deal about marrying each other's daughters. Manfred, suspecting that Isabella is meeting Theodore in a tryst in the church, takes a knife into the church, where Matilda is meeting Theodore. Thinking his own daughter is Isabella, he stabs her. Theodore is then revealed to be the true prince of Otranto and Matilda dies, leaving Manfred to repent. Theodore becomes king and eventually marries Isabella because she is the only one who can understand his true sorrow. [mehr]
Stichwörter: the castle of otranto, horace walpole, historic literature, romantic history, gothic horror, supernatural thriller
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Carter Brown
DRAMA IN HOLLYWOOD
Der Krimi-Klassiker!
- Krimi
- Deutsch
- 39557 Wörter
- Ab 16 Jahren
- 1
Wer war es, der dafür gesorgt hatte, dass Della August in jeder Filmgesellschaft der Stadt auf die schwarze Liste gesetzt wurde?
Drei Personen - ihr hinterhältiger Agent Barney Ryan, der mächtige Syndikats-Chef Jerome T. King und der Produzent Erik Stanger - hatten persönliche und ganz besondere Gründe, Della aus der Welt des Films verbannt zu wissen. Und jeder dieser Gründe hing auf geheimnisvolle Weise mit dem Tod des Hollywood-Stars Nummer eins, Rodney Blane, zusammen...
Der Roman Drama in Hollywood von Carter Brown (eigentlich Allan Geoffrey Yates; * 1. August 1923 in London; † 5. Mai 1985 in Sydney) erschien erstmals im Jahr 1963; eine deutsche Erstveröffentlichung folgte 1964.
Der Apex-Verlag veröffentlicht die legendären Kriminal-Romane von Carter Brown als durchgesehene Neuausgaben in seiner Reihe APEX CRIME. [mehr]
Stichwörter: Apex-Verlag, Krimi, Thriller, Roman, Romane, Spannung, Suspense, Crime, Noir, Crime Noir, Hoyywood, USA, Golden Age, Goldenes Zeitalter, Drama, Tragödie, Verschwörung, Geheimnis, Rätsel, Mord, Morde, Verbrechen, Detektiv, Detektive, Detektivgeschichten, tragisch, düster, Klassiker, klassisch, ebook, Ebook, E-Book, Neuausgabe 2020, Neuerscheinung 2020 [mehr]
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Thomas West
Gangsterjagd in New York 1 - Zwei Action Thriller
Cassiopeiapress Krimi Sammelband
- Thriller
- Deutsch
- 112012 Wörter
- Keine Altersempfehlung
- 222
Dieses Buch enthält folgende Romane Thomas West: Rächer ohne Namen Thomas West: Gangster Rapper Umfang: ca. 480 Taschenbuchseiten. RÄCHER OHNE NAMEN: Jesse Trevellian ist ein New Yorker Ermittler. Im Kampf gegen das Verbrechen geht er immer wieder bis an die Grenzen. Unbestechlich stellt er sich dem Kampf gegen das Verbrechen. Der RÄCHER OHNE NAMEN ist diesmal sein unsichtbarer Gegner. Ein verzwickter Fall, der Trevellian an den Rand des Scheiterns bringt... GANGSTER RAPPER: Es war im Sommer 1983 in der Lower East Side... Sie hatten schwarze Hautfarbe. Beide. Das war aber auch schon alles, was sie verband. Jedenfalls damals, als sie sich am Tompkins Square zum ersten Mal begegneten. Einen Tag vor ihrem ersten Tod, wie Jerome das später immer nannte. Jerome war ein großer, damals schon unglaublich fetter Kerl. Trotz seiner zwölf Jahre hielt ihn jeder für mindestens sechzehn. Leonard dagegen war ein Strich in der Landschaft. Ein ziemlich kurzer Strich dazu. So kurz, dass er noch Monate nach diesem Tag, an dem die beiden sich zum ersten Mal begegneten, die Metro völlig unbeanstandet mit einem Kinderbutton benutzen konnte - falls er überhaupt in der Stimmung war, einen Button aus dem Automaten zu ziehen. Dabei war Leonard immerhin schon fast elf. Damals, an jenem Tag vor seinem "ersten Tod". Jesse Trevellian, der New Yorker Ermittler mit dem untrüglichen Instinkt für Mordsschwierigkeiten, gerät in einen erbarmungslosen Krieg der Rapper. Er steht zunächst vor einem Rätsel. Aber sein Instinkt lässt ihn nicht im Stich - bringt ihn aber auch in Teufels Küche... Ein Actionreiher, dramatischer Thriller. Cover: Steve Mayer [mehr]
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Frank Böhm, Valerie le Fiery
High Five
Wer fünfmal lacht
- Humor
- Deutsch
- 10673 Wörter
- Keine Altersempfehlung
- 146
- 4
Hey, Sie da! Das Bauchmuskeltraining können Sie sich sparen. Wir haben da etwas für Sie. Trainieren Sie Ihr Sixpack doch einfach, indem Sie ein wenig lachen.
Begleiten Sie die Maus Pipo bei ihrem Ausflug durch Haus und Baustelle und erfahren Sie anschließend, weshalb der Student Jerome keine Extrabehandlung bekommt. Hinterher dürfen Sie sich gern in der Hausarztpraxis Dr. Waldemar Winzig behandeln lassen - sofern Sie mit Frau Lotterblom klarkommen. Wenn Sie auch das überstanden haben, lassen wir Sie an verrückten Autorenträumen teilhaben. Zum guten Schluss sollten Sie sich einen Urlaub in Immergrün-Pfauenhausen gönnen.
High Five - das sind fünf Geschichten zum Schmunzeln und Abschalten unter Mitwirkung der Autoren Valerie le Fiery, Dirk Harms, Frank Böhm, Karin Kaiser und Harald Grenz Graf von Sternenberg. Getreu dem Motto „Schreiben für den guten Zweck“ werden sämtliche Tantiemen dieses Projektes der Initiative „... fair geht vor!“ gespendet, die sich im Landkreis Stade für die Flüchtlingshilfe einsetzt.
Der Inhalt dieses Buches umfasst ca. 10000 Wörter. [mehr]
Stichwörter: Humor, lachen, Maus, Student, Arztpraxis, Träume, Urlaub, Ironie, Kurzgeschichten, Witz
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P. G. Wodehouse
The Adventures of Sally
- Erotik
- Englisch
- 77179 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 17
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (/ˈwʊdhaʊs/; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English humorist whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of a pre– and post–World War I English upper class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.
An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by recent writers such as Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Fry,[1] Douglas Adams,[2] J. K. Rowling,[3] and John Le Carré.[4]
Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and of 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies, many of them produced in collaboration with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934), wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote lyrics to Sigmund Romberg's music for the Gershwin – Romberg musical Rosalie (1928) and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928). He is in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. [mehr]
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Pete Hackett
Marshal Logans Wettlauf gegen die Zeit (U.S. Marshal Bill Logan, Band 113)
Western
- Thriller
- Deutsch
- 26702 Wörter
- Keine Altersempfehlung
- 182
U.S. Marshal Bill Logan – die neue Western-Romanserie von Bestseller-Autor Pete Hackett! Abgeschlossene Romane aus einer erbarmungslosen Zeit über einen einsamen Kämpfer für das Recht. Ein CassiopeiaPress E-Book Earl Martin stand auf dem Vorbau des Horseman Saloon. In einem Schaukelstuhl saß Swift McIntire. Er hatte die Füße übereinandergeschlagen und auf das Geländer gelegt. Die beiden Kerle waren stoppelbärtig und verstaubt. Die Verkommenheit stand ihnen in die Gesichter geschrieben. Earl Martin beobachtete den Mann, der auf der anderen Straßenseite ging. Er war hochgewachsen und schlank und trug einen schwarzen Anzug und ein weißes Hemd, das am Hals von einer weinroten Schnürsenkelkrawatte zusammengehalten wurde. Seine Haare waren silbergrau. Es handelte sich um Richter Jerome Frederick Humphrey, der auf dem Nachhauseweg war. Es war kurz nach 18 Uhr und der Richter hatte vor wenigen Minuten Feierabend gemacht. Er spürte nicht den sengenden Blick, der sich an ihm festgesaugt hatte. Er hatte auch keine Ahnung, dass die Männer seinetwegen nach Amarillo gekommen waren. Earl Martin nickte seinem Kumpan zu. Dieser erhob sich und folgte dem Richter. Martin ging in den Schankraum. An einem der runden Tische saßen drei weitere heruntergekommene Kerle; falkenäugig und gewiss ausgesprochen hartbeinig, zusammengesetzt aus kompromissloser Härte, Mitleidlosigkeit und skrupelloser Verworfenheit. Ihnen haftete der Geruch von Pulverdampf an. Es waren Sattelstrolche. Martin setzte sich an den Tisch und sagte leise: »Swift folgt ihm. Wenn wir wissen, wo er wohnt, schlagen wir zu.« Er griff nach einem Glas voll Brandy und trank es mit einem Ruck leer … [mehr]
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Edna Ferber
Emma Mcchesney & Co.
- Belletristik
- Englisch
- 41728 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Ferber was born August 15, 1885, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to a Hungarian-born Jewish storekeeper, Jacob Charles Ferber, and his Milwaukee, Wisconsin-born wife, Julia (Neumann) Ferber. After living in Chicago, Illinois, and Ottumwa, Iowa, at the age of 12 Ferber and her family moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, where she graduated from high school and briefly attended Lawrence University. She took newspaper jobs at the Appleton Daily Crescent and the Milwaukee Journal before publishing her first novel. She covered the 1920 Republican National Convention and 1920 Democratic National Convention for the United Press Association.
Career[edit]
Ferber's novels generally featured strong female protagonists, along with a rich and diverse collection of supporting characters. She usually highlighted at least one strong secondary character who faced discrimination ethnically or for other reasons; through this technique, Ferber demonstrated her belief that people are people and that the not-so-pretty people have the best character.
Several theatrical and film productions have been based on her works, including Show Boat, Giant, Ice Palace, Saratoga Trunk, Cimarron (which won an Oscar) and the 1960 remake. Three of these works – Show Boat, Saratoga Trunk and Giant – have been developed into musicals.
When composer Jerome Kern proposed turning the very serious Show Boat into a musical, Ferber was shocked, thinking it would be transformed into a typical light entertainment of the 1920s. It was not until Kern explained that he and Oscar Hammerstein II wanted to create a different type of musical that Ferber granted him the rights. Saratoga, based on Saratoga Trunk, was written at a much later date, after serious plots had become acceptable in stage musicals.
In 1925, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her book So Big, which was made into a silent film starring Colleen Moore that same year. An early talkie movie remake followed, in 1932, starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent, with Bette Davis in a supporting role. A 1953 remake of So Big starred Jane Wyman in the Stanwyck role, and is the version most often seen today. [mehr]
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P. G WODEHOUSE
PSMITH IN THE CITY
- Kurzgeschichte
- Englisch
- 52755 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
- 1
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (/ˈwʊdhaʊs/; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English humorist whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, humorous verses, poems, song lyrics, and magazine articles. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. A quintessential Englishman, born during the Victorian era and living his early youth in Edwardian London, he also resided in France and the United States for extended periods during his long life. His writing reflects this rich background, with stories set in England, France, and the United States, particularly, New York City and Hollywood.
An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by recent writers such as Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Fry,[1] Douglas Adams,[2] J. K. Rowling,[3] and John Le Carré.[4]
Perhaps best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and of 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies, many of them produced in collaboration with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934), wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote lyrics to Sigmund Romberg's music for the Gershwin – Romberg musical Rosalie (1928) and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928). He is in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[5]
Wodehouse spent the last decades of his life in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1955, after a controversy arose relating to five radio broadcasts he made from Germany during World War II. He had been imprisoned by the Germans in a civil internment camp for a year, and speculation regarding his motives led to allegations that the broadcasts were the result of collaboration and treason. Some libraries banned his books. An MI5 investigation cleared him of any such crimes, but he never returned to England. [mehr]
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PELHAM GRENVILLE WODEHOUSE
PSMITH, JOURNALIST
- Kurzgeschichte
- Englisch
- 57195 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (/ˈwʊdhaʊs/; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English humorist whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, humorous verses, poems, song lyrics, and magazine articles. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years, and his many writings continue to be widely read. A quintessential Englishman, born during the Victorian era and living his early youth in Edwardian London, he also resided in France and the United States for extended periods during his long life. His writing reflects this rich background, with stories set in England, France, and the United States, particularly, New York City and Hollywood.
An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by recent writers such as Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Fry,[1] Douglas Adams,[2] J. K. Rowling,[3] and John Le Carré.[4]
Perhaps best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and of 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies, many of them produced in collaboration with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934), wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote lyrics to Sigmund Romberg's music for the Gershwin – Romberg musical Rosalie (1928) and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928). He is in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[5]
Wodehouse spent the last decades of his life in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1955, after a controversy arose relating to five radio broadcasts he made from Germany during World War II. He had been imprisoned by the Germans in a civil internment camp for a year, and speculation regarding his motives led to allegations that the broadcasts were the result of collaboration and treason. Some libraries banned his books. An MI5 investigation cleared him of any such crimes, but he never returned to England. [mehr]
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