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Albert Bigelow Paine E. Arnold Bennett

Belletristik
Englisch
14279 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known [mehr]

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal Zu einer Totenfeier für Arnold Böcklin

Lyrik und Poesie
Deutsch
412 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
181
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Lucy Byerley Ruth Arnold or, the Country Cousin

Belletristik
Englisch
25938 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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School was over, and the holidays were beginning once more, summer holidays, with all their promise of pleasure [mehr]

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Fiona White Excelsior

Erster Fall für Hauptkommissar Arnold

Krimi
Deutsch
91416 Wörter
Ab 12 Jahren
83
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Mitten im Düsseldorfer Karneval überfallen dreiste Diebe Scheich Kasun bin Achmed in einem 5-Sterne-Hotel und rauben seine Juwelen. Die Täter haben englisch mit schottischem Akzent gesprochen, so der erboste Scheich nach seiner Befreiung von Knebel und Fesseln. Hauptkommissar Arnold und sein Partner vom KK 11 ermitteln. Schnell gerät eine Bande von Schotten in Verdacht, die auf Düsseldorfs sündiger Meile ihr Unwesen treibt. Die Spur der Täter führt nach Aberdeen. Mehring bittet die schottischen Kollegen um Hilfe. Ein Fall wie geschaffen für den alternden Chief Inspector Ray Duncan und seinen jungen Sergeant Finley Lamont, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Doch die länderübergreifende polizeiliche Zusammenarbeit in der rheinischen Karnevalshochburg erweist sich als schwierig. Duncans aufsässige Nichte, die in Düsseldorf studiert, macht Probleme. Obendrein bringt ein Mord die Ermittler in tödliche Gefahr … [mehr]

Stichwörter: Kriminalroman, Polizeikrimi, Lokalkrimi, Düsseldorf, Spannung, Karneval, Rotlichtmilieu, Drogen, Mafia, Ermittlungen, Länderübergreifend, Schottland, CID, Chief Inspector, Sergeant, Ganoven, Shakespeare, Juwelenraub, Hauptkommissar, KK 11, Mord, KTU, Kriminaltechnik, Gerichtsmedizin, Täter, Opfer, Diebe, Strolche, Oberkommissar [mehr][weniger]

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Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy

Essay
Englisch
56234 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
450
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Culture and Anarchy is a series of essays by Matthew Arnold. According to his view advanced in the book, "Culture is a study of perfection". His often quoted phrase "[culture is] the best which has been thought and said" comes from the Preface to Culture and Anarchy: The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically. The book contains most of the terms - culture, sweetness and light, Barbarian, Philistine, Hebraism, and many others - which are more associated with Arnold's work influence. [mehr]

Stichwörter: culture and anarchy, matthew arnold, essays, history, politics, psychology, literature and art, humanities, civilization, social science, philosophy, cultural studies

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Hugh Arnold Stained Glass of the Middle Ages in England and France

Historisches
Englisch
49000 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
169
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The Cathedral verger, conducting his flock of tourists round the building, while giving them plenty of really interesting and valuable information about it (for the verger of to-day is a different man from his predecessor, and is often very intelligent and well informed), remarks briefly, "The glass is of the thirteenth century"—or fourteenth or fifteenth, as the case may be; the procession gazes carelessly at it, and passes on. Yet from out of that dazzling and glowing labyrinth of coloured jewels a past age is speaking far more articulately, if one stops to unravel the message, than ever in stone or wood, and it is for those who can be induced to take that second look which will be followed by a third and a fourth and many more that I have written this book. [mehr]

Stichwörter: Stained Glass of the Middle Ages in England and France, Hugh Arnold, Stained Glass of the Middle Ages in England and France By Hugh Arnold

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Edwin L. Arnold Gulliver of Mars

Science Fiction
Englisch
70397 Wörter
Ab 12 Jahren
153
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Gullivar Jones is a good soldier, there is no question of that. He is driven to the ends of the Red Planet to find his love. But he does not bore the reader with constant reminders of what a good soldier he is. On the contrary, with the novel being written in the style of a memoirs, Jones is almost too humble about himself and the credibility of his story. The defining characteristic of the Martian civilization is that they are such an ancient, lethargic race that marriages are decided by public draw and assented to by an attitude just above apathy. Jones is an oddity not merely because of his strange dress and manner, but because of his passion for the princess. Contagious, it spreads to her and she is willing to risk her own life to provide Jones a means of identifying her ballot in the jar. Just when it seems his goal of bedding his mistress is reached, she is snatched away by the invading barbarians from afar. Furious, Jones tries to frenzy an army to no avail. The men of Mars are too cowardly, comfortable and indifferent. The only one who isn't is the prince, who sold off the princess out of jealously, the opposite of Jones' wholesome and manly red blood. Making his way by land and sea, Jones tours the Martian environs and befriends its people. Once or twice he even catches himself feeling more sympathy for the brutish, hairy barbarians than for the weak and waifish native peoples of his princess. Still he presses onwards to win her back to her people and his breast. Nevermind, of course, that he does have a girl back home that he was engaged to before the magic carpet spirited him away. She does come to mind occasionally whenever he fears that he will meet his end on this faraway world. He wonders what has become of her and what she must be feeling at this moment, but the wondering passes when he concentrates again on his quest to find his girl in this port. [mehr]

Stichwörter: gulliver of mars, edwin arnold, classic science fiction, science fantasy, historical romance, martian civilization

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