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England, Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Zeitalter der Pferdedroschken und Dampflokomotiven. Der geniale Erfinder Sir Torrington arbeitet an einer revolutionären Form des Telephons. Ein Gerät, das jedermann in der Tasche tragen kann, soll jeden anderen Teilnehmer erreichen können. Der Großindustrielle...

Maël, issu d'une famille royale de Cambrie, fut envoyé dès sa neuvième année dans l'abbaye d'Yvern, pour y étudier les lettres sacrées et profanes. À l'âge de quatorze ans, il renonça à son héritage et fit voeu de servir le Seigneur. Il partageait ses heures, selon la règle, entre le chant...

Alice Babette Toklas lived from 1877 to 1967. She was the life companion and secretary of the art collector and writer Gertrude Stein.

The woman who saw herself in front of the mirror. She knows her true face and feels again this fear that the other is probably smarter. She hates that way of moving, that laugh that touched everyone. She feels inferior and disturbed by her. She has the goal, she will destroy this woman in her very...

I have been urged ever since I left the Asylum, by friends, to write my history of those two unfortunate years, and give it to the public. This I did purpose to do while I was in the asylum, as soon as I left it, while all things would be fresh in my memory. But after leaving that place, and mingling...

This mini-encyclopedia created with text available online under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; is your pocket resource in the K-pop universe. Here you will find the most up-to-date terms, facts, names and much more of K-pop music. In 60 pages, get countless K-pop history, facts,...

"Come oot o' the gutter, ye nickum!" cried, in harsh, half-masculine voice, a woman standing on the curbstone of a short, narrow, dirty lane, at right angles to an important thoroughfare, itself none of the widest or cleanest. She was dressed in dark petticoat and print wrapper. One of her...

Once upon a time, so long ago that I have quite forgotten the date, there lived a king and queen who had no children. And the king said to himself, "All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used."...

I HAVE been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and drowned themselves. My story is not the same as his. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the...

Joseph Roth legt mit seinem 1930 erschienenen Roman »Hiob« wohl sein berühmtestes Werk vor. Die dramatische Geschichte einer ostjüdischen Familie und ihr von Schicksalsschlägen geplagtes Leben. Mittelpunkt des Geschehens ist der Familienvater und Bibellehrers Mendel Singer. Durch all die schrecklichen...

Joseph Roth (2.9.1894 - 27.5.1939) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Roths Leben und Schaffen wurde von den beiden Weltkriegen sowie dem Zerfall Österreich-Ungarns stark geprägt. Roths Bücher wurden von den Nationalsozialisten verboten und verließ Roth am 30.1.1933, dem Tag...

The decay of the city of Venice is, in many respects, like that of an outwearied and aged human frame; the cause of its decrepitude is indeed at the heart, but the outward appearances of it are first at the extremities. In the centre of the city there are still places where some evidence of vitality...

Pilote sur la ligne Toulouse-Dakar, Jacques Bernis - comme le narrateur - a trouvé dans le monde de l'aviation postale un milieu dur, net, précis, qui le sauve de l'inquiétude et le défend contre le sentiment de sa fragilité. Les livres ne lui ont appris « aucun secret qui le protégeât de...

Global Management: Dancing with Icebergs Is Global Management a Dance with Icebergs? Approximately 1.5 million managers work outside their home country. They are expatriates, or "expats" and they are growing in number. They are not only Bavarians setting up subsidiaries in China, or Viennese sent to...