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16/09/2024
Sonette an Ead
Dieses Hörbuch enthällt 30 Sonette, die aufeinander aufbauend eine sehnsuchtsvolle Liebe schildern. Anton Wildgans galt als sehr gemäßigter Expressionist und war 1932 aussichtsreichster Kandidat für den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Leider starb er noch vor der Verleihung im Alter von 51 Jahren. (Zusammenfassung von lorda) [chương_files]
16/09/2024
Right Off The Bat
A Book of Baseball Ballads covering all aspects of our wonderful past-time. The ballads may seem out of date given some reference to drinking, smoking, and gambling. But anyone who knows history knows that these players were working men without million dollar contracts and players unions. This is baseball in its true raw form showing people who were paid next to nothing and loved the game. – Summary by ACBowgus [chương_files]
16/09/2024
Sonette nach dem Portugiesischen, übertragen durch Rainer Maria Rilke
Elizabeth Barrett Browning schrieb diese Sonette für ihren Mann. Dieser gab sie dann zur Veröffentlichung. In seiner Übersetzung hält Rainer Maria Rilke lediglich die Sonettform ein. An vielen Stellen verändert er das Reimschema, wodurch eine neue Sprachmelodie entsteht. – Summary by lorda [chương_files]
16/09/2024
Sonnetten
Jacob Winkler Prins reisde veel en was een schilder. Hij besteedde veel tijd aan heide-ontginning op de Veluwe, om bloemen en planten te kunnen kweken. Als een auteur-schilder schreef hij realistische natuurpoëzie, geinspireerd door Shelley. Deze verzameling van 102 sonnetten was de eerste dichtbundel die hij publiceerde, na zowel onder het pseudoniem Kaspar Brandt als onder eigen naam romannen en verhalen gepubliceerd te hebben. Uit zijn gedichten blijkt duidelijk dat hij met een schilders-oog de wereld om hem heen bekeek en beschreef, en hij ziet de schoonheid in simpele dingen. Summary by Foon [chương_files]
16/09/2024
Delia
Delia (1592) is a cycle of Petrarchan love sonnets written by Renaissance poet Samuel Daniel (1562-1619). He was also a noted playwright and historian, and a close contemporary of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Delia may have influenced Shakespeare’s sonnets. This project contains the first 30 sonnets from the collection “Delia”. (Summary by Dr Alan Weber) [chương_files]
16/09/2024
Gedichte der Gefangenen – Ein Sonettenkreis
Ernst Toller war mit seinen Dramen einer der maßgeblichen Vertreter des literarischen Expressionismus in der Weimarer Republik. Wegen seinem Mitwirken an der Münchner Räterepublik wurde er zu einer Haftstrafe verurteilt. Während der Haft war Ernst Toller schriftstellerisch sehr produktiv und verfasste, unter anderem, diesen Sonetten-Band, in welchem er seinen Gefängnisaufenthalt verarbeitete. (Zusammenfassung von lorda) [chương_files]
15/09/2024
With Swag and Billy: A Guide to Walking Trips in Tourist Districts of New South Wales
A guide to hikes around Sydney, Australia, from the early years of the twentieth century. In 1895, Henry J. Tompkins and William Mogford Hamlet, two friends with literary inclinations and a taste for romantic scenery, formed the Warragamba Walking Club. Although the strength of their membership is unknown (Tompkins expresses his preference for parties of two, and no more than four), the Warragambas also counted John Le Gay Brereton, poet and professor of literature, among their number. Published by the Government Tourist Bureau, With Swag and Billy ran to three editions (1906, 1910 and 1914). The second edition included shorter walks in present-day suburban Sydney and longer routes in the Blue Mountains, the Southern Highlands and Hunter Valley. As there were few walking paths at the time, most of the routes follow what are now main roads, but they give a flavour of what it was like to walk the roads of New South Wales when the only hazards were the occasional bicycle or horse-drawn coach. Carrying their gear in a swag and a billy to boil tea ‘on the track’, Tompkins and his friends created a distinctively Australian style of recreational walking that affected the style of the swagman tramping the highways and byways in search of occasional work. But the trio were stout walkers. Hamlet undertook several walks of 400 miles or more and published accounts of them in the Sydney Morning Herald, while Le Gay Brereton published his account of a 400 mile walk around New South […]
15/09/2024
Devil’s Garden
Risque for its time, but tame by today’s standards, The Devil’s Garden is a story of passion and mystery. William Dale, the main character of the story is Postmaster of Rodhaven. He is introduced as an honest peasant of uncompromising temper, whose rough nature is ever softened by his pretty wife Mavis. Mavis is an orphan raised by her Aunt Petherick. Known as Will, and referred to as Dale throughout the story, he gets into trouble at the post office but thanks to the intervention of the local magnet of Rodhaven, he is cleared and reinstated. At the height of his joy, his wife meets him in London. Together they dine at a good restaurant and attend a music hall performance. Dale’s evening in London is transformed into a catastrophe when he learns a past secret about Mavis that threatens his marriage. Confronted with this secret, Will and Mavis struggle to make their marriage work and become successful. Ironically, Dale is eventually confronted by the same scenario. The novel was a top ten Publisher’s Weekly Best Seller in 1914. The book was banned in London. At times, the book seems slow and the listener may wonder what point the author is trying to make. Then suddenly, Maxwell sends you into a frenzy with something unexpected. (Tom Weiss) [chương_files]
15/09/2024
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (version 2)
Maud Ruthyn, the young, naive heroine, has a governess who is an enigmatic older woman, a liar, bully, and spy, who takes a dark secret with her when she leaves. Maud is then orphaned and moves in with her Uncle Silas, her father’s mysterious brother and a man with a scandalous-even murderous-past. She is horrified to find her former governess appears in her life again, in this Gothic Victorian psychological thriller, with a touch of the occult – Summary by Lynne Thompson [chương_files]