Ein Jugendroman, der die Fantasie von Jugendlichen ebenso anspricht, wie die von Erwachsenen. Benjamins Abenteuer in der Vergangenheit sind verbunden mit magischen Elementen. Von Antakya bis Antalya. Für den in der Schule gemobbten 13-jährigen Benjamin hält die Bildungsreise, die seine Eltern für den Sommer gebucht haben, eine unerwartete Überraschung bereit. Frustriert, gelangweilt und voller Angst, was er wohl nach den Ferien von seinem Sommerurlaub zu erzählen haben wird, begegnet er dem Wanderfalken Zadak. Dieser bietet dem Jungen spannende Abenteuer in der Vergangenheit, die er ihm mit seinen magischen Kräften vermitteln kann, wenn - ja wenn Benjamin dafür genügend Vertrauen und Mut aufbringt. Dann warten auf ihn ungewöhnliche Abenteuer und Aufgaben. Begegnungen mit Apostel Paulus, einem Schlangenmenschen oder sogar dem Hl. Nikolaus könnten möglich sein.
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As a young girl toiling in a South Wales tin works, Dorothy Squires dreamt of being a singing star, but was ridiculed by all around her. At the tender age of sixteen she escaped the valleys and boarded a train for London. It was here that she met and fell in love with songwriter and band leader Billy Reid, the older man who was to make her a star. The pair became an international success, but the relationship foundered, and Dorothy found herself falling in love with the much younger Roger Moore, a struggling actor who she would spend all her time establishing as a star. Written by Dorothy's good friend Jonny Tudor, this fascinating first biography of a Welsh singing phenomenon is an unprecedented insight into the glitz and glamour of 1940s and '50s Hollywood and Dorothy's triumphant comeback in the 1960s and '70s.
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Celebrate with Harmony Ink Press as we recognize the talented winners of our first annual Young Author Challenge. This anthology showcases the LGBTQ genre's best up-and-coming-authors between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one. The transition from childhood to adulthood is never easy, and growing up presents unique challenges for LGBTQ youth. Confusion, bigotry, and struggle transcend time and place, but fortunately, so does love. Travel with these exceptional young authors from country cottages to big cities, into the past and the future, from fantastic lands of magic to the recognizable landscapes of our world. Regardless of the setting, the characters in these stories, along with families, friends, lovers, and allies, fight to claim their places in life. Their identities and situations are different, but the young people in this collection share the strength and courage to succeed, sometimes against great odds, and they invite you to join them on their journeys. Cigar, Parasol, Star by Laura Beaird Counting Stars by L.A. Buchanan The King of Dorkdom by Avery Burrow Happy Endings Take Work by Morgan Cair Tess by Becca Ehlers Our First Anniversary by Trisha Harrington The Dragon Princess by Eleanor Hawtin An IRL Love Life by Rebecca Long On Their Own Terms by D. William Pfifer Glitterhead by Benjamin Shepherd Quiñones City Lights Will Carry You Home by Amanda Reed The Gift of Flame by Scotia Roth Waiting by Annie Schoonover Quiet Love by Gil Segev Paranormal Honor Society by Leigh Taylor
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<p><strong>Pierwsza książka, w której opublikowano całość dorobku graficznego Franza Kafki, w tym ponad 100 nowo odkrytych rysunków</strong></p> <p></p> <p>Rok 2019 przyniósł sensacyjne odkrycie: setki rysunków pisarza Franza Kafki odnaleziono w prywatnej kolekcji, o której istnieniu nie wiedziano przez dziesięciolecia. Do tej pory tylko kilka z nich było powszechnie znanych. Chociaż popularność przyniosła Kafce twórczość literacka, prace plastyczne są dowodem tego, co Max Brod nazwał „podwójnym talentem”. Rysunki – pełne fascynujących postaci, przechodzące od realizmu do fantastyki, groteski i niesamowitości – rzucają światło na nieznaną wcześniej działalność mistrza pióra.</p> <p>Prace te powstawały latami i właściwie przez całą karierę Kafki, choć najintensywniej rysował na studiach (1901–1907). Wśród odkryć znajduje się książeczka z rysunkami z tego okresu, wraz z dziesiątkami luźnych kartek. Eseje Andreasa Kilchera i Judith Butler stanowią istotne tło dla tego bogatego tomu, interpretując rysunki i umiejscawiając je w całej twórczości pisarza.</p> <p></p> <p>„Rzeczy, które narysował, same w sobie są opowieściami” – Lauren Christensen, „New York Times Book Review”</p> <p>„Rewelacyjna książka, która po raz pierwszy ujawnia dotychczas ukryte dzieła sztuki…. Ten cenny tom pozwala nam zobaczyć, jak dla Kafki słowo i obraz idą ramię w ramię” – Benjamin Balint, „Jewish Review of Books”</p> <p></p> <p>Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego w ramach projektu Kanon Polski.</p>
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Estas memorias de Félix Nadar, reconocida figura del siglo XIX, ofrecen un imprescindible testimonio de los primeros años de la fotografía, que ha interesado a numerosos pensadores de la imagen, de Walter Benjamin a Rosalind Krauss. En las catorce viñetas, verdaderas fotografías en prosa que conforman este libro, Nadar narra, entre otras, sus experimentaciones con el servicio postal aéreo durante el Sitio de París, el terror de Balzac por ser fotografiado, el impacto masivo de la imagen en un célebre caso de homicidio, su descenso a las catacumbas y cloacas de París —momento en el que por primera vez utiliza la luz artificial—, y su ascenso en globo aerostático —durante el cual realizó las primeras tomas aéreas de la historia—. Del mismo modo que en sus fotografías, el lector de Nadar hallará en sus memorias la impronta de una época extinta que aún ilumina la nuestra. Además de una serie de ilustraciones fotográficas, esta edición incluye una introducción del renombrado especialista de la fotografía Eduardo Cadava (Universidad de Princeton).
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Seventy Years Young is one of the great Anglo-Irish memoirs. Originally published in 1937, it now appears for the first time in paperback, with an introduction by Trevor West. It tells the remarkable story of Daisy Fingall (nee Burke) of County Galway, who in 1883, aged seventeen, married the 11th Earl of Fingall of Killeen Castle, County Meath. Daisy's vitality possessed and transformed that twilit world of Catholic Ascendancy Ireland, a world in transition – from viceregal, country-house Ireland of Dublin drawing-rooms and Meath hunting-fields, now as remote as pre-revolutionary Russia – to the Great War, Easter rising and civil war Ireland of the early 1920s and beyond, when 'the country houses lit a chain of bonfires', and the tobacco-growing 'Sinn Fein Countess' tempered a life of privilege with work for Horace Plunkett's Co-operative Societies and the United Irishwomen. Daisy Fingall writes from an intimate knowledge of the leading figures of her day and their milieu. A sparkling parade of personalities – Parnell, Wyndham, Haig, Markievicz, Edward VII, AE, Shaw, Moore and Yeats – comes alive under her pen. Seventy Years Young reanimates a proximate but forgotten past with all the power of first-class fiction, and the glitter and rarity of a Faberge egg.
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Seventeen ninety-eight saw French and American revolutionary ideals converge with popular rebellion in Ireland. The rebellion ended in bloody failure, but 1798 was kept alive in folk memory by a nascent literature added to by succeeding generations of nationalists and cultural revivalists. This wide-ranging gathering of prose, poetry and song mirrors both sides of that conflict, orange and green, imperial and republican, from the early idealism of the 1782 Dungannon Convention to the final snuffing out of resistance in Wicklow in 1803. Here are the legendary ballads and verse accounts of the rebellion, familiar and little known, ranging from those by anonymous balladeers to works by John Keegan Casey, P.J. McCall, Thomas Moore, Thomas Davis, Alice Milligan, William Drennan, William Rooney and Ethna Carbery. These are supplemented by prose accounts by Theobald Wolfe Tone, Charles Teeling, Robert Emmet, Jonah Barrington and Maria Edgeworth, and folk narratives from the archive of the Irish Folklore Department at UCD. The 98' Reader is a delightful companion, recording-and-celebrating-a pivotal moment in Ireland's history.
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In the summer of 1939, as a two-year-old in London, I was given away by my parents to a Chelsea friend and taken on the Irish Mail to Dublin. Thus begins this extraordinary memoir by travel writer and novelist Joseph Hone, one of eight children farmed out by impecunious and inebriate parents, who was raised at Maidenhall in County Kilkenny by the historian and essayist Hubert Butler and his wife Peggy, sister of Tyrone Guthrie of Annaghmakerrig in County Monaghan. The story is told through a cache of letters discovered on Hubert Butler's death between he and his friend 'Old Joe', Little Joe's grandfather and biographer of Yeats and George Moore, upon whom fell the financial responsibility for his grandson's upbringing. This account of Joseph Hone's childhood and youth during the 1940s and 50s in rural Ireland, among the privileged and artistic elite of his generation living down-at-heel if comfortable lives in a newly emergent state, is an enthralling reminder of the happenstance and precariousness of all our lives. Like William Trevor, Joe was boarded out at Sandford Park in Dublin and then at St Columba's, both of which he documents in loving and comic detail, gaining as much stimulation from his home environment as from the excesses and disappointments of these single-sex establishments. He writes with feeling and insight of the lives of those in his circle and beyond – his teachers and foster parents and friends – working as an assistant for John Ford during the making of The Quiet Man, and finding himself as the writer he was to become. This numinous work of autobiography and self-interrogation bears comparison with Nabokov's Speak Memory or Frank O'Connor's An Only Child. It will take its place as a classic of the genre while illuminating unknown corners of Ireland's cultural landscape.
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