Inhalt: Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 485 S. Standort: E Aust ISBN: 978-0-14-119952-8
Inhalt: Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 110 S. Standort: E Stev ISBN: 978-0-14-138950-9
Inhalt: Jane Austen's novel tells the story of Marianne Dashwood, who wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 404 S. Standort: E Aust ISBN: 978-0-14-119967-2
Inhalt: During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house, Northanger Abbey. There, her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue, Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney. With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine, this is the most youthful and and optimistic of Jane Austen's works. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 246 S. Standort: E Aust ISBN: 978-0-14-138942-4
Inhalt: Great Expectations, Dickens's funny, frightening and tender portrayal of the orphan Pip's journey of self-discovery, is one of his best-loved works. Showing how a young man's life is transformed by a mysterious series of events - an encounter with an escaped prisoner; a visit to a black-hearted old woman and a beautiful girl; a fortune from a secret donor - Dickens's late novel is a masterpiece of psychological and moral truth, and Pip among his greatest creations. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 592 S. Standort: E Dick ISBN: 978-0-14-119889-7
Inhalt: Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, Oliver Twist features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous gangmaster Fagin, the menacing thug Bill Sikes, the Artful Dodger and their den of thieves in the grimy London backstreets. Dicken's novel is both an angry indictment of poverty, and an adventure filled with an air of threat and pervasive evil. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 530 S. Standort: E Dick ISBN: 978-0-14-119888-0
Inhalt: In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully, desperate to protect her son. Using her own experiences with her brother Branwell to depict the cruelty and debauchery from which Helen flees, Anne Brontë wrote her masterpiece to reflect the fragile position of women in society and her belief in universal redemption, but scandalized readers of the time. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 536 S. Standort: E Bron ISBN: 978-0-14-119935-1
Inhalt: Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being. First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been praised by such writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Johnson as one of the greatest novels in the English language. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 336 S. Standort: E Defo ISBN: 978-0-14-119906-1
Inhalt: When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social convention, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 486 S. Standort: E Hard ISBN: 978-0-14-119994-8
Inhalt: Fiercely romantic and hugely influential, The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Prynne, imprisoned, publicly shamed, and forced to wear a scarlet 'A' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child, Pearl. In their small, Puritan village, Hester and her daughter struggle to survive, but in this searing study of the tension between private and public existence, Hester Prynne's inner strength and quiet dignity means she has frequently been seen as one of the first great heroines of American fiction. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 269 S. Standort: E Hawt ISBN: 978-0-14-119945-0
Inhalt: In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naïve suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity. A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction, The War of the World's journalistic style contrasts disturbingly with its horrifying visions of the human race under siege. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 198 S. Standort: E Well ISBN: 978-0-14-119904-7
Inhalt: The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarchic humour, Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duke and King and vital lessons about the world in which they live. With its unforgettable cast of characters, Hemingway called this 'the best book we've ever had'. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 319 S. Standort: E Twai ISBN: 978-0-14-119900-9
Inhalt: Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 503 S. Standort: E Aust ISBN: 978-0-14-119987-0
Inhalt: Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart? Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 236 S. Standort: E Fors ISBN: 978-0-14-119982-5
Inhalt: Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Boldwood, seductive Sergeant Troy and devoted Gabriel - making her the object of scandal and betrayal. Vividly portraying the superstitions and traditions of a small rural community, Far from the Madding Crowd shows the precarious position of a woman in a man's world. Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Systematik: E Umfang: 475 S. Standort: E Hard ISBN: 978-0-14-119893-4
Inhalt: Tom Sullivan, about to graduate from Princeton, is haunted by the violent death of his father, an academic who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and most valuable books in the world. Coded in seven languages, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an intricate mathematical mystery and a tale of love and arcane brutality, has baffled scholars since 1499. Tom's friend Paul is similarly obsessed and when a long-lost diary surfaces, they finally seem to make a breakthrough. But only hours later, a fellow researcher is murdered and the two friends suddenly find themselves in great danger. Working desperately to expose the book's secret, they slowly uncover a Renaissance tale of passion and blood, a hidden crypt and a secret worth dying to protect. Schlagworte:Englisch Systematik: E Standort: E Cald
Inhalt: Lara's life looks perfect on the surface. Gorgeous doting husband Massimo, sweet little son Sandro and the perfect home. Lara knows something about Massimo. Something she can't tell anyone else or everything he has worked so hard for will be destroyed: his job, their reputation, their son. This secret is keeping Lara a prisoner in her marriage. Maggie is married to Massimo's brother Nico and lives with him and her troubled stepdaughter. She knows all of Nico's darkest secrets - or so she thinks. Then one day she discovers a letter in the attic which reveals a shocking secret about Nico's first wife. Will Maggie set the record straight or keep silent to protect those she loves? For a family held together by lies, the truth will come at a devastating price. Schlagworte:Englisch, Familie Systematik: E Umfang: 350 S. Standort: E Fish ISBN: 978-1-78681-127-1
Inhalt: Englisch üben mit den beliebten Spiderwick-Geheimnissen
Als die Zwillinge Jared und Simon mit ihrer Schwester Mallory in das alte, verwinkelte Haus ihrer Tante einziehen, haben sie bald das Gefühl, dass sie hier nicht allein sind. Sie wollen dem Geheimnis auf den Grund gehen, aber das kleine Volk der Kobolde, Trolle, Feen und Elfen tut alles, um das zu verhindern ...
-- Jeder Band mit ausführlicher Vokabelliste -- Mit didaktischem Geleitwort für Eltern und Lehrer Schlagworte:Englisch, Fremdsprache, Fremdsprachig Systematik: E Umfang: 128 S. Standort: E Blac ISBN: 978-3-570-21878-5
Inhalt: "Oh, wie schön ist Panama" auf Englisch. Schlagworte:Bilderbuch, Englisch, Minimax Systematik: E Umfang: 48 S. Standort: E Jano ISBN: 978-3-407-76025-8
Inhalt: Cambridge, 1952. When Ellen Kingsley embarks upon an exciting career in scientific research she soon finds herself caught in a bitter world of rivalry and ambition. Resisting the advances of charismatic Mark Pharaoh, who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success, she moves to London and falls in love with dashing Alec Hunter. Then a chance encounter introduces Pharaoh to Ellen's old school friend, the captivating India Mayhew, and they embark upon a passionate love affair that leaves destruction in its wake. And amid a web of deceit and desire, long-held secrets will be revealed with far-reaching consequences... Schlagworte:Englisch, Liebe Systematik: E Umfang: 565 S. Standort: E Lenn ISBN: 978-0-7553-8410-5
Inhalt: Unique, funny and refreshing, this is a delightful, witty picture book about a contrary unicorn - the U-NO-corn. Adults and children alike will relate to its not-so-perfect personality and its refusal to accept a cotton-candy world. Over half a million copies of the original German edition sold in Germany.
Text Engl. Schlagworte:Englisch Systematik: E Umfang: [20] B. : Ill. (farb.) Standort: E Klin ISBN: 978-1-78741-842-4
Inhalt: Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a perennial favourite with children and adults alike. Its imaginative illustration and clever cut-out detail charts the progress of a very hungry caterpillar as he eats his way through the week.
Text Engl. Schlagworte:Englisch Systematik: E Umfang: [7] Bl. : Ill. (farb.) Standort: E Carl ISBN: 978-0-241-00300-8
Inhalt: Humphrey the whale is on a quest: to find the one perfect object that will make him feel complete. He roams far and wide, gathering endless undersea treasure as he goes. Yet, no matter how many goodies he accumulates, Humphrey still doesn't feel content. Could it be friendship, not possessions, that will really make Humphrey's heart sing?
A sparkling rhyming tale that encourages sharing and kindness, this heartwarming story of friendship is perfect for reading aloud.
Text Engl. Schlagworte:Englisch Systematik: E Umfang: [16] Bl. : Ill. (farb.) Standort: E Brig ISBN: 978-1-4083-4922-9
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