Showing results for "Das Ideal" in Literature & Fiction

After 30 years of marriage, and a wonderful family Christmas, Louisa is stunned when husband Kip asks for a divorce on Boxing Day. He’d never seemed unhappy – and they’ve raised three children together. For months, Kip has been secretly seeing a younger woman – and if that wasn’t bad enough – it’s the woman who broke their youngest son’s heart. Now Kip is moving out and embarking on a new life with Zoe, and Louisa is left to pick up the pieces. Their beloved family home, Charity Cottage, is up for sale, and tensions are running high.

A tender love story, a serpentine villainess, a glittering setting in London society, and a showering of Wildean witticism are only a few of the reasons why this play has enjoyed hugely successful revivals in London, in New York, and on the silver screen. This 1895 drama is eerily prescient, as it examines the plight of a promising politician, desperate to hide a secret in his past. With empathy and wit, Oscar Wilde explores the pitfalls of holding public figures to higher standards than the rest of us.

Michael Anstruther-Wetherby is a man destined for power. Except that Michael, for all his political skill and intelligence, lacks the most important element of success: a wife.

Varg has been granted his chance at a new life, but will he be up to it? Can he cope with the pressure of that chance? New enemies, friends, and problems will be along soon. It remains only for Varg to figure out who he fears most: his enemies, or his friends.

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, and takes place over the course of 24 hours.

He details the issues that his current economic system and the unequal distribution of wealth present in achieving said ideals. He puts forth his beliefs on what the purposes of an economic system should be, including production and security. He criticizes monopolies and all the damage that they have done.

Sir Robert Chiltern seems to have the perfect life: he's a successful, well-paid government minister and he has a loving wife. But when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed, all of this is threatened.

Wieder führt Vargs Charakter ihn in knifflige, aber auch interessante Situationen. Seine Unfähigkeit, klein beizugeben und sich anderen zu unterwerfen, bleibt nicht ohne Folgen. Diesmal werden mächtige Wesenheiten auf ihn aufmerksam, denen er beim Erreichen ihrer Ziele im Weg ist. Wesen, die dem System zwar nicht das Wasser reichen können, einem Menschen aber sehr gefährlich werden können. Auch wenn ihnen selbst auf der Erde die Hände gebunden sind, haben sie hier starke Anhänger. In diesem Band erwarten unseren Helden heiße Inseln, Piraten, interessante neue Bekannte.

Varg ist längst nicht mehr der Neuling, der er noch vor Kurzem war. Er kennt die Tücken des Systems und weiß, dass die Welt vielfältige Überraschungen bereithält. Mittlerweile sind die Zombies bei Weitem nicht mehr die gefährlichsten Feinde, wenn auch die zahlreichsten. In diesem Band muss Varg sich neuen Schwierigkeiten und Kreaturen stellen, nicht nur auf seinem eigenen Planeten. Ob sein Zusammentreffen mit Kaya sich als Glücksfall erweist oder nicht, bleibt abzuwarten.

The Daughter. My father is innocent. He’s spent almost four years behind bars, but now he’s getting out. I gave up everything to be there for him, just like he was always there for me. The Girlfriend. As soon as I opened the paper that day and saw that picture of Sandy, I didn’t care about the story surrounding it. There’s no way he hurt that girl. Now he’s out, we’ll get married and I’ll finally get to meet his daughter.The Other Woman. No one knows what happened all those years ago, and the life I built depends on no one finding out.

Published together for the first time are three of Ayn Rand's compelling stage plays. The courtroom drama Night of January 16th, a 1935 Broadway success famous for leaving the verdict to the audience, is presented here in its definitive, final revised text - a superb dramatization of Rand's vision of human strengths and weaknesses.

The Buccaneers - fresh, untutored, and easy-going - conquered 1870s English society, but in Edwardian England, American heiresses were supposed to be cool and level-headed about their pursuit of titles. Amanda Vandewater embodied this new wave of American invaders when she meets and marries the 9th Duke of Malvern, though she soon discovers she desires more than a coronet and strawberry leaves: she desires his heart.

Varg hat bereits mehr als genug Bewährungsproben bestanden, um sich zu Recht als erfahrener Zombie-Überlebender zu betrachten, aber wird das ausreichen? Das Schicksal schläft nicht, genauso wenig wie das System. Wahrscheinlich haben diese beiden launischen Weichensteller sich verbündet. In den neuen Welten warten weitere Prüfungen auf ihn. Wird er dort einen neuen Freund treffen? Oder gar uralte Vampire? Oder erwartet ihn ein mysteriöses Mädchen, dem er in einer Notlage hilft? Vielleicht wird all das und noch viel mehr geschehen. Wer weiß das schon? Das System weiß es, und es lockt Varg mit immer neuen Aufgaben.

Ce livre audio propose une sélection de vingt-deux poèmes extraits du recueil "Les Fleurs du Mal, Spleen et Idéal" de Charles Baudelaire. À travers ses poèmes, Baudelaire nous fait partager le drame qui se joue en lui et qui n'est autre que la tragédie humaine. Baudelaire, premier poète moderne, donne à la poésie sa véritable dimension : exprimer, par-delà les mots, ce vertige absolu qui s'empare de l'âme. Tout chez lui affirme la nécessité de la souffrance, la fatalité du péché.

As long as people have been writing books, authors have been using them to create misrepresentations of women. From medieval reality show-style wife tests to 21st century dating guides based on 200-year-old novels, Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman takes listeners on a guided tour of advice on what women should and should not do.

Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, at a time of self-reflection in America following a bitter election campaign that has left the country divided, McCullough has collected some of his most important speeches in a brief volume designed to identify important principles and characteristics that are particularly American.

Manch einer wünscht sich die Chance, das eigene Leben zu verändern, aber man sollte vorsichtig sein, was man sich wünscht. Das System bietet diese Möglichkeit... Schade nur, dass die Überlebenschancen begrenzt sind. Varg hat die Chance auf ein neues Leben erhalten, aber kann er den Widrigkeiten dieses neuen Lebens standhalten? Neue Feinde, neue Freunde und neue Probleme lassen nicht lange auf sich warten. Die Frage ist nur, wen Varg mehr fürchten sollte – Feinde oder Freunde. Die Platte wurde von Magic Dome Books produziert. Das Hörbuch verwendete die Musikkomposition von der Website incompetech.com

An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of 24 hours. Together with The Importance of Being Earnest, it is often considered Wilde's dramatic masterpiece. After The Importance of Being Earnest, it is his most popularly produced play. Performed by Michael Ward.

In this wickedly funny play, a seemingly ideal couple and their charming, privileged friends surmount such details as selling government secrets, theft, and bribery with love triumphant over all.

In this epic fantasy, we follow Halden a spectacular young man who is faced with constant adversity. Halden along with his friend, are forced to embark on a journey where they learn about dark deeds, and ominous whisperings of a dark Idealist. Through struggles, and much longing for home. They earn a power to help defeat the dark armies that are beginning to surround the kingdom on all sides. However, will they be able to stop the forces that threaten to destroy them?