16.–18. Jahrhundert

NISAMI (1141-1209) - der unerreichbare Stern der persischsprachigen Literatur zählt zu den bedeutendsten Epikern im islamischen Kulturkreis. Seine fünf Versromane - "Schatzkammer der Geheimnisse", "Chosrou und Schirin", "Leila und Madschnun", "Die sieben Gestalten" sowie "Das Alexanderbuch" - wurden zum Vorbild für die gesamte spätere Romantik im Orient. Doch wie bekannt ist das poetische Erbe des Dichters und Denkers aus Aserbaidschan im deutschen Sprachraum? In dieser Anthologie wird erstmals die deutschsprachige Rezeption der Werke Nisamis vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart präsentiert. Poetische und prosaische Übersetzungen bilden den ersten Teil, die nachfolgenden Teile enthalten Zitate und Essays.

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. <BR><BR>At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all,it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

The New York Times best seller is now a major motion picture starring Lily James and Sam Riley, with Matt Smith, Charles Dance, and Lena Headey. <BR><BR>Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an audacious retelling of English literature’s most enduring novel. This expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem begins when a mysterious plague falls upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. It’s the perfect read for literature lovers, zombie fans, and anyone who loves a reanimated Austen.

This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson. It discusses the main structural, dramatic, historical and imaginative aspects of the work, and establishes its intellectual contexts: Hume's philosophy, earlier biographical writings by Boswell, and the French and German Enlightenment and romantic traditions. Professor Clingham offers an account of the Life based upon reassessment of the nature of biography, of Boswell's style and thought, and of Johnson's own works. As he examines the Life's complex psychological, emotional and artistic facets, a fresh picture of Boswell as biographer emerges. The book also provides a table of the principal scenes and conversations in the Life, as well as a chronological table of Boswell's life and times and a guide to further reading.

A masterful novel of New York society by a champion of literary realism<BR><BR>When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. Torn between her desire to win her father's love and approval and her passion for the first man who has ever declared his love for her, Catherine faces an agonising dilemma, and becomes all too aware of the restrictions that others seek to place on her freedom. James's masterly novel deftly interweaves the public and private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a deeply moving study of innocence destroyed.<BR><BR>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Ein lyrisch-elegischer Roman von Liebe und SehnsuchtDie schönste Dichtung deutscher Sprache ist Hölderlins ¿Hyperion¿ vielfach genannt worden, ein unübertroffenes Meisterwerk des deutschen Idealismus, neben dem ¿Faust¿ der Inbegriff klassischer deutschsprachiger Literatur. Seine Wirkung besonders auf die Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts ist einmalig. Ein lyrisch-elegischer Roman von Liebe und Sehnsucht, getragen von der Überzeugung, daß die unausgesetzte Suche nach Freiheit und Utopie Sinn macht.

'Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin Amis<BR><BR>With its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's novels. It tells the story of young, impressionable Catherine Morland, whose first experience of fashionable society introduces her to the thrills of Gothic romances, and to the sophisticated Tilneys, who invite her to their family home, Northanger Abbey. But there, influenced by novels of horror and intrigue, Catherine begins to think that terrible crimes are being committed, and her imagination threatens to run away with her.<BR><BR>Edited with an Introduction by MARILYN BUTLER

'The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste' Virginia Woolf<BR><BR>Jane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid social convention clashes with the impulses of the heart. It tells the story of two very different sisters who find themselves thrown into an unkind world when their father dies. Marianne, wild and impulsive, falls dangerously in love, while Elinor suffers her own private heartbreak but conceals her true feelings, even from those closest to her. <BR><BR>Edited with an Introduction by ROS BALLASTER