eBook de Ciencia ficción, página 45 de 1801

Il tema di questanno era: Voci di Donna, tema insolito se lo colleghiamo alla figura di un Sacerdote ma estremamente interessante e stimolante per le considerazioni che il Poeta riserva al mondo femminile; la donna per lo Zanella occupa nella societa un ruolo importante, attenta alleducazione, alla cultura, alla fede.

Ein totes Madchen schreit nichtNach dem brutalen Mord an einem 16-jahrigen Madchen steht die Regensburger Mordkommission vor einem Ratsel. Alle Ermittlungen verlaufen im Sand und der sadistische Morder scheint ungeschoren davonzukommen.Der funfte JungeKommissar Buchmann, der so schnell wie moglich nach Munchen zuruckkehren mochte, ahnt, dass er langer im Bayerischen Wald bleiben muss, als ihm lieb sein kann.Kommissar GrantingerDie machtigste Frau des Orts wird ermordet. Der gefuhlvolle, aber auch streitbare Kommissar Grantinger sieht in der schnellen Aufklarung dieses Verbrechens eine Moglichkeit, trotz seiner Strafversetzung noch befordert zu werden.Ein Vorgeschmack auf drei spannende Krimis!

The war is over, and Earths exiled fleet never stood a chance. Their planet doomed and their civilization erased, humanitys remaining diaspora scatter into the darkness, desperate to escape the wrath of the Kraf collective. On side A, Orphaned Voices follows three survivors of humanitys last stand. Lost in the darkness, the trio discovers a secret from Earths pasta man preserved in a cryogenic capsule who awakens only to claim he knows how to conduct faster-than-light drives, something no human has ever been capable of.Side B of this sci-fi epic travels into Earths past where aspirant Nell Cordrey quickly ascends the ranks as an exo-armor pilot for the allied forces while peace talks cease and conflicts with eastern Europe ignite. On the other side of the globe, rock front man Thomas Larito plays his first gig in an empty dive. Dreaming of fame and glory, he is oblivious to the storm sweeping across the planet, transforming everything it touches.Sagas of past and future intertwine to spin a tale of hope and despair, of victory and defeat, of a speck of dust and the vast ocean of stars that surrounds it. Orphaned Voices is a swashbuckling adventure that dares to be both gritty and fantastic.

Une nouvelle série sur les mediums par un auteur de best-sellers (classements du New York Times et de USA Today) Tout le monde pense que je suis un génie.Tout le monde a tort. Oui, je suis sorti de Harvard a dix-huit ans et je me remplis les poches dans un fonds speculatif. Mais ce nest pas parce que je suis extraordinairement intelligent ou travailleur. Cest parce que je triche.Jai un talent unique, voyez-vous. Je peux sortir du temps pour entrer dans ma version personnelle de la realite un endroit que je nomme le Calme ou je peux explorer mon environnement pendant que le reste du monde est immobile. Je pensais etre le seul a pouvoir le faire jusqua ce que je la rencontre.Je mappelle Darren et voici comment jai appris que jetais un Lecteur.

Che succede quando un gruppo di aspiranti scrittori e fotografi si incontrano nei musei, archivi e biblioteche delle Marche per raccontarne in quattro ore le peculiarita e scovarne i tesori nascosti? Di certo si trattera di un meraviglioso viaggio al centro di un mondo tutto da scoprire, anche se ci appartiene gia.Ecco allora che il MAB Marche (coordinamento marchigiano tra Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche promosso da ICOM, ANAI e AIB) in collaborazione con la Regione Marche Assessorato alla Cultura e Politiche Sociali, il Garante regionale dei diritti della persona, lAssociazione culturale RaccontidiCitta e con StreetLib propone la settima edizione di un concorso rivolto a tutti gli appassionati di lettura, scrittura e fotografia.Storie da musei, archivi e biblioteche si e svolto dal 17 ottobre 2018 al 27 gennaio 2019 e ha coinvolto centootto partecipanti in sette strutture marchigiane, fra cui musei, biblioteche comunali e scolastiche.In tutto sono stati raccolti ventisei racconti, sedici disegni e cinquantasei foto che raccontano le istituzioni culturali del territorio e limportanza che esse rivestono per le loro comunita di riferimento, con una particolare attenzione al tema dellaccoglienza.Avventuriamoci dunque fra le sale dei musei e tra i documenti di archivi e biblioteche in questo appassionante tour per ricostruire unimmagine delle nostre strutture che vada al di la di ogni stereotipo!

Originally published in 1911, "A Smile of Fortune" is a masterpiece created by British author Joseph Conrad, best known for his chilling masterwork "Heart of Darkness" and placed by many critics as a forerunner of Modernism. "A Smile of Fortune" is a masterly tale of misplaced loyalty, family feuds, and illicit bargaining. Embarking in the tropics, a ships captain makes the instant acquaintance of a seemingly genial Mr. Jacobus and his irritable brother. One a respectable businessman with a considerable reputation, the other a confessed rogue and entrepreneur with no reputation left to lose, the captain is at a loss to determine which he should befriend. Yet as events unfold, he becomes increasingly in thrall to the less scrupulous of the two and finds himself the unwitting partner in a deeply unorthodox transaction.

Un romance au charme sombre et audacieux qui séduira les amateurs de liaisons dangereusement érotiques…Dans un futur proche, la Terre est désormais sous l’emprise des Krinars, une espèce sophistiquée

"The Woodlanders" was published in 1887 and Thomas Hardy himsef estimated it as his best novel. It is one of the six masterpieces of Thomas Hardys Wessex novels."The Woodlanders" is a pessimistic attack on a society that values high status and socially sanctioned behaviour over good character and honest emotions.The story begins as Grace Melbury, daughter of a timber merchant in a Dorset village, returns from finishing school and rejects her simple but understanding fiance, the apple grower Giles Winterbourne. Grace accedes to the urgings of her father and marries Edred Fitzpiers, a young doctor of great charm but questionable moral character. Grace soon turns to Giles for comfort after Edred goes off with Mrs. Felice Charmond, a local upper-class woman. Giles, who is seriously ill, relinquishes his cottage to Grace and moves into a rude hut, where he soon dies of exposure. Although Grace mourns his loss, she eventually reconciles with Edred...

Ethel Voynichs "The Gadfly" is a thrilling saga of revolutionary zeal, religious devotion, clerical betrayal and romantic love published in 1897."The Gadfly" is set in Italy during the revolutionary ferment of the 1830s and 40s. The protagonist is a young Englishman, Arthur Burton, who moves to a Catholic seminary after the death of his mother. There he becomes devoted to his guardian and mentor Montanelli, who, unknown to him, is also his biological father. In the company of his childhood sweetheart Gemma, Arthur becomes involved in the Young Italy movement fighting Austrian imperial rule. But he unwittingly betrays his comrades, after his private confession is relayed to the police. He then discovers his family secret, and loses all faith in the church...One of the most popular English-language novels of the 20th Century is almost unknown in the English-speaking world a global phenomenon in translation, now neglected in its original form. "The Gadfly" was a sensation on the other side of the Iron Curtain it sold over 5 million copies in 107 editions in the 22 languages spoken in the Soviet Union. The book inspired seven musical adaptations, including an opera by Prokofiev, five theatre adaptations, including an official version by George Bernard Shaw, and five film adaptations, one of which featured a famous score by Shostakovich.

"The Man Who Laughs" is a novel by French writer Victor Hugo that was first published in April 1869 under the French title "LHomme qui rit", just two years before the establishment of the Paris Commune. It was adapted into a popular 1928 film, directed by Paul Leni."The Man Who Laughs" tells the story of young man named Gwynplaine, whose mouth is horribly deformed. When he is a child, he rescues a little girl from a snowstorm, and the two fall in love when they grow older. Gwynplaine is the embodiment of the people; he represents all those who are oppressed by the powerful and can do nothing about it.Every issue, including social inequality, the corruption of power, the political responsibility to intervene, the crushing of the individual by the system, is latent and is masterfully revealed through a plot in which love is a driving force.

Parue en 1894, "Le Moine noir" est une nouvelle fantastique dAnton Tchekhov dans laquelle l’auteur réfléchit sur le bonheur et le génie, les êtres d’exception et les gens ordinaires. Un récit pour le

Publié en 1899, "LAffaire Blaireau" est un roman dAlphonse Allais basé sur un vaudeville inédit en trois actes intitulé Innocent.Dans "L’Affaire Blaireau", le sens de l’humour du narrateur épingle le

First published in 1602, "The City of the Sun" is a utopia written by the Dominican Friar Tommaso Campanella. This short story is a dialogue between a grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea-captain, about the latters voyage to a utopian city. Perhaps the most interesting feature of Campanellas imaginary city is what might be called its architecture of knowledge. The city is made up of a number of walls upon each of which are inscribed all the knowledge of a particular set of sciences. On the outer wall are inscribed all the truths of mathematics, on the second metallurgy, geography, meteorology, the third botany, the next biology of fish, insects, reptiles, the one that follows the biology of large animals, then the mechanical arts, and finally history, war, philosophy, religion and law...

Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, the infamous Marquis de Sade, noted for his erotic tales that glamorized cruelty and depravity, was born in Paris to a rich and noble family in 1740. Educated in a Jesuit college, he, nonetheless, pursued a military career and then married, took a mistress and consorted with prostitutes. After escaping the death penalty and fleeing to Italy, he fell into a corrupt life filled with orgies and hired sex slaves. Back in France, he was imprisoned in the Bastille when he wrote the first draft of "Justine." He finished it in 1791 after his release.Originally published in French as "Justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu" in 1791, "Justine" (in full "Justine; or, The Misfortunes of Virtue") is an erotic novel by the Marquis de Sade. The novel is the tale of two orphaned sisters who are banished from a convent. Justine and Juliette travel to London with the hope of finding fortune and fame. Once they are in the city, the two sisters go their separate ways.In de Sades philosophy, God is evil, wickedness is the source of human activity, and the misfortunes suffered by the heroine result from her failure to recognize these truths. By contrast Justines sister Juliette delights in evil and therefore thrives in the sequel, "Juliette, ou Les Prosperites du vice."

Publié en 1857, "La Reine des épées" est un roman damour de lauteur français Paul Féval."La Reine des épées" se déroule dans le monde universitaire allemand du XVIIIe siècle. Frédéric, jeune étudiant

Publié en 1904, "Feu Mathias Pascal" est le plus célèbre des romans de l’écrivain italien Luigi Pirandello. Mathias, garçon timoré, vit en province ; il abandonne le foyer conjugal, s’étant un jour p

Chef-doeuvre du réalisme fantastique et incroyable satire burlesque, "Le Nez", paru en 1835, est, pour Nicolas Gogol, loccasion de faire voler en éclats une société composée de pantins pour qui la fonction et luniforme sont le substitut universel de la vie."Le Nez" debute par lhistoire dun barbier petersbourgeois, Ivan Iakovlievitch, qui decouvre, au lendemain dune soiree trop arrosee, un nez dans le petit painquil sapprete a croquer en guise de petit-dejeuner. Son epouse, offusquee, lui ordonne de sen debarrasser. Helas, les tentatives du barbier echouent lune apres lautreet, comble de malchance, il finit par etre arrete par un gendarme.Cest a ce moment-la quun autre habitant de Petersburg, lassesseur de college Kovaliov, se leve etconstate que son nez a pris la poudre descampette. Il entreprend dix demarches, plus loufoques lune que lautre, afin de le recuperer. Cest alors quil croise son nez,vetu dun bel uniforme brode dor. Celui-ci semble avoir decide dentamer une existence independante sous forme de conseiller dEtat.Alors que la situation semble desesperee, le nez de Kovaliov est arrete par la police, au moment ou il sappretait a passer la frontiere. Reste a le remettre a sa place. Ceci se revele impossible...

Roman publié en 1839 par un Stendhal qui a déja eu le «choc italien» près de 40 ans auparavant, "L’abbesse de Castro" s’inscrit dans ses «chroniques italiennes» dans lesquelles il s’attache à nous fa

What kinds of things do your family members disagree on? Politics, religion, and even which football team to cheer for are some of the things that family members sometimes have to steer around to keep the peace. The Almayer family could not be more different from one another.Originally published in 1895, "Almayers Folly" by Joseph Conrad is a story about a family who is impacted by European influence in Southeast Asia.Kaspar Almayer, the protagonist, is a Dutch trader, who like many of the European settlers in Southeast Asia, maintains a superior attitude toward the indigenous people. Mrs. Almayer, his wife, is Malayan and thinks that white people are corrupt and untrustworthy. Together, they have a daughter, Nina, who is understandably confused about her identity.

"The Secret Agent" takes places in London in 1886 and tells the story of Adolf Verloc, a businessman and secret agent. Verloc is part of a group of anarchists who believe in overthrowing the government and who also function as somewhat ineffective terrorists. The group mainly produces anarchist pamphlets called F.P. (The Future of the Proletariat) and hold private meetings among themselves.First published in 1907, Joseph Conrads "The Secret Agent" is considered by many literary critics and scholars to be among Conrads finest novels and one of the first works of English literature to seriously explore the subject of terrorism. The novel is also regarded by many scholars to be one of the first espionage novels of the 20th century.