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View Rights PortalAl-Alia Publishing House produces stories for children. Not only the child enjoys the new experience of reading Alia presents, but so as everyone else.
View Rights PortalSwedish schoolgirl, Greta Thunberg has captured the world’s attention as she campaigns to raise awareness of climate change and calls world leaders to account. All children can follow Greta’s lead. Claire Malone is the hero of Claire Malone Changes the World, a feisty character with boundless energy to change her world for the better. Armed with her typewriter and the determination to make a difference, Claire is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary desire to change things for the better. Writing letter after letter, Claire advocates for change. One day she notices that her local park needs upgrading and she commits wholeheartedly to the cause. This an empowering and inspiring picture book for young children but especially for girls. You will love the journey of Claire, a strong and ambitious girl, so much that you will want to read this book over and over again.
»Dann ging ich in das Haus zurück und schrieb: ›Es ist Mitternacht. Der Regen peitscht gegen die Scheiben.‹ Es war nicht Mitternacht. Es regnete nicht.« So endet der Roman Molloy, der erste Teil einer Romantrilogie, die mit Malone stirbt fortgesetzt wird und mit dem Roman Der Namenlose endet. Die Trilogie, zwischen 1951 und 1953 erstmals erschienen, ist in mancherlei Hinsicht eine epische Parallele zu Becketts weltberühmtem Theaterstück Warten auf Godot. Auch hier gibt es keine eigentliche Handlung, es wird vielmehr eine Situation wirklich: eine furchtbare Vision unserer Welt, in der der Mensch zu schrumpfen beginnt und dem Zerfall anheimfällt oder im Sterben liegt und auf sein Innerstes zurückgeworfen ist oder ohne Geschichte dahinvegetiert auf der Suche nach Ruhe und Schweigen und dennoch das Verlangen hat, Zeugnis abzulegen.
Samuel Beckett wurde am 13. April 1906 in Dublin geboren und starb am 22. Dezember 1989 in Paris. Er zählt zu den bedeutendsten Schriftstellern des 20. Jahrhunderts und erhielt 1969 den Literaturnobelpreis. Beckett ist dem breiten Publikum hauptsächlich durch seine Dramen, insbesondere Warten auf Godot, bekannt, verfasste aber auch Prosa und Lyrik.
New York im Sommer 1990: Privatdetektiv Stuart Malone leidet unter der Hitze, unter Schlaflosigkeit und trüben Erinnerungen. Daß die New Yorker Polizei ihn und seine Assistentin Deenie zu laufenden Ermittlungen hinzuziehen will, hebt seine Laune nicht unbedingt. Doch die ehemaligen Kollegen brauchen seine Hilfe bei einer rätselhaften Mordserie in Chinatown. Denn dem ersten Anschein nach haben die Getöteten nur eines gemeinsam: das Zeichen eines Hirsches, das ihnen auf den Arm gemalt wurde.
Collections XVI contains new documentary evidence concerning Luminalia, the anonymous Shrovetide masque of 1638, and theatrical references in the Bridewell Hospital Court of Governors' Minute Books. The volume also includes editions of fragments from an early seventeenth-century adaptation of Plautus' Captivi, held in the archives of New College, Oxford, and the part of Amarath from Harvard University manuscript Thr.10.1. The volume is edited by Eugene Giddens, with contributions from Nadine N. W. Akkerman, William Poole, Abigail Rokison, and Duncan Salkeld. It is part of the Malone Society's ongoing Collections series, which gathers together documents relating to the drama of the period. ;
Collections XVII is the latest volume in the Malone Society's pioneering series of editions of miscellaneous documents relating to English theatre and drama before 1642. It is likely to be of special interest not only to early theatre historians but to those working on Tudor and Stuart court and civic culture, manuscript writing, household drama and early modern women's writing, as it publishes new material in each of these fields. The book includes items such as Revels Office accounts, a playscript fragment, entertainments, poems and civic shows. Many of these documents are previously unpublished, and have been freshly edited and transcribed; each has an introduction giving details of its date, authorship and historical importance. The volume will be essential reading for postgraduates and university teachers in early modern drama, theatre history and women's writing. ;
The Humorous Magistrate is a seventeenth-century satiric comedy extant in two highly distinctive manuscripts. This, the earliest and clearly working draft of the play is bound with three other plays (including The Emperor's Favourite, published by the Malone Society in 2010) in a volume in the library of the Newdigate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The second version, showing yet another stage of revision not found in the Arbury manuscript and orientated towards performance, was purchased by the University of Calgary from the English antiquarian Edgar Osborne in 1972. The relationship between the manuscripts was discovered in 2005. The anonymous play has been attributed to John Newdigate III (1600-1642). Like The Emperor's Favourite, it takes aim at the court; its particular object of satire is governmental strategies under the Personal Rule of Charles I. The play appears in print for the first time in these separate editions. The volumes are illustrated with several plates, some provided for comparative purposes.
The Humorous Magistrate is a seventeenth-century satiric comedy extant in two highly distinctive manuscripts. The earliest and clearly working draft of the play is bound with three other plays (including The Emperor's Favourite, published by the Malone Society in 2010) in a volume in the library of the Newdigate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. This, the second version, showing yet another stage of revision not found in the Arbury manuscript and orientated towards performance, was purchased by the University of Calgary from the English antiquarian Edgar Osborne in 1972. The relationship between the manuscripts was discovered in 2005. The anonymous play has been attributed to John Newdigate III (1600-1642). Like The Emperor's Favourite, it takes aim at the court; its particular object of satire is governmental strategies under the Personal Rule of Charles I. The play appears in print for the first time in these separate editions. The volumes are illustrated with several plates, some provided for comparative purposes. ;
Während der Kriegsjahre in Frankreich war der Austausch von Briefen vielfach erschwert oder schlicht zu gefährlich . Nach Kriegsende jedoch setzt ein Strom von Briefen ein, deren Fülle und Wucht den publizierten Werken in Samuel Becketts fruchtbarsten Jahren in nichts nachsteht. Besonders die Briefe an den Kunsthistoriker Georges Duthuit, die das Entstehen von »Molloy, Malone stirbt, Der Namenlose« und »Warten auf Godot« begleiten, werden zum Prozess einer Selbstfindung. In immer neuen Anläufen dringt Beckett zum Kern der Ästhetik vor, die seine Werke prägt. In ihrer Gesamtheit gestatten uns Becketts Briefe, nachzuvollziehen, wie aus einem leidenschaftlich in seine Arbeit vertieften, kaum bekannten Schriftsteller infolge des sensationellen Erfolgs von »Warten auf Godot« ein weltberühmter Autor wird – und wie Beckett darauf reagiert. Der Band enthält umfassende Einführungen, die sich mit Becketts Situation im Krieg und mit dem einschneidenden Wechsel von der englischen zur französischen Sprache beschäftigen, ferner Stellenkommentare, Zeittafeln und Kurzporträts der wichtigsten Briefpartner. Die auf vier Bände angelegte Ausgabe erschließt zum ersten Mal das Briefwerk eines der großen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts.
The names Edmund Spenser and John Donne are typically associated with different ages in English poetry, the former with the sixteenth century and the Elizabethan Golden Age, the latter with the 'metaphysical' poets of the seventeenth century. This collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge this dichotomous view and to engage critically with both poets, not only at the sites of direct allusion, imitation, or parody, but also in terms of common preoccupations and continuities of thought, informed by the literary and historical contexts of the politically and intellectually turbulent turn of the century. Juxtaposing these two poets, so apparently unlike one another, for comparison rather than contrast changes our understanding of each poet individually and moves towards a more holistic, relational view of their poetics.
Brink's provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marx's described as 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'. In this readable and informative account, Spenser is depicted as the protégé of a circle of London clergymen, who expected him to take holy orders. Brink shows that the young Spenser was known to Alexander Nowell, author of Nowell's Catechism and Dean of St. Paul's. Significantly revising the received biography, Brink argues that that it was Harvey alone who orchestrated Familiar Letters (1580). He used this correspondence to further his career and invented the portrait of Spenser as his admiring disciple. Contextualising Spenser's life by comparisons with Shakespeare and Sir Walter Ralegh, Brink shows that Spenser shared with Sir Philip Sidney an allegiance to the early modern chivalric code. His departure for Ireland was a high point, not an exile.
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser is a much-needed volume that brings together established and early career scholars to provide new critical approaches to the relationship between Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. By reading one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages alongside one of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, this collection poses questions about poetic authority, influence, and the nature of intertextual relations in a more wide-ranging manner than ever before. With its dual focus on authors from periods often conceived as radically separate, the collection also responds to current interests in periodisation. This approach will engage academics, researchers and students of Medieval and Early Modern culture.
Edmund Spenser and the romance of space advances the exploration of literary space into new areas, firstly by taking advantage of recent interdisciplinary interests in the spatial qualities of early modern thought and culture, and secondly by reading literature concerning the art of cosmography and navigation alongside imaginative literature with the purpose of identifying shared modes and preoccupations. The book looks to the work of cultural and historical geographers in order to gauge the roles that aesthetic subjectivity and the imagination play in the development of geographical knowledge: contexts ultimately employed by the study to achieve a better understanding of the place of Ireland in Spenser's writing. The study also engages with recent ecocritical approaches to literary environments, such as coastlines, wetlands, and islands, thus framing fresh readings of Spenser's handling of mixed genres.
Romantisch, prickelnd, zum Träumen schön - der neue Sommerroman von Bestsellerautorin Tanja Janz: voller Wellenglitzern, Nordseeträume und Liebesglück. Sommer am Meer, ein Praktikum in einem Naturschutzgebiet und eine WG ohne Eltern: Besser könnte Alicia sich ihre Ferien an der Nordsee in St. Peter-Ording gar nicht vorstellen. Mit den jungen Bewohnern aus der Leuchtturm-WG freundet sich Alicia schnell an. Nur was sie von Surfer Liam halten soll, weiß sie nicht. Er scheint nichts ernst zu nehmen und jagt dauernd der nächsten Welle hinterher. Doch bei gemeinsamen Wattwanderungen und Müllsammelaktionen überrascht Liam sie plötzlich mit seiner einfühlsamen Art und seiner Liebe zur Natur. Und obwohl Alicia sich geschworen hat, erst einmal die Finger von Jungs zu lassen, klopft ihr Herz in seiner Nähe mit einem Mal so laut wie die tosende Brandung. Aber ist das Prickeln zwischen ihnen stark genug, um alle Differenzen zu überwinden?