Melanie Walz, geboren 1953 in Essen, wurde für ihre A. S. Byatt-Übertragungen mit dem Heinrich-Maria-Ledig-Rowohlt Übersetzerpreis ausgezeichnet. Außerdem übersetzte sie Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marcel Proust, Michael Ondaatje, Lawrence Norfolk, Annie Proulx und viele andere mehr.
62 Ebooks por A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt: Children’s Book
From the renowned author of Possession, The Childrens Book is the absorbing story of the close of what has been called the Edwardian summer: the deceptively languid, blissful period that ended with t …
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A. S. Byatt: Ragnarok
Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves: what more relevant myth could any modern writer choose? Just as W …
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George Eliot: Mill on the Floss
Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her int …
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A. S. Byatt & George Eliot: Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings
The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot’s incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as ‘Evangelic …
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A.S. Byatt: The Song of Solomon
The only piece of erotic literature in the Bible, this book was regarded by earlier devotees as an allegory of God”s love for his people. Taking the form of a poem, the song tells of two lovers prai …
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A. S. Byatt: Ragnarok
As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she is given a copy of a book of ancient Nors …
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Cees Nooteboom: Rituals
In Rituals, Amsterdam of the fifties, sixties and seventies is viewed from the perspective of the capricious Inni Wintrop. An unintentional suicide survivor, the unexpected gift of life returned lend …
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A S Byatt: End of Gods
The story of Ragnarok plays out the endgame of Norse mythology. It is a tale of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the god themselves. What more relevant myth could any modern writ …
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A.S. Byatt: Das Buch der Kinder
A.S. Byatt – Booker-Preis Gewinnerin und von der Queen ernannte ›Dame Commander of the British Empire‹ – umspannt in ihrem neuen, opulenten Roman ein Vierteljahrhundert, die Jahre von 1895 bis kurz n …
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A S Byatt: Children’s Book
Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world – but their …
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A S Byatt: Possession
‘Shimmers with something close to genius… it is a modern masterpiece’ Daily Mail Rediscover the classic Booker Prize-winning novel of romance, history, intrigue, and high drama.Possession is an exh …
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A S Byatt: Little Black Book of Stories
A new collection of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a winner, and this one takes an unexpected turn, bringing shivers as well as delights. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged w …
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A S Byatt: Stone Woman (Storycuts)
Following the death of her mother, an elderly woman begins to undergo a transfiguration. Her body grows flinty, toughens and crystallises. An Icelandic stonemason she meets in a graveyard becomes her …
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A S Byatt: Body Art (Storycuts)
Damien, a gynaecological consultant and lapsed Catholic, replaces Christian icons with modern art; he worships the absence of God in the abstract staining of paint and ink. But when a vagrant young a …
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A S Byatt: Raw Material (Storycuts)
A downtrodden creative writing teacher despairs at the efforts of his students, at turns nakedly autobiographical or fanciful beyond reason. When an elderly lady begins submitting work in accordance …
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A S Byatt: Pink Ribbon (Storycuts)
It has been five years since Madeleine has recognised her husband James. As she drops deeper into her dementia, their lives fill up with the ghosts of her past and of Blitz-era London. When late one …
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A S Byatt: Thing in the Forest (Storycuts)
Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two little girls, extracted from their homes in wartime London, encounter something terrifying in a forest. Later when they meet as grown women, they realise t …
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A S Byatt: Unruly Times
Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it. With a nove …
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A S Byatt & Harriet Harvey Wood: Memory
This fascinating anthology introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, together. Arranged in themed sections, the book inclu …
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A S Byatt: Matisse Stories
Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling — about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may …
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A S Byatt: Djinn In The Nightingale’s Eye
**FEATURING THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NEW FILM THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING**A S Byatt’s fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for t …
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A S Byatt: Elementals
In the same delectable format as The Matisse Stories, this collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion – the mysterious absences at the heart of the fulles …
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A S Byatt: On Histories and Stories
In her powerful opening essays – ‘Fathers’, ‘Forefathers’ and ‘Ancestors’ – A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; t …
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A S Byatt: Passions Of The Mind
In Passions of the Mind, A.S. Byatt writes as an artist and scholar taking the reader on a journey of discovery as she explores the ideas, images and attitudes to language underpinning some of her ow …
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A S Byatt: Portraits In Fiction
Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet since the birth of the novel, writers have been fascinated by portraits as icons, …
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A S Byatt: Sugar And Other Stories
It should come as no surprise that short stories by the author of the magical Possession are populated by erudite paranoiacs, witches, changelings, and the ghost of a dead child. A S Byatt’s short fi …
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A S Byatt: Degrees of Freedom
First published in 1965, A.S. Byatt’s Degrees of Freedom examined the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch, identifying freedom as a central theme in all of them, and looking at Murdoch’s interest in t …
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A S Byatt: Peacock and Vine
This ravishing book opens a window onto the lives, designs, and passions of two charismatic artists. Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat thrill …
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Willa Cather: My Antonia
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. S. BYATT’She is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s greatest American writers’ OBSERVER’ … a clear-eyed salute to the resilience of the human spirit and the innate …
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Maria Tatar: The Grimm Reader: The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Forty of the most famous and celebrated stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by a leading professor of folklore. Even after two hundred years, the tales collected by the Brothers Gri …
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A.S. Byatt: Ragnarok
The Booker Prize–winning author of Possession breathes life into the Ragnorak myth through the novel of a young British girl during World War II. Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse myth …
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A.S. Byatt & Philippa Gregory: The Women Writers Handbook 2020
A revised edition of the publisher’s inaugural publication in 1990, which won the Pandora Award from Women-in-Publishing. Inspirational in its original format, this new edition features poems, storie …
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A S Byatt: Whistling Woman
It is 1968 and Frederica Potter is surprised to find herself embarking on a new career in television. While she endeavours to navigate this fast-paced and occasionally bewildering industry, her lover …
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A S Byatt: Still Life
Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge University greedy for knowledge, sex and love. It isn t long before she becomes infatuated with a mysterious and controlling poet. Back in Yorkshire, her sister …
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A S Byatt: Babel Tower
After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and finds herself surrounded by painters and poets wit …
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A S Byatt: Shadow of the Sun
It is the height of summer. After she is expelled from boarding school, Anna Severell returns to the strict, orderly house of her father, a celebrated novelist. The family is soon joined by Oliver Ca …
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A S Byatt: Virgin in the Garden
In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II s arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Stephanie has grown tired of …
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A S Byatt: Game
Cassandra is an Oxford don; Julia, her sister, a bestselling novelist. They share a set of disturbing memories of a strange childhood game and of Simon, the handsome young neighbour who loved them bo …
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A S Byatt: Angels And Insects
Like A.S. Byatt s Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people ar …
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A S Byatt: Medusa s Ankles
A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writing With an introduction by David Mitchell Byatt takes her readers to a place tha …
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Brian Aldiss & Stephen Baxter: Morphologies
Being short, you might think the story’s structure would yield an answer to this question more readily than, say, the novel. But for as long as the short story has been around, arguments have raged a …
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Goethe: Faust, Part I
Goethe’s Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks o …
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