20th Century Literature – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 5

Georges Simenon,
Cécile Is Dead (Inspector Maigret)

"I've read a lot of Simenon, who's a favorite writer of mine." -Sigrid NunezIn a run-down Paris suburb, housebound widow Juliette Boynet is strangled. For Inspector Maigret, this murder hits hom…

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret (Inspector Maigret)

A gripping novel that sees Maigret brought out of his peaceful retirement. When Maigret's police officer nephew is framed for a gangland murder, the former chief inspector must swap his countryside retire…

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Georges Simenon,
Inspector Cadaver (Inspector Maigret)

"Open any of his novels-from the outset, the magic operates: from the first paragraph you are caught in the jaws of a trap that will not release you until the full-stop at the end of the last page, a…

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Decolonizing Knowledge

Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti-colonial movements' leading intellectuals.

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Dasa Drndic
Trieste

"Splendid and absorbing . . . [Drndic] is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick . . . These dense and satisfying pages capture the crowdedness of memory." - New York Times Book ReviewHa…

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell

The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequencesThough students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often …

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell

The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequencesThough students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often …

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Jim Crow Modernism

The "problem of the twentieth century" was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W. E. B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as "the color lin…

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Zoran Milutinovic
When Criticism Goes to War

A bold intervention into the lingering debates on Serbian writers Petar Petrovic Njegos and Ivo Andric in the late Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav period, which interrogates the political and moralizing (mis)u…

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Emily van Duyne
Loving Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination-the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary s…

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Agatha Christie, Mary Westmacott
Giant's Bread

A spellbinding novel of romantic obsession by Agatha Christie, written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.Agatha Christie, famous for her ingenious crime novels, also wrote about crimes of the heart.Writ…

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Ian Fleming
Moonraker

JAMES BOND INVESTIGATES A VILLAIN WITH THE POWER TO LAUNCH A NUCLEAR WARHEADSir Hugo Drax is a multimillionaire tycoon and war hero, revered by the British public for his new Moonraker missile defense sys…

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Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice

BOND TAKES ON A DEATH-DEFYING NEW MISSION TO SECURE KEY JAPANESE INTELLIGENCEJames Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and only the prospect of a particularly…

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Mariella Mehr,
Nightmare of the Embryos

Nightmare of the Embryos is a stunning collection of short fictional works by the Swiss writer Mariella Mehr (1947-2022), one of the most groundbreaking German writers of her time and simultaneously one o…

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Gabriele Tergit,
Effingers

Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip a…

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Patrick Modiano,
Missing Person

An amnesic searches for his identity, from Polynesia to Rome, in this novel by master storyteller Patrick Modiano: winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureGuy Roland is in pursuit of the identity he lost i…

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Jane Gardam
Old Filth

First in the Old Filth trilogy. A New York Times Notable Book."Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters" (The New York Times Book Review ).Sir Edward Feathers has had…

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Hélène Bessette,
Twenty Minutes of Silence

In an opulent villa near the English channel lives a well-to-do family. A man-a husband, father, and employer-has been shot dead. The bullet is from his own gun, which he got from the Germans during the w…

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Rosemary Tonks
The Bloater

Why do the only men I know carry wet umbrellas and say "Umm?" I'm being starved alive. Quick: the first bookshop for a copy of the Kama-Sutra*.*Min works at the BBC as a sound engineer, and in t…

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Billy Johnson
Publishing Place

The 1917 Halifax Explosion all but destroyed a thriving book-publishing industry centred in Halifax and Saint John. In the wake of the devastation, dozens of periodicals emerged in its place, reshaping th…

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