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Der Kampf mit dem Dämon (Classics To Go)
by Stefan Zweig"Der Kampf mit dem Dämon" ist ein biographischer Essayband von Stefan Zweig. Die Erstausgabe dieses Werkes erschien 1925 im Insel-Verlag zu Leipzig. Obwohl das Buch damals eine Auflagehöhe von mehr als zwanzigtausend erreichte, findet sich in der heutigen Forschungsliteratur nur sehr wenig dazu. Es ist Stefan Zweigs einziger biographischer Essayband über deutsche Dichter und Denker. Sonst beschäftigt er sich in erster Linie mit den Dichtern französischer Sprache.
Der Stern über dem Walde (Classics To Go)
by Stefan Zweig"Der Stern über dem Walde" ist eine kurze Erzählung von Stefan Zweig. Die Hauptperson der Erzählung ist der im Rivierahotel arbeitende Kellner François. Beim Bedienen der Gräfin Ostrowska wird er innerlich verzaubert und spürt tiefe Verehrung für ihre Person. Mit einer treuen, begehrungslosen Liebe dient er ihr unbemerkt und saugt jeden ihrer Befehle auf um in ihrer Nähe zu sein. Als er jedoch vernehmen muss, dass die Gräfin mit dem Zug abreist, bricht das mit einem mal an Farbe gewonnene Leben von François zusammen. Nach anfänglichen Gedanken ihr nachzureisen, nimmt er sein weniges Geld, um damit einen ganz besonderen, letzten Blumenstrauß für seine Angebetete zu erstehen. Hiernach treiben ihn Todesgedanken umher, die ihn schließlich zum Gleis führen, auf dem der Zug der Gräfin Ostrowska entlangfahren wird. Mit einem einsamen Stern im Blick legt sich François auf die Schienen und lässt sein Leben durch den Zug, in dem seine Angebetete sitzt, beenden. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)
Die Liebe der Erika Ewald: Novellen - Primary Source Edition (Classics To Go)
by Stefan ZweigDie Pianistin Erika Ewald verliebt sich während der Proben für ein gemeinsames Konzert in einen Geigenvirtuosen. Während ihre Liebe zunächst eher platonischer Natur ist – sie erfreut sich an gemeinsamen Gesprächen und Spaziergängen –, wächst in ihm das Begehren für die junge Frau. Er gesteht ihr seine Gefühle, jedoch spürt sie, dass sie für diesen Schritt noch nicht bereit ist und flieht im letzten Moment. Es folgt eine unbestimmte Zeit des Wartens, in denen beide keinen Kontakt mehr haben. Indes beginnt Erika innerlich zu reifen und fühlt sich ebenfalls körperlich zu dem jungen Künstler hingezogen. Ihr ganzes Bestreben konzentriert sich jetzt auf ein Wiedersehen mit ihm, was ihr schließlich bei dem Besuch eines seiner Konzerte gelingt. Als sie jedoch mit ihm sprechen will, sieht sie ihn höhnisch lächelnd mit einer Opernsängerin im Arm weggehen. Nach anfänglichen Todesgedanken fasst sie den Entschluss, an ihm Rache zu üben, indem sie sich dem erstbesten Mann hingibt. Das Schicksal jedoch bewahrt sie vor diesem Schritt und lässt sie ihr Leid langsam ertragen. Sie weiß, dass sie nie wieder im Stande sein wird, einen anderen Menschen zu lieben, und führt ihr weiteres Leben in Enthaltsamkeit und berauschenden Gedanken an die Vergangenheit. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)
Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe
by Stefan ZweigA new collection of essays by Stefan Zweig: tributes to the great artists and thinkers of the Europe of his dayStefan Zweig was one of the twentieth century's greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and friendship across borders. Encounters and Destinies collects his most impassioned and moving tributes to his many illustrious friends and peers: literary, philosophical and artistic luminaries from across the Old Europe that Zweig loved so much, and which he grieved to see so cruelly destroyed by two world wars.Including pieces on Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Maxim Gorky and Arturo Toscanini, this essential collection is also Zweig's tribute to the ideal of friendship: an ideal he clung to as the world he knew was torn apart.
Impatience of the Heart (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Stefan ZweigThe great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Impatience of the Heart, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of the barracks. The surroundings are glamorous, wine flows freely, and the exhilarated young Hofmiller asks his host's lovely daughter for a dance, only to discover that sickness has left her painfully crippled. It is a minor blunder that will destroy his life, as pity and guilt gradually implicate him in a well-meaning but tragically wrongheaded plot to restore the unhappy invalid to health.
Journeys (Modern Voices Ser.)
by Stefan ZweigA collection of the great writer's observations, made during his travels across the Europe he loved so muchWhen I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is something in it marvellously uplifting and invigorating. Whole past epochs suddenly return: nothing is lost, everything still full of inception, enticement.For the insatiably curious and ardent Europhile Stefan Zweig, travel was both a necessary cultural education and a personal balm for the depression he experienced when rooted in one place for too long. He spent much of his life weaving between the countries of Europe, visiting authors and friends, exploring the continent in the heyday of international rail travel.Comprising a lifetime's observations on Zweig's travels in Europe, this collection can be dipped into or savoured at length, and paints a rich and sensitive picture of Europe before the Second World War.
Twenty-four hours of a woman's life
by Stefan ZweigAt the beginning of the century, a small pension on the Riviera. The guests of the establishment are in an uproar: the wife of one of the boarders, Mrs. Henriette, has left with a young man who had only been there one day. Only the narrator defends this morally bankrupt creature. And his only ally is a dry and distinguished old English lady. It is she who, in the course of a long conversation, will explain to him which badly extinguished fires this adventure has rekindled in her
Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer
by Stefan ZweigA principio de siglo, en una pequeña pensión de la Riviera. Una gran conmoción entre los clientes del establecimiento: la esposa de uno de los huéspedes, la señora Henriette, se ha ido con un hombre joven que sólo ha estado allí un día. Sólamente el narrador defiende a esta criatura sin moralidad. Y encontrará como aliada a una anciana inglesa delgada y distinguida. Es ella quien, durante una larga conversación, le explicará los rescoldos de un fuego que esta aventura ha reavivado en ella.
Vergessene Träume (Classics To Go)
by Stefan ZweigEine schöne Frau liegt hingegossen auf der Sonnenterasse einer prächtigen Villa, ihr verführerisches Lächeln in einer »mehrjährigen Spiegelprobe« perfektioniert. Da erscheint Besuch aus der Vergangenheit und schaut hinter die Oberfläche ihres inszenierten Lebens. Behutsam konfrontiert Stefan Zweig die Realität gefällter Entscheidungen mit den Träumen der Vergangenheit und überrascht mit einer heiteren Auflösung.
Fever Season
by Eric ZweigEric Zweig is a managing editor with Dan Diamond & Associates, consulting publishers to the National Hockey League. He has written about sports and sports history for many major publications, including the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail His non-fiction sports books for young people include Star Power: The Legend and Lore of Cyclone Taylor and Crazy Canucks. He lives in Owen Sound, Ontario.
Lunatics
by Alan Zweibel Dave BarryPhilip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids' soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls' ten-and-under soccer league, and he's not exactly happy with the ref. The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, subversives, bears, revolutionaries, pirates, and a black ops team that does not exist. Where all that takes them you can't even begin to guess, but the literary journey there is a masterpiece of inspiration, chaos, and unadulterated, well, lunacy. And they might even learn a lesson or two along the way.
Clothing Optional: And Other Ways to Read These Stories
by Alan Zweibel"Garry, it's Alan. Look, I'm calling because I just felt the need to tell someone that I'm forty-four years old, and about an hour ago, for the first time in my life, I put suntan lotion on my ass. I'll explain later. Bye. " In Clothing Optional, Alan Zweibel offers a collection of laugh-out-loud personal narratives, essays, short fiction, dialogues, and even a few whimsical drawings. Zweibel first made a name for himself as one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live, but his career's humble beginnings included creating one-liners for Catskill comedians at seven dollars a pop. That experience is only one of the hysterically inspired anecdotes ("Comic Dialogue") in this quirky compilation. Zweibel confesses his first love, as a young Hebrew school student, for Abraham's wife, Sarah ("At this point, Sarah's husband had been dead for more than three thousand years-so, really, who would I be hurting?"); recounts the time he was sent to a nudist resort to write an article ("The fact that I brought luggage is, in itself, worthy of some discussion"); offers a touching tribute to Saturday Night Live writer and mentor Herb Sargent ("Herb was New York. But an older, more romantic New York that took place in black and white like the kind of TV I grew up on and wanted to be a part of someday"); and imagines a scenario in which Sergeant Joe Friday, the stiff, monotoned character from Dragnet, is inexplicably partnered with Snoop Dogg ("Damn, Friday. You gotta learn to chill. Take some free time and kick it with your boys") Every piece is punctuated with the same wit and insight that have come to define Zweibel's humor. Unhinged and hilarious, Clothing Optional is an unguided tour through the uniquely peculiar life and mind of a man who The New York Times said "has earned a place in the pantheon of American pop culture. " From the Hardcover edition.
Laugh Lines: My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier
by Alan ZweibelWith his tender, funny memoir of four decades in the business, one of the first writers for Saturday Night Live traces the history of American comedy. Alan Zweibel started his comedy career selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to the last of the Borscht Belt standups. Then one night, despite bombing on stage, he caught the attention of Lorne Michaels and became one of the first writers at Saturday Night Live, where he penned classic material for Gilda Radner, John Belushi, and all of the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players. From SNL, he went on to have a hand in a series of landmark shows—from It’s Garry Shandling’s Show to Curb Your Enthusiasm. Throughout the pages of Laugh Lines Zweibel weaves together his own stories and interviews with his friends and contemporaries, including Richard Lewis, Eric Idle, Bob Saget, Mike Birbiglia, Sarah Silverman, Judd Apatow, Dave Barry, Carl Reiner, and more. The book also features a charming foreword from his friend of forty-five years Billy Crystal, with whom he co-wrote and co-produced the upcoming film Here Today that stars Crystal and Tiffany Haddish. Laugh Lines is a warmhearted cultural memoir of American comedy.“In Laugh Lines, Zweibel looks back, affectionately and informatively, at a career that began when he was a young deli worker grinding out jokes for old-school borscht belt comedians in his spare time, and that, after his “S.N.L.” years, included rewarding collaborations with, among others, Garry Shandling, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Larry David and Dave Barry. . . . Fascinating.” —New York Times“Any comedy fan will thrill to see the contemporary art's invention through the eyes of consummate funny man Alan Zweibel. He takes you behind the velvet rope and makes you weep for all those artists who made us laugh. Screamingly funny—also very moving. A classic.” —Mary Karr“Alan Zweibel is legendary among us comedians. He is the man who delivers comedy with an emotional clout that makes him respected and revered.” —Steve Martin
The Other Shulman
by Alan ZweibelShulman, a chubby, middle-aged stationery-store owner from New Jersey, has always claimed that he's been gaining and losing the same thirty-five pounds since junior high-and that if you added all of that discarded weight together, he had lost an entire person. Another Shulman. A Shulman he never really cared for. A Shulman he'd always tried to lose by dieting and exercising. A Shulman he'd cover by wearing extra-large shirts in an attempt to hide his existence. This has been just a joke until, at a crossroads marked by overwhelming marital and business stress, he actually encounters this Other Shulman--an incredibly successful man who's made life and career choices that Shulman has spurned. At first, the Other Shulman is but a mere nuisance, a source of frustration brought about by mistaken identity. But as time goes by, his actions become increasingly destructive and threaten to sabotage all aspects of Shulman's existence. The struggle between the two Shulmans comes to a head while Shulman is running in the New York City Marathon. And it is during the course of this race, as he runs through the old neighborhoods where his life took shape, that this ordinarily passive family man examines all the choices he's made and realizes that in order for him to get his life back on track he must confront and overcome his haunting demons as presented in the form of this angry doppelgänger, this Other Shulman. In 26.2 chapters, one for each mile of the marathon, The Other Shulman is a hilarious and affecting tale of identity and aspiration from one of America's best-known comic writers.
Epistolary Acts: Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series)
by Jordan ZweckAs challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received letters themselves. In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity. Zweck argues that what makes early medieval English epistolarity unique is the performance of what she calls “epistolary acts,” the moments when authors represent or embed letters within vernacular texts. The book contributes to a growing interest in the intersections between medieval studies and media studies, blending traditional book history and manuscript studies with affect theory, media studies, and archive studies.
Double Check
by Naomi ZwebnerAll Libby Simons wants is a chance for a new start. Will she ever get that chance? Libby, a ninth grader at Beit Tzofia boarding school, has lived almost her whole life with her overprotective and eccentric aunt. Now that she is away from Doda Batya and her old life on the moshav, she begins to nurture the hope that perhaps she, too, can make friends and enjoy life just like a regular teenager. But things don t go quite as she d hoped. A nasty fall sends Doda Batya to the hospital and then a rehab center for a long time, where Libby must constantly visit and encourage her. Just at this time, Shainy Burla, the girl whom Libby admires to no end, reaches out to befriend her but Libby is sure there is a catch, and thus continually rebuffs Shainy s friendly overtures. It takes lots of ups and downs, a disturbing mystery regarding disappearing books, an exciting major production, and then a very frightening experience, until Libby finally learns the truth about Shainy Burla and the fact that certain things do not need to be double checked . A heartwarming and suspenseful story of discovery, friendship, and growing up, Double Check is one book you ll find yourself reading again and again.
Paris-Brussels and Conjugal Submission: Hot Pleasures
by Géraldine ZwangIn “Paris-Brussels,” a man has a surprisingly intimate encounter with a sexy young couple while aboard a train. In “Conjugal Submission,” one man’s strongest desire is for his wife to degrade him—but does he know what he’s getting himself into by agreeing to submit to her will?
The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Joost Zwagerman'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent book' Jonathan Gibbs, Minor Literatures'We were kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic. Except for Bavink, who went crazy'A husband forms gruesome plans for his new fridge; a government employee has a haunting experience on his commute home; prisoners serve as entertainment for wealthy party guests; an army officer suffers a monstrous tropical illness. These short stories contain some of the most groundbreaking and innovative writing in Dutch literature from 1915 to the present day, with most pieces appearing here in English for the first time. Blending unforgettable snapshots of the realities of everyday life with surrealism, fantasy and subversion, this collection shows Dutch writing to be an integral part of world literary history.Joost Zwagerman (1963-2015) was a novelist, poet, essayist and editor of several anthologies. He started his career as a writer with bestselling novels, describing the atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s, such as Gimmick!(1988) and False Light (1991). In later years, he concentrated on writing essays - notably on pop culture and visual arts - and poetry. Suicide was the theme of the novel Six Stars (2002). He took his own life just after having published a new collection of essays on art, The Museum of Light.
Dual Threat
by Wendi ZwadukIn a new paranormal romance from Wendi Zwaduk, two tiger shifters meet the girl of their dreams. Now all they have to do is convenience her they hold the key to her heart and a life of love. Hampered by the pain of her past, it may take a dual threat for love to rule the day.Kaia Martin dances to pay the bills. She doesn't mind baring her body, but her heart? That's another question. But what happens when two tiger shifters push her out of her comfort zone and into her heart's desire?Evan and Ian Davis have been in love with Kaia since the moment they met her. Their tigers know she's the one for them. They've waited long enough for her to see what they've always known--she's their mate. Can these twin tiger shifters prove love really can conquer all?Content Notes: Paranormal, Ménage, Shifters, Hot, Anal Play, Polyamory, MFM
Somewhere I Belong
by Wendi ZwadukThe only reason she let Sully back into her life is because she can't run the farm on her own. The past is the past, and she's determined to keep it there! Sully's back in town, needing somewhere to belong, and he's not giving up on love this time!Sullavan Tanner walked away from Jarvis, Ohio, afraid to give his heart to the woman he loved. He lived the rock and roll lifestyle, but never quite made it to the big time. Fifteen years later, he's back and ready to claim what's his--if she'll accept his help.Marley Lockwood's done asking for help. The family farm is more than she can handle, but if she can survive a cancer scare, the loss of her parents, the abandonment by her first love, and a messy divorce, she can handle anything.Until Sully shows up.Although she's not interested in rekindling the love affair, she's not above accepting Sully's hands on the farm. What's the worst that could happen? They get the farm out of the red and into the black? That's her plan. They actually fall in love? The past says it won't work, so she's not hedging her bets.Too bad Sully's not giving up this time.
The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History)
by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite Stefanos Geroulanos Nicole JerrWhat is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual underpinnings. Using global intellectual history as a bridge between approaches, periods, and areas, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider the different schemes on which it has been based or renewed, the public stages on which it is erected or destroyed, and the images and ideas on which it rests.The essays in The Scaffolding of Sovereignty reveal that sovereignty has always been supported, complemented, and enforced by a complex aesthetic and intellectual scaffolding. This collection takes a multidisciplinary approach to investigating the concept on a global scale, ranging from an account of a Manchu emperor building a mosque to a discussion of the continuing power of Lenin’s corpse, from an analysis of the death of kings in classical Greek tragedy to an exploration of the imagery of “the people” in the Age of Revolutions. Across seventeen chapters that closely study specific historical regimes and conflicts, the book’s contributors examine intersections of authority, power, theatricality, science and medicine, jurisdiction, rulership, human rights, scholarship, religious and popular ideas, and international legal thought that support or undermine different instances of sovereign power and its representations.
Heat Wake
by Jason ZuzgaMixing science with humor, humanity, whimsy and love, Jason Zuzga's debut collection is a revelation. In Heat Wake, the reader encounter natures in myriad forms, all crafted from the unusual perspective of a poet astonished by the world and at work among the queerness of life, the odd sweetness of other people, the city, nature, love, and humanity. The poems unfold amid the presence of stubborn rocks, the vast ocean and its shores, the intimate details of a suburban New Jersey landscape. The book's exuberant poems take a journey through time itself: the limited time of humans versus time evolutionary and geological. The poems present in rollicking, playful language and joyful imagery, glancing at the infinite and at the future imagined from the desert in Arizona to Mars. "Charming, witty, and science-y smart, these debut collection poems pop with volleys of youthful and wise acts, tactics, maneuvers, catastrophes, scenes, and did I mention love poems overrunning! --Jane Miller
Dear Wife, Please Forgive Me: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Wang ZuxiaoyaoThe most exciting topic in the annual entertainment circle the first day of the super popular asian team long helenye and outsiders lightning marriage and lightning divorce in order to pry into the inside of their divorce the media elite reporters almost all out to collect relevant information helianxie and a supermodel night street kiss helianxie and popular singer six - star hotel open room hellian evil and movie star hand in hand into a high-end restaurant after driving a sports car to send it back to the villa
Dear Wife, Please Forgive Me: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Wang ZuxiaoyaoThe most exciting topic in the annual entertainment circle the first day of the super popular asian team long helenye and outsiders lightning marriage and lightning divorce in order to pry into the inside of their divorce the media elite reporters almost all out to collect relevant information helianxie and a supermodel night street kiss helianxie and popular singer six - star hotel open room hellian evil and movie star hand in hand into a high-end restaurant after driving a sports car to send it back to the villa