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  The Friend

  'A beautifulbook . . . crammed with a world of insight into death, grief, art and love' WallStreet Journal When a womanunexpectedly loses a lifelong friend and mentor to suicide, she finds herselfburdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against griefis intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane that hadbeen devoted to its suddenly vanished master, and by the threat of eviction:dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. TheFriend is both a meditation on friendship, loss andbereavement, and a celebration of the wonder and healing power of thehuman-canine bond. 'A pitch-perfectnovel . . . Wry and moving, The Friend is a love story, amania story, and a recovery story' Vanity Fair 'An intimate, beautiful thing, humming withinsight' The Economist 'Dry, allusive,charming . . . Nunez has an interesting mind, and she shakes the dust fromevery topic - grief, writing, academia, sexual politics - she picks up' New York Times Critics' Top Books of2018 'A sneaky gutpunch of a novel . . . a consummate example of the human-animal tale' Harper'sMagazine

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  The Waste Land and Other Poems , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 69min

  'The Waste Land' is a landmark in 20th-century poetry. Here it is read by the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Published in 1922, it is a brilliant exploration of a faithless, immoral society trying to rebuild itself after the devastation of the Great War. Rich in literary references and steeped in allusive and evocative imagery, 'The Waste Land' is widely considered to be the pinnacle of modernist poetry. This audiobook also contains some of Eliot's other poems, including 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', 'Sweeney Among the Nightingales', 'Ash Wednesday' and 'Journey of the Magi'. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965. Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children, including River (1983). He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for both Tales from Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998). He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ted Hughes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/fabe/000043/bk_fabe_000043_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Adventurists (eBook, ePUB)

  "Flawless. . . . Readers of John Crowley, Ray Bradbury, and Sally Rooney alike will find a home."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Remember the girl you once knew, the theater kid? Now she's become 
the Queen, and you might need to rescue her. There's the historic house,
 where someone once saw a ghost and you almost fell in love. An 
ornithopter hangs in the lobby of your corporate workplace: your 
co-worker thinks he might be able to operate it. Once you found a tunnel
 under your old high school, and couldn't resist going to see where it 
led. Sometimes a door will open into a new world, sometimes 
into the past. Putting on a costume might be the restart you are half 
hoping for. There are things buried here. You might want to save them. 
You might want to get out of the way. Butner's allusive and 
elusive stories reach into the uncanny corners of life—where there are 
no job losses, just HCAPs (Head Count Allocation Procedures), where a 
tree might talk to just one person, where Death's Fool is not to be 
ignored.

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  Not Always So

  Thirty years after his death, Suzuki's first book, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, " continues to be one of the world's bestselling books on Buddhism. This second volume contains his final simple, powerful words, given when he knew he was dying. Practising the true spirit of Zen.Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is framed in his own inimitable, allusive, paradoxical style, rich with unexpected and off-centre insights. Suzuki knew he was dying at the time of the lectures, which gives his thoughts an urgency and focus even sharper than in the earlier book.In Not Always So Suzuki once again voices Zen in everyday language with the vigour, sensitivity, and buoyancy of a true friend. Here is support and nourishment. Here is a mother and father lending a hand, but letting you find your own way. Here is guidance which empowers your freedom (or way-seeking mind), rather than pinning you down to directions and techniques. Here is teaching which encourages you to touch and know your true heart and to express yourself fully, teaching which is not teaching from outside, but a voice arising in your own being.

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  The Trumpiad: Book the First: A Satirical Poem in Twelve Cantos , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 181min

  When history books are written about 2017 and the year that preceded it (assuming that something called “writing” survives, some things called “books” remain, and any human settlements exist to recollect anything in the way of “history”), it may be possible to consider with a degree of equanimity the character of the 45th president of the United States, the reasons for his election in November 2016, and what either tell us about the people who voted for him or those who thought it unimportant to vote at all. Until then, however, there is The Trumpiad. Written in the style and verse-form of "Don Juan" by Lord Byron, this epic poem in twelve cantos is a cri de coeur, a pungent satire, and a richly allusive Jeremiad on the times we live in, as well as a throwback to the mock-heroic epics of Alexander "Pope’s Dunciad" and Ariosto’s "Orlando Furioso." What the critics are saying: “Saucy.” -Marquis de Sade “A nattering nabobbery of negativity.” -Spiro T. Agnew “I cannot recommend this work [highly enough—ed].” -Lord Byron “The expense of spirit in a waste of shame, is Rowe in action.” -William Shakespeare “Once I picked up this book, I couldn’t wait to put it down.” -Jane Austen “An immoral, tasteless, and disgusting work. I loved it.” -P. G. Wodehouse ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Rowe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129499/bk_acx0_129499_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Wagner's Ring Motifs, Hörbuch, Digital, 152min

  Wagner's Ring Motifs" is aimed in the first instance at listeners new to the Ring and is intended to convey the fascination of Wagner's music in a clear and simple manner and to decode the musical and dramatic language of the mythical world of the cycle. But even listeners already familiar with the work will find that this database provides them with a crash course in what Thomas Mann described as the "allusive magic" of the Ring's leitmotifs. The authors are Sven Friedrich, curator of the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth, and Gerhard K. Englert, the editor of the previous audio guides that have been released in the same series and that explore the world of classical music. Together, the authors offer listeners a modern, convenient and quick introduction to Wagner's cycle, The Ring of the Nibelung.The motifs are presented in the order of their first appearance in the cycle and accompanied by an expert commentary. In this way, the listener is also introduced to the story of the Ring, an introduction that follows the narrative very closely by examining the development and meaning of the music. The narrator is the distinguished British bass-baritone Sir John Tomlinson, who has appeared in countless performances at the Bayreuth Festival since making his début there as Wotan in 1988. Language: English. Narrator: Sir John Tomlinson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/auri/000007/bk_auri_000007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Watt , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 605min

  Written in Roussillon during World War Two, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, Watt was first published in 1953. Beckett acknowledged that this comic novel unlike any other 'has its place in the series' - those masterpieces running from Murphy to the Trilogy, Waiting for Godot and beyond. It shares their sense of a world in crisis, their profound awareness of the paradoxes of being, and their distrust of the rational universe. Watt tells the tale of Mr Knott's servant and his attempts to get to know his master. Watt's mistake is to derive the essence of his master from the accidentals of his being, and his painstakingly logical attempts to 'know' ultimately consign him to the asylum. Itself a critique of error, Watt has previously appeared in editions that are littered with mistakes, both major and minor. The new Faber edition offers for the first time a corrected text based on a scholarly appraisal of the manuscripts and textual history. Watt is at times extremely funny, bizarre, allusive and richly poetic. Though 'early' Beckett, the novel shows the author to be a remarkable virtuoso, investing plot and pace with classical, intellectual and earthy content style. Dermot Crowley proves himself a towering Beckett performer, matching clarity with flair; and with its musical surprises (arranged and conducted by Roger Marsh), the recording shows that, once again, a key Becket novel comes to life unforgettably in the audiobook medium. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dermot Crowley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000048/bk_dhrm_000048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Friend: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 359min

  Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for FictionNew York Times Best SellerOne of The View's Summer Read 2019 Picks!"A beautiful book… a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love." (Wall Street Journal)"A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez has a wry, withering wit." (NPR)"Dry, allusive and charming…the comedy here writes itself.” (The New York Times)A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building.While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them.Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hillary Huber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003238/bk_peng_003238_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500 (eBook, ePUB)

  This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500 is the first detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their literary, imaginative, social, and codicological contexts. Analysing recipe collections in over seventy late medieval manuscripts, this book explores how the words and structures of recipes could contribute to those texts' healing purpose, but could also confuse, impede, exceed, and redefine that purpose. The study therefore presents a challenge to recipes' traditional reputation as mundane, unartful texts written and read solely for the sake of directing practical action. Crucially, it also relocates these neglected texts and overlooked manuscripts within the complex networks forming medieval textual culture, demonstrating that-though marginalized in modern scholarship-medical recipes were actually linguistically, formally, materially, and imaginatively interconnected with many other late medieval discourses, including devotional writings, romances, fabliaux, and Chaucerian poetry. The monograph thus models for readers modes of analysis and close reading that might be deployed in relation to recipes in order to understand better their allusive, fragmentary, and playful qualities as well as their wide-ranging influence on medieval imaginations.

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  On Michael Jackson , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 227min

  Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding antics, even as he is commonly reviled for the child molestation charges twice brought against him. Whence the weirdness and alleged criminality? How to account for Michael Jackson's rise and fall? In On Michael Jackson, an at once passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for The New York Times Margo Jefferson brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time. Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a "What Is It"? What do P. T. Barnum, Peter Pan, and Edgar Allan Poe have to do with our fascination with Jackson? How did his curious Victorian upbringing and his tenure as a child prodigy on the "chitlin' circuit" inform his character and multiplicity of selves? How is Michael Jackson's celebrity related to the outrageous popularity of 19th-century minstrelsy? What is the perverse appeal of child stars for grown-ups and what is the price of such stardom for these children and for us? What uncanniness provoked Michael Jackson to become "Alone of All His Race, Alone of All Her Sex," while establishing himself as an undeniably great performer with neo-Gothic, dandy proclivities and a producer of visionary music videos? What do we find so unnerving about Michael Jackson's presumed monstrosity? In short, how are we all of us implicated? In her stunning first book, Margo Jefferson gives us the incontrovertible lowdown on call-him-what-you-wish; she offers a powerful reckoning with a quintessential, richly allusive signifier of American society and popular culture. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000654/bk_bkot_000654_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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