Lindsay Clarke ist ein britischer Romanautor, der für seine literarischen Leistungen gefeiert wird. Sein Roman "The Chymical Wedding", der teilweise vom Leben von Mary Anne Atwood inspiriert wurde, gewann 1989 den Whitbread Prize. Clarke's jüngster Roman "The Water Theatre" wird als ein Werk von immensem Umfang, Energie und Herz beschrieben, das gleichzeitig schön und zum Nachdenken anregend ist. Clarke, ein ehemaliger Pädagoge, der international tätig war, lehrt nun kreatives Schreiben und leitet Schreibwerkstätten.
Wenn der weise Meimne Finn einen guten Rat brauchte, mußte er nur an seinem Daumen der Erkenntnis lutschen, und schon wußte er, was ihm zu wissen nottat. Von den abenteuerlichen Folgen erzählt die Geschichte. Eine geheimnisvolle Welt voller Magie und Überraschungen: Liebe, Eifersucht, Treue, Verrat, Fluch und Rache. Überschäumender Erzählwitz. Überliefert seit 3000 Jahren - Geschichten, die die Welt verzaubern.
Odysseus, traumatized by the slaughter his own ingenuity unleashed, no longer believes himself fit to return to his wife and son. Driven both by tempests and torment, he embarks on a voyage that will take him to the margins of the world and deep into the shadows of his own heart.
PART TWO OF THE TROY QUARTET Bringing ancient myth to life with passion, humour, and humanity, Lindsay Clarke vividly retells the story of Troy and of the heroes who fought there.
It is the early 1980s. Alex Darken, devastated by a broken marriage, has retreated to a remote village in the bleak flatlands of eastern England. On the Easterness Estate he meets the volatile, aging poet Edward Nesbit and his vibrant, psychic, young American lover, Laura. Slowly, he is drawn into a strange relationship with them as they piece together the lost studies of two of the present lord's ancestors. In 1849, Sir Henry Agnew and his elegant, brilliant daughter Louisa, were about to penetrate the last secrets of the mystical art of alchemy. They, like the researches a century and a half later, see in the "chemical wedding" of opposites -- sulphur and quicksilver, spirit and matter, male and female, reality and imagination -- a key to spiritual rebirth. As Edward, Laura, and Alex mirror the Agnew story, dreams and symbols, erotic ecstasy and philosophical argument, climax in a vision which, like those before them, they can grasp only as they skirt insanity and tragedy . . . . "Engrossing . . . By the time we start wanting to resist, it is too late. The book already has drawn us too deeply into its six intriguing main characters and its rich gothic folds of plot." -- Chicago Tribune
PART THREE OF THE TROY QUARTET Bringing ancient myth to life with passion, humour, and humanity, Lindsay Clarke vividly retells the story of Troy and of the heroes who fought there.
PART ONE OF THE TROY QUARTET Bringing ancient myth to life with passion, humour, and humanity, Lindsay Clarke vividly retells the story of Troy and of the heroes who fought there.
An inspirational account of the active power of compassion
Plus de vingt modèles à broder au petit point. Chaque modèle terminé est accompagné d'une photographie et d'une grille en couleur permettant de reproduire exactement les dessins. Les techniques de broderie (matériel, fil, canevas, points de broderie, finition) sont expliquées dans le dernier chapitre.
