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Prince Charming of the Magic Flame: A Gay First Love Faerie Tale, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 211min

What does destiny have in store for two young handsome boys who should never have crossed paths at all? How is it possible for love to grow between a rough lad from the street and a refined young aristocrat? Each of them is struggling when they meet: one starving, the other in a wheelchair - together they find a way to move forward, with a little magical help. Young Jack the Match Boy was freezing and starving on the winter streets of Edwardian London. It was 10 days before Christmas and no one was buying his matches. The poor lad was down to his last few…thinking of striking the last ones to have a moment of warmth…Just one he thought, he couldn’t resist. The wooden matchstick sparked a beautiful blue flame that turned gold. Within it brightens he saw a magical vision of a warm home surrounded by a glowing fire, plentiful food and friends…Then the match burnt out and he was back shivering in cold reality again. When he is rescued by Lady Helena, who could not abandon his cheeky charming little boy smile, she has an ulterior purpose as well as altruistic, her son has been in black despair since being crippled in the carriage accident that also tragically killed his father Lord Moncrieff...Lady Helena wonders if this Little Match boy's smile might bring life back to her own boy...Jack has magic about him that kindles not just hope in wheelchair-bound Cameron, but a deep friendship, feelings that grow with the years to ripen into love. As the boys become young men they encourage each other's talents, one a playwright the other an actor...together they find success in London's theatrical world, with Jack willing to make almost any sacrifice to help his friends career and his own. Success and love can bring delights...and maybe danger. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Guy Veryzer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/143694/bk_acx0_143694_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Last Days of Roger Federer (eBook, ePUB)

An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York).When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? In this beguiling meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, footballers, musicians, and tennis stars who've mattered to him throughout his life. With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he recounts Friedrich Nietzsche's breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan's reinventions of old songs, J. M. W. Turner's paintings of abstracted light, John Coltrane's cosmic melodies, Bjorn Borg's defeats, and Beethoven's final quartets-and considers the intensifications and modifications of experience that come when an ending is within sight. Throughout, he stresses the accomplishments of uncouth geniuses who defied convention, and went on doing so even when their beautiful youths were over.Ranging from Burning Man and the Doors to the nineteenth-century Alps and back, Dyer's book on last things is also a book about how to go on living with art and beauty-and on the entrancing effect and sudden illumination that an Art Pepper solo or Annie Dillard reflection can engender in even the most jaded and ironic sensibilities. Praised by Steve Martin for his "hilarious tics" and by Tom Bissell as "perhaps the most bafflingly great prose writer at work in the English language today," Dyer has now blended criticism, memoir, and humorous banter of the most serious kind into something entirely new. The Last Days of Roger Federer is a summation of Dyer's passions, and the perfect introduction to his sly and joyous work.

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The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York). When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? In this beguiling meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, footballers, musicians, and tennis stars who've mattered to him throughout his life. With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he recounts Friedrich Nietzsche's breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan's reinventions of old songs, J. M. W. Turner's paintings of abstracted light, John Coltrane's cosmic melodies, Bjorn Borg's defeats, and Beethoven's final quartets-and considers the intensifications and modifications of experience that come when an ending is within sight. Throughout, he stresses the accomplishments of uncouth geniuses who defied convention, and went on doing so even when their beautiful youths were over. Ranging from Burning Man and the Doors to the nineteenth-century Alps and back, Dyer's book on last things is also a book about how to go on living with art and beauty-and on the entrancing effect and sudden illumination that an Art Pepper solo or Annie Dillard reflection can engender in even the most jaded and ironic sensibilities. Praised by Steve Martin for his "hilarious tics" and by Tom Bissell as "perhaps the most bafflingly great prose writer at work in the English language today," Dyer has now blended criticism, memoir, and humorous banter of the most serious kind into something entirely new. The Last Days of Roger Federer is a summation of Dyer's passions, and the perfect introduction to his sly and joyous work.

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Der Deutsch-Dänische Krieg 1864

Der Deutsch-Dänische Krieg von 1864 besaß eine lange Vorgeschichte im Rahmen des heraufziehenden Nationalitätenkonflikts und der komplizierten Frage des dynastischen Erbrechts in den Elbherzogtümern. 1460 hatte der Vertrag von Ripen geregelt, daß Schleswig und Holstein ungeteilt und in Personalunion mit der dänischen Krone vereint bleiben sollten. Das Londoner Protokoll von 1852 garantierte den territorialen Bestand Dänemarks, legte aber fest, daß Schleswig verfassungsrechtlich nicht enger an Dänemark zu binden sei als Holstein. Als Dänemark diesen Vertrag nicht länger einhalten wollte, kam es zum Krieg.Der Deutsch-Dänische Krieg von 1864 ist ein Paradebeispiel für einen noch weitgehend unabhängig von äußeren Einflüssen herbeigeführten "klassischen" Kabinettskrieg im Stil der Geheimdiplomatie des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts.Die militärischen Auseinandersetzungen brachten schließlich den Untergang des jahrhundertealten dänischen Gesamtstaats und forcierten in Dänemark die Nationalisierung des Landes.Für die Deutschen brachte der Sieg über Dänemark die von der deutschen Nationalbewegung erträumte Loslösung der Elbherzogtümer von der dänischen Herrschaft, aber es kam nicht zur Bildung eines neuen Staates Schleswig-Holstein als Glied des Deutschen Bundes. Die Herzogtümer fielen an die erfolgreichen deutschen Führungsmächte Österreich und Preußen. Schleswig-Holstein bildete schließlich den Anlaß, den entscheidenden Kampf um die Vorherrschaft in Deutschland zwischen diesen beiden Mächten auszufechten. Preußen blieb siegreich und verleibte sich die Elbherzogtümer ein. Die Erfolge über Dänemark 1864 und Österreich 1866 legten die Grundlagen für die Einigung Deutschlands, die schließlich nach dem triumphalen Feldzug über Frankreich 1870/71 verwirklicht wurde. Das Buch behandelt alle relevanten politischen und militärischen Aspekte, die zum Verständnis von Vorgeschichte, Ablauf und Folgen des Konfliktes notwendig sind. Außerdem wird auf das seinerzeitige Kriegsvölkerrecht und die Bedeutung dieses Feldzuges für dessen Entwicklung bis in die Gegenwart eingegangen. In einem weiteren Kapitel wird das Nachleben des Krieges in der Erinnerungskultur der beteiligten Nationen thematisiert. Zahlreiche Bilder und Karten veranschaulichen diesen Konflikt im Norden Europas, der sich im Jahr 2014 zum 150. Mal jährt.Das Buch enthält ein Vorwort des Wiener Historikers Lothar Höbelt.

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