Bøger af Ian McEwan

Diese Geschichte spielt in einer alternativen Version des Vereinigten Königreichs in den 1980er-Jahren: Alan Turing lebt und forscht noch, Großbritannien hat den Falkland-Krieg verloren und die Digitalisierung ist weit fortgeschritten. Charlie, ein junger Mann mit vielen Interessen, aber wenig Ambitionen, investiert seine Erbschaft in eine technische Spielerei: er kauft einen der ersten 24 vollständig künstlichen Menschen: Adam. Diesen zu erziehen und auszubilden wird sein neues Projekt, das er zusammen mit seiner attraktiven Nachbarin Miranda angehen will. Idealerweise wird daraus eine romantische Beziehung zwischen Charlie und Miranda entstehen. Doch sein Plan geht nicht ganz auf, denn Adam verliebt sich in Miranda und bringt außerdem ein dunkles Geheimnis ihrer Vergangenheit ans Licht. In dieser ungewöhnlichen Dreiecksbeziehung werden die Lesenden auf eine philosophische und moralische Reise genommen, auf der die (ethischen) Grenzen der Computertechnologie ausgelotet werden. Kann künstliche Intelligenz wahre Gefühle haben und zeigen? Hinweis zum Inhalt: eine Seitenstrangerzählung enthält Szenen, die für manche Personen beunruhigend sein können (Vergewaltigung, Suizid).

"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life"--

Es ist das Jahr 1935, und die 13-jährige Briony Tallis hat ein Theaterstück für ihren älteren Bruder und ihre jungen Cousins geschrieben, die zu Besuch auf dem großen englischen Landsitz der Tallis sind. Doch das Stück wird erst vierundsechzig Jahre später aufgeführt. Dazwischen liegen ein Gewaltverbrechen, das von einem unbekannten Verbrecher begangen wird, eine Verhaftung, die Leben verändert - und zerstört -, ein höllischer Weltkrieg und eine lebenslange Buße für die junge Dramatikerin, die zur Autorin wurde. Und dies alles in Geschichten innerhalb von Geschichten in einem Meisterwerk der britischen Belletristik. Diese Ausgabe ist speziell für den Gebrauch an Schulen konzipiert und enthält: Umfangreiche Zusatzmaterialien die den Roman (Part by Part) eng begleiten bspw. Hintergründe und Interview mit McEwan, motivierende Tipps zum besseren Lesen, passende Kurzfilme zum Roman u.v.m. Exklusiv: Editor's Notes erklären Hintergründe und komplexere Aspekte der Handlung, die wichtig für das Leseverständnis sind Über 1.400 Annotationen , passend und zugänglich auf den Seiten des Romans Glossare & Worterklärungen , die helfen, Schülerinnen und Schüler mit den abiturrelevanten Themen vertraut zu machen: Britishness (rich and poor; class differences and class consciousness; British history); Innocence and Guilt; Perception(s) of Reality (including metafiction); literature and literary techniques

Soon to be on public television starring Benedict Cumberbatch.Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone.With extraordinary tenderness and insight, Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan takes us into the dark territory of a marriage devastated by the loss of a child. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife, Julie, on diverging paths as they each struggle with a grief that only seems to intensify with the passage of time. Eloquent and passionate, the novel concludes in a triumphant scene of love and hope that gives full rein to the author's remarkable gifts. The winner of the Whitbread Prize, The Child in Time is an astonishing novel by one of the finest writers of his generation.

In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World.

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext - mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.Ian McEwans Erstlingsroman »The Cement Garden« (1978) ist eine atemberaubende Familiengeschichte, in der die vier Kinder die Hauptrolle spielen, nachdem ihre Eltern nacheinander gestorben sind. Aus Angst davor, ihr Zuhause verlassen und fortan getrennt voneinander in Waisenheimen leben zu müssen, beschließen die Geschwister kurzerhand, die Leiche der Mutter zu verstecken. Kann ihr Tod geheim gehalten werden? Der gleichnamige Film erhielt 1993 auf den Internationalen Filmfestspielen Berlin den Silbernen Bären.Englische Lektüre: Niveau B1-B2 (GER)

Zu Ian McEwans großen literarischen Qualitäten zählt sein hohes Einfühlungsvermögen in die Psyche von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Davon legt auch 'The Daydreamer' Zeugnis ab: Der zehnjährige Peter Fortune, "a difficult child", lebt in einer Welt der Fantasie; er besitzt die Gabe, sich und seine Umgebung zu verwandeln, was zu den abenteuerlichsten Verstrickungen führt...Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.The Children Act, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past.Visit the Penguin Readers websiteExclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.

Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating - only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swap bodies with the family cat and his baby cousin, Kenneth, or wipe out his entire family with vanishing cream.

Peter Fortune is a boy who likes to daydream. He dreams about swapping bodies with his cat and with his baby cousin, but he gets so lost he's unsure where one fantasy finishes and the next begins. Cartwheeling through these transformations, Peter eventually finds himself in an adult body experiencing the adventure of falling in love.

This special edition includes a piece by the author on how he came to write First Love, Last Rites and rare archive material including manuscript pages, early publicity material and the cover of the first edition.

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage of thirty years is in crisis.

Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.

Filmed on location in the U.K., the story of Atonement spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony--who has a crush on Robbie-- is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested--and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever.Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love.In addition to the complete script, this Newmarket Shooting Script(R) book includes an exclusive introduction by screenwriter ChristopherHampton, a color photo section, and the complete cast and crew credits.

'This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, read by Billy Howle. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms.

"I did not kill my father, but sometimes I felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared with what followed. I am only including the little story of his death to explain how my sisters and I came to have such a large quantity of cement at our disposal."In the relentless summer heat, four children retreat into an isolated world left to them by their parents and attempt to create their own version of a family. Ian McEwan''s first novel, The Cement Garden, written in 1978, explores coming-of-age, burgeoning sexuality and the distortions of a fourteen-year-old mind.David Aula and Jimmy Osborne''s stage adaptation approaches the horror of the story through the innocent eyes of children, and encourages an audience to remember the games, irreverence, and shadows of their youth: to remember and reinvent their sense of invincibility.The Cement Garden received its world premiere as part of Vault Festival Waterloo, on 28 January 2014.

The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent on Operation Sweet Tooth - a highly secret undercover mission - she meets Tom Haley, a promising young writer. To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one.

Charles Frieth, pre-eminent composer, conductor and prodigious womaniser, is preparing for a performance of one of his early works, and the world premiere of Demonic Aubade.

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Ian McEwan's mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty audiobook of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man.

In the arid summer heat, four children - Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom - find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the children's lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them.

Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch'Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily.

Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds.