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Morley Roberts Lady Penelope

Belletristik
Englisch
71662 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
399
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All the absurd birthday celebrations were over, and Penelope was twenty-one. She declared that her whole life was to be devoted to reform. She meant to reform society, to make it good and useful and straightforward, and simple and utterly delightful. She let it be understood that men were in great need of her particular attention. They were too selfish and self-centred, too extravagant, too critical of each other, too vain. They acknowledged it humbly when she mentioned it, for Lady Penelope Brading's beauty was something to see and to talk of; major and minor poets agreed about it; artists desired to paint her and failed, as they always do when true loveliness shines on them. She had the colour of a Titian; the contours of a Correggio; the witchery of a Reynolds, and under wonderful raiment the muscles of a young Greek athlete. She wiped out any society in which she moved. When sweet Eclipse showed herself, the rest were nowhere. The other girls did not exist; she even made married beauties quake; as for the men, they endured everything she said, and worshipped her all the more. She was strange and new and a tonic. She had no sense of humour whatsoever; she could not understand a joke even if it was explained by an expert on the staff of Punch. This made her utterly delightful. Her beautiful seriousness was as refreshing as logic in a sermon. She believed in clergymen, in politicians, in the Deceased Wife's Sister, in all eminent physicians, in the London County Council, in the City of Westminster, in the British Constitution, in herself, and hygiene. She read the Times, the Athenæum, the Encyclopædia Britannica, Herbert Spencer, Mr. Kidd, and the late Mr. Drummond. She used Sandow's exercises and cold water. She was opposed to war; she admired the leader of the opposition and the lord mayor; she subscribed to a society for establishing a national theatre to play Mr. Bernard Shaw's tragedies, and to the nearest hospital. She was the most delightful person in England, and was against vaccination. She had money and lands and houses and ideas. [mehr]

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Heinrich Seidel Penelope

Belletristik
Deutsch
7065 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
353
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Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Philipp Georg Eduard Seidel (* 25. Juni 1842 in Perlin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin; † 7. November [mehr]

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Petra Peuleke Penelope

Kurzgeschichte
Deutsch
301 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
56
6

Flash-Fiction WB Oktober 2023 Text mit maximal 300 Wörtern ************************* Auswahl aus drei zur Verfügung stehenden Bildern. *****************************************

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Judy Colella Penelope And The Magical Poo

Humor
Englisch
1780 Wörter
Ab 14 Jahren
431
7

When life gets boring, fate has been known to step in and liven things up a bit. This [mehr]

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Morley Roberts Lady Penelope

Belletristik
Englisch
71798 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
3
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Morley Roberts (29 December 1857 – 8 June 1942) was an English novelist and short story writer, best [mehr]

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Amy Walton Penelope and the Others

Story of Five Country Children

Kinder- und Jugendbuch
Englisch
54568 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
207
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This is another story by Amy Walton about life in the English countryside towards the end of the nineteenth century. It is a sequel to "The Hawthorns", except that, for some reason, the name has become "Hawthorne". On the whole the principal dramatis personae, the Hawthorne household, are unchanged. The additions are Miss Barnicroft, an eccentric old lady from the village; Kettles, an impoverished child from Nearminster, the cathedral city close by; Dr Budge, a learned old man in the village, who takes on the grounding of one of the boys in Latin; Mrs Margetts, who had spent her life in the Hawthorne family's employment as a children's nurse; the Dean of the Cathedral and his family, particularly Sabine, who is the same age as Pennie; and Dr Budge's pet Jackdaw. There is no reason why a child of today should not read this story and profit by it. They will perhaps be surprised to find how much more civilised life was a hundred years ago and more, than it is today [mehr]

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Amy Walton Penelope and the Others

Belletristik
Englisch
54617 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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Amy Goskirk is an ex-girlfriend of Dev Alahan's (Jimmi Harkishin) who follows him to Weatherfield from Birmingham. Dev [mehr]

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Karl Plepelits Meine marokkanische Penelope

Eine erotische Erzählung

Erotik
Deutsch
24224 Wörter
Ab 16 Jahren
94
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Marokkanerle nannte man Kinder marokkanischer Soldaten der französischen Armee, die von 1945 bis 1955 Tirol und Vorarlberg besetzt hielt, mit einheimischen Frauen. Infolge ihrer dunkleren Hautfarbe litten sie unter noch stärkerer Diskriminierung als andere Besatzungskinder. Ein solches Marokkanerle verliebt sich später unsterblich in einen notorischen Frauenhelden. Und was geschieht? Er wird ihr untreu. Unter bitteren Tränen verstößt sie ihn und macht sich auf die Suche nach ihrem Vater, während er gleich einem Schmetterling von einer Blüte zur anderen flattert. Nach Jahrzehnten findet er in Marokko sein noch immer geliebtes Marokkanerle wieder – und erkennt sie nicht. [mehr]

Stichwörter: Besatzungskind, Marokkanerle, Negerhure, Verhetzung durch den Klerus, Ausgestoßen, Marokkoreisen, Verwandte in Marokko, Marokkanische Sitten, Ramadanrummel, Jungfräulichkeit, Vergewaltigung, Ehrenmord, Untreue, Liebesumarmung, Liebesverwirrung, Liebesbetrug, Liebesverlust, Liebeskummer