Heinrich von Kleist has emerged as one of the great literary figures of his era. Yet, surprisingly few critical studies of his works exist in English. This book attempts to fill the gap by offering an up-to-date reading of Kleist's dramas and stories in the light of recent scholarship in German and other languages. Among the themes explored are the problematical nature of family relationships in Kleist's plays and stories; the failure of communication across a wide scale of social situations; and the theory of metaphor that may be deduced from Kleist's practice as a writer. His works are treated both as literary masterpieces and as facets of an enquiry into human nature in a historical situation in which there are few certainties.

All 91 episodes of the 1980s BBC drama series following events in a veterinary practice supporting the local farming community in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. Based on James Herriot's autobiographical bestsellers 'If Only They Could Talk' and 'It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet', the series stars Christopher Timothy as James Herriot, Robert Hardy as Siegfried Farnon, Peter Davidson as his brother Tristan, and Carol Drinkwater as James's wife Helen.

New essays on the most prominent German dramatist and short-story writer of the early 19th century. For over 150 years, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) has been one of the most widely read and performed German authors. His status in the literary canon is firmly established, but he has always been one of Germany's most contentiously discussed authors. Today's critical debate on his unique prose narratives and dramas is as heated as ever. Many critics regard Kleist as a lone presager of the aesthetics and philosophies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century modernism. Yet there can be no question that he responds in his works and letters to the philosophical, aesthetic, and political debates of his time. During the last thirty years, the scholarship on Kleist's work and life has departed from the existentialist wave of the 1950s and early 1960s and opened up new avenues for coming to terms with his unusual talent. The present volume brings together the most important and innovative of these newer scholarly approaches: the essays include critically informed, up-to-date interpretations of Kleist's most-discussed stories and dramas. Other contributions analyze Kleist's literary means and styles and their theoretical underpinnings. They include articles on Kleist's narrative and theatrical technique, poetic and aesthetic theory, philosophical and political thought, and insights from new biographical research. Contributors: Jeffrey L. Sammons,Jost Hermand, Anthony Stephens, Bianca Theisen, Hinrich C. Seeba, Bernhard Greiner, Helmut J. Schneider, Tim Mehigan, Susanne Zantop, Hilda M. Brown, and Sean Allan. Bernd Fischer is Professor of German and Head of theDepartment of German at Ohio State University.

The Gedichte an die Nacht is a collection of 22 poems composed between January 1913 and February 1914, which Rilke copied into a manuscript book for his friend Rudolf Kassner in about 1916. The importance of the poems as a collection lies in the fact that they were written during the period of composition of Rilke's most outstanding work, the Duinese Elegien, and they show the poet at work on ideas and motifs which are central to the elegies. The first part of the book analyses the poems thematically, whilst the second part gives the results of this analysis wider application. During the period Rilke was writing Gedichte an die Nacht, the meaning of 'night' in the Elegies often approaches that of 'angel', whilst at other times it is quite different. Dr Stephens traces the genesis of this ambivalence in other poems, revealing the incomplete and sometimes contradictory nature of his poetic thought.

The Doctor (Colin Baker) is suffering from some post-regenerative trauma, and, after trying to strangle companion Peri, takes off to a deserted asteroid to become a hermit. There he discovers a plot by the Gastropod Mestor to kidnap two mathematically brilliant twins and shift some planets around in order to release more of his slimy ilk. Obviously he has to be stopped, but is the Doctor up to it? Colin Baker's first outing as the Doctor.

Have you found yourself wondering: *Will I ever get married? *What's God's will for my love life? *Are there benefits to waiting for sex? God loves to hear your heart and your questions. He cares about the well-being of your love life, even more than you do. Our hope is that after reading our love story - full of struggle, hope, and God's faithfulness - you would feel encouraged to allow God to write your love story. Our prayer is that you would hear Christ speak to you regarding the deepest desires of your heart.

They say some folks get a "calling" when it comes to dedicating their life to helping others. Anthony Vegaselli lost a bet. See what happens when a young man who dreams of being a lounge singer on the Vegas strip find himself having to become a priest. When Anthony becomes Father Vegas he soon finds himself in a world he never imagined. Will he succumb to the temptations of the glitz that is show business and suffer the wrath of the Mob? It's a sure bet that Father Vegas will need a miracle or two to pull it all off

Nick the Greek eventually found his way to Las Vegas, Nevada, in its formative years. He knew the odds of most games and he usually received permission from the house to bet high limits. His gambling escapades became legendary around the world. He gambled in London, Monte Carlo, Hong Kong, and many other locations. The gambling houses always extended huge amounts of credit to him. Nick won and lost huge sums of money during his lifetime. It is said that $500 million passed through Nick's hands. This is an exciting story of the world's most famous professional gambler. Although he died broke and destitute in Los Angeles on Christmas night in 1966. His Vegas friends, who brought him home to a funeral befitting a monarch, gave Nick a grand sendoff.

Toward the end of the Second World War in the Pacific there were several top secret-bombing missions. This story is about an ultra top-secret mission regarding a B-29 Superfortress that launched from an airstrip on Saipan in the evening of April 3, 1945. The plane disappeared somewhere over the Pacific; it was carrying the first Atom Bomb. This is also the story of closure for the family survivors of the missing airmen.

A collection of essays examining the influence of Kant on Heinrich von Kleist. The great and eccentric German writer Heinrich von Kleist, famous for his enigmatic dramas and novellas, read the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant in 1801. A series of letters written around this time speak of the distresshe felt as he absorbed the implications of Kantian thought. This sense of distress -- long considered important to understanding Kleist's subsequent works -- has become known to Kleist scholars as the 'Kant crisis,' and marks Kleist's abandonment of the hope of gaining metaphysical certainty about his life. But it has never been established which texts of Kant Kleist actually read, how well he understood them, and why they precipitated such despair. Kleisthimself -- aside from one paraphrasing of Kant in a letter of 1801 -- was never explicit about what he called this 'sad philosophy.' Yet the distress seems never to have left him and remains an abiding preoccupation throughout his dramas and stories. This collection of essays, all in German language, represents the most recent work of prominent scholars in the field. It takes the pervasive sense of metaphysical crisis in Kleist's works as a startingpoint. In the context of Kleist's response to Kant, the essays deal with his subversive treatment of the literary motifs and genres of his day, and with the ambiguity of truth in his works -- for his characters and readers alike.In tracing the source of crisis to specific writings of Kant and to other Enlightenment thinkers such as Rousseau and Wieland, the essays show Kleist's complex dialogue with the Enlightenment to be an important new approach to understanding this notoriously difficult writer. Tim Mehigan is Professor of German in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Otago, New Zealand.