Books written by male authors (3779)
1831.
Miss Sara Sampson by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing DE
GermanyDescription:
Ein Gasthof in England. Der Vater von Miss Sara reist mit seinem Diener Waitwell an. Der Plan: Er holt Sara zurück und versöhnt sich. Dass er zuvor ihren Liebhaber nicht akzeptiert hat, kam nicht gut an. Es gilt nun zu retten, was zu retten ist - will er sonst etwa im Alter alleine sein? Sara ist derweil auf dem Weg nach Frankreich, um dort ihren Geliebten zu heiraten - der hadert mittlerweile und verzögert die Ausreise. Wird das ein gutes Ende nehmen? Es handelt sich um ein Trauerspiel, nicht etwa ein Lustspiel... Gröls-Verlag (Edition Werke der Weltliteratur)
1833.
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg EN
DenmarkDescription:
One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. 'A subtle novel, yet direct, clever, wistful, unforgettable' Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph 'On one level, both a whodunit and a thriller - ingeniously plotted. Extremely hard to put down. Peter H�eg's novel is already making for classic status' Sunday Times 'Unusual and enveloping. Extraordinarily evocat... continue
1834.
Miss Smilla's Feeling of Snow by Peter Høeg EN
Description:
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime... It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps ... continue
1835.
Missing Kissinger by Etgar Keret EN
IsraelDescription:
Featuring stories in which many of the characters are waiting for something to change their lives, 'Missing Kissinger' describes the search for ultimate happiness. As is often the case, the unexpected can - and usually does - occur.
1836.
Missing Soluch by Maḥmūd Dawlatʹābādī EN
IranDescription:
A saga set in an isolated Iranian village, it concerns a family whose patriarch, Soluch, has recently disappeared, leaving his wife, two sons and one daughter desperate. The remaining family's struggle for survival runs smack up against a sinister plan from local wealthy landowners who are conspiring to usurp the remaining unclaimed land in the villagea̮ barren, intractable plot known as "God's Land" that has been traditionally tended by the poor.
1837.
Missing, Presumed Dead : The Double Murder Case That Shocked Australia by Mark Tedeschi EN
AustraliaDescription:
It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC is finally able to share all the shocking details. Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan were both happy, healthy, affluent, middle-class women from conservative, loving families. Such women are hardly ever among the ranks of the missing. They were not hitchhikers, or associates of drug dealers, or unhappy with their family relationships, or suffering from mental health issues. Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan came from different parts of Sydney, mixed in quite different circles, and led completely differ... continue
1838.
Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti EN
CameroonDescription:
American ed. (New York, Macmillan) published under title: Mission accomplished.
1839.
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations. So begins this rare, original story about the abiding ... continue
1840.
Mit Maigret in der Bretagne by Georges Simenon DE
BelgiumDescription:
TwoDie Bretagne! Eine Gegend, die jeden in Ferienstimmung versetzt – außer den aus Paris angereisten Kommissar, der in Concarneau einen Mordversuch aufklären soll. Mürrisch setzt er sich ins Café de l’Amiral, um sich bei einem Glas Pernod ein Bild von dem Opfer und den Verdächtigen zu machen. Doch der Pernod ist mit Strychnin versetzt, und ein herrenloser gelber Hund verbreitet Angst und Schrecken. Düster lässt sich auch Maigrets zweiter bretonischer Fall an, obwohl sich eine hübsche Mordzeugin dem Kommissar als Assistentin anbietet. Maigret mysteries located in France.