Randall Jarrell Bücher

Ein Jäger lebt allein in seiner Blockhütte. Es gefällt ihm in diesem schönen Wald, der ans Meer grenzt. Aber er hat niemanden, mit dem er seine Freude teilen kann. Bis er eines Tages eine Meerjungfrau singen hört. Doch sobald er sich dem Ufer nähert, verstummt sie. Tag für Tag wiederholt sich dieses Schauspiel, bis der Jäger schließlich in den Gesang einstimmt und so das Vertrauen der Meerjungfrau gewinnt. Ihm zuliebe verlässt sie das Meer und zieht in seine Hütte im Wald. Mit einem Luchs, einem Bären und einem kleinen Jungen leben sie fortan als Familie glücklich zusammen.

Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’s classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standard for campus satire—and instantly yielding comparisons to Dorothy Parker’s razor-sharp barbs. Like his fictional nemesis, Jarrell cuts through the earnest conversations at Benton College—mischievously, but with mischief nowhere more wicked than when crusading against the vitriolic heroine herself. 

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