Jane Langton creëert verhalen die duiken in de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen mensen en plaatsen, waarbij ze haar verhalen vaak plaatst in de sfeervolle landschappen van Massachusetts. Haar schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een scherp inzicht in de menselijke psychologie en een onderscheidende verhalende stijl. Langton beweegt zich soepel tussen genres, van boeiende mysteries tot aangrijpende kinderboeken, waarbij ze altijd haar unieke stem behoudt. Haar vermogen om levendige personages en meeslepende omgevingen te creëren, verstevigt haar reputatie als een belangrijk literair figuur.
When Harvard's Memorial Hall is bombed, the shattering of its huge rose windows resounds throughout the campus; but when a corpulent and headless corpse is found amid the debris, and the big, beloved chorus leader, Hamilton Dow, cannot be located, more than the peace and quiet of an illustrious university is disturbed. Is the corpse that of the missing conductor?
It all started when Georgie, hardly more than a wisp of thistledown, discovered she could jump down twelve steps in two big graceful bounds. Next, to her great delight, she learned that jumping from the porch and floating as high as the rooftop was possible too. So when the mysterious Canada goose came to her window one night it seemed only natural to climb onto his back and go off with him to learn how to really fly.Jane Langton spins a marvelous fantasy that wild delight all who dream that someday, somehow, we will magically find ourselves aloft and suddenly able to fly!
As part-time detective Homer Kelly sets off on his search for answers to the death of a young priest, who left nothing behind but an inauspicious and cryptic note, he finds a crime far more sinister and troubling. Reprint.
Scholarly infighting can get a lot more violent than most outsiders realize, but usually that violence is confined to the printed page. Not so in Concord, Mass., where the arrival of Homer Kelly, an expert on the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, has stirred up passions concerning a manuscript that may or may not have been written by Henry David Thoreau. Things come to a head during the town's annual re-enactment of Paul Revere's famous ride, when one of the 'Minutemen' turns up dead, still in full Revolutionary regalia. Accustomed to little more than the odd stolen bicycle, the local police are way over their head, but Kelly in this, his first outing proves as gifted at sleuthing as he is at scholarship.
»Der Wind ist genau richtig. Er wird dich tragen, wenn du es versuchst. Fliiieeg!« Georgie redet mit Pflanzen und Tieren und hat nur einen einzigen Wunsch: Sie will fliegen können! Immer wieder versucht sie es, springt ganz oben von der Treppe – und ist furchtbar enttäuscht, wenn sie fällt statt wie eine Feder herabzuschweben. Wie sehr bewundert sie die Wildgänse, die im Herbst hoch oben am Himmel Richtung Süden ziehen. Ein besonders prächtiger Vogel, den sie den Gänseprinzen nennt, wird ihr Freund – und mit ihm werden all ihre Flugträume wahr ... Deutsche Erstausgabe