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Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099455153ISBN 13: 9780099455158
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A social satire on politics and politicians. Laxness won the Nobel Prize for Literature and his published books span more than 60 years. 192 pp. Englisch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099455250ISBN 13: 9780099455257
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - When the corpse of a distinguished general and presidential adviser is found, attached to an advertising balloon, lieutenant Viktor Slutsky is sent in to investigate. Meanwhile, KGB officer Nik Tsensky arrives in Kiev for a secret mission.A larger-than-life hitman, bombs under furniture, a hearse, a deaf-and-dumb blonde, a tortoise and a parrot all play a part as Kurkov evokes a world of secret militia not seen before in Western fiction. 192 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099460955ISBN 13: 9780099460954
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This is Hemingway's East African safari journal.'All I wanted to do was get back to Africa'Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man.'In a class by itself - the country at all hours shines bright and clear in these pages' Daily Telegraph'The best-written story of big-game hunting anywhere' New York Times 208 pp. Englisch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099449285ISBN 13: 9780099449287
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles. From bohemian London to Rome in the 1920s her story moves on to social work and the build-up to another war, in which she drives ambulances through the bombed streets of London. Here is twentieth-century woman in close-up coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women's lives from WWI to Greenham Common and beyond. A triumph of resolution and evocation, this is a beautifully observed story of an ordinary woman's life - a narrative where every word rings true. 416 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099283468ISBN 13: 9780099283461
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the adjective 'Orwellian' is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature and language yet, despite this iconic status, the man who was born Eric Blair in 1903 remains an enigma. Drawing on a mass of previously unseen material, D J Taylor offers a strikingly human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. Here is a man who, for all his outward unworldliness, effectively stage-managed his own life; who combined chilling detachment with warmth and gentleness, disillusionment with hope; who battled through illness to produce two of the greatest masterpieces of the twentieth century. Moving and revealing, Taylor's Orwell is the biography we have all been waiting for, as vibrant, powerful and resonant as its extraordinary hero.
Published by VINTAGE Mär 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099461048ISBN 13: 9780099461043
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whether insanity is not something with which all women are intimately acquainted.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099437244ISBN 13: 9780099437246
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survivedCATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir. ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to Henry changed England forever.JANE SEYMOUR: the demure and submissive contrast to Anne Boleyn's radical and vampish style. ANNE OF CLEVES: 'the mare of Flanders' whose short marriage to the overweight Henry followed a farcical 'beauty contest'.CATHERINE HOWARD: the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king. CATHERINE PARR: the shrewd, religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him.In this dazzling study, David Starkey gives us a richly textured picture of daily life at the Tudor Court from the woman's point of view. Above all, he establishes the interaction of the private and the public, and demonstrates how the Queens of Henry VIII were central in determining political policy.