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Published by Vintage Publishing Okt 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0099573075ISBN 13: 9780099573074
Seller: Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821, the son of a distinguished surgeon and a doctor's daughter. After three unhappy years of studying law in Paris, an epileptic attack ushered him into a life of writing. Madame Bovary won instant acclaim upon book publication in 1857, but Flaubert's frank display of adultery in bourgeois France saw him go on trial for immorality, only narrowly escaping conviction. Both Salammbo (1862) and The Sentimental Education (1869) were poorly received, and Flaubert's genius was not publicly recognized until Three Tales (1877). His reputation among his fellow writers, however, was more constant and those who admired him included Turgenev, George Sand, Victor Hugo and Zola. Flaubert's obsession with his art is legendary: he would work for days on a single page, obsessively attuning sentences, seeking always le mot juste in a quest for both beauty and precise observation. His style moved Edmund Wilson to say,'Flaubert, by a single phrase - a notation of some commonplace object - can convey all the poignance of human desire, the pathos of human defeat; his description of some homely scene will close with a dying fall that reminds one of great verse or music.' Flaubert died suddenly in May 1880, leaving his last work, Bouvard and P¿chet, unfinished.
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Published by Vintage Publishing Okt 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0099560550ISBN 13: 9780099560555
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Gaston Leroux was born on 6 May 1868 in Paris and after school in Normandy, he returned to Paris to study law. His extreme gambling is well-documented after he squandered the millions he had inherited, narrowly escaping bankruptcy. He worked as a court reporter and theatre critic before landing a job as an international correspondent for Le Matin. During this time Leroux travelled to Russia to experience and report on the Russian Revolution. In 1907 he gave up journalism to become a writer, and quickly found success with Le Myst¿ de la Chambre Jaune (1908). He became well-known for his popular and acclaimed crime and thriller novels, but Leroux also wrote poetry and short fiction. His most famous work, Le Fant¿me de l'Op¿ (The Phantom of the Opera), was inspired by a tour of the cellars at the Paris Opera, and published in 1911. The story has been adapted for film and, most notably, for Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running musical. Gaston Leroux died on 15 April 1927. 320 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Okt 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0099516756ISBN 13: 9780099516750
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments in Karachi are looking for a miracle. Junior nurse, ex-prisoner and part-time healer Alice Bhatti is looking for a job.With guidance from the working nurse's manual, and some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice starts work at the crowded hospital bringing help to the thousands of patients littering the corridors. But her new life isn't easy and on top of everything else Alice impulsively falls for optimist and loveable good Teddy Butt - a ragtag law enforcement officer by night and a bodybuilder by day.Can Alice and Teddy live happily ever after Will the hospital accept her unorthodox ways It all seems unlikely, but then Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse and this is downtown Karachi where the unusual is ordinary . 240 pp. Englisch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Okt 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0099548879ISBN 13: 9780099548874
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - No artist offered a more incisive and accurate portrait of the troubled landscape of the 1970s than David Bowie. Cultural historian Peter Doggett explores the rich heritage of Bowie's most productive and inspired decade, and traces the way in which his music reflected and influenced the world around him. From 'Space Oddity', his dark vision of mankind's voyage into the unknown terrain of space, to the Scary Monsters album, Doggett examines in detail Bowie's audacious creation of an 'alien' rock star, Ziggy Stardust, and his increasingly perilous explorations of the nature of identity and the meaning of fame.Mixing brilliant musical critique with biographical insight and acute cultural analysis, The Man Who Sold The World is a unique study of a major artist and his times. 432 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Okt 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0224092111ISBN 13: 9780224092111
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A new edition of Moore's classic book which saw him attempt to complete all 3630km of the 2000 Tour de France. 288 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Okt 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0099571757ISBN 13: 9780099571759
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unknown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is it the same killer, and what could the connection be In this investigation Wallander is always, tantalisingly, one step behind. 544 pp. Englisch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Okt 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 022409694XISBN 13: 9780224096942
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Trade paperback. A new collection from the American poet, laying bare her divorce.
Published by Vintage Publishing Okt 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0224082949ISBN 13: 9780224082945
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The British Olympic sailing champion reveals all in this new autobiography. Looks at his 20 year sailing career, which began on a dinghy in a remote Cornish bay.
Published by Vintage Publishing Okt 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0099581698ISBN 13: 9780099581697
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - On discovering Tassi's betrayal, Orazio took the case to court and there followed, in 1612, eight months of humiliation for Artemisia as the inhabitants of Rome's colourful artist's quarter came to give evidence.
Published by Vintage Publishing Okt 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0224087029ISBN 13: 9780224087025
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Dave Rear is a writer and academic who lives and works in Tokyo. He read history at Cambridge and, out of sheer lack of imagination, almost became a school teacher, until he came to his senses and emigrated. He now lectures in English language, history, social science and anything else his students let him get away with. He is married with a young son, who occasionally gives him five minutes or so to write.
Published by Vintage Publishing Okt 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0099563835ISBN 13: 9780099563839
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - \*\*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award\*\*A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest - now serialised in the BBC R4 documentary The Crowning of Everest.'The price of life is death'For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived, and the moments of being alive.While the quest for Mount Everest may have begun as a grand imperial gesture, it ended as a mission of revival for a country and a lost generation bled white by war. In a monumental work of history and adventure, Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day.'An extraordinary book on an extraordinary generation' Joe Simpson, author of Touching the Void'An instant classic of mountaineering literature' GuardianA moving, epic masterpiece' The Times.