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Verlag: Vintage Publishing Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099560569ISBN 13: 9780099560562
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Montague Rhodes James was born on 1 August 1862 near Bury St Edmunds, and he spent long periods of his later life in Suffolk, which provided the setting for many of his ghost stories. He studied at Eton and Kings College, Cambridge, where he was eventually elected Fellow, and then made Provost in 1905. In 1918 he became Provost of Eton. He was a renowed medievalist and biblical scholar, and published works on palaeography, antiquarianism, bibliography and history and guides to Suffolk and Norfolk, as well as editing a collection of ghost stories by Sheridan Le Fanu. However, he remains best known for his own ghost stories, which were published in several collections, including Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), A Thin Ghost and Other Stories (1919), A Warning to the Curious (1925) and a collected edition in 1931. M. R. James never married and died on 12 June 1936. 288 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099572052ISBN 13: 9780099572053
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Catherine's mother died when Catherine was just a baby girl, leaving nothing but her perfect reputation to live up to. Or so she thought. But then Catherine finds a box addressed to her, filled with objects seemingly without meaning - three feathers, an exotic seashell, a painting, a mirror, two prints, an address book, a map, a hat, a rucksack and a necklace. And while she's busy playing detective trying to find out who her mother was, she finds out more about herself than she ever really wanted to know. Secrets are discovered, truths uncovered, and Catherine realises that maybe there was something more to her mother, something that her familiy has kept from her. How long a shadow can a dead woman cast 288 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099542269ISBN 13: 9780099542261
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground - child by helpless child - Roth leads us through every emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering and the pain. 'The genius of Philip Roth.back at his imperious best in this heartbreaking tale. The eloquence of Roth's storytelling makes Nemesis one of his most haunting works' Daily Mail 'Cantor is one of Roth's best creations and the atmosphere of terror is masterfully fashioned' Sunday Telegraph 'Very fine, very unsettling' Douglas Kennedy, The Times 304 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099529068ISBN 13: 9780099529064
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While Mortals Sleep is a smart, clear-eyed collection of stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction. Set in trailers, bars and factories, Vonnegut conjures up a world where men and machines, art and artifice, fame and fortune become curiously twisted and characters pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and comically indifferent world.Written early in his career, and never published before, these tightly plotted stories are infused with Vonnegut's distinctive blend of observation, imagination and scabrous humour. This collection features an introduction by Dave Eggers. 272 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 009952886XISBN 13: 9780099528869
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSFrederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. Nancy Mitford brings all these contradictions and achievements to sparkling life in an fascinating, intimate biography. 272 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099528894ISBN 13: 9780099528890
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New editions of 4 classic biographies from Mitford, which are exclusive to Vintage Classics. 'The Sun King' charts the life of Louis XIV. 256 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099563274ISBN 13: 9780099563273
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Renowned criminologist, psychoanalyst and sardonic widow Mrs Bradley is enjoying a relaxing holiday on the beautiful island of Hombres Muertos. Then a cave high up in the mountains, containing the mummified bodies of twenty three dead kings, acquires an extra corpse overnight and Mrs Bradley is delighted to be called into action. 224 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099528886ISBN 13: 9780099528883
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and deployed his charm and talents for spin and intrigue to hold his court and country within his absolute control. 272 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099287579ISBN 13: 9780099287575
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want to have fun. The English Ghost is a treasure trove of such sightings; comical and scary, like all the best ghost stories, these accounts, packed with eerie detail, range from the moaning child that terrified Wordworth's nephew at Cambridge to modern day hitchhikers on Blue Bell Hill.
Verlag: Vintage Publishing Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0224094203ISBN 13: 9780224094207
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rendered in vivid watercolour where parquet floors and patterned dresses morph together, The Wrong Place revolves around oft-absent Robbie, a charismatic lothario of mysterious celebrity who has the run of a city as chaotic as it is resplendent. Robbie's sexual energy captivates the attention of men and women alike; his literal and figurative brightness is a startling foil to the dreariness of his childhood friend, Francis. With a hand as sensitive as it is exuberant, Angoulême-winner Brecht Evens's first English graphic novel captures the strange chemistry of social interaction. The Wrong Place contrasts life as it is, angst-ridden and awkward, with life as it can be: spontaneous, uninhibited, and free.