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Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0451530748ISBN 13: 9780451530745
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mark Twain takes a hard look at the consequences of slavery in America in this classic satire. Set in a town on the Mississippi during the pre-Civil War era, Pudd'nhead Wilson tackles the seminal American issue of slavery in a tragicomedy of switched identities. What happens when a child born free and a child born a slave change places The result is a biting social commentary with enduring relevance, and a good old-fashioned murder mystery. It also introduces one of Twain's favorite characters: Pudd'nhead Wilson, an intellectual with a penchant for amateur sleuthing. F.R. Leavis proclaimed this novel 'the masterly work of a great writer.'With an Introduction by Louis Budd 176 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0451530608ISBN 13: 9780451530608
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dostoyevskys masterpiece introduces a world filled with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues, as three brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their own father. This edition features an Afterword by bestselling author Sara Peretsky. Revised reissue. 928 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0141441798ISBN 13: 9780141441795
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At once a rollicking adventure story and an earnest political allegoryOrphaned and penniless, David Balfour sets out to find his last living relative, miserly and reclusive Uncle Ebenezer. But Ebenezer is far from welcoming, and David narrowly escapes being murdered before he is kidnapped and imprisoned on a ship bound for the Carolinas. When the ship is wrecked, David, along with the fiery rebel Alan Breck, makes his way back across the treacherous Highland terrain on a quest for justice. Through his powerful depiction of the two very different central characters-the romantic Breck and the rational Whig David-Stevenson dramatized a conflict at the heart of Scottish culture in the aftermath of the Jacobite rebellion, as well as creating an unforgettable adventure story.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. 304 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0141441844ISBN 13: 9780141441849
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the surface of their marriage is far more sinister and their influence leads John into a tragic drama that threatens to destroy everything he cares about.Ford Madox Ford wrote The Good Soldier, the book on which his reputation most surely rests, in deliberate emulation of the nineteenth-century French novels he so admired. In this way he was able to explore the theme of sexual betrayal and its poisonous after-effects with a psychological intimacy as yet unknown in the English novel. 256 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0141441615ISBN 13: 9780141441610
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. 400 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0451530756ISBN 13: 9780451530752
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sinclair Lewis world-famous satire of religious hypocrisy and the excesses of the Roaring 20s. Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be invited to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence is also the record of a period, a reign of grotesque vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no trace of itself. Elmer Gantry has been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire. With an introduction by Jason Stevens 496 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0441015476ISBN 13: 9780441015474
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the powerful forces of nature take physical form. But even magic cannot sway the corruption that threatens to destroy the realm of Alera once and for all. When the power-hungry High Lord of Kalare launches a merciless rebellion against the First Lord, young Tavi of Calderon joins a newly formed legion under an assumed name. And when the ruthless Kalare allies himself with a savage enemy of the realm, Tavi finds himself leading an inexperienced, poorly equipped legion the only force standing between Alera and certain doom. 704 pp. Englisch.