Deceptions von stevenson jane (32 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Acclaimed in England, these wicked and wonderfully entertaining novellas deal with the infinite human capacity for deception and self-deception. The four stories in this remarkably assured work are beautifully shaped and deftly plotted; each is narrated by a richly distinctive voice, and each ends with a genuine surprise. The themes are wide-ranging: the mysteries of identity, the pitfalls of intellectual arrogance, the damage wrought by cleverness, the role of time in human affairs. SEVERAL DECEPTIONS is a dazzling debut; it gleams with intelligence and wit.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Acclaimed in England, these wicked and wonderfully entertaining novellas deal with the infinite human capacity for deception and self-deception. The four stories in this remarkably assured work are beautifully shaped and deftly plotted; each is narrated by a richly distinctive voice, and each ends with a genuine surprise. The themes are wide-ranging: the mysteries of identity, the pitfalls of intellectual arrogance, the damage wrought by cleverness, the role of time in human affairs. SEVERAL DECEPTIONS is a dazzling debut; it gleams with intelligence and wit.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Acclaimed in England, these wicked and wonderfully entertaining novellas deal with the infinite human capacity for deception and self-deception. The four stories in this remarkably assured work are beautifully shaped and deftly plotted; each is narrated by a richly distinctive voice, and each ends with a genuine surprise. The themes are wide-ranging: the mysteries of identity, the pitfalls of intellectual arrogance, the damage wrought by cleverness, the role of time in human affairs. SEVERAL DECEPTIONS is a dazzling debut; it gleams with intelligence and wit.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Several Deceptions This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. shelf wear. bumped edges. Hardcover. Who is Jane Stevenson, and how does she know all this stuff? With Several Deceptions, this hitherto unheard-from British academic has unleashed a brilliant debut collection of four wicked, chatty novellas. If her astonishing range of milieu is anything to go by, Stevenson seems to be a Tibetan monk who studied European law at a prestigious Dutch university after swinging with David Bailey in '60s London. So firmly does she grasp all these different worlds--and quite a few others--you feel that she must have lived them. Her first novella, perversely titled "The Island of the Day Before Yesterday," tells of an Italian semiotician who, in the 1980s, decides to play a little new-historical prank on the academic community by passing his dumpy secretary off as a former '60s wild child. In Stevenson's world, though, the first laugher is never the last. In the second novella, a really beautiful piece of writing called "Law and Order," twin brothers fall under the spell of a powerful law professor at the University of Leiden. The author writes a vaguely sardonic--but dead-on--pastiche of aristocratic European student life. This Mann-ishness is shot through with scenes of aching loveliness, as when she describes the skaters on the canal: "From a distance, their modern dress did not call attention to itself, and the whole composed itself into a series of Breughelesque pictures, softened by the snow which fell in fat, soft, feathery flakes from the dark sky." The third novel, "The Colonel and Judy O'Grady," takes us further afield still, to the foothills of the Himalayas, where two exile communities bump up against each other: the "strange and pathetic group, known, collectively, as the Ancient Britons," left behind by her Majesty's retreating Empire and Tibetan monks fleeing religious persecution. Stevenson, bless her, is alive to the absurdities of the situation: "The shaven heads and the Panama hats met periodically in the bazaars, like animals at a watering-hole, with an entire lack of mutual curiosity." The final story, "Crossing the Water," sets in motion a wild Feydeau-ian farce involving three art historians and a manly soldier in a Suffolk country house. Despite her diverting fictional globetrotting, maybe Stevenson had better stay at home in future: this last story is a corker. The farce is hilarious, the denouement heart-wrenching. But what's most wonderful is the knowing tone. The narrator observes of his art-historian friend: "Adam knew, of course; his omniscience was legendary. I sometimes scrounge dinner with some friends in Hampstead who keep a list of things he doesn't know: it is short, and peculiar." Fans of the shifty narrations of Francine Prose, John Lanchester, and Michael Frayn will find much to love in this new voice. --Claire Dederer.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. These four novellas are narrated by a brilliantly distinctive voice telling the stories of an Anglo-Italian Professor of Semiotics undone by his own cleverness; an Irish woman who joins a Tibetan nunnery in India; the old university friends whose party is galvanised by a pugnacious newcomer into a demented Buchanesque mission to restore their hostess's lost humour; and an international lawyer who takes to terrorism in pursuit of a theory. Several Deceptions is clever, funny and a little cruel and introduces a writer of quite remarkable gifts. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Several Deceptions This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 45481823. 1779358231. 5/21/2026 10:10:31 AM.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Zustand: Good. The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme: deception and self-deception, practised on or by the protagonists. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 225. Clean copy with some shelf wear. 2000. Paperback. . . . .…

Zustand: Good. The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme: deception and self-deception, practised on or by the protagonists. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 225. Clean copy with some shelf wear. 2000. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Zustand: New.

Zustand: Very Good. Clean copy. Fine in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has minor wear to edges of spine but remains very good. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Very Good. Clean copy. Fine in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has minor wear to edges of spine but remains very good. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Uncorrected Proof. Softbound. Plain blue and yellow undecorated wraps. Fine in all respects. A tight, clean copy, unread. Shipped in well padded box.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 263 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

First edition. 263 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Stevenson's first collection of fiction.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Type: Book N.B. Slight mark to head of spine.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrappper. Contains four novels entitled: *The Island of the Day Before Yesterday*, *Law and Order*, *The Colonel and Judy O'Grady*, and *Crossing the Water*.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. A UK first edition, first impression - with a complete number string which includes the number 1. The Wrapper : The wrapper on this copy is very bright, is unfaded, and is complete. It is unclipped. It shows a trace of bruising at the spine ends. Looks sharp. The Book : The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners sharp.The spine ends are inconsequentially bruised. The pages and closed page edges are clean. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. No remainder marks. A nice copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Acclaimed in England, these wicked and wonderfully entertaining novellas deal with the infinite human capacity for deception and self-deception. The four stories in this remarkably assured work are beautifully shaped and deftly plotted; each is narrated by a richly distinctive voice, and each ends with a genuine surprise. The themes are wide-ranging: the mysteries of identity, the pitfalls of intellectual arrogance, the damage wrought by cleverness, the role of time in human affairs. SEVERAL DECEPTIONS is a dazzling debut; it gleams with intelligence and wit.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnJANE STEVENSON was born in London and brought up in London, Beijing, and Bonn. She teaches literature and history at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Several Deceptions, a collection of four novellas a .

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Signed copy - Flat signature. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 263 pages; Physical description. : 263 p. ; 23 cm. Subject: Deception - Fiction. Summary: The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme: deception and self-deception, practised on or by the protagonists. 1 Kg.…