Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Alma Classics Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1847495974 ISBN 13: 9781847495976
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants, Luggnagg, home to the eternally ageing Struldbrugs, and the country of the Houyhnhnms, a race of benevolent talking horses.Parodying the popular travel accounts of its time, Gulliver's Travels is not only a tour de force of imaginative and comic writing, which has thrilled readers of all ages for almost three centuries, but also a masterly, merciless satire on Western society and human nature.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Alma Classics Jan 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1847493467 ISBN 13: 9781847493460
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Published soon after Fitzgerald's debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author's first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while 'The Ice Palace' features a Southern belle whose engagement to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity.Also containing 'The Offshore Pirate', 'Head and Shoulders', 'The Cut-Glass Bowl', 'Benediction', 'Dalyrimple Goes Wrong' and 'The Four Fists', this volume of stories illustrates the early stages of Fitzgerald's development as a writer and provides an entertaining chronicle of America in the 1910s.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Alma Classics Okt 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 1847494978 ISBN 13: 9781847494979
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Waechter, Philip (illustrator). Neuware - When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpetual winter. It takes a wonderful event and the heart of a young boy for him to realize the error of his ways.A classic tale for children, 'The Selfish Giant' is presented here with all of Oscar Wilde's other fairy stories - 'The Happy Prince', 'The Nightingale and the Rose', 'The Devoted Friend', 'The Remarkable Rocket', 'The Young King', 'The Birthday of the Infanta', 'The Fisherman and His Soul' and 'The Star-Child' - brought to life by Philip Waechter's bright and imaginative illustrations.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Alma Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1846883946 ISBN 13: 9781846883941
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Three women, three centuries and the same bone-china chocolate pot: Sara, the scion of a dynasty of chocolatiers from Barcelona, who prides herself on maintaining the family tradition; Aurora, the daughter of a nineteenth-century maidservant, for whom chocolate is a forbidden luxury; Mariana, the wife of the most famous seventeenth-century chocolate manufacturer, an official purveyor to the French court and the inventor of a revolutionary chocolate mill.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Alma Books Jul 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 1846884586 ISBN 13: 9781846884580
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After the death of her father, an exiled Iranian man of letters, the bookish twenty-two-year-old Zebra finds herself alone in New York and decides to retrace the steps of her traumatic flight with her family from their homeland in the 1990s, hoping that in the process she will be inspired to write a major manifesto on literature. Her first stop is Barcelona, where she meets the Italian Ludo, who becomes her lover, intellectual sparring partner and travelling companion in her picaresque meanderings around Catalonia.A natural-born raconteur, Zebra takes the reader on an irresistible journey through her thoughts, as she conceives elaborate theories about art and is increasingly convinced that her mother has been reincarnated as a cockatoo. Sparkling with wit and mischief and brimming with imaginative vignettes and unconventional musings, Call Me Zebra is a riotous, erudite, unpredictable novel about literature, lust and dislocation.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Alma Classics Jan 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1847491995 ISBN 13: 9781847491992
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Céline's third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol's Band follows the narrator's meanderings through London after he has been demobilized due to a war injury. The result is a frank, uncompromising, yet grotesquely funny portrayal of the English capital's seedy underworld, peopled by prostitutes, pimps and schemers.Often considered to be Céline's funniest work, Guignol's Band showcases its author's idiosyncratic style at its finest, frantically blending slang, invective, onomatopoeia with literary language, and bridging the gap between gritty realism and absurd mysticism.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Alma Classics Jun 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1847495591 ISBN 13: 9781847495594
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Scheffler, Axel (illustrator). Neuware - First publication in English of a tale written by Collodi (the author of the immensely popular childrens classic Pinocchio) immediately after his better-known masterpiece. Illustrations by multi-award-winning illustrator. Adapted and expanded by Alessandro Gallenzi to add further adventures.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Alma, 2012
ISBN 10: 1846881285 ISBN 13: 9781846881282
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, Versand Büchersendung - A portrait of the contemporary obsession with success, celebrity and fame, set in the publishing world. Gallenzi has first hand experience in the world of publishing, so depicts a realistic and funny situation. 'Very funny and too awfully right in so many ways' Tim Parks.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Alma Jul 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 1846881021 ISBN 13: 9781846881022
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After marrying Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, Sofia Behrs kept a detailed diary until his death in 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her many children were not an unmitigated blessing. In the background of her life was one of the most turbulent periods of Russian history: the transition from old feudal Russia through the three revolutions and three major international wars. Yet it is as Sofia Tolstoy's own life story, the study of one woman's private experience, that the diaries are most valuable and moving. They are a testament to a woman of tremendous vital energy and poetic sensibility who, in the face of provocation and suffering, continued to strive for the higher things in life and to remain indomitable.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Alma Feb 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1847492444 ISBN 13: 9781847492449
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during the First World War.Picking up where its predecessor Guignol's Band left off, Céline's narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with an eccentric Frenchman intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition; his uneasy relationship with London's pimps and whores and their common nemesis, Inspector Matthew of Scotland Yard; and, most scandalous of all, his affair with a colonel's daughter.Written in Céline's trademark style - a headlong rush of slang, brusque observation and quirky lyricism, delivered in machine-gun bursts of prose and ellipses - London Bridge recreates the dark days during the Great War with sordid verisimilitude and desperate hilarity.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade, Alma Dez 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1846883652 ISBN 13: 9781846883651
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Publish and be damned', Wellington's famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder's memoirs. He has been damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of the state for publishing books on sensitive issues. Damned also for publishing such authors as Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby Jr, as well as for bringing to public notice the abuses of the armies and security forces of colonial countries. He took on American authors who could not be published in the United States during the McCarthy witch-hunt. He exposed the atrocities of the Algerian and other African wars, and produced many books on British political, social and moral issues, which only a totally independent publisher could have done.Born into the most conservative of establishment families, John Calder has always gone his own way - seeking out literary genius and creating a greater awareness of the world we inhabit. His publishing programme contained a large proportion of the leading writers of the twentieth century, including Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Luigi Pirandello, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Heinrich Böll and such British authors as Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Steven Berkoff and Ann Quin. Anecdotes abound in these memoirs about Bertrand Russell, Alger Hiss, Graham Greene, J.B. Priestley, Jo Grimond and dozens of others whom the author encountered in his activities, both within and outside of publishing. This book is too outspoken to make many friends, but it will open eyes and upset apple carts. Never a saint, Calder is as frank about his own failings as of those of others.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2021
ISBN 10: 1847498299 ISBN 13: 9781847498298
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Henry James s masterpiece, and widely considered to be the greatest ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw remains the apogee of suspenseful, haunting writing in the English language. This new edition of The Turn of the Screw offers students the de.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2020
ISBN 10: 1847497462 ISBN 13: 9781847497468
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with enduring insights into tactics, psychology, discipline and the nature of power.A new edition of a Chinese masterpiece writt.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2019
ISBN 10: 1847498078 ISBN 13: 9781847498076
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Full of passion, anger, fatalism and tragedy, Jude the Obscure attacks the inequalities and hypocrisies inherent within Victorian society s attitudes towards marriage, social mobility, education and the role of women. This edition is fully annotated and con.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2013
ISBN 10: 1847493211 ISBN 13: 9781847493217
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. This new edition includes pictures and an extensive section on Emily Bronte s life and works.Replete with unforgettable characters and situations that have seared themselves into our literary consciousness, Emily Brontes intense masterpiece is one of th.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847493726 ISBN 13: 9781847493729
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series at GBP4.99. Oscar Wilde s only full-length novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a lasting gem of sophisticated wit and playfulness, which brings together all the best elements of his talent in a reinterpretation of the.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2016
ISBN 10: 1847496148 ISBN 13: 9781847496140
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. This edition of The Great Gatsby contains pictures and an extensive section on Fitzgerald s life and works.Considered to be Fitzgerald s magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creat.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2017
ISBN 10: 184749627X ISBN 13: 9781847496270
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series of popular classics, this new edition includes pictures and an extensive section on Wells s life and works.A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages t.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma, 2014
ISBN 10: 1847493505 ISBN 13: 9781847493507
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this new edition of Frankenstein contains pictures and an extensive section on Shelley s life and works.Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley s seminal novel has generated countless print, stage .
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2022
ISBN 10: 1847498396 ISBN 13: 9781847498397
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: New. A disturbing novella set in Venice which cleverly combines detective and ghost story genre. This edition is based on the most authoritative text and contains notes and extra material for students.Über den AutorWilkie Col.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2016
ISBN 10: 1847496121 ISBN 13: 9781847496126
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Sparkling with his trademark wit, this classic tale is one of Oscar Wilde s finest stories and is presented here with three other comic mystery stories, Lord Arthur Savile s Crime , The Sphinx without a Secret and The Model Millionaire , all of which we.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2021
ISBN 10: 1847498574 ISBN 13: 9781847498571
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Arguably the greatest dystopian novel of all time and the most influential post-war work of fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a riveting read and a groundbreaking exploration of mass surveillance, censorship and mind control, which has a deep resonance with .
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847492584 ISBN 13: 9781847492586
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. New, lavishly produced paperback with a beautiful cover with foil and illustrations by Art Deco artist George Barbier. Here presented in a new fully edited and annotated version, it contains an extensive apparatus on Fitzgerald s life and works.Consider.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2016
ISBN 10: 1847495877 ISBN 13: 9781847495877
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Bailey, Ella (illustrator). Beautifully illustrated by Ella Bailey, this new edition includes some extra material for young readers.A book about growing up which has delighted generations of young readers. The illustrations by Ella Bailey are perfect for the modern audience. This .
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2017
ISBN 10: 1847496466 ISBN 13: 9781847496461
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series of popular classics, this new edition includes pictures and an extensive section on Wells s life and works.One of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. It inspired .
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2018
ISBN 10: 1847497810 ISBN 13: 9781847497819
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. A commercial and critical success when it was first published in 1931, and now considered by some to be Virginia Woolf s most ambitious novel. This new edition includes pictures and a section on Virginia Woolf s life and works.A commercial and critical .
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2019
ISBN 10: 1847497888 ISBN 13: 9781847497888
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. A seminal, widely studied feminist polemic that touches on both literature and politics, A Room of One s Own is essential reading for those wishing to understand the progress that has been made in women s rights and the struggles that still lie ahead.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma, 2018
ISBN 10: 1847497829 ISBN 13: 9781847497826
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, The Master and Margarita is here presented in a new translation and a wealth of extra material.Russia s literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arriv.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Publishing, 2017
ISBN 10: 1847496571 ISBN 13: 9781847496577
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of w.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade|Alma Classics, 2017
ISBN 10: 1847496296 ISBN 13: 9781847496294
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series of popular classics, this edition includes pictures and an extensive section on Wells s life and works.Part of the Alma Classics H.G. Wells collection. More to follow before the end of the year. Wells s literary wo.