knopf doubleday publishing group okt 1995 (8 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question 'Why love ' It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to resore her to her senses.But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now the basis for a major motion picture from the producers of Howard's End and The Remains of the Day--a brooding, suspenseful novel of sensuality and vengenance, set amid the fields and villages of 19th century England. Bella Ford, jilted by her unscrupulous lover, plans revenge that ends in a catastrophic act of violence.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Brock, C. E. (illustrator). Neuware - By the author of The Secret Garden, the 1886 story of a curly-haired American boy who suddenly discovers he is the grandson of an English earl.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Poe's poems have been memorized and recited by millions. Among his best-loved works are 'The Raven' with its hypnotic chant of 'nevermore, ' and the sensuous and lyrical 'Annabel Lee.' This collection includes all of Poe's most popular rhymes.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Achebe's masterpiece tells the story of Okonkwo, strongman of an Ibo village in Nigeria, as he witnesses the destruction of his culture and the loss of his own place within it.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation.'--Boston GlobeSpanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman.Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.Alongside such famous works as 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as 'Goodbye Christ' that were once suppressed.Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - I m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing. William FaulknerWinner of the National Book AwardForty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives, Faulkner s stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and tenderness of the human condition. These tales are set not only in Yoknapatawpha County, but in Beverly Hills and in France during World War I. They are populated by such characters as the Faulknerian archetypes Flem Snopes and Quentin Compson, as well as by ordinary men and women who emerge so sharply and indelibly in these pages that they dwarf the protagonists of most novels.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Tawse, Sybil (illustrator). Neuware - No children's library is complete without this beautiful hardcover edition of the beloved classic Anne of Green Gables, featuring gorgeous illustrations by Sybil Tawse.An eleven-year-old orphan, Anne Shirley, arrives at the enchanting Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island and wins the hearts of everyone at Avonlea with her mischievous and warm spirit. This is a classic story so popular that it spawned eight sequels after its initial publication in 1908 and has sold millions of copies since.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines.