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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Molly, if you love me, kill me, please.' - Frankie 'Dealer' MachineDirected by Otto Preminger and nominated for three Academy Awards, The Man with the Golden Arm is an impressive 1955 classic film noir drama, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, and Kim Novak. Some say that Sinatra should have won an Oscar for Best Actor for this role. Upon its release, the subject of the film, drug abuse and addiction in society, was considered controversial to speak about in the open, and the film experienced trouble getting past industry censorship codes. Frankie Machine (Sinatra), a recovering heroin addict and illegal card dealer, returns home to his squalid neighborhood in Chicago after six months in prison. He is hoping to go straight and find a job as a drummer, but when both his ex-drug pusher, Louie, and his ruthless former employer, Schwiefka, show up, Frankie is in trouble. Frankie had taken the fall as the dealer when Schwiefka's illegal poker game was raided. For not talking while in prison, Schwiefka had promised to take care of Frankie's wife, Sophia, nicknamed Zosh (Parker), wheelchair bound due to a car accident Frankie had caused when driving drunk. Frankie married her out of guilt, despite being in love with his neighbor, Molly (Novak). The drama is tight and full of certain interesting thematic subtleties. Discover these twists and turns, revenge, deceit, murder, an arrest, a revelation, a tragic fall, and more! This beautifully designed edition is adapted from the original film screenplay. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavor by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigor, can even at this hour save civilization.' - Winston S. Churchill In 1938, British statesman The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, a former military officer and member of the House of Commons, penned his Arms and the Covenant, published in the United States as While England Slept; a Survey of World Affairs, 1932-1938. The book is a powerful collection of his speeches warning that England was not at all prepared for the inevitability of war with Germany. In this beautifully designed volume, While England Slept is published here in its original classic form with the preface and notes by Churchill's son, Randolph S. Churchill. Churchill emphasized the United Kingdom's lack of military preparation to face the threat of Nazi Germany's Anschluss and expansion, and argued against the appeasement policies of the British government, led by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who said 'Peace for our time.' The book spurred many English citizens to oppose the dovish philosophy of the Munich Agreement, and in doing so, Churchill singlehandedly changed the course of history. Still reeling from the aftermath of the upheaval of World War I, during the 1930s, although England was moving stealthily closer to another war, the majority of the country was still not prepared militarily, economically, or emotionally; and an anti-war sentiment dominated British society. Most English citizens believed that England could not rely on its great imperial powers to protect it anymore. Moreover, no army had successfully crossed the English Channel, Britain's main natural barrier protection, since William the Conqueror in 1066. Churchill was right and England did declare war on Germany. In 1940, Chamberlain resigned, replaced by Churchill as Prime Minister. His speeches and radio broadcasts helped cement British morale, leading to England and the Allied forces ultimate victory over Nazi Germany. 'There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety. Only by a firm adherence to righteous principles sustained by all the necessary 'instrumentalities,' to use a famous American expression, can the dangers which close in so steadily upon us and upon the peace of Europe be warded off and overcome. That they can be overcome must be our hope and our faith.'- Winston S. Churchill. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A lavish weekend party, a practical joke that goes murderously wrong, and stolen state secrets all transpire in The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie. Full of her usual sly wit this clever murder mystery is a classic detective story featuring some of the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, and Superintendent Battle. Punting and pranks seem to top the agenda for the party at Chimneys, the historic estate of Lord Caterham which Sir Oswald and Lady Coote have rented for the season. Gerry Wade was a champion sleeper, famous for over-sleeping, so a group of his fellow young houseguests decide to play a practical joke on him by setting eight alarm clocks to go off in his room one after another very early the next morning. When morning arrives, a footman discovers that Gerry is dead and one clock is missing. Despite the arrival of the police, the young friends-led by Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent and charming 'man about town' Jimmy Thesiger, take the investigation into their own hands. When another victim turns up dead, and there are whispers of a secret society called the Seven Dials and talk of stolen state secrets, it all seems to point to a wider plot. Bundle and her friends risk their lives in order to find the murderer before he or she kills again.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of modernity's greatest novels-fully reset with a newintroduction by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz History offers few records of war as vivid, haunting, and evocative as Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front. Burned by the Nazis, feted by critics, embraced by millions, Remarque's dramatized record of the German frontlines in World War I is central to the experience of modern literature and history. As enthralling to twenty-first century readers as it was to those who first encountered the book in 1928, Remarque's landmark tells the story of a young German volunteer who, with his comrades, moves from idealism to fatalism witnessing the horrors of mass killing and the intimate deaths of friends or the disfiguring survival of young men languishing in field hospitals. It is a work, finally, not just about World War I but about all wars-with a moral core that exposes the lies by which we live. This reset edition presents the original, classic translation by Arthur Wesley Wheen. A new introduction by historian Mitch Horowitz frames the book's ethical insights and considers whether they impact humanity's viewpoint. 'We cannot live with ourselves without also living with war's lessons, resounding in this book,' he writes, 'even as we prove incapable of acting on them.' In considering why works like All Quiet on the Western Front fail to reduce the possibility of war, Mitch opens a new window on a work of posterity nearly a century old-and on humanity's eternal predicament. 'Its autumnal mood of loss, pathos and quiet grief left a lasting impression on a legion of readers. Because its subject was war-all war-and the pain and waste that accompany it, the book breathed an air of conciliation welcomed among those who had been the enemy. There are some books, like Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Grapes of Wrath, that sum up a moment of passionate yearning. These books are beyond criticism; All Quiet is one of that company.'-The New York Times. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hemingway's Enduring Classic Written when he was only only thirty years old, Ernest Hemingway's classic novel of love during a time of war was heralded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I. This semiautobiographical tale features an American ambulance driver, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, stationed on the Italian front, who falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a beautiful English nurse. Set against the horrors of war on the battlefield, with tired, demoralized men facing the German attack on Caporetto, Hemingway unforgettably captures their despair as well as the pain of lovers caught in the harsh realities of war, which threaten to pull them apart. A Farewell to Arms is an unforgettable tale of love and pain, loyalty and desertion. With sparing prose and a realistic account of the pain and intensity of a love overshadowed by the creep of global war was Hemingway's first best-seller. The novel has been adapted a number of times: initially for the stage in 1930; as a film in 1932, and 1957; and as a three-part television miniseries in 1966. The 1996 film In Love and War, depicts Hemingway's life in Italy as an ambulance driver in events prior to his writing A Farewell to Arms.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.The Sound and The Fury is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. Set in Jefferson, Mississippi, in the first third of the 20th century, the novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the course of the 30 years or so relayed in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically. The novel features some of the most memorable characters in literature, including beautiful, rebellious Caddy; Benjy, the manchild; neurotic, haunted Quentin; Jason, a brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. These troubled character's voices and actions come together to create Faulkner's masterpiece, thought to be one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. It received popular acclaim shortly before Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.This beautifully designed edition features the original classic 1929 definitive text. …