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Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141199431ISBN 13: 9780141199436
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Penguin English Library Edition of Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy'Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet to star, from single stars to double stars, from double to coloured stars.'Hardy's atmospheric, moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces far beyond their control, setting a tragic drama of human passion and conflict against a background of vast stellar space and scientific discovery. Two on a Tower tells the story of Lady Constantine, who breaks all the rules of decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. Together, in an ancient monument converted into an astronomical observation tower, they create their own private universe - until the pressures of the outside world threaten to destroy it.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. 336 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141198621ISBN 13: 9780141198620
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970), Stanley and the Women (1984), and The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories. 144 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141196432ISBN 13: 9780141196435
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Margaret Drabble was born in 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, the daughter of barrister and novelist John F. Drabble, and sister of novelist A.S. Byatt. She is the author of eighteen novels and eight works of non-fiction, including biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson. In 1980, Margaret Drabble was made a CBE and in 2008 she was made DBE. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd, and lives in London and Somerset. 256 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141194251ISBN 13: 9780141194257
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970), Stanley and the Women (1984), and The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories. 240 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141194294ISBN 13: 9780141194295
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970), Stanley and the Women (1984), and The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories. 304 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141198656ISBN 13: 9780141198651
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Evan S. Connell's Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century.Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. She spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners. And yet she finds modern life increasingly baffling, her children aren't growing up into the people she expected, and sometimes she has the vague disquieting sensation that all is not well in her life. In a series of comic, telling vignettes, Evan S. Connell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion, futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty.The companion novel Mr Bridge, telling the story from the other side of the marriage, is also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'A perfect novel . Its tone - knowing, droll, plaintive, shuttling rapidly between pain and hilarity - elevates it to its own kind of specialness . One of those books that can suffuse a room with happiness when someone brings it up' Meg Wulitzer, The New York Times'Intimate . affecting . a very funny book' Joshua Ferris 208 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141194308ISBN 13: 9780141194301
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Harry Caldecote is a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threatens to emulate Wordsworth, when his son's lesbian lodger is beaten up by her girlfriend. He endures misplaced seductions just to keep the peace at the King's pub in Shepherd's Hill. 320 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141049561ISBN 13: 9780141049564
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970), Stanley and the Women (1984), and The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories. 224 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0241961351ISBN 13: 9780241961353
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Simon Baron-Cohen's The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain is an unflinching look at the scientific evidence behind the innate sex differences of the mind. Men and women have always seemed to think in entirely different ways, from conversation and communication to games and gadgets. But are these differences created by society, or do our minds come ready-wired one way or another, with female brains tending towards interaction and male towards organisation And could this mean that autism - rather than being a mental anomaly - is in fact simply an extreme male brain Why are female brains better at empathasing How are male brains designed to analyse systems And what really makes men and women different Simon Baron-Cohen explores list-making, lying and two decades of research in a ground-breaking examination of how our brains can be male or female but always completely fascinating. 'Compelling . Inspiring' Guardian 'This is no Mars/Venus whimsy, but the conclusion from twenty years of experiment' Evening Standard 'A devastating contribution to the gender debate' Mail on Sunday 'A fascinating, thought-provoking book' Observer Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor at Cambridge University in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. He is also the Director of Cambridge's internationally renowned Autism Research Centre. He has carried out research into social neuroscience over a career spanning twenty years. He is the author of Mindblindness and Zero Degrees of Empathy. 288 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141195541ISBN 13: 9780141195544
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this title provides an account of depravity and violence. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, it is torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the monstrous glamour of its terrible victors. 128 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0241956056ISBN 13: 9780241956052
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At 26 years old, Brian Christian is not only a universally lauded author, but has lectured at the LSE, Royal Academy, Microsoft and Google, been interviewed on The Daily Show, BBC and Paris Review, profiled in the Guardian Magazine, New York Times, the New Yorker, and on the front cover of Atlantic, and has made countless appearances at universities and in online videos, speaking on his subject. He holds a dual degree from Brown University in computer science and philosophy, and an MFA in poetry. Unsurprisingly, this is his first book, but the first of many. 320 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141195576ISBN 13: 9780141195575
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An extraordinary collection of essays arguing for literature's complicity with evil. Translated by Alastair Hamilton. 192 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 014119555XISBN 13: 9780141195551
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presents depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and morality. 208 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141195533ISBN 13: 9780141195537
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert is a priest so devout that he is nicknamed l'Abbe. When the sexually wild Eponine intrudes upon their suffocating relationship, anguish, delirium, and death ensue. 144 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0241963281ISBN 13: 9780241963289
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Claire Tomalin is a former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times. She has written seven highly acclaimed literary biographies, all available in Penguin, and has won many prizes, including the Whitbread Book of the Year for Samuel Pepys. She is married to the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn. 528 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0241963311ISBN 13: 9780241963319
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New edition. 400 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141195568ISBN 13: 9780141195568
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, offering a dazzling array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as including comments on Freud, Sade and Saint Theresa. Everywhere, Eroticism argues, sex is surrounded by taboos, which we must continually transgress in order to overcome the sense of isolation that faces us all. 320 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0241955955ISBN 13: 9780241955956
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British comedy. Throughout his life, Milligan also wrote prolifically - scripts, poetry, fiction, as well as several volumes of memoir, in which he took an entirely idiosyncratic approach to the truth. 336 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141038659ISBN 13: 9780141038650
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jane Green is the Number One bestselling author of fourteen novels: Straight Talking, Jemima J, Mr Maybe,Bookends, Babyville, Spellbound, The Other Woman, Life Swap, Second Chance, The Beach House, Girl Friday, The Love Verb, The Patchwork Marriage and The Accidental Husband. Jane and her husband live in Connecticut with their blended family of six children. 416 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0241963265ISBN 13: 9780241963265
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New edition.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0241963257ISBN 13: 9780241963258
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New edition.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0241963273ISBN 13: 9780241963272
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As near perfect a life of Austen as we are likely to get: intelligent, feeling, suggestive' Carmen Callil, Daily Telegraph'Tomalin has written a biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit and insight' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times'Of all the Austen biographies, this is the best . leaves the reader with a much deeper appreciation of the circumstances and motivation behind the creation of those six perfect novels' Harpers & Queen'I cannot think that a better life of Jane Austen then Claire Tomalin's will be written for many years.' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday'A perfect biography: detailed, witty, warm. Tomalin involves us so deeply that Austen's final illness and death come almost as a personal tragedy to the reader' Dirk Bogarde, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 024196136XISBN 13: 9780241961360
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When celebrity journalist Anna Hunt takes a break from her high-powered and fast-paced job to live in Peru for three months, none of her friends take her seriously. A burn-the-candle-at-both-ends 29-year-old with a love of stilettos, chocolate, fast cars and Sauvignon Blanc, she seems to have it all. How will she manage in a Third World country.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0670919799ISBN 13: 9780670919796
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presents the author as a teenage girl who fretted about and tried to cope with her own emerging sexuality and who also veered between being a carefree child and an aware adult. This title is a true story to be rediscovered by each generation.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 024196329XISBN 13: 9780241963296
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - New edition.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141199458ISBN 13: 9780141199450
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss'Fiercely romantic and hugely influential, The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Prynne, imprisoned, publicly shamed, and forced to wear a scarlet 'A' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child, Pearl. In their small, Puritan village, Hester and her daughter struggle to survive, but in this searing study of the tension between private and public existence, Hester Prynne's inner strength and quiet dignity means she has frequently been seen as one of the first great heroines of American fiction.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. 269 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141199407ISBN 13: 9780141199405
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We rich can''Only connect.' is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes, the gentle, idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts. As the Schlegel sisters try desperately to help the Basts and educate the close-minded Wilcoxes, the families are drawn together in love, lies and death. Frequently cited as E. M. Forster's finest work, Howards End brilliantly explores class warfare, conflict and the English character.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. 400 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141199490ISBN 13: 9780141199498
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me . Why did you paint it It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!'A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Oscar Wilde's only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, as it follows Dorian's own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a masterpiece of the evil in men's hearts, and is as controversial and alluring as Wilde himself.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. 240 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0141199350ISBN 13: 9780141199351
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it'In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully, desperate to protect her son. Using her own experiences with her brother Branwell to depict the cruelty and debauchery from which Helen flees, Anne Brontë wrote her masterpiece to reflect the fragile position of women in society and her belief in universal redemption, but scandalized readers of the time.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. 536 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jun 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0241952433ISBN 13: 9780241952436
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK IS 'A MONUMENT TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT'One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Edited by her father Otto H. Frank and German novelist Mirjam Pressler, this is a true story to be rediscovered by each new generation._________________________________12th July 1944: 'It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.'In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Aged thirteen, Anne kept a diary of her time in the secret annexe. She movingly revealed how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with hunger, the daily threat of discovery and death and isolation from the outside world. A thought-provoking record of tension and struggle, adolescence and confinement, anger and heartbreak, the diary of Anne Frank is a testament to the atrocities of the past and a promise they will never be forgotten. _________________________________ 'One of the greatest books of the century' Guardian'Rings down the decades as the most moving testament to the persecution of innocence' Daily Mail 'Astonishing and excruciating. Its gnaws at us still' New York Times Book Review 384 pp. Englisch.