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Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0451530748ISBN 13: 9780451530745
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mark Twain takes a hard look at the consequences of slavery in America in this classic satire. Set in a town on the Mississippi during the pre-Civil War era, Pudd'nhead Wilson tackles the seminal American issue of slavery in a tragicomedy of switched identities. What happens when a child born free and a child born a slave change places The result is a biting social commentary with enduring relevance, and a good old-fashioned murder mystery. It also introduces one of Twain's favorite characters: Pudd'nhead Wilson, an intellectual with a penchant for amateur sleuthing. F.R. Leavis proclaimed this novel 'the masterly work of a great writer.'With an Introduction by Louis Budd 176 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0451530608ISBN 13: 9780451530608
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dostoyevskys masterpiece introduces a world filled with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues, as three brothers become involved in the brutal murder of their own father. This edition features an Afterword by bestselling author Sara Peretsky. Revised reissue. 928 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0425218643ISBN 13: 9780425218648
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this chilling thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz, the carnival is coming to town-and it's like nothing you've ever seen.Slim MacKenzie is no ordinary man. With eyes the color of twilight, he's been blessed with a psychic gift: premonitions. He's also been cursed, for Slim can see the monsters hiding among us, feeding on our suffering. And when Slim joins a traveling carnival seeking sanctuary, what he'll find is a hunting ground-with humanity as the prey. 480 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0141441615ISBN 13: 9780141441610
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literary hero.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. 400 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0441015476ISBN 13: 9780441015474
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the powerful forces of nature take physical form. But even magic cannot sway the corruption that threatens to destroy the realm of Alera once and for all. When the power-hungry High Lord of Kalare launches a merciless rebellion against the First Lord, young Tavi of Calderon joins a newly formed legion under an assumed name. And when the ruthless Kalare allies himself with a savage enemy of the realm, Tavi finds himself leading an inexperienced, poorly equipped legion the only force standing between Alera and certain doom. 704 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin Young Readers Group Dez 2007, 2007
ISBN 10: 0142408948ISBN 13: 9780142408940
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Lagarrigue, Jerome Lagarrigue (illustrator). Neuware - There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not go. But when Connie sees four young men take a stand for equal rights at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, she realizes that things may soon change. This event sparks a movement throughout her town and region. And while Connie is too young to march or give a speech, she helps her brother and sister make signs for the cause. Changes are coming to Connie's town, but Connie just wants to sit at the lunch counter and eat a banana split like everyone else. 32 pp. Englisch.