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Zustand: New. Berlin, in the words of Philip Hensher, editor of this anthology, has always been a city of desperate modernity , both in terms of urban architecture - largely a creation of the progressive 19th century, laid waste by World War II, temporary home of the i.

Zustand: New. Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne s metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards.Trees have starred in stories ever sin.

Zustand: New. Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi s enchanting Books and Roses ) public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Elizabeth McCracken s eccentric library did not happen in rea.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis Stevenson, Eric Linklater and Dorothy K. Haynes side-s.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. Keats is celebrated as a writer in three forms: lyric verse, narrative verse and letters. All three are represented here in a volume which reprints all the famous odes, a selection os sonnets and other short poems, both versions of HYPERION, extentsive sele.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. more recent luminaries include Brecht, Cavafy, Gabriela Mistral, Dylan Thomas, Iku Takenaka, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, Anne Stevenson, Maya Angelou, Derek Walcott, John Burnside and Ian McMillan.A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celeb.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. Classic adventure stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London mix with marvellously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith and J.An anthology of the best maritime fiction from the last .

Zustand: New. A glorious collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. Including creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, Chandler, Rendell and Rankin. Perfect gift edition.A collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. From auth.

Zustand: New. Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, swimming with crocodiles, racing through anthrax-infected Siberia, or publishi.

Zustand: New. The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends..

Zustand: New. It is the story of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psycho-historian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store: a dark age of ignorance, barbarism and viole.

Zustand: New. Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre - The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, and Ripley s Game - appear here together in hardcover for the first time.Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre - The Talented Mr. Ri.

Zustand: New. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past .An era revealed in a perfect butler s imperfections The New York TimesKaz.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. The story of Scrooge, a miser who becomes a different man when he is presented with visions of past, present and future by Marley s ghost. First published on 17th December 1843, it had, by Christmas Eve of that year, sold 6000 copies at a price of five shil.

Zustand: New. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist and man of action. The present collection includes all Hemingway s shorter fiction arranged chronologically from Up in Michigan (1923) to Old Man at the Bridge (1938) and contains stories not curre.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra s search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called.

Zustand: New. A brilliant and much admired novelist, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) surpassed herself as a writer of short fiction: the supreme genius of her time , writes John Banville in his introductionA brilliant and much admired novelist, Elizabeth Bowen (1899-19.

Zustand: New. Includes Things Fall Apart , No Longer at Ease , and Arrow of God . In Things Fall Apart the individual tragedy of Okonkwo, strong man and tribal elder in the Nigeria of the 1890s is intertwined with the transformation of traditional Igbo society und.

Zustand: New. Here, too, are thrilling, terrifying stories such as The Fog Horn - perfect for reading under the covers. Read for the first time, these stories are a feast for the imaginationOne hundred of Ray Bradbury s remarkable stories which have earned him a.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. In the five novels by Ireland s greatest comic writer we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of At Swim-Two-Birds to the piercing realism of The Hard Life and the surreal logic of The Third Policeman.Containing th.