A postwar tragicomedy of manners, an Edwardian romance, and a historical drama are collected in this volume of works żeby the award-winning novelist. Ribbon marker.
In einem kolumbianischen Tropendorf herrscht seit Jahren der Ausnahmezustand. Das Leben ist erstarrt, und die Menschen hoffen vergeblich auf Veränderung, auf Befreiung von der Militärdiktatur. Der...
The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written żeby the youngest of the famous Bront sisters. Anne Bront wrote these two fantastically successful novels just...
Sieben Erzählungen, die sich wie Variationen über ein Thema lesen: der Mensch und seine Rollen. Während es manchen Menschen gelingt, die Verkleidung fast spielerisch zu wechseln, erträumen sich...
"Conversations with Igor Stravinsky" is the first of the celebrated series of conversation books in which Stravinsky, prompted by Robert Craft, reviewed his long and remarkable life. The...
This is the brand new edition of Paul Harris' very popular Improve Your Sight-Reading Piano series The covers now contain US levels Now more than ever, the ability to sight-read fluently is an...
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the...
Whether describing the tensions of an arranged marriage, the trauma of having an alcoholic mother, or the petty corruption of an Indian neighbourhood, Akhil Sharma's stories always expose the...
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz has long been considered to be among the best of musical autobiographies. Like his massive compositions, Berlioz (1803-69) was colorful, eloquent, larger than life....
Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that...
Das Leben Charlie Chaplins ist ein Märchen des 20. Jahrhunderts: der Aufstieg des kleinen Jungen aus dem Armenhaus zu einem der berühmtesten und genialsten Weltstars unserer Zeit. Es ist ein...
From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jerrell to James Merrill, the author draws on 3,000 years of poetic forays into the supernatural to assemble this ghoulish literary parade.
This is the brand new edition of Paul Harris' very popular Improve Your Sight-Reading Piano series The covers now contain US levels Now more than ever, the ability to sight-read fluently is an...
The "War of the End of the World" is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired żeby a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of an apocalyptic...
"Das Buch vom Glücklichsein" schließt die Reihe der Bände ab, in denen Jorge Bucay, Psychoanalytiker und Gestalttherapeut, seinen Lesern die Rückbesinnung auf ihre persönlichen Bedürfnisse...
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" foreshadows both the detective stories...
Ulrich Tukurs erstes Buch ist eine bezaubernde Hommage an Venedig, wo er seit vielen Jahren lebt. Seine Geschichten sind romantisch, komisch und voller liebenswerter Figuren, deren Spuren der Autor...
Anton Chekhov's short novels are here brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky....
The unfettered exuberance of 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, ' the storms of phenomenal life it offers for our inspection, the honor it gives to the deformed, the cloacal, and the profane...
Trade paperback. Fully updated up to and including }Bad Education{ and available for the first time in paperback, the great Spanish film-maker in a career-long conversation.
Jorge Bucay geht unseren Vorstellungen von der Welt auf den Grund. Er befragt unsere kulturellen Prägungen und Mythen und regt an, lieb gewordene Überzeugungen und Gewohnheiten auf den Prüfstand zu...
"The Alliterative Morte Arthure" - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as...