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Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099540762ISBN 13: 9780099540762
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Edith Wharton was born on 24 January 1862 in New York. She was educated in both America and Europe. In 1885 she married Edward Robbins Wharton. In 1899 she published her first work, a collection of stories called The Greater Inclination. In 1900 she published her first novel, The Touchstone. She wrote many other works including travel writing, home decoration manuals, short stories and her famous novels The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), The Custom of the Country (1913) and The Age of Innocence (1920). She lived in France from 1907. She was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1916 for her work helping refugees there during the war. Edith Wharton died on 11 August 1937. 368 pp. Englisch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099552353ISBN 13: 9780099552352
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in childhood and about childhood. The other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler: one an eight-year-old deaf-mute lost in a shipwreck, the other a man despatched to search for him, who discovers W, an island state based on the rules of sport. As the two tales move in and out of focus, the disturbing truth about the island of W reveals itself. Perec combines fiction and autobiography in unprecedented ways, allowing no easy escape from these stories, or from history. 176 pp. Englisch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099539926ISBN 13: 9780099539926
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow KingAddis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 - the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. And Dawit, Hailu's youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement-a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia.Emotionally gripping, poetic and indelibly tragic, Beneath the Lion's Gaze is a transcendent story that tells a gripping story of family and of the bonds of love and friendship. It is a story about the lengths to which human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution. 320 pp. Englisch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099540770ISBN 13: 9780099540779
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Kate Chopin was born in St Louis, Missouri on 8 Feb 1850. Born Katherine O'Flaherty, she grew up in a predominantly female household after her father died when she was just four years old. Her father was an Irish immigrant, and her mother was French Creole. In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin, a local cotton trader, and together they had six children. In 1882 Oscar died from swamp fever, leaving Kate a widow with a large family to support, and the heir to his sizeable debts. She turned to writing in order to support her young family, publishing her first short story in 1889. A number of her works were subsequently published in literary magazines and popular American periodicals, including Vogue. Chopin published only two novels in her lifetime: At Fault and The Awakening. The Awakening, published in 1899, was largely condemned as vulgar and immoral by critics of the time. Dismayed by such a harsh reception, Chopin cut short her brief career as a novelist, and for the remainder of her life focused solely on writing short stories, poetry and reviews. Kate Chopin died on 22 August 1904 from a brain haemorrhage. 240 pp. Englisch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099548526ISBN 13: 9780099548522
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is considered a bizarre thirst for learning.As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya begin to impinge on the boy's life in both inspiring and frightening ways. Through the story of his grandparents and parents, and his brothers' involvement in the violent Mau Mau uprising, Ngugi deftly etches a tumultuous era, capturing the landscape, the people and their culture, and the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war. 272 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099549026ISBN 13: 9780099549024
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Paperback edition of McEwan's latest novel, an engrossing satire on climate change. Previous novel 'Atonement' sold over a million copies and was made into an Oscar winning film. 'Climate-change comedy that's every bit as brilliant as its title suggests' 'The Sunday Times' 304 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099541661ISBN 13: 9780099541660
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. 224 pp. Englisch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099488736ISBN 13: 9780099488736
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'A phenomenal writer' Sunday TimesAn intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on holiday and struggling to twist the seventies's emerging feminism towards his own ends. Torn between three women, his scheming doesn't come off quite as he expects.'Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language' Financial Times 480 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099523868ISBN 13: 9780099523864
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Subtitled, 'Corsairs, Conquests & Captivity In The 17th Century Mediterranean'. From the author of the acclaimed 'The Verneys'. 'A thrilling account' 'The Sunday Telegraph'.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099555476ISBN 13: 9780099555476
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the Book of Genesis lies in its stories - Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph. These ancient tales illuminate some of our most enduring and profound problems: cowardice, the struggle with evil, the difficulty of facing past mistakes, achieving a true understanding of our innermost selves. Karen Armstrong traces the themes and meanings of these stories, examining what they can still tell us about the human quest for meaning.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0099523531ISBN 13: 9780099523536
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: climate change, energy security and the struggle for the world's resources, the return of great power competition and the remaking of global trade patterns.In The Future History of the Arctic, geopolitics expert Charles Emmerson weaves together the history of the region with reportage and reflection, revealing a vast and complex area, loaded with opportunity and rich in challenges. Travelling from the oil-fields of Prudhoe Bay and the Russian port of Murmansk to the shores of Greenland and the militarised borderlands of northern Norway, he brings the contemporary Arctic to life and explains why what happens there matters to the world.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 1845950968ISBN 13: 9781845950965
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This enjoyable and revealing book - the first biography of Christo - is also the story of Dixter from 1910 to 2006, a unique unbroken history of one English house and one English garden spanning a century.
Published by Vintage Publishing Mär 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0701206713ISBN 13: 9780701206710
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Presents essays on Turgenev, Goldsmith, Congreve, Gibbon and Horace Walpole. This title is suitable for for students, common readers and scholars alike.