
Big Sleep and Other Novels - Chandler, Raymond
- Počet stran 672
- Rok vydání 2000
Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the…
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Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the…
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Brings together the works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes\' Birds, and Menander\'s The Girl…
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Thady Quirk, steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a story of four generations of a dying dynasty…
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A selection of the earliest poems in English comprising works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited…
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Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured…
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Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins. She exploits the attentions of four very different suitors.…
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Tells the story of solitary young farmer, Sam Marsdyke, and his extraordinary battle with the world. Expelled from school…
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Shatters various images of Andre Gide as the querulous and impious Buddha to a quarter-century of intellectuals.…
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A story with elaborate imagery, sardonic humour and an unforgettable gallery of grotesques - which describes a journey to…
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Charlie Mortdecai (and his intrepid moustache) is invited to Oxford to investigate the cruel and most definitely unusual…
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Taliesin Jones is a boy on the brink of adulthood, faced for the first time with life's biggest questions. Taliesin's life…
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Horace Rumpole is not overfond of the rituals of Christmas: turkey, tinsel and the like. But happily the festive season is…
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Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left…
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Throws a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, this…
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Examines alternative destinies, choices and the moments in our lives when we could have chosen a different path. The author…
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Portrays the Russian people. This title presents a series of interlinked stories including "The Shot", in which a duel is…
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Lord and Lady Clonbrony are more concerned with fashionable London society than with their responsibilities to those who…
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24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will…
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This is an edition of the Old English epic poem "Beowulf", offering linguistic and glossarial aids on each page.…
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Features the play Robbers that presents a passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal; and Wallenstein…
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For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings…
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Produkt Draft Animals - Gaimon, Phil zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Putnam Inc.…
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Produkt Diary of a Country Priest - Bernanos, Georges zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…
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Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest…
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When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions…
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Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly…
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A collection of poems that explore the raw merging of American pastoral and urban squalor.…
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Tells the story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. This title investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind…
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'How are you today?' the doctor asked. 'I'm fine', was the reply. 'But Sybil isn't. She was so sick she couldn't come. So I…
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. This selection of his poetry…
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Henri Poincare formulated his Conjecture in 1904 that promised to describe the very shape of the universe, but remained…
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Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this book offers a blend of poetry and…
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The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature,…
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Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, "Sweet Nosegay" (1573) and "The Copy of a Letter" (1567), were part of a literary…
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Gervase Phinn thinks he's heard just about everything in his two years as a school inspector, but a surprising enquiry from…
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Produkt Maldoror and Poems - Lautreamont, Comte zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…
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An account of feng-shui, a Chinese art providing the ability to live in harmony with nature and at peace. Skinner outlines…
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Francis Crawford of Lymond, and outlawed rebel, is in Edinburgh again ...and his arrival in Scotland ignites a series of…
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What really makes us who we are? This book shows that our identity does not lie in our genes, but in the connections between…
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Michael McIntyre is Britain's biggest comedy star. He has released two record-breaking DVDs, Live and Laughing and Hello…
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Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. This title brings together the…
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From their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the Cynic philosophers sought to cure humanity of greed…
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This new historical atlas, richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps, explores the…
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How hard can it be: To build a power station without upsetting the eco-mentalists? To seek world domination if you've been…
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Explores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped the way we cook and live. This title tells the story of how we…
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The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary is an indispensable reference companion for anyone who writes verse - whether lyric poet,…
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In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus' encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas and the humiliation of…
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