Editorium jul 2008 (245 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'The settling of the Kentucky region well deserves a place in history. Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country u…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Fourteen short stories from one of America's finest writers. Willa Cather was fascinated by the ruthless of nature, the brutality of mankind, and the beauty of art, all of which are evident in this richly diverse collection. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waki…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - May Day, Fitzgerald's first great novelette, mingles autobiographical details with events from contemporary history. In May 1919, after an interfraternity dance at Delmonico's, Fitzgerald was bounced out of the Fifty-ninth-Street Childs for a disturbance similar to the one created by Peter…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - By the time he dies, Ivan Ilych has come to understand the worthlessness of his life. Paradoxically, this elevates him above the common man, who avoids the reality of death and the effort it takes to make life worthwhile. In Tolstoy's own words, 'Ivan Ilyich's life had been . . . most ordi…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the most famous of Kafka's works, along with The Trial and The Castle. The story begins when a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. Curiously, his condition does not arouse surprise in his…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Credulity is a curious thing,' went on Treherne in a low voice. 'It is more negative than positive, and yet it is infinite. Hundreds of men will avoid walking under a ladder; they don't know where the door of the ladder will lead. They don't really think God would throw a thunderbolt at t…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Anthem is Ayn Rand's classic tale of a dark future age of the great 'We'-a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. Written a full decade before George Orwell's '1984,' this dystopian novel depicts a man who seeks escape from a society in which individuality has b…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Well, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaway slave down there on Tom's uncle Silas's farm in Arkansaw. The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting closer and closer onto…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In 1915, when Chesterton emerged from a coma after his physical collapse several months earlier, England was in the midst of the Great War with Germany. Although the English army had no use for Chesterton as a soldier, his pen was immediately enlisted to help the war effort. The Appetite o…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Prophet and the Plates is a collection of letters from Oliver Cowdery to W. W. Phelps for publication in the Latter-day Saint newspaper The Messenger and Advocate. They include Oliver's recollections of events related to the restoration of the gospel and the translation of the Book of…