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Editore: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mär 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141182857ISBN 13: 9780141182858
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Rhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century' Michele RobertsJean Rhys's masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful masterpiece. Edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith 192 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mär 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0140817794ISBN 13: 9780140817799
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Contains: The Umbrella Man; Dip in the Pool; The Butler; The Hitchhiker; Mr Botibol; My Lady Love, My Dove; The Way Up to Heaven; Parson's Pleasure; The Sound Machine; The Wish. 190 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mär 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0140817743ISBN 13: 9780140817744
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal. 329 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mär 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141182741ISBN 13: 9780141182742
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life. 'A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away'Willy Loman is on his last legs. Failing at his job, dismayed at his the failure of his sons, Biff and Happy, to live up to his expectations, and tortured by his jealousy at the success and happiness of his neighbour Charley and his son Bernard, Willy spirals into a well of regret, reminiscence, and A scathing indictment of the ultimate failure of the American dream, and the empty pursuit of wealth and success, is a harrowing journey. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life'. 112 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mär 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141182008ISBN 13: 9780141182001
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: If human existence has no meaning, is life worth living 'What I touch, what resists me - that is what I understand'As Camus argues, if there is no God to give meaning to our lives, humans must take on that purpose themselves. This is our 'absurd' task, like Sisyphus condemned forever to roll a rock up a hill. Written during the bleakest days of the Second World War, The Myth of Sisyphus argues for an acceptance of reality that encompasses revolt, passion and, above all, liberty, gained through an awareness of pure existence. This volume contains several other essays, including lyrical evocations of the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran, the settings of his great novels The Outsider and The Plague. The writings in this volume are all, in their own way, hymns to the physical world and the elemental pleasures of living. Translated by Justin O'BrienWith an afterword by James Wood 192 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mär 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141182865ISBN 13: 9780141182865
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''My favourite book of all time. it stays with you long after you have read it - for your whole life, in fact' Billy ConnollyA monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Ignatius ignores them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job. Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission - and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it with.Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a foreword by Walker Percy. 'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and intellectual incongruities . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue'The New York Times 352 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mär 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141182806ISBN 13: 9780141182803
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, ObserverFollowing the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition. It has survived censorship, controversy and legal action, and even been deemed blasphemous, but remains an undisputed modernist classic: ceaselessly inventive, garrulous, funny, sorrowful, vulgar, lyrical and ultimately redemptive. It confirms Joyce's belief that literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'.'The most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape' T. S. Eliot'Intoxicating . a towering work, in its word play surpassing even Shakespeare' Guardian 939 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mär 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141182849ISBN 13: 9780141182841
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As influential and revelatory in its day as Fifty Shades of Grey is now, Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus is a groundbreaking anthology of erotic short stories, published in Penguin Modern ClassicsIn Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own unique perceptions. Her vibrant and impassioned prose evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.This edition includes a preface adapted from Anaïs Nin's diary that establishes a context for the work's gestation, and a postscript to her diary entries in which she explains her desire to use 'women's language, seeing sexual experience from a woman's point of view'.Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), born in Paris, was the daughter of a Franco-Danish singer and a Cuban pianist. Her first book - a defence of D. H. Lawrence - was published in the 1930s. Her prose poem, House of Incest (1936) was followed by the collection of three novellas, collected as Winter of Artifice (1939). In the 1940s she began to write erotica for an anonymous client, and these pieces are collected in Delta of Venus and Little Birds (both published posthumously). During her later years Anaïs Nin lectured frequently at universities throughout the USA, in 1974 and was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters.If you enjoyed Delta of Venus, you might like Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of Older Women, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Anaïs Nin excites male readers and incites female readers . and she comes against life with a vital artistry and boldness'The New York Times Book Review 225 pp. Englisch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Mär 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0141182482ISBN 13: 9780141182483
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Evelyn Waugh's beloved masterpiece, with an introduction by Paula Byrne The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian Flyte at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognise his spiritual and social distance from them.'Lush and evocative . Expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit'The Times 480 pp. Englisch.
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Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mär 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0140283706ISBN 13: 9780140283709
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Anne Fadiman is editor of The American Scholar and an award-winning journalist. Her first book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down won the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction. She lives in New York City. 144 pp. Deutsch.
Editore: Penguin Books Ltd Mär 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0140288325ISBN 13: 9780140288322
Da: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germania
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Zen Buddhism conveys its profound truths through epigrams, parable and brief enigmatic and often amusing stories of the masters. In addition to '101 Zen Stories', this volume contains 'The Gateless Gate', a collection of 'koans' or puzzles and '10 Bulls', an illustrated account of a bull-hunt. 176 pp. Englisch.