Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
A collection of stories in which familiar characters and places are reintroduced in unfamiliar circumstances, reminding us – if we need reminding – of their author's limitless powers of comic invention.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later, was completed in 1797 at the age of twenty-two.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
In Quick Service a complicated chain of events is set into motion after Mrs. Chavender takes a bite of breakfast ham.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
A butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try and make money out of his knowledge.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Whether addressing the smothered desire of suburban housewives, the white-collar despair of Manhattan office workers or the heartbreak of a single mother with artistic pretensions, Yates ruthlessly examines the hopes and disappointments of ordinary people with empathy and humour.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indian independence.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. Ambitiously conceived... Læs mere
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From the Eastern folk tales that make up the vast collection known as THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS certain stories - of Aladdin, Sindbad and Ali Baba - have become everlasting favourites with children and a magical ingredient of Christmas pantomine.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Blandings Castle lacks its usual balm for the Earl of Emsworth, as his stern sister Lady Constance Keeble is once more in residence. With a painting of reclining nude at the centre of numerous intrigues, Gally's genius is once again required to sort things out.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
In this volume, Tony Tanner introduces Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies - "Hamlet", "Othello", "Macbeth" and "King Lear".
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
3et in the Malay Archipelago, where Conrad spent much of his youth as an officer in the British Merchant Navy, VICTORY is a sombre yet brilliant study of good and evil in Conrad's mature manner.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
With 13 children of his own clamouring for bedtime stories it isn't surprising that author George MacDonald discovered he had a gift for composing fairy tales.