Trovati 67 documenti.
Maurice / E.M. Forster ; edited by P.N. Furbank ; with introduction and notes by David Leavitt
London : Penguin books, 2005
Penguin classics
Titolo e contributi: Maurice / E.M. Forster ; edited by P.N. Furbank ; with introduction and notes by David Leavitt
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 232 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Penguin classics
ISBN: 9780141441139
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Italia
Abstract: Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening.
Never let me go / Kazuo Ishiguro
London : Faber and Faber, 2005
Titolo e contributi: Never let me go / Kazuo Ishiguro
Pubblicazione: London : Faber and Faber, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 282 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780571258093
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life..
The iron man / Ted Hughes ; llustrated by Tom Gauld
London : Faber and Faber, 2005
Titolo e contributi: The iron man / Ted Hughes ; llustrated by Tom Gauld
Pubblicazione: London : Faber and Faber, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 63 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780571226122
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction by the Iron Man and set a trap for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.
The cat who went bananas / Lilian Jackson Braun
London : Headline Review, 2005
Titolo e contributi: The cat who went bananas / Lilian Jackson Braun
Pubblicazione: London : Headline Review, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 200 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9780755321254
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Jim Qwilleran reviews the local play for the Moose County Something. Polly is busy with the grand opening of The Pirates Chest, a local bookstore funded by the K Fund. While going about with his daily life, one of the cast members of The Importance of Being Earnest is killed during a car accident. Rumors circulate after it is discovered Ronnie Dickson had a large amount of alcohol in his system. Jim has a sneaky suspicion over newcomer Alden Wade, a notorious ladies man.
London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2005
Titolo e contributi: Desertion / Abdulrazak Gurnah
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2005
ISBN: 9780747578956
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet. That man is Martin Pearce - writer, traveller and something of an Orientalist. After Pearce has recuperated, he visits Hassanali to thank him for his rescue and meets Hassanali's sister Rehana; he is immediately captivated.
Loving, Living, Party going / Henry Green
London : Vintage books, 2005
Vintage classics
Titolo e contributi: Loving, Living, Party going / Henry Green
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage books, 2005
Descrizione fisica: [2], 527, [1] p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9780099481478
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: This volume brings together three of his novels contrasting the lives of servants and masters (Loving); workers and owners, set in a Birmingham iron foundry (Living); and the different lives of the wealthy and the ordinary, (Party Going).
The remains of the day / Kazuo Ishiguro
London : Faber & Faber, 2005
Titolo e contributi: The remains of the day / Kazuo Ishiguro
Pubblicazione: London : Faber & Faber, 2005
Descrizione fisica: [6], 258 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780571258246
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second world war, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him--oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, beautifully crafted novel-- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.
London : Healdine, 2005
Titolo e contributi: The island / Victoria Hislop
Pubblicazione: London : Healdine, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 473 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 0755309510
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to London. When Alexis decides to visit Crete, however, Sofia gives her daughter a letter to take to an old friend, and promises that through her she will learn more. Arriving in Plaka, Alexis is astonished to see that it lies a stone's throw from the tiny, deserted island of Spinalonga - Greece's former leper colony. Then she finds Fotini, and at last hears the story that Sofia has buried all her life: the tale of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters and a family rent by tragedy, war and passion. She discovers how intimately she is connected with the island, and how secrecy holds them all in its powerful grip..
What am i doing here? / Bruce Chatwin
London : Vintage books, 2005
Vintage classics
Titolo e contributi: What am i doing here? / Bruce Chatwin
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage books, 2005
Descrizione fisica: [8], 367 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9780099769811
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In this text, Bruce Chatwin writes of his father, of his friend Howard Hodgkin, and of his talks with Andre Malraux and Nadezhda Mandelstram. He also follows unholy grails on his travels, such as the rumour of a "wolf-boy" in India, or the idea of looking for a Yeti.
Untold stories [Audioregistrazione] / Alan Bennett
Gran Bretagna : BBC Audiobooks, 2005-
BBC Audio. Radio 4
Titolo e contributi: Untold stories [Audioregistrazione] / Alan Bennett
Pubblicazione: Gran Bretagna : BBC Audiobooks, 2005-
Descrizione fisica: 4 dischi sonori (CD) : stereo ; 12 cm
Serie: BBC Audio. Radio 4
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
London : Penguin books, 2005
Penguin classics
Titolo e contributi: The war of the worlds / H. G. Wells ; edited by Patrick Parrinder ; with an introduction by Brian Aldiss ; and notes by Andy Sawyer
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2005
Descrizione fisica: XXXVI, 199 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Penguin classics
ISBN: 9780141441030
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and of his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians.
London : Vintage, 2005
Titolo e contributi: The human stain / Philip Roth
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 361 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780099282198
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an ageing classics professor, Coleman Silk is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real ruth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser.
2. ed
New York [etc.] : Norton, 2005
A Norton critical edition
Titolo e contributi: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those extraordinary twins : authoritative texts, textual introduction, tables of variants, criticism / Mark Twain ; edited by Sidney E. Berger
2. ed
Pubblicazione: New York [etc.] : Norton, 2005
Descrizione fisica: XIX, 471 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Serie: A Norton critical edition
ISBN: 9780393925357
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: An edition of Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins based on a completely re-edited text, which accounts for all versions that Twain may have written or influenced. (bol.de)
A song of ice and fire.. volume 4. A feast for crows / George R. R. Martin
London : HarperCollins, 2005
Fa parte di: A feast for crows
Titolo e contributi: A song of ice and fire.. volume 4. A feast for crows / George R. R. Martin
Pubblicazione: London : HarperCollins, 2005
Descrizione fisica: [10], 753 p. : c. geogr. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 0002247437
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The War of the Five Kings has ripped Westeros apart. The bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning Lannisters occupy the Iron Throne, with allies as ruthless as themselves. Lord Frey was host at the Red Wedding, so called for the massacre of the guests, their screams unheard above the music of the feast. Euron Crow's Eye is as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, sworn to deliver the whole of Westeros to the ironborn. No less to be feared are their enemies. The Starks of Winterfell and the Martells of Dorne seek vengeance for their dead.
A pale view of hills / Kazuo Ishiguro
London : Faber and Faber, 2005
Titolo e contributi: A pale view of hills / Kazuo Ishiguro
Pubblicazione: London : Faber and Faber, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 183 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780571225378
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
The whale rider / Witi Ihimaera
Harlow : Heinemann, 2005
Titolo e contributi: The whale rider / Witi Ihimaera
Pubblicazione: Harlow : Heinemann, 2005
Descrizione fisica: IX, 122 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780435131081
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Masie Dobbs : a novel / Jacqueline Winspear
London : John Murray, 2005
Titolo e contributi: Masie Dobbs : a novel / Jacqueline Winspear
Pubblicazione: London : John Murray, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 311 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780719566226
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
July's people / Nadine Gordimer
London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2005
Titolo e contributi: July's people / Nadine Gordimer
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 195 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 8807811782
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Not all whites in South Africa are outright racists. Some, like Bam and Maureen Smales in Nadine Gordimer's thrilling and powerful novel July's People, are sensitive to the plights of blacks during the apartheid state. So imagine their quandary when the blacks stage a full-scale revolution that sends the Smaleses scampering into isolation .. (amazon.com)
The nanny diaries / Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
New York : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005
Movie tie-in [St. Martin's Paperbacks]
Titolo e contributi: The nanny diaries / Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Pubblicazione: New York : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005
Descrizione fisica: 368 p. ; 17 cm
Serie: Movie tie-in [St. Martin's Paperbacks]
ISBN: 0312948042
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
London : Penguin books, c2005
Titolo e contributi: Get a life / Nadine Gordimer
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, c2005
Descrizione fisica: 187 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 0143037927
Data:2005
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer follows the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment that will leave him radioactive-and for a period a danger to others-he begins to question, as Auden wrote, "what Authority gives / existence its surprise." As Paul recuperates in the garden of his childhood home, he enters an unthinkable existence and another kind of illumination-a process that will irrevocably change not only his life but the lives of his wife and parents.
