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Edité par Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0141185295ISBN 13 : 9780141185293
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over timeOrwell's graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in his later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.Includes illustrations, explanatory footnotes, and an introduction by Richard Hoggart 236 pp. Englisch.
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Edité par Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0141184876ISBN 13 : 9780141184876
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Saul Bellow's Herzog is part confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction. Is Moses Herzog losing his mind His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters and the myriad catastrophes of the modern age. In a crumbling house which he shares with rats, his head buzzing with ideas, he writes frantic, unsent letters to friends and enemies, colleagues and famous people, the living and the dead, revealing the spectacular workings of his labyrinthine mind and the innermost secrets of his troubled heart.This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury'Spectacular . surely Bellow's greatest novel'Malcolm Bradbury'A masterpiece . Herzog's voice, for all its wildness and strangeness and foolishness, is the voice of a civilization, our civilization'The New York Times Book Review 368 pp. Englisch.
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Edité par Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0141182822ISBN 13 : 9780141182827
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -'Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed' The New York TimesWith delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away. 224 pp. Englisch.
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Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0140285210ISBN 13 : 9780140285215
Vendeur : Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Als Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley und seine Männer eines schönen Sommertages im Jahre 1857 mit ihrer doppelwandigen Sincerity in See stechen, um ein wenig Cognac und Tabak von Frankreich nach England zu transportieren, haben sie keine Vorstellung, wohin ihre Reise wirklich gehen wird.Der englische Zoll ist nicht so verschlafen, wie sie denken, und unversehens finden sie sich im Londoner Hafen wieder, die Konterbande zwar unentdeckt, aber durch Hafengebühren und Strafzahlungen in Gefahr, ihr Schiff zu verlieren. Rettung bringt eine Drei-Mann-Expedition verrückter Engländer, die auf der anderen Seite der Welt, in Tasmanien, den Garten Eden entdecken wollen.Matthew Kneale ist mit seinem Roman ein so spannendes wie detailreiches und dabei auch historisch fundiertes Buch gelungen - voller Humor, Ernsthaftigkeit und mit einer Erzählkraft, die ihresgleichen sucht. 480 pp. Englisch.
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Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0140294236ISBN 13 : 9780140294231
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Was kann schlimmer sein als ein endlos langer, schmutzig-nebliger Londoner Winter Also beschließt Annie Hawes, ihre Schwester zu einem Ferienjob an der italienischen Riviera zu begleiten. Zehn Wochen auf den Feldern eines Rosenhändler und dazu blauer Himmel, wildes Nachtleben, schön gebräunte Körper - so ihr Wunschdenken. Auch wenn San Pietro nicht unbedingt Annies Vorstellungen vom dolce vita an der Riviera entspricht, bilden das Mittelmeer einerseits und die Seealpen andererseits ein eindrucksvolles Panorama; außerdem verwöhnt die Sonne den Februar bereits mit angenehmen Temperaturen. Schon nach wenigen Tagen sind die jungen Frauen für alle Dorfbewohner nur noch 'Patruccos Mädchen'. Patrucco ist der Blumenhändler, der mit seinen Rosen Nordeuropa beliefert und es als einziger im Dorf zu Wohlstand gebracht hat. Da Annie und Lucy Kost und Logis in Luigis Bar, dem Mittelpunkt des Ortes, genommen haben, stecken sie schnell im Herzen des dörflichen Alltags, ohne ihn jedoch recht z u begreifen. Sie sprechen zwar leidlich italienisch, aber diese Sprache für Polizisten und andere offizielle Einrichtungen hat fast nichts zu tun mit dem ligurischen Dialekt, in dem sich die Männer jeden Tag beim Kartenspiel in der Bar unterhalten. Was ihnen Luigi oder sein Frau Maria, die innerhalb weniger Tage aus den Sandwich essenden Fremden ligurische Feinschmecker gemacht hat, nicht übersetzen, reimen sich die beiden Frauen zusammen. Während einerseits Annie und Lucy hören, dass nach dem Zusammenbruch des Olivenmarktes eigentlich niemand mehr vom Olivenanbau leben kann und die meisten jungen Leute das Land verlassen, beobachten die Dorfbewohner ihrerseits mit ungläubigem Staunen die seltsamen, ja gefährlichen Gewohnheiten der Fremden. So trinken die beiden Frauen zwei, manchmal drei Tassen Espresso vor dem Mittagessen. Und das, obwohl sie vor den schwerwiegenden Folgen gewarnt worden sind; denn Kaffee schließt den Magen, so dass man zu Mittag nicht genügend essen kann, um den N achmittag zu überstehen. Annie dankt den Männern für ihre Fürsorge und dem Schicksal für ihren abgehärteten Magen. Überhaupt scheinen die Bewohner ständig zu fürchten, dass die 'stranieri' den Härten des ligurischen Lebens nicht gewachsen sind. Ein Bad im Mittelmeer löst bei den Zuschauern panikartige Reaktionen ob dieses waghalsigen Unternehmens (im Februar!) aus. Auch die Spaziergänge der Frauen werden mit Argusaugen verfolgt. Was könnten sie in den verwaisten Olivenhainen, bei den verlassenen Bauernhäusern suchen Annie und Lucy suchen nichts, aber sie finden eines Tages etwas, das ihr Leben gänzlich umkrempeln wird. 352 pp. Deutsch.
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Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0141185872ISBN 13 : 9780141185873
Vendeur : Wegmann1855, Zwiesel, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.
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Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 014118485XISBN 13 : 9780141184852
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Saul Bellow's dazzling career as a novelist was celebrated during his lifetime with an unprecedented array of literary prizes and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and the Gold Medal for the Novel. In 1976 he was awarded a Nobel Prize 'for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work'. 128 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0141185384ISBN 13 : 9780141185385
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim Neugroschal, and published with essays by Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes.Bataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacrilegious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille's obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.This edition also includes Susan Sontag's superb study of pornography as art, 'The Pornographic Imagination', as well as Roland Barthes' essay 'The Metaphor of the Eye'.Georges Bataille (1897-1962), French essayist and novelist, was born in Billom, France. He converted to Catholicism, then later to Marxism, and was interested in psychoanalysis and mysticism, forming a secret society dedicated to glorifying human sacrifice. Leading a simple life as the curator of a municipal library, Bataille was involved on the fringes of Surrealism, founding the Surrealist magazine Documents in 1929, and editing the literary review Critique from 1946 until his death. Among his other works are the novels Blue of Noon (1957) and My Mother (1966), and the essays Eroticism (1957) and Literature and Evil (1957).If you enjoyed Story of the Eye, you might like Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'His black masterpiece . [a] brilliant, exquisitely fetishistic tale of sexual agitaion'New Statesman 128 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0141185767ISBN 13 : 9780141185767
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist, the leader of the new party, is his old school enemy, Paduk - known as the 'Toad'. Grieving over his wife's recent death, Krug is at first dismissive of Paduk's activities and sees no threat in them. But the sinister machine which Paduk has set in motion may prove stronger than the individual, stronger even than the grotesque 'Toad' himself. 192 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0141185368ISBN 13 : 9780141185361
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics.For Gertrude Stein and her wife Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning'. Picasso was there with 'his high whinnying Spanish giggle', as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it - 'The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me'. A light-hearted entertainment, this is in fact Gertrude Stein's own autobiography and a roll-call of all the extraordinary painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. Audacious, sardonic and characteristically self-confident, this is a definitive account by American in Paris.Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), a writer of experimental prose, is one of the original American Modernists. Born in Pennsylvania, she lived most of her life in Paris with her partner, Alice B. Toklas. Experimental books like Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1914), and The Making of Americans (1925) established her reputation as an avant-garde stylist, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas made her an international celebrity. As an experimental writer she has been an inspiration to countless novelists and poets in our century, from Ernest Hemingway and Edith Sitwell in her own time to Jack Kerouac and Robert Duncan in ours.If you enjoyed The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, you might like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Buttonholes the reader with its informality, its unhurried rhythms, deadpan humour and acerbic remarks'Frances Spalding, Sunday Times 272 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0141185600ISBN 13 : 9780141185606
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Written in Berlin in 1934, Invitation to a Beheading contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration. It takes us into the fantastic prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come. Nabokov described the book as 'a violin in a void. The worldling will deem it a trick. Old men will hurriedly turn from it to regional romances and the lives of public figures . The evil-minded will perceive in little Emmie a sister of little Lolita . But I know a few readers who will jump up, ruffling their hair'. 192 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0141183829ISBN 13 : 9780141183824
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THE BOOK OF SAND was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, 'variations on favourite themes. combining a plain and at times almost colloquial style with a fantastic plot'. It includes such marvellous tales as 'The Congress', 'Undr' and 'The Mirror and the Mask'. Also included are the handful of stories written right at the end of Borges' life - 'August 25, 1983', 'Blue Tigers', 'The Rose of Paracelsus' and 'Shakespeare's Memory. 176 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0141183853ISBN 13 : 9780141183855
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - JORGE LUIS BORGES (1899-1986) now has in print with Modern Classics the short story collections THE ALEPH, FICTIONS, BRODIE'S REPORT, A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INFAMY and THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS. In addition Modern Classics publishes his SELECTEDPOEMS and THE TOTAL LIBRARY, a selection of his non-fiction which in 2000 won the National Book Critic's Circle award. 112 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0141184868ISBN 13 : 9780141184869
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further' Martin AmisA penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman. He is a 'born recruit', easily influenced by others who try to mould his destiny. Not until he tangles with the glamorous Thea, a huntress with a trained eagle, can he attempt to break free. A modern day everyman on an odyssey in search of reality and identity, Augie March is the star of star performer in a richly observed human variety show, a modern-day Columbus in search of reality and fulfilment.The Adventures of Augie March includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in Penguin Modern Classics.'Funny, poignant, crowded with carnivalesque types and yet narrated by a voice that is lonely and simple, it is Bellow's fat comic masterpiece' Observer 592 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0140279784ISBN 13 : 9780140279788
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Nick Tosches was born in New Jersey and is the author of HELLFIRE, and the bestselling DINO. 288 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 014028592XISBN 13 : 9780140285925
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all his life. This book is a distillation of that lifetime's thinking. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that is difficult to us, and must have been hard even for contemporaries. How and why did Shakespeare's language develop as it did Kermode argues that the resources of English underwent major change around 1600. The originality of Kermodes's writing, and the intelligence of his discussion, make this book a landmark. 336 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0140424318ISBN 13 : 9780140424317
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Rudyard Joseph Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 but spent most of his childhood in England. He returned to India in 1881 as a journalist and also wrote stories, sketches and poems. His literary reputation was established with Plain Tales from the Hills (1888). Today he is best remembered for The Jungle Book and Kim. He was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907.Before his retirement, Peter Keating was reader in English at Edinburgh. He is now a full-time writer.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 014029161XISBN 13 : 9780140291612
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Amy Bartlett Wright (illustrateur). Neuware - 'Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery' - Richard Dawkins In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity today is beyond the scope of anything we have known before. In an extensive new foreword for this edition, Professor Wilson addresses the explosion of the field of conservation biology and takes a clear-eyed look at the work still to be done.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0141186046ISBN 13 : 9780141186047
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Sir Alfred Ayer caused a furore with the publication of his LANGUAGE, TRUTH & LOGIC in 1936, when he was only 24. From 1959 until 1978 he was Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He died in 1989. Ben Rogers is the author of A. J.AYER: A LIFE (Chatto & Windus 1999, Vintage 2000).
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0140299777ISBN 13 : 9780140299779
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Minton, John (illustrateur). Neuware - French Country Cooking - first published in 1951 - is filled with Elizabeth David's authentic recipes drawn from across the regions of France.'Her books are stunningly well written . full of history and anecdote' ObserverShowing how each area has a particular and unique flavour for its foods, derived as they are from local ingredients, Elizabeth David explores the astonishing diversity of French cuisine. Her recipes range from the primitive pheasant soup of the Basque country to the refined Burgundian dish of hare with cream sauce and chestnut puree. French Country Cooking is Elizabeth David's rich and enticing cookbook that will delight and inspire cooks everywhere.Elizabeth David (1913-1992) is the woman who changed the face of British cooking. Having travelled widely during the Second World War, she introduced post-war Britain to the sun-drenched delights of the Mediterranean and her recipes brought new flavours and aromas into kitchens across Britain. After her classic first book Mediterranean Food followed more bestsellers, including French Country Cooking, Summer Cooking, French Provincial Cooking, Italian Food, Elizabeth David's Christmas and At Elizabeth David's Table.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0140290494ISBN 13 : 9780140290493
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Gavin Maxwell was born in 1914. In 1945 he bought the small Hebridean island of Soay and tried to establish a shark fisher. This resulted in his first book Harpoon at a Venture. His other books include Ring of Bright Water, which sold more than a million copies, The Rocks Remain, The House of Elrig and Raven Seek Thy Brother. Gavin Maxwell died in 1969.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0140280979ISBN 13 : 9780140280975
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Everyone has heard of Ramesses the Great - but what is the truth behind the legend Joyce Tyldesley's lively book explores the life and times of Egypt's greatest king. Ramesses II was the archetypal Egyptian pharoah: a mighty warrior, an extravagant builder and the father of scores of children. His momuments and image were to be found in every corner of the Egyptian empire. This is his amazing story.
Edité par Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2001, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0140299742ISBN 13 : 9780140299748
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In this universally acclaimed book Elizabeth David deals with all aspects of flour-milling, yeast, bread ovens and the different types of bread and flour available. The recipes cover yeast cookery of all kinds, and the many lovely, old-fashioned spiced breads, buns, pancakes and muffins, among others, are all described with her typical elegance and unrivalled knowledge.