Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099582589 ISBN 13 : 9780099582588
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in India in 1865 to British parents, and brought up by a Portuguese ¿ayah¿ (nanny) and an Indian servant, who would entertain him with fabulous stories and Indian nursery rhymes. He was sent back to England when he was seven years old, and lived in a boarding house with a couple who were cruelly strict. Fortunately he returned to India aged sixteen, to work as the assistant editor of a newspaper in Lahore. He began publishing stories and poems and eventually had great success with his book Plain Tales from the Hills. After his marriage Kipling settled in America, and it was here that he wrote The Jungle Book. He then moved with his family to England, where he wrote Just So Stories for his daughter Josephine who later tragically died of pneumonia. Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 and died on 18 January 1936.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099582635 ISBN 13 : 9780099582632
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Charles Dickens was a brilliant and prolific writer, probably the most famous nineteenth-century English novelist. He was very successful during his lifetime and his books have never been out of print. The exciting plots and fantastic characters in his books have meant they have all been adapted (in some cases, many times over) for television or the big screen.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099582651 ISBN 13 : 9780099582656
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - You might think I'd have grown out of getting myself into scrapes now that I'm half past sixteen. But between being vexed by my freckles, taunted by a brazen Jersey cow and kept on my toes by the new twins, Dora and Davy, life at Green Gables is just as eventful as ever.I do try to be a little more grown-up now that I'm a school teacher. The other day I asked the class, 'If you had three candies in one hand and two in the other, how many would you have altogether ' One of my pupil's piped up, 'A mouthful.' Could you have kept a straight face !Includes exclusive material: In 'The Backstory' you can find out about going to school in Avonlea and learn all about the real Green Gables Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099565684 ISBN 13 : 9780099565680
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Meanwhile, Des desires nothing more than books, a girl to love and to steer clear Uncle Li's psychotic pitbulls, Joe and Jeff. 'One of Amis's funniest novels' New Yorker'A book that looks at us, laughs at us, looks at us harder, closer, and laughs at us harder and still more savagely' Observer.
Edité par Vintage Children's Classics Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099577437 ISBN 13 : 9780099577430
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale. Only one man, half-mad, remains aboard, working without sleep or sustenance to save her from sinking. But this man is no hero, and this ship was not meant to be saved.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099577429 ISBN 13 : 9780099577423
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA RIMINGTONIt lies somewhere beneath the snow, high in the Dolomites: Nazi gold, tainted with the blood of murdered men. A tense battle of wits leads to an explosive finale in Innes' classic tale of revenge and deadly greed.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099575159 ISBN 13 : 9780099575153
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - From the author of Half of the Human Race (Channel 4 TV Book Club) comes an intricate and thrilling tale of love and conspiracy in Victorian London. London, 1882.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099578239 ISBN 13 : 9780099578239
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Written as an official report for MI5 in 1945, originally published with the permission of the British Government over twenty years later, The Double-Cross System details the Allied handling of enemy agents and the British infiltration of Nazi spy-rings.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099577399 ISBN 13 : 9780099577393
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDY MCNABHe was a man without hope, until a lawyer and a crazy inheritance spurred him to one last desperate roll of the dice. The old man was convinced, against all evidence, that there was oil in the Rocky mountains.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099587238 ISBN 13 : 9780099587231
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Richard Mabey is the father figure of modern nature writing in the UK. Since 1972 he has written some 40 influential books, including the prize-winning Nature Cure, Gilbert White: a Biography, and Flora Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099532433 ISBN 13 : 9780099532439
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Jean Sprackland is the author of four previous poetry collections, including Tilt, which won the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. She has also published a book of non-fiction, Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach, which won the 2012 Portico Prize. She lives in London.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0224085875 ISBN 13 : 9780224085878
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Bande dessinée
Buch. Etat : Neu. Murray, Jim (illustrateur). Neuware - Jim Murray¿s brilliant and distinctive artwork ranges from Judge Dredd and Batman comics to character designs for Virgin Studios, set designs for live shows of the rock band The Prodigy and fantasy playing cards for Wizards of the Coast. He is currently character designer for Valve Studios in Seattle, USA.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099582570 ISBN 13 : 9780099582571
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Rosemary Sutcliff's renowned novels based on the legends of King Arthur - brought together in one spellbinding trilogy. Ages: 9+ 'Told in magnificent, rolling prose' 'Times'.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099578654 ISBN 13 : 9780099578659
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The definitive account of North Korea - its veiled past and uncertain future - from former White House adviser and Korea expert Victor Cha'We killed Americans. We are killing Americans. We will kill Americans.'North Korean schoolchildren conjugating verbsHow did North Korea become The Impossible State, where citizens found humming South Korean pop songs risk being sent to a gulag, and yet a starving populace clings fiercely to its Dear Leader Kim Jong-un What does the future hold for a regime with terrifying nuclear ambitions and an endless war with its southern counterpart Former White House adviser and Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, Victor Cha, pulls back the curtain on the world's most isolated country to provide this unprecedented and timely insight into North Korea's history, present and future. In the era of the Trump administration and with South Korean relations seemingly on the brink of great change, this authoritative account of the country interweaved with exclusive personal anecdotes offers much-needed answers in an increasingly uncertain political climate. Indeed, Cha warns of a future North Korea for which the Western world may be woefully unprepared. Extensive and fast-paced, The Impossible State is an extraordinarily edifying portrait of the society, economy and foreign policy of the most enigmatic nation-state.'Engrossing. It offers perhaps the best recent one-volume account of North Korea's history, economics and foreign relations' The Economist.
Edité par VINTAGE Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099577348 ISBN 13 : 9780099577348
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The spectre of another world war haunts journalist Walter Craig and disturbs the peace of his seaside holiday. Craig and his singularly resourceful fisherman friend alone discover the terrible truth - a potentially devastating threat to Britain's merchant ships - and alone must risk their lives against the might of the German navy.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 1847922759 ISBN 13 : 9781847922755
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Tells the story of JFK, the Cold War, and the power of oratory to change the course of history. This title recalls the days from October 1962 to September 1963, when JFK marshaled the power of oratory and his astonishing political skills towards that end.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099554674 ISBN 13 : 9780099554677
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummer's Day in 1806 - shot and beaten to death, his body set on fire and left smouldering in his own glebe field - gripped everyone from the Home Secretary in London to newspapermen across the country.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jun 2013, 2013
ISBN 10 : 0099547031 ISBN 13 : 9780099547037
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'A major achievement' Ronald Blythe, author of AkenfieldA Cotswold vicarage. A former girls' boarding school in Surrey. A Jacobean house now buried in inner London. Three Houses, Many Lives tells the stories not only of the houses themselves but of the lives of the many people who lived in them.