Max Frischs Homo faber ist eines der wichtigsten und meistgelesenen Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts: Der Ingenieur Walter Faber glaubt an sein rationales Weltbild, das aber durch eine ›Liebesgeschichte‹ nachhaltig zerbricht. Views: 291
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.
A secret Arctic experiment becomes a frozen nightmare, when a team of scientists are set adrift on an iceberg--with a murderer in their midst, and a massive explosive charge only hours away from detonation. This original early Koontz novel--in the tradition of Winter Moon--is now available in large print edition, releasing simultaneously with Ballantine's mass market edition. Views: 291
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach... The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and the desire to be consumed. Views: 290
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Through hypno schooling, Perry Rhodan had learned the scientific knowledge of the star-roving Arkonides, and now his task was to construct a huge starship to open communication between Earth and the might Arkonide Empire. But the nations of Earth, in their fear, destroyed the remains of the lone Arkonide research ship on the moon, setting off an alarm to summon retaliation from the war bases of the stellar empire... GALACTIC ALARM! Views: 290
A devastating novel about the treachery of love by Maupassant, now in a new translation by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator Richard Howard
Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name as a young man with his Cleopatra, he has gone on to establish himself as “the chosen painter of Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls.” And though his hair may be white, he remains a handsome, vigorous, and engaging bachelor, a prized guest at every table and salon.
Olivier’s lover is Anne, the Countess de Guilleroy, the wife of a busy politician. Their relationship is long-standing, close, almost conjugal. The countess’s daughter is Annette, and she is the spitting image of her mother in her lovely youth. Having finished her schooling, Annette is returning to Paris. Her parents have put together an excellent match. Everything is as it should be—until the painter and countess are each seized by an agonizing suspicion, like death. . . . In its devastating depiction of the treacherous nature of love, Like Death is more than the equal of Swann’s Way. Richard Howard’s new translation brings out all the penetration and poetry of this masterpiece of nineteenth-century fiction. Views: 290
EDITORIAL REVIEW:When Perry Rhodan arrived in the vicinity of the star-sun Vega, he found a race of human-like beings who were being systematically destroyed by reptilian invaders. Drawn inexorably into the conflict, Rhodan suddenly found his ship damaged beyond repair. He was forced to crash-land on the eighth planet. Now his life - and the safety of Earth - is in the hands of... THE VEGA SECTOR! Views: 290
In his final three stories, Lord Peter confronts the greatest mystery of all—fatherhood
For decades, Lord Peter Wimsey has made life tough for England’s criminal class. In town and country he solved some of the most baffling mysteries of the Jazz Age, facing down killers armed only with wit, charm, and a keen nose for deception. His work brought him one great reward: the love of beautiful mystery novelist Harriet Vane. After years of pleading, he has finally convinced her to marry him. Now the real adventure begins. In the final three Wimsey stories, Lord Peter confronts land barons, killers, and the terror that comes from raising three young sons. Through it all, his clear thinking never fails him, and he solves these last puzzles as successfully as he did his first. He may be a family man now, but like good wine, a great detective only gets better with age. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College. Views: 290
Not long after the telephone call, Miss Faintley was murdered. It seemed at first unlikely that she, a prim, quiet schoolmistress, could have anything to do with crime. Yet Mrs Bradley's investigations led to some exciting discoveries.From Publishers WeeklyBeatrice Lestrange Bradley, psychiatrist and consultant for Britain's Home Office, is vacationing with her assistant Laura when the latter, out on a hike with a young boy, discovers the body of Miss Faintley, one of his teachers, tucked under a bush. From the police Mrs. Bradley learns that the woman was involved in an odd, slightly illegal transfer of packages containing different specimens of fern. Following her instincts to such settings as the caves of Lascaux in France and the Isle of Wight, Mrs. B. uncovers a complex currency-smuggling scheme. Although the style of the late author (she died in 1983) is breezy and light, plotting in the latest Lestrange Bradley adventure (following Spotted Hemlock, is flimsy, far-fetched and hard to follow. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 289
Lycius was only six when war broke out between his city, Athens, and a confederation of most of the other Greek states, led by Sparta. His chief emotion was rage — that the fighting was bound to be over before he was old enough to bear arms.
But when Lycius had grown to manhood Athens, after an interim peace, was once again at war. Lycius took part in the ill-fated Expedition to Syracuse — a venture that cost Athens the flower of her citizens and most of her ships. The majority of those who survived sickness and wounds in a disastrous campaign, died as prisoners in the Syracusan stone quarries.
Through the intervention of his half-loved, half-hated cousin, Alcibiades, Lycius escaped alive and returned home to share in Athens' final defeat. By then he realised, as Euripides had made clear in his plays, that in a quarter of a century of war, Athens had lost her greatness both as a power, and as a shining moral example to the rest of Greece.
This sensitive story of a young man's development against the background of a brilliant, vanishing world is striking for the way in which it shows that human dilemmas and values are timeless. It is a book that will make an immediate appeal to young people with an interest in and a feeling for history. Views: 289
The classic of memoir of inter-generational strife, with an afterword from author of The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry and an introduction from Anthony Quinn Subtitled 'a study of two temperaments' Edmund Gosse's childhood memoir tells the often fractious, often comic story of Gosse's relationship with his authoritarian father. A pioneering naturalist and marine biologist, Philip Henry Gosse's strictly religious worldview is brought into crisis by the discoveries of Charles Darwin and the death of his wife - and Edmund's mother - Emily. As Edmund breaks away from his father's influence, the evolution from one epoch to the next is described in all of its struggle, humour and glory. Views: 289
An NYRB Classics Original
Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots, and more—move through the pages of The Human Comedy, Balzac’s multivolume magnum opus, an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendor and squalor. The Human Comedy includes the great roomy novels that have exercised such a sway over Balzac’s many literary inheritors, from Dostoyevsky and Henry James to Marcel Proust; it also contains an array of short fictions in which Balzac is at his most concentrated and forceful. Nine of these, all newly translated, appear in this volume, and together they provide an unequaled overview of a great writer’s obsessions and art. Here are “The Duchesse de Langeais,” “A Passion in the Desert,” and “Sarrasine”; tales of madness, illicit passion, ill-gotten gains, and crime. What unifies them, Peter Brooks points out in his introduction, is an incomparable storyteller’s fascination with the power of storytelling, while throughout we also detect what Proust so admired: the “mysterious circulation of blood and desire.” Views: 289
HOLLYWOOD. COLOSSAL. COMPELLING. CORRUPT.
Where the only sin is “not making it” . . . where beautiful people do very ugly things to get to the top . . . where desperate men and women plummet overnight from the peak of power to the lethal valley of the dolls:
DAWN—The superstarlet with a child’s face and a woman’s passions—ready for fame, ripe for corruption.
HARKER—The great director, internationally praised, universally feared. A genius on the set—a monster in the bedroom.
TOMMY—He stands apart from their deadly games—until he suddenly wakes to find himself trapped in the 24-hour nightmare called Hollywood.
THE STAR STALKER is a searing, no-holds-barred novel that tells it the way it really is. Views: 289
