The Insults of Oscar WildeOscar Wilde was the master of the studied insult. His jabs at hypocrisy, pretense and boring conventionality still have a penetrating power. His snubs and put-downs became the talk...9999903207535Oscar Wilde
Michael O'Mara Books
sábado, 26 de octubre de 2024
Five Short Modern PlaysA day in the mind of Tich Oldfield (Alan England) - Apples (C.P. Taylor) - Voyage of a lifetime (Trevor Harvey) - Island (Michael Barwis) - George (C.G. Bond).9999903207085Alan Durband
Vintage
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Five Short Modern PlaysFive short plays: "Here is your life" by Bob Taylor, "A question of honour" by Don Shaw, "Speech Day" by Barry Hines, "Burglars" by David Rudkin and "The ballad of Ben Bagot" by Pe...9999903207047Alan Durband
Vintage
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Five Short Modern PlaysThey don't all open men's boutiques (Willis Hall) - Decibels (John Hale) - Bovver (Roy Minton) - Old comrades (Robert Holles) - The punishment (E.A. Whitehead).9999903206965Alan Durband
Vintage
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Eccentricity exists particularly in the English, states Dame Edith Sitwell, because of "that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark and the birth...9999903206941Edith Sitwell
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Stories About Family by Black WritersCritic, essayist, and anthologist Mary Helen Washington has chosen as the theme of her newest collection "the family as a living mystery." She selected nineteen stories and twelve ...9999903206835Mary Helen Washington
DoubleDay
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Sweden at the turn of the previous century. Arvid, an ambitious and well-educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, during an idyllic summer vacation and...9999903206828Hjalmar Söderberg
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
A NovelHjalmar Soderberg's second novel was originally published in 1901, and traces the development of the hero from a seemingly idyllic Stockholm childhood to maturity. It is a book wit...9999903206811Hjalmar Söderberg
Editors Varis
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
A NovelDr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden. Whether it's a blocked circumflex ...9999903206781Josh Bazell
Little, Brown and Company
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen, holding down a responsible job, taking care of his elderly mother, and trying to keep his family together. But no one in his life knows abou...9999903206774Anne Fine
Black Swan
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Fanny Pye's London house, bought for a song many years earlier, is now worth half a million. When she intervenes in a stret brawl and is hospitalised, her children tactifully sugge...9999903206767Bawden, Nina
Virago Press, Limited
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
The timid and rather lonely Evelyn Tradescant is a recent failure at love who has a passion for natural history. She meets Theo Gormann by accident and is drawn into his net. But E...9999903206316Wilson, A. N.
Penguin
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Detective and mystery stories. In 1992, after being fired from a top secret nuclear facility, a top KGB man buried a nuclear suitcase. Sixteen years later he has found a buyer for ...9999903206293Seymour, Gerald
Corgi
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
'Leaving the blinding sand for the cool shade of the trees, I walked carefully through the undergrowth to where Dave, using two twigs as chopsticks, was picking up a freshly severe...9999903206163Harris, John
Summersdale Publishers
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
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