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Warum Nick Hornby seinen neuen Roman About a Boy genannt hat, ist eigentlich am Ende der Lekture nicht ganz klar, denn eigentlich beschreibt er zwei Jungs. Der eine, Will, ist zwar schon 35 Jahre alt und Marcus erst 12. Doch Will ist in seiner Art, sich vor Verantwortung zu drucken und andere fur seine Zwecke zu benutzen kaum alter als Marcus. Wie...

The best-selling Wicked, Maguire`s adult spin on L. Frank Baum`s classic, became a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical by contrast, this sequel is a typical middle book, a bridge to a better novel to come, perhaps. Maguire introduces powerful, whimsical, and cruel characters and adds ethical and sexual complexities to the original story-if you can...

For the first offering competently weaves scads of historical detail into her tale of Carol Simon`s journey from childhood ease in the 1920s to a hard-won position as wife, mother and career woman in the 1970s. Despite her father`s suicide during the Depression and an early forced marriage and widowhood, Carol continues to nurture her dream of...

This is the only selection of Plato`s myths currently available. It brings together ten of the most celebrated Platonic myths from Plato`s dialogues to make a perfect introduction to Plato`s philosophy for new readers....

Książka anglojęzyczna omawia przekształcenia współczesnej poezji kanadyjskiej w języku angielskim....

One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. The story builds in excitement as two young men on a sailing holiday discover a German plot to invade England. This edition is complemented by a fine introduction which examines the novel in its political and...