Joy, Suspense, delight, heartbreak, and - most especially - love ... from the author of All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful . The continuing love story of a Yorkshire vet and his friends and neighbors - human and animal ... by the world's most beloved living writer! James Herriot's happiest bestseller ever.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Contact paperback
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, this is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempts to do battle with the awesome power of the Combine Kesey's galvanizing novel probes the meaning of madness, often turning the conventional notion of sanity on its head, and offers and unforgettable portrait of a man teaching the value of self-reliance and laughter who is destroyed by the forces of hatred and fear.
The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligence Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.
On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system. But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong... One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the very end.
For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders ...until he meets Donald Shimoda - former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar...
Brackett Omensetter arrives, with his wife, family and belongings in the rural American town of Gilean. It swiftly becomes apparent that he is someone out of the ordinary, as he sets off a ground swell of violent emotions in the once tranquil commmunity. Who is he? What does he represent?
Home from the colonies (South Africa), Castle is now a minor functionary in British Intelligence, a middle-aged man devoted to his black wife Sarah and her young son. Castle lives in "angst": a double agent, he leaks information to the Communists. Castle's superiors suspect Davis, Castle's woebegone office mate hungering for romance; but the reader knows early that Castle is the traitor. The narrative is built on Greene's familiar structure: the respected man, secretly living outside society's laws, finally caught by the corrupted law of that society. The reader's sympathies are with the outlaws; a basically decent human being who does the wrong thing for the right reasons
Testi successivi alla raccolta dei Quarantanove Racconti pubblicati in volumi e riviste, pubblicati originariamente come "Part II" e "Part III" de "The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway"
Singer roept een ongewone, bijna fantastische wereld op waarin het Poolse jodendom een centrale plaats inneemt, vol geesten, fanatici, charlatans, valse messiassen, duivels en dromen. Singers scepsis en spot, zijn opmerkingsgave voor het gruwelijke en groteske, zijn dynamische verteltechniek worden magistraal geetaleerd in 'De magier van Lublin' dat speelt in het Polen aan het einde van de negentiende eeuw. De joden zijn de gesjochten schlemielen in deze kleurrijke historische roman over het leven van Jasja Mazur. De magier is een rondreizende artiest. Hij heeft zijn orthodoxe geloof verloren en is een ware Don Juan, onvermoeibaar jager op geld en vrouwen. Zijn grote liefde is een oudere, rooms-katholieke weduwe waarmee hij, weg van zijn vrouw, naar Italie wil reizen. Meester in het openen van sloten als hij is gaat hij om zijn plannen te financieren een inbraak plegen. Als die mislukt stort zijn rijk ineen. Hij wordt achtervolgd door een reeks ongelukken. Hij raakt gewond, de vrouwen keren zich van hem af en ook zijn geliefde is onbereikbaar geworden. Hij gaat terug naar zijn vrouw in Lublin, laat zich inmetselen en wordt een asceet.
Don Juan de Zavala is the most skilled fighter in all of New Spain. But the magnificent Aztec empire lies broken under the Spanish boot. And valiant men and fearless women now battle their brutal overlords in an Aztec revolt. No one, including Juan de Zavala, can stay neutral. Especially when a shocking secret from Zavala's lurid past is exposed.
Als in New Orleans op Super Bowl Sunday de wedstrijd begint zullen 80.000 mensen sterven. Het stadion van de Super Bowl - in de VS hét sportevenement van het jaar - is opeens de gevaarlijkste plek ter wereld. Michael Lander is de gevaarlijkste man van Amerika. Hij bestuurt elk weekend een tv-zeppelin die boven volgepakte stadions hangt. En hij is gestoord. Daarom is hij verleid door een mooie Palestijnse. Daar zal - op Super Bowl Sunday - de wereld getuige zijn van de moord op de Amerikaanse president en van het grootste bloedbad ooit vertoond. Tenzij iemand ontdekt wat Lander van plan is... en hem als eerste doodt.
A spellbinding novel of romantic obsession. Vernon Deyre is a sensitive and brilliant musician, even a genius. But there is a high price to be paid for his talent, especially by his family and the two women in his life. His sheltered childhood in the home he loves has not prepared Vernon for the harsh reality of his adult years, and in order to write the great masterpiece of his life, he has to make a crucial decision with no time left to count the cost... Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart, six bittersweet and very personal novels, as compelling and memorable as the best of her work.
Tijdens een bootreis naar New York komt het tot een crisis in de verhoudingtussen een antiquaire, haar nichtje die toneelambities heeft, en diens verloofde.
Il nome di Conrad è indissolubilmente legato al mare. In numerosi romanzi e racconti, infatti, lo scrittore ha trasferito, rievocandole e trasfigurandole col soffio del mito, le sue avventure di vagabondo degli oceani, e in particolare delle rotte orientali. Questo volume riunisce, oltre a Il negro del Narciso (1897) e a Tifone (1903) – tra i più celebri romanzi brevi di Conrad – Un colpo di fortuna e Freya delle Sette Isole , entrambi del 1912, storie di mare nelle quali compaiono due singolari personaggi femminili. In queste pagine il magico mondo del mare è descritto in tutti i suoi aspetti: l’ostilità e la furia degli elementi, l’esistenza dura degli equipaggi, gli uomini e le donne che popolano i porti, le coste, le navi, i sogni e gli incubi dei marinai.