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26 produkter
Creationists
Selected Essays, 1993-2006
E-bok, 2008
104 kr
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E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March . Now here are Doctorow’s rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists , Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary (Melville and Mark …
Ragtime
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
243 kr
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story …
Book of Daniel
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
121 kr
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The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out …
World's Fair
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
208 kr
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"Something close to magic." The Los Angeles Times The astonishing novel of a young boy''s life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the …
Welcome to Hard Times
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
173 kr
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Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes …
Loon Lake
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
260 kr
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The hero of this dazzling novel by American master E. L. Doctorow is Joe, a young man on the run in the depths of the Great Depression. A late-summer night finds him alone and shivering beside a railroad track in the Adirondack mountains when a private railcar passes. Brightly lit windows reveal …
Waterworks
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
142 kr
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“An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.” –The Washington Post Book World One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. …
Billy Bathgate
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
95 kr
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To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate , the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally …
Lives of the Poets
A Novella and Six Stories
E-bok, 2010
189 kr
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Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into …
Drinks Before Dinner
E-bok, 2011
236 kr
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The long-unavailable work by one of America''s most eminent writers.
Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:
Selected Essays, 1977-1992
E-bok, 2011
260 kr
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The bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate has compiled his first collection of essays, a richly textured and detailed combination of literary criticism, political invective, and historical meditation.
Doctorow: Collected Stories
E-bok, 2017
95 kr
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A superb collection of fifteen stories by an American master, E. L. Doctorow—the author of Ragtime , The March , The Book of Daniel, and Billy Bathgate He has been called “a national treasure” by George Saunders. Doctorow’s great topic, said Don DeLillo, is “the reach of American possibility, in …
All the Time in the World
New and Selected Stories
E-bok, 2011
110 kr
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From a master of modern American letters comes an enthralling collection of brilliant short fiction about people who, as E. L. Doctorow notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world.” Containing six unforgettable stories …
Andrew's Brain
A Novel
E-bok, 2014
95 kr
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, SLATE, AND THE THELEGRAPH This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, …
City of God
A Novel
E-bok, 2001
82 kr
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With brilliant and audacious strokes, E. L. Doctorow creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring tour de force is a detective story …
Sweet Land Stories
E-bok, 2004
147 kr
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One of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a people and how we live. Ranging over the American continent from …
March
A Novel
E-bok, 2005
144 kr
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, …
Homer & Langley
A Novel
E-bok, 2009
126 kr
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Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers—the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding …
Homer & Langley
Roman
E-bok, 2010
170 kr
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»Ein mitreißendes Meisterwerk über die berühmten Einsiedler.« Publishers WeeklyInspiriert durch eine wahre Geschichte erzählt E.L. Doctorow von den Brüdern Homer und Langley, die ihr Haus an der New Yorker Fifth Avenue mit Objekten ihrer Sammelwut vollstellen und nach und nach ihre Verbindungen zur …
Alle Zeit der Welt
Storys
E-bok, 2013
170 kr
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Alle Zeit der Welt - Brillante Erzählungen des Altmeisters der amerikanischen GegenwartsliteraturE.L. Doctorow, gefeierter Autor von Meisterwerken wie Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, Der Marsch und Homer und Langley, präsentiert in Alle Zeit der Welt zwölf fesselnde Erzählungen, die seine ganze Brillanz …
In Andrews Kopf
Roman
E-bok, 2015
193 kr
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»Es gibt keine Fiktion oder Nicht-Fiktion – es gibt nur das Erzählen.« E.L. DoctorowIn seinem neuen Roman nimmt uns E.L. Doctorow, einer der ganz Großen der zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Literatur, mit auf eine Reise in das Bewusstsein eines Mannes, dessen Leben nicht immer geradlinig verlief und …
Das Wasserwerk
Roman
E-bok, 2017
193 kr
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Ein düsteres Geheimnis überschattet das florierende New York des Jahres 1871.In einer Zeit des Aufschwungs und der Industrialisierung versucht der junge Journalist Martin Pemberton in New York über die Runden zu kommen. Doch dann sieht er in einem Pferdeomnibus eine Gruppe alter Männer - darunter …
RAGTIME
Av EL Doctorow
E-bok, 2016
47 kr
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Bine aţi venit în America începutului de secol XX, unde ragtime-ul stabileşte ritmul. Harry Houdini uimeşte publicul cu eliberările lui spectaculoase, J.P. Morgan domină lumea finanţelor, iar Henry Ford construieşte automobile, transformând oamenii în maşini. Emma Goldman predică amorul liber şi …
Billy Bathgate
Clasici Moderni
E-bok, 2020
39 kr
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În New Yorkul anilor ”30, Billy Bathgate, un puști de cincisprezece ani din Bronx, pătrunde în banda lui Schultz Olandezul, un gangster extrem de charismatic. Billy este fascinat de lumea violentă și coruptă a lui Schultz, o lume a banilor, a sexului și a crimei, și ajunge chiar să aibă o legătură …
