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25 produkter
Go-between
Häftad, 2004
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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The moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there...'When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful …
All the Fear of the Fair
Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow
Av Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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Step right up to see the enchanted Ferris wheel whose magical gifts are to die for! Marvel at the man-eating menagerie and dreadful secrets of 'Satan's Circus'! Behold the nightmare waxworks of Mrs. Groby's Chamber of Horrors!Carnivals and sideshows are settings closely entwined with the history of …
Facial Justice
Häftad, 2014
152 kr
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'You'll never be happy until you can think and feel and look like other people . . .' Jael 97 is an Alpha. Deemed over-privileged for her beauty, she is compelled to report to the Ministry of Facial Justice, where her face will be reconstructed. For Jael lives in the New State, created out of the …
Go-between
E-bok, 2015
102 kr
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The moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there...'When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful …
Facial Justice
E-bok, 2014
102 kr
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'The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy...' Jael 97's good looks have been deemed a cause of discontent among other women, and she finds herself reporting to the Ministry of Facial Justice, where her face will be reconstructed to become 'beta' (second-grade). For she lives in a …
Go-Between
Av L P Hartley
Häftad, 2018
214 kr
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Leo Colston - a man haunted by the events of his past - vividly recalls his unwitting role acting as a go-between for the beautiful upper-class Marian and the tenant-farmer Ted.
Chill Tidings
Dark Tales of the Christmas Season
Av Algernon Blackwood, Elizabeth Bowen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
187 kr
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In this glittering new clothbound edition of the beloved Christmas chiller, the gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed - but the ghosts are still hungry.Chill Tidings ushers in a host of ghastly phantoms and otherworldly intruders bent on ruining, or partaking in, …
Eustace and Hilda
A Trilogy
Häftad, 1900
399 kr
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The three books gathered together as Eustace and Hilda explore a brother and sister's lifelong relationship. Hilda, the older child, is both self-sacrificing and domineering, as puritanical as she is gorgeous; Eustace is a gentle, dreamy, pleasure-loving boy: the two siblings could hardly be more …
Hireling
Häftad, 2015
145 kr
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Overcome with grief at her husband's death, Lady Franklin, an eligible young widow, unburdens herself to Leadbitter - a gallant, hard-bitten ex-soldier who has invested his savings in the car he drives for hire - as he takes her on a series of journeys. He in turn beguiles her with stories of his …
Ghosts of Christmas Past
A chilling collection of modern and classic Christmas ghost stories
Av Neil Gaiman, M. R. James m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
145 kr
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A present contains a monstrous secret.An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party.A shadow slips across the floor by firelight.A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams.Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath …
Eustace and Hilda
With an introduction by Anita Brookner
Häftad, 2021
220 kr
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'A masterpiece' Anita Brookner'A very beautiful novel' Nick Hornby'Includes some of the most perfect sentences in English' GuardianAt the turn of the twentieth century, two children play on an English beach. Eustace, a gentle, dreamy, boy with a weak heart, relies on his older sister Hilda.As young …
L.P Hartley: The Go- Between, & More
Four BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations & Readings
Ljudbok, 2024
192 kr
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Four of L. P. Hartley''s finest novels adapted for BBC radio, plus bonus short stories An acclaimed novelist, short story writer and critic, Leslie Poles Hartley is best known for his 1953 novel The Go-Between , which won the W. H. Heinemann Award and was adapted as a BAFTA-winning film starring …
Podolo
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Häftad, 2025
91 kr
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World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2024.When a group of tourists visits the deserted island of Podolo, one wants to rescue a feral cat they find there, and the others reluctantly agree. Unfortunately, the rescue proves more difficult than they expect—and they …
Brickfield
Häftad, 2012
145 kr
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A lonely boy living on his uncle's farm in the Lincolnshire Fens, Richard Mardick's solitary existence is interrupted by a chance meeting, and idyllic love affair, with Lucy. A disused brickfield is the scene of their clandestine meetings, and it is there that Richard finds her drowned in a muddy …
Boat
Häftad, 2013
145 kr
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Timothy Casson, a bachelor writer, is forced to return from a contented life in Venice to an English village. Taking a house by the river where he can pursue his passion for rowing, he has to do battle with the locals to overcome his isolation and feelings of incompleteness. This most complex of …
Perfect Woman
Häftad, 2013
171 kr
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Chartered accountant Harold Eastwood, conventionally minded, chances to meet Alec Goodrich on the train, travelling first-class with a third-class ticket. Alec is a best-selling novelist. He soon finds Harold's knowledge of income tax allowances useful and when Alec pays a visit to the accountant …
Betrayal
Häftad, 2013
364 kr
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In The Betrayal, the sequel to The Brickfield, Richard Mardick, now an ageing novelist, is forced by circumstances to look back on the days of his boyhood and confesses to Denys Aspin, his young secretary and biographer-to-be, how Lucy's death has forever marred his life and distorted his inner …
Travelling Grave and Other Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
Av L P Hartley
Inbunden, 2017
542 kr
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Travelling Grave and Other Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
Av L P Hartley
Häftad, 2017
298 kr
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El mensajero
E-bok, 2025
105 kr
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En el verano de 1900, el joven Leo pasa las vacaciones en la mansion de un amigo en el campo ingles de Norfolk, un universo aristocratico en el que le cuesta encajar. Marian, la hermana de su amigo, sera especialmente amable con el y le pedira que actue como mensajero entre ella y el granjero. El …
My Fellow Devils
Häftad, 2013
131 kr
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Margaret Pennefather is essentially a good person - too good, perhaps, for her own good. Her rash and hasty marriage to film star Colum McInnes, and his very different set of moral values, leads gradually and relentlessly to the utter destruction of their love and their marriage. Although she is …
