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23 produkter
Unauthorized Version
Truth and Fiction in the Bible
Häftad, 2006
187 kr
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In The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, historian Robin Lane Fox takes an uncompromising look at the historical proof - or refutation - of biblical events.The Bible is moving, inspirational and endlessly fascinating - but is it true? Starting with Genesis and the implicit …
Common Sense
Av Thomas Paine, Isaac Kramnick
Häftad, 1982
117 kr
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Published anonymously in 1776, the year of the American Declaration of Independence, Paine's Common Sense became an immediate best-seller, with fifty-six editions printed in that year alone. It was this pamphlet, more than any other factor, which helped to spark off the movement that established …
Penguin Complete Father Brown
The Enthralling Adventures of Fiction's Best-loved Amateur Sleuth
Häftad, 1986
239 kr
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Immortalized in these famous stories, G.K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the …
Guide to Greece
Southern Greece
Av Pausanias
Häftad, 1979
190 kr
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Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. Concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues, it also describes in detail the myths, …
Storm
Av Daniel Defoe, Richard Hamblyn
Häftad, 2005
179 kr
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On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. Eyewitnesses reported seeing cows left stranded in the branches of trees and windmills ablaze from the friction of their …
Tales of Angria
Av Charlotte Brontë, Heather Glen
Häftad, 2006
190 kr
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In 1834, Charlotte Brontë and her brother Branwell created the imaginary kingdom of Angria in a series of tiny handmade books. Continuing their saga some years later, the five 'novelettes' in this volume were written by Charlotte when she was in her early twenties, and depict a aristocratic beau …
Talking Cock
A Celebration of Man and his Manhood
Häftad, 2003
183 kr
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It has been known by many different names to many different people: Knob, dick, schmuck, tool, percy, John Thomas, the bald headed mouse. It inspires lust, fear, awe and laughter. And yet, it is an object of shame and when engorged, indecency. It can be a pound of flesh or an ounce of wrinkles. It …
Falling and Laughing
The Restoration of Edwyn Collins
Häftad, 2010
162 kr
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In February 2005, Edwyn Collins suffered two devastating brain haemorrhages. He should have died. Doctors advised that if he did survive, there would be little of him left. If that wasn't enough, he went on to contract MRSA as a result of an operation to his skull and spent six months in hospital. …
Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene
Häftad, 2007
179 kr
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In the parched soil of Provence, a fifth gospel has been discovered, Mary Magdalene's account of Jesus' teaching and her relationship with him. It is a book of revelation, for it unveils a new Christianity, one which embraces the female equally with the male and acknowledges and celebrates women's …
Happy Isles of Oceania
Paddling the Pacific
Av Paul Theroux
Häftad, 1993
224 kr
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Paul Theroux invites us to join him on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific Islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets of these isles.Theroux is a mesmerizing narrator – brilliant, witty, keenly perceptive as he floats …
Spiderweb
Häftad, 1999
203 kr
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Spiderweb is the twelfth novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively.Stella Brentwood has led an exotic life for a woman of her time. Her frivolous best friend at Oxford, Nadine, knew early what she wanted: marriage and children. Stella, too, has had her share of passion, but her work as …
Cistercian World
Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century
Häftad, 1993
179 kr
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The Cistercian Order was born in Burgundy at the start of the twelfth century as a movement of radical renewal - an Order that survives to this day with the greater part of its written heritage preserved. This volume brings together a selection of its finest works, which speak powerfully across the …
Black Sheep
Häftad, 1976
179 kr
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His elegantly-crafted tale of sibling rivalry, Honoré de Balzac's The Black Sheep is translated from the French with an introduction by Donald Adamson in Penguin Classics.Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and …
Letters from My Windmill
Av Alphonse Daudet, Frederick Davies
Häftad, 1978
179 kr
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Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century; but it was the LETTERS, first published in book form in 1869, which remained his favourite creation and has proved his most lasting. Throughout his working life in Paris Daudet never lost …
Dining on Stones
Häftad, 2005
215 kr
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Dining on Stones is Iain Sinclair's sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environsAndrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel, unable to make sense of his …
Revolution
The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720
Av Tim Harris
Häftad, 2007
192 kr
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To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only achieved through overwhelming violence. …
Life and Passion of William of Norwich
Av Thomas of Monmouth, Miri Rubin
Häftad, 2014
155 kr
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The Life and Passion of William of Norwich gives a remarkable insight into life in a medieval cathedral city, brilliantly capturing the everyday concerns of ordinary people and focussing on the miraculous cures carried out at a shrine. But this was no ordinary shrine; fervent worshippers gathered …
Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma
Av Lima Barreto
Häftad, 2014
179 kr
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'The seed of madness exists in all of us and with no warning may attack, overpower, crush and bury us ... 'Policarpo Quaresma - fastidious civil servant, dedicated patriot, self-styled visionary - is a defender of all things Brazilian, full of schemes to improve his beloved homeland. Yet somehow …
Love and Mr Lewisham
Häftad, 2005
149 kr
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Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life his strictly regimented existence is thrown into chaos by the resurgence of old passion. Driven …
Brief Lives
Häftad, 2016
203 kr
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'I never liked her, nor did she like me; strange, then, how we managed to keep up a sort of friendship for so long.'Fay Langdon has relinquished her singing career to marry Owen, a highly successful solicitor. At one of their dinner parties Fay meets the glamorous, self-obsessed Julia and is …
Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man
a light, funny and fantastic comedy from bestselling author Claudia Carroll
Häftad, 2008
215 kr
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Fans of Sophie Kinsella and Alexandra Potter will love this hilarious, laugh-out-loud and ultimately uplifting romantic comedy from bestselling author Claudia Carroll. Please note that cover may vary.'Claudia Carroll's best book so far. A triumph!' -- ***** Reader review'READ IT, JUST DO IT!' -- …
To Crush The Serpent
Av Yashar Kemal
Häftad, 2015
179 kr
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A staggering, shattering novel from Turkey's greatest novelistSince Halil was shot dead in his own home by his wife Esmé's former suitor, the village has pointed the finger of guilt at the dead man's beautiful widow: she must have arranged the murder. The task of vengeance falls on Esmé's little …
Maxims
Häftad, 1981
150 kr
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The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.
