eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
1030 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
4100 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
5990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
3690 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
8570 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
595 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
News just in from Beardy Ardagh: When a yachting trip turns to disaster and the shipwrecked crew, including Mango Claptrap, ends up using the impressively large Flabby Gomez as a man-made floating island, they need help. Who better to rescue them than the exceedingly useless lifeboat crew over at...
Könyvtest hullámos. Ein Job im Knast ist keine Kaffeefahrt. Nach dem dramatischen Tod ihrer besten Freundin musste Krissie Donald erst einmal zur Ruhe kommen. Jetzt ist sie fest entschlossen, ihr Leben in den Griff zu kriegen: ein glückliches Familienleben mit Chas, ihrer großen Liebe, und mit...
H. HillBespoke Jokes to the Gentry By appointment to Her Majesty the Pearly Queen Elizabeth of Hackney Also I once met the Chuckle Brothers Hill Towers LondonDear Fellow Comedian,Never underestimate the power of jokes! If you can make someone laugh you can control them, albeit for only a few...
Una, late twenties. Coat, dress, gloves; carries a bag. Ray, mid-fifties. Trousers, shirt, tie; a mobile phone clipped to his belt.In a room in which there's a low table, several chairs, several lockers. The door is closed.A swing-top bin, full of litter.On the floor, around the chairs, more...
The Mouse and His Child is generally considered a classic of children's literature, and is possibly the book for which Mr. Hoban is best known. It's the story of two clockwork mice, a father and son. When the key in the father's back is wound, he dances in a circle, swinging his son up and down....
'The time had arrived to put my Plan into action. I was in grave danger and I had no choice. I only had one weapon: a rubber band. It had taken me a long time to get it hooked around the edge of my food dish. Now I carefully pulled it back as far as I could, aiming directly at those big doggy...
War in Iraq. Top-up fees. Blair in bed with Bush. Private companies continuing to buy into schools and hospitals. You wouldn't be alone in feeling unable to rush down to the polling station and vote Labour on election day. John Harris travels up and down the country to talk to MPs, health workers,...
Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol is back, but nobody's supposed to know it... After months in hospital recovering from a bomb attack on his car, Zen is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast, waiting to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. He has clear...
Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol is back, but nobody's supposed to know it... After months in hospital recovering from a bomb attack on his car, Zen is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast, waiting to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. He has clear...
By dawn at least half the members of the Kelly gang were badly wounded and it was then the creature appeared from behind police lines. It was nothing human, that much was evident. It had no head but a very long thick neck and an immense chest and it walked with a slow ungainly gait directly into a...
Hollywood producer Bobby Gould has spent a career reaping what others sow, until he's forced to choose between his friend's sure hit and a beautiful girl's art house project. During an evening of seduction and manipulation, Bobby discovers that the power he exerts is more elusive than it seems....
Baltimore 1959, and a gang of male friends in their early twenties reconvene for the wedding of their pal Eddie. Boogie is the hustler of the group, a trainee hairdresser mired in gambling debts. Shreevie is the elder statesman, already married (albeit tetchily) to Beth. Fenwick is the reckless...
Thanksgiving is a moving portrait of the profound effects of love when all that seems to remain is loss and grief. Unhinged by his wife’s unexpected death, Anthony, a middle-aged Seattle journalist, becomes obsessed with her past. He drives through the Nevada desert to locate her ex-husband...
PrefaceIn December, 1959, Professor S. Herbert Frankel of Nuffield College, Oxford, an old friend and colleague deeply interested in the economies and ways of life in the tropics, suggested that I should write a short account of the more significant observations I had made during the various World...
ACT ONEscene oneThe drawing room of a house in the City of London during the late eighteenth century, mary traverse sits elegantly, facing an empty chair. She talks to the chair with animation. giles traverse stands behind and away from her.mary traverse: Nature, my lord. (Pause.) It was here all...
chapter One
Oh, Kelsha is a distant place, over the mountains from everywhere. You go over the mountains to get there, and eventually, through dreams.
I can picture the two children in their coats arriving. It is the start of the summer and all the customs of winter and spring are behind us....
Introduction by Herbert Read
^s a painter Kandinsky's achievement was coherent /-\in development, original in style, and accumu-J. \_lative in force; but the painting was the direct expression of a slowly matured philosophy of art. It is possible that this philosophy of art has as much...
Stiff Upper Up
As for the Fair Sex (said Antrobus), I am no expert, old boy. Fve always steered clear. Mind you, IVe admired through binoculars as one might admire a fine pair of antlers. Nearest I ever came to being enmeshed was in the Folies Bergeres one night. Fortunately, Sidney Trampelvis...
John Sayles is a filmmaker of many faces: the writer/director of authentically independent films rooted in good talk, character study and social reflection (The Return of the Secaucus Seven, Baby, It's You, Brother from Another Planet, Matewan, and Passion Fish). He has also crafted vibrant,...
Preface
The point of departure for this book was originally the publishing crisis in Sweden. It revealed, with a suddenness that surprised even the various representatives of the book trade, profound problems in publishing, and especially in the publication of serious fiction. A reduced...
/I
H e was struggling in every direction, he was the centre of the writhing and kicking knot of his own body. There was no up or down, no light and no air. He felt his mouth open of itself and the shrieked word burst out.
"Help!"
When the air had gone with the shriek, water came in to fill its...
Author's Note
As in the case of some of my previous plays the first pubhshed edition of Night and Day was the script as it had been offered to the director, the designer and the actors, while this second edition has been brought into line with the text which was ultimately performed. Once again...
Fedlapja enyhén sérült. The "Usual Suspects" in this screenplay are five career criminals who are seemingly thrown together by chance, but who gradually grow aware of a mysterious figure beginning to have an effect on their lives. This volume also contains an interview with Christopher McQuarrie.
Act OneThe living-room of a house in a seaside town. A door leading to the hall dovm left. Back door and small window up left. Kitchen hatch, centre back. Kitchen door up right. Table and chairs, centre.petey enters from the door on the left with a paper and sits at the table. He begins to read,...
Asleep or awakewhat difference? Or rather, if there were a difference how would you recognise it? And if it were a recognisable difference would there be anything or anyone to care if you did or notsome angel with a lily-gilding whisper to say: "Well done."? Ay, there's the rub.My head aches, it...
CHAPTER ONE
'Lick/ he said out loud and into thin air. 'Lick me.'
Norman Furnish was sitting at his desk in the largish and decidedly dated workroom that he shared with his sort of colleague, Katie: not really quite an office, as such - no, not really. The desk itself was very much in keeping...
ONEok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally >lfor balance and smacked the drifts of vivid budsaside with his free hand. Liku rode him laughing, one hand clutched in the chestnut curls that lay on his neck and down his spine, the other holding...
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
In this reissue I have tried to correct slips and errors of all kinds pointed out by reviewers and by kindly correspondents, to whom I should like to express my thanks. I have also tried to adapt the last chapters to a perspective of i960, rather than of 1950. This...
Chapter One
'School - how was, today?'
'Learning makes me feel ignorant/ said Gabriel. 'Has Dad rung?'
As well as the fact he didn't know where his father was, something strange was happening to the weather in Gabriel's neighbourhood. That morning, when he left for school with Hannah, there...
I have walked by stalls in the market-place where books, dog-eared and faded from their purple, have burst with a white hosanna. I have seen people crowned with a double crown, holding in either hand the crook and flail, the power and the glory. I have understood how the scar becomes a star, I...
Introduction by J. V. S. Wilkinson
In spite of the excellent critical studies of Mughal painting that have been published, and the wealth ofMughal miniatures in public and private collections in this country, probably no branch of Asiatic art has been so misapprehended in England. Not many years...
. . . before
The day before Abhay shot the white-faced monkey, he awoke to find himself bathed in sweat, a headache aheady cutting its way into his skull in a razor-thin line across the middle of his forehead. He lay staring at the slowly revolving ceiling fan that picked up dust with each...
THE SQUARE MILE
The City of London may cover an area of a square mile, but it is certainly not a square. Looked at from the air, the City is the shape of a helmet, with Liverpool Street station an excrescence on the back of the head. The whole of its southern edge is lapped by the Thames. Its...
FOREWORD
T
"IHERE is in my opinion need for a concise and comprehensive medical dictionary, and when I was asked some years ago if I would edit such a work I gladly consented. It has, however, proved to be a difiBlcult task, which would have been impossible had it not been for all the kind help...
The Chilean Girls
That was a fabulous summer. Pérez Prado and his twelve-professor orchestra came to liven up the Carnival dances at the Club Terrazas of Miraflores and the Lawn Tennis of Lima; a national mambo championship was organized in Plaza de Acho, which was a great success in spite of...
Foreword
This anthology is devoted to aphoristic writing, not to epigrams. An epigram need only be true of a single case, for example, Coolidge opened his mouth and a moth flew out; or effective only in a particular polemical context, for example, Foxhunting is the pursuit of the uneatable by...
Chapter One
(Four months before the incident)
The lifts at Globe Newspapers were incredibly quick, but on the other hand they made you feel sick. On the tenth floor the doors opened with a sucking sound to reveal June Brown.
'Adrian Day.'' she said.
'Er yeah,' I replied suavely.
I followed...
One.
In those long-ago days,
I was very youns and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharán, in Miraflores. I was studying at the University of San Marcos, law, as I remember, resigned to earning myself a living later on by practicing a liberal profession,...
J. A Palpable Miss
M/Y Egret, Cubitt's Yacht Basin, London wi2 12 August 1955
In that midsummer I felt oddly if unaccountably idling-over on some slow charge. It was an unfamiliar feeling, something like a rare intake of heart's ease. I was twenty-five and, for such an importunate soul as I...
PART I
The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind.
In the midst of winter you can feel the inventions of spring.
A sky of hot nude pearl until midday, crickets in sheltered places, and now the wind unpacking the great planes, ransacking the great planes----
I have escaped to...
One.
In those long-ago days,
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharán, in Mir aflores. I was studying at the University of San Marcos, law, as I remember, resigned to earning myself a living later on by practicing a liberal profession,...