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5499 Ft
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ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
9990 Ft
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eredeti ár:
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3990 Ft
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ár a könyvön:
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eredeti ár:
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2350 Ft
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3390 Ft
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My parents' Ford wagon hit a concrete divider on U.S. 95 outside Biddeford, Maine, in August 1990. They'd driven that stretch of highway for maybe thirty years, on the way to Long Lake. Some guy who used to play baseball with Pop had these cabins by the lake and had named them for his...
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Either Or
'OK,' said Jonathon. 'The choice is this. You either have to shag Jenny Gibson - or else that homeless woman who begs spare change outside Cramner's bakers.'
Dino and Ben recoiled in disgust. Jenny was known as the ugliest girl in the school but the beggar woman was filthy. Her...
Preface to the Penguin Edition
At the outset of Tony Blair's campaign to win his second term, 1 interviewed the Prime Minister in his functional office at party headquarters in the Millbank Tower. Towards the end of the conversation, 1 offered him the use of a time machine. Imagine he could...
Introduction
Many of the world's cities can be said to be full of contradictions, but Lisbon's claim is probably better than most. Here, medieval alleys where sitting tenants on controlled rents pay the equivalent of L20 a month can be found not much more than a mile away from gleaming office...
INTRODUCTION
Les Liaisons Dangereuses was first published in Paris in 1782. Society regarded the event as an outrage. The first edition sold out within a few days and subsequent editions were rapidly exhausted.
All Paris read and discussed the book. We hear, inevitably, of how young ladies...
Editor's Note
There is one obvious omission from the poetry selected for this book: I have not quoted from Summoned by Bells. This blank-verse autobiographical poem is more than a hundred pages long, and is inevitably more relaxed in style than the shorter poems. I have been limited for space,...
FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION
This book is intended as a source of reference for all those concerned with finance. It is entitled 'International Dictionary of Finance', rather than 'Dictionary of International Finance', because it is concerned not solely with transnational finance, but also with...
TRANSLATOR'S FOREWORD
WHEN, before his untimely death, my friend Robert Baldick asked me to translate a selection of Corneille's works, I accepted the request with considerable hesitation. I felt that the great French writer's robust and often involved oratorical style presented a much greater...
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THE FOUR BEAUTIES
Born in 1905, H. E. Bates was educated at Kettering Grammar
School and worked as a journalist before publishing his first
book, The Two Sisters, when he was twenty. In the next fifteen
years he won a distinguished reputation for his stories about
English...
Introduction
In the autobiographical story 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep', Kipling describes a small boy's excitement at reading his first story, a tale from an old children's magazine about a sheep being carried away by a griffin: '"This," said Punch, "means things, and now I will know all about...
INTRODUCTION
The first volume* of Ibsen's plays in this series contained three plays, Pillars of the Comtnunity, The Wild Duck, and Hedda Gabler, all representative of that phase of Ibsen's thought and art in which he was concerned primarily with the relation of the individual to the community,...
MARTIN
Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower-block? Of course I can explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower-block. ím not a bloody idiot. I can explain it because it wasn't inexplicable: it was a logical decision, the product of proper thought. It wasn't even a...
It was going to be another sweltering day. All East Anglia lay baked in the sunshine that had begun in June, just in time for the 'wedding of the year', a great occasion for everybody in Old Swithinford because it was 'as it should be'. Charlie Bellamy was a farmer's daughter, marrying Charles...
ADRIÁN MOLE: THE CAPPUCCINO YEARS Praise for Sue Townsend and Adrián Mole: 'One of literature's most endearing figures. He is an excellent guide for all of us as we wander through the cappuccino years' Observer 'Mole has entered his kingdom ... he presents a quizzical, innocent, frustrated...
Author's Note
LIKE Changing Places, to which it is a kind of sequel, Small World resembles what is sometimes called the real world, without corresponding exactly to it, and is peopled by figments of the imagination (the name of one of the minor characters has been changed in later editions to...
Bemard Malamud was born on 26 April 1914 in Brooklyn, New York. He took his B .A. at the City College, N.Y. and his MA. at Columbia. After various odd jobs he began to teach in 1939. At the present time, he teaches English at Bennington College where he lives with his wife and two children. * ti In...
We drove past Tiny Polski's mansion house to the main road, and then the five miles into Northampton, Father talking the whole way about savages and the awfulness of America - how it got turned into a dope-taking, door-locking, ulcerated danger-zone of rabid scavengers and criminal millionaires...
Preface: The Infidel Half Century
THE DAWN OF DARWINISM
One day early in the eighteen hundred and sixties, I, being then a small boy, was with my nurse, buying something in the shop of a petty newsagent, bookseller, and stationer in Camden Street, Dublin, when there entered an elderly man,...
Chapter 1
September, 1653. The last of summer. The first chill winds of autumn. The sun no longer strikes my eastern window as I wake, but, turning laggard, does not top the hUl before eight o'clock. A white mist hides the bay sometimes until noon, and hangs about the marshes too, leaving, when...
INTRODUCTION
Bernard Shaw was in his mid-seventies when he chose, and i
revised for the last time, 'The Quintessence of Ibsenism', 'The Perfect Wagnerite' and 'The Sanity of Art' to represent his !
Major Critical Essays in the Collected and Standard editions of ^
his works. But the three...
PREFACE
Milton, in his preface to Paradise Lost, complained of the 'troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming the invention of a barbarous age, to set ofT wretched matter and lame metre'. Yet many creators of superb matter and lilting metre, both before and since 1668 (when these words were...
London, 1990
It was a lie, but it was not a lie that could do any damage.
The writer reflected on the relative harmlessness of what she was doing as she waited on the step for the doorbell to be answered. It was a cold and windy autumn afternoon, and the trees that bordered the canal in Little...
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FORE WORD *******
Penguin Parade is not a new periodical but a revival, in a revised form, of an old and popular miscellany. Somé of the variations from the earlier style are accidental; for example, the comparative emaciation forced upon us by paper shortage and the irregularity...
The Pumpkin Eater Penelope Mortimer was born in North Wales and studied at London University. Her first writing consisted, in her own words, of 4 poetry and short stories of immense gloom and obscurityAfter the war she reviewed novels for Our Time and had one or two articles published in the New...
Preface
I was originally asked to be one of three co-authors of this work, but ended up as the sole one. Even more than usual, therefore, I must accept that the good belongs to others, and the blame is mine. In fact the need, with such a work, to have drafts read and re-read by as many, and as...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The publication of this New Pelican Guide to English Literature in many volumes might seem an odd phenomenon at a time when, in the words of the novehst L. H. Myers, a 'deep-seated spiritual vulgarity lies at the heart of our civilization', a time more typically...
PREFACE
A Professor of Phonetics
As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They cannot spell it because they have nothing to...
Too Much Trouble Whenever Simpson takes a trip into the future in the tiopepe*,he gets through his official business as quickly as he can. He notes down the required information about political developments, scientific advances and the like, and then investigates the drinking habits of whichever...
I ° The Rescue
.0 anyone who has ever been owned by a cat, it will come as no surprise that there are all sorts of things about your cat you will never, as long as you live, forget.
Not the least of these is your first sight of him or her.
That my first sight of mine, however, would ever be...
INTRODUCTION
For thirty years an orthodoxy ruled American poetry. It derived from the authority of T. S. Eliot and the new critics; it exerted itself through the literary quarterlies and the universities. It asked for a poetry of symmetry, intellect, irony, and wit. The last few years have...