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ár a könyvön:
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5899 Ft
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eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
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, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
2350 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).
6490 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).
8990 Ft
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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).
4499 Ft
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ROVER KEPT HIS EYES ON the white-paintcd concretc floor in the eleven-square-metre prison cell. He bit down on the shghtly too long gold front tooth in his lower jaw. He had reached the hardest part of his confession. The only sound in the cell was his nails scratching the madonna tattoo on his...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSWith few exceptions these essays were written at the invitation of a journal or newspaper editor. So much the better: left to himself, an authoror at any rate, this authorwould in all likelihood stick to familiar material. So I am grateful to those who over the years have urged me to...
The plane took off from the aerodrome near London shortly after 2 p.m. It was December 12,1945. It was drizzling and chilly. Occasional gusts set the wind sock fluttering, then all was calm again. The aircraft was a four-engined Lancaster bomber that had made countless sorties over German airspace...
prologueThe CouncilThe lawyer was nervous, and that was odd. His hands trembled;on the steering wheel, and that was odder still. He had learned in theI'lwar that there was no sin in being afiraid as long as the others never, iknew. He understood that courage was a discipline. As was confidence. In...
OneMy name is Mike Engleby, and I'm in my second year at an ancient university. My college was founded in 1662, which means it's viewed here as modern. Its chapel was designed by Hawksmoor, or possibly Wren; its gardens were laid out by someone else whose name is familiar. The choir stalls were...
This is the religion of cities.
The sacraments: iridescent in its concrete sleeve, the Los Angeles River losing faith with every inch traveled. A child riding a bicycle against the backdrop of desolate lots and leaning chain-link fences, while in the distance, a cluster of high-rises, like the...
INTRODUCTIONThe beginning of this novel is brilliant. We quickly know, without any laborious feeling that we are being force-fed information, what Helena is like, and what her husband Richard is like, and why. Before we meet them - or before they arrivé off the London train - we know about their...
Memfoer of the Fancy: An IntroductionIn my mid and late forties I came to boxing by choice and by chance. But I had already been there as far back as the mid thirties. I huddled with my father in front of the radio and listened eagerly to the driving voices of ring announcers like Bill Stern and...
The Millionaire's HothouseJohn Laroche is a tall guy, skinny as a stick, pale-eyed, slouch-shouldered, and sharply handsome, in spite of the fact that he is missing all his front teeth. He has the posture of al dente spaghetti and the nervous intensity of someone who plays a lot of video games....
They were all at Charing Cross to see Lilia off—Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself. Even Mrs. Theobald, squired by Mr. Kingcroft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye. Miss Abbott was likewise attended by numerous relatives, and the sight of so many...
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Foreword
It is always necessary to ask how old a writer is who is reporting his impressions of a social phenomenon. Like the varying depths of a lens, the mind bends the light passing through it quite differently according to its age. When I first experienced Prague in the late...
Introduction
On 15 May 1967 Graham Greene wrote to his brother Dr Raymond Greene to ask him how a character could be killed off without arousing suspicion. 'Could you help me with a suggestion?' he wrote. 'I am writing of a man in the Secret Service who is suspected of being a double agent.' The...
foreword by the author's son
I never met my father. Men from the Gestapo came for him in April 1942, one month before my birth. Perhaps my mother's advanced condition had something to do with their not taking her away too. "It's a routine interrogation," they told her, but she knew that wasn't...
THE SNOWMAN
Jo Nesbo is a musician, sohgwriter, economist and author. His first crime növel featuring Harry Hole was published in Norway in 1997 and was an instant hit, winning the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime növel (an accolade shared with Peter Hoeg, Henning Mankell and Stieg...
THE GUN LOBBY
y old friend Chick sells guns out of a hamper he keeps in his basement. He sells them at gun fairs and uses the money to buy more guns that he sells at other gun fairs. It's a living, he says.
I give him some mild grief about the hamper and he puts up with it, like a little rain...
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The Drowning
She awoke. Blinked in the pitch darkness. Yawned, and breathed through her nose. She blinked again. Felt a tear run down her face, felt it dissolve the salt of other tears. But saliva was no longer entering her throat; her mouth was dry and hard. Her cheeks were forced out by the...
THE GOOD ANNA
PART I
The tradesmen of Bridgepoint learned to dread the sound of "Miss Mathilda-", for with that name the good , Anna a1ways~CQnquered. ^^??^oo»
The strictest of the one price stores found that they could give things for a little less, when the good Anna ^ad fully said that...
w,e all knew it was coming, but when it came none of us was ready. I'd kept in close touch, talked with her several times a week and driven down to see her whenever I could. It wasn't as if I had to drag myself to Locust Valley. She was fiin to be with, "cozy" (the quality that mattered most to her...
THOMAS JEFFERSON WOODHULL WAS ELEVEN YEARS OLD when he ran away from home to join the Union army. One night in August of 1863, he sprinted down a white road that seemed to bloom out of the darkness as a bright moon climbed higher and higher in the sky above him. He was in a hurry to catch the...
It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. Its eyes were closed. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The...
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Martin Austin turned up the tiny street—rue Sarrazin—at the head of which he hoped he would come to a larger one he knew, rue de Vaugirard, possibly, a street he could take all the way to Joséphine Belliard's apartment by the Jardin du Luxembourg. He was on his way to sit with Josephine's...
INTRODUCTION
1. Wolfram's Poem
The scope of Parzival is greater than that of any medieval literary work except Dante's Divine Comedy, and in his way Wolfram encompasses as much of human experience as does the Italian poet. His two spheres, the Arthurian circle and the Grail circle, include most...
1An the morning mail of January 8, 1962, the Supreme Court of the United States received a large envelope from Clarence Earl Gideon, prisoner No. 003826, Florida State Prison, P.O. Box 221, Raiford, Florida. Like all correspondence addressed to the Court generally rather than to any particular...
1. The Movement'sThemesThe Movement is a mélange of people, mostly young; organizations, mostly new; and ideals, mostly American. In 1960 and 1961 the Freedom Riders and Negro college students who sat-in in the South were acting in the spirit of The Movement. Most of those who protested against...
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hen i came to assemble these essays, written over the last ten years, I was hardly surprised to find they have a common theme: the influence of mass culture on high culture. As an earlier settler in the wilderness of massciilt who cleared his first tract thirty years...
Introduction
The two poets whose work is collected in The Ink Dark Moon are central figures in the only Golden Age in literary history in which women writers were the predominant geniuses: Japan's Heian era, which lasted from 794 to 1185. One no Komachi (834?-?) served at the imperial court in...
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Patience
Forty-five minutes north-east of Cambridge is a landscape 'j
I've come to love very much indeed. It's where wet fen gives ' i
way to parched sand. It's a land of twisted pine trees, burned-out cars, shotgun-peppered road signs and US Air Force bases. There are ghosts here: houses...
/don't know what else God has in store for me. But before I die I want to write down what happened the day Lajos visited me for the last time and robbed me. I have been waiting three years to set this down. Now I feel an irresistible voice urging me on, insisting I should record the events of...
INTRODUCTION
The essays in this collection are united by common themes. I want to rethink American cultural history in order to clarify the heritage of my generation of the Sixties, which heroically broke through Fifties conformism but which failed in many ways to harness or sustain its own...
A Note on This EditionThe translation of the Genealogy of Morals was done jointly with R. J. Hollingdale, author of Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy (University of Louisiana Press, 1965), but I alone bear the responsibility for the final version. The other translations in this volume, as well...
I Dr Iannis Commences his History and is Frustrated
Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse. He had attended a surprisingly easy calving, lanced one abscess, extracted a molar, dosed one lady of easy virtue with Salvarsan, performed an...
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.w, come on, Birdy! This is A1 here, all the way from Dix. Stop it, huh!
I lean back and poke my head out into the corridor. The queer looking guard-orderly type in the white coat's still at the other end.
I peer through the cage door. Birdy's squatting in the middle of the floor, not even...
up at a Villa
THEY WERE WOKEN BY THE DEEP-CHESTED BAWLING OF AN
angry baby. Wrenched from wine-dark slumber, the four of them sat up, flustered, hair stuck with pine needles, gulping awake with little light breaths of concentration. They weren't supposed to be here, they remembered that.
They...
She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance. She has sensed a shift in the weather. There is another gust of wind, a buckle of noise in the air, and the tall cypresses sway. She turns and moves uphill towards the house, climbing over a low wall, feeling the...
One day a man may just pick up and walk out. What he leaves behind stays behind. What's left behind has nothing to stare at but his back. In the winter of 1965 Yonatan Lifshitz decided to leave his wife and the kibbutz on which he had been born and raised. He had finally made up his mind to run...
in paris we eat brains every night. My husband hkes the vaporous, fishy mousse of them. They are a kind of seafood, he thinks, locked tightly in the skull, like shelled creatures in the dark caves of the ocean, sprung suddenly free and killed by light; they've grown clammy with shelter,...
Chapter One Susan Colgate sat with her agent, Adam Norwitz, 011 the rocky outdoor patio of the Ivy restaurant at the edge of Beverly Hills. Susan was slightly chilly and kept a fawn-colored cashmere sweater wrapped around her shoulders as she snuck bread crumbs to the birds darting about the...
Foreword
Probably nowhere in the world do two countries as different as Mexico and the United States live side by side. As one crosses the border into Mexico from, say, El Paso, the contrast is shocking—from wealth to poverty, from organization to improvisation, from artificial flavoring to...
Solid Geometry
In Melton Mowbray in 1875 at an auction of articles of ;
'curiosity and worth', my great-grandfather, in the com- I
pany of M his friend, bid for the penis of Captain Nicholls who died in Horsemonger jail in 1873. It was bottled in a glass twelve inches long, and, noted my...
Into Thin Air
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.e'd lost his magic. The impulse was spent. He'd never failed in the theater, everything he had done had been strong and successfal, and then the terrible thing happened: he couldn't act. Going onstage became agony. Instead of the certainty that he was going to be wonderful, he...
Desire Under the Elms
PART ONE • SCENE ONE
Exterior of the farmhouse. It is sunset of a day at the beginning of summer in the year 1850. There is no wind and everything is still. The sky above the roof is suffused with deep colors, the green of the elms glows, but the house is in shadow,...