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Emily Hudson
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 25.95Based on an episode in Henry James's life, the captivating story of a young heroine with ambitions and desires beyond her time. By the start of the Civil War, Emily Hudson has lost her entire family to consumption. Wholly dependent upon her puritanical uncle, Emily forms a close bond with her ailing cousin, William, an ambitious young writer.... more...
Plays of Oscar Wilde
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.00This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature. Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an inaugurator and a master of modernism. In his... more...
Lyrik zwischen Liebe und Politik
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 36.37Populäre Musik ist ein Bestandteil unseres Lebens. Sie kommt beiläufig aus dem Radio und dem Fernseher oder wird von uns bewußt gewählt bei Konzerten oder gekauften Tonträgern. Populäre Musik ist in der Regel in Liedform ausgeprägt. Das Lied ist naturgemäß auch Träger von Texten, die uns, ähnlich wie das Lied selbst, manchmal erreichen und manchmal... more...
Sicher handeln bei Korruptionsverdacht
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2010; US$ 38.52Hauptbeschreibung Besteht der Verdacht auf Korruption in Unternehmen oder öffentlichen Institutionen, ist konsequentes Handeln erforderlich. Doch welche Schritte müssen von den Leitungsgremien konkret eingeleitet werden? Welche Informationen dürfen verwendet werden? Wie sichern sich Mitglieder von Geschäftsführung und Vorstand gegen Haftungsansprüche... more...
A Life Like Other People's
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 7.99FROM ONE OF BRITAIN?S GREATEST LIVING WRITERS AND THE AUTHOR OF THE UNCOMMON READER , A FAMILY MEMOIR AND UNIQUE WORK OF ART? A LIFE LIKE OTHER IS ALAN BENNETT AT HIS BEST In this poignant memoir of his parents? marriage, Alan Bennett recalls the lost world of his childhood and the lives, loves, and deaths of his unforgettable aunties, Kathleen... more...
Demented Particulars
Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 19.99Obscure Locks, Simple Keys is a comprehensive study of Samuel Beckett's most enigmatic text, Watt. Chris Ackerley's approach, which is similar to genetic editing, extensively reads the novel's different editions and manuscripts (including the French translation, overseen by Beckett himself), and his long introduction engages with the complex... more...
The Theatre of Tom Stoppard
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 40.00Addressed to the enthusiastic theatregoer as well as to students of contemporary theatre, this new edition includes a fresh chapter on Hapgood. Anthony Jenkins is an actor and director as well as a teacher of drama, and this refreshing perspective informs his writing. He is interested in how Stoppard's plays work in the theatre (and on radio and... more...
A Gentleman of Fortune
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 14.99With all the charm of a Georgette Heyer novel, the sequel to Bellfield Hall finds Miss Dido Kent vacationing at the home of her cousin. When a neighbor passes away quite suddenly, Dido feels she is ideally placed to observe the reaction of the community, but her suitor, Mr. William Lomax, feels otherwise. As Dido presses on, she learns more about... more...
Nightshade
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 25.99An unscrupulous manor lord has reneged on his promise to hand over a priceless ornate cross stolen from the Templars during the Crusades. Furthermore, he has massacred as heretics fourteen members of a religious order. The King sends Hugh Corbett, devoted emissary of King Edward I to Mistleham in his stead... more...
Hangman Blind
St. Martin's Press 2009; US$ 7.99In November 1382, the month of the dead, Abbess Hildegard rides out for York from the Abbey of Meaux. This is no ordinary journey?it is a time of rival popes, a boy king, and a shaky peace in the savage aftermath of Wat Tyler?s murder?and Hildegard has embarked on a perilous mission to try to secure the future of her priory. Traveling alone, she... more...









