"The gripping story of a Victorian young man whose placid life in the English countryside is turned inside-out by an older woman. The young man is Philip Ashley, the novel's narrator. Orphaned at an early age, he's been raised by his bachelor uncle Ambrose, who falls in love and…
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from China Mi?ville?s Embassytown. What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Mi?ville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brilliant …
What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brilliant young writer comes a groundbreaking collection of stories, many of them pre…
On seeing a falling star, a girl promises a boy his heart's desire if he will get it for her. As it happens the boy is a member of a magic people so finding it presents no problem, until he runs into evil witches who are also after the star. A fairy love story.
Ein Vater wird verrückt vor Angst, dass sein Sohn in den Koreakrieg eingezogen werden könnte. Dies macht wiederum den Sohn verrückt und es bleibt ihm nichts anderes, als sich aus dem Staub zu machen.
A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
The son of a carpenter, Julian Sorel is inspired by the writings of Napoleon to conquer the heights of society. His initial plan to work his way up through the church is, however, thwarted when he is forced to accept employment as a tutor--and this rash social entrepreneur certa…
From the award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Broken Angels --a turbocharged new thriller set in a world where killers are stars, media is mass entertainment, and freedom is a dangerous proposition ... A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn A…
Een jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse intellectueel gaat in de jaren '60 in Londen wonen om een groot en meeslepend dichter te worden.
Een jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse intellectueel gaat in de jaren '60 in Londen wonen om een groot en meeslepend dichter te worden.
Georg wächst in einer der schönsten Wohngegenden Prags in einem summenden Frauenhaushalt auf. Leider zur Zeit des politischen Terrors, der überirdischen Atomtest und später des brutal unterdrückten Reformversuchs von '68. Umstellt von seinen vielen Tanten mit Kriegstraumata, dem…
After his grandfather dies, a young programmer must go back to Thebes, a town so isolated that the residents have their own language, and soon begins a romance with an old flame and reflects on other ghosts of the past.
After his grandfather dies, a young programmer must go back to Thebes, a town so isolated that the residents have their own language, and soon begins a romance with an old flame and reflects on other ghosts of the past.
Called the most widely read English novel of the twentieth century, D.H. Lawrence's largely auto-biographical "Sons and Lovers tells the story of Paul Morel, a young artist growing into manhood in a British working-class community near the Nottingham coalfields. His mother Gertr…